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The Christian Index. TIEE SO-UTH-WESIEBK BAPTIST, THE OSEnariAN HEEAID of Alabama. of Tennessee. VOL 55—NO. 5. Table of Content!. Fibst Page. —Alabama Department: Record of State Events: Communion ; Missionary Work for the Month—Rev. D. E. Butler; Wiser than Webster—Rev. J. S. Baker; Letter from Eafaula—J. A. B. Besson ; Spirit of the Religious Press ; Baptist News and Notes; etc. Second Paoe.— Our Correspondents : Read This —M. B. H.; An Apology—J. M. Robertson ; Letter from Calhoun, Tennessee—Elder Gru ber ; Our Texas Letter—W. H. Parks : Shonld a Minister be Recompensed for his Services— A. L. Hillman : Affliction—T. C. A.; A Flor ida Christmas Tree, etc—-DncleShad ; Ordina tion—J. B. Cheves ; Miss Lottie Moon's House —Jennie H. Clayton; etc. Producing Our Own Food—Georgia Grange. Thihd Page. —Sunday-School Department : Work in the Boweu and Mercer Associations— T. C. Boykin ; Better Work and More Work— Presbyterian at Work : David Sparing Saul— Lesson for February 6th ; etc. Select Misoel lany : The Press ; Large Salaries for Clergy men. Focbth Paoe.— Editorial: Zeal—Rev. S. G. Hillyer. Worthy of Imitation; Church Debts; Motive Power—Puzzling Suggestions ; An In viting Field of Labor ; An Item in Past Histo ry : Some of Our Thoughts—Rev. J. S. Baker. Georgia Baptist News; Death’s Terrors ; Ob jects of Christianity—Rev. D. E. Butler. Vanderbilt University. Increase of Christian ity—Dr. J. S. Law ton. Revival in Ireland ; Very True: etc. Fifth Page.— Cor: espondence: Shall we Send our Daughters from Home to be Educated— Concluded—Aunt Edith ; Acknowledgment— W. N. Chaudoin; A Revival—H. T. Smith. Song for the New Year—Poetry ; Gold Dust; etc. Special Correspondence: Are our Meth ods of Collecting Funds for Benevolent Pur poses Wrong: Church Choirs—Rev. R. W. Fuller; Silent Musio—Poetry; Death of Mrs. C. W. Hubner; The Sight of Angels—Poetry : etc. Sixth Page.— Our Pulpit; For What is Your Life -A Sermon, by Rev. T. T. Eaton, of Pe tersburg Va., Indian Missions : Creek Items —H. F. Bucknsp ; Selections : The Chaldeau Account of Genesis ; etc. Seventh Page. —Science and Agriculture : Con vention of Crop Reporters ; etc. Eighth Page.— Publishers’ Department. Italy of America—How to Explore Florida in a Week—The Cost in Detail—A Paper for Tour ists. Marriages. Obituaries. Advertisements. INDEX ANDBAI'TISL ALABAMA DEPARTMENT. Mr. M. A. Sbehane has retired from the ed torial department of the Henry County Regis ter, and is succeeded by Mr. J. A. Corbitt. The Baptists, Presbyterians and Methodists of Eufaula are holding union meetings of much -Let: ; •- .a- . Muscle Shoals Association is, perhaps, the largest association in the State—numbering tome 2515 members. Ihe Alabama Baptist Convention meets in Montgomery in July next- Rev. Redmond Jones died very suddenly at his residence, in Tuscaloosa county, on the sth •of September, 1875. Capl- W. C. Wallace has been appointed, by the Board of Managers of Eufaula Bible Soci ety, colporteur for Barbour county. Rev. Mr. Golland, of Abbeville, has with drawn from the Methodists and joined the Baptists. Rev. A. R. Holderly, superintendent of the Tuskegee Orphans’ Home, has commenced the publication of a journal called the Orphans Banner , with a view to the increase of the rev enues of that institution. A rich mine of the black oxide of copper has recently been discovered on the line of Randolph and Cleburn counties. The ore is reported to yield sixty-five per cent, and to be worth $240 00 per ton. The Russell Register is glad to see the lazy negroes who have been loitering around town taken off to Louisiana, as laborers, by an agent who has recently secured fifty of them. Mr. Frank L. Wadsworth, of Montgom ery, will be glad to learn that he has been tendered, and, has accepted, the position of Assistant Superintend ent of the Alabama andJChattanooga railroad. The Alabama Senate passed a bill making January Ist, February 22d, July 4th, and De cember 25th, legal holidays; and papers faiing due on those days to be paid the day before. The total bonded debt of the State, at pres ent is ten million dollars, exclusive of rail road endorsements and of bonds loaned the Alabama and Chattanooga and the Mont gomery and Eufaula railroads, but including past due interest. A meeting of the Mexican war veterans is to be held in Montgomery on the 10th Feb ruary, to effect an organization for the pur pose of visiting the Centennial. Mr. J. J, Martin, of Montgomery, has been appointed, by the general government, one of the com missioners to make the necessary arrange-, ments. John Bacon McDonald, son of Joseph B. McDonald, of Seale, Russell couhty, won the appointment as cadet to West Point, which was offered by Hon. Taul Bradford, Con gressman from the Third Alabama District, to the boy in that District who might stand the best examination therefor. The Board of examiners decided the matter at Opelika recently. Master McDonald is only 17 years old, and he had to contend for the prize in a class of twenty-two applicants, some of whom were twenty-one years old. “WORK FOR THE MO.VTH,” What Christian has not work to do, this month of February, 1876? The garden of the Loud is always open to his laborers. There is church work to be done, and each one has some por tion for his or her share. The garden ers prepare the soil and sow the seed ; God gives the rain, dew and increase. Every Christian has a garden in which to sow, cultivate, and reap. Some have large gardens, others small; some cultivate well while others are careless, slothful and slovenly. The showers fall on all al'ke, but the harvests of many are meager and dwarfish.. Some have great pleasure, pride and joy, while others are never happy or indus trious. Some never complain; many are constantly finding fault with the seasons. Some are never ready when the “times of refreshment from the presence of the Lord” come. The shower was a surprise and the spirit of it goes not from the right direction. And thus it is the gard n of the Lord does not look “gay and green” as once it did. But may we not now begin, in this spring time, anew, better and more jealous cultivation of the fields in which our labours are to be bestowed ? Ist. There is the Mission garden ; who are the active workers in this ? How much work must he done in a short time, can be known by a reference to the necessities of the Home and Foreign Boards, and our local agen cies. For encouragement and instruc tion, we give the following extract from an official document by the secretaries of this department of work in another denomination : “ Now is the time to begin the work of collecting for missions. “ Mark our word: If each preacher Nbtki begin At fcnc, ahd devote a r&ssoiT able portion of his time to missionary, collections, calling on every member and friend of our church in his bounds, for a contribution, nineteen out of ev ery twenty will collect their entire as sessment, and five out of every ten will exceed what has been allotted to their charges. The reports from various fields of missionary toil are encouraging. There is a loud call for more preachers. Send us the means and the men will be ready. “ Now, dear brother, don’t lay down this appeal and forget the cause of Jesus; hut we beseech you to go to work in earnest for the salvation of poor, dying sinners. The calls are urgent.” Wiser Than Webster. —A writer in the Church Journal censures severe ly the use of certain words and places that are found in every edition of Webster’s Dictionary, and that have, moreover, received the sanction of the best writers botli in England and America. He represents the use of them, not only as improper, but as de moralizing in their tendency, and, con sequently, highly criminal. He says ; “They make us have alow opinion of human nature, cause us to hang our heads and blush for the weakness and wickedness of Adam’s children,” etc. He bids us: “Do not write while these events were transpiring when you mean while these events were occurring. Do not say or write demise when you mean death. Do not write eventuate or inaugurate if you can help it, and you can by earnest effort. Do not call a man reliable when it is just as easy to call him trustworthy. Do not, as a friend did the other day, say ‘ it is too rough, in my opinion, for this sec tion,’ and thereby make people sus pect you have been trained as a gov ernment surveyor, but not trained in the use of the English language. Why not say in English, and not in yankee, * this part of the country,’ ‘ this neigh borhood,’ this * community ’ anything in fact but the vulgarism his sec tion.’ Also, please do not vrite us about something that occui id *in our midst.’ Keep all that tor your ‘ medical man,’ as our English cous ins call him.” , He concludes his hypercritical arti cle as follows: “ In the long run we do not believe that people who say eventuate, inaug urate, demise, ‘in our midst,’ etc., can remain honest, upright people. There is a moral lack somewhere. To outrage the language of one’s native FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 3, 1876. land is a crime, and leads to other crimes.” Of couare the writer of the article noticed .is wiser than Webster —in his own estimation. If he be in truth the wise man, which his superlative van ity leads him to believe he is, much we marvel that the literary world has not discovered the fact, and, with one accord, called upon him to bring out a revised and expurgated edition of Webster. When such men as our critic is, shall appear in public adorned with meekness and humility, we shall con clude that we have seen the dawn of the happy millenial day for which th e children of the Most High are looking and praying. Communion. —The Baptist Minis ters’Conference in the city of New York has discussed the open communion question. How they may decide, is yet to be seen, but a secular paper, the Tribune , says editorially : In the earnest and somewhat acri monious discussion at the Baptist Ministers’ Conference on the subject of open communion, less divergence of views was shown than had been supposed to exist. The denomination in this part of the country is very largely favorable to close commun ion. The resolutions introduced were intended to draw the lines more sharp ly ; but the debate disclosed greater differences of personal feeling than of doctrine. For the Index and Baptist.] LETTER FROM EUFAULA. Dear Index —On Sunday, the 16th of this present mont", I Tisited Cowikee church, located at Fort Brow der, a little village thirteen miles North of Eufaula, for the pnrpose of wit nessing the ordination of our dear brother, Wm. H. Patterson, President of Union Female College, of our city. been impressed with the ‘'act- of the need of more laborers in the : a ' ’ fer’s vineyard, especially in this part of our State, and, on various occasions, has made it his duty to go out and visit some of the country churches, who were without a preacher, breaking to them the Bread of Life, and publish ing the glad tidings; he has been warmly met by the brethren, and his heart was encouraged in the good work, and one of the churches which he served asked for his ordination, and requested our church at Eufaula, of which brother Patterson is a member, the privilege of having his ordination at their meeting-house, which was duly granted, and our pastor, elder W. N. Beeves, was delegated to aid in form ing the presbytery, which, with him, was composed of elders W. H. Norton and Z. T. Weaver, and by them brother Patterson was duly and in order set apart to the holy work. Brother Reeves preached the crdination sermon Text: Romans lltb chapter, and part of 13th verse —“'lnasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office.” It wa a most appropri ate and well-conceived argument, show ing the exalted character of the office, its origin and aim, its trials and diffi culties, and its successes and tri umphant end. After the sermon, the examination of the candidate was con ducted by elder Norton, the ordi nation prayer by elder Weaver, and the charge by elder Reeves, and the benediction was pronounced by elder W. H. Patterson, now fully inducted into his new office. Brother Patterson has assumed the charge of Cowikee church, and also of Pine Grove church, serving them on alternate Sundays, and I believe he will be “a workman that needeth not be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth. Although these churches are now nu merically small,yet trust under our dear brother’s administrations, and the blessing of the Holy Spirit, many may be added unto them of such as shall be saved. Brother Patterson is a graduate of Mercer, and doubtless mauy of his old friends in your State will be glad to hear that he has entered upon the great work of the Gospel ministry. J. A. B. Besson. Etifanla. January 25th, 1876. The Eufaula Newt says: The planters in all this section are now very busy in clearing their lands and break ing them with the plow, preparatory to when the time arrives. Asa gener al thing the young oats and wheat are look ing well, and never before has there been so much land put in these grains as is now the case in this section. —The number of persons who attended the recent religious services of Messrs Moody and Sankey, in Philadelphia, is estimated at 875,- 000. The wife of the former was an active and zealous co-worker in the enquiry meetings. Spirit of the Religious Press, % We take the following interesting paragraph from the Baptist Union of the 25th of Jan uaary: The Christian Convention held in Philadel phia, last week, under the lead of Moody and Sankey, was largely attended. It is estimated that fully 1,000 ministers were present from parts aside from Philadelphia. The subjects discussed all had reference to active Christian wort*, such as, How to reach the masses; How to,promote and conduct revivals; How to deal with inquirers; How to get ehurerr mem bers, to work; How to have good spiritual sim-jjig; How to expound and illustrate the Scriptures. The suggestions were practical and timely, though not new. The whole of it may be summed up in this; Get the soul full of love; consecrate all to Christ; go to work ; determine to save souls; study the Bible, and use it in argument and appeal, as a warrior would ase his sword; observe human wants an*i defects, and learn to use every-day facts and experiences to persuade men to turn to God. The last evening of the Convention was the closing meeting of the great revival work. Over 12,000 people crowdel the great huild injj, and many thousands went away unable to gain admissi in. A collection was taken to aid th>.Young Men’s Christian Association, amounting to SI,OOO. The sermon of Mr. Moody was on Daniel, the faithful servant of God. Thus closed the most remarkable series of meetings ever held in America, in which thousands have been brought to Christ. Mr, Moody has gone to Florida with his wile, and will return to begin work in New York on the Ist of February. —The Examiner and Chronicle has caught Dr. Talmage napping—or something worse. It thinks this passage from a late Bermon of his describing how the Israelites husked, roasted and ate the green ears of corn on their arrival in the land of Canaan almost as rich as Mrs. Stowe’s little story about the preacher who de scribed the house of Martha and Mary in Bethany, as “a little white house behind the trees.” This is the Talmage passage: But after fourteen thousand six hundred consecutive days of 'falli ng manna —Sundays excepted—the manna ceased. Some of them were glad of it. You know they had com plained to their leader, and wondered that they had to eat manna instead of onions. Now the fare is changed. Those people in that army under forty years of age had never seen a corn field, and now, when they hear the leaves rustling n see the tassels waving and the billows of V: flowing over the plain as the wind ii.\k ii'ed fnenY," it lively sensation. “ Corn !” cried the old man, as lie husked an ear. “ Corn !” cried the children, as they counted the shining grains. “ Corn !” shouted the vanguard ol the host, as they burst open the granaries of tiie affrighted population, the granaries that had been lcf in the possession of the victorious Israelites. Then the fire was kindled, and the ears of corn were thrust into it, and, fresh and crisp and tender, were devoured of the hungry victors. —The Methodist is responsible for the follow ing story : A Confederate soldier was once seen during the war to climb up a persimmon tree and to commence eating the green persimmons. “Why are you eattng green persimmons?” shouted liis captain. “To pucker my mouth down to the size of the rations,” called hack the soldier. —The Baptist Union remarks: One of the most interesting things in the Holy Land is the fact that one meets every where, in daily life, the things that illustrate the word of the Lord. The streets of Jerusa lem are very narrow, and no one is allowed to go out at night without a light. Throw open your lattice in the evening and look out; you will see what seem to be little stars twinkling on the pavement. You will hear the clatter of sandals, as the late traveler rattles along. As the party approaches, you will see that he has a little lamp fastened to his foot, to make his step a safe one. In an instant the verse comes to your memory, written in that city three thousand years ago, Thy word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” —The Christian Secretary, after disposing of a captious objector to the name “Sunday school, ” very sensibly and truly remarks: We think it is high time for the church to look more closely after the religious instruc tion of the rising generation, and to encourage this work; every member, as far as it is prac ticable, should take some part in the same. One man says: “Our Sunday-school is a curse to us.” So any good institution of itself may be a curse instead of a blessing, if it is neglec ted or prevented. Those persons who have the least to and > with our Bible schools, are the ones to find the most fault with them. If they could tie led to see that this bringing the young and the old together for Bible study is a special church service, and a privilege at the same time, doing all in their power by their prayers, presence and co-operation, to make the work a spiritual success, there would be much less cause for complaint. The children could be more easily led to attend tile preaching service and the prayer-meetings of the church. One thing is sure, we shall never draw the young into our congregations by denouncing the Sun day-school. We may do it by making the in stitution better; regarding it as a church ser vice, and then giving all our energies of mind and heart to the work of sustaining it. —The following well timed advice, taken from the Churchman, is worthy of careful peru sal and practical observance: The crying sin of the day is dishonesty. One hears much of it in public life; but, as we have said before, there is too much of it, al together in private life. And its cause is to be found in the want of self-control in the indul gent of tastes and appetite. Reckless, extrav agant living is at the bottom of it all. If this living had any true foundation in any hearty desires for desirable things, there would he more hope of amendment. But when one comes to see what things ill-gotten gains are spent upon, the outlook is a sad one. Dress, display, amusement, costly things bought, just because they are costly; wealth won evilly, merely that it may be wasted foolishly; these are the signs of a time which is not pleasant to contemplate. If a man loves any one thing, say rare books, or pictures, or objects of art of any kind, or music, or science, so well that, ki r , t - h £ 8 t ke - 0f t -n e .° ne th! "S in which he would “f he “ Wl, h"g to be poor in everything else, no matter though his choice be an unwise one according to the best standards of choice, he willyet have a motive which will help to keep him upright But for those who W none of these things, but simply desire them because it it is the habit of the time ; because, like pam pered children, they must needs cry for what ever they see just out of their reach; for them is needed the wholesomeself-discipline which will teach them to let alone what even is not theirs And the beginning of this self-discipline is in’ the home. Parents must teach their boys and girls the great lesson of doing without whatev er cannot be fitly theirs. There need be no niggardly restraint, but in some way the first lesson for childhood should be that of earning its pleasures. To get whatever it craves as soon as it asks for it, is the worst training a child can have. —The New York Baptist Weekly, of the 27 th ult., reports some of the details of a conference recently held in Philadelphia, composed of about one thousand Christian ministers. Among other views, on various topics, that paper presents those of Rev. Mr. Sankev, in reference to the best method of conducting the music of the Santusry. They are as follows: He insisted that it is a bad arrangement to have the singers away back of the church ; where people cannot see them. He would have them in front of the congregation, by the side of the preacher. As to the music, there should be no lancv pieces. The good old tunes should be used, and the best of the new Sunday-school hymns. BAPTIST NEWS AMD MOTES. —The Florida Baptist Convention will meet, on the 11th of February, with the church at Gainesville. —Rev. J. G. Walker shows by statistics pre pared for the American Baptist Year Book for 1876 the following facts : The total number of regular Baptist churches in the United States is 21,255; ordained min isters, 13,117; additions during 1875 by bap tism, 87,874; by letter, 32,515; by experience, 4,660; by restoration, 8,076; diminutions by death, 12,768; by letter, 34,517; by exclusion 17,561; by erasure, 3,719. Total membershipi 1,815,300. —Rev. J. B. Hawthorne, pastor of Taberna cle church, New York city, is seeking the res toration of his health in the South. —Dr. J. L. Reynolds, in the Memphis Bap tist, declares for a Baptist congress to bring all true Baptists to the old landmarks of the de iKjmii'mion, draw a correct line of dis tinction between truth and error. —The father and a brother of Major Gener al Schofield, of the Federal army, are Baptist ministers. —Rev. R. B. Cook, of Wilmington, Del., is the reputed author of the Baptist Centennial Endowment scheme. —lt is estimated that the accessions by bap tism to the Baptist churches of the United States during the last year were, at least 100,- 000. —Rev. W. Gray, a prominent Methodist minister, recently joined the Baptist church at Oak Grove, N. C. —Ten years ago there were in Toronto, Can ada, two Baptist churches and five hundred memliers. Now there are six churches and 1,700 members. National Finances. The Indiana State G-range, at its re cent session in Indianapolis, adopted the following resolutions : “ Resolved, That in the opinion of this Grange Congress should immediately repeal the law fixing the day for specie resumption ; and at the same time pass an act making the greenbacks a true legal-tender, receivable for duties on imports, and interchangable at pleasure in sums of one hundred dollars with government bonds, bearing currency interest at not over 3.65 per cent, per annnm, thus in creasing the value of the greenback, and bring ing about an honest practical redemption. “Resolved, That the National Bank Act, giving to the creditors of the Nation, besides the interest on their bonds, to which they are justly entitled, the additional privilege of the issue of paper money equal to nine-tenths of the bonds held by them, is a waste of the means of the people and should be repealed ; and as we are one nation, we should have but one money, and that issued directly from the Treasury, without the expensive intervention of National Banks.” Government Award. —The Fair banks Scale was again j|sucessful at Washington on Tuesday, and secured the patronage of the Post-office De partment for another year. Quality, not price, is said to have settled the verdict in their favor, and the repeat ed approval of the United States Gov ernment must be very satisfactory to the Vermont scale-makers. —Evening Post, Jan. 15. Dr. Palmer, of New Orleans, has recently published the life Rev. Dr. Thornwell. Our Yocuo.—The young have been called the hope of the future for our churches; and, if that be so, then the young should be correctly informed and trained. One of the best meth ods of doing this is by the means of appropri ate reading; hence all Sunday-schools should provide for their scholars a plentiful supply of such papers as Kind Words, advertised in an other column. Please refer to it, and send on a subscription for your school. It. Thomas Isbell, formerly of Jacksonville, has taken charge of the post-ofllce at Cross Plains. WHOLE NO. 2805. General, Denominational Hews, t —There has not been an Episcopal church consecrated in the city of New York for seven years —During the last year one hundred and seventy-eight Congregational ministers died in the United States. The entire number of heathens converted to Christianity up to the end of 1873 is 1,537, - -7t>. Of these 1,116,228 are in connection with British Missions, and 183,571 with the American—conversions by the Roman Catho lics are excluded from this estimate. There are 150,000 children in attendance at the various mission schools in India. The people of Brooklyn have a reformed pugilist in the person of Rev. Fred Bell, who is regarded a novelty, by reason of the habit of interspersing his sermons with sacred songs. It appears that singing ministers are becom ing more than ever popular in every section of the country. This is not strange, since it is known that the heart can be more readily im pressed and melted to kinder emotions by sa cred music, well rendered, than by any other influence. —The Senate of California not only refused to allow its daily sessions to be opened by prayer but employed Sunday for the meeting of important committees. This conduct is se verely and justly rebuked by the religious jour nals of that State. —The Missionary Advocate reports the num ber of Christians in India as 225,000, and shows that the natural increase of that class of the population during the laßt ten years has been in the ratio of sixty per cent., while that of the Hindoo population has been only five per cent. —lt is said that the church of Christ in India with the violent opposition of Mohammedan ism and Bohemanism, and only five hundred ministers, is gaining on the world more rapid ly than in the most favored sections of Ameri ca. —The Board of Managers of the American Bible Society have appointed Rev Luther H. Gulick to superintend the distribution of the Bible in China and Japan, and will go east at once to enter upon the work. T%iip fl is no'4 singing in' India, Lut Will '*ttp" L 111 oty*jr The Christian Observer, of Louis ville, Kentucky, assumes the position, as a general rule, that children should be required to attend not only the Sun day-school, but preaching also, and, if they should neglect either, it had bet ter be the former. We have made frequent practical tests which lead us to a different conclusion. Few little children attend the Sunday-school without being able, on their return home, to relate something they have learned, but many return from preach ing without knowing a word of the sermon, and frequently with no better results than a refreshing nap. The instructions of the Sabbath-schools are specially adapted to the various ages or attainments of the children, while sermons are generally beyond their comprehension—wearying without ed ifying or instructing. " Know Thy Opportunity,” The grim monster. Death, was stealthily ap proaching. I could almost feel his hot, fiery breath upon my forehead. My faithless goddess, Hygeia, had utterly deserted me. Onlv now and thou would Morpheus befriend me. but on this auspicious day, he had deigned to moisten my eyelids with heavenly ambrosia, and I slept. As I slept, behold, I had a dream ! I thought that I was roaming upou foreign soil whither my phy sician had sent me to reoover my health. I was in a great metropolis—one of the grand marts of the world. In one of my strolls I chanced to meet a man who had in his hand a handsomely bound volume, entitled “ The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser.” and who said that he was an agent for the sale of the book. The title was such a novel one that I was impelled to give the work a casual notice. As I hastily glanced over its pages, I observed that it con tained treatises not commonly found in medical works. But I had too many times been hoaxed by appearances, and I determined that I would have nothing to do with it. A voice within me like a faithful mentor whispered, ‘ 4 Know thy opportunity; in that book is thy salvation !” I began reasoning with myself. Although doubt ful and distrustful, yet put forth my hand to take the book, and, lo! the agent was gone ! I was miserable. In my agony, I awoke. Great drops of perspiration were upon my brow. By my bedside was a friend who had called during my slumber to see me. Said my friend, “X have brought with me a book, just published, which I thought might interest you.” One glance at the wqrb, and I was assured that it was “ The People’s Oommon House Medical Adviser,” by Dr. It. V. Pieroe, of Buffalo, N. Y. Surely, this was the veritable book which I had seen in mv dreams. My friend loaned mo the work, and every day, as my strength permitted, j perused its pages. Although it contained very interest ing treatises on Biology, Cerobral Physiology, human Temperaments. Nursing of the Sick, etc., yet, being an invalid, I was most interested in the subjects of Diseases and Remedies. I be lieved that I had a liver affoction, and yet more than one medical attendant had pronounced my disease Consumption, and that I would fall with the autumn leaves. In that book I found my symptoms perfectly portrayed. I was then con fl'dent that I had not deceived myself. I rea soned thus. Any Man who can so trnthfully depict my feelings, and apparently understands my constitutional tendencies, must know just what my physical system demands. I will my case with Dr. Pierce. I will take his Golden Medical Disco very as recommended for my dis ease." The result is, that after having perso veringly followed hiß prescribed treatment, I onco again enjoy the blessings of health. There fore, I would say to the afflioted, “ Know thv op portunity,” and take Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medi cal Disooreiy, QuivJ