Indiana, 1838. By these lines you may learn something of the gospel in these parts: during the last fifteen months I have been laboring in Owen, Monroe, Morgan and Clay counties, Indiana. About 270 persons have been immersed. The prospect of further success is still flattering, May the Lord prosper his good cause. JAMES M. MATTHEWS, Georgetown, Kentucky, July 26, 1838. We have a meeting in progress in this place, which commenced last Friday night. Thus far the prospects are encouraging. We have had ten confessions. Of those who have submitted, one is a most exemplary College student, and seven pupils from the Female Institution. We appointed the meeting without knowing that the Theatre was to commence the same night. Thank the Lord. The people were so disposed to hear the gospel, that they have failed to get an audience for several nights. I hope they are effectually silenced. A few days past I had a meeting 8 miles off, in this county, where eleven were added to the congregation, and three have been added since. I The Baptists took a bold stand there, and had commenced a week before, and have obtained from eighty to one hundred. They took them as fast as they could get them. They have learnt one lesson--that it is not safe for them to let the people mourn long hope they will yet leave them to love us as well as themselves. J. T. JOHNSON. Rocheport, Missouri, July, 1838. We must acquaint you with the fact that we had a very interesting aecting on the 29th of June in our town. Brother Thomas A. Allen and old brother B. W. Stone preached to an affentive audience; after which brother Allen gave an invitation to any that wished to confess the Lord, or to unite with our church; when ten persons approached him and took their seats. Three of the number confessed their faith in the Saviour of the world and were baptized-one of the three was a young daughter of mine. The other two, a young man and a Mrs. Preston. Those ten added to our number of menibers at Rocheport make it something like seventy-five. THOMAS HART. [News omitted shall appear in our next.] HYMN-BOOKS, TESTAMENTS, &c. HAVING Commenced the Book and Stationary Business in the city of Pittsburg wholesale and retail, we have undertaken to supply the community with the works of Alexander Campbell in the cheapest and best style. We have got the Hymn-Book in the most correct form in which it has yet appeared, neatly stereoty ped, and are printing a very handsome edition of it, which we propose selling at 25 cents per single copy in good common bind. ing. The 4th edition of the Pocket Testament, stereotyped, bound in the same style, we hall sell at the same price; or both bound in one volume, at 50 cents. Morocco and fancy binding according to order, and according to the style in which they are done up. "Christianity Restored' is almost out of print; so is the Family Testament and Owen Debate. We can furnish but a very few copies of these. Small orders for the M'Calla and Walker Debates on Baptism; also, the Catholic Debate, and Christian Preacher's Companion can he supplied. According to the demand for these works, almost sold off, we shall go on to prepare them with all despatch. Admonished by the many losses reported to us by our predecessors in this business, by sending books on commission and scattering them profusely over the United States. as did brother Campbell himself, being most of all desirous to find readers, we must manage this business as we manage our other business-sell cheap for cash, or on a short time. The usual and we will say liberal discounts will be given to those who buy to sell again; but we cannot send books on commission. As Pittsburg is visited once or twice a-year by Merchants from almost all the West and South-West, our brethren and friends who want books can send by them and have them forwarded in the regular way with their goods. Country Merchants will purchase from us if they are only often called upon for the books. We will make arrangements to have these books also kept for us in several cities, of which we shall give timely notice. We are desirous to render full satisfaction to the community in this business; and if got into the proper channel, we hope by unremitting assiduity and ponctuality, to uerit their approbation and support. FORRESTER & CAMPBELL, PREJUDICE-An Extract. WE hate some persons because we do not know them, and we will not know them beuse we hate them. Those friendships that succeed to such aversions are usually firm, for those qualities must be sterling that could not only gain our hearts, but conquer our prejudices But the misfortune is, that we carry these prejudices into things far more serious than our friendship. Thus, there are truths which some men despise, because ney have not examined, and which they will not examine, because they despise. There is one single instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracles; bat the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains. A GOOD SPECULATION. THE wise capitalists of this world do not invest all their fortunes in one sort of stocks.-— The most prudent and wealthy make many investments. Christians should imitate them. The Bank of Heaven has many and various offices open on earth, in which men can secure some property in heaven. "He that gives to the poor lends to the Lord," and The that winneth souls is wise." To feed, clothe, and educate the poor are obviɔus duties. To preach the gospel to the poor is one of the best investments of property, as I think, on earth. To qualify persons for eminent usefulness in the kingdom of Christ is also an excellent work. To come to the point: I know one young man of good parts, of an excellent spirit, desirous of being eminently useful in the kingdom of Christ. He is willing to devote himself wholly to the work of the Lord. He wants a good education. I have advised him to be a scholar, believing he may be a very useful man. He lacks the means at present. Two hundred dollars a year for three years would be necessary to qualify him for the place I think he is designed to fill. I want to take some stock, say one share, in his future usefulness. As I would not be selfish, I will give some others a chance. I therefore propose four shares, of 50 dollars each, for three years. I have taken one share: who will take the others? For particulars inquire at this office. The books will be open only to the 1st of November next. I believe it to be a real good speculation, and those who wish for a good bargain had better apply immediately. A. C. "A REPLY TO J. T. HENDRICKS, a Pamphlet, entitled. Letters to the self-styled Reformers-by A. RAINES and J. IRWIN."-"Because thy rage against me and thy tumult have come up into my ears, therefore will I put a hook into thy nose, and ny buckle into thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way in which thou comest."-"Lexington, Ky. 1838." Such is the title of a well-printed and well-written pamphlet, clear, rational, argumentative, gentlemanly, and in a good spirit, of 86 large 12mo. pages. It is a very logical and able expose of the sophistry, errors, misrepresentations, and unfriendly accusations and slanders of "the Rev. J. T. Hendricks, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Millersburg and Stoner Mouth, Ky." Brother Raines well sustains his former reputation for lucid and pointdd reasoning and great moral power. The letters furnished by brother Wm. Irwin show him to be a workman that needeth not to be ashamed. I feel myself indebted to these brethren for their very able vindication of some of my sentiments and writings, aspersed, perverted, and misrepresented by this too rash, inconsiderate, and ill-informed young man. This pamphlet, in my judgment, is well calulated to disabuse the public of many prejudices. I trust the brethren will send it round the land. A. C. FOURTH OF JULY. IT was forgotten in our last to say, that we had the pleasure of participating in another Christian celebration on the late anniversary of our national birth. The church in Alle ganytown, Pittsburg, with some brethren and citizens from a distance, partook of the Christian hospitalities of our beloved brother Church, in his fine grove in the environs of the city on the 4th ult. The day was fine-the concourse of brethren large-the fare was excellent. Psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs resounded in the grove all hearts were glad-all countenances cheerful. We all seemed to partake of the feast with glad. ness and singleness of heart, praising God, and having favor with all the people. I had the honor of delivering a speech on the occasion. It has already appeared from the political press, but with numerous typographical mistakes, which sometimes obscure the sense and sometimes change it. We intend when we have room to lay it correctly before our readers; but we have not room for it at present. The day was spent most happily, no incident whatever occurred to mar our heartfelt joy. Such celebrations are good for body, soul, and spirit. A. C. ERRATUM-For “Romanist" read Restorationist, page 413, line 26th from bottorn MORTALITY. O! why should the spirit of mortal be proud? The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered around and together be laid, And the young and the old, and the low and the high, The child whom a mother attended and lov'd, The maid on whose brow, on whose cheek, in whose eye And alike from the minds of the living eras'd Are the mem'ries of mortals who lov'd her and prais’d. The hand of the king that the sceptre hath borne, The saint who enjoy'd the communion of Heaven, The peasant whose lot was to sow and to reap, So the multitude goes, like the flower or the weed So the multitude comes, even those we behold, For we are the same that our fathers have been, The thoughts we are thinking our fathers would think, They loved, but the story we cannot unfold; They died!-ah! they died!-We things that are now. Meet the things that they met on their pilgrimage road. Yea, hope and despondency, pleasure and pain, Are mingled together in sunshine and rain; And the smile and the tear, and the song and the dirge, "Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath THE MILLENNIAL HARBINGER, NEW SERIES. VOLUME 11. -NUMBER X. BETHANY, VA. OCTOBER, 1838. Discussion of Universalism. MR. SKINNER TO MR. CAMPBELL. No. XXXI. UTICA, August 9, 1838. Dear Sir-I SHALL now (having fully and scripturally proved my fourth proposition) return to the review of your 24th and 26th letters. (The reader will please re-examine them.) These letters are an anomaly in an anomalous series of indignant and contemptuous letters. You have here given an extra touch to your former gasconade, pedantry, abuse, and effrontery. In defiance of all the rules of courtesy and decorum, you have departed from your address directly to myself, and appealing to the worst prejudices of your readers, have deliberately set yourself to reproaching and insulting me personally, the views I entertain, and the Christian denomination to which I belong. You have unblushingly compared yourself to Michael, the archangel, and me to Satan. You have no less than five or six times travelled directly out of your way, for the sake of ranking me and those of my faith with deists, atheists, infidels, mammonites, &c. and our views with theirs. 2 You pretend that "it is "most repugnant to your feelings," and with great "reluctance" that you have pursued such a course in this controversy, and yet almost your entire letters breathe a spirit of deep bitterness and indignant contempt, of disappointed ambition and mortified pride. An opinion which I hold, but which has nothing to do with this discussion, and which you neither can, nor attempt to refute by argument, you have nine times introduced in these two letters, in every distorted form, and attempted to ridicule and reproach as the doctrine of purgatory, a name which neither myself nor any other enlightened person ever gives it. Your leaving my address, and attempting to apologize to your readers for such a course, evinces that you have been severely lectured by your best friends, for the manner of your conducting this discussion, and that they are greatly dissatisfied therewith. How far your additional abuse and insults to me and my opinions will tend to satisfy and pacify them towards you, I know not; but I altogether mistake their intelligence if it does not still further disgust and mortify them. VOL IN S. 37 3. You have wounded yourself far more than me, and mortified and grieved your own friends far more than mine. The truth is, this is not a Papal country: for though your bulls might silence a few of your friends, (for instance, those like Spencer, who began, this discussion,) they cannot, with equal facility, silence all of them. They will think, and by and by they will speak. It is for your sake, therefore, and the reputation of this discussion, generally, that I regret the ungentlemanly and unchristian course you pursue. In your 24th letter, you attempt to play off your old game of sophistry, misrepresentation, and ridicule. You persist in maintaining that sempiternus is not a compound, but a simple word, and say that I attempt to find in æternus a root and reason for lernus in sempiternus." This is false. I never attempted nor pretended any such thing. I said sempiternus was a compound from semper, always, and æternus, [not ternus merely,] and though Lexicons generally do not mention it as a compound, it being so plain that a tyro, a child, would know it, yet I have the highest authority for the assertion. Dumesnil, in his "Latin Synonyms,” than whom no scholar of the present day will ask higher authority, gives the following as the roots and definition of the word: "SEMPITERNUS (semper æternus) enlarges upon the idea of æternus." And yet you attempt to lampoon me for agreeing with this eminent critic. Will you "call the devil a saint," now you are proved to be so great "a scholar and a critic?" 4. What you say of Kneeland, may go for what it is worth. But you have not impeached, and cannot impeach the reputation of Scarlett and Creighton, whose work was highly recommended by the most eminent literati of their day. It is useless to say more on aperantos: for in either derivation, the reader must perceive it is quite as applicable to time as to space. You say I give myself for authority that aidios is compounded of aei and dios. I have your own authority for saying aei forms a part of the word; and I have four Greek letters maintaining their unaltered position in proof that dios forms the other part. Suppose, sir, a man affirms that the English compound ever-during, is composed of ever and during. You demand his authority from some Lexicon: he tells you that is unnecessary, for the statement is so obviously true as to need no proof, as a self-evident truth admits of none. You then go to ridiculing him for giving himself as authority! The same may be said of the words archbishop, archdeacon, and hundreds of other words in our and all languages. Instead of answering the questions in my 23d letter, relative to the use and meaning of the letters di in the middle syllable of aidios, in your June number of the Harbinger you reprint them, and change (apparently on purpose) the d i into a i, (the two first letters,) and then leave them to the contempt of your readers! 5. But, sir, the composition of aidios is a matter of small moment with me, though you talk as if the whole controversy depended on it. It is only one of the ten words adduced by me in proof of the third proposition. I can very well spare it. I do not need it. The proposition is abundantly sustained without it, even by your own concession relative to the meaning of five of the other words, and Hedericus' definition of a sixth, (athanatos, defined immortalis, sempiternus, æternus, perpetuus,) and hence I will, for the sake of the argument, concede every thing you say of aidios-that it has but one root, one significant |