Friday, 17th. We were in waiting at the "Home," and learned that two widows of German soldiers, lately killed in battle, had sought some assistance from the teacher of Home School No. 5, where their children were attendants. Our Committee hastened to provide such articles as we could procure from our Dorcas-room. Two others, who were sent to us by the same teacher, were aided in this connection. It is pleasant to know that a number of scholars from the same school have been sent to good situations in a country village, obtained for them through the influence and effort of the same excellent teacher. Our attention was called to an energetic woman, who, having a child of 19 months, old enough to talk and walk, desired most earnestly to obtain a situation in the country. Could do all sorts of farm-work; was accustomed to a dairy. Her appearance was most promising but there was the child. Such was her anxiety to take him with her, that she would go for very low wages. Wed., June 22d, presented the usual routine; but our attention was chiefly drawn to a young woman, "only twenty-one years old," as she said, with tremulous lips and eyes ready to overflow. "My husband was killed six months before this baby was born, (an infant not three weeks old, lying on her breast,) and since then, I have paid out every cent that I have, except one dollar and a half. He enlisted in Pennsylvania, so I am not entitled to relief-money in this city. What can I do to earn bread for myself?" A most painful and pressing question to be answered by us; but we must settle it for her. We resolved that she should not share the fate of her predecessor in similar circumstances, whom it had grieved us so much to send away. After long deliberation, we wrote an advertisement for a place as wet-nurse, rode down to the office of the Times and paid for its insertion. Then, hoping it might meet with a reply, we undertook to find a reliable woman who would board the child. After some days of great anxiety on her account, we have just been relieved by an interview with the physician of the "Child's Nursery and Hospital," who promises to find her a comfortable place with her child. Joyful news to us, which would have saved her from much grief and ourselves from much anxiety, if we could only have obtained it at an earlier day. Friday, 24th. The Committee made the customary tour of observation through all parts of the building, and reported favorably, especially as to the condition of the children in the nurseries. The dormitories gave par ticular satisfaction and delight, being newly fitted up with the nice bedsteads and mattresses, presented by our faithful and generous friend, Mr. Edwards, who is never weary of conferring benefits on his little proteges at the Home. Wednesday, 29th. Owing to the new arrangement recently made by our Board of Managers, our monthly business meeting took place on this, the last Wednesday of the month, thus rendering it necessary for us to present our report for the month, before it was fairly completed. The afternoon of that day witnessed one fact of interest which is of sufficient worth to be added here. A respectable-looking woman, clad in mourning, asked for some assistance. With some reluctance, she gave us the history of her misfortunes. Of English birth and parentage, she had married clandestinely, and came to this country. Her parents and family friends had utterly disowned her, and then, in the course of years, her husband's health had entirely failed, and poverty was added to other misfortunes; she had no resources for aid; she was "too proud to associate with those beneath her," so she said, "and too poor to form any acquaintance with those, her own equals, whom fortune had placed above her." Now she proposed to take in washing and ironing, which had been promised her from a large boarding house in Jersey City, and she only asked of us the loan of such a sum as would purchase tubs and a small cooking stove, with other things essential to such work. This was cheerfully granted, after satisfactory inquiries into the truth of her story. In speaking of her childhood and youth in Bedford, she described with vivacity, the delight with which she had sat in Bunyan's chair, carefully preserved in the church at Bedford. She was related by marriage to Andrew Fuller. This fact she gave us in substantiation of her claims upon our interest and aid. An appropriation from the Widows' Fund made her a happy woman. EXTRACTS FROM INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL REPORTS. WE were much gratified some weeks since by a call from a lad of fourteen, who, years since, was one of our pupils. He is now working on a farm in New Jersey, and bids fair to become a good and useful citizen, though his heritage is that of a drunkard's child. The father was killed by a fall when much intoxicated, and the boy, while in conversation with his former teacher, remarked tearfully, "O, Miss S., I am so glad that I ever went to your school, for all the good that I ever learned was here." A boy ten years old, who did not know his letters, was placed in a class of boys to print on a slate, and soon excelled them all. He says he has no parents, no home; that sometimes he sleeps in a woodshed, sometimes in the house of a friend. When asked where he obtained food, he replied, "The woman where I sleep sometimes gives me something. He was told about the Home and its advantages for friendless children. He said, "I would like to go there." His case will be investigated, and if his statement is correct he will be taken to the Home, to find there an asylum from want and crime. A mother came to Miss T. to request her to converse with her boy, who came home weeping. After much inquiry as to the cause, G. said, "I am crying because I want God to give me a new heart." His teacher talked with him, and he said he prayed every night and morning that God would give him a new heart. We hope it is the work of the Spirit. A very interesting child is "foolish Maggie." Two or three years ago she was sent to the Asylum at Syracuse, where she learned to read. We never saw a child more anxious to do right. She often asks, "Be I a good child? Do you love me? Do you think God loves me? I want God to love me." If ever any one was sincere in that wish, she is. When she does wrong, as pulling and sometimes tearing the children's clothes, she will cry, cover her face with her hands, and pray that God will give her a new heart. It is quite touching to hear her say audibly, “Lord, I are so bad; help me not to pull or slap any one. Lord, bless my teacher; bless me, and make me a good girl with a new heart, for Jesus' sake. Amen." Immediately after her prayer, she will go to the child she has hurt, and ask to be forgiven. The other day, she told us that when a baby she was the lovingest, sweetest child that ever was; "But," said she, "my father once hit me with a dumb-bell, just here," pointing to her forehead, "and I aint been good ever since." A little Irish woman came to the school a few days since, with two colored boys, asking, "Please, ma'am, will ye take my childer into the school?" "Are those your children?" "Yes'm." "By adoption?" I suggested. "No, ma'am, my own. I lived with an English family where he was coachman, and they persuaded me to marry him, but I have always been sorry for it. The colored people will not speak to me, and the white will not, so I am hunted from house to house. During the riots last summer, my life was threatened because I had a colored husband, and I had to flee with my children and hide for many days, leaving everything to the mercy of the mob.” EXTRACTS FROM VISITOR'S REPORT. Came across the sad case of a neglected wife. Her husband was in the army, had been for two years, but for a year past he had sent her no money and not even a word of remembrance although she knew he was alive and well. She had her two quiet boys with her. One attended school, the other, a sweet little fellow, was too young to go. The sight of one of her eyes had failed, and that of the other was impaired, but she was stitching away to "keep the wolf from the door." As we looked at the meek, sad face, and the task before her, we could but remember the "Song of the Shirt." She had a story of extortion to tell. At one time from failure of other work, she had made shirts at sixty cents per dozen, five cents apiece. Could make a dozen a week, and that would not pay the rent alone of a decent room. She draws ten dollars a month, "relief money." A dirty child, with uncombed hair, and wearing only a sacque and worn skirt was begging for clothes. We inquired where she lived, and found it to be in an alley where only drunken, wicked women lived. One fearfully cold night last winter, a drunken man going there late was unable to climb the rickety staircase, and when morning came they found him lying stiff and cold in death, at the foot of it. The police have been frequently called in to settle disputes there, and if you had entered some of the rooms after the "disturbance" of last July you would have seen bright pieces of Brussels carpet and large engravings in gilt frames, that seemed strangely out of place there. The last time one of our Industrial school teachers called there, four or five drunken women were gathered in one room, and as she spoke to a little girl about coming to her school, her drunken mother caught up a big knife, and with a threatening gesture told her if she ever spoke to a Protestant again she'd kill her. The beggar child we met, said her father and mother were dead, and auntie was taking care of her such care! Her case was brought before the proper authorities and now she is under wholesome influences, and will we trust be saved from the ruin of body and soul that seemed impending over her. A returned soldier, who enlisted in the army at the first call, has lost one arm in the service of his country, and wants the old flag kept flying, called to see if anything could be given him for his three children, who were very destitute of clothing. His sister has the care of them, his wife being intemperate. Visited them and found things as he said. Advised with the committee, and selected some articles of clothing for them. As they had whooping-cough, could not get them into school at present. Promised to call and see them often. Visited Mrs. M., a mother with seven children. Her husband is a prisoner in North Carolina, but she can get no relief-money, as she has no certificate of his being alive. Her oldest daughter was ill of congestion of the brain. Gave her something to meet present necessities, and promised to call again. Called on sick Mrs. B., as requested. She was almost broken-hearted. Her husband is in the army; when home on furlough, was constantly intemperate. We tried to cheer her, by referring to the helpless little creature she held in her arms. Gave her some articles of baby-linen, as she needed them. Found an old and poor widow in G. St., who had been recommended to our care, waiting, she said, the coming of her blessed Master. She had seen much trouble, yet never been left hungry, though often very near it. Her best friends are traveling on the continent; it was hard to make new friends now, she said. Gave her a dollar and the promise of another. Found our Scotch widow, Mrs. M., very low. Read her favorite Psalm, the 23d, for her, and prayed that as her day her strength may be. May her end be peace. Found a person at the Home waiting to be assisted. Her husband was ill at Bellevue. Referred her to House Committee. In conversation with her, found her father was a leader in the church, forty years since, where John Bunyan preached. We visited Jersey City for references, and found great sympathy existing for her. Left her five dollars, for which she returned hearty thanks. A lady wished to have Mrs. A., who is 89 years old, visited. Found her tidy, and sewing bags. She said the lady ought to have helped her herself, as she was well able to do so without calling on any society. She had worked for her many a year. She hopes to go to Albany this summer, where she has friends able to assist her, if they will. The woman she was staying with said, "What an age to live to, without home or friends." Visited Mrs K., with five children. It would be folly to think of taking them as boarders, as she has no means of providing for them. We advised her to give them up. She said if their father came home from the army he would kill her. Imagination could not picture their bloated, wild appearance. They live in the sand banks in St. from morning till night. The neighbors would rejoice in their removal. The mother is so enfeebled she cannot live long. She wanted to see the Committee again about them. A woman called, who said she was sent by one of our patrons, to get clothes for the "children." We told her if she would send her children to the industrial school we would try to do what we could for her. But she said she could not do without them, one picked cinders, one took care of the baby, and "Johnny dear" could not go alone. We commended them all to a good washing and left. For the Advocate and Guardian. BE STRONG IN THE LORD. If we live in the midst of startling dangers, we wake and watch and arm ourselves. But peril often walks with silent footstep and finds us securely sleeping, unprepared. Thus fire comes thus robbery-thus death. The first Christians were troubled on every side. To the Jews they appeared heretics, to the Grecians fools, to the Romans conspirators. Persecuted in life, tortured in death, by the absence of all earthly good, they were driven to take a steadfast hold of the hope of eternal glory. But Satan has since grown wiser, his opposition now assails, not the bodies, but the souls of believers. So subtle are his temptations that few admit them to be any temptation at all. His whirlpools are so girt about with smooth and pleasant curves of eddying water, that many a fatal circle is passed over, while yet the voyager believes himself on the straight way to port. He has taught us to gloss over deadly sins with gentle names, and deceit is tact and pride is sensitiveness; revenge is spirit, worldly-mindedness is keeping up with the times; and the blasphemy of infidelity is only originality of thought. He has made thousands think that to win converts to the Christian church, they must concede a good deal to the world, must not shock it with "strictness," and must make the worldly their most familiar friends, for so they are to give them benefit; which, when translated into truth and practice, comes to this; that people should keep half their sins in hope that others may give up some of theirs; and with sinners become ungodly that holiness may somehow be promoted. Benumbed by doctrines of this world, the professed church sleeps. The number of nominal Christians is very great. Many of them have just sufficient strength to die with a good hope of life to come. But how few fight a good fight! How few in life, as well as death, make known the power of Christ! How few break utterly away from the great tide of worldly interests and conformity; and, not in word, but in deed and in truth, make Jesus their all. A large portion of those who die happily might as well have lived each in one solitary sphere as for any honor they have done the great cause, in letting their light shine before men to the glory of God in heaven. Dear fellow Christians! How it thrills my heart to call you so! I do not want to blame one of you, I must be the meanest and most unfaithful of you all. Oh, it is better to be even weak in Christ than to be strong in Satan; yet are we always to be babes in the higher life? Infancy is fair and lovely in its own time; but it lapses into imbecility, deformity, and dwarfishness, without growth and progress. We are to press toward the mark, to wrestle, strive; to run the race that is set before us; we cannot go on a slow and easy saunter to the holy city. We are drowsily and wearily making our 'way through the enchanted ground, when by greater faith, devotion, and dependence upon God, we might walk on the breezy heights, the fresh and glowing mountain-tops of Beulah. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto yon at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Too many hopes rest on the way; worldly advancement, money, rich ap parel, pleasure, praise, ambitious places for sons and daughters. But at the end of earth is our inheritance. We are often discouraged with ourselves, we need more trust in Jesus. He can richly fill. Be not ashamed of Him; was He ashamed of you when He endured mockery at that tribunal, when for your sake those pallid lips cried out, "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?" Be bold and fearless, only let the fountain of your strength be all in Him. Let the soul here on earth see "Jesus only," and when earth is past, it shall behold that throne of glory at whose foot the redeemed millions gather in eternal peace, where praise rolls up in waves of everlasting flow, and where the angels cast their radiant Mrs J. C. Hull, per Mrs R. M. Buchanan.. 15 1.00 1.00 5.00 10.00 10.00 5.00 N. J.-Mrs George Morrow, Hudson City. 20.00 Mrs Kelsey, Cherryville.. 5.00 Mr and Mrs Wilson, Cherryville.. 5.00 4.50 Mrs James Hastings, Bovinia.. Gertrude Soper, Stamford... Mrs H. J. Teuton, Buffalo. Mrs S. G. Tuthill, East Otto.. X. Y. City.-Mrs Moore... Mrs J. B. Varnum, an. don... Mrs W. G. Lambert, an, dou... Pa.-John Huddens, Catasauqua.. Ohio.-Mrs L. and Mrs E. A. Marvin, Andover... Mary, Burton.... M. E. Northrop, Dover. Mrs Anna K. Fish, Marietta.... Mrs P. M. Thomas, Barnesville.. Mich.-Mrs C. A. Van Vleck. Palo... LIFE MEMBERS. Vt.-Mrs M. C. Turner, Cambridge $2 to apply on a L. M. and 75c from other friends for freight.. Mass.-Mrs F. W. Mather to comp. L. M. of Mrs R. H. Mather, Amherst....... N. Y.-A Friend to apply on Mrs Owen's L. M., Brooklyn... Laura E. B., Big Flatts, to complete L. M. of Mrs Elizabeth Roblyer.. N. Y. City.-Mrs W. F. Van Wagenen, to const. herself a L. M..... Cal.-Subscribers, Marysville $30, of which $10 is part payment of L. M. of Mrs Rev J. H. Brodt, Marysville Oregon. Mrs E. Y. Warner, Eugene City, to const. her daughter, Miss Isabella Hay Warner a L. M., per Mrs Lusina W. Judkins, gold $10.. 2.75 10 00 5.00 10 00 20 00 30.00 24.50 CLOTHING, PROVISIONS, &c., received from N. Y.-Irvington, box containing black cloth coat, dress and shawl for special case, with shoes, blanket shawl, and other sundries, from Mrs C. M. Phinney. Livingstonville, bed-quilt and stockings froin Ladies of the Pres. Church and other friends. Brooklyn, package of clothing from Mrs Tooker. N. Y. City.-Patch-work quilt from Mrs Dr Ranney for Ind. Schools. Package of clothing from Mrs Kent. Two packages of clothing from Mrs Tiffany. Clothing from Mrs Bulkley. 13 yds. of elastic from Lizzie Morrill. Important Legacies have been lost to the Home through informality. It is therefore earnestly requested of those who design to benefit the Institution by giving it a place in their last Will and Testament, that they would use the following: FORM OF A BEQUEST. I give and bequeath to the American Female Guardian Society, incorporated by the Legislature of New York, in the year 1849, the sum of $- -, to be applied for the Benefit of the Home for the Friendless, or to other charitable uses of said Society. The Will should be attested by three witnesses, who should write against their names, their place of residence, and state that they signed the instrument at the request of the testator. and in the presence of the testator and each other, and that the testator declared to them that it was his or her last Will and Testament. Aims of the Am. Female Guardian Society. 1st. The Society aims to rescue from degradation, physical and moral, the children of want, homelessness and sorrow, wherever found, who may be committed to the Society in accordance with its Charter, and after a suitable probation in their institution, to learn to what they are best adapted, &c., to secure for them permanent country homes in Christian families. 2d. To reach as many as possible of this same exposed 100 class of children, who, though prevented by surrounding circumstances, from becoming Home beneficiaries as inmates, may, nevertheless, be withdrawn from the education of the city street, taught habits of industry and propriety of conduct, the knowledge of the Bible, &c., and surrounded by influences that may be protective and saving. (Several hundred of this class receive food, raiment, instruction and watch-care through the agency of the Society.) 3d. To afford a place and means of protection for destitute respectable young women, without employment, friends or home, and within the age and circumstances of temptation. 4th. To aid and encourage destitute American widows with small children, to avoid a separation as long as practicable, by furnishing apparel, bedding, etc., at discretion; securing remunerative employment as far as it may be obtained, and also to admonish the unwary of the moral pitfalls that often abound in the pathway of the lowly. 5th. To use the Press to enlist the Public mind in behalf of the several classes and objects above named, The "Home," since it was established in 1847, has sheltered, fed and clothed, temporarily, many thousand children and adults. It is sustained by charitable contributions, and is constantly needing donations of money, clothing, provisions, &c. 3.50 1.00 1.00 5.00 1.00 Mrs A. R. Millerman, Alb.on. An aged Friend, Walker.... 5.00 WONDERFUL CRADLE! BROWNS PATENT BABY-TENDER, a Vertical. Noiseless and delightful SPRING-CRADLE, easily converted into a Baby-jumper, Baby-horse, Baby-walker, High-chair, Springchair, Nursery-chair, Hobby-horse or Ottoman; the whole designed to obviate the evils of the rocking motion and TAKE THE PLACE OF A HIRED NURSE. Ornamental, compact, strong and durable. The wonder and admiration of parents and the delight of children. MR. ANGELL. Supt. Home for the Friendless, after using it in his family for more than two years, says, "If mothers generally knew the great value of the Baby-tender in the care of children they would deny themselves one meal a day (if necessary) to procure it." Agents wanted in all parts of the North and West. An excellent opportunity for profitable and useful employment. Send for illustrated circular, POSTAGE ON THIS PAPER. By the new law, the postage on single copies of the 4. & G. is now six cents a quarter, payable in advance, in all parts of the United States. A package of four copies, which weighs 4 ounces, sent to one address, is subject to no more postage than a single copy, according to Instruction 36, which Postmasters will please see. From 5 to 8 copies, to one address, 12 cents a quarter. From 9 to 12 do do 18 do do and so on, at the rate of 6 cents a quarter for every 4 ounces or fraction thereof. In order to receive the paper at the lowest rate of postage, it is necessary to take them, not singly, but at least 4 copies; and so of clubs, they should be made up, if possible, of 8, 12, 16, 20 and so on. As an inducement to those who now receive it singly, to make up a small club of four or eight, the Ex. Com. propose to put the subscription price for four copies, to one address, at 75 cents a year, and for eight copies, in the same way at 60 cents a year. Twelve copies, and over, will be at the rate of 50c, a year. At offices where there are several single subscribers receiving it to their separate addresses, by their uniting together and having it in one package, to one address, it will materially reduce the postage on each. The postage must be paid in advance, either quarterly or yearly, at the office where received. POSTMASTERS and others, desiring papers to be discontinued, will please send the name of the P. O. as well as of the subscriber. STEREOSCOPIC VIEWS OF "HOME" SCENES. There have been prepared, in order to give our distant friends a more perfect idea of the institution in its details, a series of twelve beautiful pictures, taken with life-like accuracy, by the well-known photographer, E. ANTHONY, embracing the following: 1. HOME FOR THE FRIENDLESS, 32 E. 30th St 2. CHILDREN'S DORMITORY. 3. NURSERY DORMITORY. 4. NURSERY CHILDREN. 5. SCHOOL CHILDREN AT PLAY. 6. HOME CHAPEL, 29 E. 29th St. 7. CHILDREN IN SCHOOL. 8. CHILDREN IN CHAPEL. 9. CHILDREN ON GALLERY-Anniversary. 10. CHILDREN AT DINNER-Thanksgiving. 11. PLAY GROUND SCENE. 12. ADVOCATE & GUARDIAN PRINTING OFFICE Price, plain, 25c: each, the whole set, $2.50; colored. 35c. each, $3.50 the set, sent by mail free of postage. STEREO. SCOPES (in which to view them,) from $1 to $5. Profits entirely devoted to the "Home." Address: Advocate and Guardian, Care Mrs. Sarah A. Stone Box 4740. New York. EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE. A description of one of the many thriving young cities springing up beyond the Mississippi. "Denver, Colorado Territory, is a place of some five or six thousand inhabitants. It has some very fine buildings, mostly of brick. There are five churches in the place, Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Baptist and Catholic. The Baptists have not a church edifice built, but the others have fine commodious meetinghouses. The Methodists have just completed a very fine Seminary. There are two public free schools, having 200 or 300 pupils, and there are four select schools in successful operation. Two daily papers are published in the city. There are also forty or fifty liquor saloons, one to every hundred inhabitants; some four or five gambling saloons, where gambling is carried on publicly. So you see it is a place where sin and iniquity abound, but where there are also many good people and much pleasant society. The climate is milder than in New England. The country is so barren that we cannot have gardens and shrubbery; nothing is raised except along the water-courses and small streams. I find only one thing positively unpleasant the sand storms which completely fill the air with dust and fine sand, which comes into our houses through every crevice. J. B. 66 Laying the axe at the root of the tree." -Dear friends at the Home,-Permit me to express my gratification for having another opportunity to forward some of the many contributions to your noble cause. There is to my mind so much of the pure evangelism in the work to which you are devoting yourselves, that I esteem it one of the pleasantest privileges I enjoy to be able in any way to save a mite to cast into the treasury. It seems to me this saving the children is at least one effectual way of laying the axe at the root of the tree; and then the Advocate cannot but be beneficial wherever read. I am so glad to see our young people so interested in it, and for myself, I have ever prized it next to the precious word of God. O, how oft when my sad, lone heart has been strengthened and comforted with the perusal of some precious word just in season for my case, have I wished for time and ability to contribute something for its pages! O! dear sisters, I can assure you I did shed some delicious tears over your $20,000 legacy. My only apology for my freedom in this note, is the heartfelt interest I feel in whatever is connected with the Home for the Friendless. Yours, as ever, in sympathy and effort, H. B. GRISEwood. Perry, N. Y. Marysville, Cal., June 10th, 1864. Mrs. Stone,-Inclosed please find forty dolJars. This sum is the voluntary and spontaneous offering of ladies to whom I furnished your paper at the beginning of the year. They are interested in your work, and send this as a testimony of their interest and prayers. I I have received abundantly in the true re- J. H. B. A Welcome Response.-Having seen the re- Mt. Kisco, 7th Mo., 9th, 1864. Dear Friend, I have now to convey to thee the sad intelligence of the decease of our mother, Mary S. Weeks, who had the care of one of your Home girls. She departed this life the 26th of last month, aged 68 years, after a painful illness of a few weeks, in the blessed hope of entering into that "rest that remaineth for the people of God." She had taken the Advocate and Guardian, and had been a faithful laborer with others in this vicinity, for several years past, in preparing clothing and bedding for the needy and destitute ones which come under the care of the Home for the Friendless, in New York. Also, within the past year, she entered earnestly into the work of providing for the suffering "Freedmen;" but her work on earth is done. Thus in the prime of her mature life and use- "And half we deem, she needed not The deep interest that she ever felt in the record her manifold virtues, but we cannot forbear offering our testimony to her exceeding worth. In all the Christian graces that go to form the character of the true wife, mother, sister and friend, few equalled-none excelled her. She might well have sat for Wordsworth's familiar portraiture "A perfect woman-nobly planned To warn, to comfort, to command." To the brightest jewels of an affectionate heart and cultivated mind, she added the pure luster of the Pearl of great price, and the whole combined, surrounds her name with a halo of light, in those hearts that treasure her memory as a sacred legacy. She was one of the chosen few who are made "perfect through suffering." For long years she was an invalid, and disease in many forms assailed her frail body, yet the soul within glowed with a clearer light, and patience and cheerfulness were ever at her side, no less in hours of severe pain, than when returning health came again to bless her. A large circle of relatives and friends mourn the loss of one who was the life of the social gathering, and the radiant centre of a home which was in truth an earthly paradise. Never had the death-angel entered that happy household until a few months ago, when the Good Shepherd called hence the pet lab of the fold. The fond mother's heart yearned for her lost darling, and God, in His infinite mercy, has re-united them. May He also, in His all-pitying love, comfort the sorely-stricken hearts thus doubly bereaved, and point them to that Eden above, where those "not lost but gone before," await their coming-"changeless forever." May many more be raised up while "she is For the Advocate and Guardian. IN MEMORIAM. DIED in East Henrietta, N. Y., June 16th, 1864, Mrs. Harriet M. S. Beebee, aged 49. KATE CAMERON. ADVOCATE AND GUARDIAN. TERMS. $1 a year, [in advance] to Single Subscribers. Four copies, to one address, at the rate of 75c a year. Eight do do do 60c do Twelve copies, [and over] to one address, 50c do Letters concerning the Advocate and Guardian, and those containing funds for the Society, should be addressed: MRS. SARAH A. STONE, Box 4740. 29 E. 29th Street, Letters designed for the Board or Executive Committee, and Reports of Auxiliaries, address Corresponding Secreta ries, A. F. G. Soc., 29 E. 29th St., New York, Box 4740. Advertisements. Only short ones are received-20c a line [No. 699. August 1, 1864.] "I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him; - the cause that I knew not I searched out."-Job xxix. 12, 16. Vol. XXX. No. 16. NEW YORK, AUGUST 16, 1864. Published, Semi-monthly, by the Executive Committee of the AMERICAN FEMALE GUARDIAN SOCIETY, at the House of Industry and Home for the Friendless, 29 E. 29th St. EDITED BY MRS. SARAH R. L. BENNETT. For Terms and Notices, see Last Pages. For the Advocate and Guardian. SHADOWS. BY KATE CAMERON. THE summer days are bright and long For the Advocate and Guardian. 'MARTHA"-NOT OF BETHANY. My friend was not named for Martha of Bethany, but I have been always reminded of the one of old times who was 66 cumbered about much serving," whenever I have sojourned at her house. Such a nice, orderly, home-like place it is, with no threads of disorder hanging here and there-no repellent sights or unsa- A reason developed itself presently-the There was a great drawback to prosperity somewhere, and the burden of providing maintenance and comfort fell heavily on two or three members of the family. Our Martha was one of these-it was in nowise her fault that health had failed here, and economy there, and that pecuniary loss had fallen in a third place, and at a most inconvenient time. But these things were facts to be met, endured and cured as far as possible. As I said, Martha had to bear a large share of the burden and the toil. She could not afford to keep a domestic though there were men in the field, children in the school-room, an invalid in the nursery, and guests in the parlor. Early hours and late hours, tact and patience and good nature were all brought into requisition for the daily necessities of such a lot; but with these helps it was almost impossible not to fall behind-hand at times, in some desirable thing. I chanced, one forenoon, to pass the kitchen door-it was the month of roses, and a beautiful climber had been trained over the old-fashioned stoop, among the grape vines. So charmingly this sweet country freshness made everything look, I thought for a moment, that in such a place labor must be beguiled of its harshness, and life could hardly fail to be full of repose. With a friend's privilege, I went in to chat an hour with Martha, while she kept busy with domestic work. A visitor was no hindrance, (indeed I tried my best to be of some practical use,) she had the happy knack of doing a dozen things in a marvelously short time, and of talking the while of subjects at Whole No. 700. the antipodes of what her hands found to do. This morning, however, there seemed to be a shadow on her cheerful face-a worn, weary look, as if the spirit as well as the over-tasked body, were tired. "How beautiful it is here!" I could not help exclaiming: "if you could only drop these kitchen things and take a run with me over the meadows!" "If I only could," said Martha, with a tired sort of smile; "when I came here to live many years ago, I thought how sweet it would be to take my knitting or a book to the grove yonder, for a summer afternoon. That day has never come; I have had little time for anything but work." "I know, Martha," said I, "that you indulge in no recreations, and I do not see how a day of respite could hardly creep into your life; but with all your economy of time and skill, I cannot understand how you accomplish so much and do it so thoroughly. And then you are so cheerful and companionable withal, you must possess faculty, as Mrs. Stowe calls it, in a remarkable degree; is there some talent out of mortal sight that, like a fairy's wand, lifts you over such places as would be sloughs of despond to the rest of us?" Martha laughed, and thought, no doubt, her questioner knew very little indeed; all which, I was aware, was perfectly true. "I accomplish what is necessary," said she, "by doing nothing that is unnecessary. I ask myself in the morning what is the most important work for the day, what will bring the most comfort and save the most trouble to all in the house, and I do that, whether it pleases my feelings or not. I have come at length to have little choice in common employment; my comfort I find in making other people comfortable. "When a woman in the providence of God, or by her own will, is placed in any particular circumstances for a life-time, it is both wisdom and happiness for her to make the very best of her situation. It is very likely she will be dis |