ber last. I cannot now state the exact number that has been received in different places. However, I think that 8 or 9 have been received by the Liberty congregation in Guernsey County: a few added in Nottingham: this congregation is doing very well-adding to their faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, &c. Last Lord's day 3 were immersed in Washington township in this county. We have received several there of late; some from the Presbyterian ranks, and two (a gentleman and his wife) from the Seceders, all very intelligent and influential. I have labored a considerable part of my time there for 5 months, to some account. A new congregation will be organized at that place soon, and a convenient house for worship erected this season. There is a great and effectual door open in this section at present, and there are many opposers. Two faithful and prudent Evangelists would find employment here just now. I cannot meet half the calls of the public. I labor all that my liealth will admit of. ROBERT COOK. Athens, Sangamon county, Illinois, June 26, 1838. We commenced a three days' meeting on Friday before the first Lord's day in this month, at Lick creek in this county. The circumstances being favorable, I continued there for several days, preaching only, however, at night after the fourth day. Nineteen believed, repented, and were immersed. Last Friday another meeting commenced at Lantrel's in this county. Four made the good confession and were immersed. Brother Sneed and myself intend to devote our whole time this Summer to the proclamation of the word. May the Lord bless all that are truly devoted to his service!

ROBERT FOSTER. Winchester, Indiana, June 26, 1838. The cause of truth is progressing some in this region of country; for even here, in this wicked and benighted place, light is springing up and religious inquiry awakening. Brother Snodgrass has been laboring some in this place and vicinity; and one strong indication that truth is making some impression, is, that our friend Methodists, who had politely tendered us their meeting house, have as politely ordered us out of doors. We now hold our meetings at the Court House.

The remarks of Justus in the last number, of the difficulties of those laboring in THE WORD, who also attend to the ordinary affairs of this life, "write declarations and pleas," &c. seem peculiarly applicable to me. The community in which I live, and have lived for some time-the moral depravity of their situation, and the blindness and inefficiency of their religious teachers, stirs up my zeal at times, till, as one of old said, it "consumes me;" yet having to make a living for my family, and (either fortunately or unfortunately) writing Declarations and Pleas for that end, the prejudice of the community against the idea of a Lawyer's being a Christian, deters me in a great measure from saying as much for my Lord and Master as I should do, for fear I might bring his cause into reproach. O that by deed, if not by word, I may plead his cause! JERE. SMITH. Brown county, Ohio, July 2, 1838.

I am happy to inform you that the good cause of our common Master is still on the advance. At a meeting which I attended some four weeks ago, at Carlisle, Ky. (the place of iny former residence) about 67 persons made the good confession and were united with the congregation meeting in that place. Blessed be the name of the Lord for his goodness! O! it was a blessed season of refreshing from the presence of the Lord! The church can truly say, "The Lord hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad!" The meeting continued ten days, embracing two Lord's days. Brethren Raines, Taffe, Irvin, and Snodgrass were with us part of the time-brother William Parker, who is an excellent exhorter, all the time. I attended a meeting in company with brethren John Powell, Allen, and Vanderman, embracing the 2d Lord's day of June, at which some 25 persons were united with the church in whose bounds the meeting was held. This church is situ ated in Brown county, Ohio, about 9 miles north of me, on White Oak. At some meetings I have just attended in Kentucky 8 made the good confession and were baptized.

In the last Harbinger I see you have noticed the conduct of Elder Badger, the Editor of the Palladium. You are severe, but perhaps none too severe. That gentleman has acted a very strange part. Professing great charity and liberality-a desire to prove all things by the word of truth, he has nevertheless closed his columns against us, while they are thrown wide open to every scribbler who chooses to lift a pen against us, to caricature and misrepresent our views. Twice I have sought to be heard in our defence in that paper, and twice have I been refused. I have sometimes thought of noticing more at large the conduct of this Editor in some of our periodicals. O! it grieves me to the very heart to think that those who have professed to take a stand upon the Bible alone, should act such a part! This little notice is at your service, to use as seems good to you.

JOHN ROGERS.

May's Lick, Kentucky, June 13, 1838.

The brethren Rogers, Raines, and Taffe have lately held a meeting at Carlisle, about 20 miles from this place, and immersed upwards of 60 persons on their confession of faith in the Lord Jesus. The good cause seems to be prospering in many places in Kentucky. Brother R. C. Rickets is preaching in the lower end of thts county, and immersing at almost every meeting. Eleven or twelve were immersed at Germantown this week. We thank the Lord and take courage that the truth of God will shortly triumph over error and sectarianism in Kentucky, notwithstanding the many slanders that have been lately circuiated against it. J. J. MORRIS.

Stanford, Lincoln county, Kentucky, June 29, 1838. I have concluded to communicate to you the success of the gospel at Republican, 5 miles from Lexington. Brother John A. Gano commenced preaching on Saturday before the 2d Lord's day of this month. He was joined by brother Curtis Smith on Lord's day, and by nyself on Monday. The meeting continued only five days, during which time fortythree persons made the good confession that Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God; forty of whom I had the pleasure of immersing before I left them. Brother L G. Fleming was with us towards the close of the meeting. On the Lord's day following brethren C, Smith and Jacob Creath, Jr. held a meeting at Providence, between 2 and 3 miles distant from Republican, and received ten more upon confession of their faith in Jesus. This was, in son:e degree, produced, I suppose, by the first meeting. We regretted exceedingly to leave Republican, as 15 came forward on the last day. I have often been blessed at Republican, but never before saw a more interesting meeting at that place.

Brother Gano is a powerful proclaimer: he seems to have the spirit of the Good Book, both in public and in his private intercourse Brother C Smith does exceedingly well also. I think as much depends upon the manner as the matter of the proclaimer.

THOMAS SMITH.

Boon county, Missouri, June 29, 1838.

As your work has an extensive circulation in this state, will you be so good as to publish in your August number that the brethren from the different churches of Christ in the counties of Calloway, Boon, Howard, Randolph, Monroe, and Audrain, expect to hold an annual meeting in Paris, Monroe county, which will commence on Friday before the 4th Lord's day of September next, and continued from 4 to 8 days. It is expected that the brethren from each church will endeavor to meet and come prepared to spend a few days in the social worship of God together-our object being simply to hear from each othercultivate an acquaintance-strengthen the bonds of union-promote brotherly love, and worship the God of heaven. It is hoped that the teaching brethren will so have their arrangements made that all can be present.

On Saturday before the 2d Lord's day of this month, a three day's meeting commenced in Fulton. Our venerable brother B. W. Stone was with us, and was the principal speaker. Fourteen were added to the congregation, nine of whom were immersed during the meeting-several others have been added since at other meetings brother Stone has attended He still is in the field laboring with the zeal and ardor of a youth. On the 27th inst. he and I addressed a large congregation at Bear Creek in this county. One obeyed the Lord.

Yesterday he and I met a large assembly in Rockeport. Ten additions were made to the congregation, and prospects very flattering. Last Lord's day and Saturday before 1 was in Jefferson City Crowds assembled to hear the words of life. Two confessed and obeyed the Lord. The citizens of that place are kind and hospitable, and show by their polite and solemn attention their willingness to hear the word with all readiness, and then search the scriptures to see whether these things are so. I greatly wish that some efficient teacher could attend them. I may hereafter give you the particulars of my late visit to Jefferson-which may interest you, your readers, and the public. The good cause is evidently gaining ground in Missouri-the fields seem already white for harvest. Oh! that we had able ministers to go forth and meet the calls and desires of the people!

THOMAS M. ALLEN. Florida, Missouri, July 5, 1838. In the counties of Ralls and Pike, within a few weeks past, upwards of one hundred have entered the reign of Christ, and some few in this county.

HENRY THOMAS, Garretsville, Ohio, July 2, 1838.

We have just closed one of the happiest meetings we have ever had in this place. Brethren Marcus Bosworth and Jones Hartsel were our proclaimers. We commenced on Saturday the last day of June, at 9 o'clock A. M., and on Sunday there were eleven persons turned to the Lord, and put him on by being immersed into his death. We had a very large and attentive congregation, notwithstanding there were two other meetings in sight on the Lord's day. Our meeting continued till Monday noon. There was much good seed sown and watered, and I have no doubt but God our heavenly Father will give the increase. The fields are white already to harvest, but laborers are few. If you calculate to attend the Trumbull county yearly meeting, I hope you will publish it in the Millennial Harbinger. It commences at 1 o'clock on Friday before the last Lord's day in August. And if you intend to go to Richfield the week after, come this way, if you can, JOHN RUDULPH, Jr. and give us a discourse or two.

[I intend, the Lord willing, to attend those meetings.-A. C.]

Smithfield, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1838. We have succeeded in persuading 28 persons to become obedient to the faith of the gospel having received the assistance of brother Palmer of Canton. We now number about 70 or 80. J. WOOD. Jacksonville, Illinois, June 15, 1838.

I have just returned from a protracted meeting at Winchester, commencing this day week, 16 miles south-west of this place, attended by brethren Teacham, Reynolds, Hatchall, Lewis, Henderson, and Challen, as teachers; during which 24 made the good confes sion, and put on the Lord Jesus Christ by being immersed into his name; and several

others who had become lukewarm in the cause, acknowledged their error and buckled on their armor once more, making in all upwards of 30, and leaving many wounded. Some of the number have been confirmed infidels, as I have been informed by the citizens of the place. The church at that place contains about 100 members. Truth is mighty and must prevail.'

Brother Steenes has moved out of town about four miles, and taken his membership from us, with the intention of organizing a congregation in his own neighborhood, leaving the care of the congregation here to brother Henderson and myself. Both of us are much engaged in business and illy qualified to discharge the responsible and arduous task of overseeing a congregation containing upwards of 200 members. We want a good man and true to settle with us. A man of genuine piety and respectable literary attainments is required in such a place as ours, as this place seems destined to be the emporium of literature J. T. JONES.

for the state

[Here should have followed letters from brethren Hall, Gano, and Johnson, laid off for this number, full of good news. Also, one from brother Wallis, Nottingham, England. Very reluctantly they are laid over for our next. They report the increasing prosperity of the cause.-A. C.]

NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

"A DISCOURSE ON THE THREE SALVATIONS," by B. F. Hall, Lexington, Ky, 1838. This is a well executed tract, of 55 pages. The proceeds of the sale, after expenses, to go to Bacon College. It is written with the usual clearness, good order, and force of brother Hall, and worthy of the perusal of all who need more clear and definite views of the evangelical economy. It is also a good tract for rich brethren to purchase by the quantity and distribute amongst those who have limited or mistaken views upon the great subjects on which it treats.

THE HIGHWAY OF HOLINESS," by Robert Mack, Columbia, Tennessee, June, 1838-a monthly quarto, or 96 pages per annum, at One Dollar per volume, or five copies for four dollars. It proposes some good things- some questionable things-and some things de cidedly neither good nor indifferent. The author designs to show that Paul's Man of Sin is only a principle-and to examine Calvinism in all its five points These are very quesfionable matters-as to the expediency and utility of the things, admitting the capacity of the author to be equal to his zeal and sincerity. But he proposes to examine the subject of offerings and sacrifices, and to investigate their nature for the purpose of showing that "none mentioned in the Bible are (properly understood) expiatory, or were so intended." This is one of those points on which I should be sorry to see one sentence written. He that takes away out of my Bible all expiatory offerings and sacrifices may have the balance of it for one shilling, so far as my hope of immortality is concerned! This single proposi. tion, were all the rest as good as ever written, would forbid my saying, God speed Robert Mack in his enterprize!

Next comes "Proposals for republishing by subscription, in the city of Pittsburg, a religious work, entitled An Essay on the Order and Discipline of the Apostolic Churches, by Henry Errett, Elder of the church of Christ in New York, originally published in 1811, about 170 12mo. pages, at 62 cents Also, the Epistolary Correspondence of the aforesaid church in New York with Christian churches in America and Europe-first published in 1820-130 pages 12mo. Price 50 cents, or both books for $1,00.-by Russell and Isaac Errett, sons of Henry Errett."

Some of these letters I republished and read many years since in the Christian Baptist. The Essay on Order and Discipline I once read, but I have forgotten much of it. In both works there is much to approve and a good deal to disapprove, if my memory serves me right. These churches, besides the imperfect theories of the gospel which they held, did not understand the constitution of Christ's kingdom nor the apostolic bond of union, and therefore they have generally fallen to pieces or frittered themselves down to nothing by forming a new party for every new opinion

THOUGHTS FOR THE CANDID, or Extracts on Christiany," an Extra (No. 1,) of the Morning Watch, published by Barney & Stichane, Evergreen, Anderson's District, S. C. This is a tract of 128 pages, containing eight Essays on the Ancient Gospel. a "Discourse on the Holy Spirit." and "Sin and its Cure," with some other extracts got up by our brethren above named and the beloved E. A. Smith, who is now assisting thein, is, like the tract of the Three Salvations, (if it had been so well printed,) very convenient for distri bution, and some of our benevolent brethren in the South are taking them by the bundred for this purpose. This is doubtless one way of doing good accessibie to multitudes-not merely temporal, but spiritual and eternal good. I hope to see these brethren next Winter, as also those in Louisiana and Mississippi, if the Lord permit; but I cannot yet fix either upon my route or time of departure from home. My ways are not in my own baed, and I must wait upon the openings of the Lord.

BACON COLLEGE.

A. C.

WE rejoice to learn that this Institution is still rising in reputation and usefulness. The number of Students is still greater than last season, The Trustees and Faculty are laboring to make it worthy of very liberal patronage, and we doubt not our brethren and friends will also find it their interest to support it well. A. C.

THE

MILLENNIAL HARBINGER,

NEW SERIES.

VOLUME II.- -NUMBER IX.

BETHANY, VA. SEPTEMBER, 1838.

MORALITY OF CHRISTIANS-No. IX.

A FEW suggestions on what is due to the property of our neighbor completes our present plan. His personal rights, and the regard due to his reputation, on the basis of Christian righteousness, have been touched with a very gentle and rather sparing hand. But as the Great Teacher has said, "Unless your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, you shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven," it becomes us diligently to inquire into every branch of this righteousness.

Justice is wisely regarded as the basis of all the social virtues. It is an essential attribute of the Divine Nature; for, in the language of inspiration, "justice and judgment are the habitation of God's throne." Justice, however, as respects God, is merely distributive; amongst men it is also commutative. No creature can ever demand any thing as a matter of justice from his Creator: for who can first give to God. that it may be recompensed to him again? for of him are all things!

We have natural, political, and Christian justice; but as we write for those who "hunger and thirst after righteousness," and not to make a treatise on justice, I shall confine myself to practical views, not of natural or political justice, but of Christian righteousness. This is, indeed, the most comprehensive and excellent justice, and comprehends much more than any other species of justice known amongst men.

The Christian system sometimes seems to place under this head what are generally supposed to be virtues of another name; such as alms-giving-clemency towards our debtors-not exacting in all cases what may be strictly due to us, or not pressing unseasonably our de

mands against others. Such strict, or such unseasonable demands, Solomon regards as being "overmuch righteous." The Christian righteousness is therefore above the righteousness of law-above political and natural justice: for to that righteousness it adds clemency, generosity, almsgiving, and the rights of humanity in general.

But we must limit our suggestions in the first place to what, in the common estimation of mankind, enlightened by the New Testament, is regarded as justly due to our brother and neighbor. This is, however, such a common sense and popular theme, that it would appear idle or unnecessary to expatiate at length upon it. I should have come to this conclusion had I no other guide than my abstract and a-priori reasonings on the subject: but really I am almost a sceptic in this thing called common sense views of right; for how can we call that a common sense view of any subject which is not perceived nor understood by one in a score of our contemporaries.

My acquaintance with men and things, though on subjects of this sort limited, has very reluctantly compelled me to think either that there is no common sense view of justice, or that there is at this day a great lack of common honesty among mankind. There is no escaping from the one or the other of these alternatives-either men have no common sense views of justice, or they lack common honesty. But it may be said that is not common honesty which is possessed by a few. True; but perhaps common sense and common honesty are so designated, not because they are possessed by the majority or commonalty, but because they are ordinary and not extraordinary attainments—just as we would, in contradistinction from marble or granite, call the sandstone common, even in a country where there was very little stone of any sort.

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Justice, it is agreed on all hands, is a fundamental virtue, and the basis of all social qualities that adorn and bless human nature. respects the rights of property, it has decreed, that, as no man can justly demand what is not his own, so neither can any person keep or hold back the property of another person one moment without his consent. It has recognized, if not established, the principles upon which any thing becomes our property; and then it decides how that property shall be transferred to another. Common consent has, without any recorded conventional agreement, ordained the ways and means by which any creature of God becomes ours; and therefore there are but few controversies about these rules and reasons; but very many difficulties arise in society about the infraction or disregard of those principles, both in the pursuit of property and in the enjoyment of it.

Cupidity, avarice, and worldly temper are the most common and