THE FOLLOWING POPULAR WORKS, AMONG OTHERS, ARE FOR SALE BY THE Reformed Church Publication Hoard, 907 ARCH STREET, PHILADELPHIA. 66 COMPANION OF PRAISE.” A COLLECTION OF HYMNS SET TO MUSIC, ADAPTED TO SUNDAY SCHOOLS, PRIVATE FAMILIES, AND DEVOTIONAL MEETINGS. By DAVID VAN HORNE. Carefully revised and much improved edition. Whilst unction and spirit are preserved, everything light or frivolous is avoided. A number of choice Hymns rendered into good English, have been transferred from the German, along with the Music. A full and comprehensive Index, adapting it to the Church year, has been appended, making it a suitable adjunct to "Hymns and Chants." Its general introduction must help to improve the style and add to the permanent force of the music in our Sunday Schools. Sinai and Zion; or, A Pilgrimage through the Wilderness to the Land of Promise. Interesting, instructive, and highly popular notes of travel made by an intelligent observer, containing 543 pages, with illustrations. Price, $2.00. Wayside Gleanings in Europe. Whilst the contents are gleanings by the wayside, they are by no means common-place. They embody the observations of a cultivated and discriminating mind, presented in an attractive and forcible style. The work is destined to be useful as well as popular. It contains 462 pages, and sells for $2.00 per copy. REV. DR. G. B. RUSSELL'S WORK, Creed and Customs. A popular Hand Book treating of the chief Doctrines and Practices of the Reformed Church in the U. S. The work is what its title indicates. It contains 467 pages, and sells at $2.00 per copy. The above three works are suitable for canvassing. To such as may wish to procure them for this purpose, a liberal reduction will be made. REV. DR. HARBAUGH'S WORKS. These are Always on Hand, such as HEAVEN," "HEAVENLY RECOGNITION," "HEAVENLY HOME," "TRUE GLORY OF WOMAN," UNION WITH THE CHURCH," "GOLDEN CENSER," ," "YOUTH IN EARNEST," "CHRISTOLOGICAL THEOLOGY," "HARFE," (Pennsylvania German Poems), &c., &c. ADDITIONAL. The Board Keeps Constantly on Hand the different books used in the Reformed Church in the U. S., besides books for libraries, and other requisites for Sunday Schools, also a GENERAL SUPPLY OF STATIONERY, and other articles in their line. Any work published sent by mail, postage prepaid, on receipt of advertised price. All orders should be addressed to the REFORMED CHURCH PUBLICATION BOARD, as given above. PROSPECTUS FOR THE GUARDIAN: A MONTHLY MAGAZINE Devoted to the Social, Literary and Religious Interests of Young Men and Ladies, and to the Sunday-School Cause. Rev. B. BAUSMAN, D. D., Editor. THE GUARDIAN enters upon its XXVIIIth volume, on the first of January 1877. It has a sufficient hi Prof J S Stahr ich ite character, and to show its fruits. In its changes are proposed. The True, ble error and sin are always the ted, as heretofore, to the Rev. B. principles, purpose the Beautiful, and Dec 77 same. Its editorial managemen BAUSMAN, D. D., whose name, of itself, the publishers regard as the most satisfactory guarantee of the high tone and general interest which should characterize the family magazine. THE GUARDIAN continues to be published by the REFORMED CHURCH PUBLICATION BOARD. It compares favorably with other publications of the kind, and has earned for itself a reputation which may well be coveted. The publishers will continue to use a superior quality of paper; and do all in their power, in co-operating with the Editor, to render THE GUARDIAN acceptable to its subscribers. This Magazine will be mainly devoted, as heretofore, to the highest interests of the young, at the most solemn and interesting period of their life. It will offer its friendly counsels to them in an earnest, though free and cheerful way. It will solemnly seek to warn them against the wrong, and affectionately lure them to the right. The Editor will endeavor to make its contents true, pure, fresh, and healthy as the morning of life. It will particularly urge self-culture and early piety as of the highest importance, and cultivate the home feeling as a sacred element in social purity and peace. It will seek to move in the element of its motto:— "Life-Light-Love." In addition to its usual variety of reading matter, THE GUARDIAN will hereafter appropriate at least ten pages of each number to the interests of the SundaySchool cause. It will aim to serve as an efficient helper of Sunday School Teachers, and thus meet a want which has long been felt in the Reformed Church. THE GUARDIAN contains thirty-two pages monthly, making a handsome Volume of three hundred and eighty-four pages at the end of the year. Pastors who receive this Prospectus are requested to hand it to some active member of the Church or of the Sunday-School, who will procure subscribers for THE GUARDIAN. We respectfully ask all Young Men and Ladies to aid us in increasing our circulation. It will be an easy thing for them to raise a club among their companions. Specimen numbers sent when requested. TERMS-ONLY $1.50 A YEAR-IN ADVANCE. The Club-rates for Sunday School Teachers, and the terms for the Lesson Leaves, are as follows: For 5 copies to one address, for one year. $7 00 The Lesson Papers will be sold separately, at 75 cents for 100 copies of a single issue. For any less number, one cent will be charged for each copy. In each case, the money must accompany the orders. Discontinuances.-To insure a discontinuance, written notice must be sent direct to the publishers before the close of the year, and all arrearages paid. If the notice be received after one or more numbers of a new year have been sent, the subscriber will be charged for the full year thus commenced. ADDRESS REFORMED CHURCH PUBLICATION BOARD, Publishers, No. 907 Arch Street, Philadelphia. Wm. Stough (2), S. Bair, J. F. Dieffenbacher, J. Dutrer, Mrs. J. S. Wagner, J. G. Klapp, S. P. Kersteler, Miss M. C. Cronemiller, S. Bair, A. Bonnet, L. Kern, A. J. Eyerly, Mary Riegel, D. Miller, R. Jones, M. E. Barr, S. H. Eschbach, C. W. Truxall, A. J. Eyerly, Mrs. C. Prugh, Mary Stitzer, Mrs. E. J. Treichler. TO OUR PATRONS. The "Guardian" will hereafter be mailed to subscribers by means of Dick's patent Mailer. Hence the date to which they have paid will invariably accompany the name. Accordingly, the acknowledgment of monies received will hereafter be discontinued. Each subscriber can know exactly how his account stands. Those who are in arrears will please forward the amount due without delay. Address REFORMED CHURCH PUBLICATION BOARD, 907 Arch Street, Philadelphia. This number will close the present volume of the GUARDIAN. We remind our subscribers of this, in order that they may attend to the renewing of their subscription in time. Many Sunday-Schools take the GUARDIAN in clubs of fifty, and some even of a hundred. In this way they can get it at cheaper rates. If possible these clubs ought to be gotten up before the end of the year or early in January. In most SundaySchools the teachers and larger scholars can easily raise a club of from twentyfive to fifty subscribers. Let it be done. Dr. von Bethman Hollweg. BY THE EDITOR. NO. 12. Bethman Hollweg, at a great expense, for his summer residence. In this quiet, secluded mountain home, this great and good man peacefully fell asleep in Jesus on the 14th of July last, having passed beyond the age of fourscore years. Born of a noble family he was early surrounded by all the temptations to which wealth and high social position expose the young men of Germany. He, however, had the singular good fortune to fall into the hands of Christian teachers. Among these was the distinguished geographer, Karl Ritter, who continued through life one of his warmest friends. To Gossner, the well-known divine, who kindled the flame of faith in the minds of many Statesmen and Theologians of two generations, he was indebted for his first abiding religious impression. After him, good Dr. Wichern, still in his old The vine-clad mountain banks of the age zealous in works of active charity, Rhine are strewn with many a noted aided to foster and develop his religious castle. Some of these are in ruins, life. Dr. von Bethman Hollweg studied others have been rebuilt, but so as to pre-law, became an eminent jurist and statesserve the former original structure, put up centuries before. For, around these castles cluster many stories of German daring and heroism; stories, too, of lovers and their romantic adventures. As the traveler stands on the deck of a Rhine steamer, with his open Guidebook in hand, he watches every new turu as the ship winds around the many angles of the tortuous river. Thus, among others, his attention is called to the Castle of Rheineck, on the left bank of the Rhine, between Coblentz and Bonn. It is embowered among forest trees, high up the mountain. Only part of it can be seen rising above the tall tree tops. From a small hamlet, where the Rhine steamers land, a carriage road winds up along the wooded mountain side. The castle consists of an ancient watch tower, and a modern castellated residence adjoining it. The latter was built by Dr. von man. He was in the Christian sense a scientist, and a warm friend of the fine Arts. Artists young and old found a sympathizing supporter in him. Frederick William IV., of Prussia, the brother of the present head of the German Empire, sought men of known piety as his advisers and co-workers. Among others he selected von Bethman Hollweg as his prime Minister. In this responsible office he was bitterly maligned by the enemies of Christianity. When the Revolution of 1848 broke out the upheavals of European society brought the elements hostile to a true faith to the surface. As a wise Christian statesman he saw and felt the need of marshalling the friends of Christ on one common platform of faith. This led to the organization of The German Evangelical Church Diet, and von Bethman Hollweg was chiefly instrumental in its |