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PUBLISHED WEEKLY FOR THE SOLDIERS’ TRACT ASSOCIATION, BY ROBERT J. HARP, SUPERINTENDENT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH-WEST. VOL. 11. JUimt & pitrn peraltl SD rs —> Cos PUBLISHED BY J. W. BURKE & CO. MAOON, GA., APRIL 6, 1865. The Herald is published for of the soldiers, sailors and marines belonging to the service of the Confederate States, to whom it is furnished by the voluntary contributions of their relatives and friends at home. Every Bheet which the soldier receives is an evidence of the love of the fathers, mothers, sisters and wives, who, unable to fight by his side in the field or stand over his cot in the hospital, send him a Herald bearing tokens of their love, and supplying him with something to chase the gloom from his mind, dicer his spirit, and as sure bim of the interest which they feci in his eternal welfare. • Kates' of Advertising. fifty cents per line, or $2.00 per square of' ten lines, each insertion. •< RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. 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A little error of the eye, a misguidance of the hand, a slip of the foot, a starting of a horse, a sudden mist, or a great shower, or a word uudesignedly cast forth in an army, has turned the stream of victory from one side to another, and thereby disposed of empires and whole nations. No prince ever returns safe out of a battle, but may well remember how many blows and bullets have gone by him that might, easily have gone through him ; and by what little odd, unforeseen chances death has been turned aside, which seemed in a full, and direct career to have been posting to him. All which passages if we do not ac knowledge to have been guided to their respec tivs ends and effects by tlie conduct of a supe rior and a divine hand, we do by the same as sertion cashier all providence, strip the Al mighty of Lis noblest prerogative, and make God, not the governor, but the mere spectator of the world.— South. _.ti. “It is Difficult for ,t|lticu Man to Enter into tiie Kingdom of God.”—Because be wants that important test of his own conduct which is to be gained from 1 lie conduct of his fellow creatures toward him. He may be going far from the kingdom of God cu the feet of pride, and over the spoilt, of justice, without learning from the averted looks and the alienated hearts of men that his way- are the ways of death. Because he loves the kingdom of the world too well. Death is terrible to those-who live at ease ii their possessions. A man who is the eternal prey to solicitude, wishes for the closing of the scene. A constant, cheerless struggle with little miseries will dim the sun and wither the green herb and taint the wind, but those who are not reminded of the wretchedness of human existence dream they shall live forever in the palaces they have reared, which are but the out-houses of the grave. Because his wealth is apt to harden his heart. Wealth gives power, jtowev produces immediate gratification, and this engenders an impatience of unpleasant feelings.— Soldier's Pop: r. Courtesy. —No woman can be a lady who would wound or mortify another. No matter how beautiful, bow refined, how cultivated she may be, she is in reality coarse, and the innate vulgarity of her nature manifests itself here. Uniformly kind, courteous and polite treatment of all persons, is one mark of a true woman, and of a true man als o. MACON, GEORGIA, APRIL 6, 1865. , Daily Bread. [S' Isstions for Every Day in the. Week.] RAIIBATH, APRIL !). “ Hear the word of the Lord.”—Josh, iii: 89. Again our weekly labors end, And Wa the Sabbath’s etll attend ; Improve, our souls the sacred vest, Aud seek to be for ever bless'd ! It is not enough to sny, We are all present to hear the sermon; but you must say, with Cornelius and his company : “We are present to hear all things commanded us of God.” Ami in a special manner you must be ready to hear and obey his “great command, of believ ing on the name of his Son,” which is the great end of preaching and hearing. Where fore, when Christ knocks by his word at the door of your heart., be ready to open and wel come him in with joy. Say to him, a-. LJbnu to Abraham’s servant: “Come in, thou blessed of the Lord; wherefore standest thou without ?” Though, alas ! 1 canhot say what follows: “I have prepared the house,” yet, Lord, come in and prepare it for thyself; and though “I be unworthy that thou shouldst conic under my roof,” yet a word from thee can cleanse and repair the house, yea, and “prepare an upper room” for thyself. Lord, apeak th* word, and it shall be done. 1 fillitoH. SION HI, APRIL 10. “The' rive of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”—Rom. viii: 89. Poor helpless souls the bounteous Lord Relieves, and fills with plenteousuess : He sets the mournful prisoners free— He the blind their Saviour see. “ Behold, how he loYed him!” could they say When our Saviour shed but a few tears for Lazarus ; but much more, when lie shed all the blood in his body for our souls, we may well 'say : “ Behold, how he loved them!” Go wjtii tistj a-is ..b Jot- j v watch an hour with him ? TANARUS» contemplate this, go into the garden— to the judgment-seat—to Golgotha. Behold him on the cross—hear his strong sighs and groans—they will break thy' heart, if anything will; and broken it must be. “And why did God suffer his ‘beloved Son, in whom he was well pleased,’ to be thus tormented ?” Why ?, God would rather afflict him for a time, than lose eur souls for ever. “ And why did Christ, who might have chosen otherwise, so freely give his cheeks to the smiiers?” Why? only lie had set his love upon our souls, which he would not suffer to perish.— Vinkt. TUESDAY. APRIL 11/ “ Now is the day of salvation.”—2 Cor. ai: 2. Come, then, ye sinners,- to your Lord*— In Clj'ist to paradise restored ; His proffer'd benefits embrace— The plentitude of Gospel grace. Like a woman 1 have heard of, who, when her house was on fire, was very busy in saving of her stuff—carrying out with,ail her might as much as she could. At last she bethought-her self of her child, which was left in a cradle ; but when she returned to look after that, she found that the fire had destroyed it ; and there she was, first aware of her preposterous care for her goods before her child, running up and down as one distracted, crying: “My child, my child !” as David for his son Absalom. ,So, alas! when it is too late, all that negl-ct their soills in this life will howl out in th,; midst oi their scorching flames : “ 0 ray soul, my soul! ] would I had died for the", my de.-tr and pre cious soul!” Paid. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12. “Whom the Lord lovoth he chasteneth.”— Hee. xii : 6. Wash out my stains, refine my dross, Nail my affections to the cross; II Glow each thought ; let all vtii#in Be clean, as thou, my Lord, art clean! The devil deals with unwary men, like some cheating gamester, who, having drawn in an unskilful and wealthy novice into play, suffers him to win awhile, at the first, that he may, at the last, sweep away all the stakes, and some rich manors to boot. It is a great judgment of G<;‘l, to punish sinners with welfare, and to render their lewd ways prosperous; wherein, how contrary are the Almighty’s thoughts to theirs ! Their seeming blessing* are Ids heavy curse, amlNhe smart of ids stripe- are a favor teo good for them to enjoy. To judge wisely of our condition, it is to bo considered, not so much how we fare, as upon what terms. If we stand right with Heaven, every cross is a bless- ing. ; ad every blessing a pledge of figure hap piness: li wo be in God's disfavor, everyone of Ida benefits is a judgment, and every judg ment makes way for perdition.— Hall. THURSDAY, APRIL 18. : ‘d am thy shield and exceeding great re ward.’’--Gen. xv : 1. He calls a worm his friend— He calls himself my God ; And he shall save me to the end, * Through Jesus’ blood. Every individual Christian hath a propriety in a Community; as every person enjoys the whole sun to himself, sc ever)' believer posses- Seth whole God to himself. The Lerd hath hi ul enough to give all his heirs* Throw a Iliya sand buckets into the sea, and there is witev enough in the sea to fill them; though these be millions of saiHts and angels," there is enopgh in God to fill them.— Watson. FRIDAY, APRIL 14. ‘'Cast thy burden upon the Lord, he will stif lain thee.”—Ps. lv : 22. He has pardons to impart, Grace to save thee from thy fears ; j See the love that fills Lis heart, j And wipe away thy tears ! ffiil you come to Christ, peace cannst eonso toiyou. Christ and peace are undivided. Tou ksfce tried other ways, you have tried duties, an! no rest comes; why will you not try the wi rof faith? Carry the burden to Christ. Flavel. SATBRDAY, APRIL 15. ”To everything there U*«p^ o n.”—EccLi9. iii: 1 . Seize ad occasions as they pass, And use them for'the Lord ; Sinners, ere now, have been aroused By one well-spoken word. - Though it is precept, not providence, that n,“Sikes duty, yet providendfe points to duty—to i -AL\ad Reason of.it, . Murk «.f owe dmtj lies in complying with the opportunity and oc casion that .providence gives for the doing of this or that good work. We are never more obliged to our duty, than when we have the fittest opportunity to perform it; and we must eye providence in this. It is the prerogative of God to appoint times irnd seasons, not only for his own purposes, but for our duty. He ap points the day, and the things of the day—what and whou it shall be done. Should you order a servant to and» a business to-day, and he should not do it till the next day, would you not count such an one a disobedient servant, because he observed not your time ?— Vinke. Crime Overreatbitig Itself. An anecdote is related of John Eyre, a man whose name is recorded in the annuals of crime, as possessing ,£30,•00, and yet being sentenced to transportation for stealing eleven quires of writing paper, which show's in a striking man ner the depravity of the human heart, and may help to account for the meaness of the crime of which he’stood convicted. An uncle of his, a gentleman of considerable property, made his will in favor of a clergyman wiio was his inti mate friend, and committed it, unknown to the rest of the family, to the custody of the divine. However, not long before Lis death, having altered his mind with regard to the disposal of his wealth, be made another will, in which he left the clergyman only £6OO, bequeathing the bulk of his large property to his nephew arid heir-at-law. Mr. Eyi'e. boon after the old gen tleman’s (hath, Air. Eyre rummaging over his draws, found this last Will, and pe:ceiving the legacy of £SOO in it for the clergyman, without any hesitati on or scruple of conscience put it into the fire, and took possession of the whole effects, in consequence of his uncle being sup posed to die intestate. The clergyman coming to town soon after, .and enquiring into the cir cumstances of hie old friend’s death, asked if he had made a will before he died. On being answered by Eyre in the negative, the clergy man very coolly put his hand into his pocket and pulled out the former will, which had been committed lo his care, in which Mr. Eyre had bequeathed him the whole of his fortune, (amoun ting to several thousand pounds, excepting a legacy of £2OO to his nephew. v —— •*—*-*• ———— Repentance.—You cannot repent too soon. There is no day like to-day. Yesterday is | gone—to-morrow i- God’s, not your own. And, \ think how sad it will he to have your evidences ! lo seek, when your cause is to be tried; to ! have your oil to buy, when you should have it * to burn.— J. Mason. The Dove of Christ. “ Could I with ink the ocean fill, t Were ilie whole earth of parchment made. Were every blade of grass a quill, And every man a scribe by trade : To write the love of Christ to man Would drain the ocean dry ! Nor could the scroll contain the whole, Though stretched from sky to sky !” j These lines, which appeared in a recent Ob | server, suggest a. note, also a query. | llte germ, of the idea is doubtless to he found j in the closing verse of John’s Gospel, iu which he declares that if the things which Jesus did “should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the hooks that should be written.” Various author* have borrowed this idea and amplified it, but none of their additions are improvements upon the charming simplicity of the beloved disciple. Mohammed, who, in repeated instances, imi tated the Bible, imitated it in this passage. In chapter 18th of the Koran, we read: » If the sea were ink, to write the words of my Lord, verily the sea would fail before the •words of my Lord : although we added another sea to it as a further supply.” Chaucer expanded the expression of the idea, and applied it to a widely different subject, in his “Bala.de warnynge men to beware of de ceitful women”: “ In sooth to saie though all the yertli so vranne Were parchment smooth,’white and scribbabel), And the grot see, that called is th’ Ocean, Were teurned into yoke blackir than sabell, Eche sticlce a pen. ech.e man a scrivener able, Not could thei writin woman’s treacherie.” In the “ Remedie of Love,” the name lines "Do-ht alterations. A Chaldee ode, by 8a - ~ v „„ lsaae on the attributes of God, contains four lit. which very succinctly express Hie idea as con tained in the verses at the head of this article. A sufficiently literal, though metrical version of those lines is as follows : “ To write the eternal power of God, no effort would suffice; Although, such writing to contain, the volume were the skils ; Each reed a pen ; .and, for the ink, the waters of the sea ; And tho’ each dweller on the earth an aide scribe should be.” In more modern and prosaic writers the same idea occurs. It is found in “Modern Universal History;” vol. iv ; p. 430: “He was succeeded by Joclianan; • not in right of descent, hut of his extraordinary merits; which the Rabbis, according to cus tom, have raised to so surprising a height, that, according to them, if tlie whole heavens wore paper, all tire trees, in the world pens, and all the men writers, they would not suffice to pen down all his lessons.” It also occurs iii Miss Sinclair’s “Hill arid Valley,” p. 25 : * “ If the lake could be transformed into an inkstand, the rnouutafns into paper; and if all the birds that hover on high were to subscribe iheir-wings for quills, it would be still insuffi cient to write half the praise and admiration that are due.” A single query. Who is the author of the lines in* their present popular form? They have been attributed to Smart, the translator of Horace. It has also been asserted that Watts uttered them impromptu at an evening party. Grose’s “ Olio ” says they were written on the. walls of a lunatic asylum by one of its unfor tunate inmates. Which of these statements is correct, or if neither, who really was the author ? P. 11. \l. Christian Observer. Clerical Humor. —One of tlie early Wes leyan preachers had his sense of modesty aud propriety frequently offended by hearing his brethren speak of their sacrifices, and leaving all to become itinerant- preachers several of whom, to his knowledge, had bettered their worldly condition thereby. Our hero had been brought, up a shoemaker. Sail he, in a Con ference free talk, “I have made my sacrifices also: I left two of the best awls iu England, to become a preacher and be made a gentleman.” Here is another, equally pointed, but not with so good a moral. In Bunting’s Life, speaking of William Atherton, a most characteristic anecdote is given of him. He was a noted wit, and had a great aversion to women preaching. One day, preaching a funeral sermon for some good brother who had recently died, he said; “ The sometimes uses strange instruments for carrying on Lis work. Thus Balaam was converted' by the braying of nn ass, Peter h J the crowing of a cock, and our late brother by the preaching of a woman, one good Friday morning.” NO. 14.