GENERAL MEETING. THE annual co-operation meeting met at Bethany, on Friday, September 238. The meeting was called to order, George W. Lucy being appainted to preside, and W. F. M. Arny, Secretary. After which it was found that the following churches were present by their Messengers:Name of Churches and Messengers. Present No. Additions last year. West Liberty, Va., Max M'Castlin and Isaac Cox, 90 Smithfield, Ohio, W. Scott, Pigeon Creek, Pa., J. Burgen, Bethany, Va., A. Campbell, R. Y. Henley and W. F. M. Arny, 27 12 7 9 78 20 33 2 196 Wellsburg, Va., R. Nichols and J. C. Perry, 50 Washington, Pa., John Hastings and H. Langly, 83 1037 SO 186 After much conversation on the subject of sustaining Evangelists, it was Unanimously resolved, That Robert Y. Henley, W. W. Eaton, W. F. M. Arny, G. D. Boner, and Samuel Grafton, be, and are hereby appointed a committee to confer with the churches, and aseertain what can be obtained in order to support one or more Evangelists to labor within the bounds of the churches here represented, for one year; and that they be instructed to engage brother George W. Lucy for that purpose, if he can be obtained, and any other Evangelists they may think proper, so far as they may obtain the means to sustain them, and that they report progress at the next annual meeting of the churches. On motion, it was Unanimously resolved, That the next annual meeting be held at Smithfield, Ohio, on the 3d Friday of September, 1843. On motion, the meeting was adjourned. W. F. M. ARNY, Secretary. GEORGE W. LUCY, Prest. From the Christian Publisher. SUCCESS OF THE GOSPEL. Brethren Silas and Cephas Shelburne have been laboring some weeks in brother Bullard's district, and have immersed about eighty persons. Brother Bullard has, during the last few weeks. been preaching with success in Lunenburg. There have lately been some ten or twelve immersed in the neighbor hoods of Barboursville and Gordonsville, by brother Goss and myself. There were eight persons baptized during the general meeting in Richmond. Brother Bagby and myself held a meeting on the fourth Lord's day in October, at Garrett's, in Louisa. Three were immersed. The cause is evidently prospering in Virginia, and we look forward with sanguine expectations to a time not for distant, when those that have long been struggling against untowa, d circumstances, will be made to rejoice in beholding the triumph of truth to an extent heretofore unknown in this part of the vineyard. R. L. C. THE BIBLE ADVOCATE, Edited by Dr. Howard, and published in Paris, Tennessee, at one dol lar per annum, is an interesting and useful paper, and worthy of the patronage that it seeks. Brother Howard has also on hand a few hundred volumes of the Christian Reformer, which he will sell at the low price of fifty cents per volume. The original price, while publishing, was two dollars in ad vance. Brother Howard, in his labors to promote the interests of the good cause, has become involved, and appeals to the brethren to aid him by purchasing this valuable work at a very low price, scarcely the cost of the printing paper. We hope that the brethren will take the work, and thereby at the same time benefit themselves and relieve brother Howard. Christian Publisher. SCIENCE. A FACT of great interest has been proved by the borings of Artesian Wells in the suburbs of Pariz-viz. that as we go towards the centre of the earth the temperature of the earth increases at the rate of about one degree for every fifty feet. That the whole interior portion of the earth, or at least a great part of it, is an ocean of melted rock, agitated by violent winds, though I dare not affirm it, is still rendered highly probable by the phenomena of volcanoes. The facts connected with their eruptions have been ascertained, and placed beyond dispute.How, then, are they to be accounted for? The theory prevalent some years since, that they are caused by the combustion of immense coal beds, is perfectly puerile, and is entirely abandoned. All the world would never afford fuel enough for a single exhibition of Vesuvius.— We must look higher than this; and I have no doubt that the whole rests on the action of electric and galvanic principles, which are in constant operation in the earth. We know that when certain metals are brought together powerful electric action is evolved, and light is produced superior even in effulgence to the splendor of the sun. Now, if a small arrangement produces such results, what may we not expect from the combinations of immense beds of metals to be found in the earth? Here we have a key to all the grand phenomena of volcanio action. Illustration, on a small scale, may be seen in an instrument called the Themso Electrical Battery, made of zinc, bismuth, and antimony, packed in a box and varnished. In this heat is evolved below, while the top is cold; and here we have the very case of the volcano, when in the interior a fiery ocean is heaving its surges, while its peak is covered with everlasting snows.-Prof. Silliman. EDUCATION. MRS ELIZA A. TOD proposes opening a school for the instruction of young ladies at the commencement of the ensuing year, in the county of Matthews, at Seaford, the residence of her father. Her course of instruction will embrace all the various branches of English education, comprising Orthography, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Grammar, Geography, Ancient and Modern History, Rhetoric, or the Art of Composition, Chemistry, Astronomy, Natural, Mental, and Moral Philosophy. A portion of the Sacred Scriptures will likewise form a part of the daily studies of her pupils, which Mrs. Tod promises to use every endeavor to render interesting, deeming it highly important that the only true wisdom which is contained in the word of God alone, should not only be taught, but rendered attractive to the youthful mind. For this purpose she will open her school each morning by select reading, and recitations of the word of God, accompanied by a short lecture, cal culated to form the minds, manners, and morals of those entrusted to her charge. Wishing to render education as available as possible, and in consideration of the pecuniary pressure of the times, Mrs. Tod offers the very moderate terms of eighty doilars for board, and twenty for tuition in all the branches. Fifteen dollars for instruction in the elementary branches of Spelling. Reading, and Writing Mrs Tod will be aided by a competent assistant, who will likewise spare no pains to improve the heart and understanding of those entrusted to her. The school will open on the first Monday in January, and will continue until the first of August. The months of August and September gen. erally embracing the whole sickly season in the lower country, Mrs. Tod will give those months as a recess, and none whatever in the winter Each pupil will be tasked with weekly lessons during the recess, thus obviating the objection of too long a respite from study. Mrs. Tod proposes engaging the services of a Music Teacher immediately, if the number of scholars will justify it. The terms will be as usual for Music. Painting, and Fashionable Embroidery in Silk and Worsted, at five dollars each. The French language will be taught at eight dollars per session. The terms for board and tuition are required payable quarterly in advance. Each boarder will be required to furnish bedding, towels, and candles, when practicable, or they can be furnished for the sum of ten dollars extra. Mrs. Tod requests all persons who may wish to patronize her school, to send pupils on the first day, if possible, as no deduc tion will be made, and much valuable time is often lost by unnecessary procrastination. ELIZA A. TOD. Seaford, Va., November, 1842. REFERENCE. President Dew, of William and Mary College. From my personal acquaintance with Mrs. Eliza A. Tod, as well as from her general reputation in a large circle of highly intelligent and cultivated persons, I cannot but rejoice that a lady of such high endowments, natural and acquired has been induced to devote her time and her talents to earth's most noble and useful calling-that of cultivating the female head and heart-a calling to which the most gifted and elevated of our race might be greatly and religiously emulous to attain I cannot doubt that she will be liberally patronized by the intelligent and virtuous of the whole community who may have it in Their power to place their daughters, or wards, under one so eminently accomplished for this so every way important and benevolent work. A. C. FIVE FACTS. A FIRM faith is the best divinity. A clear conscience the best law. temperance the best physic. A good life the best philosophy. OBITUARY. DIED, at Niconza, Indiana, on the 29th July, sister SARAH SOWER wife of brother William A. Sower, after an illness of fifteen days, which she bore with Christian resignation. "May she find that future rest ศ |
