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H. C. HOBNADY, ) JESSE M. WOOD, J VOLUME Ml. fanner aitii lapM TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Weekly, (fifty Nos.,) per annum, invariably in Advance. - - $2 00 Monet due the Office, may be sent by mail a our risk —always mail it in presence of a friend (other than the P. M.,) or procure a friend to mail it foryou—never register. Contributors should write only on one side of each leal; and number the pages, 1, 2, 3, &c. The Editor will be responsible only for hia own articles. # ' * Those wishing papers changed, should give the Post-Office they wish ch angedfrom, as well as the one to be changed to* Those forwarding names of subscribers or re mittances, should always write the name of Post Office, County, and State, in full. ADVERTISING SCHEDULE. Jl Mo. 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When paid iu advance we will deduct Twenty-five cents ih the Dollar from our regular charges. Cash for Advertisements considered due, and collectable, at one half the time contracted for Insertion, except yearly advertisements, due and payable quarterly. I. €. HORNAOY, Proprietor. ORIGINAL. 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. j TERMS: Two Dollars per annum, j STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. 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. lIIBGR 30.