714 OUR ANNIVERSARIES IN CINCINNATI. Who doth redeem thy life that thou To death may'st not go down, Who with abundance of good things So that even as the Eagle's age But I must close, several gentlemen have called to see me.— Ever your's, A. CAMPBELL. OUR ANNIVERSARIES IN CINCINNATI. THE" Bible Society," the "Publication Society," and the "American Christian Missionary Society," held their respective anniversaries in Cincinnati, commencing on October 21st, and terminating on the evening of the 23d. The Bible Society and the Publication Soeiety were dissolved with great unanimity, and the Missionary Society made, what it ought to be, the Central point of our concentrated activity and liberality as a people. The Bible Union" is now and ought to be the great centre of our co-operation in Bible efforts. It needs and it merits our generous monetary aid, more than any other Enterprise before the "Christian World." It was, indeed, resolved that the Bible Society ought not only to dissolve but that it ought to appropriate its available proceeds to the Missionary Society. Its constitution was amended with reference to greater efficiency and a more perfect adaptation to the wants of the living age. The hearts of many present were made glad by the presence of our most estimable and greatly beloved brother Barclay, not long since returned from Jerusalem. We had the peculiar pleasure of hearing from him a most interesting lecture on Jerusalem, Mt. Zion, Mount Olivet, the Jordan and other localities; together with the population of Judea, Jerusalem and the floating visitants and Foreigners,-Jews and Gentiles, of all nations, languages, and superstitions that continually crowd the Monumental City, and take deep interest in her ruins and memorials. He made the claims of Jerusalem in all its attitudes to the world, to the Bible, the church, the conversion of nations, pass before my mind with more attractions, inspirations, and hopes, than ever before experienced or cherished. Brother Barclay is not a popular orator just at the meredian of London, Paris, New York or. Cincinnati. He is above that. He deals in facts, words, ideas, and emotions, which awaken into activity the*. latent piety and humanity of every one who has one generous impulse in his heart, or one heavenly aspiriation in his soul. I could wish to have a faithful report of his thrilling address on that occasion, to lay before our readers. He is the man for Palestine. "O Jerusalem they shall prosper that love thee for what thou hast been, and what thou mayest yet be! Thither the tribes of Jehovah once went Sp to the 715 OUR ANNIVERSARIES IN CINCINNATI. testimony of Israel, to give thanks to the name of Jehovah : for there stood the thrones of Judgment-the thrones of the house of Jacob.We take pleasure in her ruins, because we anticipate her resurrection. We love her not for what she is now; but for what she has been, and for what she shall hereafter be. We had a very pleasant time during this week of anniversaries, not so much in the mere detail of conventional business, as in the harmony, the brotherly kindness and love, exhibited in all the proceedings of these three conventions; and especially in seeing so many of the heroic men so long enlisted under the banners of Reformation, and so long fighting the good fight of faith against fearful odds. There was our much beloved, our highly gifted, and eminently successful fellowsoldier, Elder Walter Scott, now of Kentucky, with whom, side by side, we fought many a good battle against sects and schisms, and sectarian leaders, at different intervals, during the last thirty years.We found himas buoyant, as vigorous, as eloquent and as ready for the occasion as he ever was. And there was Elder John T, Johnson, apparently, as yet, in manhood's prime, full of zeal, devotion, earnestness and appositeness to the occasion, as when he first unsheathed the sword of the Spirit, and flung the Scabbard away. There were also many other distinguished brethren long known and much devoted to the cause of primitive Christianity, our most estimable brother Benjamin Franklin, so long associated with the press, now the popular editor of the American Christian Review, a monthly of mach merit, abounding in valuable original and selelected articles on the great topics, and the pending questions of the day-a Magazine ably conducted, and worthy of liberal patronage. There were also from abroad our much gifted brother N. J. Pettigrew, from Richmond, Va., Brother Ephraim Smith, of Kentucky, whose praise is in all the churches of the West, that know him, for his self-sacrificing devotion to the cause of the Redeemer. Brother Pickett, of Ky., whose zeal and love has never abated since he confessed the Lord Jesus while a Student at Bethany College. Brother J. L. Rogers, Dr. S. Ayers and our much devoted brother W. Beg, together with Elder James Henshal, to say nothing of the Cincinnati Ministry, Elders Burnet, Loos, Eaton. All took part more or less in the proceedings of the anniversaries. I am not sure that Elder Boggs was a member of the convention.He was, however, in attendance. I have much esteem for him as a Brother of good and honorable intentions. I am, indeed, not gratified with his "One Ideaism as depicted in his North-Western Christian Magazine, devoted mainly, as I learn, to pure “abolitionism.”– I read a few articles in it on its first appearance; and laid it on my table, having as full a knowledge of his position, as I could ever acquire. While dining with him during the convention at his residence, he was so courteous as not to moot the subject, which I regarded as quite a compliment, and for which I feel grateful to him. He has not carefully considered Paul's letter to Philemon, which I commend to his special and prayerful attention. I am very sure that he could not write such a letter to a christian master touching a runaway slave, as did Paul to Philemon touching his doulos (slave) Onesimus, whom Paul sent home with a letter to his master. In passing I commend to him a very close analysis of Paul to Philemon--and when, matured in his conceptions of that epistle, if he can justify his own position, I must say that I have formed an inadequate idea of his perspicacity. 716 DEATH OF JUDGE L. KING, OF OHIO. During the convention I found myself perfectly at home with our hospitable brother Bishop and his excellent family. While in attendance on the convention I was rather religiously (I was going to say) kidnapped one evening and carried in a coach over the riverinto Covington, Ky., where in an hour I found myself in a pulpit with a large and profoundly attentive congregation before me.— Brother Johnson, always in the harness, was holding an evening meeting during a portion of the time that the convention was in session.We rarely ever witnessed a more profound attention to a discourse of an hour and a half, than we enjoyed that evening. We spent a very happy night under the hospitable roof of our old friend and brother Arnold, whose very promising son, an honorable graduate of Bethany College, has given up the practice of law and is now preparing himself for the work of a Christian Evangelist. With his ample resources and remarkable devotion to the best of Masters and the best of causes, I see in the vista before him much in which I cordially rejoice. A. C. DEATH OF JUDGE L. KING, OF OHIO. DEAR BROTHER CAMPBELL,-You will be pained to learn of the death of your old and valued friend, Hon. LEICESTER KING, of Warren, Ohio. I came here to attend his funeral, He died on the 19th inst., at the residence of his Son-in-law, Bro. Charles Brown, North Bloomfield, O., in the 68th year of his age. He was born and reared in Suffield, Conn. In early manhood he came to the West, and for more than 40 years, his home was in Warren, and the chief labors of his life in the State of Ohio. He was extensively known as a business man, of great energy and public spirit. Some of the most important works of internal improvement in the State being carried on mainly by his skill and perseverance. For 12 or 14 years he occupied places of public honer and trust, as Associate Judge and State Senator. As a member of the Liberty party, with which from its first organization, he always acted, he was honored twice with a nomination for Governor of the State; and subsequently was the nominee for the Vice Presidency. These nominations led him into notice as a public speaker, and he soon took a position of eminence, as a clear-headed, warm-hearted orator. Familiar with the politeal history of his country, well read in English Literature, having considerable stores of legal knowledge, intimately associated with many of the leading minds of the age, and possessing an admirable balance in his intellectual and moral forces, he commanded general respect and confidence as an able and earnest advocate of political reform. The whole beauty of his nature as a Reform, led him to sympathise with your efforts for religious reformation. He crrefully read all you ever wrote on religious subjects, from the first No. of the Christian Baptist onward. In 1849, he publicly confessed his faith in Christ, and was immersed by bro. James E. Gaston. On that occasion, there was evidently called forth that deep. humility of a contrite heart, by which his religious life was marked to the last. Some of the brethren overjoyed at his conversion, began to sing, at the water's edge. "Come in, thou blessed of the Lord, Enter in Jesus' precious name:" But he immediately checked it, as not in harmony with his feelings; and gave out, instead, the old penitential bymn: "Show pity, Lord, O Lord, forgive; Let a repenting rebel live." The hymn was not familiar to those who led the singing, and, in the absence of books, he repeated the hymn from the recollections of his early life-weeping as he uttered verse after verse, of its penitential breathings, to be sung by the attendant throng. From that time until his death, he adorned his profession with a humble, prayerful, benevolent life; and, although shrinking, perhaps too sensitively, from any public display of religious zeal, yet if ever a doubt was expressed as to his interest in religion, he stood up manfully to tell all men the horror of his soul, at the thought of any decay of his faith and hope in Christ. His last illness was protracted and severe-but through it all his serene spirit looked joyfully forth, praising God, speaking words of cheerful hope, and repeating favorite hymns, expressive of his humble and joyful trust in God. Not only was all dread of death dispelled, but there was such a blessed anticipation of heavenly peace and joy, as to make it his choice to depart and be with Christ. After the names of kindred and friends had been uttered, one by one, with fond affection, there still lingered on his lips, as his heart's last earthly utterance, the name of JESUS-thus verifying what he had often sung: "I'll speak the honors of thy name With my last lab'ring breath; And dying, triumph in thy cross," The antidote of death." Thus has passed from earth, a man eminent for goodness and usefulness.— May the memories of his life give strength to others to live truly and earnestly that they too may die joyfully. WARREN, O., Rept., 29, 1856. ISAAC ERRETT. CLOSE OF OBITUARY OF JUDGE KING. I CAN, and do most cordially, sympathize with all the relatives and friends of my long and well known and most highly appreciated friend and brother, Judge King. He was buried with Christ iu baptism on the day that he buried his most excellent christian wife-a mother in Israel, most highly esteemed and beloved by all who knew her. She early embraced the cause of the Reformation, and by her example exerted a most happy influence in its behalf. Though long deceased, she yet lives in the affections not only of her children, but of all the church, of which she was an active, exemplary and influential member. A. C. A NEW DEPARTMENT IN THE M. HARBINGER. We propose a New Department in the M. Harbinger. It has been suggested to us that it is wanting in interest to the youth of the thousands of families which it monthly visits. The essays and composition with which its pages are filled, however appreciable or appreciated by those of mature age and cultivated intellect, furnish not food or entertainment for the youth in the church or in the Stato. We have, ourselves, been for years past, more or less penetrated with this idea, and, also, with the importance of furnishing intellectual, moral and spiritual food for the young men and women of our generation. I do not say the young gentlemen and ladies of the 19th century. A man and a woman are of God. A gentleman and a gentlewoman in London, Paris, Boston or New York, are factitious or fictitious personages-or impersonations of humanity a la mode the Taylor, the Mantua-maker or the Haberdasher. True a few novels, romances, and extravagant fictions, well read and digested, superadded, are by some regarded as essential accmplishments of a fashionable, interesting, and beautiful young gentleman or lady. We merely allude to these, to express with more emphasis, that a well educated young man or woman-one whose intellectual, moral, and spiritual nature have been fully developed, and polished with all the true graces of a truly rational, moral and spiritual culture, essentially differs from those factitious impersonations of humanity. The wants of the age, indeed the destinies of our country demand, that the youth be especially regarded as the health, wealth, and prosperity of the State, the nation, or the empire that gave them birth and being. There is an initiatory, elementary Christian education adapted to those in their minority in the christian life, as well as that adapted to those of mature age and reason," who have their senses exercised and their minds developed, to discern both good and evil." We, therefore, think it expedient occasionally to dwell on themes adapted to those in early life, as well as to those of more advanced age and attainments. We shall, therefore, devote an adequate portion of our labors to the development and culture of the youth in the families of those who read the Harbinger. There is, also, an advantage even to those well advanced in christian knowledge, occasionally to recur to more elementary and rudimental views of the Divine scheme of human redemption. But this is not all that we intend in this department. There are literary and scientific, as well as theological and christological elements that conspire to develope and refine and aggrandize man, which, in various forms and manners, may very appositely and profitably be associated with the more sublime and enlarged themes, that furnish and garnish the mind of the aspirants after the more solid and substantial virtues and attainments which adorn and dignify humanity. In one sentence we desire to cultivate the intellect, the conscience and the affections of the young as well as those of mature age and reason. Thus wo shall attempt both directly and indirectly by composition and representations of all such matters, and facts, and events as may co-operate and concur in improving the nnderstanding, the taste, the conscience, and the heart of our more |