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Baptism of Jesus.
An age of darkness roll’d away,
TheUriillant beams of nobler day,
Borne down on Mercy’s gentle wing,
Through earth their living splendors ding.
A star, the orb of death and life,
Rolls grandly o’er a world of strife;
Pours radiance of heaven down,
And weaves each Christian brow a crown.
A Saviour conies, with lofty mind,
On earth Ilia royal queen to find;
He comes, with peace and love, tout light
To fllume th’ world of moral uight.
Performing good, subduing sin,
His works of mercy now begin ;
For broken hearts brings healing balm,
Aud waves aloft the leafy palm.
The Prince ioro old in ancient song,
Whom anxious millions waited long,
First snug by heralds from the sky,
ft meekly, proudly marching nigh.
The crowd moves back on either side,
And opes a way to Jordan’s tide;
Calmly, he slowly bends His way
Where babbling waves of water play.
Deep awe and silence reign below,
As leads the way that aalnis should go
The Bon, the darling love of God,
And shadows death beneath the sod.
Midway In silver stream he stands,
With solemn face and folded hands ;
Stoops proud example uow to lay
For saints In every future day.
In arms of bright embracing wave
He sinks into the liquid grave ;
Comes forth as down the Spirit tiles—
Dear wonder of the earth and skies.
A dove-like form, most solemn thing,
O’er Christ naw waves Us brooding wing;
High-boni glories His head invest,
And heaven fills Ilis noble breast
His Father's holy wilt is done,
And all of Heaven's tavour won ;
A voice speaks now in sweetest tone:
m 3fhls U my well-beioved Son ! ”
’Neath angels’ coi centrated gaae,
To wiu from earth her righteous praise,
He lifts His blood-staiucd Cross on high,
And bids the world now upward fly.
W. D. M.
H u :kmonJ, My 11, lSfci.
{From tbe Richmond Dally Whig.}
Interesting Religious Xew* rroui
the Army.
The following items of news are culled
from the reports of tract distributors, and
have been furnished to us by Rev. A. E.
Dickinson, whose whole time from the be
ginning of the war has been devoted to su
perintending the labors of some seventy-five
pious colporteurs:
Rev. If. Horn&dy, Atlanta, Ga.
W e have a large number of sick and w ound
ed in the hospitals here, not less than three
tkv*t**d, and it is probable that most of
the sick and wounded from the army in
North Alabama and Tennessee will be
brought here. There have been quite a
number of conversions in the hospitals, and
I have conversed with many who are anx
iously inquiring what they must do to be
saved. Some have died rejoicing that, in
the providence of God,f they were sent here,
where they had learned to love the Saviour.
Never have I seen a field which more fully
answers the Saviour’s description—‘The
fields- are white unto the harvest,’ —than
that presented in the hospitals.
Rev. J. 11. Westerly, Kingston, Tenn.: —
The 280 Testaments and 700 Tracts you
sent me have all been distributed, and 1 am
extremely anxious to secure another supply.
The work*;has proven more pleasant than I
anticipat&l, and has been attended with
many happy results. But two men have
declined receiving Testaments, while many
appeared more anxious to procure them
than to get their rations. The sick are es
pecially fond of religious reading. Can’t
you send us some ‘Camp Hymns’? Sol
diers are delighted with having hymns, es
peciallp the old-fashioned ones they used
to hear sung at home.
lier. P. D. Gold, Goldsboro, N. C.
When the enemy drove me from my work
at Fredericksburg 1 came here, and am
greatly pleased. This is the best field for
colportage effort with which 1 have yet met.
Besides the many camps around me. there
are large hospitals here. L can sell religi
ous books, as well as give away tracts, as
there is a great desire on the part of all for
something to read.
Rev. S, A. Creath, Corinth, Miss.:—
1 have visited Pensacola and distributed a
large amount of reading matter among the
army there. . I had not the least difficulty
in getting access to the soldiers. Colonel
T. 11. Watts (now Attorney-General) took
me to his tent, gave me a written recom
mendation, and did every thing for me that
was in his power. When so many of the
soldiers were sent to this point 1 thought it
best to come here, and really 1 have had a
good time. Igo from tent to tent, kneel,
down with the soldiers on their little bed of
straw and pray for God’s blessing. They
take as good care of me as a church has
ever done of its pastor.
Mr. J. C. Clopton, Valley of Virginia
During tny stay among General Jackson’s
command I heard but little profanity, and
saw' but little wickedness of any kind. 1
was told the other day that General Jackson
himself was out distributing tracts among
his men. One of his Aids enquired of me
where tracts could be found, and gave me
five dollars to aid in distributing religious
literature among the soldiers.
Rev. 80. Ryland, Richmond, Va.:—
I spend six or seven hours every day in the
hospitals, besides the time occupied ingoing
to and fro, and in gathering up tracts,
hooks and papers for distribution. Making
brief addresses and closing with prayer in
each ward—saying a few kind words to
those patients who are confined to bed—
distributing reading matter, writing letters
for invalids, and doing such little things for
them as their necessities seem to demand,
consume all my attention. The field prom
ises great usefulness, and, God being my
helper, I shall aim to cultivate it with my
whole energy.
Rev. J B. Hardwick, Petersburg, Va.: —
During the month 1 have distributed 8,000
pages of tract®, *24 copies of the Testament,
40 copies of Camp Hymns, and have made
about one hundred visits to the, hospitals.;
The thousand sick here afford an inviting
field, and there is need of more laborers, —
One soldier professed to be converted while
1 was reading to him a tract, explaining the
plan of salvation, while many have mani
fested deep seriousness. lam more than
ever convinced that, next to the Christian
ministry, colportage is the most powerful
agency for bringing the Gospel home to the
hearts and consciences of men.
Rev. L. B. Robertson, Mobile, Ala.:—
During the time that I have spent here i
have distributed one hundred Testaments
and two hundred ‘Hymns for the Camp.’
The soldiers are all anxious to have ead-j
ing matter, and I am received with a hearty
welcome, i live with the soldiers, eat and
sleep with them, and thus have ready ac-:
cess to them when I desire to hold meet-;
ings. 1 preach twice every Sabbath, and j
hold a prayerTneeting every day.
SraUerlng, and Yet Increasing.
There U sound wisdom in the riddle put
forth by good old Father Honest, in John
Bunyan’s ‘ Pilgrim 1 :
There was a man (though some did count him mad >
The more he castaway, the more he had,—
and in the solution given by the hospitable
Gain's:
He who bestows his goods upon the poor
Shall have as much again, and ten times more.
The Lord is a sure paymaster, and has
given His word that to those that give it
shall be given, “ good measure, pressed
down and shaken together and running over.’
(There arc some facts which seem to show
Chat this is the ease even where persons do
not give with an eye to God’s glory.
• ** Ido not give money for such objects,”
said a skeptical physician, who was applied
to for a contribution to the Bible Society.
You w ill lose nothing by it, even in a
worldly point of view,” said the agent.
‘Bf you really believe that.” said the
"HE BAHHIK OVER" HI II "LOVE."
ATLANTA, GA„ JUNE 14, 1862.
physician, “I will try it for once,” and
gave him twenty dollars.
The agent requested him to watch the
providence of God, and see if he was not
repaid double.
“ I shall take care to do that,:’ was the
emphatic answer.
Soon he was called on to attend a wealthy
old gentleman in a very critical condition.
When his bill was made out a son of the
man took him one side and requested that,
as his father was so feeble, and hMjnind so
set upon hifs money, he would ffifc out a
small bill to present to.sbim, andfae would
make up the balance. A
“ I am willing to leave the bill to your
father,” he replied. “ What do you think
he would be willing to pay ?”
“ Well he would not object to two hun
dred dollars,” said the son.
The physician took the money, and when
next he saw the agent he related the inci
dent, and told that the Lord repaid him
five-fold, as he should not have thought of
asking over one hundred dollars in the ease.
Said a gay young planter, on being ral
lied by his companions for giving so much
for church purposes:
“ You do not understand it—l am no loser
by my liberality ; but for every five dollars
I give the Lord, His providence in some
way brings me back a hundred.”
How much better to give of our substance
in a spirit of Christian love !
The Bible.
The Holy Scripture is not a book for the
slothful —is not a book which can be inter
preted without, and apart from, and by the
deniers of that Holy Spirit from whom it
came. Rather is it a field upon the surface
of which, if sometimes we gather manna
easily and without labor, given, as it were,
freely to our hands, yet of which also ma
ny portions are to be cultivated with pains
and toil ere they will yield food for the use
of man. This bread of life, also, is often
to be eaten in the sweat of our brow,—
Every Christian should look upon the
Scriptures as quarries in which he may al
ways dig, and yet never dig out-*-a world
of wisdom, in w hich the most zealous and
most successful searchers shall ever be the
readiest to acknowledge that w h nows
is as nothing compared with what remains
to be known. It belongs to the primal ne
cessities of such a book, which is ordained
for the developing of the higher life of every
man, that it should b e inexhaustible —that
it should have treasures which it does not
give up at' once —secrets which it yields
slowly—with rich, waving harvests on its
surface, but with precious veins of metal
hidden far below, and to be reached only
by the utmost diligence and labor.
Life Everywhere.
Life everywhere ! The air is crowded
with birds—beautiful, tender, intelligent
birds, to whom life is a song and a thrilling
anxiety, the anxiety of love. The air is
swarming with insects —those little anima
ted miracles. The waters are peopled with
innumerable forms—from the animalcule?,
so small that one hundred and fifty millions
of them would not weigh a grain, to the
whale, so large that it seems an island as
it sleeps upon the waves. The bed of the
seas is alive with polypes, grabs, star-fishes,
and with shell animalcules. The rugged
face of the rocks is scarred by the silent
boring of soft creatures, and blackened with
countless muscles, barnacles, and limpets.
Life everywhere! on the earth, in the
earth, crawling, creeping,burrowing, boring,
leaping, running.
If the sequestred coolness of the wood
tempt us to saunter into its chequered shade,
we are saluted by the numerous din of in
sects, the twitter of birds, the scrambling
of squirrels, the startled rush of unseen
beasts, all telling how populous is this
seeming solitude. If we pause before a
tree, or shrub, or plant, our <4irsory and
half-abstracted glance detects a colony of
variout inhabitants. We pluck a flower,
and in its bosom we see many a charming
insect busy in its appoiuted labor. We
I pick up a "fallen leaf, and if nothing is visi
: ble on it, there is probably the trace of an
insect larva hidden in its tissue, awaiting
their development. The drop of dew upon
j this leaf will probably contain its animals,
I visible under the microscope. This same
: microscope reveals that the Mood-rain sud
denly appearing on bread, and awakening
superstitious terrors, is nothing but a col
lection of minute animals (.Vonas prodigi
osia) • and that the vast tracts of snow
which are reddened in a single night, owe
their color to the marvellous rapidity in
reproduction of a minute plant (Protococ
cus nivalis). The very mould which cov
‘ers our cheese, our bread, our jam, or our
jink, and disfigures our damp walls, is no
il thing but a collection of plants. The many-
Jcolored fire which sparkles on the surface of
a summer sea at night, as the vessel plows
her way, or which drips from the oars in
jines of jewelled light, is produced by mil
. lions of minute animals.
Life, life everywhere !
Dr. Palmer, the eminent Presbyterian
j clergyman, of New Orleans, is a private in
] the ranks of the Washington Artillery.
The Name of Jegu*.
It is a remarkable fact, that while the
name Jesus was one of the most common
among the Jews in the time ofourSaviour,
it has now almost disappeared as a name
from all the nations of the earth. Strong
as is the desire among parents that their
sons should inherit the virtues of distin
guished personages, and wide-spread as is
the custom of naming children after them,
as a fit expression of that desire, yet what
mother presumes to name her son Jesus?
No name, perhaps, is more frequently t>e
stowed on daughters than that of Mary—
though it is forbidden to Catholics by the
Pope, since the promulgation of the Im
maculate Conception. The names of John,
of Moses, David, and even Emanuel, are
frequently given to sons; but the name of
Jesus is reverently passed by, as belonging
to one only.
The name ‘Jesus’ is the Greek expres
sion of the Hebrew name Joshua. It oc
curs in two instances in the New Testament
(Acts vii, 45; Heb. iv, 8) when the person
meant is evidently Joshua, the successor of
Moses. It was very natural that so great
a man, and so successful a leader, should
be honored by Israelitish mothers, by na
ming their sons after him. The name sig
nified deliverer or saviour (Matt, i, 27), and
it was illustrious in all ages of Israelitish
history.
0
A curious illustration of the frequency of
this name among the Jews of the Saviour’s
time, is found in some ancient manuscripts
of the gospel of Matthew. According to
those manuscripts, the robber Barabbas
had also the name of Jesus ; so that when
Pilate asked the Jews (Matthew xxvii, 17):
“ Whom will ye that I release unto you,
Barabbas or Jesus who is called Christ?”
the passage would read “ Whom will ye
that I release unto you—Jesus Barabbas or
who is called Christ?” Some emi
nent critics believe that this was the true
reading, and that the name Jesus, as ap
plied to the murderer, was left off by tran
scribers, and the name Barabbas only re
tained in the text. “ All therefore,” says
Olshausen, “ w r hich in the Redeemer exist
ed in essence, appeared in the murderer in
caricature, ft is not improbable even that
his whole enterprise had been a caricature
of the Most Holy; that probably* he had
pretended to the plenipotential character of
the Messiah. But the blinded multitude
in their frenzy chose the hellish caricature
in preference to the heavenly original.”
If it be true that the murderer bore the
name Jesus, and that Pilate, in scornful
mockery, asked the Jews, “Which Jesus
do you wish me to deliver—Jusus Barab
bas, or that Jesus who is called Christ ? ”
the fact is but another item in the deep hu
miliation through which our Saviour passed.
But, for this deep humiliation, “ God hath
exalted Him, and hath given Him a name
that is atKiyefevery name: that at the name
of Jesus eFery knee should bow, of things
in heaven, and things in earth, and things
under the earth; and that every tongue
should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to
the glory of God the Father.” That name
at the Heathen governor scoffed, at
the mention of which the Jewish nobles and
the Jewish multitude raged, a name worn
by a murderer—that name is above every
name. It i3 the theme of angelie anthems,
it fills the hearts of believers with joy, it
is the sweetest music in the ears of the
despairing sinner, it is the name of all
names in heaven and in earth.
Let us learn from this, that a name, how
ever dishonored, may be rendered illustri
ous by illustrious deeds; that the path to
the highest exaltation is through the lowest
humiliation; that the way to attain true
glory is to seek it not, but to seek the glory
of God alone. Who ever lived so forgetful
of himself, so entirely for others, so ready
to sacrifice himself for the glory of God, or
to deny himself for the good of all around
him, as did Jesus ? He could say, as no
one else could, “I am among you as one
that serveth.” Wonderful name! and
wonderful the Being who bore it!
Jeu> 1 The name that charms our fears;
That bids our sorrows cease;
’Tis music In the sinner’s ears,
Tls life, and health, and peace.
Early Influences.
There can be no greater blessing than to
be bom in the light and air of a cheerful,
loving home. It not only ensures a happy
childhood—if there be health and a good
constitution —but it almost makes sure a
virtuous and happy manhood, and a fresh
young heart in old age.
We think it every parent’s duty to try
to make their children’s childhood full of
love of childhood’s proper joyousness ;
and we never see children destitute of them,
through the poverty, faulty tempers, or
wrong notions of their parents, without a
heartache. Not that all the appliances that
wealth can buy are necessary to the free
and happy unfolding of childhood in body,
mind, or heart—quite otherwise, God be
thanked !—but children must at least have
love inside the house, and fresh air, and
good play, and some good companionship
outside; otherwise, young life runs the
greatest danger in the world of withering
or growing stunted, or sour, or wrong, or,
at best, prematurely old and turned inward
on itself.
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Power of Christian Life.
Unbelievers, who scoff at the Bible, feel
the power of a true Christian life; and ma
ny who have renounced Christianity, have
been won to study and embrace it by wit
nessing the daily Christian course of pious
men and women. Here is a good illustra
tion of the power which every consistent
Christian may exert:
In one of the older States once resided an
infidel, the owner of a saw-mill situated by
the side of a highway over which a large
portion of a Christian congregation passed
every Saubuih to and from church. Thin
infidel, having no regard for the Sabbath,
was as busy, and his mill was as noisy, on
that holy day as on any other. Before long
it was observed, however, that at a certain
time before ‘service the mill would stop,
remain silent, and appear to be deserted for
a few minutes, when its noise and clatter
would recommence and continue till about
the close of service, when, for a short time,
it again ceased. It was soon noticed that
one of the deacons of the church passed the
mill to the place of worship during the si
lent interval; and so punctual was he to
the hour, that the infidel knew just when to
stop his mill so that it should be silent
when the deacon was passing, although he
paid no regard to the passing of others. —
On being asked why he paid this* mark of
respect to the deacon, he replied :
“ The deacon professes just what the rest
of you do; but he lives also such a life, that
it makes me feel bad here [putting his hand
upon his heart] to run my mill while he
is passing.”
This incident illustrates the; power of a
holy, consistent life, and shows us very
clearly the kind of influence we should ex
ert upon those around us. This good man,
it appears, ‘ walked in wisdom ’ towards
those without the church of Christ, as the
apostle exhorts all Christians to do. He
exhibited in his daily intercourse a temper
and conduct corresponding with the prin
ciples which he professed; and while such
deportment will hot always induce a scoffer
to embrace those principles, it will go so
far to disarm his prejudices that his esteem
for one professing them may in the end
lead him to a hearty embrace of the truth.
Scope of !Hiroelei
The Gospel miracles differ from all oth
ers in their nature and frequency, and in
the disinterestedness which characterized
them. Neither the Saviour nor His disci'
pies ever wrought a miracle for their own
personal benefit.
“Trophimus have I left at Miletum, sick.”
Did you, Paul? And why did you leave
him sick, when you possessed the power of
working miracles? Why were you so pro
fuse of your miracles in Melitp, while you
are so sparing of them among your best
friends ? For the very reason of showing
that miracles are rather for the proof of the
Gospel, than for the private benefit even of
the heirs of glory. God is sovereign in
this, as well as in every thing else. Jesus
healed the ear of the high priest’s servant,
while Paul did not heal his friend Trophi
mus. The apostles exercised their power,
not by their discretion or caprice, but by
the suggestion of the Iloly Spirit.
This, then, m a Providential fact, the
record of which, though to human wisdom
trifling, is yet of great importance to the
children of God. They are not to expect
that they will always be free from sickness,
or that their sickness will be soon dismiss
ed. They have reason to trust that God
will always be with them, and will turn
every thing to good for them. But they
must submit to Him as a Sovereign who
gives no account of his matters.
The 4Tliuale of Australia.
There are days and, in some years, whole
weeks together, of delightful weather, cool
and bracing as the spring in England, but
more exhilarating. Excepting about twen
ty-five extremely hot days, and sixty disa
greeable wet and cold days, the weather
throughout the year is indescribably pleas
ant, the air is balmy and bright, scarcely a
cloud is visible, and the sun looks down
from the deep blue sky in unveiled splen
dor. Day and night are of equal length
throughout the year. The sun never re
mains above the horizon more than fourteen
and a half hours, br less than ten and a
half; and as twilight does not linger in these
latitudes, the change of from day to night
and from night to morn, are to Englishmen
unpleasantly abrupt. The southern con
stellations shine forth from the hard dark
heavens in unrivalled brightness, and the
haloed moon pours her chastened radiance
on the plains and hills with such refulgence
that every thing for miles around is dis
tinctly risible. The light ofboththesun
and the moon is more intense than in Brit
ain. I should say the difference is as five
to three,— [Lancellott.
Farmers are urged to plant navy beans
for the army. White beans, hominy beans
or navv beans, by whatever name known,
is a good article of diet for our army, and
should be produced in large quantities.
The men who, directly or indirectly,
would shake public confidence in the value
of Confederate money, are our enemies.
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