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Students of Divinity and metaphysicans will
all unite to thank the Messrs. Scribner's for
bringing out the English edition of JANET's
FINAL CAUSES, work which needs no COM
mendation or criticism, having by general con-
sent taken the highest position among the theis-
tic discussions of the present day. This trans
lation is by William Affleck, B. D., from the
second edition of the French, and is introduced
with Preface by Robert Flint, D. D., LID.
of the University of Edinburgh The author
of this work remarks that different ages REQUIRE
different efforts. Philosophy" he says, "has
In our day assumed new aspect On the one
hand, the development of the sciences of ma
ture, which more and more tends to subject the
phenomena of the universe to a mechanical
confederation and, on the other hand the de-
velopment of the critical and idealistic ph JsoS
ply that had its centre in Germany at the COM
mencement of this century, and which had It's
counterpart even in Scotland with Hamilton
and Ferrieri and in fine, the progress of the
spirit of inquiry in all departments have rem
dered necessary revision of the problem The
principles themselves must be subjected to criti-
cism. AT the present day the mere adding of
facts to facts no longer suffces to prove the ex-
lstence of design in nature, however useful for
the rest that may be. The real difficulty is in
the Interpretation of these facts the question
regarding the principle itself"
The volume is like all the Messrs. Scribner's
publications, handsomely gotten up. The price
is $3.50. For sale by West, Johnston & Co.
of this city.
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HE CELESTIAL SYMBOL INTERPRETED; or The
Natural and Spiritual Teachings of The Sun,
as revealed by the Triumphs of Modern Sci=
ence. By Herbert w. Morris, D. D., former
ly Professor of Mathematics in Newington
Collegiate Institute London; author of SSci-
ence and the Bible" etc. etc. 8vo DID. 7O2.
J. c. McCTdy Co., Philadelphia 1883.
The object and character of this volume NAV
be gathered from the following prospectus:
The Sun. which the distinguished author is
pleased to style the Celestial symbol though
an apparently familiar subject is really unfa-
mlllar to a vast number of people, when we take
into consideration its mighty influences.
10 illustrate this, let us consider few of the
effects OF one Of Its functions-Sunlight The
Sunbeam is mysterious agency. In this won.
derful book we are shown that no substance can
De exposed to 1T without undergoing change.
Sunlight is the ultimate cause of every motion
which takes place upon the face of the earth.
BY It's heat are produced all winds, and all those
electrical disturbances known as thunder storms
which purify the air we breathe; the waters of
the ocean are made to ascend in vapor, travel
through the air, descend in showers irrigate the
land, supply the springs and form the rivers.
by Its hte-glvlng action vegetables are enabled
TO draw their support from the soil put forth
their blossoms, to rlpen their fruits, and become
IN their time the support of all animated nature
Every blade Of grass every leaf, every flower,
is debtor to Its mysterious agency, for the per-
lection and harmony of its color Through its
illuminating power we enjoy inestimabie ad-
vantsges, and receive all the inde6nable pleas
ures OF vision. Every human being, every ami
NAL every plant, owns that life and health are
due to Its light, and all living things are made
to rejoice in its presence.
In this volume the author begins by setting
forth all that relates to the Sun, as the Parent
Orb OF great family of Worlds, as the fountain
OF Light, the source of Heat as the origin of
the Magnetic impulses, and as the Centre Of At
traction, and we made to understand and
appreciate the wonders. splendors, and in
huences of this great Orb of Day, upon which
depend the unity. harmony, and welfare of the
whole System of Nature
AS he advances, step by step, he traces out
beautiful and remarkable analoges which exist
between the relations and agencies of the Sun of
Nature and the character and offices of the Sun
OF righteousness. Viewed in the light of these
various analogies. the Sun will be found to
typify and illustrate all the great and benefi-
cent doctrines which relate TO the Saviour of
Mankind"
The work is richly illustrated, and is warmly
commended by such men as Dr. Howard Cros-
by, DR.. Thomas II. Skim er of the Presbvterian
Theological Seminary of the Northwest and
others.
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Lent and New York.

1t seems a little strange at the first
that Lent changes the timlA rather than
the amount of amusement, and that peo-
pie attend the theatre and opera and
concerts more in Lent than at other
times. But the reason of it is plain
enough. They escape from the round of
social exactions, and are glad to get the
relief that these public entertainments
give. New York is just becoming a city
Of pleasure and speculation. The finan-
clal excitement and the eager drive of
business unfit people for quiet home en-
joyment and intellectual recreations, and
they rush into social excitements and
theatrical displays of all sorts. 1t is as
tonishing how much speculation there is
here, and how many people, poor men,
women, and even boys, as we'll as men of
property, dabble more or less in margins.
1t has been bad season for these anna
teur operators, as most of them have lost,
and their speculstions have absorbed
more of their earnings than they could
afford to lose. Speculation has become a
mania, and learn that farmers and me-
chanics and small traders in the country
are continually operating through brok-
ers, sending small sums to invest in one
or another security, or to be invested at
the brokers' discretion. Most of them
lose, like the buyers of lottery tickets.
1t is a species Of gambling, though the
form Is that of legitimate business. How
the craze can be cured is a serious ques-
ton. 1t was proposed last fall to pass
bill through the Legislature to prohibit
all speculations in food products, but the
advocates Of this measure confess that it
is almost impossible to draw the line be-
tween legitimate trade and pernicious
speculation. Perhaps this mamie must
have its run, and fever-like, burn itself
out, though it will cause no end of loss
and suffering to its Victims Christiu,s
ct Work.
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Gossip Rebuked.

The Advocate and Guardian gives an
incident that may prove suggestion to
all of us:
One day the conversation at dinner in
a family well-known to the writer turned
upon lady who was so unfortunate as
to have incurred the dislike of certain
members of the household because of
some little peculiarities. After several
had expressed their views in no gentle
terms, the married sister added:
" l can't endure her, and l believe I
will not return her call if she comes here
again.
Her husband, who had hitherto re-
NAMED silent, replied
" She will not trouble you again, my
dear, as she died an hour ago"
You do not mean it? Surely you
are onl y teasing us for our uncharita-
bleness ?"
"She is really dead. 1 learned it on
my way to dinner"
Overwhelmed with shame, the little
group realized for the first time the solo-~,-
nifty of such sinful conversation.
take warning, and speak of those about
US as we will wish we had done when
" Death sweeps their faults with heavy hand,
AS sweeps the sea the trampled sand"
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A few Sabbaths ago the minister to
one of the churches here Il need scarcely
say, not of our OWN took for his text,
How shall we escape" ETC., and con.
cluded with this remark, but you will
say, why do you talk so to us We pay
the minister to redeem our souls Oh,
my friends-I can only answer you in
the words of an old and true adage-so
old and so true that it is often quoted,
and generally believed to be in the Bible
but it is not. Every tub muGt stand
on its own bottom"
Whether this preaching be of the
Cavalry" or Infantry" order, cannot
some of our wise men devise a way to
fill our destitute places with class
which shall displace this style? Of
course, being only woman, it becomes
me to sit in my place and pray the Lord
of the harvest to send forth laborers-to
send them speedily and more abundantly
Human nature is apt to be impatient
when suffering with strong desire 1t
can scarcely wait the Lords own time or
way. Memories of Uzzahs fatal attempt
only hinders laying hand upon the
Ark. But is it a sin to wish. to hasten
the coming of His chariot Z? Where is the
line which separates zeal from impa-
thence? MIRIAM.
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For the Central Presbyterian.
Presbyterian High Schools.

If you were to put committee of
investigation" to work on the inquiry,
why do not more young men offer
themselves for the ministry" you would
probably have the answer: Because
boys receive so little training in religious
truth"
In the whirl of business and society
duties, parents do not think they have
time for this important work, and so ex-
cuse themselves for their neglect, and
hope that the influence of the Sunday
School, or some other, may yet "bring
it out all right" The public schools
ignore the subject, and the boarding
schools touch it gingerly, if at ALL
Can the Church or even society and
the State afford a generation of men such
as are now maturing? What is the
remedy?
l believe that if every Presbytery, or,
where they are very weak, two or more
jointly, would concentrate its resources
and influence upon school organized
under prescribed regulations, enforcing
positive and systematic religious instruc-
ton, and operated upon ordinary bust
ness principles, such schools would be
easily sustained, and would prove a great
blessing to Church and State
What are the objections and Difficult
ties A crusty, but clear-headed old
gentleman suggests as the chief difficulty,
that all the ministerial failures and SUI
perannuated preachers would be put in
charge of these schools, and quickly
bring them to grief In order to prevent
the temptation of relieving the Sustenta-
ton fund in this way, it might at the
start be agreed that none but professional
teachers should be put in charge of these
schools, which must measure up to the
standard of preparation required by the
universities, or, of course, they would be
short lived.
BY cooperative system of this sort
the children of Presbyterians might not
only be trained in the Presbyterian faith,
but receive their college preparation at
less cost than now. Let the Shorter
Catechism be made res ar textbook
In these schools, and IL questions
and answers be ey ,,nmon
sense weu
planned IN otne4 5rcant
studies. Put live, pre-, we teachers
of high character and sound scholarship
IN charge of them. Locate these schools
In quiet country villages near to stro1aq
Presbyterian church, where the pupils
are likely to hear good, strong preach
ing. Let a regency OF three preachers
and two laymen have special charge in
each Presbytery, under such regulations
as Presbytery may impose.
Let us have little discussion of this
subject in our papers, little at the
Spring Presbyteries, and then let start
be made all along the line if the plan
seems a good one. H. L. II.
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President Eliot, of Harvard College, in
recent lecture on Ministerial Educa-
ton, makes statements that should
challenge the attention of the Christian
world. He says the percentage of min
listers In the ten years closing in ITO
among the graduates of Harvard was 90,
of Yale 80, and of Princeton, As that is,
about one third of the educated men be-
came ministers. But in the six years
closing in 1876 the percentage of minis-
tiers, from the same institutions, was,
Harvard, 81 Yale, 7 Princeton, IL
that is, not more than one in thirteen OF
the graduates of these colleges became
ministers.-I Interior.
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tlyes, with the lOdldes of Potassium and Iron,
all powerful, blood making blood cleansing and
life sustaning-and is the most effectual Of all
remedies for scrofulous mercurial, or blood
disorders Uniformly successful and certain. il
produces rapid and complete cures Of Scrofula,
Sores, Boils, Humors, Pimples, Eruptlons, Skin
Diseases and all disorders arising from impuri
ty Of the blood. By its nvigorating effects it
always relieves and often cures Liver Com
plants, Female Weaknesses and Irregularities.
and IS potent renewer Of waning vitality. For
purifying the blood it has no equal 1t tones
up the system, restores and preserves the health
and imparts vigor and energy. For forty years
1t has been in extensive use, and is TO- day the
most available medicine for the suffering sick.
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case now. The urgency presented by
wide spiritual destitutions and growing
populations is substantially Just the ur-
gency which pressed upon Calvin, Beza
Bucer, Bullinger. Knox, in the Reforma-
ton; and just that which pressed on the
founders of the Presbyterian Church in
America. Those men of God were taught
by experience not to attempt to supply
that urgency by an unframed ministry.
Il we are wise, we shall still learn from
their experience, and not persist in learn
ing the bitter lesson of error over again
by another experience of failure, disas-
tiers, and confusions. r. L. D.
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Many gentleman of the period, +"
says Mr.. Spurgeon in a recent magazine
article, sc may be described as bound in
cloth-limp." He fears that Hmpness
is the vice of the present day, and that it
prevails most of all in religious circles.
Not that he wishes the old bigotry back,
which made men dash their angles
against each other with an eager deli ht
in collision. But he fears that when
bigotry was swept overheard, much went
with 1t that never ought to have been
given up. The storm which wrecked
the pirate Bigotry' beat furiously upon
the good ship Principle. What the
Church needs above all things Just now,
in Mr.. Surgeons opinion, is regiment
Of Ironsides
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The CHILDREN AND THE CHURCH. and Young
Peoples Society of Christian Endeavor as a
Means of Bringing them Together. By F. E.,
Clark, pastor Of Willston church. Portland.
Me. I'm, PIP. 108. Price rs cents Boston
Congregational Sunday School and Publish
ing Society.
The author of this interesting little book be-
lieves in the conversion Of children, and the OBJ
ject Of the work s to explain the purpose and
plan Of the Young Peoples Society of Chris
tian Endeavor." There is an uncultivated field
in this direction that we firmly believe will
yield rich harvests to the Church in the future.
Whatever view may be taken Of the specific
methods suggested in this volume, we are sure
that it will be pro6tably studied, and open up
new lines Of thought to all who will read it,
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were listening to an educated, an able,
and sincere man.
The sober sense, and the self-respect of
this colored man from Africa, appeared in
striking contrast with the strained eff
fusions of Drs. McCosh, Taylor, and
Elder, and excited warm interest in
him and his worthy enterprise, in some
who had been offended by their bad taste
and extreme positions.
Should the movement toward Africa
become as general among the negroes as
some imagine, the question OF college of
higher order in Liberia, will swell to
still greater magnitude. A.
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THE North AMERICAN REVIEW for March
Contents:
Money in Elections; The Subjugation of the
Mississippi Gladstone; Railway Influence in
the Land Office; The Pyramid of Cheops; Pro-
tectlve Taxes and Wages; Some Aspects of Life
Insurance Educational Needs
Published at No. 80 Lafayette Place, New
York
POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY for March. Con-
tents:
The Growth and Effect of Railway Consolida-
ton; Queer Phases of Animal Life; Natural
Religion" Vivisection and Practical Medicine;
volution of the Camp-Meeting Sewage at the
Seaside; Ice and Fog in the North Atlantic
Remedial Value of the Climate of Florida A
South African Arcadia Piratical Publishers A
Chapter in Transcendental Pathology The
Pedigree of Wheat, etc., ETC.
; d. Appleton Co., publishers, New York
HARPERs MAGAZINE for March. Contents:
The Burgomester's Daughter; Across Ari-
coma The French Voyageurs The Phantom
Shlp-A Poem; Artist Strols in Holland; "Par-
slfal' at Bareuth Consola-A Poem Philip
Wouvermans For the Major-A Novel; Mrs.
Claxtons Skeleton-A Story Sir Christopher
Gardiner, Knight etc, etc.
Published by Harper & Brothers, New York.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY for March. Contents
Michael Angelo-Part Third; In Carlyle's
Country Antagonism A Loving-Cup Song;
By Horse-Cars into Mexico; The Hawthorne
Manuscripts; The Legend of Walbach Tower
Iommaso Salvini; One Woman; Port Royal
The City of Earthquakes, ETC., etc.
Boston: Houghton, Miflin & Co.
LITTELL's LIVING AGE for the week ending
February 18th.
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For the Central Presbrterlan.
Western Jottings.

Messrs. EolitorS,-Do you not suppose
the quotation, "a nation shall be born
in day" may be found in the same
Scriptures with the oft-quoted phrase,
I" Then faith shall be lost in sight, and
hope in full fruition r. If you enjoy
original sensations you should hear some
Of the sermons preached in our ends Of
the earth. See Naples and die, may
have answered in past days-but a mod
ern hfe-experience is not complete with
out a touch Of Western spice.
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FRAEK LEsLIE's SUNDAY MAGAZINE for March.
7. De Witt Talmage, D. D., Editor Con-
tents:
Missions at Yankton and Santee Agencies
instruments Of Torture :. Easter Bve-Poem /;
Washington Irving's Love Story The New
FORK Tenement-House System Personal and
Pleasant Memories Of the Late Earl Of Kintore ;
The Convent Of Saint Odile, in Alsatia The
Penmon Of the Bible ETC., etc.
Frank Leslie, Publisher, Park Place, New
York
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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 beneht OF our readers. 1t would be impos-
slbie Tor us to examine all the books sent to us,
and especially the innumerable little volumes
written for children.
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A HAND Book Of zlsh and American Liter
ature, Historical and Critical, with illustra
tons Of the Writings Of each successive pc,
Rod. For the use Of Schools and Academies
BY Esther J. Trimble, late Professor Of Lit
esature in the State Normal School West
Chester, Pa. PIP. SIS. Price $3.50 Phila-
delphia EldrIdge Bro
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The SEASON, Ladys Illustrated Magazine of
the Fashions, for March is received.
This is beautiful publication of the costumes
of Vanity Fair. Price 80 cents per number.
There are many colored plates.
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Nothing Short Of

Unmistakable Ben
Gifts conferred upon
tens Of thousands Of suf
ferers could originate
and maintain the re-
putation which AYERS
SARsAPARILLA enjoys.
1t is a compound Of the
best vegetable altera-
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SCIENCE IN SHORT CHAPTERS By W. Mattien
Williams, F. R. A. S.. F. C. s., author of The
Fuel of the Sun" etc. limo, PIP 3O8. Price
20 cents. New York Funk 4 Wagnalls.
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Duty is a powerful charm and sovereign
remedy against all melancholy fits.
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TIE North AMERICAN REVIEW for March,
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-04-19
CONVICT LABOR.

a bill is now pending before the
Legislature Of New York, which pro-
vidcs that no further contract shall be
made with reference to The employ
mcnt OF tho conv:cts in.thc State pcni-
Tertiary, but they shall hcrcaftcr be en-
ploycd for the public account in mnnu-
featuring articles to bc' sold in the
gencEal market. The measure has
passed to third reading, and will
probably become law. The example
set is, one worthy of imitation, and it
is to be hoped that it will arouse pub
lie sentiment against similar evil in
South Carolina. Our experience for
several years past has certainly not
been such as to warrant continuation
Of system alike unfricndlN TO. tho
instincts of humanity and the good
sense of the country.
Much has been said and much moro
ought to be saidl by the press Of tho
State against tho cruel and inhuman
treatment Of tho convicts under tlio
shadow and cover Of tho law. Hiring
out the inmates Of the penitcntiary TO
private parties forthc'purposc Of gain
is q practice barbarous and unchri:-
tian, and:the newspapers Of tile State
owe it to themselves and 10 tho COUNT y
at large to continue the warfare against
1t until it is checked bwtEo.strong arm
Of legal authority. Let public intlig-
nation find shape and expression in
legislative action.