THE FOLLOWING POPULAR WORKS, AMONG OTHERS, ARE FOR SALE BY THE Reformed Church Publication Hoard, 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. 66 64 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 BOARD as given above. THE GUARDIAN: A MONTHLY MAGAZINE Devoted to the Social, Literary and Religious Interests of Young Men and Ladies, and to the Sunday-School Cause. Rev B. BAUSMAN, D. D., Editor. THE GUARDIAN entered upon its XXXth volume, on the first of January 1879. It has a sufficient history to establish its character, and to show its fruits. In its principles, purposes, and general spirit, no changes are proposed. The True, the Beautiful, and the Good are 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 cause. 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. No. II. "LIFE, LIGHT, LOVE." THE GUARDIAN: A MONTHLY MAGAZINE, DEVOTED TO THE SUNDAY SCHOOL CAUSE AND THE SOCIAL, LITERARY, OF YOUNG MEN AND LADIES. Rev. B. Bausman, D. D., Editor. PHILADELPHIA: REFORMED CHURCH PUBLICATION BOARD, J. M. Weber, J. C. Nagle, D. Koon, J. Badger, H. K. Binkley, J. S. Terner, D. Miller, Rev. D. B. Shuey, Rev. J. Kester, L. R. Weaver. TO OUR PATRONS. 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: REFORMED CHURCH PUBLICATION BOARD, 907 Arch Street Philadelphia The Guardian. VOL. XXX. NOVEMBER, 1879. Editorial Notes. Some NO. 11. presidential chair; and his father named him after the chief of the land. But PARENTAL affection oft-times fastens the youth did not find the sentiments of names upon children which afterwards the late Mr. Van Buren such as he become a burden to the bearer. wished to be associated with." from a mere whim name their children after some noted heathen, even noted for his vices. By accident a parent comes across a name which for the moment seems pretty. Without asking as to the character of the person from whom it is derived, it is given to a child. After it is grown up it finds that its name is associated with a historical criminal. We have two men of the name of Judas in the New Testament. The good one was in danger of being taken for the betrayer, hence he is referred to as "Judas, not Iscariot." Often parents select the name of a person just then a popular favorite. Twelve months later he may become a defaulter-in other words a thief. There are persons bearing the names of James Fisk and William Tweed, who would be glad to be called by some other name. The name sticks to the child although the original bearer of it dies in prison. A certain father in New York once proposed to Charles Sumner to name his son after him. Sumner frankly and wisely replied : THIRTY years ago an intelligent young lady in France, Miss Leontine Nicolle, applied for the situation of an assistant matron in a Lunatic Asylum. She was a bright attractive girl, with ample means. Her friends were surprised by her application, for the position was very laborious and trying. After waiting a good while a vacancy at length occurred. She entered the dismal place with a light heart, although greeted with the wild screams of the maniacs. Her friends then little divined her motives. Her mother was among the inmates. For years she tried to keep her afflicted parent at home. Now she follows her to this place to nurse her with tender care. She can only do this by taking the situation of a servant. For years her desire was to be locked up with her mother, in order that she might take care of her. The poor sufferer in her raving attacks, repulsed the hands of her devoted child, who by day and by night, for twenty-eight years, lived in this hideous place to "Don't make a mistake. Never comfort her parent. A year ago the name a child after a living man. This maniac died in the arms of her daughis the counsel I give always, and most ter. And now the pitying heart of sincerely. Who knows that I may not the daughter is so devoted to this class fall? I too may grow faint, or may of sufferers, that she has decided to turn aside to false gods. I hope not; give her remaining life to their relief. but this is one of the mysteries of the It is reported that since her connection future. Therefore name your boy some good Christian name (it may be Charles, if you will; for that is general); but do not compel him to bear all his days a label which he may dislike. I once met a strong anti-slavery youth who bore the name of Martin Van Buren. He was born while New York sat in the with the asylum more than five hundred deranged women have been cured by her care. Few people in France knew anything about her, until lately the noted French statesman and senator, Jules Simon, awarded the prizes of the French Academy to meritorious persons, and conferred one on her. It was done |