Year: 1875

AS one Of the results of the recent failure
of J. b. Ford & Co. this weeks Christian
Union announces the retirement of the firm
from. the publishing department of the
paper In their resume of labor as publish
ers of the paper Messrs. Ford & Co. tell us
that in six months after they took charge Of
it the circulation ran up from 300 actual sub
scribers to 10000. and the end of their first
year saw them with n subscription list of
$1,000 names. From this point it ran up to
$4,000 in 1872, and after that they leave MS
to infer that it has been running down, owing
to the panic and the hard times. The
Christian Union will henceforth be published
by an association, and Mr. Beecher will con-
tnue to be its editor, while Messrs Ford &
Co. will attend to their book publishing in
terests exclusively. They credit their success
with the Union TO the chrome prize business,
which they were the first to introduce here,
but which has since become q common
feature of religious journalism.


The Observer calls upon its readers to offer
up prayers for the success Of Messrs. Moody
and Sankey's ministry here in the fall. Their





thinks, cannot be accounted for on the ordi-
nary grounds of human reasoning but must
be accepted according to our faith in the
promises of God 1t knows of no reason why
we should not ask and expect even n greater
outpouring of the Holy Spirit than has been
Witnessed in Edinburgh or Belfast or Dublin
or Liverpool or Manchester or London. The
Lords hand is not shortened His ear is not
heavy. He is still able and willing to save.
The independent on treating the same subject,
expects the coming fall and winter to be
season of great awakening, and it calls upon
the churches and the Christian community
to give their hearty co-operation and prayer
to the evangelists, so that the coming season
may be n memorable one in the history of the
Church of Christ in America. Moody and
Sankey want Gods work revived and souls
converted, not through them, but through
the faithfulness of all the churches and they
will not expect n blessing when the blessing
has not already begun before their coming.
The Christian al JIorh extends hearty well
come home to the evangelists and prays for
them glorious liberty in whatever work is be-
fore them here and mighty harvest of souls
for their reward at the last day.


The Hermann celebration very naturally
attracts the attention of the Je,cish Times,
which gives a historical sketch of the efforts
of the Germans in all ages for religious
liberty. The present sturdy opposition of
Bismarck to the Pope the Times thinks is
part of the contest begun more than eighteen
centuries ago, and projected through the
ages to the present. And as in the Hermann
celebration the civilized world has q share,
so also has it an interest in the contest now
going on between the State and the Church
in Germany. The Je,oish Messenger wants an
international Jewish congress held here next
year, so that some plan for the union and CO.
operation of Israelites in America and
throughout the world may be agreed upon
1t thinks that the progress of religious and
civil liberty, especially with reference to
Jews, should be fttingly commemorated with
our Centennial jubilee.