TOPICS OF THE MONTH. A Good Example, 91 An Autumn Leaf, 468 Children Over-worked, 472 Election of Governor in Massachu- Our Magazine, 70 Prof. Moses Stuart, 565 Rev. George Putnam, D.D., 456 The Hampton Normal School, 88 Transylvania, 466 Upward, 474 Vacations, 370 Village Life in New England. — Welcome Soiree to the Rev. E. H. Terms, $5.00 per Annum, payable in Advance. Single Numbers 50 Cents. THE Religious Magazine AND Monthly Review. JULY, 1873. REV. JOHN H. MORISON, D. D. Editor. "THE CHURCH HEARETH NONE BUT CHRIST."-Martin Luther. BOSTON: LEONARD C. BOWLES, PROPRIETOR. NO. 36 BROMFIELD STREET, Room No. 13. Second Flight. AND MONTHLY REVIEW. UNWRITTEN Life. By W. M. Bicknell GOD RULES. From the German of Eichendorff. S. C. R. THE GRAVE. A Sermon. By Rush R. Shippen THOUGHTS ON CHRISTIAN CONSCIOUSNESS. By Cazneau Palfrey, D.D. "THE SOWING AND THE REAPING." By V. R. S. FAITH IN THE UNSEEN. By J. H. Morison LIBERAL CHRISTIANITY in Western MassacHUSETTS. By A. D. Mayo JUNE roses and the zephyrs of June, with its dewy mornings, soft twilights, singing birds, and the golden rays of its round, red, ripe sun, enter into the receptive heart; but in words they go not out again to strike the air or track their way along the printed page. "Airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves." Much more do the delights of nature, such as these, attune the soul strung with the chords of a divine susceptibility, and give it a glow, a joy, a peace, too rich to tell. Much of life cannot be said or sung or written. Though of the making of books there is no end, yet there is but little of a child's sparkling eyes, sporting hands, throbbing bosom, sparkling, sporting, throbbing, within the arms of a fatherly, motherly Providence, that can be made into a book, - little of a good man's rest, in the embrace of integrity, of truth, and of God, |