89,000 00 72,000 00 40,300 00 20,000 00 Filtrary, Briruliiir, MISSIONARY APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1866.-The appropriations of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church have now reached an aggregate of one million dollars. The distribution of this total is made in the following manner: III. INDIAN MISSIONS IV. AMERICAN DOMESTIC MISSIONS. .$75,773 46 7,841 62 -$275,657 83 In fifty-eight Annual Conferences, including four V. THIRD CLASS OF MISSIONS. 1. Mississippi Department, including the States 3. Southern Department, including Florida, Conference. Baltimore........ California... Central German.... Central Illinois.. Cincinnati Colorado..... Delaware.. Des Moines....... East Baltimore.... Iowa...... Kansas... Kentucky. Black River.............. 21,894 22,510 616 306 4,505 4,450 52 38 8,888 8,860 28 18,117 18,273) 125 156 222 Central Ohio........... 16,858 16,053 805 218 27,220 28,111 891 373 229 287 58 1 South American Missions, Bishops Janes and Clark. Missions in Western and North-Western Europe, Bishops Ames and Janes. Missions in Bulgaria, Bishops Simpson and Clark. The Mississippi Department, including Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, Bishop Thomson. The Middle Department, including Tennessee, Alabama, Western Georgia, and Western North Carolina, Bishop Clark. The Southern Department, including South Carolina, Eastern Georgia, and Florida, Bishop Baker. The Northern Department, including Virginia not included in the Baltimore Conference, and the eastern part of North Carolina, Bishop Scott. Department of the Interior, including the interior Territories not included in any Annual Conference, Bishops Kingsley and Baker. PLAN OF EPISCOPAL VISITATION FOR 1866.-At the meeting in New York the Bishops arranged their Conference visitations for the present year as follows. Sixty-one Conferences we find on the list: CONDENSED HISTORY OF STEAM.-About 280 years B. C., Hero, of Alexandria, formed a toy which exhibited some of the powers of steam, and was moved by its power. A. D. 540, Antheminus, an architect, arranged several caldrons of water, each covered with the wide bottom of a leathern tube, which rose to a narrow top with pipes extended to the rafters of the adjoining building. A fire was kindled beneath the caldrons, and the house was shaken by the efforts of the steam ascending the tubes. This is the first notice of the power of steam recorded. In 1543, June 17, Blasco de Goary tried a steamboat of two hundred and nine tuns, with tolerable success, at Barcelona, Spain. It consisted of a caldron of boiling water, and a movable wheel on each side of the ship. It was laid aside as impracticable. A present, however, was made to Goary. In 1650 the first railroad was constructed at Newcastle-on-Tyne. The first idea of a steam-engine in England was in the Marquis of Worcester's "History of Invention," A. D. 1663. In 1701 Newcomen made the first steam-engine in England. In 1718 patents were granted to Savary for the first March 7 Kingsley. application of the steam-engine. 7 Thomson. 19 Simpson. PLACE. TIME. BISHOP. City Station, Balt... Feb. 28 Scott. 28 Clark. East Baltimore.. Williamsport, Penn 66 Pittsburg.... Washington Washington, Penn.. 7 Baker. 66 7 Scott. Philadelphia. Western Virginia... Morgantown.. 14 Clark. Baldwin City. Bristol, R. I.. 21 Thomson. Washington, N. J.. Third-St., Camden.. Chicopee.... 28 Simpson. Plattsmouth, Neb... April 4 Kingsley. 5 Clark. In 1764 James Watt made the first perfect steamengine in England. In 1736 Jonathan Hulls first set forth the idea of steam navigation. In 1778 Thomas Paine first proposed the application in America. In 1781 Marquis Jouffrey constructed a steamboat on the Saone. In 1785 two Americans published a work on it. In 1789 William Symington made a voyage in one on the Forth and Clyde Canal. In 1802 this experiment was repeated. In 1782 Ramsay propelled a boat by steam at New York. In 1789 John Fitch, of Connecticut, navigated a boat by steam-engine on the Delaware. In 1793 Robert Fulton first began to apply his attention to steam. In 1783 Oliver Evans, a native of Philadelphia, constructed a locomotive steam engine to travel on a turnpike road. The first steam vessel that ever crossed the Atlantic was the Savannah, in the month of June, 1819, from Charleston to Liverpool.-Hunt's Merchants' Magazine. THE DARWINIAN THEORY OF CREATION.-Philosopher F. Stein, of Prague University, says: "A faithful and conscientious search into the propagation and development of the minutest animal forms of the same species shows that under no circumstances do they develop themselves from dead matter, and that no kind of experiment can produce the simplest living atom. How the first form of every species has been brought into existence is a question which lies beyond the limit of natural sciences, and which they never can answer. 26 Kingsley. They can not pretend to discover the secrets of creation. All efforts in this direction, which have lately been made by Darwin, we may safely consider as utter failures." 66 19 Simpson. Rock River.... Ottawa... 19 Ames. Red Wing.. 19 Janes. Illinois.... Minnesota.. Ohio......... N. W. German.. S. W. German Genesee.. Liberia.. 27 Clark. 27 Simpson. Gilerary erarg Holices. as must fill every devout Christian with thanksgiving for the past and glorious hopes and purposes for the future. The book ought to find its way into every family of the Church. The publishers have issued it in beautiful style. WINIFRED BERTRAM, and the World She Lived In. By the author of "The Schönberg Cotta Family," etc. 12mo. Pp. 479. $1.75. New York: M. W. Dodd. Cincinnati: R. W. Carroll & Co.-The fame of the author of the Schönberg Family, of Kitty Trevylyan, of the Early Dawn, and of many other interesting and instructive books will lose no luster by this beautiful story of English home-life. We have the same chaste and pure style, the same simplicity and naturalness of thought, the same power of life-like description, and the same spirit of piety as characterize her former works. In this work we have some admirable delineations of youthful piety and some striking expositions of Scripture which will be sure to make the readers wiser and better. HISTORY OF RATIONALISM; Embracing a Survey of | wealth, resources, and capabilities of the Church such the Present State of Protestant Theology. By the Rev. John F. Hurst, A. M. New York: Charles Scribner & Co., and Carlton & Porter. Cincinnati: Poe & Hitchcock. 8vo. Pp. 623.-We rejoice to see our esteemed friend Mr. Hurst make so grand a debut into the world of letters as he has done in this great work. We knew there was a great reservoir of availability in him, and we expected it would some day make itself known and felt, but we were not prepared to see it break forth all at once in the contribution of a volume so large, and valuable, and opportune as the one that lies before us. A month ago we noticed the republication of Lecky's History of the Spirit of Rationalism by the Appletons, and since then have been busily engaged in reading it. It is, of course, developed from the rationalistic side, and we are glad to be able to follow its reading by the study of Mr. Hurst's work, which, of course, is developed from the stand-point of a genuine Christianity. We needed both these histories in this country, and every one who desires to trace the stream of thought in this direction will wish to study both. It is our intention to recur again to these interesting and opportune works in a department where we can treat them more carefully and more at length than is possible in these "notices." At present we desire to say that Mr. Hurst gives ample evidence of large and accurate acquaintance with his subject, and presents a broad historical survey of the entire field, and his work can not but be perused by students and inquirers with interest and profit. THE CENTENARY OF AMERICAN METHODISM: A Sketch of its History, Theology, Practical System, and Success. By Abel Stevens, LL. D. With a Statement of the Plan of the Centenary Celebration of 1866, by John M Clintock, D. D. New York: Carlton & Porter. Cincinnati: Poe & Hitchcock. 12mo. Pp. 287.-This work was "prepared by order of the Centenary Committee of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church," and we need scarcely add is ably and judiciously "prepared" when we remember it is the work of "the historian of Methodism." It is a Centenary offering; it is designed to be one of the means of instruction and inspiration for the Centenary year, and as such, we think, is admirably adapted to its object. It is divided into three parts: First. What is Methodism? Answered Historically: in which we have six chapters, briefly sketching its origin, founders, and early progress both in England and America, and its practical and doctrinal systems more elaborately presented. Second. What has Methodism achieved entitling it to the proposed commemoration? in which, in seven chapters, are presented its special adaptation and usefulness, its labors in literature and education, in the Sunday school and missionary enterprises, and its loyal and patriotic services to the country. Third. Its capabilities and responsibilities for the future: in which we have a most valuable presentation of the numbers, Dedicated to Children. THE SONG WITHOUT WORDS. Square 24mo. Pp. 140. Tinted paper. $1. Same author and publisher.-A beautiful little book, which will be delightedly read by the children. "The song without words" is the grand and wonderful song which the great creation is constantly sending up to God and singing for men-the wordless hymn of praise that rises from the sea, the streams, the meadows, and the living things. A SUMMER IN SKYE. By Alexander Smith, author of "Alfred Hagart's Household," "A Life Drama," etc. 12mo. Pp. 423. $1.75. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co.-The author of the famous "Life Drama" has been spending a Summer in the wild, romantic island of Skye, one of the Hebrides, lying on the north-western coast of Scotland, and has written a very sketchy and rambling book of what he saw and heard. The Lochs of North Scotland, the fisheries of the Hebrides, the lives of the ignorant and superstitious fishermen, the legends of the islands, mingled with literary gossip, and some original poems, all done in a style of English composition that is really admirable, make up the contents of this very readable book. HEREWARD, THE LAST OF THE ENGLISH. By Charles Kingsley. 12mo. Pp. 307. $1.75. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co.Charles Kingsley, besides his ecclesiastical reputation, has sufficient merit in the department of light literature to secure the reading of any book he may choose to write. In the present work he has given us a historical romance, the substratum of history being the story of Hereward, one of the famous freemen of Danelagh, the last of the pure Angles, who rose and fought desperately, but too late, against William the Norman. Hereward was the second son of the Lady Godiva, known in the old legends as "the most beautiful as well as the most saintly woman of her day," and of Leofric, the great Earl of Marcia and Chester, whose "counsel was as if one had opened the Divine oracles, very wise for God and for the world, which was a great blessing to all this nation." The life of Hereward, whose deeds were often sung by minstrels and old-wives in succeeding generations, is still extant in prose and verse, and in the present work Mr. Kingsley says he has "followed the cotemporary authorities as closely as he could, introducing little but what was necessary to reconcile discrepancies, or to illustrate the history, manners, and sentiments of the time." LITTLE FOXES. By Christopher Crowfield. 12mo. Pp. 287. $1.75. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co.-Christopher Crowfield is Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the "little foxes" are "those unsuspected, unwatched, insignificant little causes that nibble away domestic happiness and make home less than so noble an institution should be." Those that are "taken and bound" in this neat little volume are Fault-Finding, Irritability, Repression, Persistence, Intolerance, Discourtesy, and Exactingness. It is a book that will well repay its cost in every home, and is issued in very neat style. PATRIOT BOYS AND PRISON PICTURES. By Edmund Kirke, author of "Among the Pines," etc. 16mo. Pp. 306. $1.50. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co.-Stories of heroic and patriotic boys in our late war, told in excellent style for the children, by a writer whose facile pen has made the hearts of men and women throb with indignation against cruel wrongs, and with high resolves to banish them from our land. This kind of literature, we think, has almost reached its end, but to the boys and girls who want to hear more of the great wrongs and noble deeds that come of war this book will be welcome. THE POEMS OF THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH. 24mo. Blue and gold, $1.50. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co.-Mr. Aldrich is a born poet, one of the best of our times, still young, not more than thirty years of age, from whom we expect still greater things than he has yet accomplished. Hitherto he has spent himself on fugitive pieces, all good, some exquisite, every-where marked by tenderness, sweetness, and musical flow. Who has not read the exquisite ballad of Babie Bell?" Popular as it deservedly is, it is only one among many fully as tender and musical in the present collection. We wait for his master-work yet to be born. WAR LYRICS AND OTHER POEMS. By Henry Howard Brownell. 12mo. Pp. 243. $1.50. Same Pub lishers. Mr. Brownell deserves a high place among the war-poets, and his poems are among the best of their class. There is in them a sprightliness, a patriotic and poetic ring, which gives them a merit far above the mediocrity of many of the so-called poems inspired by the war. Indeed, it is rather remarkable that the inspiration of our great struggle brought forth scarcely a poem that will live for posterity. Pp. 260. $1.25. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Cincinnati: R. W. Carroll & Co.-"Cousin Carrie" is a pure and sprightly writer, and has written a very interesting book, pleasant and sorrowful, showing just such sad and happy scenes and events as mingle themselves together in human life, and as may be witnessed any time in our great cities. It is a neat book, beautifully illustrated, and may be safely given to the children. NOTES FROM PLYMOUTH PULPIT: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher. With a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture-Room. By Augusta Moore. New Edition. Revised and Greatly Enlarged. 12mo. Pp. 374. $2. New York: Harper & Brothers. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co.-These Pulpit Notes were originally published with the consent of Mr. Beecher, but without his inspection. They now appear with large additions and with the indorsement of Mr. Beecher. They are just what they purport to be-" passages from the discourses of Henry Ward Beecher "-some, beautiful, some striking, some startling, all worthy of preservation. The sketch of Mr. Beecher and his lecture-room exhibits him in his relation as a man and a pastor. Miss Moore will be recognized by our readers as a frequent contributor to the Repository. The volume is issued in excellent style. PRISON LIFE IN THE SOUTH, at Richmond, Macon, Savannah, Charleston, Columbia, Charlotte, Raleigh, Goldsboro, and Andersonville, during the years 1864 and 1865. By A. O. Abbott, late Lieutenant First New York Dragoons. With Illustrations. 12mo. Pp. 374. Cincinnati: $2. New York: Harper & Brothers. Robert Clarke & Co.-"The following pages," says the author," are offered to the reading public with the hope that they will throw some light upon the barbarous treatment we received at the hands of the rebels. They do not claim to tell all the story of prison life, only a part. Others are filling it up, dark and gloomy as is the picture; yet pen and tongue both fail to tell it all." Yes, and pen and tongue will ever fail to depict these horrors inflicted in a spirit of deliberate coolness and purpose that makes them more horrible than any thing in the annals of savage life. It is right that such records as these should be given to the world; but who can read them without sickening indignation? RICHARD COBDEN, THE APOSTLE OF FREE TRADE. His Political Career and Public Services: A Biography. By John M Gilchrist. With Portrait and Illustrations. 16mo. Pp. 304. $1.50. New York: Harper & Bros. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co.-The purpose of the author in the plan of this work, and which he has faithfully carried out in its execution, "was to tell the story of Mr. Cobden's life and patriotic and philanthropic services as far as possible in the very words of the subject of his biography." Mr. Cobden has been made to tell the story of his own life. It is a model biography. In a small 16mo it tells all we need to know of even a man as great as Richard Cobden. And a great man he was, too, springing from the people, battling stoutly and successfully against the monopolies of the aristocracy, resisting the blandishments of the great, and the proffers of place and power, remaining to the end the representative of the liberal and democratic opinions held by the middle classes in England. By nature and position he was a true friend to America and her free institutions. The Harpers have issued the volume in very neat style. DE VANE: A Story of Plebeians and Patricians. By Hon. Henry W. Hilliard, Ex-member of United States House of Representatives from Alabama. Two volumes in one. 12mo. Pp. 552. New York: Blelock & Co.-This book we have not read. It is printed and bound in excellent style, and looks as if it might be well written and readable. The Central Advocate says: "Mr. Hilliard speaks well and writes tolerably in French and English, and knows what constitutes beauty. The ladies talk in rhapsodical strains, and the book is sensational. Mr. Hilliard is an ex-preacher as well as an ex-congressman, and his book partakes of the merits imparted by ministerial and congressional virtues. We admire his heroes and his exquisitelybeautiful heroines, and hope that he and they are doing well." CARRY'S CONFESSION. By the author of "Mattie: A Stray." No. 258 of Harper's Library of Select Novels. Paper, 75 cts. New York: Harper & Bros. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co. HURD AND HOUGHTON'S HOLIDAY BOOKS-From R. W. Carroll & Co. we have received the following books issued in most beautiful style by the enterprising publishers named above. We regret they did not reach us earlier, that we might have noticed them in time for the holiday trade. But they are not epheme ral books, and we can still commend them to those in search of books issued in the highest style of the art of book-making. The manufactory of this house at Cambridge, Massachusetts, where not these alone, but scores of other choice and elegant books are stereotyped, electrotyped, printed and bound, has become famous all over this continent as "The Riverside Press," and the perfection and beauty of the work which emanates from it is its best and highest recom mendation. Two hundred persons are constantly employed in the establishment in the various processes of book-making, and the work in all stages of completeness passes constantly under the eye of the experienced head of the establishment, Mr. H. O. Houghton, than whom there is not a more accomplished book manufacturer in the United States: 1. The Fables of Esop, with a Life of the Author. Illustrated with one hundred and eleven engravings from original designs by Herrick. $2. The best and handsomest edition we have ever seen. 2. Picciola. By X. B. Saintine. A new edition, revised by the author. With illustrations by Leopold Flameng. $1.50. 3. Chastelard: A Tragedy. By Algernon Charles Swinburne. $1.25. 4. Beauty and the Beast. With original illustrations by H. L. Stephens. Printed in oil colors by F. Bien. $1.50. 5. Cinderella, or The Glass Slipper. Illustrated in oil colors. $1.50. 6. Puss in Boots. Original illustrations in oil colors. $1.50. 7. The Water-Lily. By Harriet Myrtle. With twenty illustrations by Hablot K. Browne. $1.50. PAMPHLETS, ETC.-The London Quarterly Review, October, 1865. The Westminster Review, October, 1865. Edinburgh Review, October, 1865. American Editions. New York: Leonard Scott & Co. Manual of Instruction for Classes of Baptized Children in the Methodist Episcopal Church. By B. Hawley, D. D. New York: Carlton & Porter. A Sermon on Holiness, Preached at the Seaville Camp Meeting. By Rev. A. E. Ballard. Ill. Catalogue of M Kendree College. 1865-66. Lebanon, President, Rev. Robert Allyn, D. D. Students, 213. MUSIC.-The Boys that Wear the Blue. Words by Mrs. M. A. Kidder; music by Henry Tucker. 30 cts. Festival March. By Charles Fradel. 30 cts. Never Forget; or, The Memories of Andersonville Prison Pens. Words by Mrs. Kidder; music by Henry Tucker. 30 cts. The above are from W. Jennings Demorest, 39 Beekman-street, New York. Sent by mail on receipt of price. ADDRESS OF THE BISHOPS TO THE CHURCHES. To the Ministers and Members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Beloved Brethren,-In the good providence of God we have been spared to see the closing of the first century of American Methodism. The General Conference has ordained that this period "shall be celebrated by all our Churches and people with devout thanksgiving by special religious services and liberal thankofferings." No ordinary gratitude will suffice in acknowledging the momentous and incalculable blessings which God has bestowed upon our Church and upon our country, and the world through the Church. From the landing of Mr. Wesley's first missionaries to the present hour the Spirit has blessed and prospered the evangelized labors of Methodism here to a degree unparalleled in Church history. Your pastors will call to your minds the great facts of this wonderful history in their centenary sermons and addresses, and you will find them recorded in the centenary volume prepared by order of the General Conference, which, we trust, will be read by all our people. We can only now recount a few of the signal mercies which call for extraordinary gratitude and thanksgiving to God. We have reason to be grateful for the preservation of that pure theology which we have inherited from our fathers. No dangerous heresy has ever taken root among our ministers or people. They still hold those great evangelical doctrines which Methodism was raised up to bear witness to before the world. Repentance, free grace, the testimony of the Spirit to the believer's acceptance before God, and the doctrine of Christian holiness are all preached and held in their integrity. |