66 III. ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. VOL. IV. EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS. 66 V. EPISTLES TO THE CORINTHIANS. 66 VI. FROM CORINTHIANS TO REVELATIONS, It is now twenty-five years since Dr. Paige commenced his great work. The Commentary hat 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 united 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 mighty 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. Whittemore on the latter book, completes the New Testament. Thus, the life-work of Dr. Paige,—a work running through 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 his weary shoulders; and throughout our church the same feeling of joy and thankfulness will find expression as it becomes known that this noble and faithfully performed task has been completed by the hands that began it. On our own behalf, and on the behalf of the entire denomination, we take the occasion to tender the author both congratulations 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 the publishers, a labor of love and duty. In the familiar par lance of business, it has not paid. If Dr Paige had depended for subsistence on receipts from the sale of his Commentary he must have starved long ago. All that he has received in the long period of his assiduous devotion to this work would hardly make a respectable salary for one year. We think it no extravagance to say that Dr. Paige has made to our church a contribution of about twenty-five years of the most exacting and valuable service ever rendered to it. We mean, not that he has worn himself out in the service of the cause, as many have done before him, but that he has given outright, and without any pecuniary return whatever, the toil of a quarter of a century. — Univer salist. Price per Volume, $1.50. The seven volumes will be sold for $10. UNIVERSALIST PUBLISHING HOUSE 37 Cornhill, Boston. THE MYRTLE. 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. 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But for these few, and the immediate circle of her loved ones, it seems fitting to embalm her memory here in these pages that were especially dear to her, and over which she kept a tender, watchful criticism, jealous of aught that would mar their dignity or purity. Often in her familiar letters were strictures and commendations like these: "I wish I wouldn't write stories for the REPOSITORY. They would be pretty in something else, but oh, not in that. Am I too particular? Well, I am so anxious that its pure tone should be retained is my only excuse. I do not mean to say there is any thing really impure in's writings, but I have so much admired the quiet dignity of the REPOSITORY that I cannot bear anything flippant or light introduced." And on these pages that she loved so well, let room be given for a slight memorial of her worthy womanhood, and to revive once more some of her pure and sweetly expressed thoughts. I cannot speak of her whom, though a younger sister of our home, we all held in a sort of reverence for her decision and dig. nity of character,-I cannot give in full what VOL. XLIV.-6 my heart honestly could dictate, for it might be taken with large allowances for love, and I suppress rather than venture. But the sisthrough separation and changing years, that ter friendship that keeps young and fresh makes meetings the revivals of girlhood and young romance, and partings like something of the best taken out of life, I trust there are many who have known it in its completeness, and can say with our sister when we visited her in her last illness, "Ah, dear, our sister-love! Can anything on the other side be happier, better,or purer than this has been?" And surely a sister's tribute cannot be presuming upon these REPOSITORY pages. It is difficult to write of a character like hers; so reticent, so shy to the world, so rich toward the little circle of home for whom she lived and moved and had her being. It seemed strange, this shyness and reserve, in one so large-hearted and strong-willed by nature, but she herself found the key of it in after years. A defect in her eyesight that marred the peace of her girlhood, although partially remedied in early womanhood, gave her the unconquerable reserve that unfitted her, she said, for carrying out any of the theories for life beyond her home. We who knew her best recall the artist and poet taste of the girl, blended with clear common sense and will, that in these days would be called decidedly strong-minded. We remember her little rebellions at discipline because she had thought out some better way, the change of diet and remodeling of "there's no neutral tint here," etc. And I can see the mother amid her household cares studying a rare new book of water-color paintings that she may instruct her young daughter, leaving her homely duties now and then to turn the leaves afresh as a new thought came to her; while she was a very Martha in her home-in the best sense of that careful, useful, abused woman. garments because of reading Miss Sedgwick's | tints of autumn, as, "that is burnt sienna;’ sensible books for the young, the brave dash "that is amber;' "that is gamboge;" of her brush and pencil beyond what a strict and mechanical teacher proscribed, and the altering and rearranging of embroidery patterns at the risk of being called presuming by Mrs. Leslie's guide-books. We recall, too, her youthful confidence in the redeeming power of the liberal faith in which she was educated, and her unfeigned surprise, when almost a child, when a fresh young convert from a partialist church was about to seize her as a prey for her morbid proselyting. Why, S.," she exclaimed with a surprised look, "I should think you were talking to a heathen! Don't I go to church and Sunday School, and hasn't my mother taught me to read my Bible and say may prayers, and haven't I had religious instruction all my life as well as you? Don't talk that way to me. I'm not a heathen." 66 It was this original way of thinking and doing, this strong and plain truthfulness of her nature that marked the child, and that developed into the dignified, disciplined and self-forgetting woman, the devoted and intense wife and mother; and the husband and children whom she loved and lived for now rise up and call her blessed. Though frail in body she was strong in nerve and spirit, and undertook and carried out, even amid household cares, and at one time almost a pioneer life in the west, the education of her children; and those children are living out her life, brightening their home with her tasks that have fallen like a mantle of grace and love upon them, and their letters that come to me now seem almost like her own hand-writing. Never have I felt more the enriching power that refined tastes give to common, daily life, than in visiting her western home in Peoria in some beautiful autumn days a few years ago. Not to herself had she lived, and her whole family felt her enthusiasm in the autumn woods where we spent whole days, and in our rides through picturesque woodland scenes, broad prairies, bluff and river that make up the scenery of that loveliest of western cities. I can hear the little people's expressions of delight as they brought us rare specimens of leaves, flowers or grasses, and their comic ways of pointing out the colors of their paint-box in the variegated But the well-spring of this harmonious blending of all things was a loving, Christian plan of life, that had toned down, as the years had glided and brought their varied experiences, the strong, decided traits of the child into the self-poised, disciplined and devout woman. If there was one trait. prominent in "our Emie" in her later years, one that impressed us all when after long intervals we were permitted to meet her for a few rare days in her own home, it was the harmony and repose of her whole nature. She seemed like one perfectly disciplined, so that her voice seemed like music and her strong thoughts, that she always put in a strong way, seemed like deep sub-bass to a spirit rightly attuned. Just a year ago in this beautiful month of June, I saw her for the last time at her home in Peoria, fading daily away from the husband and children to whom she had been for years the life and center, and from the new house that her busy, ingenious brain had helped plan and beautify, and from the relig ious society that found in her, a co-worker with her Master. But the fading away was as the twilight of a lovely day. The week I passed with her, only a month before she found that repose that her worn, wasted frame needed, she seemed resting between the two worlds, and all our quiet talks together in the intervals of the exhaustion and weariness of the consumptive, talks of past days, our children and the life beyond the river, seemed like twilight talks after a busy day, while waiting for the light and the sleep that should follow. It seemed hard for one like her to lay down her life-work, that to her had always been love-work, without a sign of reluctance, but a little each day would she plan for the future comfort of those who must learn to live on |