OUR CHILDREN'S PAPER HAS BEEN GREATLY IMPROVED. It will have one or more Lessons in each number, for use in Sunday Schools and Homes. It has separate Departments of Sunday-School News, Correspondence, and Scripture Puzzles, each Department having a handsome engraved heading. It will be continued the same size and at the same price, keeping it within the means of our Schools. And it is believed that these improvements will make the demand for the Myrtle so large that the publishers will be encouraged to make it a weekly paper of great excellence at low cost. The Myrtle is the original Juvenile Paper of the Denomination. Most of our Suuday Schools take it. But families of our Faith that reside where there is no Sunday School of our Church, will find it a help, and a welcome visitor to their children. Single copies, 50 cents per year; 10 or more copies to one address, 30 cents each per year. Payment to be made in advance. Sample copies sent free upon application. Send orders to UNIVERSALIST PUBLISHING HOUSE Adams' and Chapin's Hymn Book. AN ENTIRELY NEW EDITION. The Publishing House has just issued a New Edition of this popular Hymn Book. The type is larger, the page is larger, and the book contains a greater number of pages. The publication of this new edition affords our societies and people an opportunity to furnish themselves with new books. Send orders to UNIVERSALIST PUBLISHING HOUSE, 37 Cornhill, Boston, Mass. THE CENTENARY BOOK. -0-0-0 LIFE OF REV. JOHN MURRAY. It is now ninety-nine years since Father Murray landed on the shores of America and commenced preachng the doctrine of the salvation of all men. Most of the book was written by Mr. Murray himself, and is one of the most interesting biographies ever written. Every Universalist will want a copy for his own use; and it is one of the best books to place in the hands of inquirers. It is in handsome type, paper and binding, and contains a fine steel engraving of FATHER MURRAY, and also engravings of the Potter Meeting-House, the First Church in Gloucester, the First Church in Boston, and grave of MURRAY. In plain binding, $1.50 per copy. Bevelled boards, red edges, $1.75. Sent by mail, postage free upon reeipt of the price. Agents supplied upon liberal terms. Agents Wanted. Send orders to BENTON SMITH, Agent, Universalist Publishing House, 37 Cornhill, Boston. THE ELECTRIC DISK. A neat self-acting alloy-electrique, to be worn on the body or limb as if a plaster; a very superior remedy for many a lame or weak back, stomach, side, or limb; for cold, rheumatism, nervous cough, atony, pain, or palsy, and a sure help for asthma and catarrh. These simple Disks are easy medical electricity and for very general use; are also prescribed by Dr. Garratt and leading physicians. For sale by all first-class Druggists. At wholesale by GEO. L. ROGERS, General Agent, 146 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. Orders filled with dispatch. lyMay SILENT FEED SEWING MACHINE a first-class Lock Stitch Shuttle Machine, designed for every description of family sewing and manufacturing rposes. It is elegant in style and finish, perfectly simple in construction-makes perfect work on every deription of material. BROCK & DELANO, 195 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, GENERAL AGENTS FOR NEW ENGLAND. Also, Agents for Kelly's celebrated Machine Oil. Ants wanted in every city and town. Send for descriptive pamphlet. THE UNIVERSALIST CENTENNIAL. A Book containing all the proceedings at the Centennial Convention at Gloucester, Mass., in Sept last No expense was spared to secure full and correct reports of all that was said and done at that great Co vention. The Book contains Dr. Miner's Occasional Sermon and Dr. Chapin's Communion Sermon in ful sketches of the other sermons preached on the occasion, full reports of the Addresses made at the different meet ings, and the proceedings of the Council. It is a book which every Universalist should own for present use and future reference. It will be handsomely bound iu cloth and also in paper covers. Price in cloth $1.00. In paper covers 50 cents. Sent by mail, postage free, upon receipt of the retail price. to sell this book in every place where there are Universalists. They will be supplied upon liberal terms. The Universalist Almanac and Register, FOR 1871. The Almanac and Register for 1871 will be published December 1st. No expense or effort has been spare to make the Register of 1871 perfect. In addition to the usual matter, it will this year present a summary the work of our Centenary year. We wish that every Universalist family would arrange to use it for the famly Almanac. It will be desirable as au Almanac, for it will contain an excellent Calendar, amply sufficient r family use. Important events are inserted in the Calendar, especially those of our denomination. It will e tain a list of our denominational Schools and Colleges, an Obituary Record of deceased ministers and emirat laymen, a list of Societies with their pastors, and the Post-Office address of all the Ministers of the denomine tion. It is an important and very valuable little book. No home among us should be without a copy. Send orders to UNIVERSALIST PÜBLISHING HOUSË, 37 Cornhill, Boston. DR. PAIGE'S COMMENTARY 66 III. ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. VOL. IV. EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS. 66 V. EPISTLES TO THE CORINTHIANS. 66 VI. FROM CORINTHIANS TO REVELATIONE. It is now twenty-five years since Dr. Paige commenced his great work. The Commentary ba received the highest commendations from our best scholars, and it will be the standard work upon the New Testament, in the Universalist Church. Dr. Paige will not write upon Revelations. Dr. Whittemores' work upon that book will be unite with Dr. Paige's six volumes to make a complete Commentary upon the New Testament. It is of the same size and is bound in the same style. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. "The Publishing House has just issued the sixth and closing volume of this truly excellent and valuable work; a work that does equal honor to the author's patient research, his extensive reading, sound judgment and accurate scholarship." "And so, at last, we have a Commentary on the entire New Testament written from the stand point of our faith; a commentary which honestly and faithfully seeks to ascertain the true character of the doctrines, the precepts and the work of Jesus: the nature and authority of his revelations respecting the character, the purposes, and providences of God, and the duty and destiny of Man; the exact value of the words and phrases he employed, and the mean. ing which they conveyed to the minds of the people among whom he lived, and to whom he addressed his teachings; and the conditions, religious, social and political in which Christianity had its birth, and out of which it grew up into the nighty power which, confessedly, it is now, slowly but surely revolutionizing and renovating the world, and bringing it nearer and nearer to that new and heavenly life, into which it is the mission of Christ to lift every human soul." "We feel a just denominational pride in the manner in which this important work has been executed." "It is almost useless after what we have now said of this excellent commentary, to urge upon the Universalist public the duty and advantages of having this work always on hand for consultation and family reading It should be in every home."-Universalist Quarterly. Volume VI., brings the Commentary down to the Revelation, and, with the Commentary of the late Dr. Whit temore on the latter book, completes the New Testament Thus, the life-work of Dr. Paige, -a work running throug more than a quarter of a century, and absorbing all the time and energy not imperatively required by more pressing daily duties, is at length finished. With devout gratitude to God he feels the burden of his long task fall from h weary shoulders; and throughout our church the same f!ing of joy and thankfulness will find expression as it becanes known that this noble and faithfully performed task h been completed by the hands that began it. On our o behalf, and on the behalf of the entire denomination, take the occasion to tender the author both congratulation and thanks. It should be known, as probably it is not known to many, that this has been, on the part both of Dr. Paige and publishers, a labor of love and duty. In the familiar par lance of business, it has not paid. If Dr. Paige had depende for subsistence on receipts from the sale of his Commenta he must have starved long ago. All that he has received the long period of his assiduous devotion to this w would hardly make a respectable salary for one year. We think it no extravagance to say that Dr. Paige made to our church a contribution of about twentyyears of the most exacting and valuable service ever re dered to it. We mean, not that he has worn himself out the service of the cause, as many have done before him, bu that he has given outright, and without any pecuniary turn whatever, the toil of a quarter of a century. - Used salist. Price per Volume, $1.50. The seven volumes will be sold for $10. Send orders to UNIVERSALIST PUBLISHING HOUSE 37 Cornhill, Boston. The Ladies' Repository for 1871. NEW VOLUME --- JANUARY 1st. The REPOSITORY is now one of the handsomest monthlies published, and one of the best religions n literary magazines in the country. It has been received with great favor during the past year, and large si tions have been made to the number of the subscribers. The publisher will spare no efforts to make the volume of the Magazine fully equal to the present one. The January Number will contain a fine engraving of Rev. A. A. MINER, D. D., WITH A SKETCH BY MRS. H. A. BINGHAM. MISS ALICE CARY and and MISS PHOEBE CARY MISS ARE ENGAGED TO CONTRIBUTE BOTH POETIC AND PROSE MRS. N. T. MUNROE, MRS. MARY A. ARTICLES. LIVERMORE, MRS. CAROLINE M. SAWYER, And others of our ablest writers, will also continue to write for its pages. The REPOSITORY is in every way suited to the Family Circle. It is the only work of the kind publishe in our denomination; and we ask all our friends and patrons to aid us in extending its circulation. It is now the season of the year when families are considering what Magazine they will take. We those of our own denomination not to forget their own Magazine. Let our friends forward their subscriptions. Specimen copies sent free on application. TERMS: - $2.50 per year, in advance. Clubs of Four, $9.00. Clubs of Seven, $15,00. CLUB RATES: Clubs of Ten, $20.00. Where ten or more are sent, a copy will be sent free to the person getting up the club. The momey mus in all cases, accompany the list of names. Payment may be sent by Post-Office Money Orders, Registered Letters, and Drafts upon New York Boston, at our risk. Any one of these modes is perfectly safe, and Post Masters of all Post Offices whe money orders are not sold, will register letters for a small fee. Money mailed in unregistered letters will be the risk of the sender. All Magazines will be forwarded until an explicit order of a discontinuance is received; and whether taken by the subscriber or not from the place where they are deposited, he will be accountable for the pay un he orders a discontinuance and pays what is due. ly," Address BENTON SMITH, Agent, TRAVELLING AGENT. MR. GEO. W. BROWN is agent to solicit subscriptions for the " Ladies' Repository," "The Quarte "The Universalist," and " The Myrtle;" to take orders for books, and to make collections he is commended to the favor and coufidence of the people upon whom he may call. THE LADIES' REPOSITORY. DECEMBER, 1870. A CHAPTER ON WORKING SAINTS. | attention from those who judge by sound, I BY REV. T. B. THAYER. Tis not the beauty of the foliage nor the fragrance of the blossom, but the goodness and quantity of the fruit which determine the character and value of the tree. So it is not how much a man may talk relig. ion, but how much he may do, that shows the force of religious life in him. He that doeth righteousness is righteous. It is not the professing, but the working Christian, who is the true saint; and we need to be careful that we are not deceived by the showy and noisy display of the first, to the neglect of the modest and unobtrusive labors of the last. There is danger of this. The world is so given to show and noise, that we look to them, notwithstanding often disappointment, for something real and substantial. And on the other hand, those true saints who do the work of God and humanity, are mostly overlooked, because they cannot come into the fashion of blowing a trumpet before them in the synagogues and in the streets, as the hypocrites do. The shallow little brook goes babbling along over the pebbles, and, making perpetual talk of itself, will get noticed; though in reality it is a very small affair, and does very little service to the world. But the deep broad stream, which gladdens a thousand fields, fertilizes vast provinces, and enriches nations-this flows noiselessly,smoothly, without any babble at all; and so gets little VOL. XLIV.-26 and think the more noise the more substance. It is in this way real benefactors, noblesouled men, doing the work of Christ in obscure places, living a sublime life of effort and sacrifice for the good of others, the slave, the prisoner, the outcast, the criminal, the poor, the diseased - it is because of this unconscious respect for noise and show, that such brave hearts as these pass on to the grave without recognition, or honor from the world which owes them so much. We propose in this article a sketch of one or two such as these, and invite the reader's thought to the saintly life they lived. We have heard much, talked much, and written much of the Washingtons, Newtons, Fene. lons, Howards and Channings; but these stood on the high places of the world; they had power, intellect, education, wealth, to help them to do their work, and historians and poets to fill the world with their fame. Those of whom we are to speak had none of these auxiliaries in their work, none of these helps to reputation, yet the work of love they did was as beautiful and divine as the deeds of angels; and their fruits abundantly witnessed out of what rich soil sprung the tree that bore them. John Pounds was a cobbler in Portsmouth, England, born in the year 1776; driven to this humble employment by an accident which broke his leg, while an apprentice to a shipwright in the naval dock yards. Long engaged in his work, he had the son of a |