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Seek the Spirit.

Last summer I saw at Minneapolis an
immense mill that is able to turn out
five thousand barrels of -four in twenty
four hours. The millers do not produce
the grain that comes from the soil, the
sunshine, and the rains of heaven. The
millers do not create the power that
comes from the Mississippi, whose waters,
sweeping down from the Minnesota
lakes, pour over the rocks of "St. Antho-
NY" The colossal mill is motionless until
the strength of the river outside strikes
the water-wheel; then the hundred Of
rollers begin to whirl, the -four begins to
spout, and the whole structure jars and
roars from turret to foundation
Every church, every Sunday School,
every pulpit, every religious organiza-
ton, stands to-day in the same position
as that Minnesota mill Human hands
can arrange agencies and construct ma
chinery for the salvation OF souls, but
the poaOer to make them efectlaI comes
only from on high" 1t is a common
blunder with mechanical Missionaries to
imagine they can create power whereas
all that they can apply to their mechan-
les is just what lies in so many pounds of
coal, or tons of water, or jars of chemi-
Gals, or so much motion of the winds.
Christians commit a more inexcusable
error when they imagine that spiritual
strength lies in largeness Of congregation,
or equipment of Sunday School, or elo-
quence Of pulpit, or amount Of moneys
contributed, or the most sagacious or
ganization whatsoever. All these may
become sources Of weakness, the moment
they are made the chief reliance of sue
cess. There is a terrible temptation to
us ministers to take the census OF a congre-
cation or a prayer meeting, and estimate
strength by numbers These only in
crease the number of wheels, and no
wheel drives itself; The power is Of God.
Those one hundred and twenty disciples
in the upper room would have come
down the stairway as weak as they went
up if the Holy Spirit had not descended
and filed their souls. Then they went
forth from that chamber the mightiest
band on the round globe; Caesar was a
child to them
Seek the Shirt This is the motto to
be written up in every pastors study,
and on the walls of every Sunday School
and to be rung from every pulpit. There
is a certain sense in which the Holy
Spirit is ever with us, or there would not
be true Christian alive, or any true
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" The Sunday Book"

1.-The Sunday book" is a name sug-
gested to us by something we once read
in Theodore Parker. He says in one
place, with something of deep reverence
=" The Bible is read on Sunday in all
the 10000 pulpits of our land In all
the temples of Christendom is its voice
lifted up week by week The sun never
sets on its cleaning page" And much
more to the same effect Mr.. Parker
would have to amend his statement now
His 10000 pulpits would read 10000 at
the lowest figure. Thirty years have
multiplied pulpits and Bibles at such a
tremendous rate. 1t seems as if all car
pentry of the land had been busy build
ing churches and putting in pulpits. And
there the Book is, wherever the pulpit
is; and the increasing thousands that
gather to the preaching hear the Bible
reading first, and would not be satisfied
if the preacher omitted it. 1t is proba-
bly, nearer the truth to say that 100000
ministers open and read that book every
Sabbath before American audiences num-
bering hundreds and thousands of hear
ers strong. And another item which
Theodore Parker did not include is the
Sabbath reciting as we'll as reading The
Sunday book any first day of the week
is in the hands of 100000 pupils and
teachers in American Sabbath Schools;
where the Book is not only read but
studied and memorised.
If it is weakness to dwell on such
fact, we share it with Huxley himself, the
great student of nature, who might be
supposed to care good deal less for SEN
timent than science. by what other
book, he asked, could children be so
much humanised? BY what other made
to feel that each figure in that vast his
torical procession fills, like themselves,
but momentary space in the interval
between two eternities, and earns the
blessings or the curses of all time accord
ing to It's efforts to do good and hate evil,
even as they also are earning their pay
ment for their work ?"
We saw Huxley's name once set down
in a list of infdels, but he must have been
out Of his place, else how should he say,
as he does, that religious feeling is the
essential basis of conduct, and religious
""~"-t be kept W without the use
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Ministerial Qualifications.

The Rev. Newman Hall, in his address
at his brothers recognition service, re-
Gently held at Clifton Down, Bristol, put
much in little when he said that if he
were member OF congregation seeking
minister, ne should insist on some quail
Ihcatlons as essential, in view of the ques-
tlons of the day AS there were some
persons, who abused true science by
pleading her authority for excluding
personal God from the universe, and de-
nying the possibility of all miracles, he
should require that teacher should re-
spond with all earnestness to the old
creed" [ believe in God the Father AL
mighty, and in Jesus Christ, who rose
again from the dead" He must be
Christian. AS there were many, who
though not designated Popish, yet dis
carded the vital truths, if not the very
name OF Professionalism, and taught that
some men were nearer God than others,
and could convey supernatural grace by
sacraments, he should require that his
minister, whatever the external ceremo-
NAL, should hold the common priesthood
OF all believers as worshippers, and tt e
sole priesthood of Christ as Mediator, he
must, therefore, be Protestant. AS some
Protestants explain away the atoning sac
rlfice as mere moral influence, and ig-
nored the personal agency Of the Holy
Ghost, he should require a preacher to
proclaim salvation by Christ crucifed,
forgiveness through his sacrifice, sancti-
fcation by the Divine Spirit. He must
be evangelical. AS some confined the
Church of Christ to their own denomina-
ton, he should desire that his minister
should recognize the common fellowship
of all who love Christ, and be ready in
all possible ways to show his love for,
and to co operate in service with, all who
held the fundamental truths of the Cos
pei. He must be catholic. And as there
was much alienation from the public SER
vices of the Church, and so much drunk
enness and misery, he should desire his
minister to have social sympathles
prompting him to unite in all efforts out
side the special exercises of worship, to
reclaim and elevate and bless the great
masses of the people. In all these re-
spects, as Christian, Protestant, Evangel-
zeal Catholic, and philanthropist, he had
the utmost confidence IN the newly APP
'etorAsf Uh ton ~
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iasL .-.,e 49,, dides, and
identified with the Greek. No one dare
say that his brilliant history of England
will win him that honor, Rare indeed
are the authors that are read a thousand
years. None, absolutely none, that are
thus read by peasant and prince alike,
the illiterate and the educated read in
public assemblies OF the people read in
thousands of private dwellings; recited
by millions of pupils in schools. No book
but one was ever heard of of which this
was true LOCO years, 1000 years, and
even more than 5000 years after differ
ent parts Of it were written.
A very wonderful volume is this Sun
day book, and the liveliest of Sunday
papers must be voted commonplace in
the comparison. 1t is the oldest book
ever written and the newest. Ancient
as the pyramids, it is less subject to de-
cay. So far from becoming obsolete, it
is the most adaptable to all modern uses
is more used for all serviceable pur-
poses than any volume now IN the power
of man IT, write 1t is small book, but
the volume of literature it has originated
is great beyond computation, and never
so vast as at this day. There is no such
literary marvel as this. Some of the
most stalwart natures have confessed its
power. President jackson, rough old
soldier, went to this book for soiace in
his old age, and died saying, Religion
is great reality-tbe Bible is true. -
Daniel Webster confessed that one Of the
greatest moral miracles he had ever seen
was the transformation of nature, rug
ged as the White Mountains, that the
Sunday book" had met in the New
Hampshire wilds and subdued to the
gentleness Of a child.
Within the century there have been
over one hundred and sixty millions Of
this book printed in some $50 languages
and dialects And the printing presses
were never put to their topmost speed as
now to supply the demand So does the
greatness of the book grow in the estima-
ton of the world.-Elmyo Duly AdUer-
tiscr.
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such confession? What preacher of
the Word can ever think of wishing to
gather the harvest when he has hardly
sown the seed2 On the other hand, the
Vot&Sbote quite agrees with the organ
isers of these meetings. "All those" it
says, "who have been present at these
gatherings, and have seen the compare
lively large number of those who have
stood up to declare that they would like
to give themselves to their Saviour, can
affirm that those calls to conversion, and
to frank and visible decision, respond
to felt need"
What will remain of all this2 Such
is the question asked by one of our jour
nails. One result will be considerable
benefit to the Church ularly,-in
this sense, that our bret and sisters
who have been long com I'd with the
Church will understand they have
now to aoork. every or be set to
work in visiting and ca II all these
newborn ones. God bt ed The
Lord has arisen from His .uary. He
will push out of their old ruts these of
His brave ones who have forgotten that
they are the salt of the earth, and He
will make a0illimg people, whose sole
watchword is, Jesus, Saviour and King
There is no doubt that we are experience
ing revival such as Bale has probably
never seen since the Reformation. At
the moment when the enemy was count
ing on getting possession of this strong
hold of the gospel "the stronger MAJ"
called, and drew from the dust the mate
rails of more vigorous Church, strong
er, rejuvenated. What particularly af-
fords US ground of rejoicing in this move
ment, and gives us confidence, is the
place in which it is going on,-Bale, the
city so eminently cold and correct. Meet
ings of the same character have been
fixed to take place at Geneva, in the end
Of November, under the auspices of the
Evangelical Alliance. May God grant
a powerful awakening of conscience in
the city of Calvin.
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over fifteen thousahv les OF t
open, and scores of nativebuilt :.
tlve-manned steamers ply along the lasts.
The postoffice system was opened in 1871
and 1T is now one of the most efficient
systems in the world, with money order
system and savings bank system in all
the principal cities and towns of the en-
pire.
The hrst newspaper was started in
1871, and there are now over three hun
dred newspapers published in the empire.
A common-school system, similar to that
OF the United States, was established a
few years ago; and now, for the first time
In the history of Japan, the girls of the
mas IS are taught the rudiments of an
education, being gathered with the boys
IN these schools. Normal schools are es-
tablished, and also few middle schools,
and large Imperial University in the
capital, Toxic. There is standing army
numbering thirty-fve thousand in peace,
and fifty thousand in time of war. There
is foreign-drilled navy also, with about
thirty vessels, manned by four thousand
sailors. The police number about twent-
five thousand men. They have one Of
the finest minis in the world, with twelve
coming presses, thirty melting-lur-
naces, sulphuric acid and nitric acid
mandatory. About forty lighthouses
light up the dangerous coasts There are
dockyards, iron foundries, paper-mills,
and type and printing-press manufacto-
RES.
The Outlook.
There are in an Japan about seventy
five ordained foreign missionaries and
about fifty ordained native pastors, with
not far from two hundred other native
evangelists and colporters, four thousand
five hundred native communicates, and
more than one hundred preaching sta
tions. There is also native publication
society, which has charge Of the publica-
ton and distribution of religious litera-
ture.
Japan is open now and calling for the
gospel. The prejudice is largely gone,
and calls come from every direction for
the gospel. The great struggle there is
to be between Christianity and infdelity.
although the Buddhists are making a des.
-Perate effort to hold the people true to
their faith in Buddhism. Young priests
are not licensed now unless they can pass
an examination on the Old and New Tes-
taments, and many Of the young priests
are coming to our native pastors and to
the missionaries to study the Bible the
result will be, in some cases, that these
young men will be won by the power of
the truth. We're there ten missionaries
at work'in Japan were there is one, and
were there fifty natives ready to work
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TIE CATHOLIC PREsRYrER1AN for January.

The CATHOLIC PRESBYTERIAN for January.
Contents
l. Presbyterianism, by Howard Crosby, D D.,
LID, New York.
2. Romanism in Ireland, by Rev. Professor
Croskery, Magee College Londonderry.
3. The Landing OF the Magfo,Oer, by Mrs.
Cousin.
4. The Sunday Question in Germany, by
Friedrich II. Branders, D. D., Gottingen
5. The Inner Spirit of our Lords Ministry,
by the Editor
6. Symposium-Progress in Theology, No l,
by the Very Rev. Principal Tulloch, DID,, LII.
D.. st. Andrews.
7. Practical Work of the Church-Vistation
of the Sick. by A. A Bonar, D D., Glasgow
s. Portfolio Leaves-Dr. Martensen on the
Emancipation of Woman.
Notes of the Day.
TO- American Notes.
IL. General Survey.
IL Open Council
Published by Arson D. F. Randolph & Co.,
New York.
ST. NICHOLAS for February. Contents
Frontspiece "Margery's Champion :" A Queer
Valentine; When Mamma was Little Girl ;
In the Land of Clouds; The Story of the Field
of the Cloth of Gold The Tinkham Brothers
Tide-Mill Priscilla Prues Umbrella; Stories of
Art and Artists Pussy Willow; Doris Lees
Feather Fan Jeremy Barge and Timothy Wall
The Tale of the Surprising Family, etc. etc.
Published by The Century Co. SO east 9TH
St Union Square,, New York.
The Eclectic MAGAZINE for February. Con-
tents
The Fallacy of Materialism Four Months in
Morocco True Ghost Story; Charles Dick.
ems; Star unto Star; A Lesson on Democracy;
Goethes West-Eastern Divan Festival Among
the Basques; Au Pair An Autumn Morning ;
American Millionaires; Walt Whitman Ensil-
age; John Harrison the Chronometer Maker ;
The Water We Drink etc., etc
E. R. Pelton, publisher. % Bond Street,
New York.
WIDE AWAKE for February has the following
contents:
Frontispiece- Rescue; Granny-A True
Story; The Silver City; An Astronomical OBJ
servation Decorative Plaque; The John Spicer
Lectures A Mercantile Transaction Our Bust
ness Boys; Short Stories from the Dictionary;
Little Plays for Little Player A Winter Gar
den An Adventure in Cruesoe-Land etc, etc.
D. Lothrop & Co., publishers, Boston.
THE MISSIONARY HERALD for February is re-
ceived. Always full of interest. Published by
the American Board of Commissioners for For
eign Missions. Boston.
LITTELLs LIVING AGE for the week ending
January 9th.
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church. But our Lord had very de-
finite idea In his mind when he declared,
" How much more shall your heavenly
Father give the Holy Spirit to them that
ask him." The asking implies depend
ence; implies desire; implies effort to
obtain. The waters of the Mississippi
have been flowing over the rocks of the
:" st. Anthony for ages; the miller OBJ
tanned their power when he went out and
sought for it, and let it on his wheels.
DIR. Catyle7' an Christian ot Work.
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where there is one, we might expect to
see Japan Christian nation by 1890.
The writer of these notes has spent
nearly ten years in Japan, and most of
them are based on his personal observa-
ton there. He would, however, acknowl-
edge the valuable help which Professor
Grlffis volume, "The Mikado's Empire"
the best that has ever been prepared on
Japan, has afforded in the preparation Of
them.-MlSSionayy Herald.
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too much this way or that, and over you
go. A cat on hot cinders is not in an
enviable position. No true-hearted man
will ever bear such wretched constraint
for any length of time, nor, indeed at
all. Think of being able to go no furth-
er than the timorous, time-serving Eras-
mus, who said, will not be unfaithful
to the cause Of Christ; at least, so far as
the age will permit me-" Out upon such
cowardice; life is too dear when bought
at such price.-Spurqeon
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Time Servers.

The trimming, hesitating policy Of
many reminds us of Luthers words to
Erasmus You desire to- walk upon
eggs without crushing them, and among
glasses without breaking them. This is
a difficult game to play at, and one which
is more suitable for a clown at theatre
than a servant Of Christ. When You are
attempting. "a compromise, you have 10
look around you, and move cautiously
as a tight-rope dancer, for fear Of offend
ing on one side or the other A little
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Recent Publications.

Our prompt acknowledgment every week of
the books sent to us we consider as ordinarily a
sufficient compensation for the same. We re-
serve to ourselves the privilege of giving more
or less extended notice of the same, which is for
the benefit of our readers. 1t would be impos-
sible for us to examine all the books sent to US,
and especially the innumerable little volumes
written for children.
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THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY in 1864 By Geo.
E. Pend, Associate Editor of the Army and
Nary Journal. limo, PIP. 2S7. Price 81.
Being No. IL of the Campaigns of the Civil
War"
Fer sale by West, Johnston & Co., Richmond
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SOCRATES. A Translation of the Apology, Critic
and Parts of the Phedo of Plato. Paper.
New York Charles Scribners Sons. 1888
Price so cents.
For sale by West, Johnston & Co., Richmond
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Recent Progress in japan.

Since the opening of Japan an era of
material progress has followed, such as
the world has never before witnessed
The capital was removed from Kioto to
Yedo, and the name of the latter city was
changed to Toxic. The ex-damios were
retired on one tenth of their former re-
venues in 1871 Their retainers, the
samurai, had their pensions capitalized
in 1874. = The second japanese Embassy
went around the world in 1871-72. The
senate, with thirty-one members, was es-
tablished in 1875. Local provincial as
semblies, the members of which are
elected by the people, were estabGa} in
1879 a decree was issued in Oct
for an elective parliament to be esta'
~ lie Code
'nuary1
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---s revelation. To him there
were no evidences Of Inspiration, and
Christianity was only an illusion. Evi-
Gence is now coming in that he was a
materialist and in all probability an athe-
ist The letter to a student at Jena in
duces DR.. Robert Lewins to write to the
Journal Of Science Before concluding
may, without violation of any conf
dence, mention that both viva Uoce and
In writing Mr.. Darwin was much less re-
lucent than in his letter to- Jena. For.
In answer to the direct question felt
myself justified, some years since, in ad-
dressing to that immortal expert in biol
ogy, as to the bearing of his researches
on the existence of an ANNA or soul in
man, he distinctly stated that, in his
opinion, vital or spiritual principle,
apart from inherent, somatic energy, had
no more locus Stundj in the human than
In the other races of the animal kingdom
"a conclusion that seems mere corol-
larry OF, or indeed a position tantamount
with, his essential doctrine Of human and
bestlal identity Of nature and genesis.
This IS Just what many sensible men have
expected. AS Dir. Lewins SAYS, the iden-
tity Of men and brutes is the legitimate
conclusion Of the Darwinian principle.
There is no spiritual life, no soul in man
the known universe, man included, is
material. Mind and soul are nothing
beyond developed instinct, and instinct
IS only a development Of such intelligence
as is exhibited by earth-worms and climb
ing plants. Darwinism, extended to its
legitimate and logical conclusion, is gross
materiallsm and bald atheism. 1t de-
stroys moral responsibility, takes from
lie Its character as probation or pre-
paration for a life beyond the gates of
death, and absolutely disallows the future
in another world Of the soul of man. Per
haps this is, as Mr.. Wallace claims, a
discovery equal to Newtons discovery of
the law of gravitation but it seems to
us that II is only repetition of what has
been often SAID and on an almost identi-
cal basis.--CHrislian Intelhgencer.
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SECEssGoNs FROM THE Church or
ENGLAND TO RoME.-Tbe Rock SAYS the
Rtualistic churches in Kensinpton con.
tinue to fulfil their natural functions as
recruiting grounds for Rome. Not many
weeks ago one of Mr.. Lights curates at
All Saints, Kensington Park, seeded.
This week we read in the hensinqto,l
Nct0s an authorised announcement that
one Of Mr.. Lukes staff at St. Matthias
has been received into the Catholic
Church We shall continue, however,
we suppose, to be assured that it is the
E'gh Anglican party who are the true
bulwark against Rome.
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Close Of the Sealing Season

Posf-iatslligasc5g.
The schooner Teaser, Capt. Z. Q.
Quinn, arrived from Quillcuto ycster-
day, and from him the following inter
estinE facts were learned; The sealing
season closed on or about the 2Oth of
June, by the setting in Of thick weather,
and the desire on the part of the In
dams to commence laying in their win
ter supply OF halibut, red-fsh, cuItus
cod and black bass.
OF the American schooners engaged
in seal catching, the Soyeuty-six, Capt.
Mcfarland, under charter Of VIM. Gal
lick, carried of the Lonora, by making
the luIgast catch Of the season.
The schooner Lotlie- owned by Henry
Lande5, is laid up at Scow Bay. The
Sevcnty-siz IS owned in San Francisco,
and l. at present laying at Port Town
send awaiting orders. The Fudora left
for San Francisco several days ago. The
Champion, owned by Captain BIoAI-
mond, has gone to plotting off the Cape.
The ldary Taylor, Captain Dalgardno'
schooner. arrived at Port Townsend yes
tarlay, and viii probably 90 into the
plotting service.