MY THREE LITTLE TEXTS. I am very young and little; I am only just turned two; But I know three little verses, The first is "Thou God seest me." But the last one is the shortest; Such sweet verses from above! He knows the chapters I can't learn, Short easy texts on purpose For little ones like me. -Youth's Companion. THE APOSTLE OF PEACE. We are sure the children, as well as some of larger growth, will be pleased to read in the Angel some anecdotes of that great and good man, Wm. Ladd, the Apostle of Peace. Mr. Ladd, in his youth, was fond of gunning. One one occasion he had been out without finding anything at which to point his gun. As he was returning homeward he saw a robin singing in a tree. He lifted his gun and fired, bringing the bird to his feet. As it fluttered, dying, its reproachful eye 66 lifted to his seemed to say, "Why did you shoot me? Why did you shoot me?" He said to himself, I will never shoot another bird," and he never did. In the social circle, Mr. Ladd was the life of the party, full of fun and frolic. His natural temperament was of the most joyous kind. He played with the children as though he were one of them. Some one pleasantly remarked, "When you become a man you should put away childish things." He promptly replied, "Ah, I fear that I shall never be a man, I can never be anything more than a Ladd." Rev. Dr. Ide, of Massachusetts, Mr. Ladd, and a company of clergymen, were returning from New York city, when they held a peace meeting in the cabin of the steamer. In the course of the debate-pros and cons-Dr Ide proposed this question to whoever might answer it: "Man has two fists; and, when he is pressed or abused, he feels inclined to use them to defend himself. Now, what was man made so for? Mr. Ladd immediately sprang to his feet, in the best of humor, exclaiming, "I'll answer him, I'll answer him." And reaching out his two hands with fingers all spread out like claws, repeated from Dr. Watis: "Let dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so, Then looking around on the company like a father on his children, continued: But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise, Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes." This recitation in Ladd's comical manner brought down the house in a roar of laughter. 66 TRUE FRIENDSHIP.-Money can buy many things, good and evil. All the wealth of the world could not buy you a friend, nor pay you for the loss of one. "I have wanted only one thing to make me happy," Hazlett writes; but wanting that, have wanted everything.' And again, "My heart, shut up in the prison-house of this rude clay, has never found, nor will it ever find, a heart to speak to." We are the weakest of spendthrifts if we let one friend drop off through inattention, or let one push away another, or if we hold aloof from one for petty jealousy or heedless slight or roughness. Would you throw away a diamond because it pricked you? A friend is not to be weighed against the jewels of all the earth. If there is coolness or unkindness between us, let us come face to face and have it out. Quick, before love grows cold. Life is too hort to quarrel in." 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. POSTAGE.The postage on this paper is twelve cents a year on a single copy, and no more on eight copies, or any number between one and eight when sent to one address, than on a single one. This will be the rate of postage whatever the number sent in the package, in all cases to be paid quarterly or yearly in advance at the post-office of the subscriber. CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AM. PEACE SOCIETY. REV. HOWARD MALCOM, D. D., LL.D., President. J. H. Cobb, Esq.. C. C. Churchill... C. D. Gordon.. Edmund Quincy... L. H. Kingsbury.. E. W. Tait. Eliphalet Stone.. Dr. E. P. Burgess.. James Downing.. 5.00 OHIO. 2.00 2.00 4.00 H. B. Brown.. 5.00 Susan Brown.. 2.00 2.00 Lucetta Fawcett... Melinda Scheble........ PAGETOWN. Marcus Phillips.. 5 00 PICKERELLTOWN. 2.00 2.00 200 No. LEWISBURG. E. Torrey. Wm. H. Vose. E. F. Bailey.. Others.. 5.00 2.00 5.00 David Pettee.... 150 LEWISTOWN. Tyler Carpenter... No. BRIDGEWATER. NEW BEDford. S. G. Morgan. 2 00 2 00 GENERAL 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 4 00 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 these brethren are in their prime, and they bring to their great 5 00 work ability, zeal and ardent love for the cause. Let them have the confidence, the sympathy, the prayers and the co-operation of the Christian public, and great good may be expected from their labors. 10 00 5.00 4 00 5.00 ILLINOIS. 5.00 Myron Phelps, Esq...... 50 00 A TRIAL OF FIFTY YEARS.-The New York Observer has passed through the ordeal, and starts out anew on the second fifty years with a larger list of readers and more numerous friends than ever. Such a steady course of prosperity is unexampled, and inspires confidence. We heartily rejoice in the 300 great success of a paper which has always advocated those 200 sound principles that underlie the foundation of society and 200 good government. Orthodox in the truest sense, both in Chucrh and State, its influence is always good. We see its publishers 500 propose to give to every subscriber for 1873 an appropriately 10.00 D. R. Green... LYNN. Emerly Stanley. J. P. Stuart.. 100 00AMO. Augustine Jones, Esq....... 20 00 SWANSEA VILLAGE. Thomas Potter.. Darius Buffington.... FALL RIVER. Dr. J. L. Clarke.. Mrs. L. A. Borden. James Henry.. L Underwood.. RHODE ISLAND. NEWPORT. Isaac P. Hazard.. John Dixon. 2.00 5.00 2.00 1 00 PEEKSBURG. 2.00 2.00 5.00 2 00 FRIENDSWOOD. 2.00 Noah Kellum. 5 00 5 00 CLAYTON. 2.00 Addison Hadley. 8. 00 200 00 Coll. at Peace Meeting...... 32 28 IOWA. P. A. P. Lyon.... $3 a year. Sidney E. Morse & Co., 37 Park Row, New York. 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 2 00 contains about 300 pages, with a fine likeness of Mr. Ladd. Will be sent by mail, Substantially bound in muslin, $1.25. 100 postage paid, on reception of the price. 500 Dunham, 36 Bromfield St., Boston. 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. Its retail price 50 cents. Address all your orders to Rev. H. C, Dunham, 30 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 ineasures 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 Socicly, Manhattan, Kan. THE Int 13.1 ADVOCATE OF PEACE. ON EARTH PEACE,... NATION SHALL NOT LIFT UP SWORD AGAINST NATION, NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN War any more. 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 SPECIAL APPEAL OF THE EXECUTIVE COM- the part of our country west of New York and Pennsylvania. MITTEE THE PEACE SOCIETY AND THE FIRE. Mr. Chase's address is 39 Regent street, Boston Highlands. Mr. Pillsbury's, for the present, Manhattan, Kansas. Both of these brethren are in their prime, and they bring to their great work ability, zeal and ardent love for the cause. Let them have the confidence, the sympathy, the prayers and the co-operation of the Christian public, and great good may be expected from their labors. MEMBERSHIP. The payment of any sum between $2.00 and $20.00 constitutes a person a member of the American Peace Society for one year, $20.00 a life member, $50.00 a life director, and $100.00 an honorary member. Among the sufferers by the great fire that has desolated one of the richest portions of our city, is the American Peace Society. We are devoutly grateful that the Wesleyan Building, in which are our rooms, and which was in great danger at one stage of the fire, was preserved. But the establishment of our 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 ScThe Advocate of Peace is sent free to annual members for ciety; but this loss is especially grievous to us now, as we are one year, and to life members and directors during life. greatly enlarging our work, and are engaged in efforts for convenIf one is not able to give the full amount of a membership, or ing at an early day an International Peace Parliament or Con-directorship at once, he can apply whatever he does give on it, gress, for the purpose of improving the golden opportunity fur- with the understanding that the remainder is to be paid at one or nished by the Geneva Arbitration, and other Providential circum-more times in the future. The Advocate is sent gratuitously to the reading rooms of stances. In view of these facts the Executive Committee ear Colleges and Theological Seminaries-to Young Men's Chrisnestly appeal to the friends of peace in all parts of the country,tian Associations-to every pastor who preaches on the Cause to rally for the help of the Society in this exigency. Let all of Peace and takes a collection for it. Also, to prominent inwho are indebted for the Advocate promptly remit. Let all dividuals, both ministers and laymen, with the hope that they will become subscribers or donors, and induce others to beco e who have the ability to assist this Christian and philanthropic sach. To subscribers it is sent until a request to discontinue is cause, rightly considered second to no benevolent enterprise of received with the payment of all arrearages. REV. AND DEAR SIR: Office Am. Peace Society, 36 Bromfield St., A peculiar exigency exists in the operations of the American Peace Society. The recent successful termination of the Geneva Arbritration furnishes an opportune occasion for bringing the leading minds of all nations together in an INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS. For this reason, special contributions are needed at this time, as well as extraordinary efforts to arouse the people, and especially Christians of all denominations, to the importance of energetic and definite action with a view of creating perpetual peace among the nations. The officers of this Society present an urgent appeal to Pastors to secure from their respective churches, an especial contribution, as a thank offering, for the grand victory of Peace at Geneva and to aid the Society in this Christ-like and philanthropic work. *We would also invite each Pastor to preach a discourse upon the inspiring subject of Peace on the day the contribution is to be taken. Please notice the appended endorsement and commendation. HOWARD MALCOM, President. ALPHEUS CROSBY, Chairman Ex. Com. The undersigned, cordially approve of the great and beneficent work in which the American Peace Society is engaged, and especially the object of the proposed International Congress. JOHN T. HOFFMAN, Governor of New York. SIDNEY PERHAM, Governor of Maine. HARRISON REED, Governor of Florida. C. C. CARPENTER, Governor of Iowa. THE CALL FOR AN INTERNATIONAL PEACE CONGRESS. The undersigned, believing that the peace and well-being of nations, the best institutions and enterprises of Christian civilization, including all the great interests of humanity, demand a permanent guarantee against the peril and even possibility of war, regard the present as a favorable opportunity for convening eminent publicists, jurists, statesmen and philanthropists of different countries in an INTERNATIONAL PEACE CONGRESS, for the purpose of elaborating and commending to the governments and peoples of Christendom, an INTERNATIONAL CODE, and other measures, for substituting the arbitrament of reason and justice for the barbarous arbitrament of the sword. We do, therefore, unite in the call for such a Congress. The above has been signed by the following gentlemen, among others: Theodore D. Woolsey, D. D., LL. D., New Haven. Mark Hopkins, D. D., LL. D., Williams College. Emory Washburn, LL. D., Cambridge, Mass. Hon. Reverdy Johnson, Baltimore, Md. David Dudley Field, LL. D., New York. Hon. Gerritt Smith, Peterboro', New York. Hon. Peter Cooper, New York. George H. Stuart, Esq., Philadelphia. Howard Malcom, D. D., LL. D., Philadelphia. Hon. F. R. Brunot, Chairman Indian Commission, Pittsburg, Pa. Hon. Elihu Burritt, New Britain, Ct. Hon. Edward S. Tobey, Boston, Mass. Hon. G. Washington Warren, Pres. Bunker Hill Mt. As`tion. C. H. B. Fisher, Esq., Fredericton, N. B. T. H. Rand, Chief Superintendent Education, N. B. A. F. Randolf, Esq., Fredericton, N. B. J. B. Morrow, Esq., Halifax, N S. John S. Maclean, Esq., Halifax, N. S. D. Henry Starr, Esq., Halifax, N. S. M. H. Richey, Ex-Mayor, Halifax, N. S. Geo. H. Starr, Esq., Halifax, N. S. Jay Cooke, Esq., Philadelphia. John G. Whittier, Amesbury, Mass. Hon., Charles T. Russell, Cambridge, Mass. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Brooklyn, N. Y. Commendation of the Peace Cause by Prominent Men in the United States. "The cause of Peace we regard as an eminently philanthropic and Christian enterprise of great importance, and worthy of sympathy and support. It has already accomplished much good, and would doubtless accomplish vastly more, if it possessed adequate means. We think it deserves, as it certainly needs, a large increase of funds. The American Peace Society, charged with the care of this cause in our own country, and whose management has deservedly secured very general approbation, we cordially commend to the liberal patronage of the benevolent." A. P. Peabody, D. D. LL. D., Cambridge, Mass. Hon. Charles Sumner, LL. D., Boston, Mass. A. A. Miner, D. D., Pres't Tufis' College, Boston, Mass. Luke Hitchcock, D. D., Cincinnati, Ohio. Stephen H. Tyng, D. D., " 66 Howard Malcom, D. D, LL. D., Philadelphia. Bishop Thomas A. Morris, Springfield, Ohio Rev. T. D. Woolsey, D. D., LL. D., Ex-President Yale College E. O. Haven, D. D., Evanston, Ill. Hon. David Turner, Crown Point, Ind. R. M. Hatfield, D. D., Chicago, Ill. Hon. Wm. R. Marshall, Ex-Gov. of Minn. Rev. Noah Porter, D. D., LL. D., Pres. Yale College. Rev. Prof. Samuel Harriss, D. D., LL. D., Yale Theological Seminary |