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Year: 1872

The City Sanitary Inspector of New


York, in report on contagious diseases,
says with reference to the smallpox:


It is the unanimous opinion and ex-


preston of the medical officers of this
Department that vaccination is not only
safe, but certain preventive of small
pox, when properly, carefully, and judi
ciously performed; and, as proof Of
it's protective value, it may be stated
that among over 100000 persons vacci-


mated by the Health Inspectors of this


Bureau during the past year, there has


not yet been found one who has con-


tracted smallpox, or it's modified form,
who had been successfully vaccinated
previous to becoming infected, while
numbers have fallen victims to this dis


ease who refused to allow the Inspectors


to vaccinate them at the time of ex-


posure. We are fully convinced that


this extraordinary success is due in a
large measure to the fact that vaccine


virus has while in fresh and active


condition only, has been used no crust


or scab has ever been used by us. Our


practice has been only to use such virus
as has been taken from 1. wellselected


healthy child, the afternoon previous,
rejecting that which had become 72
hours old. A supply of bovine virus,
direct from the animal, was used to a
limited extent during the past summer,
which gave no better result than that
from children's arms, and as its propa-
CATION was attended with much diff
Guilty, and sufficient supply could not
be obtained for our large demand, ex-
cept at a great expense, it was aban-
doned. In the use of childhood lymph,
with the results as proved by our statis-
tics of successful vaccination and re-
vaccination, certainly no man should
cavi4. The absolute protection afforded
so large number of persons of whom
by far large majority had been exposed
either directly or indirectly to this fear


full disease, should go far to convince the
most skeptical of its inestimable value.
TO the carelessness and neglect of pa
rents and physicians, and the opposition
of the misinformed, uninformed, and
injudicious, may be attributed, in q
large measure, the success Of an cpl
demic form of this loathsome disease.
Year: 1872

The most extraordinary instance of pa
tience on record is that of an American Judge
who listened silently for two days while
couple of wordy lawyers contended about the
construction of an act of the legislature, and
then ending the controversy by quietly re-
marking, Gentlemen, the law is repealed
Year: 1872

Is there any gift of the benefcent Creator
which man will not abuse? Cantaloupes
now are an excellent vegetable in their way.
AS an Introductory dish to a substantial
breakfast they find their proper sphere, but to
convert them into whiskey is an abomination
and a sin, and yet there are men so degraded
as to do it, and then ask from the Revenue
Department the privileges and immunities of
distillers from fruit.
Year: 1872

are who have ground and ground to make
money, that they might be happy by and by,
but who, when they have got to be fifty or
sixty years old, have used up all the enjoyable
nerve that was in them? During their early
life they carried toll, and economy and frugali-
ty, to the excess of stinginess, and when the
time came that they expected joy, there was
no Joy for them.-Beecher.
Year: 1872

There is a terrible eastern Question"
looming on the horizon again, The French
ambassador, at farewell interview with the
sultan of Turkey, asked permission to sit
down. 1t was graciously granted, but the
breach of etiquette was highly resented. His
Serene Majesty is terribly indignant at the
presuming Frenchman for daring to get tired
in his presence, and proposes to "makc star
chamber matter of it, or something worse
Year: 1872

"Her religion don't seem to be much of a
help to her, said young man, with an ex-
preston half pitiful, half contemptuOu8 upon
his face. He was speaking of friend who
had lost her only daughter. Not himself a
believer, he had an ideal of what a believer
should be, and vaguely felt that in such stress
of weather as sorrow brings US into, pity
ought to be help.


How is it with you, friend? You perhaps
have lost from your home the JOY and the
light. A dear companion, an idolized child,
the son of your hope, the brother of your
love, is not, for God has taken him. Are
you cast down and destroyed, and so numb
with grief that you no longer feel the touch
of the Saviour? Look up? Still, in your
sadness, you can trust the hand that was
nailed to the cross. Still you may rest your
head ON the "pilOw of the promises" If
not, your religion" is not the help it ought
to be.


Not in bereavement alone do we need be-
lief in Christ as practical help, lever to
lift over the hard places, leaven to tighten
the lump of care. In the household, it is
sad to see a Christian who gets no aid from
a hope in Jesus; a mother who is not, be-
cause of it, more patient and tender; father
who is not more manly and strong. The
petulenees, the irritations, the frictions that
inevitably come, when people live together
in the familiarity of everyday life, how can
they be Soothed and sweetened by the cour-
tesies and the generosities that spring from
the best love of all What little things up
set days pleasure The impatience of
servant, the loss of book, the scorching of
a garment, the breaking of dish, are triAes
in themselves, but they cloud the brow and
make the heart heavy, when a great disaster
would be met with patience. Herein lie
tests perdu. The houskeeper who can see
set of China broken, or a tablecloth burned,
With uDrufled cOmposure, is well on in Chris
tian life. The parent who distinguishes be-
tween acts and their consequences as-learn-
ed in Christs school. The man who has
time to be polite to boy, asking, not order
ing service, and paying it with thanks, has
felt the Gospel spirit.


Be careful, pilgrim to Zion. Over all

your sorrows, the sunlight streams from
heaven. In all your crO8s,bearing, the One
who was nailed thereon takes the heft of the
cross. You have hope that win stand you
instead, even at the last great day. If your
religion is not help in the roughness, the
thickets, and the thOrns, it is not what it
may be and Christ means it to be. Thanks,
precious Saviour, that though


"There are briers besetting every path


That call for patient care;


There is a crook In every lot,


And need for earnest prayer;


A lowly heart that leans on Thee


Is happy anywhere"
Year: 1872

say at the table or in the drawing-room what
should be reserved for the utmost privacy.
Words spoken out of place are worse than
thrown away; they do apOsitive harm. The
young are often disgusted by being talked
to or preached at in apromiscuous company.
Both delicacy and taste are offended, and the
person who does it loses all influence for
good. How strange, that religious conver-
sation must, with some, always be of
preaching character, and as public as posi-
BILE


3. The right OOrd must be spoken.-NO
two persons should be spoken to in the same
way. This involves much care in knowing
and understanding the persons whom we
would benefit in conversation.


There are always approaches to every hu
man heart These can easily be discovered
when we really try to find them. With this
knowledge we shall then better know wnat
words to employ. When the heart speaks it
will be fit words, "apples Of gold in pictures
Of silver"
Year: 1872




How much is lost from the rich fulness of
the sacred languages by their passages into
the vernaculars Of different nations Our
own English version stands this test perhaps
as well as any other rendering from the New
Testament Greek. Yet in many passages
the fguratiVe beauty of the original is utterly
lost in the prosaic paraphrase of the transla-
tors.


A striking illustration occurs in st. Luke
xiii 90: "Neither be ye Of doubtful mind"
The marginal reading is: "Live not in care
full suspense" Both of these are merely
didactic expressions of the idea which the
Great Teacher uttered in so many beautiful
forms in this immediate portion of the Ser
mon on the Mount, according to the report
of it by "the beloved physician"


lie had just been illustrating the thought
of absolute dependence upon our heavenly
Fathers loving care, as the only true remedy
against excessive anxiety for our daily food,
and clothing, and support. He spoke of the
ravens and the lilies of the field, and then
He said: "And seek not ye what ye shall
eat or what ye shall drink, neither be ye Of
doubtful mind"


The Greek for this last phrase is meteor
tgesthe, verb which is from the very noun
from which we get our common English word
meteor 1t is derived from meta, denoting
the direction, and aiOra, lowering in the
air. 1t is phenomenon in the atmosphere
"a thing in the air like shooting or fall
ing star Such phenomena are bright, fiery,
moving with great velocity out of the ordi-
nary courses of the starry worlds; spending
their forces as they fly through space; shoot
ing forth and often bursting into f-agnel
as they speed on in their eccentric hgnt
destruction.


What could be more strongly contrasted
than the quiet dependence of the trustful
soul on Him who careth for the birds, and
$50 clothes the lilies that Solomon in all
his glory was not arrayed like one Of these"
and the discomfort, the over-anxiety, the
restless dissatisfaction of one who is only
lifted up on high, and shines, and glares,
and moves, and rushes wildly on like a ftful
meteor, and shares at last the meteor's fate?
Selfshness, which creates SO many artificial
necessities for itself, and which is miserable
in proportion to its anxieties over fancied
wants, shapes this meteoric character into
many forms. 1t glows with splendOrs only
to burst into thousand pieces with the
force of its own momentum. 1t blazOns its
fiery pathway through the air only to end
it in the deepest darkness of its own disap-
pointments. 1t never takes its place among
the shining orbs that go not out from Gods
pavilion, but it flares among them with
transient brilliancy that for moment may
eclipse them, while they shine on when it is
lost in midnight. "COnsider the ravens ("
"Consider the lilies" "Neither be ye me.
teors."
Year: 1872

Sensationalism, or systematic methods Of
satisfying the demand of the popular heart
for an excited state of feeling, is the moral
plague of these times. cit is good thing
to be zealousIy affected in good thing,
says the divinely inspired Apostle; but the
enthusiasm that really advances the interests
of "a good thing" must spring from the
cause itself. The al captandum methods
which are systematically resorted to in the
Church for awakening enthusiasm in behalf
of movements that are good in themselves
are demoralizing in their tendency and real
ly degrade the cause they are intended to
advance. 0stensibly such methods may sue
ceed beyond the most extravagant expecta.
tions of those who resort to them, but it is
a success that is always purchased by the
degradation Of the cause itself. The moral
estimate of the cause decreases according to
the measure of its apparent outward success
Such success is apparent, not real. 1t is a
calamity and not blessing. If any good
come of it at all, it must be by the power of
Him who can "educe good out of evil"


This moral plague has crept into the pull
pit. Sensational preaching carries the day.
The great Apostle to the Gentiles deliberate
Iy and conscientiously avoided every thing
that tended to divert the minds of his hear
ers from the cross, or secure the applause
and admiration Of the multitude to himself.
Sand l, brethren, when | came to you, came
not with excellency of speech or of wisdom,
declaring unto you the testimony of God;
for determined not to know anything among
you save Jesus Christ and him crucifed.-
And was with you in weakness and fear,
and in much trembling. And my speech and
my preaching was not with enticing words
of mems wisdom, but in demonstration Of
the Spirit and with power The reason as
signed by the Apostle for such a manner of
preaching is of the deepest significance. 1t
is rebuke against sensational preaching
that should be often and deeply pondered:
"That your faith should not stand in the
wisdom of man but in the power of God. "


The moral virus of sensationalism has in
snuated itself into the Sabbath School, and
is spreading like plague spot in the very
place from which, above all others, it should
be excluded. The beauty and excellency of
the great Shepherd, are hid from the lambs
of the fold by the "vain pomp and glory of
this world" which too many of our Sabbath
Schools make use Of to attract and interest
the children. Sabbath School picnics, Sab
bath celebrations, and Sabbath School jubi
lees, with their worldly paraphernalia, may
arouse the enthusiasm of Che children and
make the Sabbath School great center of
attraction to them, but let us beware lest in
thus making the Sabbath School attractive
we render the lambs of the flock insensible
to the attraction of that Cross to which if
the Sabbath School draws not the hearts of
the children as the great end, it is curse
and not blessing to the Church.
Year: 1872

SPEAKING TIE TRUTH.-Tell the truth.
1t is hard to do, not because of itself, but
because of the habits and education of So
ciety. Men and women have grown SO &C
customed to telling falsehOOds, that to do
otherwise would appear awkward and rude.
ConventiOnalism demands that straightfor-
wardness and honesty be sacrificed to COM
placency. Much of what men, and especial
iy women, say to each other has no meaning,
simply because it is the utterance of polite
mockery. They are "glad to see each
other, attached to each other, and other
wise friendly in polite phraseolOgy, while in
reality they are only able to endure each
other SO as to speak and be amiable. To
speak and act the truth is duty, and if it
were practiced in all the details of life, So
ciety would be infinitely more healthy.
Year: 1872

Why is it that Christian people are so
often skeptical about the early conversion
of their own children? They present them
TO God in the rite of infant baptism. They
admit that their children are at the most i'm
pressible age of human life; they confess
that early piety is exceedingly lovely and
desirable. They open their Bibles, and read
how Samuel was called in his boyhood to
Gods service; how Joshua served the Lord
from his eighth year; and how Timothy,
"from Child" understood Gods Word
They pray for their children, and yet about
the conversion of these young susceptible
hearts they have strange doubts and misgiv-
ings. They do not expect their children to
be converted, nor labor for it as the very
first and most vital concern of their exist
ence. So they let the golden years of child
hood run by unimproved, and secretly intend
and expect that in after years they will be
overtaken by some special effort, or revival
influence and then rescued and received into
the fold of Christ! Thousands of pious pa
rents are committing just this fearful mistake.


Surely they ought not to doubt that as
soon as child is old enough to be Hillful
sinner it is old enough to be voluntary
Christian. AS soon as it is sufficiently old
to choose the wrong, it is old enough to
choose the'right. If child of seven years
knows what it is to commit sin, it knows
what it is to be sorry for it and to confess
its sins to Jesus. No conscience is more
tender than little childs. No heart is
more easily touched. The Saviour has
reached out promise, "They that seek me
early shall find me-" for their young souls
to cling to. As soon as child can love its
mother, it can learn to love Jesus. AS soon
as it trusts its mother enough to swallow the
unknown draught of medicine, it can trust
Christ. AS soon as it begins to obey faith


er's commands, it can obey its heavenly
Fathers commandments. Now these three
things-love, trust, and obedience-are the
very essence of religion. The love of Christ
is the marrow and pith of true piety. Re-
member, too, that Gods Spirit offers his su-
pernatural aid in producing and confirming
the converting work in our children's hearts.


AS soon as the child gives good evidence
of a'Christian heart and Christian conduct
as soon as he exhibits, not mans piety,
but a child's piety-he should be admitted
to the family of the church. The fold is
for the lambs as well as for the maturer
sheep. Nay, more; the Divine Shepherd
offers them especial welcome, for he knows
how much they need its shelter. Christ
does not promise to make little girl wo-
man; he only makes her purer, sweeter,
lovelier girl "Boys will be boys" but they
will be infinitely better boys, and at length
better men, if they come into the spiritual
fold in the impressible days of bOyhOod.-
Those who come into Christ's school the ear.
liest commonly make the greatest attain
ments and reach the highest usefulness in
after life. And if they die in childhood,
they have already won the unfading crown.


Reformed Church Messenger.
Year: 1872

INTENDED REFoRMATIoN.-How danger
Gus to defer those momentous reformations
which the conscience is solemnly preaching
to the heart If they are neglected the diff
fculty and indisposition are increasing every
month, The mind is receding, degree after
degree, from the warm and hopeful zone,
till at last it. will enter the Arctic circle,
and become fixed in relentless and eternal
ioe.-John Foster.
Year: 1872

We call special attention tG the
speech printed below on this page, and
ask every Republican in the County to
read it carefully. and then determine
whether or not, he can answer his con-
science, by going to the polls on next
Tuesday and dcpositiDg his ballot for
Grant.


FELLOW CITIZENS Standing here
tonight, I do SO with no trembling
limbs, no timid heart, no faltering
tongue, because the voice Of the people
Of tour States in our Union have not
been raised rs loudly as we hoped they
would be in their recent local elections,
in favor Of the candidates who professed
our principles, and stood steadfast
under our banner. Far be it from me-
sir, to grow pale and cowardly, and
desert my colors as flies the hound
from the caresses Of the belaboring
whip. because we have not been
gratifed as we had reason to suppose
We would be. We must expect some
reverses in the preliminary skirmishes
along the the linos. Our pickets may
be driven in our advanced guards may
be captured but what is this to a
brave army; The grand battle, sir,
where legion after legion shall be sent
in upon the field, is yet to come and
these puny bugIe whistle and hoodlum
haokc &c he fra strs1o 20
to our ranks fer behind us, comes the
serried lines of the people of all the
States, who, like an avenging Achilles,
conquerlng and Staying like the arch
genius Of Combat, round the walls of
Troy, press their standards on to victory
Falter not; faint not by the wayside
Let each one of us stand up to the full
height of his manhood, and work while
there is yet day A nations life
demands a nations Providence; and
we will find that in the ashes of few
defeats will yet be stirred our yonted
fires. and their flames rise, Phoenix like
to Jove.


Knowing the justice of our cause. sir,
We choose rather to deal in truth than
fiction and, inasmuch as for us the
clouds may have looked threatening.
we know that darker is the day before
the dawn; and after the frcest of Gods
storms the brightest hues of his rainbow
paint themselves on theIsky as a promise
of fairer weather. So will it be in
November.


In response to the complimentary
invitation with which you honored me
] stand here tonight, not to tell you
anything novel or striking; not te
defame with vulgar abuse, President
Grant; but simply to join my voice il
earnest unison with these OF the abft
gentleman already addressed you il
behalf Of our common cause and t.
add my feeble words of encourag agemen
to theirs, as a staunch believer and
defender of our faith.


We come here to try and do good;repre
senting all political beliefs anc
parties and yet, 10 the interest Of M
fs4rty. no IaGiio~; in the interest Of or
almost obsolete Constitutional Low il
the interest of a progressing purity il
the interest of fraternal feeling; in thl
'nterest of Peace, and brighter, ,broade
civilization in the interest OF two triet
aud trusted men two liberal, generous


hearts two wise and fertile brains il
the hearty interest oil four stout stron.
Year: 1872

l. JOURNAL, is in every respect First
Glass Magazine. Its articles are of the highest
interest to all. Itteaches what we are and how
TO make the most of ourselves. The informa-
4ion it contains on the Laws of Life and Health
is we'll worth the price of the Magazinet to every
Family. 1t is published at S3 90 year. By
q special arrangement we are enabled to offee
the PHYSIOLOGICAL JOURNAL as a Premium Tor
A new subscribers to the 0REGoN REPUBLICAN,
or will furnish the PSYCHOLOGICAL Journal
and OREGON REPUBLICAN together for 81 90


We commend the JOURNAL to all who want a
Year: 1872

WAY TO MAKE A Poor PASTOR. :
l. Be careless and irregular in at
tending church. Never 60 except
when you can manufacture no good
excuse to stay at home.


2. When at church be either asleep
or staring about. Do not listen to
the sermon.


8. When you go home, complain
of the sermon as light and chafy, OF
dry and uninteresting.


A. Treat your pastor with cold
and uninviting civility, and then COM
plain of him because he does not
visit you.


5. Neglect to pray for a blessing
upon him and his labors, and then
complain of him because the church
does not prosper.


6. Be always finding fault with
your pastor, and yet regret that he is
not more popular with the people.


7. Be very lukewarm and worldly
minded, and yet complain Of him for
want of zeal.


8. Neglect to provide for his neces-
sary wants and then complain Of him
because he wants his salary.


Do all these things, and you will
never fail to have poor pastor.
Year: 1872

The following little story is told at the
expense of young lady school teacher in
Altoona, who is very properly anxious in
regard to the prevention of smallpox IN
her school, and therefore strictly enforces
the rule that whenever case of sickness
is reported in the family of any one Of her
pupils, the pupil must bring certificate
from the family physician stating that the
disease is not contagious, failing in which
the pupil must remain away until all dan
ger IS over. A few days ago she was in
formed that one of her pupils, little girl
of Teutonic extraction, had sickness in her
fanily-On being questioned, the girl ad.
mitted that " she had sick at her house; !"
! that her mother was sick, and that she
had "marks on her face" She was &C
cordingly sent home. She returned in q
few days, however, and reported that her
" faith er was sick" She was again sent
home, with orders not to come again with
out certificate from the family physi-
clan. The next day she returned to school
and shyly siding up to the teacher, with
her finger in her mouth, and her little bon
net swinging by the strings, she said
/" Miss, we've got leetle baby at our
house, but mother told me to tell you that
Il isn't catchin." The teacher said she
was very glad it wasn't catching" and
told her pupil to take her seat.-Holli-
daysburc Pa.) Register =