THE FOLLOWING POPULAR WORKS, AMONG OTHERS, ARE FOR SALE BY THE Reformed Church Publication Board, 907 ARCH STREET, PHILADELPHIA. "COMPANION OF PRAISE." A COLLECTION OF HYMNS SET TO MUSIC, ADAPTED TO SUNDAY SCHOOLS, PRIVATE FAMILIES, AND DEVOTIONAL MEETINGS. By DAVID VAN HORNE. Carefully revised and much improved edition. Whilst unction and spirit are preserved, everything light or frivolous is avoided. A number of choice Hymns rendered into good English, have been transferred from the German, along with the Music. A full and comprehensive Index, adapting it to the Church year, has been appended, making it a suitable adjunct to "Hymns and Chants." Its general introduction must help to improve the style and add to the permanent force of the music in our Sunday Schools. Sinai and Zion; or, A Pilgrimage through the Wilderness to the Land of Promise. Interesting, instructive, and highly popular notes of travel made by an intelligent observer, containing 543 pages, with illustrations. Price, $2.00. Wayside Gleanings in Europe. Whilst the contents are gleanings by the wayside, they are by no means common-place. They embody the observations of a cultivated and discriminating mind, presented in an attractive and forcible style. The work is destined to be useful as well as popular. It contains 462 pages, and sells for $2.00 per copy. REV. DR. G. B. RUSSELL'S WORK, Creed and Customs. A popular Hand Book treating of the chief Doctrines and Practices of the Reformed Church in the U. S. The work is what its title indicates. It contains 467 pages, and sells at $2.00 per copy. The above three works are suitable for canvassing. To such as may wish to procure them for this purpose, a liberal reduction will be made. REV. DR. HARBAUGH'S WORKS. These are Always on Hand, such as "HEAVEN," "HEAVENLY RECOGNITION," HEAVENLY HOME," TRUE GLORY OF WOMAN," "UNION WITH THE CHURCH," GOLDEN CENSER," "YOUTH IN EARNEST,” “CHRISTOLOGICAL THEOLOGY,” “HARFE," (Pennsylvania German Poems), &c., &c. ADDITIONAL. The Board Keeps Constantly on Hand the different books used in the Reformed Church in the U. S., besides books for libraries, and other requisites for Sunday Schools, also a GENERAL SUPPLY OF STATIONERY, and other articles in their line. Any work published sent by mail, postage prepaid, on receipt of advertised price. All orders should be addressed to the REFORMED CHURCH PUBLICATION BOAT, as given above. PROSPECTUS FOR 1879 THE GUARDIAN: A MONTHLY MAGAZINE Me Devoted to the Social, Literary and Religious Interests of Young and Ladies, and to the Sunday-School Cause. Rev B. BAUSMAN, D: D., Editor. THE G Dec 79 ts XXXth volume, on the first of January 1879. It has a s Miss Sallie J Kellor ish its character, and to show its fruits. In its principles spirit, no changes are proposed. The True, the Beaut unchangeable-error and sin are always the same. Its editorial management is committed, as heretofore, to the Rev. B. BAUSMAN, D. D., whose name, of itself, the publishers regard as the most satisfactory guarantee of the high tone and general interest which should characterize the family magazine. THE GUARDIAN continues to be published by the REFORMED CHURCH PUBLICATION BOARD. It compares favorably with other publications of the kind, and has earned for itself a reputation which may well be coveted. The publishers will continue to use a superior quality of paper; and do all in their power, in co-operating with the Editor, to render THE GUARDIAN acceptable to its subscribers. This Magazine will be mainly devoted, as heretofore, to the highest interests of the young, at the most solemn and interesting period of their life. It will offer its friendly counsels to them in an earnest, though free and cheerful way. It will solemnly seek to warn them against the wrong, and affectionately lure them to the right. The Editor will endeavor to make its contents true, pure, fresh, and healthy as the morning of life. It will particularly urge self-culture and early piety as of the highest importance, and cultivate the home feeling as a sacred element in social purity and peace. It will seek to move in the element of its motto:"Life-Light-Love." In addition to its' usual variety of reading matter, THE GUARDIAN will hereafter appropriate at least ten pages of each number to the interests of the SundaySchool c use. It will aim to serve as an efficient helper of Sunday School Teachers, and thus meet a want which has long been felt in the Reformed Church. THE GUARDIAN contains thirty-two pages monthly, making a handsome Volume of three hundred and eighty-four pages at the end of the year. Pastors who receive this Prospectus are requested to hand it to some active member of the Church or of the Sunday-School, who will procure subscribers for THE GUARDIAN. We respectfully ask all Young Men and Ladies to aid us in increasing our circulation. It will be an easy thing for them to raise a club among their companions. Specimen numbers sent when requested. TERMS-ONLY $1.50 A YEAR-IN ADVANCE. The Club-rates for Sunday School Teachers, and the terms for the Lesson Leaves, are as follows: For 5 copies to one address, for one year. $7 00 The Lesson Papers will be sold separately, at 75 cents for 100 copies of a single issue when ten or more copies are taken. In each case, the money must accompany the orders. Discontinuances.-To insure a discontinuance, written notice must be sent direct to the publishers before the close of the year, and all arrearages paid. If the notice be received after one or more numbers of a new year have been sent, the subscriber will be charged for the full year thus commenced. ADDRESS REFORMED CHURCH PUBLICATION BOARD, Publishers, No. 907 Arch Street, Philadelphia. The "Guardian" entered upon its thirtieth volume with the 1st of January. It has reached a ripe age, and can refer with pride to its past history. It has strong claims on its various patrons, which, we trust, they will duly recognize, not only by prompt payment of their individual subscriptions, but also by earnest efforts to add new names to the list of subscribers. Address: The VOL. XXX. Editorial Notes. Guardian. JUNE, 1879, OUR venerable friend, Dr. S. R. Fisher, of the Reformed Church Messenger, after a long life of the most plodding, prosaic usefulness, has of late years taken to writing poetry. Now and then an inspiration of the muses seizes him, when he must give voice to it in verse. His pen has furnished a number of excellent translations from the German for our pages. Of his original productions but few have been given to the public. Recently the last of these, entitled The Doomed Town, has been published in a neat pamphlet. It gives a graphic history of the burning of Chambersburg by the Confederate army, in 1864. As he personally and bravely fought against the destructive flames, and witnessed some of the wanton cruelties perpetrated against the suffering citizens, his burning soul boils through the verses of this poem in a characteristic style. The incidents furnished are known to but few persons outside of Chambersburg. The poem gives a thrilling description of the tragic scene, and along with Dr. B. S. Schneck's book on the same subject will be read with unabated interest for many years to come. In the beginning of this century a man of the name of Lechler, committed murder in Lancaster, Pa. After evading arrest for a while, he delivered himself to the officers of the law, stating that he could not endure his mental agony any longer, and asked to pay the penalty of his crime with his life, which he did. In 1832 a man by the name of Schafer committed a murder in the same County. After evading the law, he reported himself to the Sheriff of Frederick county, Md., as a murderer, and asked for a trial. The agony of remorse drove him to a confession of his crime, and he, too, was hung. Conscience is an irrepressible NO. 6 monitor; a court of justice in one's own heart. An exchange says: A negro was hanged at Nashville recently, who it is said might easily, by availing himself of a legal technicality, have postponed his execution for a year. But he refused to do this, because of the agonies of remorse he was suffering. Even when asleep he was disturbed by visions of his murdered victims. This experience, exceptional as a fact, is normal in its character. Many indeed, sin as badly as the poor negro, perhaps worse, and yet suffer no inward pain: but this is no proof that they never will suffer. If there be conscience and sin in one and the same soul, then remorse is unavoidable. All that is needed is for conscience to awaken and act. Then comes that biting back (re and mordeo) of the soul upon itself whence we get the word remorse. How many, even though their sins be hidden from their fellow-men, are all the while suffering torture! How many more are laying up the material for this torture! There is but one remedy, and that is expiation. Guilt demands punishment just as thirst demands. liquid, and nothing else will satisfy it. That punishment, if transferred to one able and willing to bear it, ceases to harry the soul; but otherwise, remains an intolerable burden. A GOOD pastor's wife is from the Lord, and a bad one is-well God cannot be the author of evil. In the privacy of the parsonage she toils and endures at her unrequited task. No class of women do so much for which they receive so little credit as the noble queens of the parsonage. At a recent farewell dinner given to Rev. Dr. Anderson and his wife by a number of New York ministers, Dr. Prime of the New York Observer, in presenting a magnificent bouquet to the wife of the honored guest, addressed her in the following language: |