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T. A. BURKE, Editor.
MACON , GA., AUG. 13, 1870.
Two Good Magazines.
Sunday Magazine , edited
1 ly\ by Thomas Guthrie, D.D.
The August part is profusely
illustrated, and contains: 1.
Episodes in an Obscure Life ;
being Experiences in the Tow
er Hamlets; by a Curate; Part XI. ;
illustrated. 2. Sundays on the Conti
nent; by the Editor; VI., Florence
and Savonarola. 3. The Affliction of
Moses ; by the Rev. Ilenry Whitehead ;
illustrated. 4. Jehu the Zealot; by the
Editor. 5. On the Miracles of our
Lord; by George MacDonald, LL.D. ;
X., The Resurrection; illustrated. 0.
How to Study the Old Testament; by
W. Lindsay-Alexander, D.D. ; Num
bers —Notes on Particular Passages.
7. Christ’s Invitation ; by M. 8. Was
it a Mere Coincidence? by the Rev.
Henry Downton. 9. The Struggle in
Ferrara; byW. Gilbert, author of “ De
Profundis,” etc. ; Part XI. ; illustrated.
10. Questions that are always Turning
up; by Professor Milligan; Marriage
and Celibacy. 11. “The Gallant Good
Riou ;” by Samuel Smiles, Author of
“Self-Help;’’ illustrated. 12. The Splin
ter and the Beam; by the Rev. Samuel
Cox. 13. Diana Coverdale’s Letters;
by B. Orme. 14. A Sun-dial in a
Church-yard ; by the Rev. Geo. Jaque ;
illustrated. 15. Supplement—Notes for
Readers out of the way.
Terms: Yearly subscription, $3 50.
J. B. Lippincott & Cos., publishers,
Philadelphia.
Good Words, edited by Norman Mac
leod, D.D.
The August part is profusely illustra
ted, and contains: 1. Fernyhurst Court,
an Every-day Story ; by the author of
“Stone Edge;” Part IV., illustrated.
2. Half-hours in the Temple Church;
by C. J. Vaughan, D.D. ; VII., The
Ascension. 3. Sketches from Orkney ;
by Professor John Stuart Blackie. 4.
Wanderings in the Desert of the Exo
dus; by E. H. Palmer; 11., The Con
vent of Mount Sinai. 5. Our Plates
and Dishes ; by Eliza Meteyard. 6. In
a Corn-field ; by Sara A. Leifchild ; il
lustrated. 7. Dorothy Fox; by the
author of “How it all Happened;” Part
\ 111., illustrated. 8. Two Dreams; by
Wm. Allingham. 9. Our Better Selves ;
by Mrs. De Morgan. 10. Two Poems
by Jean Ingelow ; illustrated. 11. Jew
ish Burial Rites (from Rabbinical
BURKE’S WEEKLY FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
Sources). 12. Letters from the Tro
pics ; by the Rev. Charles Kingsley;
VI., The Northern Mountains.
Terms: Yearly subscription, $2 75.
J. B. Lippincott & Cos., publishers,
Philadelphia.
Every Saturday.
f-'F it were possible to paint the
j lily, or gild refined gold, we
should say that Every Saturday
yg) was improving with each succes
(X sive number. From its first is-
G sue it has been, beyond all ques
tion, the very best of the illustrated
journals of this country. Made up
from the ablest of the illustrated papers
of England and the Continent, it gives
the cream of them all, with occasional
original illustrations of a high order,
while its pages contain nothing to offend
Southern readers. The publishers an
nounce that they have secured anew
serial novel, from the pen of Edmund
Yates, author of “ Black Sheep,” which
was first given to American readers in
the pages of Every Saturday.
The terms of subscription are $5 a
year. Fields, Osgood & Cos., publish
ers, Boston, Mass.
Appleton's Journal.
EYOND comparison, the best
°f American publications. It
has been a marked success
QfZXv from the very first number,
and we have wondered how so
good a periodical could be im
proved ; still there has been a very
perceptible improvement from first to
last, until now it is, we think, as near
perfection as it is possible for anything
to be. The July monthly part would
be cheap at sl, while it is sold for
50 cents. Our friend and contributor,
Paul H. Hayne, Esq. , of Augusta, Ga.,
furnishes a gem of a poem on Dickens,
and a beautiful and appreciative paper
on the great Southern litterateur
Wm. Gillmore Simms. The Southern
Sketches by John R. Thompson, illus
trated by Sheppard, are capital. We
can scarcely see how any reading man
or woman can do without Appleton.
Terms, $4 per annum. D. Appleton
& Cos., New York.
Written for Burke’s Weekly.
Remember Row.
ARLY in the month of May,
J returned to the parsonage
c6 * r ■' from one of my appointments
to learn that Millie Langston was dead,
and a brief note requested my services
at her burial.
Millie was a modest, pleasant maiden,
in her fourteenth year. She had joined
the Church, and professed conversion,
before I knew her, and her life had i
been given, to the extent of her know- j
ledge, to Jesus. A few weeks before I
her death I saw her at church, and
again in her own home, full of life, and
blooming with health. She was sud
denly taken ill, and before I knew she
was sick had passed away. She died
in peace, and she wanted to go home;
and went—
“ Where the wicked cease from troubling,
And the weary are at rest.”
She was buried ; and around her
grave her school-mates sang sweet
words of hope and joy. Her burial did
not seem so sad as such scenes often
are—it was more in keeping with the
entrance of a spirit into rest. I could
not think so much of the grave and the
corpse, as of heaven and its songs. It
seemed to me that the waiting angels
on the eternal shore were singing as
they welcomed her to her home above ;
and we ought to sing for our sister
secure in her just entered heaven.
About eight weeks after, Sammy
Hodge returned from his labor in the
field, complaining of headache, and in
a few hours, rested in eternity. lie
was a youth just grown up, and he,
like Millie, had given himself to Christ
and the Church. Sudden as was his
death, he expressed the confident hope
of a place in the heaven where Jesus is.>
I was absent on duty at the time, and
another minister officiated at his burial,
but he too was laid away, “dust to
dust, ashes to ashes,” in the hope of a
blessed resurrection. Joy mingled with
weeping at bis grave.
You ask me, Why do you write such
sad stories for the Weekly? I answer,
To remind you, my young friends, of
something we all think of too little —
Death ! We live; we must die. Death
is very terrible to most persons. Per
haps all of us fear to die; yet when the
time comes, that fear will be taken
away, and we shall be glad to die—if
we do as these young people did, give
Jesus our hearts, and trust in Him.
Ah ! my bright-eyed reader, all your
knowledge, and beauty, and influence
among men, will be of no profit if you
do not become a Christian. Your heart
must be given to God. You must not
simply like Jesus, or wish you could
love Him ; you must do more, you must
really love Him. Then, life will be
bright and happy while you are in pros
perity, and it will be bright with the
hope of a blessed future when sickness
and death comes.
1 can wish you no better portion than
religion here and heaven hereafter.
May we meet where our two young
friends have gone !
G. H. Wells.
Timmonsville, July 21s<, 1870.
The Colarado river, for a distance of
three hundred miles, is confined within
perpendicular rock walls, averaging
three thousand feet in height, down
which there is no safe descent, up
which there is no climbing, between
which the stream runs furiously.
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