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ZION'S
STANDARD AND WEEKLY REVIEW.
RELIGIOUS BUT NOT SECTARIAN! DEVOTED TO RELIGION, NEWS, POLITICS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND THE GENERAL INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE.
VOL. II. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1867. NO. 13

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ZION'S 
STANDARD AND WEEKLY REVIEW.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY, ON WEDNESDAY,
By the Corporation of the 
M. E. ZION CHURCH,
NEW YORK CITY,
In the interest of the General Conference, as the Organ of the Connection.

TERMS.
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M.B.[[?]] Business Manager,
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Editors:
Rev. William H. Decker,
Wm. Howard Day.
Religious Editor of the Southern Department,
Rev. Singleton T. Jones,
Washington, D.C.
Corresponding Editors:
[[?]] Conference, Jermain W. Longuen,
New England Conference, Peter Ross,
Philadelphia Conference, Jacob P. Hamer,
Baltimore Conference, [[blank]]
Alleghany Conference, Abram Cole,
Kentucky Conference, Wm. F. Butler,
Tennessee Conference, Alfred E. Anderson,
North Carolina Conference, J.W. Hood,
South Carolina Conference, Isom G. Clinton,
Louisiana Conference, Joseph Dutch,
Alabama Conference, Wilbur G. Strong,
Georgia Conference, Tunis G. Campbell,
California Conference, J.J. Moore.

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Board of Trustees of the
A.M.E. Zion's Church, N.Y.
for 1867.
John Pernell,
Thomas Har[[?]]
Howard Layman, Treasurer
Henry Stevens, Treasurer of the Poor's Fund,
Noel Ackeinson, Finance [[?]]
John C. Pulley, Finance [[?]]
James F[[?]], Collector

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Hymn Books and Disciplines.
We take pleasure in announcing to the Ministers and Laity of the Connection, that we shall be able to supply them with Hymn Books and Disciplines at the shortest notice.
The stereotype plates have been purchased from the Widow Coleman, and the books are now in the course of printing, and we expect them to be ready in a short time.

To the Pastors
of the A.M.R. Zion Churches in Philadelphia and [[Gen?]] Conference Districts.

Corning, N.Y., July 26th, 1867.
Dear Brethren: -
You will please collect immediately all money you possibly can, by any proper method, to enable us in conjunction with the other Conferences to purchase the Zion's Standard and Weekly Review, from the Corporation of Zion Church, N.Y. city in the interest of and for the General Conference and the Connection. 
The Conference which you respectfully represent, having agreed to raise certain amounts which must be done by September 1st.
The Genessee Conference, will commence its session on the 1st Saturday in September in Zion church, Syracuse N.Y., at 4 o'clock P.M.
The members and delegates will please be prompt in their attendance, or they will be subject to a fine.
J.D. Roberts,
Supt. 2nd Episcopal District of the A.M.E. Zion Church.

Notice.
To the traveling Elders and Ministers in charge of congregations, in teh New York and New England districts:
Beloved brethren and fellow-laborers, permit me to inform you, that it is a matter of the greatest importance that each of you attend wthout dely, to the collection of the monies pledged by your respective Conferences, fo rthe purchase of our excellent Connectional Paper, Zion's Standard and Weekly Review, [[?]] the [[?]] of Zion Church, New York city. This [[?]] brethren, I have taken this method[[?]] your attention to the necessity of making [[?]]

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raised through his influence. Rev. Tomkins is now the Missionary of the Baltimore Conference; he needs assistance to carry forward the work in which he is engaged, and we earnestly appeal to the Trustees of all churches in and out of the District, to give him a collection; he has a large field, and hundreds are now in his District, who will hearken to his voice; He is trying to gather [[?]] flock, and may you prosper him and his beloved family, and greatly repay them for generous hospitality to may weary traverllers.

Rev. R.A. Dyson,
Is doing a good work in Baltimore, and souls are rushing to the standard of the Lord and to his church, he seems to be devoted to the work of the Lord and to his charge; we cannot close without saying a word about the 
Rev. R.H. Golden.
We heard this gentlemen preached in Philadelphia, on Sunday last, and was forcibly convinced of his Oratorical ability as well as his christian forbearance, hard fightings without and fears within, has not daunted his devotion to the cause of Christ but, in the midst of the conflict he has ever upheld the Cross. His discourse was an able one, and its deliver affected many. May success attend him until 
We shall over time beneath
Live out for cheerful hop,
And fearless pass the vale of death, 
And gain the mountain top.
The victory shall soon be [[?]], and the Saints of God rest from their labors.

Israel Church
We had the pleasure of visiting this congregation; we do not know to what body they are connected, but [[?]] that we were among the people of God, here we saw a find Sabbath School, desirably conducted and we were at once impressed with the belief, that the scholars in some schools we have visited; the congregation is small but if we judge from the expressions of approbation to the service to heard, many of them will ascend in the resurrection morning, with those who in life were united in preaching [[?]]. DaYY.

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but He healed me of my sickness, He gave life to my a soul. I was doomed to everlasting woe; but He redeemed me with His own precious blood, and now dwells in me, "the hope of glory."
Precious answers the widow in her loneliness and poverty. The companion of my life was stricken down by disease; my children have been laid in the grave; my friends are dead [[?]] away in other lands; but "there is a [[?]] which sticketh closer than a brother" in me. He cheers me by the [[?]] in grace. He blesses me with [[?]] of His love. He fills my heart with peace and joy and hope.
Precious, answers the orphan, weeping at his mother's grave. My father died years ago, my brothers and sisters are gone, and last night another was buried here; but though father and mother, brothers and sisters have all been taken away from me, and though I weep over their graves, I am not comfortless. For they all were followers of the Savious, and I hear a sweet voice whispering in my ear, "Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him." Ah! earth were indeed dreary to me now; were it not for the "hope through Jesus given."
Precious, shouts the dying saint, as he is passing from a world of sin and death to a world of holiness and life. Precious Jesus! He gives me victory! He has conquered death and hell! I triumph through abounding grace!
"I learn my head on Jesus' breast
And breaths my life out sweetly there."

Self-reliance versus Home Influence.
It was only a few days ago, as I was travelling in the Northern portion of a county in South-eastern Missouri, that I fell in company with a young man who was, as it happened, intent on visiting a cave that I had traveled many miles to see. Our horses jogged along together as we conversed on matters of general interest that suggested themselves from our surroundings. I could not help observing with interest my new companion. We entered the cave with others [[?]] bearing a 

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comfortable salary of thriteen hundred per year. When I found labor I was quite willing to begin, receiving less than six bits (shillings) per day."
"Where is your home?" I asked.
"All the home that is left to me is in -, where I buried the only one that ever made it happy. I am here doubtless by the same motive that led you here. While in the discharge of my duties I am very fond of observing God's wonderous works; hence you saw me in the cave searching for these beautiful specimens of stalactitic carbonate of lime.
"Will you remain a citisen of our state?"
"Yes; tear and suffering have endeared it to me. The golden bowl of sympathy is broken, and I can only think well of them. I wish now only to becomes worthy and obedient servant of my newly adopted state."
At this we parted. I saw by the sad yet hopeful expression deeply wriotten upon his face, that may be there were other sorrows known only to Him that knoweth all things I had not misjudged. Business led me the same evening to where my new-found friend was to lecture. I entered the hall, and for more than an hour, with many others, listened to him. I had heard other men often, but I confess I never was more agreeably entertained. The conversation at the cave, the convictions of duty, the unpretentious manner, the freedom, the cogent power of expression, together with my surroundings, led me to reflect upon the past and future of the young man who stood at the desk before me. I then felt the full force of those "home influences" he referred to in the morning's conversation. Although I beleive they were fast consuming the best blood of his soul, I felt glad that he was here. I thought how little his father or mother know of the powers that were slumbering within him. What a precious possession and strength he would have been to them in their old age had they only fully appreciated his true worth. Home influences lost to them a noble and worth son. He can only think well of thelm. We have gained him, and his sterling worth will be feld among[[?]]

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looks like a man ill at ease with himself. Let us ask him a question.
"Mr. Gibbon, how does the world seem to you now?"
The eloquent historian of the Roman empire, for he it is, closes his eyes a moment, then opens them again, and with a deep sigh replies,
"All things are fleeting. When I look back, I see they have been fleeting; when I look forward, all is dark and doubtful."

What the Lord Jesus did not Reveal and Teach.

It has been often said that the very silence of Scripture is suggestive. May we not profitably apply this thought to the words of Jesus when he was on earth? The four Gospels are selections from what the Savior said; but let it be observed that they are selections made by the Holy Spirit himself. No doubt, they contain the the substance of all that the Savior taught; no important truth is omitted; yet what a silence is there concerning many things which have, in all ages, causes much contention and controversy!
We will just refer to a few things, about which all must agree. There are persons who will find baptismal regeneration in John 3:5, and others who think they see a complete system of church order in Matthew 28:20; and these make Christ say things contrary to his usual teaching, or else beyond his design.
But we do not refer to such things as these. The points we mention as specimens of the silence of Christ are beyond debate.
Christ was silent respecting the sublime science of astronomy. What the stars are - whether inhabited, or to be inhabited, he never says. He ever aimed to carry his auditors far beyond the stars, up to the heaven of heavens.
He is silent as regards the origin of evil. How many have disputed on this point age after age! Christ does not utter a single sentence on this awful theme.
He is silent as regards any attemps to reconsile man's responsibility and God's sovereignty. He Freely and fully preached them, both, and would have us believe

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a Christian boy, reared in the Sunday school, and he always carried his Bible with him.
In one of our engagements, he was wounded, and the surgeon told him he would die. Charley said he would like to see his mother, but he hadn't money enough to send for her. The soldier boys of my escort - and generous souls they were - gathered around him and made up a purse and sent away out in the state of Illinois for his mother to come to see him. I remember when she presented herself at my headquarters, cheerful and happy, with a Bible and a Methodist hymn book in her satchel. I took her to the hospital. She took his hand, cheerfully thanking God that she saw him a alive and there she sat, day after day, watching all the child she had in the world - watching for him to die.
As I passed through that hospital one morning, looking at the cot of Charlsy, I saw the death damp on his brow; his eye was dim, his pulse was getting slow. I took him by the hand and said, "How is it this morning?"  "Gener," said he, "I feel I am going to the from," and his eye brightened. His mother stood by him singing,
Jesus can make a dying bed
Feed soft as downy pillows are.
While on his breast I  lean my head,
And breathe my life out sweetly there.
She gave up her boy as cheerfully as you would give a dollar. We buried him in the swamp. She went to his funeral, and thanked God she had a son to give to the nation.
Such graves are scattered all over the country. They appeal to us to-day that we shall not let this government of the people, for the people, and by the people, perish from the earth.
On fame's eternal camping-ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And glory guards with solemn round
The bivouacs of the dead.
General O.B. Fisk.

A Model Merchant
A merchant of New York, during th elate war ,made a contract with a mer-

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