volume. The Arabic language has at least thirty words descriptive of the conditions of the hump, with reference to its dimensions, its fatness or leanness, its solidity or flaccidity, and the causes of all these different states of this important appendage." We commend this interesting volume to the attention of the general reader, as well as to children and youth. If we mistake not, boys and girls will find as much entertainment here as in the best "story books." Che Religious World. THE BRICK CHURCH, NEW YORK. THE last religious service held in the old Brick Church, occurred in New York, in May last, during the meeting of the General Assembly. The church was thronged on the occasion. Dr. Spring preached a most affecting and eloquent sermon, giving a history of the church, especially under his own ministry, and narrating many interesting incidents. It is understood that lots have been purchased in 23d Street, near the 5th Avenue, for the new building. A New York paper gives an account of the state of the old burial-ground. "Thus far there have been removed from the Brick Church buryingground one thousand and forty-three bodies, of which 213 were from the general vault under the church, and were placed there about twenty years ago, when the chapel was built. "The graveyard originally occupied the whole site of the chapel, and the number of dead buried there may be inferred from the fact, that these two hundred and thirteen corpses were taken from the excavations for the foundation alone. There is no cellar under the chapel, which is built over the graves, and consequently, when that building is torn down, there will still be hundreds of skeletons to exhume. "When the foundations of the chapel were excavated, the bones brought to light were inclosed in pine boxes, as those removed at this time have been, and carefully packed in the vault. On opening the vault this week hardly a vestige of the boxes was to be found; all had crumbled away, and the bones lay piled up in a great heap, dry and white, and light almost as feathers. They were reverently gathered together again, inclosed in boxes, and buried in the Cemetery of the Evergreens, where, we trust, they may be allowed to rest undisturbed." BLACKBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, ILLINOIS. THE following account of the Blackburn Theological Seminary, under the management of Trustees of the New School Presbyterian Church, is taken from the "New York Evangelist :" "A meeting of the Trustees of the new Theological Seminary for the Northwest was held at Carlinville, on the 5th of March. The object of the meeting was to hear the report of a Committee, previously appointed, in regard to the settlement of claims, and attend to some other matters of - business with a view to an early and complete organization of the Institution. "It is known that this Institution is in large part already endowed by the efforts of the late Dr. Blackburn; it was therefore decided at the present meeting of the Trustees to call it the Blackburn Theological Seminary, in honour of the noble founder. "The lands now in the possession of the Institution are thought to be worth considerably over $100,000. It was resolved by the Trustees to reserve $100,000 of the property of the Institution intact for the endowment of professorships. The churches may be called upon to aid in the erection of Seminary buildings, or for other purposes, but the professorships are already endowed. "A primary school is already commenced, under the care of Rev. John C. Downer, who is also to act, for the present, as agent of the Seminary. "Wm. C. Bostwick, Esq., of Galena, was elected a Trustee, in place of Charles Hempstead, Esq., resigned. "Carlinville, where this Institution is located by the terms of the endowment, is a thriving village on the Chicago, Alton, and St. Louis Railroad, thirty-five miles north of Alton. It has doubled in population since 1850, and is gaining an accession of a very fine class of inhabitants every year. "Eighty acres of land are reserved for the Seminary site, three-quarters of a mile northeast of the village, on high and beautiful grounds, on the border of a delightful grove." July Barvesting. EIGHTY YEARS AGO. BY CHARLES SPRAGUE. EIGHTY years have rolled away, Struck the conquering blow! Praise to them-the bold who spoke ;- Pour the wine of sacrifice; Let the grateful anthem rise, Shall we e'er resign the prize?— Never-never-no! Hearts and hands shall guard those rights, Bought on Freedom's battle heights, Where he fixed his signal lights, Eighty years ago! I HAVE a rich neighbour that is always so busy, that he has no leisure to laugh the whole business of his life is to get money, and more money, that he may still get more and more money. He is still drudging on, saying that Solomon says "The diligent hand maketh rich." And it is true, indeed; but he considers not that it is not in the power of riches to make a man happy, for it was wisely said by a man of great observation, "that there be as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them." And yet God deliver us from pinching poverty, and grant that, having a competency, we may be content and thankful. Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches, hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle, that they clog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly. We see but the outside of the rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silk-worm, that when she seems to play, is at the very same time spinning her own bowels and consuming herself. And this many rich men do-loading themselves with corroding cares, to keep what they had already got. Let us, therefore, be thankful for health and competence, and above all, for a quiet conscience.-Izaak Walton. |