year closing September 30, 1870, and since the commencement Nov. 5 he records : "This morning I went to the Home without a dollar, yet in peace. Yea, joy filled my heart for I knew in whom I trusted. On reaching the Home, the mail had just arrived, and in one letter I found, from Miss Mary $200— and in another from Albany, two dollars for reports, etc." The secret of his joy and peace is evidently the soundness and sweetness of his faith. The report furnishes abundant evidence that the peace which surpasseth the understanding of merely naturally minded men results from the life of prayer associated with the life of faith. (Philippians 4: 6 and 7.) In his experience there has been a fulfillment of the promises, "Trust in the Lord, and do good * * and verily thou shalt be fed." ( Ps. 37: 3 ) 'They that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing." (Ps. 34: 10.) Completely relieved from the corrosive influences of anxious care he reposes upon the goodness of the Divine Father, and diligently uses all the means the Lord makes him steward of. Works of this character are much misunderstood. Very likely they are not fully appreciated by any who do not, to some extent, aspire to a similar life. We recollect hearing a venerable preacher denounce such a life as most injurious. Another one regarded it as equivalent to praying for things needed without working for them. These are all misapprehensions. The life of faith is preeminently the life of work. Trust and labor go hand in hand. There is no antagonism, no chafing of the spirit, no rough friction, no rude jarring, no sound of discord. Why? Because the will is at-one with the divine. "Thy will be done." It is to pray, and pray, and never cease praying: ever asking and ever receiving. Looking for and expecting the blessing. All dark distrust, all dread and fear dissipated. 6-February. If there is a reliance upon the arm of flesh, your own strength or that of any other, your purposes are not in harmony with God's. "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on, thee, because he trusteth in thee "--but what promises are made to those who trust not? On the one side there is disappointment, vexation, irritability, distrust, anxiety, expectation of evil, on the other the serenity of a mind that daily communes with him who says, "My peace I give unto you, not as the world giveth give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid" (John 14: 27.) It is a privilege to unite in labors of this character. We heard a lady say: "Dr. Cullis's wants are daily wants, I purpose sending him to day what I can give without waiting for others." When the money arrives it will come just when needed. At the time, on the very day when the doctor's purse is empty, and he has gone to his Father, with the simplicity of a little child telling him what the necessities of the home are on that day, he rises from his knees to pursue his daily toil, without any disquiet of mind and on that day the help arrives. Is it possible for any christian to say, it just happened so? Infidels may for "blind unbelief is sure to err," but we delight to recognize the special provi dential care of our Heavenly Parent. We trace a concurrence of causes contributing to the one end, in answer to true prayer. E. A. L. THE OTHER LIFE. By Wm. H. Holcombe, M. D., author of "Our children in heaven," etc., Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1871. Paper the most exquisite, typography almost perfect, binding neat. So much for the external. As to the style and language it is such poetical prose as only a man with poetical sensibilities can write. As to the teaching itself our own opinion is against its reception as a real representation of the other life. It is however far in advance of pseudo-spiritualism, because that rejects the Divinity of Christ, and the inspiration of the word. Swedenborgianism is based on the assumption of the Swedish seer (n. 779 True Christian Religion,) that the second coming of Christ took place through him, Swedenborg, and that the scriptures are to be interpreted by the standard he has furnished. This is Popery in as objectional a form as Rome has given. The Lord promises his own spiritual presence to the believer (Rev.3:20. Matt. 18.20 John 10:27 etc.,) direct and not through the mediation of Swedenborg or any other man. This spiritual communion, to those who experience it, is infinitely more valuable, than all the revelations (?) Swedenborg has given to the world. As to the other life, we now see through a mirror, darkly, indistinctly, (necessarily so while clogged with the flesh; we could not bear the light of the whole glory,) but then "face to face." Enough for us now the Word and Spirit ever beyond and above us. E. A. L. THE NEW CHURCH INDEPENDENT AND MONTHLY REVIEW.-Edited by John S. Weller and published by Messrs. Welier & Metcalf, Laporte, Indiana, at $2 per annum. With AMERICAN OBSERVER $3. The January number is particularly interesting. Previous to this it had been issued as a sixteen page quarto, now it is increased to forty-eight pages octavo. The change was made at our suggestion and we trust it will be acceptable to all ite readers, and profitable to the worthy publisher. We are not a receiver of the doctrines of the New Church but are far from classing these views with the vagaries of modern spiritualism. We have met with some professors of the New Church who have been as narrow minded as the most exclusive dogmatists of any school, but it has been a delight to us to associate with very many of the true "salt of the earth" who were of this faith. Our preceptor Edwin A. Atlee, M. D., of Cincinnati, Ohio, was a teacher of these doctrines, and we remember him as a man of noble nature, cordial, frank, intelligent, pure. Resembling him in many of these excellencies was the former editor of the journal we are now referring to, Rev. Henry Weller, an excellent likeness of whom is presented on page twenty. In New York, we enjoyed the friendship of Prof. Geo. Bush, a Swedenborgian, of strong intellect but still stronger affections. Why are so many homeopathic physicians Swedenborgians? Who will tell us? E. A. L. THE CHRISTIAN UNION.-Published weekly by Messrs. J. B. Ford & Co., 39 Park Row, New York city, at $3 per year in advance, or with Plymouth Pulpit for $5. This is one of our most welcome exchanges. It is edited by Henry Ward Beecher, and it would therefore be a work of supererogation to dilate on its merits. THE LITTLE CORPORAL This magazine for February is as crisp and pure as a northern snowflake. Its illustrations are superb. Mr. Sewell, who founded The Corporal nearly six years ago, and under whose editorship it has achieved such an enviable name and circulation, announces, in this number, his withdrawal from the firm of Sewell & Miller, who have for some time been the publishers. He goes into the book manufacturing business, and will still conduct and publish "The School Festival," which is devoted to day and Sunday School entertainments. The Little Corporal Magazine will hereafter be published by John E. Miller, Chicago, Mr. Sewell's former partner, and edited by Mrs. Emily Huntington Miller, who has heretofore been Associate Editor. THE MEDICAL HERBARIUM a selection of dried samples of Medicinal plants by T. F. Allen,M. D., New York Dr. Henry M. Smith New York, Publisher. The medical herbarium is prepared to meet the wants of the physician, the pharmaceutist, and the lecturer. It is intended to contain an authentic specimen of every medicinal plant, with its appropriate name and synonyms. It states the region and kind of soil in which the plant may be found, the time of flowering, and the part used for medicine. The specimens are poisoned with corrosive sublimate, and mounted on thick white paper (114x16 inches). The herbarium will be issued in parts (each consisting of ten specimens), as rapidly and reasonably as possible. Price $2.00 per part. Prof. Allen is a skillful botanist and will present in his herbarium correct samples of our medicinal plants. Part I. contains the following: Eupatorium purpureum.-Linn-Joe Pye weed, (Queen of the Meadow ?). This remarkable plant includes these quondam species:-E. verticillatum. WILLD; E. trifoliatum. DARLING; augustifolium. TORR; falcatum. MICHX; maculatum. L.; punctatum WILLD; amænum. PURSH; ternifolium. ELL. Perennial, 3 to 8 feet high. Wet soil. Common. Flowers in July and August. Gather the root in August. Asclepias incarnata.-Linn.-Var Pulchra. Gray. Aslcepias pulchra. Ehrh. Swamp Silkweed. Perennial herb. Wet soil. Common. Flowers, July and August. (A smoother form is more common Northwest.) The root is officinal. Polygala senega.-Linn.-Seneca snake root. Flowers May and June. Perennial. Dry soil. More com mon westward. The root is officinal. Baptisia tinctoria.-R. Brown.-Sophora tinctoria. Linn. Podalyria tinctoria. Sims. Wild Indigo. A perennial bush herb, two to three feet high. Flowers June to August; yellow, dry black. Dry soil. Common. Collect the bark of the root in Spring or Fall. Aletris farinosa.-Linn.-Aletris Alba, Michx. Star Grass. Colic root. Flowers in July. Perennial herb. Dry soil. Common South and west. The root is officinal. Ptelea trifoliata.-Linn.-Var. Mollis. T. & G. Shrubby trefoil. Stinking Ash. Swamp dog-wood. Shrub. six to eight feet high. Dry soil. Common west and south. (The var. about Chicago.) Flowers May and June. The bark of the root is officinal. Phytolacca decandra.-Linn.-Poke weed. Perennial, four to six feet high. Root very large, branching. Hedges. Hedges. ComFlowers from July to September. Gather the root in fall. Lobelia inflata.-Linn.-Indian tobacco. Perennial. Road sides. Common. Flowers from July to October. Collect the whole plant while in flower and seed. mno. Ustilago maydis.-Corda.-Corn Smut. This fungus attacks the young grains (etc.,) of corn, which becomes greatly distended by it, and finally burst. These grains must be gathered just before they burst, dried and powdered. Cicuta macnlata.-Linn.-Water hemlock. Spotted cowbane. Beaver poison. Musquash. Perennial herb. Wet soil. Common. Flowers in July and August. Collect the fresh root when it commences to flower. DR. T. S. HOYNE'S MATERIA MEDICA CARDS published by the author, and for sale at the Detroit Homœopathic Pharmacy. Price 60 cents by mail, postage prepaid. We have received the third group of the Materia Medica Cards, Issued by Temple S. Hoyne M. D., Prof. of Materia Medica in Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago. The group comprises Arsenicum, Kali carb., Mercurius, Sepia. The characteristic symptoms, or rather those which the author considers reliable and trustworthy, are given, and due credit is given to other authorities by means of "quotation marks." Those |