TO EDITORS - the Advocate is sent in the hope that they will in their own columns use its contents, in whatever way they may think best, to diffuse as much light as possible on the subject to which it is devoted, and thus help form a public sentiment that shall gradually supersede war by introducing better means for the settlement of national disputes. TO MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL - the Advocate is occasionally sent without charge. We hope it will be welcome, and lead them to examine and advocate the great cause which it pleads. Sent gratis to every member of the Society, to contributors of one dollar or more a year, to every minister who preaches annually on the subfect, and takes up a collection for the cause, and also to the Library or Reading Room of every College and Theological Seminary, to be preserved for permanent use. PUBLICATIONS BY THE SOCIETY. THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE, monthly, or a double number in two months, making a volume in two years, at $1 00 in advance for two years. Prize Essays on a Congress of Nations, 8vo., pp. 706. Ladd's Essay on a Congress of Nations, 8vo., pp. 196,. Book of Peace, 12mo., pp. 606. The Society's Tracts, bound, Peace Manual, by Geo. C. Beckwith, 18mo., pp. 252,. Manual of Peace, by Prof. T. C. Upham, 18mo., pp. 212,. $300 1 00 25 The Right Way; a Premium Work on Peace, by Rev. Joseph A. Collier. 16 mo., pp. 303. Issued by the Am. Tract Society, as one of its Evangelical Family Library Volumes. .... Review of the Mexican War, by Hon. Wm. Jay. 12mo., pp. 333, Inquiry into the Accordancy of War with Christianity, by Jonathan Dy. mond. 8vo., pp. 168.. 25 The War-System, by Hon. Charles Sumner; with Judge Underwood's Report 8vo., pp. 32. ($250 per 100,) 8vo., pp. 16....... Le Monde; or, In time of Peace prepare for War, by Hon. Amasa Walker.... 252250 FORM OF BEQUEST.—I give and bequeath to the American Peace Society, incorporated by the Legislature of Massachusetts, the sum of dollars, to be paid in months after my decease, for the purposes of said Society, and for which the receipt of its Treasurer for the time being shall be a sufficient discharge. Be very careful to give the Society its exact name, and have the Will drawn in the way, and attested by the number of witnesses, required by the laws of your State, or your purpose will very probably be defeated. POSTAGE. -In Mass. 3 cents a year; elsewhere in U. S. double this. The law allows no more. GEO. C. BECKWITH, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY, to whom may be sent all communications designed for the Society. THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE. MAY AND JUNE, 1860. WILLIAM JAY: LATE PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY. Extracts from the Discourse on his Virtues and public Services, by Geo. B. Cheever, D. D. We have reason to thank God for every good man, whose life and character death has sealed, secure from change, for posterity. We have reason to thank God for every measure of greatness, intellectual, and of position and influence, circumstantial, which are as the propelling forces and machinery of a rocket that carry the light high into the heavens. The beneficent lustre of a good man's example, placed so loftily by position and influence, does not fall when the scaffolding is taken away, but remains, and shines the brighter and more independent and permanent. From beginning to end, the life of Judge Jay was a great and precious example of public and private virtue. He was one of those whose timely presence might have saved an outcast nation. “Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find A MAN, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it." Such a man was Judge Jay; one who, like Abraham, might plead for Sodom; a man of incorruptible principle, a man of tried and steadfast in |