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OR HEMORRHOIDS, AT LAST
Safely and permanently Cured.

Cure warrented or money refunded.
The attention Of physicians and the
public generally is respectfully called
to a consideration of the following
facts:
That loathsome disease, known as
Piles, or Homerrhoids, has its origin
in diseased function of the liver, in
dnced by several causes, the most
prominent of which are: FIRsT.-An
unnatural acid condition of the stom-
ach, exhibiting itself in an impaired
digestive function, and greater or
less degree of costivennss. SECOND.
AN absence in the blood, in proper
proportion of those peculiar chemical
elements that enter into the conrtitu-
ton of the natural secretion of the
liver-the bile. THIRD'-An impair
ed function Of assimilation, arising
from deficiency in the process of di-
gestion, and consequent condition
to a greater or less degree Of general
debility,
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The Universal Pile Pills.

strikes at the root Of these causes of
functional disease Of the liver:
FIRSTLY relieving the acidity
of the stomach, and rendering the di-
gestive functions perfect.
SECONDLY supplying the blood
with proper food material to perfect
the sccretlons of the bile.
THIRDLY gently stimulating
the restored orgaus to vigorous ellic-
icncy.
In this harmless yet certain remedy
is found the only physiological and
philosophical solution of this great
Problem in Medical Science.
The absence of all poisons in the
remedy makes it equally safe in the
hands of the non-professional, as it is
in the hands of the scientific practit-
Toner.
Price SOC and $1.00. For sale by
all druggists and dealers in medicine.
Sent post paid on receipt of price by
+. f. SMITH & Co., Sole Proprietors
Middlcbury, Vt. 23-1y.
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Ayers Cathartic Pills,

For the relief and
cure of all derange-
ments In the stOn-
ach, liver, and bow
els. They are a mild
aperient, and an
excellent piirgative.
Being purely yege-
table, they contain
no mercury or mine
raj whatever. Much
serious sickness and
suffering is prevent
- - slsaa- Nes..aN.@
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General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
W. M. s. DUNN, Engr and Superintendent.
DICHMoND AND 'DANvILLE RAILROAD
IL, On and after DECEMBER 10th, 1875, the
trains on this road will run daily as follows:
mrn0I1nu MAIL

DICHMOND AND 'DANvILLE RAILROAD
X, On and after DECEMBER 10th, 1875, the
trains on this road will run daily as follows:
THROUGH MAIL.
$50 A. NJ, leaves Richmond daily, connecting. at
Greensboro with trains on N. Carolina
division and N. W. N. G. R.R. at Char
lotte with trains on Atlanta and Rich
mond Airline railway for Atlanta,
Macon, Jacksonville, Montgomery Mo-
bile. and New Orleans, and all south
western points. With G. @. and A. r.
B. for Columbia, Augusta. and all
southern and southeastern points.
LYNcHBURG ACCOMMODATION,
$50 A. NJ, leaves Richmond daily for Blu keville,
Farmville Lynchburg, and intermed-
ate points, making close connection at
Lynchburg for all southwestern points
THROUGH FREIGHT,
$40 P. NJ, with sleeping car attached, leaves Rich
mond daily Except Sunday for Lynch
burg, arriving at Lynchburg OLD m.
THROUGH MAIL,
TAP. M, arrives Richmond daily, connecting with
North Carolina division N. W. N. c.
R.R.,C. G. and A. A. R.R.. and At.
lants and Richmond Air Line railway
from all southern and southwestern
points, and with Richmond. Fredericks
burg and Potomac and Chesapeake
and Ohio railroads for all northern and
western points.
LYNCHBURG ACCOMMODATION,
4.5l P. NJ, arrives Richmond daily from Lynchburg,
Farmville Burkevie, and all inferno
date points, and from all southwestern
points.
THROUGH FREIGHT.
72O A. M, with sleepingcar attached, arrives Rich
mond daily Except Monday from
Lynchburg, leaving Lynchburg at m.
The through freight trains between Richmond and
Lynchburg, with sleeping attached, offer unusu-
al advantages in economy of time to business men
of Richmond and Lynchburg.
Tickets sold to all southern and southwestern
points, and baggage checked through.
Palace sleeping-cars run through between Rich
mond and Brunswick, Ga.
Local tickets are good only for continuous pas
sage to the points named on the ticket. No lay
over checks will be given.
T. NJ. r. TALCOTT,
Engineer and superintendent.
]. R, MAcMURDo, General Passenger Agent
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TOO CERTAIN.
Children.

"Father, l am tired Of reading the Bible
have read it SO often that know every
thing in it"
Everything, my son? Do you think
you could not find one chapter that would
contain something you have never yet no.
ticed 2"
eyes, father, I think SO. 1 am sure l
know all that is in the historical parts of the
Bible"
DWELL, let me try you. When were a
large number of men fed with a few lOaveS of
bread, and supply left when they had done
eating?"
"Why, father, surely I remember Christ's
feeding several thousand persons, at two diff
ferent times, with few lOaveS and fishes. :"
every we'll; those are two instances. Now
tell me third"
"There is no other in the Bible"
"You are perfectly sure of that, are you?
Suppose you reflect little before you an
swer again p
eyes, father, I have thought; and l am
certain there is no other miracle of the kind
mentioned in The Bible"
"Well, my son, open your Bible at the
fourth chapter of the Fourth Book of Kings"
"The Fourth Book of Kings! Father,
there is no such book"
"Hand me the Bible. What does this title
say?"
cit is 'The Second Book of the Kings,
commonly called the Fourth Book of the
Kings"
"Well, there is one thing learned by the
bow who knew the Bible so we'll. Now turn
to the fourth chapter and read from the
forty-secOnd verse"
"Here it is, sir: 'And there came man
from Baalshalisha,' and brought the man of
God"
"Who was that man of God?"
81 must look. 1t was the prophet Elisha"
CHOW proceed"
"'And brought the man of God bread of
the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and
full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And
he said, give unto the people, that they may
eat. And his serVitor, said, What, should |
set this before hundred mep2 BE said
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D edmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac

ID edmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
n Route.
ON AND AFTER DECEMBER 18th, trains
on this road will run as follows:
500 A. M. DAY MAIL leaves Byrd Street station
daily, Except Sunday connecting with
the Baltimore and Oh nd Baltimore
and Potomac railroad due at N. York
at 1915 m; arriving at Washington at
1.10pm
8:SOP M. NIGHT MAIL leaves Byrd. Street sta
ton daily, connecting at Washington
with the Baltimore and Potomac Rail
road, arriving in New York at $3.50 m.
Through sleeper from Richmond to
New York.
4SOP. NJ ACCOMMODATION TRAIN for Han.
over Junction leaves Broad-Street sta.
ton Except on Sundays.)
7:O5 A. M. arrives at Byrd-Street station daily,
leaves New York at sos the preceding
evening.
11:SO P. NJ arrives at Byrd-Street station daily,
Except on Sundays.
500 A. M. ACCOMMODATIONS TRAIN arrives
at Brosd-Street station Except Sundays.)
A passenger car, which will be attached to freight
train, will leave Broad Street depot on Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday at $40 a. M, arriving at
Ouantico at 40 p. m. Returning, will leave Guam
tco on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday at 1O.a M;
arrives at Broad. Street depot at p m.
FREIGHT TRAINS leave Broad-Street station
on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday nights for all
points North and West, and arrive on Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday mornings. Consgners Of
live stock and pershable articles upon giving notice
at depot can obtain freight at Bouton on preceding
evening.
Through bills ladng and rates given to all princi.
pal points North and West.
By order of General Superintendent,
E. T. d. MYERS.
G. A. TAYLOR. General Ticket and Freight 4 at.
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again, Give the people, that they may eat :
for thus saith the Lord, They shall eat, and
shall leave thereof So he set it before them
and they did eat, and left thereof according
to the Word of the Lord ."
"That will do for this time, my con. l
have never wished to make the reading Of
the Scriptures tedious by requiring you to
read them continually, without giving you
other books to read. But wanted to con-
vince you how mistaken young people are
apt to be in their ideas Of their own knowl
edge. There are thousands of children
yes, and of men and women too-who would
read with great interest many passages OF
the Bible if they found them in fresh and
beautiful volume which they believe to con-
tain nothing but what is published for the
first time. Remember this; and let me ad-
wise you to read the four books of Kings,
and to make list of all the passages you
will find there which, like the one you have
just read, are as new to you as if you had
never heard nor read them Sailors Maya
1;0o
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The Gain of Giving.

1t is said that when the American Board
of Foreign Missions was before the Legisla-
ture of Massachusetts, to ask for an act Of
incorporation, one member of that body op-
posed the act on the ground, as he said, that
eve have little enough religion at home,
without exporting any" Another member,
in reply to him, said: Gentlemen, religion
is commodity of which the more you ex-
port the more you have at home" The re,
ply was certainly as apt for its wisdom as
for its wit. And yet, self-evident as is the
sentiment which it contains, there is no truth
that needs to be more strongly, repeatedly,
and vehemently urged. The fallacy is SO
fast gaining ground in times of religious
strineency, that retrenchment in our mission
ary expenditures will relieve US, and that
the home resources can be increased by with
holding foreign consignments for the time,
that we need to ponder we'll the words of the
prudent legislator, and keep them always
written on our banners. The philosophy of
the matter is, that religion is not commod
ity, but life, and life always grows through
its own expenditures. A thought, for ex-
ample, loses nothing, but gains vastly by be-
ing expressed in words and communicated to
another. 1t is none the less the minds own
property, that it has become the property of
another's mind. Its diStinctneGs and power
are greatly increased, on the contrary, from
the very importation. And to say nothing
now of the material resources of the king
dom of Christ, what can so enrich ones store
of religion as to be constantly drawing upon
it for the blessing and enrichment of others ?
Giving is its very instinct of self.preserva-
ton. And the Christian heart that attempts
to narrow its love, its sympathy, and its
prayers within the circle of its own home,
will find this very home left cold and vacant
by it ere long.-Rev. q. j. Gordon.
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The Use of Adversely.

Adversely, though punishment, is not
necessarily reformatory. We may 60 from
bad to worse in secular misery. Indeed, our
yisess fnanoiers and statesmen do not see
now we can help going deeper and deeper.
Having dug out the old Safe-beasen ways of
doing things, We have struck upon quickaand
and find nothing solid. Our trouble is not
lack of hard money it is the lack of the
hard pan of conscientiOusness-it is the sub
stitution Of mere policy, aud whatever by
bribery or mistake may be legalizad, or by
allowance become customary, for those ideas
of honesty which are as old and widespread
as the world. We want our words, our la
bells. and our actions to have about them the
ring of the real gold, and not to be mere
deprecated currency, even though everybody
does understand it, and only the fool is de-
oeived,
Mr.. Charles F. Adams is credited with
saying that the thing necessary for revi-
val of business in this country is revival of
religion" There is craftsmanship in the
remark, whoever made it. We can have no
prosperous sailing until the needle of the
popular conscience is magnetized with di,
vinely-given sense of right and wrong; and
this we will get only when, as people, We
have come through repentance and earnest
desire to God for it. When the community
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RECTORY
THE
Presbyterian Church in the United States.
TUE nrurpAI AssgMpry

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
The General Assembly will meet at New Orleans, La
on the third Thursday of May. 1877, at II A. Nj
CLERKS
Rev. JOSEPH R. WILSON, ID. D., STATED CLERK
REV. WILLIAM BROWN D. D., PERMANENT OLzrr,
Rl lem sid s va c. tho rrs,snrsr ., N.
General Assembly
TRUSTEES.
Hos. JAMES HEMPHILI. PRRs1DYsr, Chester S.
REv. JOHN DOUGLAS, Woe PREsIDASr, Charlotte
JESSE H LINDSAY, Esq, SECRETARY and TKsAsURkl.
Greensboro, N. O.
SUSTENTATIoN.
Rev. J. LEIGHTON WILSON, D. D., SECRETARY,
Box SSl, Baltimore, Md
TARr and TREASURER Box ssl, Baltimore, Md.
FOREIGN MISSIONS
REV. J. LEIGHTON WILSON, D. D., SECRETARY,
RIv. RICHARD MoILwAINE, Coordinate ssCHErA.
RI and TREASURER, Box SSl, Baltimore Nd.
PUBLICATION.
Rev. WILLIAM A. CAMPBELL. SECRETARY, Rich.
q. GENNET, Esq, TREASURES, Richmond. Va.
EDUCATION.
Rev: JNo. N. wADDELL, d. D., SECRETARY, Mem.
A. F. DOD, TREASURER, Memphis. Tenn.
Applications to the Executive Committee for aid are
first to referred the appropriate Presbyeral Exec
utive Committees for their approval and be for
warded by them to the Assemby's Committees.
COLLECTIONS.
The General Assembly has appointed the following col.
lections to be taken up annually in all the churches
For Sustentation On the first Sabbath in January
For Publication On the first Sabbath in March.
For Foreign Missions: On the first Sabbath in May.
For the Relief of Disabled Ministers and the Widows
and Orphans of Deceased Ministers On the first Sabbath
in July.
For EvangeIistic Work: on the first Sabbath in Sep
TENDER.
For Education: On the first Sabbath in November.
In where 1t is highly nconvenient take up col
lectons these days. they shall be taken up
possible thereafter
The Assembly recommends to the churches that they
adopt the apostolic plan of taking up weekly collections
and that the amounts thus collected be appropriated
the above named Objects when necessary local OBJ
ecs in such proportion as the church session may decide
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quarter of 1879 of such periodicals as they may SUBJ
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OHEsAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILROAD.-On
. and after APRIL 28d, 1875, passenger trains

Accommodation train leaves Richmond at 30
P. NJ and arrives at GOrdOnsyiIe at 8 10 z. NJ.
Mail trains run daily Except Sunday
Express trains run daily, stopping, at junction,
Noels, Trevillians, Gordonsville, Charlottesville
Staunton. Goshen, Millboro,' CoUngton, and all
regular stations west of Covington.
Accommodation trains run daily Except Sunday }
Mail and express trains connect at Gosdonsville
for Washington and the North, and at Charlottesville
for Lynchburg and the South.
Express train connects at Cincinnati with the
trunk lines for all points in the West, Northwest,
and Southwest, including California, Oregon, and
Texas.
Mail train arrives at Richmond at 4.9O M.
Express train arrives at Richmond at $50 A. M,
connecting with the Richmond Danville and Rich'
mond & Petersburg trains for all points South.
Accommodation train arrives at 8: % a. NJ.
Seeping.cars run on all night trains.
For through tickets, rates, and information, sppy
at 1926 Main street, or at the companys Office, Broad
street near Sixteenth.
CONWAY R. HOWARD,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
WIN. s, DUNN, Eng'r and Superintendent.
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Should the next Assembly order it, am
ready to transfer the whole matter into this
Committees hands. Could have seen the
least prospect of the Committee being able,
for some time to come, to spare the capital
for this purpose, l should not have antlcl-
pated the action of the Assembly, but besides
this difficulty it is we'll known there are others
By the action of the Assembly shall abide
Respectfully submitted,
E. T. BAIRD.
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strike that attitude, then God will fulfil MS
promise: "And I will turn my hand upon
thee, and purely purge away thy drOSS, and
take away all thy tin: and 1 will restore thy
Judges as at first, and thy councillors as at
the beginning; afterward thou shalt be
called the city of righteousness, the faithful
city. Zion shall be redeemed with judg-
ment, and,her converts with righteousness"
Elsa. i: 25-27.)-J. N. LudlOV, d. d.
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Deliyerance in Trouble.

About two years after the Thirty Years
War in Germany, George Neumark lived in
poor street in Hamburg, obtaining pre-
carious living by playing on violincello.-
After while he fell sick and was unable to
90 his usual rounds. AS this was his only
means of support he was reduced to great
straits, and was compelled to part with his
instrument to Jew, who, with characters
tic sharpness, lent him on it sum much be
low its value for two weeks, after which, if
it was not redeemed, it was to be forfeited.
AS he gave it up he looked lovingly at it,
and tearfully asked the Jew if he might play
one more tune upon it,
"You don't know" he said, how hard it
is to part with it. For ten years it has been
my companion; if had nothing else, had
it; and it spoke to me and sung back to me.
Of all the sad hearts that haveleft your door
there has been none 80 sad as NINE"
His voice grew thick and then pausing a
moment he seized the instrument and com.
menced tune SO exquisitely soft that even
the Jew listened in spite of himself. A few
more strains and he sung to his own melody
two stanzas of his own hymn, "Life is weary,
Saviour take me" Suddenly the key changes
"a few bars, and the melody poured itself
forth anew, and his face lighted with smile
as he sung, "Yet who knows the cross is pre-
cious." Then laying down the instrument,
he said, "As God will, am still, and rush
ed from the shop.
Going out into the darkness, he stumbled
against stranger who seemed to have been
listening at the door, and who said to him,
"Could you tell me where could obtain
copy of that song? I would willingly give
form for it." "My good friend" said Neu.
mark, 81 will give it to you without the.
dorin." The stranger was a valet to the
Swedish ambassador, and to him thep poet told
the story of his trials. He in his turn told
his master, who, being in want of private
secretary, engaged Neumark at once; so bis
troubles ended. But with his first money he
redeemed his instrument, and obtaining it,
he called on his landlady, and his friends and
neighbors, to hear him play on it again.
Soon his room was filled, and he sung to his
accompaniment his own sweet hymn, of which
this is one sweet stanza:
"Leare God to order all thy ways,
And hope in him, whate er betide
Thou'lt find him in the evil days
Thine all sufficient strength and guide.
Who trust in Gods unchanging love
Builds on rock that naught can move"
But what need say more? If it were
lawful for me to bring out narratives which l
have received in confidence from some whom
l have visited in their distress, could un-
fold illustrations equally striking of the great
truth that God careth for his peoples tenn
poral wants. So let our parting be, Trust
in the Lord, and do good; 80 shalt thou dwell
in the land, and verify thou shalt be fed."-
TaylOr's Elijah the Prophet.
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the Post Office.
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TER Ms.
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INC IT.
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should be addressed to Central Presbyterian, Boz
81, Richmond, Va.
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The
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n Ohlebs
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PRACTICAL LESSONS.

PRAYER is knowing work, believing work,
thanking work, searching work, humbling
work, and nothing worth if heart and hand
do not join in it.
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MELANCHOLY is a disorder of the mind, to
the cure or alienation of which nothing is
more essential than the kind Offices and con-
yersation of real friends.
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We MUST carefully watch against all those
secret suggestions which would divert US from
our duty, or discourage US in it.