PROSPECTUS FOR 1857. VOLUME VIII. THE GUARDIAN: A MONTHLY MAGAZINE, DEVOTED TO THE SOCIAL, LITERARY AND RELIGIOUS INTERESTS OF YOUNG MEN AND LADIES. EDITED BY REV. H. HARBAUGH. On the First of January, 1857, the Guardian will commence its EIGHTH VOLU E It is not weary in laboring for the young, to whom it is dedicated and devoted, and from whose kind hands it has received abiding favor and encouragement. The Guardian will keep on its accustomed course. It will be, as heretofore, devoted to the highest interests of the young, at the most solemn and interesting period of their life. It will offer its friendly councils to them in an earnest though free and cheerful way. It will solemnly seek to warn them against the wrong, and affectionately allure 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. It will seek to move in the element of its motto: Life-Light-Love." The Guardian has no denominational or party bias. It interferes not with controversies either in Church or State. It is its ambition to take the quiet way of peace and love. It would turn the attention of its readers to that first and greatest of duties, the cultivation of the heart, mind, social feelings, and pious affections. It will have its reward if it can be the means of making Hearts better, Homes happier, aud Heaven surer. The evidence that it has in a degree done this, which the experience of seven years has furnished, is more precious to us than gain or gold. Cheerfully, hopefully, and beiievingly we look into the future as we take our pilgrim-staff in hand to travel another year. The Guardian contains thirty-two pages monthly, making a handsome volume of three hundred and eighty-four pages at the end of the year. Now is the Time to Subscribe. The Publishers respectfully make the following requests: 1. Pastors who receive this Prospectus are requested to hand it to some active member of the church, who will procure subscribers for The Guardian. If ten subscribers are obtained, we will send one copy to the person obtaining them and one to the pastor, gratis. 2. 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. 3. Postmasters are requested to act as our agents, to whom we will allow the usual per centage. Specimen numbers sent when requested. The Editor and Publishers are determined to do everything in their power, still farther to deserve the encouragement of the Christian public, and to make The Guardían acceptable and profitable to its readers. The Guardian will be printed with new and clear type, and on heavy white paper, superior to that of Vol. 7. The January number will be embellished with a splendid steel engraving. TERMS-ONLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR-IN ADVANCE. Any one who sends us five subscribers with $5 cash, will receive one copy for one year, gratis. Thirteen copies will be sent for $10; twenty-seven copies for $20. Any one who sends us a club of 15 subscribers with $15 cash, shall receive a beautiful illustrated $4_copy of the "BIRDS OF THE BIBLE." ADDRESS THE PUBLISHERS, PEARSOL & GEIST, Lancaster, Pa. THE DAILY EVENING EXPRESS BOOK, GARD, AND JOB PRINTING OFFICE. The proprietors of this establishment are now prepared with superior facilities to execute, at short notice, BOOK, CARD AND JOB PRINTING, OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, ON THE MOST REASONABLE TERMS TO SUIT THE TIMES. JUST PUBLISHED. LIFE AND TRAVELS OF REV. MICHAEL SCHLATTER BY REV. H. HARBAUGH. He was the first regular Missionary sent from Europe to labor among the Germans in the New World. The Book gives a full account of his Labors and Travels in this country from 1746 to 1790. Pages 375. Price $1. A liberal discount to Agents. The Book will be sent by mail if desired. BOOKS FOR MOURNERS. HEAVEN; or the Sainted Dead, 12th and Revised Edition..........75 cents. .....75 cents. THE HEAVENLY HOME; or, the Employments and Enjoyments of the $1.00 4. BINGEN ON THE RHINE. MRS. NORTON. (Poetry.).... 295 The Receipts being small, will be given in next Number. A NEW POEM. WILL BE PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2D, A POEM ENTITLED JANE EATON; OR, THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. BY A SUPERINTENDENT. The importance of the Sunday School in a neighborhood, and its value to the youth of our land is here presented in the glowing and attractive language of the Poet, and will commend itself to all who feel interested in this department of religious training. The work just published by the Sunday School Union, written by Rev. James W. Alexander, D. D., of New York, called "The Sunday School and its Adjuncts," has awakened a fresh interest in all that relates to the rising generation, and by all who have read that work, this Poem will be well received, giving, as it does, in a chaste and agreeable style-the organization of a Sunday School in a rural district the characters attracted by the novelty of the movement, and the happy results that followed. Without going more into detail, we are allowed to add the following extract from a letter writteu by Rev. Henry Harbaugh, author of " The Sainted Dead," "The Heavenly Recognition," &c. "After perusing the Poem carefully several times, I hesitate not to say that in my opinion it has decided merits. The story is plausible and well sustained-the characters are true and natural, and the rythm is good. No one can read it without feeling the soothing power of the highest harmony-the poetry of religion. It will be welcomed by all who have felt how much true poetry as well as pure bliss there is in doing good." The volume will be printed with large type, on finely calendered paper, making a neat 12mo. volume, cloth, gilt... Blue and gold, extra gilt. Crimson Address, 66 .50 cents. .75 JOSEPH M. WILSON, PUBLISHER, No. 111 South Tenth-st., below Chesnut-st., Philadelphia. PROSPECTUS FOR 1857. VOLUME VIII. THE GUARDIAN: A MONTHLY MAGAZINE, DEVOTED TO THE SOCIAL, LITERARY AND RELIGIOUS INTERESTS OF YOUNG MEN AND LADIES. EDITED BY REV. H. HARBAUGH. ON the First of January, 1857, the Guardian will commence its EIGHTH VOLU E It is not weary in laboring for the young, to whom it is dedicated and devoted, and from whose kind hands it has received abiding favor and encouragement. The Guardian will keep on its accustomed course. It will be, as heretofore, devoted to the highest interests of the young, at the most solemn and interesting period of their life. It will offer its friendly councils to them in an earnest though free and cheerful way. It will solemnly seek to warn them against the wrong, and affectionately allure 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. It will seek to move in the element of its motto: "Life-Light-Love." The Guardian has no denominational or party bias. It interferes not with controversies either in Church or State. It is its ambition to take the quiet way of peace and love. It would turn the attention of its readers to that first and greatest of duties, the cultivation of the heart, mind, social feelings, and pious affections. It will have its reward if it can be the means of making Hearts better, Homes happier, aud Heaven surer. The evidence that it has in a degree done this, which the experience of seven years has furnished, is more precious to us than gain or gold. Cheerfully, hopefully, and beiievingly we look into the future as we take our pilgrim-staff in hand to travel another year. The Guardian contains thirty-two pages monthly, making a handsome volume of three hundred and eighty-four pages at the end of the year. Now is the Time to Subscribe. The Publishers respectfully make the following requests: 1. Pastors who receive this Prospectus are requested to hand it to some active member of the church, who will procure subscribers for The Guardian. If ten subscribers are obtained, we will send one copy to the person obtaining them and one to the pastor, gratis. 2. 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. 3. Postmasters are requested to act as our agents, to whom we will allow the usual per centage. Specimen numbers sent when requested. The Editor and Publishers are determined to do everything in their power, still farther to deserve the encouragement of the Christian public, and to make The Guardian acceptable and profitable to its readers. The Guardian will be printed with new and clear type, and on heavy white paper, superior to that of Vol. 7. The January number will be embellished with a splendid steel engraving. TERMS-ONLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR-IN ADVANCE. Any one who sends us five subscribers with $5 cash, will receive one copy for one year, gratis. Thirteen copies will be sent for $10; twenty-seven copies for $20. Any one who sends us a club of 15 subscribers with $15 cash, shall receive a beautiful illustrated $4 copy of the "BIRDS OF THE BIBLE." ADDRESS THE PUBLISHERS, PEARSOL & GEIST, Lancaster, Pa. |