all the blessings we have enjoyed, and do yet enjoy, may be transmitted, unimpaired and untarnished, to the latest generations.

May God preserve you many years, that you may still farther glorify his name on the earth, and be the means of blessing untold millions of our race!

Your humble brother, in the kingdom and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ,

H. C.

CO-OPERATION MEETING IN OHIO.

Pursuant to public notice, the delegates from the several congregations of the Church of Christ composing the Wolf Creek Co-Operation, met in Convention at the East Branch Meeting-House, on Monday, the 25th of August, A. D. 1851.

The Convention was organized by the election of Bro. WM. H. REEVES, of Deavertown, President, and Bro. GEO. S. WELSH Clerk. After which the President opened the exercises, calling upon the Heavenly Father to watch over and direct the deliberations of the Convention.

Brethren from twenty-once churches presented their credentials and took their seats as delegates.

The unfinished business of last year was then settled, and a committee, consisting of brethren Angush, Ward, A. Williams, Kirkland and Morgan, were appointed to report business for the Convention.

In the absence of the committee, subscriptions to the amount of $585 were made for the support of evangelists the ensuing year.

The business committee reported the following resolutions, which were discussed, amended and adopted:

Resolved, That this co-operation be divided into three districts, and that an evangelist be employed for each.

Resolved, That we conceive it to be the duty of the brethren of this cooperation to double their contributions for the aid of the good cause, that they may consistently pray the Lord of the harvest to send more laborers into his vineyard.

Resolved, That the congregations which have not yet practised weekly contributions, be earnestly requested to establish the Lord's treasury in their respective congregations.

Resolved, That the several congregations be requested to report at our next annual meeting, statistically as follows: Number received, and how; dismissed, and how; the deaths within the year; and the whole number, male and female; and also the general condition of the congregations as to order, house, Bible Class, Sunday School, library, &c.

Resolved, That we recommend our religious periodicals to the attention and patronage of our brethren.

Resolved, That our evangelists be requested to deliver a discourse on Christian liberality and co-operation, at their last meeting at the several congregations.

Resolved, That when this Convention adjourn, it adjourn to meet at Chauncey, in August next, and that Laurentius Weethee, A. J. Wilmoth, J. D. Davis and Wm. H. Reeves, be a committee to fix the day of meeting, and publish a notice thereof in the Millennial Harbinger and Proclamation and Reformer, of July, 1852.

Resolved, That minutes of this Convention be forwarded to the editors of the Harbinger and Proclamation, for publication. Adjourned. Benediction by Bro. John Beird. GEO. S. WELSH, Clerk.

WM. H. REEVES, Pres't..

BETHANY COLLEGE.

THIS yet infant institution is annually growing in public favor. The number entered in the College Proper is over a hundred, besides the Primary Department. These are, for the most part, young men, and of a superior character, as respects all the essentials of good students-orderly, studious, and ardently devoted to literature and science. Of the number in attendance over twenty-one years, we have a larger number than usual devoted to the ministry of the gospel. Indeed, we have a goodly number of good preachers amongst them, who are occasionally laboring with good success in the vicinities around us. Some fifty members have been recently added to the church in Wellsburg, principally through their labors, besides a few in other churches. Of these, some are already heads of families; and, according to my experience, nothing adds more to the good influence, both of students and young preachers, than to have Christian wives to assist them, both in their studies and ministrations. I would, therefore, advise a considerable class of young men to take to themselves good wives-real helpmates; and instead of seeking honey-moons at home, to seek for honeyyears at Bethany College, and prepare themselves for a life of happiness, usefulness and honor.

The friends of Bethany College are still increasing. Only one thing is yet wanting-an increased liberality in the donations-to enable it to diffuse far and wide the blessings of a literary, scientific, and moral education. Its Faculty have done, and are doing all they can for these purposes, with a due respect to themselves and their families. 1 crave their pardon when I say, without their consent, that my conviction is, that were all our brotherhood, proportionably with their means, as liberal as they, we should soon have a host of learned and efficient men in the field; and that the cause of truth and life eternal, as well as that of literature, science and art, would be generally advanced. Be it remembered, that Bethany College is not yet in the receipt of an income of $500 a year, in the form of endowment, beyond the fees of tuition, and that certainly more than this sum is annually given away in aid of the education of indigent and worthy young men! A. C.

An hour of solitude passed in sincere and earnest prayer, or the conflict with and conquest over a single passion or "subtle bosom sin," will teach us more of thought, will more effectually awaken the faculty, and form the habit of reflection, than a year's study in the school without them.Coleridge.

MORE than half the human race are found on less than one-third of the landed patrimony of man. Subtract Russian Asia from the Pagan territory of Asia, and we have on one-fifth of the habitable earth more than half the human race! And that, too, under the moral desolations of the grossest idolatry!

STORM AND CALM.

BY WILLIAM BAXTER.

Sailing o'er life's pathless ocean,
Not a star could I descry,
To direct my sea-tossed vessel-
In the dark and stormy sky.

Fearful rose the angry billows,
Broke each mast and rent each sail;
At the mercy of the tempest,
On I swept before the gale.

Frowning rocks rose o'er the waters,
Dangers round me seemed to close,
But amid despair and darkness,
Lo! the morning star arose.
Guided by its gentle beamings,
Wafted on by breezes bland,
Soon I trust to moor my vessel,
Safely at the wished-for land.

Men are all but storm-tossed sailors,
God's blest Book the holy star,
That with bright and pure revealings
Lights their pathway from afar.
It will lead where storms of passion
And despair shall ever cease,
To that calm and blessed haven
Where God's smile diffuses peace.

RELIGIOUS TELESCOPE.

THIS Religious Telescope, of Circleville, Ohio, fell into my hands in September, while in Ohio. My attention was directed to the very interesting question, "What is a Campbellite?" It is answered by one Mr. Ambrose. He unfortunately put the large end of his Telescope to his eye, and that, too, so covered with the insects of prejudice, that he could see nothing but these on his thickly covered object glass-imagining that the creeping things on his glass were on the person of a Campbellite," he was suddenly terrified at the spectre, and gave us one of the most frightful caricatures, taken from a painting in Pandemonium. He fitfully and frightfully concludes in these words, "Death in the pot." "Touch it not, O my soul."

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There is no danger, Mr. Ambrose. The vermin are all on your Telescope. Send it to the optician; and meanwhile, anoint your eyes with the true eye-salve, that you may see. You are the blindest man, in your moral vision, I have met with in these last days. But you stumble and fall into so many fens and sloughs that no one, that knows us, can view you in any other light than a drunken man-drunken with the wine of Babylon. Were I your practising physician, you should be put under a vigorous treatment, in which the lancet, calomel, and good French flies, should be freely administered. Meantime, there are other patients that promise more useful lives, and we shall leave you to your own counsels.

A. C.

THE TWO COMFORTERS, FIDO AND LOGOS: OR, FAITH AND REASON.

[Continued from p. 382.]

Logos. Your long absence from home, has deferred the conversation we last held for so long, that I fear the subject has almost passed from your mind. It has, however, been one of continued interest with me, and if you are disposed, we shall devote our present interview to a renewal of its consideration.

Fido.-With all cheerfulness. So far from forgetting either our last meeting or the subject of our conversation, I have often reverted to both with friendly interest, and desired an opportunity again to commune with you on similar themes.

Logos. You remember, you requested me to reflect upon the general conclusion, which you then drew, that "no system of philosophy has proved adequate to the wants and desires of our nature, which does not include some hope of future being or bliss," and it has afforded some respite to the heavy deadness of my desolate life, to dip anew into the great masters of antiquity, whom I studied and admired so much in my more youthful years. Still, while I have found in this occupation of my mind some relief from my oppressive emptiness of faith and hope, it has not come from any new prospects opened up to me by philosophy, but rather from the associations of former, happier days, which a review of my early studies has revived. I have seemed to myself, for the moment, transported back to the days of Elysian dreams; and the hopes which then blossomed in beauty, have shed again their fragrance around me. To be thus SERIES IV.-VOL. I.

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deluded, is to be once more happy; but ah! how short the passing shadow. It but throws its dappling beauty over an insensate and cheerless ruin, and flits on to become itself as nothing!

Fido.-The indulgence of a morbid melancholy is as unfavorable for the discovery of truth, as it is poisonous to the fountains of enjoyment. As the memory of happier years clothes with its own charms the dreary wastes of the present, making them all aglow with a warmth and a glory not their own, so melancholy will throw its darkening shadows over the beautiful and the bright, and cheat us of the joys that invite us to happiness and peace. Let us shake off this "idol of the den," as Lord Bacon would call it, and in the day-light of a purified vision, the lumen siccum et purum, apply ourself to the question before us. What report bring you from your readings upon the proposition which I submitted for your reflection?

Logos.--It is scarcely meet that I should be thus chided by you, for an indulgence which you know is not affected; but it is meant in kindness, and we will let it pass. That many of the ancient philosophers did indulge a vague hope of immortality, I have not at any time overlooked; but the accounts we have of the earliest dawnings of philosophy, show that the sages, whose names are not worthy of note, framed their maxims with a reference, almost exclusively, to the political and social relations of men in this life. The chief excellency of their systems, was in the wise direction which they gave to the laws and policy of States, and the regulation of the habits and pursuits of individuals. In looking over the maxims of the seven wise men of Greece, you shall find not one concerning any future life. They were, without an exception, either moral or simply prudential; commending prudence, or virtue, or patriotism.

Fido.--This is true. But you will allow me to remind you, that with these philosophers, and at this early period of the Grecian history, philosophy had not been reduced to any complete system, and in the wise sayings of these seven wise men, one cannot expect to find all that they cherished or believed. Thales, who was one among the chief of them, may, indeed, be regarded as the founder of the Ionic school and its various branches; but we have its creed but very imperfectly developed in any remains that have come down to us from him.

Logos.--It is not to be denied, that the sayings of these wise men do not present any complete philosophic system; but should we not expect to find in them some allusion to a doctrine, which you think was the chief excellency of every system?

Fido.--I think not. In those maxims we have presented rather