bask in the sunshine of truth by obtaining His revelations.

Hence, the urgent inquiry, What are the vital, and eternal elements of a New and True Religion? The history of the transitory religions of the past has shown that mere formalism and monotony, are elements of materialism, of earth-born origin. The drapery of religion-good words, in some degree, existed 2,000 years before Christ; and every phase and color of religious belief, has had a share in this sacred verbiage, which, as

mental or spiritual, that does not give him satisfaction, peace and comfort. He is not content to merge his faith in a system of so-called religion, which is both material, finite, and transitory, and therefore incapable of moral and spiritual elevation, progress and continuity! His organization calls for life, perpetual and unbounded life! Yet, when the chalice is presented to his lips, if it requires a sacrifice of something he has adopted, and for a time pursued and sought unto for comfort and therefrom, in some degree, been fed and nourished, a helm to guide the human barque of he is loath to part with it! "This floating destiny, has, beyond all controtendency to resist innovation, even though versy, ported many a human craft in a it be improvement, is observable in every harbor of measurable safety, from the special organization; in law; in medi- wrecking storms of selfish, passionate cine; in science; in religion." And a humanity, but, the end is not yet! measure of this conservatism is a necessary element in human character, to avoid rashly rushing into systems of theology, adopting supposed philosophical propositions, which on trial, by experience, prove sophistical; or scientific problems, which, by a deeper and truer knowledge of science, are found to be erroneous.

The human family are not at rest; salvation from those destructive throbbings of human passion, from those perilous graspings after momentary pleasures of sense, is not obtained from those transient sources. Engulting chasms of in swallow up earth's millions in misery, inequality in the distributions of a bountiful providence, provokes interminable jealousies and hatreds; and injustice breeds desire to revenge; thus human will, rasped up to desperate energy by the injustice and oppression of human laws and systems of association, breaks over all bounds of restraint; dashes into crimes that appall the senses, and contribute to make earth a pandemonium of

Yet, dissatisfaction,- -a want of life, soul life, liberty and love; a want of that knowledge which solves the problems that weigh upon his heart; a lack of that wisdom that answers questions that his unearthly self is constantly asking. the absence of that lamp of truth that throws light on his origin, his nature and his destiny, urges mankind onward strife and contention; of wretchedness to new fields of exploration, seeking and woe. truth; to higher flights of the winged soul to know God; and to more interior and intense labors of soul to find a true, lasting and happy relation to Him; to be panoplied with His power; to triumph over error with His wisdom; and to

From these conditions the soul turns shudderingly away, and agonizingly inquires for those elements of religion that are eternally flowing forth fountains of soul life, liberty, equality, justice and happiness.

The faith, the religion that is to save light upon the world, is, that the gospel and redeem the world, must have a of eternal soul-life, is a gospel of eternal vitalizing motive which proceeds from soul love! This, indeed, was the divine the strongest forces in the soul, that force germ of the Mosaic Law; the grand is pure love; not the flickering emotion trunk of the tree of Life upon whose which dances on the pulses of animal fruitful branches hung "all the law and passion, but that tractive power that lifts the prophets." The beloved Apostle the soul to heavenly mansions, and ushers John hath truly said, "He that hateth it into the embraces of the righteous his brother is a murderer, and ye know doers of the will of God, who have that no murderer hath eternal life abidwrought to make happy the abodes of ing in him." I John iii., 15.

It is manifest that the elements of eter nal life in religion; that is a perpetual vitality, and propelling power of religious progress, are to be found in the sacrifice of selfishness, and a whole souled consecration and love to God above, through love to man below. It was this overflowing and everflowing soul of love to God and man, which made, of Jesus, a vicegerent of God; which gave him power to give his life for his people and God's Cause!

The language and logic of true love is there is no death; no death! Spiritual, "No death to those who walk with Christ, They overcome the world, And rising from the carnal life They win the hundred fold. "

The one lone element in all the myriad theologies and religious systems (socalled,) that have deluged the world with wordy creeds; the one only element which has been of any value to mankind, and, as a bursting germ of life, has, from time to time pierced the flimsy husk of bare progressions, and given even a ray of hope to those who embraced them, was love to God and man!

"Christ presented himself to the world, drawing off from its speculations its ritualized dogmas; its traditional ethics, and fixed its thought on himself, " not on himself worshipfully, but on himself as exemplarily sacrificed to the love of God and man; giving thereunto his life! And, said Jesus, "Greater love hath no man than this, that he give his life for his friends. John, xv., 13. This love, as the eternal life of a True and New Religion, were it universally possessel and practiced, would turn the "The supreme truth that God is love, whole world into joyfulness." This is the secret of the Universe, God's love, being the soul and substance of all whole creation swims in a sea of eternal true religion, that hath eternal life, and love." "Not to love is, at last, abso- cannot, like human theologies, pass away .lute and utter desolation," solitude; in the lapse of time, and by the dissatishermitage. All that is now manifest in factions of humanity, takes away all human society that is inharmonious, is mystery from th: gospel testimony, so not of God's creation; it is of man's that "the wayfaring man though a fool, conception and inception. The truth need not err therein." Christ hath bewhich by God's revealed word flashes its gun to make his second appearance in

"One like unto the Son of Man;" the For "Now has come

salvation and

strength, and the Kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ." Rev. xii., 10. "And they who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings, as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; yea they shall walk and not faint, saith Jehovah." Isaiah, xi., 41. "Let this blessed sound of salvation from sin, be published and received as a royal diadem,

agent that St. John, in vision of God's work of the last days of God's grace to man, saw sitting upon a white cloud. " (A cloud of witnesses purified from sin.) Unto whom the spirit of the Lord cried out, "Thrust in thy sickle and reap, for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. This harvest is the harvest of humanity; that is, cutting it off from its natural, generative stock, and garnering it into in the eyes of all nations forever and

Mt. Lebanon, N. Y.

THE TWO ANGELS.

GoD called his nearest Angels who dwelled with him

above:

The tenderest one was Pity, the dearest one was

Love.

"Arise," he said "my angels! a wail of woe and sin

within.

the Kingdom of God which is not of ever." this evil world,-Now nothing is more like a "Son of man" than a daughter of man; and Christ now manifest through the daughter of man, constitutes Christ manifest the second time in his glory; "woman, the glory of man" and Christ thus dually manifest, the glory of God. Steals through the gates of heaven, and saddens all Now in this Christ dispensation "there shall be no more death," (soul death, the fruit of sin,) "neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain," (the fruit of sin,) for the former things" (religious false systems; and man's sins) "have passed away.' "And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold I make all things new." Rev. xxi., 5.

Evolutionists have advertised for a New Religion; and religious professors, for a New Theology! What can be newer, than a religion, the life testimony of which"turns the world upside down" makes its faithful converts "New Creatures" reaps them from the old earthly stock of generation, which perishes in the usage; and grafts them, as living branches, on the tree of Eternal Life; institutes for them a New Earth, and New Heaven, having the former things all passed away?

My harps take up the mournful strain that from a lost world swells.

The smoke of torments clouds the light and blights the asphodels.

Fly downward to that under world, and on its souls

of pain

Let Love drop smiles like sunshine, and Pity tears like rain!"

Two faces bowed before the Throne veiled in their golden hair;

Four white wings hastened swiftly down the dark abyss of air.

The way was strange, the flight was long, at length the angels caine,

Where swung the lost and nether world, red-wrapped in rayless flame.

There Pity shuddering wept, but Love with faith too

strong for fear,

Took heart from God's almightiness, and smiled a

Four white wings folded at the feet of Him who sat thereon!

And deeper than the sound of seas, more soft than falling flake,

Amidst the hush of wing and song the voice Eternal spake.

Welcome, my Angels! ye have brought a holier joy to Heaven!

"A New Religion?" It is found! Henceforth its sweetest song shall be the song of sins

forgiven.-Selected.

ENFIELD.

ENFIELD N. H. is pleasantly situated on the western shore of Mascoma Lake, twelve miles from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. II. and eleven miles from White River Junction, Vt.

signature to a covenant accompanying the constitution, pledging their service, their talents and all they possessed to the support of community interests, thus making the property of its members a joint stock, a common interest to be appropriated and used for the benefits About the time of the revolutionary of the institution and for such religious war in this country, the minds of many and charitable purposes as by its memwere uncommonly religiously exercised. bers might be deemed advisable, were Dissatisfied with the absence of a spirit privileged so to do; and thus they ordivine and the want of power in the ganized a church and government on Christian churches, they honestly sought communistic principles. For the proa higher life, a clearer revelation of the tection of persons and property and the will of God for the elevation of human- administration of government, officers ity. In prayer and in sacrifice for de- were appointed by common consent, liverance from bondage and slavery to Elders to teach and direct spiritually and sin, as well as a freedom from the in- Trustees and Deacons to advise and sujustice and oppression imposed by the perintend temporally. From that time edicts and laws of the king and parlia- to the present, we have maintained this ment of England, the people were heav- form of government, after the manner of ily suffering and the country was in a the church as established at Jerusalem in state of constant unrest. An appeal the days of the Apostles, whose members was made to the various churches cfwere of one heart and of one soul; our land and fellowship sought for deliverance from the burdens of spiritual captivity. But no relief came that was abiding, until the year 1782, wheu a delegation from the Shakers in the State of New York was sent out to declare the testimony of the coming of Christ and to minister the power of his spirit. At that age of our religious order, its members, like their neighbors, lived in their respective private families, caring for their personal comfort and wants: and with the revelation of light to them, maintaining strictly and conscientiously their religious faith in the pure celibate order and practical Christian life of the

Savior.

In 1793, a constitution, embracing the principles of our religious body, was formed and all who chose to give their

neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common. Acts, iv., 32.

Three families constitute the Society in this place, each family having its distinct officers, providing for its respective support, and all subject to one central head, males and females both having a place in the government, and thus giving a peaceful union to the whole body.

The home farm of the Society embraces some two thousand acres of land under cultivation or for the use and benefits of the dairy, for the production of garden seeds, for medicinal roots and herbs and agricultural interests generalorder is a practical illustration of the ly. Pre-eminent in the pursuits of the principles of purity, of honesty and perfect Christian life. Abraham Perkins.