stant friendship he long enjoyed; and whose efficient encouragement gave him strength while defending "the faith once delivered to the saints," in its earliest struggles for life in Tennessee. Her long, earnest, and consistent career as a christian, is, however, for her, an ample and enduring monument, FRANKFORT Ky., January 1, 1851. P. S. F.

MECHANICSBURG, Ill., February 1, 1851. Died, November 12, at his residence, 10 miles east of Springfield, Ill., in the 59th year of his age, JOHN DAWSON, formerly of Ky., but for many years a worthy citizen of this state. For many years he had been an active member in the christian church, and died as he had lived, in full assurance of faith. For many weeks before his death he was sorely afflicted with a very lingering disease, which he bore with christian fortitude.

Near this place, some weeks since, in the 35th year of his age, T. D. BAKER. Being thrown from his buggy, was dragged some considerable distance, and lay for some two days on the ground undiscovered, during which, he suffered immensely. After he was found, he lived some 9 days, experiencing the most severe pain, which he bore patiently. He was a worthy member of the christian church, and is gone to reap his reward. W. S. PICKRELL.

FRANKLIN COLLEGE, Tennessee, February 25, 1851. Brother Campbell: Our Brother PETER HUBBARD, of Smith county, Tennessee, is no more. He died at his late residence, Tuesday, January 28, 1851, after a severe affliction of some four weeks continuance.

Brother Hubbard was amongst the first advocates of the christian religion, in Sumner county, Tennessee. He submitted to the authority of the king some 18 or 20 years since, and was an intelligent and zealous advocate of truth till his death. There are few better classical scholars, and more successful teachers of youth than was Brother Hubbard. Unfortunately for him, and the cause of our Master, difficulties originating from a misunderstanding of the word, were the fruitful source of bitterness with Bro. H., and some of the members of Sylvan church, in Sumner county, which he was mainly instrumental in planting, for several years before his death; but be the facts as they may, Bro. H. was an unwavering friend of what he conscientiously conceived to be the truth. With his deeply afflicted family many of the saints sincerely sympathise. T. FANNING.

Brother Campbell: It has recently been my lot to sustain one of the greatest, most melancholy and afflicting bereavements that can happen to man, in the death of my beloved, affectionate and devoted wife, MARTHA S. HOWARD, leaving myself and two children, one of them quite young, to mourn her early fate and untimely loss. She breathed her last at about half past 2 o'clock, on Lord's day morning, the 23d of March. She was about 33 years of age; was born and raised in Mecklenburgh county, Va., and was the third daughter of Wm. W. V. Clausel, of that county and state, who emigrated to Henry Co., Tenn., and died there about 18 years since. She expired at my residence, near Sulphur Well Academy, Henry Co., Tenn. She was baptized into Christ, about 17 years since, by brother Allen Kendrich, and lived and died a disciple of Christ. She was remarkable for her hospitality to the brethren, her zeal and devotion to the cause of primitive christianity, and her fulfilment of all the various duties of life devolving on her. She was beloved, esteemed and respected by a large circle of friends, acquaintances and neighbors; and most devotedly attached to her husband and children. Her disease was a complication of bronchial consumption and chronic diarrhea, under which she had been laboring for some two years. She died resigned and triumphant. A few days before her death, she exhorted those about her to endeavor to make preparation to meet her in heaven, by acquiring that character which should fit them for it She

said she had no dread of death-did not fear its sting-that it had no terrors for her; and the day before she died, expressed her anxiety to go, and asked if we thought she would have to stay all day. And a short time before she expired, she expressed herself as feeling no pain, not suffering any, and as easy or happy. She enjoined me to bring up our children in the correction and instruction of the Lord. Thus she had been baptized into Christ-lived in Christ-and died in Christ. "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord-they rest from their labors and their works do follow them." Your brother in the hope of eternal life. JNO. R. HOWARD.

SULPHUR WELL ACADEMY

Henry Co., Tenn., March 26th, 1851.

Died, on the 26th day of December, 1850, in Lenoir county, N. C., Elder WALTER DUNN, in the 63d year of his age. Bro. Dunn was a member of the church of Christ, at Kinston, and was greatly devoted to the cause of our Redeemer. He united himself with the church of Christ years ago, and lived a very exemplary life until his death, leaving a testimony with his children that he would be clothed with a building of God, a house not made with hands eternal in the heavens.

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Departed this life, on the evening of the 27th March, 1851, in the town of Barnesville, Belmont county, O., Mr. JOHN BUCHANAN, in the 26th year of his age.

The subject of this notice was the son of George and Margery Buchanan. He was born near this place. He was taken with a hemorrhage of the lungs on the 29th December, 1850. Previous to which time he was deeply concerned for his soul, and believing, as he did, that without an interest in the blood of Christ he could not be saved, I am happy to say, that without delay, he humbled himself at the foot of the cross. From this moment to the close of his pilgrimage, he ever entertained an unwavering confidence in his blessed Redeemer, knowing that what he had promised he was able to perform. I never witnessed, in any person before, so much composure of mind in conversing on the solemn subject of death. A short time before his exit from time to the spirit world, he said to me, "Don't call Mary Catharine," (his wife,) "I don't wish her to see me die;" assigning as a reason for this, that it would grieve her to see him. But a short time after he again looked into my face and asked, "Is this death?" On being told that it was, he exclaimed, "Lord take me home, for heaven is better than this;" and expressed himself thus, "O how happy I am." He said to his beloved wife, "Do not weep for me; and when I am gone, try to take all the pleasure you can in the society of your friends." His last request was to call in the friends; to each of whom he reached out his hand and bid them all an affectionate farewell, begging them, as long as he could articulate, to prepare for heaven. Truly, then, may it be said, "Mark the perfect man and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace.'

Departed this life March 31, 1851, in the town of Barnesville, O., ELIZABETH MARGERY, daughter of John and Mary Catharine Buchanan, aged 9 months.

"Thy gentle spirit passed away,

Midst pain the most severe;

So great, we could not wish thy stay

A moment longer here."

J N. HUNT.

ERRATUM. In reference to Mrs. Tubman's donation to Bethany College, (note at bottom of page 235,) for $100 read $1,000.

WE have occasionally said, and often thought, that the most consummate policy of Satan, when about to act the tempter, would be to suggest that his very being, his positive personal existence, is itself a delusion; that there is no such personality, no such agent of evil in the universe; and, consequently, no such realities as evil suggestions, thrown by him into the human heart. Hence wicked men, when confirmed in infidelity and wickedness, affirm that priests or fanatics invented the fable of the Devil and Satan, that they might find employment for themselves in casting him out. But as good men would not, and wicked men could not, make the Bible, and as the Bible assigns to him the origin and authorship of all the guilt, misfortune, and misery in the world, we have all the reason we could have, and all the evidence which the condition of the human race could possibly afford, that he was, and is, the origin and cause of all the moral evils and disasters that have befallen the human race, and which are still experienced and developed in the world.

Where the Bible begins, and where it ends, all true knowledge of the origin, condition, and destiny of man, begins and ends; and with it, too, begins and ends all our knowledge of moral good and moral evil, and of the agents that gave them being. There is no preface to the book of Genesis, and no appendix to the revelations of the New Testament, to the Apocalypse of John.

From the whole volume of revelation, we learn that evil had a beginning, but God had none, that goodness preceded evil, as necessarily as a creator preceded creation. We could as easily

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conceive of the eternity of nonentity, as of the eternity of moral evil. Something always was, and eternity is but a mode of its existence. Hence, the highest pinnacle to which reason or imagi nation can soar is God himself, being and inhabiting eternity. There is neither time nor space, matter nor spirit, beyond the SelfExistent and Omnipresent Jehovah. One of the Hebrew names of God is, "THE ETERNITY OF ISRAEL," (Sam. xv. 29.) By Isaiah he says, "Thus saith the High and Lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, I dwell in the high and holy place." But "the heaven and the heaven of heavens" cannot contain him that is infinite.

The finite cannot comprehend the infinite. He alone, then, who is infinite, can develope the secrets of eternity; but man, the atom of a day, in all his boasted grandeur, cannot pass the bourne of time and revelation. God alone can, and he alone does, inform us that Satan once was "in the truth," but he continued not in the truth. He became a liar, and a deceiver, and a murderer. The Scriptures of Truth assign to him the origin and authorship of all human misery and misfortune. He fell supremely in love with himself, alienated his adoration away from God to himself, fell into condemnation, became a rival, an enemy of God. He envied man created in God's own image, successfully plotted his ruin, brought sin into the world and all our woes, and has ever since carried on his work of seduction, enmity, and murder. He succeeded in making a party among the angels of light, and, after sentenced to eternal infamy, and banished from the immediate presence of Jehovah, at their head has ever since busied himself in carrying on the work of temptation and moral desolation over the whole earth-this once fairest province of the universe.

Hence, our faithful friend Paul, has kindly taught us, and by divine inspiration, too, that the Christian community, as a body politic, has to wrestle, not merely against flesh and blood, and all their evil impulses and passions, but also against principalities and powers of another order-against the rulers of this present darkness; "against wicked spirits in the regions of the air." Peter, too, gives us a hint on these premises as to the residence of these evil angels expelled from heaven. "God did not spare the angels that sinned," the aristocracy of the demons, "but cast them down to Tartarus," or "outer darkness," regions far beyond the reflected rays of light, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for a yet future and ultimate judgment. No wonder, then, that Satan's title should, like that of other monarchs, be derived from his dominions. They are as much larger than the earth, as is the circm ambient

space around our planet and between it and the atmosphere of any other world, either above or beneath us. What a dark crown environs the head of "the Prince of the Power of the Air;" that FALLEN SERAPH that now heads the armies of hell and desolation, reigning and rioting in the hearts of the sons of disloyalty and disobedience-children of wrath, rebellion, and ruin.

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Need we not, then, the sword of the Spirit to withstand our foes, and the shield of faith, on which to catch and "quench the fiery javelins"-the poisoned arrows-from Satan's quiver, launched at And even in the midst of apparent security and victory, to watch and pray that we fall not into the snare of the adversary ; that we may be successfully aided in "the good fight of faith," and triumphantly lay hold on the crown of righteousness and life, and of the "glory that fadeth not away?"

How often does the Holy Spirit teach us, that our " Adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a hungry lion" ravening for his prey, seeking whom he may devour!" It was he that withstood Paul, by spiriting up his adversaries. It was he that tempted the Messiah, but in vain. It was he that entered into Judas, seized his ruling passion, and induced him "to betray his Master for thirty pieces of silver." It was he that raised up the persecution against the first Christians—that afterwards corrupted Christianity-created "the man of sin," and raised up "the son of perdition." It was "the Devil and his angels”—fallen spirits-conspirators with him at the beginning, and confederate with him in all the plagues and calamities inflicted upon prophets and apostles, saints and martyrs, in every age, that gave the dragon his throne and power, and crimsoned the earth with the blood of slaughtered millions.

Demons, too, the disembodied spirits of wicked men, in increasing legions, have, by unanimous suffrage, acknowledged his sway, and made him "the prince of demons." They have possessed abandoned men, and even tormented them, as a reward for their services in his cause.

These legions of tormenters and seducers become incarnate, and send out their missionaries of evil in all the forms of error and deceit; hold their councils in Pandemonium style, in spreading moral ruin over the whole earth; so that the very sacrifices of the Pagan world are offered to these demons, and not to the true and living God, as the Holy Spirit, speaking by Paul, attests.

Christians, therefore, ought to be warned against these devices of Satan, and take counsel together against him and his legions of deceivers and tormenters. Hence our Saviour, in this spirit of divine