No wonder that they think everybody fit to teach. The true end of education is to unfold and direct aright our whole nature. Its office is to call forth powers of thought, affection, will, and outward actions, powers to observe, to reason, to judge, to contrive-power to adopt good counsels, and to pursue them, to govern ourselves and influence others, to gain and spread happiness. The intellect was created not to receive passively a few words, dates, and facts, but to be active for the acquisition of truth. Education should inspire a profound love of truth, and teach the process of investigation. A sound logic, by which we mean the science and art which instruct us in the true laws of reasoning and evidence, is an essential part of a good education.- Channing.

NEWS FROM THE CHURCHES.

Palmyra, Missouri, August 18, 1848. Brother Campbell-Brethren D. P. Henderson, of Jacksonville, Illinois, and brother Alexander Proctor, late of Bethany College, are now holding a meeting in this place. We have had twenty accessions already, and the meeting is progressing. Among this number are four of my oldest children, (daughters.) and a servant. The youngest of the four is about 12 years old. My family are devoted to God-every member of it, except two small children. I have instructed them in the scriptures of the Old and New Testament, from their earliest years, morning and evening, in family devotion, and they have memorized a large portion of the Jewish and Christian scriptures. I am now reaping the fruit of that instruction. My two oldest daughters were at home, spending their vacation from school, which seems to be providential.

At Paris, in Monroe county, Mo., forty miles above here, brethren H. Thomas, A. Proctor, and Henderson, received, two weeks ago, 140 persons. At this time brethren Thomas and Wilson are holding a meeting in Houston in this county, and from the last account from there 40 had been received. This makes 200 in this section in a few weeks. The word of God grows and prevails. JACOB CREATH, Jr.

M Comb, Illinois, July 24, 1848.

At a three days meeting held in this place, commencing on Saturday before the 4th Lord's day in June, brother A. J. Cane, of Springfield, and brother Dr. Hughs, of Vermont, Fulton county, Illinois, being the proclaimers, four noble spirits were added by baptism, and one by uniting with the brethren-making in all, five. May the good Lord prosper his cause until all shall come to the knowledge of the truth!

WILLIAM H. FRANKLIN. Liberty, Missouri, July 25, 1848. On the first Lord's day in July we had two valuable additions at Mount Gilead. On the 4th of July, as our manner is, we met again for the worship of God and the preaching the word, when a very intelligent and influential lady made the good confession; and on the third Lord's day brother J. T. Hudson and I held a meeting at mithland, in this county, where we had 21 additions, 4 of them from the Baptists. And on Saturday before the 4th Lord's day I began a meeting at Camden Point, Platte county, where we had 6 additions-three by commendation, one restored, and two intelligent young ladies by co: fession and baptism. At this place our indefatigable brother Hudson came on Monday to our aid. The Lord be praised for his goodness and for the success of the preached word!

A. H. F. PAYNE.

Pleasant Grove, Ohio, August 3, 1848. At our June meeting, at Georgetown, Brown county, Ohio, including the first Lord's day of June, we had seven additions; five of whom were by confession and baptism, and two that had been immersed. Also, at our meeting at Belmont, Campbell county, Ky., including the third Lord's day of July, we had three immersions. May the days for the purity of the church soon come! JOHN T. POWELL. Athens, Tennessee, August 5, 1848. Brothers J. J. Trott and Eichbaum commenced a protracted meeting in this place, about the 14th or 15th of July, and had 13 additions in spite of sectarian manœuvring. The people manifested a better disposition to hear our brethren than on any previous occasion. Mountains of prejudice have been removed I think, and hope that better days are dawning on our land. CHARLES P. SAMUEL.

Mount Eden, Spencer county, Kentucky, August 13, 1848. Eighteen persons have been added to the cause of Christ in the past three weeks-two from the Baptists-in the bounds of L. Marrett's labors. L. MARRETT.

OBITUARY.

Palmyra, Mo., August 18, 1848. Brother Campbell—Dear sir, by request I communicate to you for publication, the death of sister HESTER U. HURST, the wife of brother John Hurst, and daughter of brother Samuel Bryan, of Fayette, N. Y.She was a worthy member of this congregation. She died on the 8th day of August, at her residence, four miles from this place. She was sick about two weeks and two days. Just before she died, I spoke to her and asked her if she knew me. She said, Yes, it was brother Creath, and that she wished me to pray for her, which I did. After the reading of some of the psalms of David, we united in singing the song which begins, O Jesus, the giver of all we enjoy. She sung with us whilst she had strength, and clasped her hands together, and gave praise and glory to God for his love and goodness to the children of men, and then yielded up her spirit to God who gave it, in hope of a blissful and triumphant.resurrection from the dead. She left four small children and a bereaved husband and a large circle of relatives and brethren to mourn her loss. She was a model of mildness, piety, and devotion to God. Her seat was never vacant if she was able to fill it in the house of God. JACOB CREATH, Jr.

Died at her residence in Shelby county, Mo., on the 15th of May last, in the 66th year of her age, sister M. H. G. CHICK, the consort of brother William Chick. Sister Chick had been a member of this church before she moved to Shelby county. She was a most exemplary Christian. And although poor and humble in life, she, it was said, knew most of the scriptures by heart, and exemplified them in her daily walk and conversation. She raised a large family of children, most of whom (if not all) are disciples of Jesus Christ. She was a sample of humility, industry, and true Christian goodness. For several months before she died she was severely afflicted, but perfectly resigned to the will of God, and ardently desired to die and be with Jesus Christ, whom she sincerely loved and faithfully served in this world, and whom she will doubtless follow through the grave into the abodes of the blessed. She was born in Northumberland county, Va., and moved from that to Bracken county, Ky., and thence to Missouri. Her husband is now on the borders of 70 years, and is ready to depart and be with her, as he told me to-day, while he related these things to me, and while his furrowed cheeks were washed with his flowing tears. May God bless him and his children! J. CREATH, Jr.

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No. X.

COMMUNINGS IN THE SANCTUARY—No. VII.

We have thought of thy loving-kindness, O God! in the midst of thy temple.

Ps. xlviii. 9.

How charming is the natural scenery around us! How beautiful the lofty hills which enclose this fertile valley like a gigantic circumvallation! How picturesque their varied forms:-here, with gently sloping sides and rich pastures reaching to their summits; and there, precipitous and rock-ribbed, crowned with native forests! How pure and bright the blue heavens above! How grateful the the soft verdure of the earth beneath! How great the joy of exist ence! How dear those vital sensibilities which connect us with these objects! ***** But here shall dubious and desponding thought point to those tombs and say: "This world would, indeed, be beautiful if there were no graves!" And, truly, time was there were none. Time was when God himself looked abroad upon the land and sea and all that they contain-upon the verdant earth and the blue heavens, and blessed them in their beauty. How glorious then their charms! How abundant and undefiled their joys! No sorrow nor sighing then rent the suffering breast, nor pain nor anguish agonized the frame, nor decay nor malady nor violence led trembling captives to grace the triumphs of Death. For Life then reigned supreme, amidst scenes of pure felicity,-over realms uninvaded by a hostile foot, and unvisited by fear of change.-And there were then no graves! ***** But what has made these graves and erected these monuments of Death? What malignant Power has thus marred the beauty of the world, and robbed it of its joys? Are not these the consequences of sin; the desolations of Death; the woes of mortality; the sad tokens of guilt and condemnation? Oh Sin! thou sting of Death; thou minister of woe! how great have been thy victories! How vast thy conqueret realms! How galling the tyranny of thy power! These are thy trophies,— SERIES III.-VOL. V.

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