juvenile readers. There are many facts, events, and developments of humanity frequently passing under our observation, both in print and out of it, that furnish materials for such developments and suggestions, which we hope the sequel will more fully develope, than we could by any mere theoretic representations impress upon the attention of our readers. The author of the Ecclesiastes wrote many proverbs to teach the young man knowledge and discretion, as well as the Song of Songs which was his last and most snblime composition. Nothing, however, incompatible with the established character of the M. Harbinger shall, we hope, ever appear upon its pages.

A. C.

BIBLE UNION.

IN concluding this volume of the M. H., I feel it my duty to state to the friends of this great movement, this sublime enterprise, in behalf of a pure version in our vernacular of the Living Oracles, that the defection of Drs. McClay and Judd, has been only an occasion of increasing the zeal and augmenting the liberality of the real friends of the Bible in pure versions; not only in our own tongue, but in all the tongues of the living world; beginning at home and radiating over all lands and through all the tongues of the many tongued earth, until all the ends of the continents of earth and all the Isles of the Seas, shall hear for themselves, in their own dialects, truly and perspicuously expressed, the wonderful works of God for the rescue of man from the guilt, the pollution, the despotism, and the penalties of Sin. If we call any movement in the living world the cause of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, this is superlatively his cause, and emphatically chief of all the enterprises of the living generation.Will not our brotherhood East, West, North, and South, in their wonted, and more than in their wonted magnanimity, generosity and philanthropy, give largely of the abundance with which God has blessed them, and hasten the day when the true knowledge of the only true God and his Anointed, shall cover the earth, as the waters spread themselves over the rivers, the seas, and the oceans of earth; believing too, that the liberal soul shall be made fat; and he that watereth others shall himself be watered in turn. We have not a doubt of it.They only need to know that the work is going on with every promise of final succcess, and that this apostacy will only increase and augment the liberality of every one who reverences and delights in the pure oracles of the Living God, and who can say with the royal bard of Israel, more joy thy testimonies give than all the treasures of earth. A. C.

PROSPECTS OF THE CAUSE IN MICHIGAN.

EXTRACT FROM A LETTER FROM BROTHER ERRETT.

WHILE I am writing, I may as well say to you, and through you, to many friends, that in my new home, at Lyons, Ionia Co., Michigan, the prospects of Gospel triumphs are opening up with much brightness. I have been preaching regularly at three different points, not far distant from my place of residence, preferring to concentrate labors at a few favorable locations, until an effectual work is wrought. On the 7th of September, we organized a church of 24 members, at Lyons, amidst many tears of saints and sinners. I have seldom shared in services more deeply solemn and affecting. On the 21st, we baptized the first convert a young lady who had been led, by carefully reading the New Testament, to demand baptism, after the primitive fashion. I never knew the ordinance speak so impressively and touchingly, in its beautiful symbolism, as on this occasion. The young and the old, the believing and the unbelieving, mingled their tears on the bank of the baptismal stream. We heard, occasion

ally, such expressions of interest, from different quarters, as give us hope that many will turn to the Lord. The coming winter, we hope to consecrate 6 earnest labors in this portion of the State. There must be thousands of Disciples in Michigan--but I do not know of more than a dozen churches. The brethren are scattered as sheep having no Shepherd. I am constantly hearing of brethren, here and there-and they are begging for help. It is a great field for missionary effort, and there ought to be a revival of the old Missionary Society at Cincinnati-or the formation of a new society that will do the work. I could find immediate employment for a number of preachers in this State.Detroit-already a great city,-and rapidly growing, and has in it a noble and tried band of disciples. I have known them many years. But they are small and feeble. They have expended much in years past. I do not know of a of a public call for help in our brotherhood, which that little church has not responded. They have recently paid some five thousand dollars for a lot in the center of the city-an admirable site-but they need help to build a meetinghouse, and help to sustain a suitable preacher. They are brethren on whom such assistance will not be lost. They will more than repay it, as they shall be blessed with increasing numbers and strength. The northern and central portions of the State are filling up with a good population-principally from New York-and are rlfe for the Gospel. We hope yet to send cheering news from Michigan. ISAAC ERRETT.

Sept. 29. 1856.

CLUBS FOR THE HARBINGER.

It is, I believe, generally if not universally conceded that the M. Harbinger is, at its present price, the cheapest Magazine or Religious Neswspaper published in the United States, composed of original compositions. It cannot be published at the present rates but in cash payments in advance, upon all clubs, according to the prices of last year. We have, also, by an increased Editorial corps, much increased its expenses to myself, It cannot be continued at presont prices but by a very large circulation. Its friends have, in many cases, exerted a very great amount of influence and labor in its behalf. It is owing to those who have got up large clubs that its usefulness has been increased, and its expenses borne. Our supreme desire being to do the greatest possible amount of good at the least possible expense to its readers, we will try it another year at the prices of last year.

If our friends, or rather the friends of the cause, and principles which it has so long and so successfully plead, will exert themselves as very many of them did last year, we shall endeavor to maintain its present standing in the community. But it will require a very considerable effort to do this. The first number may not be expected so early in the month, unless its friends actively at once engage in its behalf.

Let the old standbys of the Harbinger and all its new friends go to work to send us their wonted clubs as early as possible, that we may visit ihem monthly, as heretofore, and at the earliest dates. We are giving them the largest number of pages for the sum paid, that we know of in all our exchanges, in the monthly or weekly literary, moral or Religious offerings of our contemporaries. A. C.

CONTRIBUTIONS.

FURTHER Contributions for Sister Williams, Sister Elizabeth R. Stauffer, Boneta, Clark Co., Missouri, $5,00. Brother G. P. Street, for the Sisters of Concord church, Christian Co. Ky., $12,00. Bro. E. A. Smith, $5,00. Bro. Joseph Henley, Eastern Virginia, $5,00. Sister Pitt, $3,65. S. H. C.