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MICHIGAN CHRISTIAN HERALD.-This we consider one of the most ably conducted papers in the West. In its theology it is after the straitest sect of the Baptist religion a Baptist. But in saying this we use no reflections. The editor is a high minded and honorable man. Open and frank and of course his opinions are presented fully without hesitation but always courteously His is one of the best family papers in the country. Terms $2,00 per annum.

MICHIGAN ORGAN.-This little sheet seems to be doing good service in the cause of Temperance. Its articles are generally prepared with ability. We hope its Editors, will not feel bound to admit such doggrel as A micus Mint-Julep is favoring them with, The Organ is doing well, and compares favorably with many larger temperance papers. We learn that its subscription list is increasing in an unprecedented manner. So let it continue to do.

ARTHUR'S HOME GAZETTE.-We have been in the receipt for some months past of Arthur's Home Gazette, a very able paper published at Philadelphia, at $2 per annum. This paper is always right on the subject of temperance and each number presents more or less able articles. Its exciting fictitious stories of course we do not endorse, but they are always the best of their kind. Chaste and ever pointed with a good moral.

THE TOKEN, A weekly Gazette of Odd Fellowship and General Information, published at Pittsburgh, Penn. Alexander B. Russell, Editor and Proprietor. Of its Odd Fellowship we know nothing; but that it is advocated ably by the Token we do know. It is also a very good receptacle of general information. Price $1,50 a year in advance.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.-The last number

AMERICAN ARTISAN. Price $2,00 a year,in advance. John Bullock, Editor. Sam'l Fleet and F. O. Dorr, Corresponding Editors, N. Y.

THE partizan papers we cannot at present notice without incurring the charge of partiality. There are many of them very ably conducted and aside from their political dogmas afford to their readers a great amount of general news as well as occasion. ally some literary gems. These papers are useful, but might be more, so in our humble opinion if they would exhibit more candor and a greater desire to get at the truth. It strikes us that if there is anything in politics beside a scramble for office,—if there are great antagonistr principles which separate honest, thinking men, that these principles can be discussed in the spirit of kindness, and with a respectful consideration for the principles and opinions of others. If it cannot be done thus, we still say let us have the political papers and let the quarrel be with these several champions of the parties and not between the people themselves. These serve as a safety valve to remove the superabundant heat and remove the dangers which menace the body politic and leave them free from fever, as well as everything which threatens the general health.

WE noticed sometime since a medicine sold by Mr. William A. Wiggins of this city, called the Stampede medicine for the cure of Fever and Ague and Chill Fever. This medicine we learn is having at the present an extensive sale. It not being of the class of humbugs but a real panacea for those most disagreeable diseases.

WE are again publishing advertisements of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. This medicine is taking a very strong hold upon of this most excellent paper has not been the good opinion of the people. It is regarreceived. It is too valuable for us willing-ded generally as a most excellent remedy ly to rest without it. Will the Publishers for Pulmonary Complaints, Coughs and please forward. Let all men of Science se- Colds.

cure the reading of the Scientific American. It is to such, invaluable.

Having found it an excellent medicine we cheerfully endorse it.

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THE world is growing old. For five thou- does, then is there either progress or retro sand years it has been wheeling on in its or-grade in the world's history. Then, tor, bit, while its surface has been perpetually an there, as the Poet has sung, "a tide in the afopen sepulchre for "the dying hopes and vast fairs of men,”-nor as ind.viduals only, but And if we can ambition" of its myriad races: Change has much more truly, as a race. passed continually over it: Decay has mark-analyse the civilization of the past, and the ed its progress. "The mountain falling,' has present, and trace out their points of resemblance and contrast, we may be able to judge come to naught, and the rock has been removed out of its place." Oceans have en- wherein they differ, and draw from thence croached upon continents; islands have ap- philosophical inferences, as to the ultimate peared, and disappeared, and the earth in its destiny of the human race, and whether the physical features, has been wholly revolu- tides of progress are bearing the hopes of tionized. And not only so, but the tribes and humanity. races of then have been changed, in customs laws, religion, and character.

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In the early ages of the world's history, the greatest developments of the human mind were in the direction of physical force, its proudest exhibitions, in mastery over brute strength. Muscular power alone was used in contending with "the vis inertia" of matter, or the voluntary resistance of other minds. The boasted, and truly mighty

The seats of civilization have been continually removing from country to count y, by the ebb and flow of this universal ten-achievements of mind, in the palmiest dency to change. days of Phoenician. Egyptian, Grecian, and Rom in civilization, were mostly through its physical powers, over the forms and forces of the external world. The famed "seven wonders of the world" were monuments, not so much of genius and intellect, as of nighty force. They were clebrate l ́o their at and stupendous size, and for the a nount

But amid all these movements does the ▼orld remain essentially the same that it did in its infancy? Are the developements of mind unaltered, and does the constitution of ociety remain the same? Does the civilization of this age differ in no respect, from dvilization three thousand years ago? If it

cognized; much less acted upon any great, abstract principles. No moral conquests had been won, over the hearts of men, by the power of Truth. Scarcely any of the great truths of physical, mental, or moral science, now so familiar to the world, were even dreamed of at that time.

of physical power expended in their erection. I mind of man. No community or nation The men of those times, truly built magnifi- had been founded upon, or, had yet even recent cities, and filled them with mighty edifices, displaying a vastness of design, a beauty of architecture, and an exquisiteness of finish, that have surpassed the efforts of modern times. Their resources indeed, sufficed to rear those mighty pyramids, which have mocked, unscathed, all the storms of thirty centuries. Their battles also were more terrible and destructive than any now recorded; where millions would meet on a single field, and measure their strength hand to hand, in deadly conflict, till the broad fields were winrowed with the ghastly corpses of hundreds of thousands of men. The battles were, essentially, contests of physical force, and accordingly we shall find, that most of the victories recorded in ancient history were achieved by superiority in numbers and bod-holds," and, though leaving their bones to ily strength. bleach upon the battle-field, went up to re

But when twelve u lettered fishermen went forth, anointed with the Divine Sheckinah of Love, to proclaim to the grovelling sons of earth, a higher and purer life, the first revelation of mental power dawned upon the world and demonstrated that truth “is mightier than the sword." For, baptised with the fire of an unconquerable energy, they battled with weapons "not carnal, but mighty, through God, to the pulling down of strong

the earth had melted like snow-flakesRome, whose dominions extended from the North Sea to the burning desert, and from the pillars of Hercules to farthest Ind,-Rome who had put forth her mighty physical power to crush the despised fanatics, herself bowed before their silent but omnipotent influence, and submissively yielded the sceptre of the world into the hands of the followers of Jesus. Here was the first achievement of mind as mind. This result was brought about by no din of marshalling armies, or clangor of battles, but by the moral power of that spirit which taught men "to bless their persecutors,-to pray for those which despitefully used them, and when smitten on the one cheek, to turn the other also."

In those days too, arbitrary power reign-ceive a conqueror's reward. Scarcely had ed supreme. Its black pall had sunken down three centuries passed away when Rome, beover all the earth. Not even from the boast-fore whose invincible legions the armies of ed republics of Greece and Rome, was it ever ostracised. For there, as elsewhere, the neck of the masses were bowed down for their rulers to tread upon. They were "held and reputed to be" made by God, to do only the beck, and tremble only at the nod, of those in authority over them. The masses, ever form "the people:" and when they are oppressed and degraded, no matter how exalted, the privileges and character of the few, the Goddess of Liberty forswears their homage, and disowns their false allegiance.Thus under the governments at that time the nod of the ruler called forth the millions of his paltry subjects, to pour out their blood and life upon the battle field at his bidding, or to toil unhonored, and unrequited, to rear temples, palaces, and mausoleums, to im. But in the ages that followed this, the mortalize his name. Might made right, thro' world again sunk towards its former level.— all these ages. The sword was "the author and Force again ruled the nations, and the politfinisher" of all law and polity; and its glea-ical, moral and intellectual elements, slept mings struck an abject fear through the hearts profoundly over the face of the dead sea of of millions. Government was then most humanity. True, the pseudo-civilization of truly and fully a reign of force. Principles Chivalry and the Crusades arose; but neithhad yet obtained no ascendency over the er its rise nor progress stirred the fountains

of the great deep. It played only with the terial, but of the spiritual. Next came the surface, and left the masses to be crushed discovery and application of the power of still, by the powers above them. Yet occa- steam, which has worked such a mighty resional fitful gleams of light would flash out, volution in the social condition of mankind. revealing a higher power than dwelt in the Again follows the discoveries and inventions arm or edict of potentate or parliament; and connected with electricity and its applicawhich, living inherent in his mental and mo- tions, which the wisest of the ancients would ral nature, might be shared equally as well have received as proof positive that 66 the by peasant as by prince, and revealing itself Gods had come down to men." And expefull as often in the lowly as in the lofty.-rience teaches us, that in the unrevealed fuGallileo, by this power, pierced the heavens, ture, there yet exist wonders still more magand revealed the laws, the structure, the har-nificent and wonderful, to fill out a list which mony, and the infinite extent of God's great creation, demonstrating the wisdom of the ages before him to have been but folly. And for it, force put her heel upon him and his truths, and thought to crush them together in the dust. Thus too, a few simple peasants in the mountains of France and Italy, pre-self of their action, as to control the materiserved pure in their hearts and lives, the spirit and practice of the religion of Christ though Popes and Emperors, with armies at their heels, and murderous hatred in their hearts, sought for centuries, to blot them from the earth.

Yet notwithstanding these and other noble exceptions, torpidity was fast seizing the mind of man when stout-hearted Luther a

rose,

and anointed and commissioned by the Most High God, blew a blast that startled the nations, and awoke sturdy echoes in a thousand brave hearts. And immediately at this trumpet call, a moral revolution marched over Europe, inferior in power and extent, only to that which overturned Pagan Rome. The people broke loose from the thrallom that bound them, and all the physical power of Priests and Kings could not bind their spirits, nor sweep back the uprising waves of free religious thought and action.

And with this revival of moral life and power, came a rejuvenescence of mentality: and then commenced a series of intellectual triumphs, which have been going on ever since. First the printing-press' leaped from the brain of man, the first in a new series of 'wonders of the world," the embodiment, not of force, but of intellect, not of the ma

shall as far transcend those of olden time, as mind and its capabilities transcends matter. Even now, each year and each day, is giving new proofs of the power of mind to penetrate beneath the surface of things, scan the laws that bind the universe, and so avail it

al world, and accomplish the most stupendous physical results without the direct agency of its bodily strength. Just here lies one of the characteristics which essentially distinguishes this from the early ages. The stupenduous physical results which they accomplished, were accomplished mostly by bodily strength-by the use of bone and sinew, nerve and muscle. But the stupenduous results now accomplished—and not these only, but many of the minor results-are accomplished by superior intelligence,laying its finger upon the elements of nature, and commissioning them under the operation of their own laws, to do its bidding. Thus far, then has the civilization of this age progressed beyond that of former ages. But the moral world also, has not been without progress since the days of Luther.

When abstract principles have power so to control large bodies of men, as to cause them to abjure sensual, and even social and intellectual pleasures-to renounce friendships, home, liberty, and even life itself, it is truly one of the highest exhibitions of the ascendency of the spiritual over the material. Of this, the reformation was itself a remarkable example; and similar ones of more or less power have succeeded each other since. At hat time, thousands in every country of Eu

Labor, to transfer them to iron fingers provided by science and art, with Thought as the master workman. And not less busy is it, in searching every nook and corner of mor

confiscation, imprisonment in every science, in morals, in politics, and rope, braved banishment, death, and even the more terri- in reform, the war cry is: Onward! Its tireble horrors of the inquisition, for the right less energy of intellect, is piercing the heavto serve God in another way than that pre-ens, and penetrating the bowels of the earth, scribed by the priests Shortly after, the scanning all the phenomena of nature, and Puritans voluntarily exiled themselves from in the labratory of Thought, tracing out the all they held dear, and set out on an enter- hidden laws that govern them. And not onprise which was then regarded as even wild-ly this, but it is stretching steam, and lighter than would now be the proposition to setning tracks, in every direction, "to the ends tle in the primitive forests of Australia.- of the earth" In every department of inAnd a century and a half later, three mil-dustry it is taking tasks from the hands of lions of people, in the land to which they fled, sundered ties as dear to them, as the union of our States to us now, and faced the horrors of war, and the fearful risk of inglorious defeat, merely for the sake of an ab-al, social and political Science. All the rela stract principle. In England still later, the tions of man to man, of men to govern principles involved in the Slave Trade, and ments, and governments to men, and of comChattel Slavery, obtained such an ascenden-munities and nations to each other, undergo cy over the public mind, and created such an excitement, that the swelling waves overbore the love of wealth and the pride of power, and compelled that ancient aristocratic government to abolish them, despite its re-abuse of every kind, in every land. And luctance. And in our own country, how many have reason to bless the power of principles, as exhibited in the Temperance Reformation, in delivering them from degrading thraldom, and saving them from a drunkard's grave, or from poverty, heart-break, and ru

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When we turn to history, and inquire of her, if any such moral conquests were won in the early ages, her responses are silent.The light, which alone can reveal to man his true nature, powers and capabilities, glimmered lamp-like for ages, only on the plains of Palestine. The rest of the world was shrouded in the densest gloom. The human mind, abused by every form of degradation, "had not so much as heard whether there be any" such thing as principle. Not a whisper was then heard, against any outrage up on justice and right, the innocent or defenceless.

But the present is more strongly characterised by the ascendency of mind than any former age. Its restless and perpetual agitation is passing to a proverb. In every art,

the strictest scrutiny. The conscience of humanity, arousing itself from the lethargy which has enwrapped it for ages, begins to utter its stern protest against wrong and

though seemingly feeble, it is more felt and feared, by the authors and perpetuators of such systems than the marshalling of mightiest armies. Else why their hot haste and mighty effort to crush free thought and free speech. But louder and clearer every year, I above the din that seeks to drown it, rises, and shall rise, the voice of conscience as the voice of God, forewarning them of a certain doom, by the truth of principles, eternal as God's throne. Thus is it with American Slavery. The agitation concerning it grows stronger every day. It occupies more time, thought and attention than any other subject. Scarce a paper is printed, or a speech made without more or less reference to it:while it has come to pass, that more books are sold relating to this than ever were, in the same time, relating to any other subjec Its doom has been written by God in the nature of man, and time will surely bring it to pass.

Thus is it in all lands, upon all questions of right against might. Thus is it in the natiors of Europe, where despots are striving

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