The farmer and the farmer's wife sit by the fire at home, Hark! hark! the music of the bells. A way we go, away! We'll find a welcome at the end, a welcome and a song! Around our father's cheerful hearth the yule log sparkles bright, And happy faces gather there to spend the Christmas night. We'll join them ere the week be old; bring out the flying sleigh. Hark! hark! the music of the bells. Away we go, away! A LITTLE ACT OF KINDNESS. One dull Saturday night I sat by my window watching the people as they passed to and from the market, where was a store of good things for the Sabbath's eating. The wind blew hard, and the rain was beginning to patter against the window panes, and make large drops upon the pavement. It was not very pleasant to be out of doors; but food must be had, and all classes of persons were hastening to get it. Soon I noticed two little colored girls hurrying past with an empty basket, and I heard one of them say; "Oh, be quick, for it is going to rain hard, and the chips will be all wet." "Yes, I'm coming in a minute," said the other who lingered behind,-for what purpose, do you think? Leaning against the lamp-post at the corner of the street was a poor old woman, bent with age and infirmities. In one hand was her market-basket, in the other a bundle, and she was trying to open an umbrella. The wind blew against her, the bundle slipped from her poor old fingers, rolling into the gutter, and the umbrella would not come open. But the quick feet and fingers of this little girl soon set all things right. First, she hastened to rescue the bundle, and restore it to its owner; then opened the umbrella and placed it securely in the old woman's hands. She waited for no more, hastening on after her companion; but, amid the falling rain, I heard the old woman say: "God bless you, my child!" Ah! it was a little deed, but done so cheerfully and quickly that I knew the child had a kind heart. Was the act not seen and noticed by our Father in Heaven, and will He not bless the child who helps the aged and infirm ? Dear little ones, do not let one chance of helping another, or of doing good, pass by. If your eyes are open, you will see these opportunities every day, and O, how happy you may make your own heart, and the heart of some other, while your dear Father in Heaven will smile upon your efforts. A BEAUTIFUL, TOUCHING INCIDENT. The Bible tells us that woman is to be a help-meet to man, and the man is to be the support of the woman. To make married life a source of happiness, affection must rule the hearts of both. The married pair must be mutual helpers, one to the other. Then the conjugal state becomes a smooth and pleasant road, fringed with fragrant flowers, which bloom even in the depth of the winter of adversity and sorrow. "I have read," says the author of a recent work, "a beautiful illustration of this point: A lady, travelling in Europe, visited, with her brother, a town in Germany, and took lodgings with a remarkable couple, an aged man and woman. They were husband and wife. They lived by themselves, without child or servant, subsisting on the rent accruing from the lease of their parlor and two sleeping rooms. The lady. in giving an account of the person, says: When we knocked at the door for admittance, the two aged persons answered the knock together. When we rang the bell in our rooms, the husband and wife invariably came, side by side. And our requests were received by both, and executed with the utmost nicety and exactness. The first night, having arrived late by the coach, and merely requiring a good fire and our tea, we were puzzled to understand the reason of this double attendance." "When the time to retire came the lady was surprised to see both husband and wife attending her to her chamber, and, on looking with some seriousness toward the husband, the wife, noticing her embarrassment, said to her, 'No offence is intended, madam, my husband is stone-blind.' The lady began to sympathize with the aged matron on the great misfortune of having a husband quite blind. The blind man exclaimed: 'It is useless for you, madam, to speak to my wife, for she is entirely deaf, and hears not a word you say!' Says the lady boarder, Here is an exemplification of the divine law of compensation. Could a pair be better matched? They were indeed 'one flesh.' He saw through her eyes, and she heard through his ears. Ever after it was interesting to me to watch the aged man and his aged partner in their inseparableness. The sympathy for each other was as swift as electricity, and this made their deprivation as nothing. This beautiful domestic picture would only suffer from any words of comment."Lutheran Observer. MEMORIAL OF GRATITUDE.-A very poor and aged man, busied in planting and grafting an apple tree, was rudely interrupted by this interrogation: "Why do you plant trees, who can not hope to eat the fruit of them?" He raised himself up, and, leaning upon his spade, replied. "Some one planted trees for me before I was born, and I have eaten the fruit, I now plant for others, that the memorial of my gratitude may exist when I am dead and gone."-Anon. DEWDROPS OF THE LAW OF KINDNESS. NO. 10. horse. They were, as friends, one in life, one in death; and (IN SHORT WORDS FOR LITTLE CHILDREN.) BY ELIHU BURRITT. THE DUTCH BOOR AND HIS HORSE. I know not which a kind man can make his best friend, a dog or a horse. He can make both love and serve him with a faith and trust which should be his joy and pride, as well as his good, to gain. When I was a small boy and went to school, too young to read, I heard a thing read of a horse that made both my cheeks wet with hot tears. The man who owned the horse lived at the Cape of Good Hope, and was called a Dutch boor, or a poor man of Dutch blood who was born on the soil of that hot land, and tilled it with the plow and hoe. He was a kind man at heart, though rough in look and speech. He loved his mare and she loved him, and was with him by day and near him by night. She was proud to have him on her back, and would dash through swamps, ponds, and fire, too, if he wished it. But one day came that was to prove the faith and love of her stout heart and the soul of the man. A great storm came down on the sea. The waves roared and rose as high as the hills. Their white tops foamed with rage at the winds, that smote them with all their might. The clouds flapped them with black wings. Night drew near, and it was a scene to make one quake with fear. Right in the midst of all this rage and roar of wind and sea, a great ship, with sails rent and helm gone, came in sight. It rode on the high, white waves, straight on a reef of rocks too far from the shore to reach it with a rope. The ship was full of young and old, whose cries for help could be heard, loud as was the voice of the storm. Their boats were gone like the shells of eggs. There was no wood nor time to build a raft. The waves leaped on the ship like great white wolves bent on their prey. How could one soul of them all be saved? The men on shore could but look on the sad sight. They could give no help. They had no boat nor raft; and their hearts were sick in them. Then the Dutch boor was seen to draw near at full speed on his horse. Down he came to the beach, nor did he stop there one breath of time. He spoke a word to her which she knew, and with no touch of whip or spur, she dashed in and swam the sea to the ship's side with a rope tied to her tail. She wheeled and stamped her way on the white surge with a row of men to the shore. There she staid but for a breath. At the soft word, and touch she knew so well, she turned and once more plowed through the surge to the ship, and brought back a load of young and old. Once more she stood on the beach, amidst tears of joy that fell from all eyes. She stood there weak, as wet with sweat as with the sea. both might well have place and rank with the best lives and deaths we read of in books for young or old. JESUS THE CHILDREN'S FRIEND. BY J. E. H. Within the Saviour's circling arms Of such, He said, my kingdom is, That kingdom has not changed since then, And I a little child can come And tell Him all about myself My books, my friends, my play. And He will be as glad to hear For heaven, where the Saviour lives, And every time I say my prayers Puts round about me His strong arms, And then, when I am good and kind, I know it makes Him sad. Dear Jesus, take me in thine arms Hartford, Conn. Trust God to weave your little thread into the great web, Never fail to do that good which lies next to your hand, though the pattern shows it not yet. The grand harvest of the ages, shall come to its reaping, and the day shall broaden itself to a thousand years, and the thousand years shall show themselves, as a perfect and finished day.-MacDonald. THE ANGEL OF PEACE, four pages monthly. 66 to one address, 66 15 cents. $1. The Advocate of Peace, 16 pages monthly. We will send for gratuitous distribution copies of the Angel, a fresh and beautiful paper, at the rate of 50 cents a hundred. Letters in relation to publications, donations, agencies, etc., from the astern States, should be directed to Rev. J. B. Miles, Secretary; or Rev H. C. Dunham, Office Agent, at 36 Bromfield St., Boston. -twelve cents per The night fell down fast on the ship. There were still PUBLICATIONS OF THE AM. PEACE SOCIETY. a few more left on it, and their cries for help came on the wind to the shore. The thoughts that tugged at the brave man's heart will not be known in this world. The cries from the ship He could not bear to hear pierced it through and through. them. He spoke a low, soft word to his horse. He put his hand to her neck, and seemed to ask her if she could do it. She turned her head to him with a look that meant, "If you wish it, I will try." He did wish it, and she tried, to the last pulse of her heart. She walked straight out in the wild sea. All on shore held their breath at the sight. She was weak POSTAGE. Postage always paid at the office of deliverybut brave. Now and then the white surge buried her head; year per single copy; for Clubs, one cent for every four ounces. then she rose and shook the brine out of her eyes. Foot by foot she neared the ship. Now the last man had caught the rope. Once more she turned her head to the beach. Shouts and prayers came from it to keep up her strength. was for a life she loved more than her own. She broke her REV. HOWARD MALCOM, D. D., LL.D., President. veins for it half way 'tween ship and shore. She could lift PROF. ALPHEUS CROSBY, Chairman of Executive Committee. her feet no more. Her mane lay like black sea-weed on the REV. JAMES B. MILES, Cor. Secretary and Assistant Treasurer. waves while she tried to catch one more breath. Then, with a groan, she went down with all the load she bore, and a wail REV. H. C. DUNHAM, Recording Secretary and Office Agent. went out from the land for the loss of a life that had saved REV. DAVID PATTEN, D. D., Treasurer. from death near a ship's crew of men. The tug CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AM. PEACE SOCIETY. REV. B. A. CHASE, General Agent for the East. Thus dared and died in the sea the brave Dutch boor and his L. H. PILLSBURY, General Agent for the West. RECEIPTS FOR DECEMBER, 1872. "REASON VERSUS THE SWORD!" BATH. MAINE. Charles Crocker........ NEW YORK. $20 00 KNOWLESVILLE. From estate of Wm. Knowles, To the Editor of The Advocate of Peace: DEAR SIR-One of the greatest wants that I have felt in by J. F. Sawyer, Esq.....$300 00 my peace labors for the past five years is a good supply of 2.00 Wm. F. Root. Ebenezer Potter.. 5.00 VERMONT. INDIANA. MONKTON. Henry Miles. WEST CORNWALL. 2.00 RUSSIAVILLE. H. Bingham.. 3.00 Lemuel Middleton.. MASSACHUSETTS. Isaac Hollingsworth.. 3.00 But But our peace literature to put into the hands of reading and thinking men, that will have sufficient moral and literary weight, to command the attention of the most profound. The tracts and pamphlets we have had have been good-have indeed, many of them been jewels worth their weight in gold. hitherto nearly all our documents have been small. subject is of sufficient magnitude to occupy many octavo 500 volumes to give but a moderate discussion of its merits. And 300 one of the most encouraging signs is the announcement of the new volumes on peace that we have recently heard of both in this country and in Europe. I am glad to add one more to the 2.00 5.00 5.00 From estate of Robert Water- Total.. THE ANGEL OF PEACE. 57 77 .$1,175 56 This gem for the young is received with great favor and is already having a large circulation and will do good, sowing the gentle seeds of truth and peace. We want to increase our company of peace workers in all parts of the land, to canvass for the Angel to whom liberal premiums in splendid pictures will be given. REDUCED TERMS. Angel of Peace, four pages monthly. Single copies, per annum, 5 to 50 66 50 or more " G. P. Putnam's Sons, of New York, have just issued a volume of 470 pages, entitled "Reason and the Gospel against the Sword." I have made arrangements to give away about two or three hundred copies to leading journalists and literary men of the country, for investigation and criticism. I shall be surprised if this volume does not make some stir in the literary world. But rather than give my own opinion, I will beg to call attention to the following expressions from competent judges, viz : RICHMOND, IND., Nov. 14, 1871. "Having heard, read and examined a large portion of the manuscript, entitled Reason versus the Sword,' I desire to express my deliberate conviction that it is an unanswerable argument in favor of Peace, presenting it from the stand-point of Divine truth and that it is written in an able, scholarly and elegant manner. Now, at a time when the subject of Peace largely interests the minds of many, we think this proeach. duction of Rev. J. M. Washburn would be extremely useful. We commend it to the careful reader and seeker after truth. Very respectfully, to one address, 15 cents. 66 66 66 6 66 66 $1 The Advocate of Peace, 16 pages monthly. We will send for gratuitous distribution copies of the Angel, a fresh and beautiful paper, at the rate of 50 cents a hundred. Postage always paid at the office of delivery-12 cents per year per single copy-for Clubs, 1 cent for every 4 ounces. Now, friends, work for the Angel. To whom it may concern : Address, Rev. H. C. DUNHAM, ALBION, Oct. 4th, 1872. This may certify not only my faith in the fundamental principles of the American Peace Society as practicable, expedient and imperative, but also in the thorough good sense and ability of its accredited agent, Miss Jane E. Weeden. At a union meeting of all the churches of this village, held at the Presbyterian church, a few weeks since, she was listened to by a large and deeply interested audience. Ignoring all mere sentimentalism, and dealing in facts alone, her address throughout was replete with instruction. Believing as I do that no community can afford to have her pass through unheard, I most earnestly bespeak for her the pulpits and rostruins of this State. W. H. PERRINE, Prof. Hist. and Belles-lettres, Albion College. THE APOSTLE OF PEACE.-Memoir of William Ladd.-By John Hemmenway.-A most remarkable book of one of the greatest and best men that ever lived, well spiced with anecdotes, will be read with lively interest by the old and the young, and should be in every family and Sunday school in the land. This contains about 300 pages, with a fine likeness of Mr. Ladd. Substantially bound in muslin, $1.25. Will be sent by mail, postage paid, on reception of the price. Address Rev. H. C. Dunham, 36 Bromfield St., Boston. J. J. THOMAS, Assoc. Ed. Country Gentleman, Union Springs, N. Y., 8th Mo. 1871. "With considerable care I have examined parts first and second of Reason and the Sword,' by Rev. J. M. Washburn. It is a bold, scholarly and exceedingly able presentation of the before, demanding and receiving the attention of the people. writer's views on the subject-a subject now, more than ever Without endorsing every sentiment contained, or every position taken in the book, we desire to say that we regard the whole The book is the product of an earnest, penetrating, analytical, treatment of the subject as thorough, masterly and exhaustive. and at the same time reverent and devout mind. work, a living and important subject, and is eminently worthy It is a great of publication." REV. I. M. HUGHES, A. M. Pastor 1st Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Ind. This work can be had of the Publishers, G. P. l'utnam's Sons, New York City, or of the undersigned, for $2.00 per copy. Men who wish to be up with the times will do well to purchase and read every new work on this living theme. WM. G. HUBBARD, COLUMBUS, OHIO. SPECIAL NOTICE.--We regret to announce that in the great fire in our city the Lithograph stone from which our beautiful certificate of life membership is taken, was destroyed, consequently we shall not be able to furnish certificates until it can be reproduced which of course must require time. Address American Peace Society, Boston, sent by mail 25 for 15 cents, 100 for 50 cents, 250 for $1.00, 1000 for $3.00. Use them. We present above a specimen of a new pictorial envelope, which we are sure will be regarded as one of the most beautiful and expressive things of the kind. The Society has now four kinds of envelopes, three pictorial, and one other containing brief paragraphs in relation to war and the object of Peace Societies. They are not only envelopes, but peace tracts in miniature, and their use will promote the Cause perhaps a hundred or a thousand miles away. The price of these envelopes has been reduced to 15 cents a package, 50 cents a hundred, $ 1.00 for two hundred and fifty, and $3.00 per thousand. Being so cheap, and what almost every one has to purchase somewhere, we are selling thousands every week, and those who buy them are sending these messages of Peace all over the Continent. We respectfully request all who use envelopes and wish to do good, to send to our office in Boston for these kinds, which will be sent by mail at the prices named without cost to them for postage. DYMOND ON WAR. This remarkable work is receiving unwonted attention from the reading public. Orders come to the office almost daily for it. We are indebted to Mr. Robert Lindley Murray, one of the Trustees of the Lindley Murray Fund, of New York city, for a new grant of several hundred copies of this most excellent Peace Document. We call the special attention of ministers to the fact that it will be sent to them free, whenever they remit six cents postage. It is a book of 124 octavo pages. lis retail price 50 cents. Address all your orders to Rev. H. C. Dunham, 36 Bromfield St., Boston. TO THE FRIENDS OF PEACE IN THE WEST. Having been appointed by the American Peace Society a General Agent for the Western Department, a place made vacant by the resignation of Rev. Amasa Lord, of Chicago, I desire to say to the friends of the peace cause in the Western States that I have temporarily fixed the head-quarters of the Western Department at Manhattan, Kansas. The impulse given to the peace cause by the great "victory" at Geneva, together with the prospect of convening at an early day an International Peace Congress of eminent jurists, statesmen and philanthropists, is causing the East to come forward with alacrity to aid this greatest progressive movement of the age. Shall the West remain indifferent spectators? Never was there before so auspicious a moment to strike an effective blow for God and humanity, and whoever lends his aid in this glorious work shall be entitled, not only to the blessing pronounced upon the peacemakers, but to the admiration and gratitude of his fellow-men. Lecturers and ministers are wanted to preach and to teach the doctrines of peace, and with voice and pen enlighten the public mind, and unfold the nature and scope of the proposed movement; also there is urgent need of agents in every State and County to circulate the books and other publications of the Society, extend the circulation of the Advocate of Peace and obtain donations to carry forward the great enterprise. All friends of the cause in the West are invited to correspond freely with us regarding the progress of the work, and the measures to be inaugurated for its promotion. Persons willing to enter the service of the Society can ascertain the terms by addressing the undersigned to whom all money due the Society in the West, all unpaid subscriptions for the Advocate of Peace, and all donations designed for the Society's use should be directed, LEONARD H. PILLSBURY, General Western Agent American Peace Society, Manhattan, Kan. THE 6201.1 ADVOCATE OF PEACE. NATION SHALL NOT LIFT UP SWORD AGAINST NATION, NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANY MORE. EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS. HON. AMASA WALKER, North Brookfield, Mass. SPECIAL APPEAL OF THE EXECUTIVE COM- THE PEACE SOCIETY AND THE FIRE. this century, have also the disposition to help it forward. A JAMES B. MILES, Corresponding Secretary and Assistant Treasurer. GENERAL AGENTS. MEMBERSHIP. The American Peace Society is to be congratulated upon having enlisted in its service, as General Agents, Rev. B. A. Chase and L. H. Pillsbury. Mr. Chase has for his field of operations New England and Canada. Mr. Pillsbury's field is the part of our country west of New York and Pennsylvania. Mr. Chase's address is 39 Regent street, Boston Highlands. Mr. Pillsbury's, for the present, Manhattan, Kansas. Both of Among the sufferers by the great fire that has desolated these brethren are in their prime, and they bring to their great one of the richest portions of our city, is the American Peace work ability, zeal and ardent love for the cause. Let them have Society. We are devoutly grateful that the Wesleyan Building, the confidence, the sympathy, the prayers and the co-operation in which are our rooms, and which was in great danger at one of the Christian public, and great good may be expected from stage of the fire, was preserved. But the establishment of our their labors. printer, J. E. Farwell, Esq., in which were many of our stereotype plates, was consumed with all its contents. In several other ways our Society suffers severely, and by this great catastrophe has been deprived of funds to quite a large amount, which we expected to have received ere this, and which we are in pressing need of for the prosecution of the ordinary operations of the Society; but this loss is especially grievous to us now, as we are greatly enlarging our work, and are engaged in efforts for convening at an early day an International Peace Parliament or Congress, for the purpose of improving the golden opportunity furnished by the Geneva Arbitration, and other Providential circumstances. In view of these facts the Executive Committee earnestly appeal to the friends of peace in all parts of the country, to rally for the help of the Society in this exigency. Let all who are indebted for the Advocate promptly remit. Let all will become subscribers or donors, and induce others to become who have the ability to assist this Christian and philanthropic such. To subscribers it is sent until a request to discontinue is rightly considered second to no benevolent enterprise of received with the payment of all arrearages. cause, The payment of any sum between $2.00 and $20.00 constitutes a person a member of the Americ. n Peace Society for one year, $20.00 a life member, $50.00 a life director, and $100.00 an honorary member. The Advocate of Peace is sent free to annual members for one year, and to life members and directors during life. If one is not able to give the full amount of a membership, or directorship at once, he can apply whatever he does give on it, with the understanding that the remainder is to be paid at one or more times in the future. The Advocate is sent gratuitously to the reading rooms of Colleges and Theological Seminaries-to Young Men's Christian Associations-to every pastor who preaches on the Cause of Peace and takes a collection for it. Also, to prominent individuals, both ministers and laymen, with the hope that they |