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The Family Circle.
To You.
BY GCMBLMUS, OF TENNESSEE.
To you, has nothing ever truly said,
When smoke was curling round your dizzy
head,
Tobacco is an evil?
To you, has nothing ever truly said,
When viewing swimming floor and filthy bed,
Tobacco is an evil?
To you, has nothing ever truly said,
While gazing on the ragged child unfed,
Tobacco is an evil?
To you, has nothing ever truly said,
When marking persons well and illy bred,
Tobacco is an evil?
To you, has nothing ever truly said,
When the fair maid declined you to wed,
Tobacco is an evil?
To you, has nothing ever truly said,
When palsy, nerve and muscle overspread,
Tobacco is an evil?
To you, lias nothing ever truly said,
When cast amid the stinking, living dead,
Tobacco is an evil?
To you, has nothing ever truly said,
When out the filthy church you madly sped,
Tobacco is the Devil?
New Market, Torn., Nov. 14, 1874.
The Silent Deacon’s Opinion.
Yonder, in the square pew, sits Deacon
Lee; you would know he was a deacon
if he had not told you. Some men are
born deacons—what a pity that some
should enter the holy office who are not!
Deacon Lee was not a native of W ,
but went there to till a farm left him by
an aged relative some twenty years ago
—about the time Deacon Dell died, leav
ing a sad void in the church and the par
sonage—for he was a pillar in Zion, and
a strong arm to his pastor. After seek
ing long to fill his place, the minds of the
Church settled on the new-comer, who,
by his solemnity, piety and zeal seemed
created for the place. He was a man of
few words, rarely ever talking, so that
the boys called him at first “a glum old
man.” Dut they soon changed their
opinion; for he set apart a tree of Sum
mer-sweetings and one of bell-pears for
their express benefit, as they went to and
from school, and surprised them by a fine
swing, which he hung for them in his
walnut-grove. So the verdict of that
and of each succeeding generation of
boys was that although the deacon never
talked, he was a kind and genial man,
and a lover of children. Every boy, for
twenty years back, has been his shepherd,
his watchman, or his assistant farmer;
feeling it a high honor to hitch his horse
on Sunday, or to drive his manure-cart
on Monday; and all because they saw,
through the thick veil of reserve, that
love burned and glowed in his heart.
Deacon Lee’s ministers trusted in him,
and the Church felt her temporal affairs
safe in his hands, and the world honored
his stern consistency.
There was a serpent in Eden, and a
Judas in that thrice-blessed band who
walked and talked with our Redeemer on
earth, and who saw his glory mingled
with his humanity; why, then, need we
wonder that one man, subtle and treach
erous, hid himself in the calm verdure of
W , craivling out only to deceive
God’s people with a kiss, till ready to
spring upon them with his poisoned
fangs? Upright, faithful and earnest as
were the people, they were not proof
against flattery and deception. There
came among them one quite unused to
their unostentatious way of serving God,
and ambitious, as he said, “of seeing
them make some stir in the world.” We
know from God’s word that “one sinner
destroyeth much good,” and yet we are
often annoyed at the wide results of one
man’s evil work in the Church. One may
sow tares which a hundred can not pluck
out; and therefore it becomes God’s chil
dren to stay the enemy in his first efforts.
He who aimed at the life of the gospel
Church in W was “dead, while he
had a name to live.” He scorned many
of the humble ones whose crown is wait
ing them on high. He hated the hum
bling doctrincT of the Cross, and desired
to see the man glorified and exalted; he
rebelled against the “iron bars,” which
he chose to call the bonds of love which
separate God’s chosen and obedient ones
from the world that lietlx in wickedness.
He declared that the Millennium could
never dawn till all Christians were as
one—by which lie meant that, for the
sake of union, right must yield to wrong
—as if he were of the number who loved
and longed for the appearing of Christ!
He began stealthily to sow his seeds
among the younger and weaker of the
flock, and when he saw the first token of
their taking root he grew bold, and began
to cast them in on the strong, high hills.
But here he found resistance; the soil
which had borne such rich harvests of
grace repelled his seed from its bosom;
and he came to the mad resolve to assail
the deacon, and try how he would receive
it. If he, with his piety, zeal and influ
ence, opened his bosom to it, the end was
easily attained. The minister was not
worthy of consideration in the matter—
ministers are so readily put out of the
way if they do not yield to ungodliness.
If he proved a dead sentinel, he would
not molest him; if alive and jealous of
his Master’s honor, one bullet would set
tle him forever.
In pursuance of his “liberal views”
and deep-laid plan, our valiant reformer
rode up and fastened his horse be
fore the unpretending dwelling of
Deacon Lee. Ushered into the neat
“keeping room” to await his coming from
the harvest-field, his restless spirit was
almost awed by the silence which reigned
there. The tall clock in the corner, with
its ever-sailing ship, ticked painfully loud,
and even the buzzing of the few flies on
the panes annoyed him. He suffered
much the same oppression as do those
who wait long in a silent, darkened room,
the coming of a minister to a funeral.
He wished for and then dreaded the good
man, being not quite sure of a warm re
ception. lie had just decided on a clan
destine flight, when the door opened and
the deacon entered, as calm and neat as
if toil had never ruffled his spirits or
soiled his garments. After the usual
greetings, and a dead, awful pause, the
visitor began think of the wiles of
Satan!—by lamenting the low state of
religion, asking the good man why this
Church had enjoyed no revival for three
or four years? What cared he for God’s
set time to visit Zion? He was far more
deeply interested in the opening of anew
stage-road to the summit, and in getting
up stock in the projected hotel there.
“Now what do you think is the cause
of things being dull here? Do you
know?” he persisted in asking.
The deacon was not ready to give his
opinion, and after a little thought, frankly
answered, “No, I don’t.”
“Do you think the Church are alive to
the work before them?”
“No, I don’t.”
“Do you think the minister fully real
izes the solemnity of his work?”
“No, I don’t.”
A twinkle was seen in the eye of this
troubler in Zion, and taking courage, he
asked:
“Do you think Mr. B. a very extraor
dinary man?’’
“No, I don’t.”
“Do you think his sermon on ‘Their
eyes were holden’ any thing wonderfully
great?”
“No, I don’t.”
Making bold, after all this encourage
ment in monosyllables, he asked, “Then
don’t you think we had better dismiss
this man and ‘hire’ another?”
The old deacon started as if shot with
an arrow, and in a tone far louder than
his wont, shouted, “No, I don’t!”
“Why,” cried the amazed visitor, “you
agree with me in all I have said, don’t
you?”
“No, I don’t.”
“You talk so little, sir,” replied the
guest, not a little abashed, “that no one
can find out what you do mean.”
“I talked enough once,” replied the
old man, rising to his feet, “for six pray
ing Christians. Thirty years ago I got
my heart humbled, and my tongue bri
dled, and ever since that I’ve walked
softly before God. I then made vows
solemn as eternity; and don’t you tempt
me to break them!”
The troubler was startled at the
earnestness of the hitherto silent, im
movable man, and asked, “What hap
pened to you thirty years ago?”
“Well, sir, I’ll tell you. I was drawn
into a scheme just like this of yours, to
uproot one God’s servants from the field
in which He had planted him. In my
blindness I fancied it a little thing to re
move one of the ‘stars’ which Jesus holds
in his right hand, if thereby my ear
could be tickled by more flowery words,
and the pews filled with those who turned
away from the simplicity of the Gospel.
I and the men that led me—for I admit
that I was a dupe and a tool—flattered
ourselves that we were conscientious.
We thought we were doing God’s service
when we drove that holy man from his
pulpit and his work, and said we con
sidered his labors ended in B ,
where I then lived. JWe groaned be
cause there was no revival, whiie we
were gossiping about and criticising, and
crushing instead of upholding by our
efforts and our prayers the instrument at
whose hands we harshly demanded the
blessing. Well, sir, he could not drag
on the chariot of salvation with half a
dozen of us taunting him for his weak
ness, while we hung on as a dead weight
to the wheels; he had not the power of
the Spirit, and could not convert men;
so we hunted him like a deer till, worn
and bleeding, he fled into a covert to die.
Scarcely had he gone, when God came
among F us by his Spirit to show that he
had blessed the labors of his dear re
jected servant. Our own hearts were
broken and our wayward children con
verted, and I resolved at a convenient
season to visit my former pastor and
confess my sin, and thank him for his
faithfulness to my wayward sons, which,
like long buried seed, had now sprung
up. But God denied me that relief, that
lie might teach me a lesson every child
of His ought to learn, that he who
touclieth one of His servants toucheth
the apple of His eye. I heard my old
pastor was ill, and taking my oldest son
with me, set out on a twenty-five miles’
ride to see him. It was evening when I
arrived, and his wife, with the spirit
which any woman ought to exhibit to
ward one who had so wronged her
husband, denied me admittance to his
chamber. She said, and her words were
arrows to my soul, ‘He may be dying,
and the sight of your face might add to
his anguish!’
“Had it come to this, I said to myself,
that the man whose labors had, through
Christ, brought me into his His fold,
whose hands had buried me in baptism,
who had consoled my spirit in a terrible
bereavement, and who had, till designing
men had alienated us, been to me as a
brother—that this man could not die in
peace with my face before him. ‘God
pity me!’ I cried, ‘what have I done!’ I
confessed my sin to that meek woman,
and implored her for Christ’s sake to let
me kneel before His dying servant and
receive his forgiveness. What did I
care then whether the pews by the door
were rented or not? I would gladly
have taken his whole family to my home
forever as my own flesh and blood, but
no such happiness was before me.
“As I entered the room of the blessed
warrior, whose armor was falling from his
limbs, lie opened his languid eyes, and
said, ‘Brother Lee! Brother Lee!’ I
bent over him, and sobbed out, ‘My pas
tor! my pastor!’ Then raising his white
hand, he said in a deep, impressive voice,
‘Touch not mine anointed, and do my
prophets no harm!’ I spoke tenderly to
him, told him I had come to confess my
sin, and bring some of his fruit to him,
calling my son to tell him how he found
Christ. But he was unconscious of all
around; the sight of my face had brought
the last pang of earth to his spirit.
“I kissed his brow, and told how dear
he had been to me; I craved his pardon
for my unfaithfulness, and promised to
care for his widow and fatherless little
ones; but his only reply, murmured as if
in a troubled dream, was, ‘Touch not
mine anointed, and do my prophets no
harm.’
“I staid by him all night, and at day
light I his eyes. I offered his
widow a home to live in the remainder of
her days; but like a heroine she said, ‘I
freely forgive you. But my children,
who entered deeply into their father’s
anguish, shall never see me so regard
less of his memory as to take any thing
from those who caused it. He has left
us all with his covenant God, and He
will care for us.’
“Well, sir, those dying words sounded
in my ears from that coffin and from
METHODIST ADVOCATE: DECEMBER 2. 1874.
that grave. When I slept, Christ stood
before my dream, saying: “Touch not
mine anointed, and do my prophets no
harm.’ These words followed me till I
fully realized the esteem in which Christ
holds those men who had given up all for
His sake, and I vowed to love them
evermore for His sake, even if they are
not perfect. And since that day, sir, I
have talked less than before, and have
supported my pastor, even if he is not a
‘very extraordinary man.’ My tongue
shall cleave to the roof of my mouth, and
my right hand forget her cunning, be
fore I dare to put asunder what God hath
joined together. When a minister’s
work is done in a place, I believe God
will show it to him. I will not join you,
sir, in the scheme that brought you here;
and moreover, if I hear another word of
this from your lips, I shall ask my
brethren to deal with you as with them
who cause divisions. I would give all I
own to recall what I did thirty years
ago. Stop where you are, and pray God,
if perchance the thought of your heart
may be forgiven you.”
This decided reply put an end to the
new comer’s efforts to get a minister
who could make more stir, and left him
free to lay out roads and build hotels.
There is often great power in the lit
tle word “no,” but sometimes it requires
not a little courage to speak it as reso
lutely as did the silent deacon.
Over and Over Again.
Over and over again,
No matter which way I turn,
I always find in the Book of Life
Some lesson I have to learn.
I must take my turn at the mill,
I must grind out the golden grain,
I must work at my task with a resolute wil
Over and over agaiu.
Over and over again
The brook through the meadow flows,
And over and over again
The ponderous mill-wheel goes;
Once doing will not suffice,
Though doing be not in vain,
And a blessing failing us once or twice,
May come if we try again.
Cooking Schools.
New York will soon number a cooking
school among its many useful institutions.
A cooking class is to be immediately formed,
with a French head cook of the first class,
and a number of sub teachers to give two
lessons a week, with nominal admission fees,
and the pupils are not only to be taught to
cook ,nicely, but also howto buy provisions
judiciously—a most praiseworthy accomplish
ment. London has for sometime boasted of
a number of these useful schools, and aristo
cratic ladies take the lead in their improve
ment and support. Some of the schools are
for the instruction of young ladies of the
higher and wealthier class, and others for the
wives and daughters of working men—all un
der the charge of professional and practical
cooks, perfect masters of their business.
So it seems that cooking is to become
fashionable, and no woman need feel ashamed
if discovered in the act of preparing a palata
ble soup or stew. Fashion rules the world
with a rod of iron; but when she deports her
self in this manner, she is a goddess of benef
icence, and her votaries are ministering
angels. It would be impossible to estimate
the saving that would result from cooks be
ing educated, ladies being taught how to keep
house, how to superintend, and even perform,
culinary operations. Millions of dollars are,
no doubt, wasted in this country by incom
petent cooks, who do not understand the art
of making “a dish out of nothing,” as a
French cook is said to be able to do. Then
what suffering and warring would be avoided.
Young ladies would be taught the accomplish
ment of keeping a house and cooking, as they
now learn foreign languages and “the Ger
man.” A man would not hesitate to face
matrimony did he know that young ladies
were raised to be wives and house-keepers.
Cookingschools would, indeed, produce glori
ous results.
The Sabbath is a day of peculiar profit to
the soul, if improved. It offers helps toward
a higher life not supplied by any other day of
the week. Sanctuary privileges, however,
are so often mixed up with thoughts of other
and outside things, that they often become
not only unprofitable but an actual source of
sin. The heart should go empty to the house
of God that He may fill it. All other feel
ings should be dismissed,'so as to make room
for His gracious, inflowing comforts. If the
cares of the world separate Him in any meas
ure from the soul, let the Sabbath be espe
cially a day when it shall sit at His feet and
learn of Him. —Methodist Recorder.
We search the world for truth; we cull
The good, the pure, the beautiful,
From graven stone and written scroll,
From all old flower-fields of the soul ;
And, weary of the best,
We come back laden from our quest,
To find that all the sages said
Is in the Book our mothers read,
And all the treasure of old thought,
In His harmonious fullness wrought
Who gathers in one sheaf complete
The scattered blades of God’s sown wheat.
The common growth that maketh good
His all embracing Fatherhood.
[ Whittier.
HOUSE AND HOME.
Bread—No Bread.— More than half the
cooks will take nice flour, good lard, butter
milk and soda, and mix these ingredients so
that it is colored a sickly yellow, has a vil
lainous smell and taste, and is perfectly indi
gestible as it is impalatable. While another
woman will take the identical ingredients
which the other had, and make nice, white,
light, sweet, healthy biscuits. One makes
bread; the other makes stuff. Can some of
our lady friends tell us the cause of this dif
ference? —Gainesville ( Ga .) Eagle.
Recausc the one proportions the amount of soda to he used
to the sourness of the buttermilk—the sourer the milk, the
larger the quantity of soda used —the exact amount needed
being just enough to overcome theacidity of the milk—while
the other uses the same quantity of soda every time, without
any reference to the other ingredients. Brains are needed
in cooking as well as in other employments.
Household Measures. —As all families
are not provided with scales and weights, re
ferring to ingredients in general use by every
housewife, the following information may be
useful:
Wheat flour, one quart is one pound.
Indian meal, one quart is a pound and two
ounces.
Butter, when soft, one quart is one pound
and one ounce.
Lftaf sugar, broken, one quart is one pound.
White sugar, powdered, one quart is one
pound and one ounce.
Best brown sugar, one quart is one pound
and two ounces.
Eggs, average size, ten eggs are one pound.
Sixteen large tablespoonfuls are a half pint,
eight are a gill, four are a half gill, etc.
Col. John H. Dent, of Floyd county, Ga.,
who has been a very successful farmer since
the war, says in a recent letter to a leading
agricultural paper:
There are three lessons that our farmers
must learn before they will become success
ful again. The first is to reduce the area of
their farms, and what they undertake to do,
do well; plant less land,prepare it thoroughly,
manure profusely, cultivate judiciously, and
make one acre produce what three now do.
The second is to make the farm self-sustain
ing—that is, raise their supplies, and stop
buying them; and the third is to stop the
credit system and pay as they go.
snoW Pudding. —lnto one quart of sweet
milk put one pint of bread crumbs, butter the
size of an egg, the well beaten yolks of five
eggs, sweeten and flavor as for custard; mix
the whole well together. While the above is
baking, beat the whites of five eggs to a stiff
froth, add a half teacup of sifted sugar, pour
it over the hot pudding when cooked, return
to the oven until a delicate brown. The
above is excellent without addition, but some
P^ e f er a, layer of jelly or canned peaches on
the pudding before frosting. No sauce.
Comforts and Luxuries of the Farm.
There is a class of farmers who are living
only to grasp more acres. Their farms can
never be large enough, nor can their workmen
or themselves ever do quite enough work.
They are not satisfied with the income of the
farm, nor could they be with that of any other
business. But those who understand that
the highest object of labor is not simply to
make money, but to provide the largest
amount of the means of improvement and
innocent enjoyment that the world affords,
can make the pursuit of agriculture furnish
more luxuries that really contribute to our
welLbeing than any other employment re
quiring an equal amount of capital. Their
farms are not so large as to make them slaves,
and their wives and daughters are not worn
out with incessant drudgery. Their door
yards blossom with flowers, their tables are
supplied with many varieties of well grown
delicious fruits, their houses are made cheer
ful by the influence of books and music, and
a taste for the pure and innocent enjoyments
of life is developed in their children. Here
and there a farmer’s home exemplifies all the
contentment and happiness possible to a race
doomed to labor and disappointment.
Luxuries and Necessaries. —ls the to
bacco that is chewed and smoked in Hall
county in one year were sold for money, it
would buy clothes and shoes for every pauper
in the county. Or it would furnish school
books for every scholar in the county. It
would pay the ministers of religion ten times
as much as they get. It would pay all the
taxes in the county.
The money spent for liquor in the county
would buy all the sugar that is used in the
county. The money spent for coffee, tea, to
bacco and liquor in one year in Hall county,
will buy one-half the bread for the people.
Are these necessaries? Are they essentials?
What is true of Hall county is true of every
other county almost. Is there no remedy?
Shall we carry a rock in one end of the bag
and a pumpkin in the other, because daddy
did? —Gainesville ( Ga .) Eagle.
Reader, are you one of those who waste their means in pur
chasing whisky and tobacco, while perhaps your family suf
fers in want of food and raiment, and your children are
growing up in ignorance and disgrace? If so, please stop.
Apple Jelly. —Peel a dozen nice, sour
apples, and slice into water as fast as peeled.
Pour upon the apples three quarts of water,
and boil in anew tiu pan until the apples be
come a pulp. Pour into a bag to drain. Add
to every pound of juice one pound of sugar,
and boil one-half hour and skim. Add lemon
juice to suit the taste.
How to Make a Mustard Plaster. —The
ordinary way is%o mix the mustard with wa
ter, tempering it with a little flour; but such
a plaster as that makes is simply abominable.
Before it has half done its work it begins to
blister its patient, and leaves him finally with
a painful flayed spot, after having far less ef
fect in a beneficial way than was intended.
Now a mustard plaster should never make a
blister at all. When you make a mustard
plaster, then, use no water whatever, but mix
the mustard with the white of an egg, and the
result will be a plaster which will “draw”
perfectly, but will not produce a blister even
upon the skin of an infant, no matter how
long it is allowed to remain upon the part.
Leached Ashes as a Fertilizer. —The
Farmer reports the remarks of Mr. Quinby at
a meeting of the Rochester Farmers’ Club as
follows: “Leached ashes are good for all
crops —for corn in the hill, and especially
valuable as top dressing for wheat and clover
fields, and meadows generally. During the
past three years lie had drawn 10,000 bushels
on his farm, which he spread on land at the
rate of 200 to 300 bushels per acre. He cov
ered forty acres in this way, and meant to ash
the entire farm. They had doubled his wheat
crop and wonderfully increased his crop of
grasses, especially clover. Land which had
been run down too much to seed with clover,
produced heavy crops when manured with
leached ashes. He got a good catch of clover
where he applied leached ashes last year on
his wheat and rye, while the balance was a
failure. He could see a great difference in
the growing wheat where the land was ma
nured with ashes and where it was not.”
How to Make Hard Soap— The follow
ing is a recipe for making hard soap which is
excellont and economical. Nearly every fam
ily accumulates through the Winter drippings
from beef and mutton. These can be utilized
for the grease by boiling water, allowing it to
cool, then removing from the water and boil
ing till all the water is expelled. Os course,
the whiter the grease the nicer the soap:
Take six pounds of sal soda, six pounds of
grease, three and one-half pounds of new
stone lime, four gallons or soft water, and
one-half pound of borax. Put soda, lime and
water into an iron boiler; boil till all is dis
solved. When well settled, pour off the lye,
wash out the kettle, and put in the lye, grease
and borax; boil till it becomes soap, pour
into a tub to cool, and when sufficiently hard
cut into bars and put upon boards to dry.
This is very nice for washing white flannel
and calico. Make the soap, try it thoroughly,
and then report your opinion to us.
Never Plow Wet Soil.— We have often
urged the attention of farmers to this subject
as one of great importance. Any traveler
among our farming districts can see large
tracts of land that have been plowed when
wet and unfit to be worked, by observing large,
heavy clods of earth, which, in the hot sea
son, become like a heated brick, burning all
the roots of grain or other product near to it.
Besides this evil, no seed can vegetate and
grow well upon soil thus cultivated, nor can
that soil give back as much nutrition as if
plowed when in right condition and upon a
warm and sunny day when light and warmth
can penetrate into the soil, and thus greatly
benefit it. We are confident that fanners
lose from ten to forty per cent, of their crop
by inattention to this matter. By a little care
at the proper time to plow, by examining the
soil and selecting good sunny days, the wet
soil will send up its voice in a halo of dew
drop clouds that will wreathe the plowman
with its approval of his good sense. As with
farms, so with orchards, vineyards, and gar
dens. No soil should be worked when wet
and soggy. If the soil continues wet long,
drain it well, and it will be in working order,
but never attempt to plow, spade or work it
unless in good condition. — Cal. Farmer.
Small Fruits for Farmers.—Disagree
able as it may sometimes be to tell the truth,
still it should be told, if for no other purpose
than' to make certain persons do their duty.
At least two-thirds of our farmers supply
their families with only the coarsest kiuds of
food, such as potatoes, pork, and bread. The
children eat bread and milk until their stom
achs get sufficiently strong to digest pork and
beans, with an occasional lump of beef and
mutton for a change. Now, we hold that if
there is any one thing that will make a child
linger, either in person or memory, near the
old homestead, it is the good and wholesome
meals provided by “mother.” Does not every
farmer and farmer’s wife know that this is
truth? Then why do you not strive to sup
ply your table with all the luxuries that the
climate will permit of producing? Children
are particularly fond of fruit, and it is the
healthiest of all food; and yet it is almost a
rarity to find it in abundance upon the tables
even of wealthy farmers. Perhaps your ta
ble is well supplied with pie, cake, and pre
serves, when “company” is present, but such
occasions or eatables are not in the list we
recommend, for it is the every-day meal that
brings pleasant reflections that will long be
remembered.— Hearth and Home.
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e 11* *F esh laurels,” “Golden Chain,” or anvof our earlier
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FOR PRAYER MEETINGS AND
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Winnowed Hymns.
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"SONGS of GRACE “and GLORY."
The very best Sunday-school Song Book. By W.
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Splendid Hymns, Choice Music, Tinted Paper,
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per Dozen; S3O per 100, A Specimen Copy in pa
per cover mailed for 25c.
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OIA llFn UUIIgN, DAY-SCHOOLS,Concerts
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NEW HALLOWED SONGS.
USM CONTAINING ESx w .|
NOW IN THREE EDITIONS,
Ihmiioiiizril Edition thus:-
Adnlta # ' g l » * each,
Teachers. -y ah 9 rrf.rttlff-ffzf ■ * m'™
0
All hail the power of Jesus' name,
Melody Edition (liiin:-
*" All hail tlio power of J esus’ name,
Hymn Edition thus:— ——7 —
“For those - All hail tho power of Jesus’name,
who don’t _p et angels prostrate tall; - _
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Ami crown Him Lord of all. <
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INCINNATI, U,
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Latest Sunday-school Song Book.
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■Wllm Address, ASA HULL, Publisher,
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Sunday-school Teachers & Superintendents,
READ! READ!
WPDon’t fail to look over this fine list of Sunday-school
Music for tho Sunday-school:
Songs of Worship, Fresh Laurels,
Golden Sheaf, Fresh Leaves,
Musical Leaves, Dew Drops,
The Amaranth, Golden Rule,
Pure Gold, The Pearl,
Bright Jewels, Sparkling Rubies,
Royal Diadem, New Golden Censer,
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