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[yoL IR Jhethomaston herald, H PUBLISHED BY ImcMICHAEL & CABANISS, ■ vKR y SATURDAY MORNING. TERMS. K *2 00 !■ V'» r .. I 50 111 nts INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE All P ,r '”‘ he at the expiration of the T" 1 ' 'ft, subscription is previou- renew,-d. L , „fa subscriber is to he changed, we II * , h( , o |d address as well as the new one, to ■ r v W i.jrnpii'‘n received for a less period than three t hv Carrier in town without extia charge. ■ ntinn pat'! to anonviitous cominuninations, as ■ V '. rlsp-ti'i*’’- i'*r everything entering our columns. ■ |,!<r l " rCirthet.antes of three new subscrib- H * fi w ‘‘ w ’ ll " eM ‘ l lhe ,IkraU> one ■ vt ' ,ir RKr ’ .o irk if'-r subscribers name indicates that the H,,|eof subscription«« out - I ADVERTISING rates. 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B Advertisements discontinued from any cause before Bipintiun of time specified, will be charged only for time published. B Professional cards one square *lO 00 a year. B Marriage Notifies *1 .50 Obituaries *1 per square. B Notices of a personal or private character, intended B pmmute any private enterprise or interest, will be as other advertisements ■ Advertisers are reque-ted to hand In their favors as B»rlr In (die wee’- as possible B jA pines te is’ Will he etrirtly art her fit to. I legal advertising. I u heretofore, since the war, the following are the Brin* fur notices of Ordinaries, Ac.—to hr pad* in ad- BfV.rty Oavs' Notices ....... .••* 5 00 B'irtv Oafs’ Notices . 625 *shof bands. Ac pr. sqr of tea Lines 6 00 ■Sutv !>avfi’ Notices ... 7 00 ■tit tenths’ Notices It 00 N Day-’ Notices of Sales pr sqr. ... 2 00 nivkiiot' Sauk? —for these Sales, for every fl fa *3:00. Mortgage Sales, p r square. *5 00 "l,et aside a liberal per eentage for advertising Keei yott'self unceasingly before the public; and it matters not what husi ess you are engaged in. for. if Intelligently an I industriously pursued, a fortune will be the resit 1 —Hunt.» Merchants’ Magazine. "Uteri began to o’Vertise my Ironware freely, ,W\n>-n increased with amazing rapidity. For ten ye»a Mst I have spent £30.000 yearL to keep my superior wares hes re the public Had 1 been timid in advertising. I never should have possessed my fortune off i.iiuiifu". McLeod Belton. Birmingham *• Advertising like Midas’ touch, tu' - ns everything to gold !l it., your daring men draw millions to their refers”—J^tuart Clay ' Vhat audacity is to love, and boldness to war, the Ikillful use of printer’s i ik, i» to success in business ’" — I* cher. V'i’ho.it. the aid of advertisements I ou'd have done nothing in rn.v p eolations. I have the most complete fii h in "printers’ink.” Ad ve. Using is the “royal road to business ” —Rarntim Professional Pards. IIIR VM PERDUE ' nv’iorr p •coin— tten lv located at Tile Rock, tenders his professional services to th>-Mtrroundirg eommiiit.v. and promises to spare no labor or attention to those who mav patronize kim - july22-f.mo CAXDWIOII & HE V Llj. Atr rnev- Slid 1 1 ( ounscPors r.tLaw,Thomaston, Ga. Will practice in the several 1 'carts of the Stat e of Georgia, and attend promptly t»» nil business entrusted to their care. H it iundwioii. [iune‘24 6mo.] w. x. bkai.t. j) »v\ ON & OHMUKK \ rr-,rv.fi ;t r I * I*'*.Oriflßn, Ga. Offieein Almah Hall, next door it tar Okkicf, Win practice in the Counties otnposmg the Flint t ircfiit, and in the United States H nct ' mlrt - Attention given to cases in Bankruptcy, tn»vl3ly |) AGj NUNN \ LEY V't rnevs at ti « Hidhti. tfa. Will practice in all the Coun- Flint Judicial Circuit, and in the V Meriwether, Clayton, Fayette and Coweta, lie, ! lra, ', , 'ce in the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the "!'; f she United states tor the Northern and r'omh ern Districts of Georgia XNAI.tY. fupllo ly] L. T DOTAL. J, GaLKX. Atfnrofiv ;tt \j w Thi*rn hri,.!!.. a ?v on, .„ l,a - ’’' ill practice in the counties com- "J e Cint Judicial Circuit, and elsewhere by Oiv, T ict - Ml business promptly attended to. ni ' ■ Hick building. chll-ly f) 1 KKNI) \EL v.ff..rn llis pp*fefi -5 If the citizens of Thomastou and 8[) l * Country. May be found dnrin ttie day at «» I * ll way’s store, at night at the former resi __ ’ h l! ' ,es Wilson. jan 14 ly .1 j KKDD! N'i. \t ornev fir L'tW. r * B n-n„svil t >, Pike co , Ga. Will practice in the el 1 1 ising the Flint Judicial Cir -nit, and ,*’>’ special ontract AI usi ness promptly •p, ‘‘Co Olhce. in Elder's budding, over* 'liamber's aug6- y P'HUiI-VS BE \LL A rterte’V ut L t\A’, 'buniAston, Ga. Will practice in tiie Flint Cir ,t ind ,‘l.sewhere bv special contract ang27-ty 1 ’ l. H VLL. Artarriey t'nl O innseilor lh', ” Will practice io the counties composing i' 1,1 r , 1,u ’’'fcuit. In the Supreme Court of oror. ia, b'District Court of the United States for the yu * r! ’ U 'J Southern Districts of (<eorgia. L w to n ,Ga., June ISth. 187"-ly. \ & McCALL V. Anorni'ys nvW, a n ,\ :UV )V < '' r ' v ' n 2to n , Georgia. Will attend regu i"uin\o 8 v v ’ l,e in the Superior Courts of the Hon roe fj [K ‘ e ' v . t , on i butts, 11-nry, Spalding. Pike, ber. 1 • ''organ, DeKalb Gwinnette and Jas- __ dec 0-ly M ATHENS. Art •rnov at r " ising th*. °°, tton ’ Ba., will practice all the counties •Pecial “'• dtahoochee Circuit and elsewtiere by II K..tsv-c Arri.mev at Lnw * in the Unit , T , a , practice in the State Conrts '■ |V: ‘nn:ih, (}« States ' District Court at Atlanta and ' ’ dec 0-ly ♦J• Atr iruey at Law Barnes* Flint i’rrno '?'** practice in all the counties of ■— l an( l Supreme Court of the State. g! l lIU NK. A Torriev at ; 1 w of th* '’FBI practice in all the "tether n .' itta^00<, hee ('ircuil, and Upson and . declS-ly I) 0 f _!.'’a ? 111 oo'iriniie r*u» t.ruftice v ir t "I'ine. Office at B. D. Hardaway’s Drug t - dec'*'-ly 1 'notify»h' " V ’ Xl * i >u Jic‘. t ciHzens of Upson that, he will continue "’"•‘MVih r" in iis various branches at >. a ' declS-ly 77- ’ . r, ‘sm T y, practice fn Circuit Courts of ' ,n United >tates District Courts. : LADIES’ FANCY STORE! OVER MESSRS. FLEMISTEE & BEOOKS, CORNKR OF HILL AND SOLOMON 9TRKKTB, GRIFFIN. GEORGIA, Yy OULD respectfully inform the K t)o d j citizens of Thomaston and vicinity that we have now in store, and keep constantly on hand a superior stock and very latest styles of LADIES’ PINK I) It ESS GOODS, LADIES’ &CHIL.DUKNS’ SHOES, LADIES’ JEWELRY, LADIES’ HOSIERY, LADIES’ NOTIONS, MILLINERY, &c. A thousand little tricks and trinkets that Men-Mer chants know nothing about, to be found at our Store. IMILLIIsriEIR.'Sr ! The Choicest, Freshest, and SWEETEST, stock in the maket. Goods manufactured to suit the taste of customers. Orders respectfully solicited. (Jail on or address MRS. M. A. HIGHTOWER & CO., inayl3-tf Griffin, Georgia. ANDREWS & HILL, MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN FURNITURE, COFFINS, Ac., Ac., AT J. <fe T. G. ANDREWS’ Mill, Five Miles* Southwest of Thomaston, Ga. A\7”rc would ro-vpoptfullv inform onr V v friends and the public generally, that, we have established a FURNITURE MANUFACTORY at the above named place, where we manufacture and keep constantly on hand.superior Furniture of nil kinds, varieties, and grades. We are prepared to fill all or d. rs tor COFFIN s, and do all kinds of Cabinet work with neatness and dispatch We flatter ourselves that, we can please all that know good work when they see it. Our facilities and advantages in preparing <>ur own Lumber and Manufacturing our ow Work enables us to otter any quantity, better varieties, an 1 decidedly better baigdns than other Furniture dealers in this section of country. We earnestly request all that are in need of anything in our line to c ill and examine < ur stock, as we feel satisfied that we can give satisfaction in style, quality and price. All work warranteed to be as represented. Orders solicited. muy2<Uy JAS A N DREWS A L S. HILL. FOUR GOOD BOOKS. Should he Had in every Family. nUYOTTON XL strid Pramifial P»lvirlotr FAMILY BIBLE, containing a copious index, Concordance Dfc'ionary of Biblical Terms. Geograph ical and Historical Index, dee Fourteen hundred pages furnished tn three styles of hi ding L \ WS of BUSINESS tor all the States in the Union By t’heophilus Parsons, L 7, D This volume contains forms for urm of every trade or profession, mortgages, deeds, bills of sale, teas*s. b >nd, articles of copartner sh;p. will, awards, ifer Published by the National Pub lishing < o , Nemphis, Tenn. Tile. LIFE OF GEN. R. E LEE. by Jas. D. McOabe, author of a life of Stonewall Jackson. This book should find its way into every family us it is one of the best written accounts of the heroic deeds of the Great Vir ginian yet published. El <HT IN THE EAST, by the well-known writer, Fleetwood. Mr. JOHN A. COCHRAN has taken the Agency for Upson and Pike counties, and wi ] call upon the people with these in valuable books immediately aprill-Bt. BTEI2 EOBCOP E.S, VIEWS, ALBUMS, CHROMOS, FRAMES. E. & H. T. ANTHONY & CO., 5»1 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, Invite the attention of the Trade to their extensive assortment of the above goods, ol their own publica tion, manufacture and importation. Also, PHOTO LANTERN SLIDES and OR APIIOSCOPE. NEW VIEWS OF YO-EMITES, E. v’t H. T. ANTHONY' it CO., 591 Broadway, New York, Opposite Metropolitan Hotel. Importers and Manufacturers of Photographic Materials. mchlS-lOm The Southern Farm and Home. A FIRST CLASS AGRICULTURAL MONT’ILY. G EN. XV. XL. BROWIVE, | EDITOR At *‘i OO per Year tn Advance. r I'M IK S'uvinci Volume commences with ! | November number. Now is tne time to sub scribe. Address, J. W. BURKE, A; 00., octS ts Macon. Ga. i DR. THOS. A. WARREN GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. OFFERS hi 6; services to the c’t’/ens of Griffin and vicinity Special attention given to ! the treatment of CII Ro > Ito ASES. I Those at a dist mce can can consult him by letter Office over George Beecher A 0 , ill Street. april*29-tf WATCH REPAIRING. r citizens of (’r’Sif- end odjecent i counties arc respectfully informed that I have moved my stock to the store o Mr. Mm Wallace, ami am now prepared to execute work in my line of busi ness, on the most favorabb tenns. Rep iring of all kinds done at the shortest notice and i the neatest man ner. I have facilities for turning out good w >rk, and by strict attention to business hope to receive a liberal sha»e of patronage. Very respectfully, aprilS ts ' W.M. L. BRYAN. "DENTISTRY! r T'MIE nn G c-ioned hfiinw pe tnancntly 1 located in Thomston, still tenders thier professional sei vices in the practice of Dentistry to the citizens ol Upson and adfotnln# counth s Teeth inserted on g Id silver, adamant! eor rubber. All work warranted and a go and fit guaranteed. Otiice up st lira over WILSON SA vVYER'Jj store. dec9 ft BKYaN A SAWYER. THOMASTON. GA.. SATURDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 7, 1871. OSBORN & BOYLE, HILL STREET, GBLIIFFiIIsr, CtJL., V man i t faotukrijß of 9 butggies, express AND WAGONS, A DEi LKUS IN ALL KIND OF CARRIAGE & WAGON MATERIAL. AOF.NTB FOR TIIF. CELKBRVTKD STUDEBAKER WAGON AND SARVAN'S PATENT WHEELS. CAHTiTAGES, Phaetons, &c., of any style, ordered direct from the best North ern Factories. REPAIRING OF ALL KINDS neatly executed. Special attention driven to ordered jobs, and all work warran ted. augl2-ly PROSPECTUS OF THR ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, DAILY AND WEEKLY. A DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL, Published at the Capital of Georgia, and the Official Paper of the County and City. -A. NEWSPAPER For all classes. Merchants Lawyers, Farmers, Mechan ics, and others. The Constitution possesses superior advantages fin giving full information ot the doings of the Gov< rnment Itcantains full reports ot Legislative Proceedings, nnd of the Supreme Ccnrfi the Reporter of th<* Court bring exclusively engaged bv Tine Con stitution. Full re|M>rts given <»f the meetings of the State Agricultural Society. The Legislature will soon meet. Our Correspondence Department Is a specialtv. Its corps of Special Correspondents in the United States an- 1 Europe D large, having been en gaged at great expense. The actings of the General Government, especially of the Un'ted -tates Congress, are furnished by a Special Washington Correspondent For the benefit of I.ndy Readers, the celebrated “Jkn Nik Junk’’ has been employed, and sends monthly Fashion Letters from New York. The. Proprietors also announce with great satisfaction, that they have made arrangements for Fditorials and Original Contributions Upon Politics. Literature, and other topics, from lead ing minds < f the country. The Constitution is known pte-eminent!y for its un ceasing exposure of the corruptions ot the Radical Party in Georgia, and for waging sleepless war upofi the enemies of the people and the State, refusing and utterly repudiating official patronage, and throwing it self fer support sole upon the people. W. A. HEMPHILL and E Y. CLAKKF. Proprietors I. W. A VERY and E. Y CLARKE Political Editors. W. A. HEMPHILL, Bnsiness Manager. We also have News and Local Editors. TTIK CONSTITUTION Is the Largest Dailv now published in Georgia. Its circulation is large and increasing every day. It is A SPLENDID MEDIUM FOR ADVERTISERS. DAILY, Per Annum, *lO 00 “ Six Months 5 0 i “ Three Month 4 . 250 “ One Manth 1 00 WEEKLY. Per Annum 2 00 THE JOB DEPARTMENT Os The Constitution is prepared so fill orders for Circu lars Cards, Bill Heads, Books, Pamphlets, etc., in the best style Address YV. A. HEMPHILL. & CO., septlt) ts Atlanta Ga. CHEAPREADING AT LAM ANEW ERA. OLU 15 UA r r Es. In order to place the WEEKLY MEW ERA within thp r-ach of all. the proprietors have determin ed to to offer the following SPLENDID INDUCEMENTS : One cpy, one year .. ... * 3 00 Ton copies one year. *1.50 each 15 00 Twenty copies, one year. *1.25 each 25 n0 Thirty copies one year *I.OO each 80 00 The Weeklv Era contains nearly twenty-eight col umns of choice leading matter each issue, consisting of Politics, Liierature, Market R< ports, and GENERAL NEWS. Make up your Clubs at once. Postmasters are authorized and requested to act as Agents. Address NEW ERA OFFICE, july29-tf » Atlanta, Ga. THOMASTON HOTEL 11. T. JEWIYGS. Proprietor, THO AI AS T ON, OA . r |MIE nndoreig'npd hnvincr token oh or ire 1 of the above House takes pie sure in announcing to the public generally, that no . ff *rt will be spared to make it a first-class Hotel, and every effort will lie m *de to gi\e satisfaction to all who will favor him with their patronage. People living in the country and visitmg Thomaston will always find accommodation, and meals furnished at seasonable hours at reduced rates. Citiz‘ j na of Upson are -espectfully solicited to lend their support and patronage. aept'6-tf H. T. JENNINGS. DRUGS AND MEDICINES ! DH T. B KENDALL wnnM inform his friends and the community that he has purchased the stock of Drugs and Medicines owned bv B. D Har daway, and will carry on an exclusive Drug business at the same oid stand. Will keep constantly on hand a complete stock of everything usually found in a first class Drugstore. B. D. Hardaw»v will attend to the business and fill ail orders and pre-criptions with care. sept’J-tf ATTENTION MEN WITH BEARD! T A M am now lounfiM in Thommsf.in where l will keep a first-class White Man’s Barber Shop Shiving. Trimming ami Dress Hair, in fact, everything in the Barber’s line done in good and at satisfactory prices. Give me a call. First door West of Wm. Johnson's Store. C. H. HARRIS. pooK Notices. Pomeroy’s Democrat — M. M. (“Brick”) Pomeroy, Fiiitor and Proprietor—has a laroe circulation, with the greatest aod most interesting variety of reading mat er, of any Political paper in the world. Sub scription price $2.50. Club rates $2.00. Sample Copies Sent Free. Address C. P. Syk*s. Publisher, Post-officce Box 5217, New York. The Young Folks’ Rural for September, published by Mr. Lewis of the Western Rural, is filled brin? full of nice things for young people. The College World pro nounces it “the most entertaining paper in exi'tenrp f.,r yiiung people.” Cash prizes nre offered, for best Contributions by young folks $1 00 per year, and free for remain der of this y *ar to new subscribers for 1872. Specimen numbers free. Address 11. N. F. Lewis. Publisher, Chicago. The Childrens Hour - This is an ex cellent little magazine for children. It abounds in most suitable literature for the juvenile folks, and even among the older ories it tend- to carry the mind back to pleasant memories, and sigh “would that I were a child again” to read T. S. Arthur’s interesting journal. Address the editor at Philadelphia. The New York Ledger contains many gents of literature, worthy of the best and most brilliant talent. By the uniform merit of its productions and ta-te displayed in literary selections it has achieved a popular distinction, commanding a patronage which commends it to the table of polite, refined, most elegant and instructive reading. A Great Offer. Peters’ Musical Month ly for October is to hand, containing fifteen beautiful pieces of music, printed from full size music plates. It can be had for thirty cents. The Publisher also offers to send, post-paid, for one dollar, six back numbers, containing from ninety to one hundred pieces ol choice new music. Send your order to the Publisher, J. L. Peters, 599 Broadway, New York, and get your money’s worth, of new select music. There is no greater attraction among the pleasures of ■ Home than the sweet enjoyments of music. The Monthly Novelette f >r Oot 'BER. this valuable magazine is “o full of vari* etv that it suits all tastes. Sailors find a -ua yarn ; soldiers, a tale of the late war; adies, half a dozen romances, where love md marriage mingle their pleasant sweets ; poets, verses of rare merit ; and then there ire historical matters biographies, and a juvenile department that will please chil- Iren. In fact, The Monthly Novelette is the most interesting publication of the kind in the country. Price $2.00 per annum, or 20 cents per county Samples sent for 15 cents. Thornes & Talbot, 63 Congress Street, are the publishers, and they club Ballou’s Magazine with The Novelette for $3,00. The Folio, for October, conies to us great ly enlarged and improved It now gives three pieces of music, complete, (which cost one dollar and twenty cents in sheet form) asupeib portraitof Theodore Thomas, and thirty columns of original reading matter, all for ten cents! The publishers claim th.it the Folio has increased its circu lation more than ten thousand copies since last January. This is a remarkable event in journalism and demonstrates the that the people are not slow to see the advantages of buying their music in this form The Folio is edited by Dexter Smith, the well-known song writer, and published at one dollar a year by White, Smith & Perry, I> -ton. Specimen copies sent free to any address. The Song Messenger, is a musical month ly, a beautiful interesting magazine, con taining also the most select literature, rendered doubly attractive to all who love sentiment and song, poetry, as well as able productions of the pen, or instructive notes of the critic While it is highly entertain ing it is equally improving in the elegant accomplishments of society,as well as a most delightful companion (or the fireside. The October number abounds in superior pro duction and composition. S uthern Cultivator. —Tnis monthly magazine for October is on our table. We find it to contain much useful information and interesting matter. The Agricultural, Editorial and Fireside departments are well fi led with entertaining, selectand instruct ive articles. Our Own Fireside must be read to be appreciated Its home-like illustrations are true to nature. Its literature affords all the interest the mind could desire. Containing a'Bo, many fables, witty sayings and do ings as well as information of fashion and change, it is appreciated by all of its readers. The Ohio Farmer contains much im p >rtant correspondency original produc tions, and agricultural instruction. I say boy is there anything to shoot around hero ?,, inquired a sportsman of a bov he met. “Well.” replied the boy. “nothing just here: but our school master L ju>t over the hill there, cutting birch rods. Y ’t walk tip and p ’p him over.,, Spiritual Growth. Communicated] "But though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.” Many Christians imagine that when the sha klesof sin have been graciously removed from their souls, it is not necessary to con tinually struggle against their return. But our lives were not intended to sink into that drowsy state of self-satisfaction which asks no deeper work of grace in the soul, that conformity with the world which admits of no struggle w ith our inclinations, no neces sity to control the temper, or to cultivate purity of principle. We should not be contented with ourselves as we are, but desire nnd pray continually that we may become more righteous, more pure, more gentle, and more exalted in every virtue, so as to ap proach in our Christian character that per fect type which was given to us an example on earth, our blessed Saviour. Are we like him, unworthy creatures that we are, even in our warmest state of religions enjoyment ? Ah, I fear that we are too frequently over come by the world, and instead cf the golden rule, take for our motto, “an eye for an eye» and a tooth f,.r a tooth.” If one is offended, unkind feelings arc cherished, bitter words are spoken, and the evil spirit is allowed to predominate until the once strong tie of friendship is forever broken! Wtiereas one gentle word, one kind act, or one pleasant smile would have “heaped coals of fire” on the transgressor’s head, and healed the wound like a precious, southing balm. If then there is such power in the Christian’s life, it is the duty of every Mother to teach these principles to her children, and enforce them while the heart is tender, rather than uphold them in any passionate resentment of wrong* or to listen without checking to an outburst of bitter invectives against a school mate or friend. It is perfectly natural to conclude, when we see anything of this kind in those who are capable of discriminating b°tween right and wrong, that their parents allow them at home to indulge iu the natu ral impulse of the heart under such circum stances by giving back “railing for railing,’ instead of overcoming evil with good. * It is not much the world can give With all its subtle art, An<l gold and gems are not the things To trdixjp the heart, But oh, if those who cluster round The altar and the hearth, Have gentle words and loving smiles, How beautiful is earth.’’ God is love, an 1 if we as Ilis children cultivate more affection for each other, there will be less cause for strife, and fewer in clinations to do evil. In order then to keep our feet in the upward path, it is necessary io watch, lest suddenly we may fall into temptation, and act ha-tily in a manner unbecoming a Christian. And not only should we struggle to control our words and actions, but “strive, wrestle and agonize” to keep down even the very appearance of evil in our thoughts. It has been said “keep thy heart with all diligence,” yet nothing that we can do can cleanse it from impuri ties except the blood of our Saviour. The scriptures are full of promises for those who remain steadfast in the faith, and who work to promote the glory of What a great incentive then to the Christian in his daily struggles, his trials, his temptations and all that he may be called upon to endure in this life ! When the reaping time comes, the days of tribulation are ended. The moment an aching brow is bathed in the eternal rivers of life, its earthly pangs are remembered no mure. “Every chastisement, every light affliction which is but for a moment, work eth for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.” Let us then find comfort in these words, and. if evils come upon us, if the band of affliction should fall upon our families and sweep them one by one away, if wealth and earthly position are torn from us, and it is ours to earn our daily bread by the sweat of the brow, then we are sure that all things w-,rk together fur our good. And though these trials seem grievous burdens at the time, they are sent in mercy to con sume the dross of our material life, and to refine the true gold of the spiritual. Not one stroke of the rod ever comes without a purpose, it is needful for onr spiritual growth or it would not have been sent As the mind by cl >se application accumulates knowledge and iy by day, so does the soul thatis properly cultured gather up treasures that can never be taken away. If we take no pains to expand our souls, if we do not cultivate in our daily lives th *se thfee im- j portant principles of religion, Jaith. love j and charity, and if we read not those works which are calculated to inspire within us a desire to know more and more of God’s in finite wisdom and greatness, how can we expect to partake of those glor es He has prepared f>r them that love Him 7 That yearning for a higher, purer life which all true Christians have, would nevei have been given, had not God intended that they should be satisfied hereafter. Our minds as well as our souls have wants that are never satisfied on earth, for all the vast realms of learning over which we explore, the knowledge we accumulate, and the literary stores of wealth we hoard, only serve to convince us of our own littleness when c >mpared to that Great Being who has created millions and millions of worlds to us unknown. Sir Isaac Newton when he lay on his death bed, after all his acbicvment* said, “I feel that I have only B tood on the sea shore and picked up a few pebbles, while the illimitable ocean of knowledge n.lls on beyond us." 11 in yearnings for wisdom are now satisfied beyond his wildest con ception in this life, for “blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled." I have just been reading an article on this subject and the author's ideas are so good I cannot refrain from giving them in his own words ; “One star differeih. from another star in glory ” Not all souls shine alike to heaven. If here all o\ir lite time, our Christianity is but a feeble spark which we take no pains to fan into a flame, we must not expect to shine as the sun in the life to come ; but if through all our pilgrimage our Christian love burns brightly, if its flame is constant ly fed by the pure oil of prayer, and the sweet incense of loving sacrifice for other’s good, then may we expect it to shine on with increasing brilliancy through eternity. This question of soul culture is one of vital import. What kind of culture are we, each one of us, giving our own soul? Are we training it to bend all its noble faculties to the acquirement of earthly things, to tho possession of costly jewels, of the body, and that perishable work which is all for nought? If so we can enjoy it but a few days, a few years at best. But if we see to it that every day witnesses somo growth of our souls: if we seek to elevate our tastes, to expand our capabilities, to train our desires and aspirations heaven ward, our reward shall not be tbo ephemeral one which attends earthly success; through out all eternity it shall remain a great and ever increasing reward, for if we enter heaven with enlarged capacities for pure and holy enjoyment, in that same measure will the joys of heaven be increased to us, fur we shall be satisfied , and we shall con tinually receive as our strength can bear, the reward of “a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." And here in our own midst has a mighty work begun, which will be rewarded, for G<>d has most signally manifested Ilimself in many hearts that have put their trust in Him. May the Holy Spirit strive with us, until every soul shall be changed, leaving the temptations of sin, and rising higher and higher in its spiritual aspirations, un til the end comes, end “the sun shall no more go down, neither shall the moon with draw itself, for the Lord shall he thino everlasting light." L. K. 11. Orphans' Ilomr—Xoitli Ga. Confrrrncc. REMARKABLE WORK OF GOD AMONG THE OR PHANS—Fourteen children converted in one Family. From the Southern Christian Advocate ] Editor Advocate ; About two weeks since, when passing from a series of appoininents in Northeast Georgia, to meet an engage* ment in Marietta, I determined, God will ing, to spend a day at the Orphans’ Home, to see how it prospered and to look after its wants. On reaching the Home, I learned that, while attending a protracted meeting, held in the neighborhood, a few days before, a number of the orphans had manifested deep concern upon the subject of religion, though none of them had been converted. There however, manifestly an abid ing and pervading religious influence upon them. At family evening prayer, G >d was felt to be present. Besides the usual services of family worship, I addressed the children in a brief lecture, on the subject of their tal vution, during which, as also in prayer and singing, there were unmistakable evidences of thorough religioas awakenings among them. They joined in singing two or three of those excellent hymns in the Amaranth, with an earnestness and melody which deeply affected my heart. I have seldom, if ever, witnessed a more thriving and divinely interesting scene. I felt strong as surance that God was about to convert these children of sorrow, and set up His kingdom in their hearts and Home. On my return from Marietta to Gainesville, about a week subsequently I learned from the Superin tendent that fourteen of the children had been converted, and the work was still go ing on. He remarked that the conversions were clear and powerful. (It is proper to state that a good many of ihe children are from eight to twelve years old ) This is not a protracted meeting, nor is it a church revival. It is a “family meeting," a work 'at home” at the morning on l evening worship, ir» which God is converting the huu-eh *ld, and the househo and is muie up of orphans. These are peculiarly his own and the objects of His special tendir care. A few months since most of these chil dren were bomelessand strangers to ail tho endearments and pleasures of home ; but they are now Christian members of a happy Christian family, and in the full enjoyment of h >me in its best and noblest sen.-e. Can the people fail to see God’s hard in this great work ; or will the Church doubt as to her duty toward thedestitute orphans ? I fully expect to hear that the good work goes on, and that most, or all of sufficient age are brought into the divine family. Let the Church make u special and con stant prayer for these orphans. They are ours. Jessee Boring. Sept. 15, IST 1. NO. 14.