THE LADIES' REPOSITORY. THE TWENTY-SEVENTH VOLUME-1867. A General Literary and Religious Magazine FOR THE FAMILY. PUBLISHED BY POE & HITCHCOCK, CINCINNATI AND CHICAGO. ORDERS RECEIVED BY B. St. James Fry, St. Louis; J. P. Magee, Boston; Perkenpine & Higgins, Philadelphia; I. P. HE design of the Publishers in issuing this monthly is to furnish to the Christian public a pure and elegant literature, and it will be the aim of the Editor to present to our Christian families every month a magazine that the most careful and judicious parents may feel entirely safe in placing in the hands of every member of the family-a magazine elegant, chaste, and pure, such as will cultivate the taste and ennoble all the aims of life. The REPOSITORY is a Christian family magazine, and it will be our constant aim to adapt it especially to the moral and literary wants of the family. It will still be printed on the FINEST CALENDERED PAPER. 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The sales of these Companies for three months, ending June 10, 1866, as per sworn reports to Elias Howe, jr.-to whom they all pay a license-were: Showing Wheeler & Wilson's Sales to be more than double those of any other Company. TESTIMONIALS. METHODIST BOOK CONCERN, 200 MULBERRY STREET, NEW YORK. DEAR BROTHER,-Being in constant receipt of inquiries from our brethren, respecting Sewing-Machines, with requests to rec ommend and purchase, we have, in conjunction with some lady friends, carefully and thoroughly examined the various machines of practical value for Family Sewing, and find those made by the WHEELER & WILSON MANUFACTURING COMPANY to fully combine the essentials of a good instrument, and such as we can confidently recommend. With best wishes, your brethren, ABEL STEVENS, DANIEL WISE, THOS. CARLTON, J. BENJ. EDWARDS, JAMES FLOY, DAVID TERRY, J. PORTER, WM. A. Cox. We have personally examined the various machines before the public, with an anxions desire to place before our readers reliable information. As the result of such examination we unhesitatingly recommend WHEELER & WILSON'S SEWING MACHINE as THE Machine for family use. BISHOP C. KINGSLEY. For economy of power, ease of management, variety of adaptation, and speed of execution, the WHEELER & WILSON MACHINE, no doubt, surpasses all others for family use. BISHOP D. W. CLARK. Seven years ago we furnished ourselves with this indispensable domestic comfort, and have ever since heard its music in on home. We give WHEELER & WILSON the preference above all others. J. M. REID, Editor Western Chr. Adeocale. EVERY MACHINE WARRANTED FOR THREE YEARS. WARDED THE HIGHEST PREMIUM AT THE LORLD'S FAIR, LONDON, ALSO AT THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE, NEW YORK. 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Page Page Tribute to a Wife--Female Purity-Modesty-To the The Divinity and Humanity of Christ-The Eternal Day- The Eastern Question-Christian Union-Religious Free- LITERARY NOTICES... .182 .183 New Hymn and Tune Book-Six Years in India-The Children of Lake Huron-Trials of an Inventor-Arthur Forest-Bessie Field-Stories of the Woods-Bright Nook-Nellie Newton-The Satisfactory Portion-Walking in the Light-The Body-Politic-Passages in the Life of the Faire Gospeller, Mistress Anne Askew-Two Marriages-Esop's Fables - Drops of Water from Many Fountains-The Tongue of Fire on the Daughters of the Lord-Miscellaneous. .133 .133 .137 .141 EDITOR'S STUDY... THE FAMILY CIRCLE... .179 Studies on the Future Life-- Third Paper. 185 .187. ..189 .192 Early Rising vs. Early Retiring The Best of all Schools- EDITOR'S TABLE... Our Engravings. POSTAGE-TO regular subscribers, paid in advance, six cents per quarter. |