Spirit from the Father only, the rejection of the doctrine of purgatory, communion in both kinds, triple immersion in baptism, the use of leavened bread at the Lord's Supper, and the Pope's supremacy. It professes to be anti-Protestant in holding to the efficacy of both faith and works in justification, the real presence of Christ's body in the Eucharist, the authority of the sacred traditions and the decrees of the Church, the rendering the worship of veneration to the cross and relics, the obligation of religious fasting and penance, the seven sacraments, and the prayers for the dead. The Eastern Church also allows the priests to marry, but forbids second marriages. They allow no instrumental music in the churches.

How COAL IS BOUGHT AND SOLD IN LONDON.-In the city of London coal is sent to the consumers in sacks containing one hundred pounds each. These are loaded on large carts drawn by enormous horses, with scales and weights to each cart, and, if desired by the purchaser, the sack is weighed by the driver. When the honesty of the coal merchant and the integrity of the driver are well established the weighing of the sack is seldom required. In the purchase of a cart-load of sacks some three or four of them taken promiscuously are tested by the scales, and if found correct the weighing stops. This mode of buying and selling coal is the result of many years experience in the vast city of London.

THEOLOGICAL AND RELIGIOUS LIBRARY IN CINCINNATI-An association has been formed in this city for the collection of theological and religious books, to be open to ministers and laymen of all religious denominations interested in theological studies. Nearly twelve thousand dollars have been subscribed to this project, and about five hundred volumes given to what is called the founders' collection. It is intended to be a permanent library, and to contain eventually all religious and theological literature ever published.

NEW PROFESSORSHIP IN THE WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. We have the pleasure of announcing that a new professorship in the Wesleyan University has just been endowed through the liberality of Oliver Cutts, Esq., of New Rochelle, New York. Mr. Cutts is a gentleman of wealth, largely engaged in the Haytian trade, and of high standing in the Methodist Church. The alumni and friends of the college will be glad to learn of this new endowment, as it places the institution in a position of considerable advantage, and gives assurance that it has able and willing supporters in a quarter where such a gift is particularly gratifying at this time. It is hoped that this is the precursor of even better things to come. Are there not other wealthy laymen who will do likewise? At the next Commencement there will be an election of two professors, one of Latin in place of Prof. A. C. Foss, who resigns to take the Poughkeepsie district in the New York Conference, and the other the newly-endowed professorship of Rhetoric and English Literature.

for its calm philosophy as for its skillful delineations, while its illustrations are complete, elegant, and abundant. Four numbers have reached us, bringing down the narrative to the march of the Seventh Regiment to Washington. Official documents are given in the form of foot-notes.

SOURCE OF THE NILE DETERMINED.-This question of centuries has at last been settled by an English traveler, Captain Speke, who has ascertained that the lake known as the Victoria Nyanza is the great reservoir of the Bahr-el-Abiad, or White Nile. The Victoria Nyanza is the sheet of water discovered by Speke when accompanying the Burton expedition from Zanzibar. Its upper extremity is some four degrees south of the Equator.

STATISTICS OF RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. There are in New Hampshire 191 Orthodox Congregational churches with a membership of 10,940. The Calvinist Baptists have 86 churches and 8,166 members; the Free-Will Baptists 136 churches and 9,067 members; the Methodists 67 churches and 11,757 members.

A MECHANICAL HAND.-Among the articles sent from Spain to the universal Exhibition in London is a mechanical hand invented by an Andalusian artist, which enables the wearer to pick up the smallest objects, and even to write merely by the impulse of the muscles and nerves of the arm. Many a victim of war would rejoice to learn that such a mechanical contrivance could be made available.

PORTRAIT OF THE MOTHER OF THE WESLEYS.-The London Methodist Recorder states that the Rev. Wm. Arthur has recently purchased an original portrait of Mrs. Susannah Wesley at the age of seventy, the authenticity of which has been established by the discovery of an engraving of the same, presented to the select band at the Old Foundery Chapel.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.-The fiftyninth report of this Society states that the issues of the year from the depositories in Great Britain bave been 1,518,469 volumes, and from the depositories in foreign countries 615,391, making a total of 2,133,860. Since its formation in 1804 the Society has put into ¦ circulation 43,044,334 copies of the Scriptures. The foreign circulation during the year has been 83,893 in France, 4,749 in Belgium, 293,770 in Germany, 16,130 in Denmark, 19,582 in Norway, 93,000 in Sweden, 19, 500 in Russia, 27,000 in Italy, 16,046 in Turkey, 1,396 in Greece, 124,660 in India, 137,000 in Ceylon, and 53,531 in China.

WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY-Bishop Payne, of the African Methodist Church, has purchased Wilberforce University. The institution and all its out-buildings, numbering nine cottages, together with fifty-two acres of land, brought only $10,000, which will pay the indebtedness of the old Board of Trustees. It is to be reorganized and its chartered privileges to be perpetu ated for the benefit of the colored race.

COMPARATIVE INTELLIGENCE OF CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS.-In Germany, where the Protestant and Catholic populations are about equal, there are 250 Catholic bookstores and 1,500 Protestant. Out of 2,000 or 3,000 newspapers only 100 are Catholic, or

(1.) ROSECRANS' CAMPAIGN WITH THE ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND. 12mo. 265 pp. Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co.-" W. D. B.," correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, is one of the most graphic and at the same time reliable correspondents from the seat of the war. In this volume the stirring letters, written with the freshness of life, are reproduced with the emendations and corrections of the author. The Appendix," embodying the "official reports" of the battle of Stone River, adds much to the value of the work. In all the war literature of this time there is as yet no book that surpasses this.

(2.) EVIDENCE AS TO MAN'S PLACE IN NATURE. By Thomas H. Huxley, F. R. S., F. L. S. 12mo. 184 pp. Illustrated. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Cincinnati: Rickey & Carroll.—This work comprises three lectures-The Man like Apes, The Relations of Man to the Lower Animals, and Fossil Remains of Man. Our space will now only allow us to say that we propose giving attention to the contents of this volume in a future number.

(3) SYMBOLIC CHARACTER OF THE SACRED SCRIPTURES. Lectures by Rev. Abel Silver, minister of the New Jerusalem Church in New York. Published and

sold as above. 12mo. 286 pp. The idea running through this volume is, that the literal sense of the Word of God must ever symbolize a higher sense. Under this symbolizing the history of creation in Genesis becomes an allegory. So, also, the destruction of man as a spiritual being is "analogically described by a composed history of the supposed destruction of these living beings by a flood." The above will give our readers a taste of this work, and that will probably be all they will desire. Should they wish to go further, however, we assure them they will find many curious as well as strange fancies in it.

(4.) MONEY. By Charles Moran. 12mo. 228 pp. Published and sold as above.-This is not only a thorough history of money, but a rigid discussion of the character, uses, and fluctuations of money as a representative. The work has peculiar adaptation to these times. This and the two preceding volumes are gotten up in the same style as the works of Colenso.

(5.) THE CHILDREN'S GARLAND-FROM THE BEST POETS. Selected and arranged by Coventry Patmore. 18mo. 354 pp. Cambridge: Sever & Francis. Cincinnati: Rickey & Carroll.-A beautiful gift-book; the selections charming, comprising the best poetry for children in the English language. It is printed on beautiful tinted paper.

(6.) EARLY BLOSSOMS; OR, MUSIC FOR SABBATH

SCHOOLS. By Ph. Phillips. Cincinnati: John Church, jr. (7.) THE PHILOSOPHY OF TRUTH. By F. Holiday Burris. 12mo. 142 pp.-This work evinces considerable ability in essay-writing. The author needs only study and labor to make an accomplished writer.

(9.) ALUMNE ASSOCIATION OF THE CINCINNATI WESLEYAN FEMALE COLLEGE.-This is a catalogue of no common interest. It is admirably gotten up by the Editorial Committee. It contains not only the list of the graduates and the year of their graduation, but the residence of each, and, if married, the address of the husband. It also contains memorials of the dead and various other matters interesting to this oldest Female College.

(10.) WYOMING CONFERENCE.-The Minutes of the 12th session of this Conference have been laid on our table. Rev. H. Brownscombe, Secretary.

(11.) PITTSBURG ANNUAL CONFERENCE.-Our thanks are due to Rev. J. Horner, one of the Secretaries of this Conference, for a copy of its Annual Minutes. (12.) A MODEL SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON.-By Ralph Wells. Delivered before the State Sunday School Teachers' Association in convention at Schenectady, N. Y. A capital study for teachers.

(13.) THE MISSION OF AMERICA: A Discourse delivered before the New England Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church by Rev. Gilbert Haven, and published at the request of the Conference.

(14.) THE HAND OF GOD IN OUR NATIONAL CONFLICT. Delivered before the citizens of Brandon, Vt., by Rev. A. Witherspoon, D. D.

(15.) THE CRISIS. 8vo. pamphlet. 95 pp. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Cincinnati: Rickey & Carroll. (16.) LETTERS ON THE MINISTRY OF THE GOSPEL. By Francis Wayland. 16mo. 210 pp. Boston: Gould & Lincoln. Cincinnati: G. S. Blanchard.-In his introductory letter the reverend author takes a gloomy view of the ministry of the present compared with that of the past-altogether too gloomy, it seems to us. In discussing "a call to the ministry" he recognizes the cardinal principle that "when a man comes to us with a message from God he must be moved to do so by God himself." Other points in the ministerial life-comprehending its whole scope and aims are discussed with that peculiar perspicuity and force which characterize the distinguished author. We could most heartily wish that every young preacher would possess himself of this volume, and if he would read, learn, and inwardly digest its contents he would become in consequence of it a better preacher and better man.

(17.) THE AMERICAN PUBLISHERS' CIRCULAR AND Philadelphia, is worthy of its name. LITERARY GAZETTE, published by G. W. Childs, of It is a compendium of current literature, comprising announcements of all forthcoming works as well as all works issued. Issued on the 1st and 15th c. each month at $2 per annum.

GLIMPSE ON THE LITTLE MIAMI.-We are indebted to the artist, J. H. Hine, of Cincinnati, for this beautiful glimpse. The Little Miami empties into the Ohio about eight or ten miles above this city. Its banks, valleys, and hills are rich in historical lore, connected with the pioneer life of the country, as well as in the beauty of its natural scenery. Along its valleys too, and upon its hill-tops, are memorials of a race that has passed away.

A MISSIONARY DAY IN CHICAGO.-Upon the invitation of the Preachers' Meeting we visited our Chicago brethren on the occasion of their "Missionary Sabbath." It was a day of noble philanthropic Christian effort, and places Chicago in the van in this onward movement of the missionary cause. Over $6,000 in a single year! We venture to say that no other city, East or West, taking population and Methodistic strength into the account, can present such a record as this.

DEATHS IN THE CINCINNATI CONFERENCE.-Rarely has a Conference been so afflicted and bereaved as this since its last session. No less than seven of its members have fallen by death. The last victim was the Rev. J. T. Mitchell. Few men more noble in character, or who will be more widely missed. He was, at the time of his death, a member of the Western Book Committee and presiding elder of the Cincinnati district. The others are G. W. Harris, C. R. Lovell, Geo. B. Owens, A. P. Dunlap, W. H. Fyffe, A. M. Lorrainall of them yet in the vigor of life except the latter, who had attained to the ripe age of seventy-three.

NOTE FROM A LITTLE GIRL-Some little girl that the Editor is not very well acquainted with, has written him a letter. And now the Editor is going to publish it. Let the author still study and write, and not be afraid of whittling down:

Dear Mr. Editor,-I'm a little girl only fifteen years old, and feel badly abashed at the thought of writing to "the Editor." I am afraid he will think "little girls must wait till they are older," but it seems as though I can't "wait" till I am a woman. I'm living with my grandma, and she takes the Repository. You may think it a queer thought, but the Repository seems to me like a dear, good, loving friend, who knows every thing, and will tell me all I want to know; who never grows old, but is always young and fair, yet often wise and grave-full of beautiful thoughts, and well acquainted with all great and good men and women. I love the Repository, and wanted to tell you so, though I did n't know what good it would do.

Please don't laugh at what I am going to write next. I never dared say a word of it to any one else. I always thonght if I could write for the Repository when I became a woman, I should be so proud and happy. The thought always made me tremble too, for I thought I should have to toil much and be very brave, and perhaps sadly disappointed after all. But I have kept writing my little essays and tales, and studied, corrected, whittled, and pieced them and packed them away in a trunk. I have pieced and whittled this till I am afraid you will think there is nothing of it; but indeed I have tried hard to make it worthy of notice, but of that you can judge far better than I can. If you never publish it-and I have but a little hope of that-do remember me, and perhaps after I have studied and written more, you may welcome me.

DOUBLY BEREAVED-A TOUCHING NOTE.-We take the liberty of inserting the following from a brother minister, believing it will breathe a sympathetic comfort into many situated in similar sorrowful circumstances. Our brother and sister had just followed two lovely children-a son and a daughter-to the grave:

Your letter, received on Saturday, brought with it utterances of sympathy and of deep spiritual truth, very grateful to our hearts. The spiritual world has indeed been brought When very near to us in our sore, two-fold bereavement. we bent over the clay-cold forms of our early dead, and realized that life was not there, we could not but follow our little ones in their transferred life into the realm of the unseen and eternal, and seek to be in spiritual sympathy with them in the thoughts, feelings, and employments of their new life. Our "affections," spiritualized we trust by our affliction, and reassured in the precious hopes of the Christian religion, have, as you so tenderly and beautifully

expressed it, "touched the other shore." We feel that there

are now tico little human hearts in heaven that have not lost in death their recollection of and affectionate interest in the mother, father, and sister they have left in the home they loved so well. Whatever the change-and we know it must have been great-which the transfer of their lives to the heavenly world has brought with it, we feel assured in the teachings of both revelation and reason that that change has not touched the darlings at the point of the heart or the memory! No, no! They remember and love now-however ignorant of what has transpired in our hearts and dwelling since they quit uswhat they knew and loved on earth. However rapt in the higher thought of Jesus and his love, and active in the scenes and employments of the spiritual world, we are still in their thoughts as their "pa" and "ma"-words so sweetly and lately used by them in our dwelling, and words which can not now have lost their meaning with them. Their "affection must tonch" this earthly, as ours do the eternal "shore." We speak of the dead, for graveyards are all around us; but with God, thanks to the precious revelations of his Word, there are no dead! "He is not a God of the dead, but of the living." Our little ones, in the light of this utterance of Jesus, live; and because they live, their earthly past and its home-loves and affections live also!

We have been trying for years to love God; but we needed, dear Doctor, a deeper interest in the experience and hopes of our holy religion; hence the hand of God, in order to this end, has been heavily laid upon us. "Even so, Lord, for so it seemed good in thy sight." By his grace we will try to let the end of this bitter providence-our good and greater usefulness in his service-be accomplished.

MRS. H. C. GARDNER.-Our readers have long known and prized the above-named lady as one of our most talented and useful contributors. Comparatively few of them, however, knew her as the wife of the Rev. Abel Gardner, A. M., of the Providence Conference, who lately closed his ministry of more than a score of years, by a triumphant death. In a note, written soon after the sad bereavement, the afflicted widow says:

My precions husband has gone to the paradiso above, and though the blow that has taken my earthly all has stunned and prostrated me, I am enabled to say, "The Lord gave, the Lord hath taken: blessed be the name of the Lord."

I. S. BINGHAM-Our thanks are due for a fine photograph of our co-laborer, the editor of the Northern Christian Advocate. It looks life-like and natural.