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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 wil 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 cop es to one address, for one year. $7 00

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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. Le money must accompany the orders.

Discontir nces.-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.

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SUNDAY SCHOOL CAUSE AND THE SOCIAL, LITERARY,
AND RELIGIOUS INTERESTS

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REFORMED CHURCH PUBLICATION BOARD,
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The Guardian.

VOL. XXX.

Editorial Notes.

OCTOBER, 1879.

NO. 10.

hood, libel, hazing, duelling, dishonesty -are punished by dismissal. Others are punished by fines, confinement, or the abridgment of leisure hours. Less than one-half of those admitted graduate. During their four years' course they have only one vacation, which lasts two months.'

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OUR nation has military schools at West Point and Annapolis. Only a certain small number from each Congressional district can be admitted. Among the applicants possessing a healthy body and sound mind the one who stands the best examination will be admitted. The students or cadets must SIX HUNDRED years have wrought serve the United States army eight singular changes in the domestic and years-four years as students and four social habits of the civilized world. In in active army service. For this they the year 1234 the King of England receive $540 a year. At school all are slept on a bag of straw for the first treated alike. The son of the million- time: before that he slept cn bare aire must wear precisely the same kind boards. In 1246 the houses of London of clothing and live in the same kind of were yet mostly roofed with straw. a room as the son of a poor mechanic. the year 1300 the Londoners knew Sometimes a new, foppish cadet does nothing yet of stoves, but warmed their not like his plain trowsers, and wants a persons around iron pans filled with more dainty, stylish cap. By using his coals of fire. The houses were entirely wealthy father's money he smuggles built of wood. The nobility and wealthy better clothing into his room, which are people travelled on horseback, with the taken from him as soon as discovered. ladies seated behind the men. A twoThe rooms are all furnished alike. Woe wheeled cart or carriage was considered to the youth who ventures to adorn his an extraordinary luxury. Wine could. room with an extra chair, or hang the only he bought in drug stores, the same wall with an extra picture. All are as medicine. Duty and taxes were paid absolutely placed on the same level, in the form of different products. In and treated alike. "The cadet is not 1340 30,000 bags of wool were received allowed to visit a shop or to receive for taxes. Judges and lawyers were parcels from abroad without the con- paid their fees in cinnamon and pepper. sent of the Superintendent; and the Not till 1344 was gold coined mess (meal) is a common one, to which money in England. And before 1499 no additions may be made by indivi- windmills and bridges were unknown duals. There are two cadets in each here. In 1443 metallic needles were room; no carpets, no pictures on the introduced. Before this wooden needles wall, and not more than a dozen books. were used. Silk stockings were first When they are called at six in the worn by the King of France in 1547, morning, they must roll up their bed- and by the Queen of England in 1561. ding, sweep the floor, and dust the furniture. If they are caught lying on FOR years past the Lancet, an Engtheir beds between 6 A. M. and 10 P. M. lish publication, has been one of the they are punished. To a civilian the most popular and deserving medical discipline seems severe. A nervous or journals in Europe. Every number peevish boy could not endure it. Seve- sparkled with sprightly reading. Its ral offences-such as intoxication, false- editors were first class men in literature

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"I die a Christian in the now, I fear, much despised sense of that term, a simple believer in Jesus Christ as a personal living and loving Saviour,' without any righteousness of my own, but perfect and secure in His; and that 'I know in whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed to Him until that day."

That is good sense and sound scriptural doctrine, expressed in the fewest and aptest words. The best and most enduring memorial of this good and great man, is his dying confession of faith.

and in the medical profession. Chief along the road by the side of their among these was Dr. Tilbury Fox, the parents. They stopped at a certain head of the University College Hospi- farm-house for a meal. One of the little tal, and widely known in Great Britain girls said on going away, "I wish I for his writings on skin diseases and could stay here." The parents at the their cures. Lately he died, and left a farm-house overheard the wish: they written request that in any obituary had at the time one or two children of notice that might be made of him in the their own. They took the little German Lancet the following should appear: girl, whose parents moved further on their aimless journey. She found a Christian home, was trained and treated like one of their own children. The girl's parents were irreligious. Possibly they were glad to get rid of her. Children were born into the farmer's home. The German girl soon became a pious angel in her new home, like the Hebrew damsel in the family of Naaman the Syrian. She played with the children of her foster-parents, had charge of them as they grew up, clothed them in the morning, and unclothed them at night. At length the parents loved her IN Christ's family every soul counts as they did their own children, and she one. The humblest no less than the loved them more than her natural highest have their place and mission parents. Some years ago her fosterMany a negro slave of the South has father, a man of wealth and Christian taught his master to believe in Christ. influence, told us, with tearful eyes and It was charged against John Wesley trembling lips: "That little German that he only had poor servant-girls in girl has brought untold blessings into his congregations. He replied: "Only our home. We owe her more than we let the servant-girls be truly converted, can tell for the pious training of our and they can do a good work in bearing children. From the time they were the Gospel into higher circles." One of quite small she taught them lit le Wesley's hired servan's happened to be prayers. At night she folded their child-nurse in a certain noble family in hands and knelt by their side at their England. For several years she had little beds in prayer. She is very thankcharge of a child. She played and prayed with him, and to her simple talk about the dear Saviour he listened with rapt attention. His first prayers and first good news of our Lord she taught him. And like Timothy the boy was pious from a child. Since then he has become Lord Shaftesbury, one of the most liberal and zealous Christian workers in England. He presides over and speaks at more charitable, missionary, and religious meetings than any layman in England. But the nobleman and the Church which his piety blesses owe his conversion and training to a poor servant-girl.

ful to us for giving her a home and a Christian training; but how much we have to thank her for helping us to train our children piously!" We confirmed the dear man, all his children, and the German damsel. The latter now has a Christian husband and five bright children. Both families are active in the Reformed Church; both bless God that the little girl found the home she did. Less than a year ago, the good man who told us the above incident suddenly died. We give it here to illustrate the well-known truth that by entertaining strangers, and God's needy and homeless ones, we may entertain angels unawares.

SOME twenty-five years ago a poor German family travelled afoot through "PRINCIPLES and not men" has a certain county in Southern Pennsyl- been a pernicious maxim in our Amerivania. A few little children toddled can politics. It has given prominence

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