Dr. Darwin even went so far as to say that hay that has been kept in stacks so as to undergo the saccharine process, may be so manged by grinding and fermentation with yeast, like bread, as to serve in part for the sustenance of mankind in times of scarcity.

To make rice bread, boil three parts of wheat flour and one part of rice, separately. Boil the rice well, squeeze out the water and mix the, mass with the wheat. The process is then the same as for common wheat bread. A pound and a half of flour mixed with half a pound of rice will produce a loaf weighing from three pounds to three pounds, two ounces, which is a greater gain than is got from wheat flour alone. Rice has also been tried in the same proportion with barley, and this makes a good bread for laboring people. Bread may also be made from buckwheat and the seeds and roots of several scores of plants. Good Housekeeping.

AN EXAMPLE FOR Boys. We have bad a lad in our employment, who during the epidemic of last summer, was almost at one moment, deprived of both his parents by cholera. The father in dying, left to his son, then almost fifteen years of age, a small house worth, perhaps, four hundred dollars. This house he rents to a family at a dollar a week, seventy-five cents of which is deducted for his board. He carries papers for us and for an evening journal, receiving for both, two dollars a week, which sum, with the two shillings of rent, he regularly deposits in the Saving's Bank, each Saturday night. The amount which he received for Carrier's Addresses on New Year's day, will clothe him very comfortably for the coming year, and he will soon be enabled to pay off a small arrear still due upon his house

and lot, which will leave that little property clear of incumbrance.

But the best of the story is, that the little fellow is very fond of school, and though obliged to be up at his labors before day-light, is always at his seat in the public school which he attends, at the ringing of the bell in the mornings. In the afternoon he is obliged to leave at recess, in order to attend to his duties on the evening paper.-Buffalo Courier.

KEEPING TO ONE THING. We earnestly entreat every young man, after he has chosen his vocation, to stick to it. Don't leave it because hard blows are to be struck, or disagreeable work performed. Those who have worked their way up to wealth and usefulness do not belong to the shiftless and unstable class, but may be reckoned among such as pulled off their coats, rolled up their sleeves, conquered their prejudices against labor, and manfully bore the heat and burden of the day.

Whether upon the old farm, where our fathers toiled diligently, striving to bring the soil to productiveness; in the machine-shop, the factory, or the thousand other business places that invite honest toil and skill, let the motto ever be, "Perseverance and industry." Stick to one thing, boys, and will have success. you

AN old gentleman once remarked, "Men do not gain anything by working on the Sabbath. I can recollect men who, when I was a boy, used to load their vessels down on the Long Wharf, and keep their men at work from morning to night on the Sabbath day; but they have come to nothing, and their children have come to nothing. Depend upon it, men do not gain anything, in the long run, by working on the Sabbath."

It is not our beliefs that frighten us half so much as our fancies.-0. W. Holmes.

EVERY noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.-Ruskin.

O GIVE thanks unto the Lord; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the people.-Psalm 105: 1.

WHEN you are swimming against the tide of public opinion, be assured that you are no dead fish, for they float with it.-Eliza J. Thompson.

THE Lord is capable of polishing his own instruments of service, however rusted and blunted by sin they may be.

MERCY puts an argument in the mouth of prayer, a glass to the eye of faith, and a harp in the hand of thankfulness.

FLESH is but the glass which holds the dust that measures all our time, which also shall be crumbled into dust.-George Herbert.

WE cannot be earnest about anything which does not naturally and strongly engage our thoughts. Far more than mere talents or acquirements, enthusiasm and energy in work carry the day.-Dr. Tulloch.

NOTHING impresses me so much about this temperance reform as the eternity of it. It goes on, and goes on, in our individual experience, like the golden ring of love itself, wherein there seems no beginning and no end to our joy.-Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

A MAN would himself be as much surprised as his neighbor would be, could he break open the portals of

his heart, and go down into its crypts and secret recesses, to find what awful possibilities of evil are lurking but the trumpet there, needing but the challenge to start forward.—Chapin.

IN LIGHTER VEIN.

THE latest fashion in trowsers is to melt a dude and pour him in hot.— Paris Beacon.

A COUNTRYMAN being requested to help a member of Congress out of a ditch, replied that he had no hand in state affairs.

AN Irish preacher, descanting on the strength of Sampson, said that with the jawbone of an ass he a

put thousand Philistines to the suroril.

DON'T laugh at the dude. He undoubtedly fills a place in the economy of creation. He is only one of the things whose reason for being is past finding out.

"WAS he drunk?" asked Recorder Swift, of a saloon-keeper, in a trial in his court yesterday. "Well, sir, he could stand up."

"When do you consider a man is drunk?" "When he goes down to the river to light his pipe."

A CHILD with no brains has just been born in Nebraska. We mention this simply to get ahead of the paragrapher who will say that if the child had had any brains it would have known better than to have been born where it was.

"I HAVEN'T had a bite for two days," pleaded a tramp. "Is it possible," answered the woman, with sympathy. "I'll see what I can do

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you in the way of a bite. Here Tige--Tige-" The tramp broke a two dollar gate getting away.

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MOST HEARTY THANKS. Those of our friends who have promptly remitted to us in answer to bills sent, will accept our ardent thanks. We speak sincerely and feelingly. Just think of your friend, sensitively alive in the wish to do right, and to meet all his obligations, writhing under an accumulation of such obligations, and the resources for discharging them scattered in littles over a vast extent of country,-can you not imagine how dear every name seems to him which he finds attached to a letter bearing a bank note in payment of his due to the MAGAZINE? All who have not thus responded, if they will consider what a pleasant thrill the sight of their remittances will give us, will attend to it, without fail, to-morrow.

A VERY SAD EXPERIENCE. There are experiences in life, that are so unexpected, and come with such crushing weight, that they almost take away our breath and leave us speechless. Such was the experience of Rev. Holmes Slade, of McHenry, Ills., when he

THE JOY OF CHRIST.

The love of Christ was wonderful; surpassing the love of woman. And his joy will be more wonderful, for it will spring from love's desired work. Oh! how deeply it was desired-perfected and completed.

And what can equal the joy of Christ over a world redeemed and saved? He tells us that there is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance. What then must be his joy when he sees the last lost one return to the Father? It will be glad tidings of great joy to all people; it will fill all heaven with songs of gladness forever. But it will be boundless, exhaustless, an ever new fountain of joy in the heart of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Master. It will be a rich and glorious reward for the agony of Gethsemane and the pains of Calvary. And as we press around him, and lave our purified lips in his exhaustless fountain of joy; as we learn the exhaustless songs of praise sung to him by angels and arch-angels, by cherubims and seraphims, what joy will thrill our souls, as we recall the blessed truth, that we

knew and confessed him here on earth? That here we accepted of his invitation, and remembered him in his appointed ways; that here we endeavored to be faithful to his truth in season and out of season; not for the purpose of gaining some worldly profit or advantage, but simply to gain Jesus Christ our Lord. That here we watched with prayer, and labored without hesitation or weariness, because we loved him so. Ah, to have such an experience then will be worth ten thousand worlds.

ABATED ZEAL.

In the early period of our denominational history, our best thinkers were eager to write and print. Zeal was fresh and therefore warm. Opposition was strong, and brethren suffered for the faith. As thought cost them personal sacrifices, they prized it the more; and for this natural reason, the disposition to defend the faith was the more intense. Hence, the Ballous and the Streeters "wrote for the papers." Then our periodicals almost edited themselves. Our thinkers quired no "drumming up," no teazing. The editor had to select from the best.

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But circumstances have changed; and while our strong men think as profoundly as ever, and know how to write better than ever before, they feel no spur to "write for the papers!"

A revival of this abated zeal is needed, and would be attended with blessed results. The idea that the Universalist pulpit, does away with the necessity, is a sad mistake. There are many thousands hungering for the bread of life, who have no pulpit nor minister, but the printed page. And the best thoughts, and the deepest feelings, of our ablest men, are greatly needed for them. And men who neglect to write, do not let their light shine as they should. Our brothers and sisters scattered abroad deserve their attention and are in need of it.

CHRIST'S WORK.

Christ works in men, as well as for men. His work is distinctive and conspicuous. He creates a society with a genius, not for art or literature, but for goodness. This is His unique work. He forms a new moral creation. The first century begins a new era, an era of men pre-eminent for their gentleness and strength, devotion to truth and right. Christ does not only aid in the ordinary moralties, but makes a race of men of penetrating and conspicuous goodness. These men have a radiance that is prophetic of more brilliance. As the star of morning leads on the day, so the era of midday splendour in goodness is heralded by the Christians of the past and pres ent. The day has yet to come, and it will come, though Christ's conquering dies. For there will be a final sovereignty of goodness. He who is made radiant as the star of the morning is clothed with the might of right, not the right of might, and He rules by the genial lustre of His goodness, and not by the iron strength of His robust will.

EDITORIAL JOTTINGS.

We have several articles in this issue of the MAGAZINE, that deserve special attention. And first among them, we mention the article by Rev. J. C. Adams, D. D., "It is Never too Late to Mend." Then, Our National Park, by Mr. Henry S. McLean, of this city, and several others. Do not fail to read this number with

care

-The worst skepticism-the skepticism the most to be feared, is homebred. Its father is dry stupid preaching, Its mother is bigotry and exclusiveness.

-Tidal-Waves in religion, cannot be depended on--for a reaction is quite sure to follow; and the church that is thronged to-day, in consequence of excitement, may be empty to-morrow in spite of all that can be done.

--A terse writer has well said: Onehalf the professed Christians amount to nothing. They go to church. They pay pew rents. They have a kind regard for all religious institutions. But as to any firm grip of the truth, any enthusiastic service for Christ, any cheerful self-denial, any over-mastering prayer, any capacity to strike hard blows for God, they are a failure. One of two things these halfand-half professors ought to do, either withdraw their name from the churchroll, or else go so near the fire as to get

warm.

-Plato says: "Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of the understanding."

-There are natures that can insulate themselves, and live upon the small island of their own affairs; and there are hearts that have an abundance of room for the distant, the poor, and the sorrowing.

-It is said, that when the sainted Dr. Guthrie lay on his death bed, he asked that a little child might come to him and sing. The old man's heart yearned after his child companions. And a child's clear voice, was the bell upon the horses which bore his chariot to heaven.

-It is said to be a fact, that while fewer women drink intoxicating drinks than men, yet a larger portion of those who drink become habitual drunkards. And that the common result, is the loss of virtue.

-Many parents sin against their children, by allowing their minds to be filled with false views of God, before they are old enough to ask, whether such views, are worthy to be applied to their Heavenly Father. If the instruction related to the character and conduct of the children's earthly father, it would be resented at once.

-The bitterness of bigotry, frequently crops out where least expected. The statement is published that recently a

temperance address was delivered in Omaha, in connection with the Women's Christian Temperance Union, by Rev. Mrs. Andrews (formerly Rev. Miss Mary Garard, a Universalist minister). An evangelical clergymen is reported to have said, "Mrs. Andrew's address is as far from us as heaven is from hell. I would about as soon think of inviting the devil into the church as to think of embracing the Unitarians or Universalists in this work."

-It is said to have been discovered, that this MAGAZINE, under its present management, is strictly denominational. We had more than half suspected that such was the case.

-Two of the founders of Spiritualism, Mrs. Katy Fox Jencken and Mrs. Margaretta Fox Kane (these were the first mediums) are said to have come out against it, and declare "that it is all humbug from beginning to end."

-The best way to induce young men to select the Christian ministry as a profession in life, is to keep the ministry pure and devoted, and give it an honest support for real labor faithfully done,

GENERAL CONVENTION.

The General Convention of the Universalist church, will meet in Chicago, October 24th; and one of the most important questions that will come before it, will be, the proposed substitute for the Winchester Profession of Faith.

And it should be kept in mind in this connection, that no State Convention, or body of churches in our denomination, has ever asked for a substitute or change. The request came originally, from Dr. Sweetzer of Philadelphia, and has been pressed with great earnestness by him. But his main objection has been to the single word restore.

At the last session of our General Convention a committee to whom the subject had been previously referred, re