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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
December
Year
1873
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Christian Union is now publishing Edward Eggleston'3 new story (which he himaelf considera to be his best), " The Circuit Rider : A Tale of the Heroic Age." Mr. Eggleston is on3 of our freshest and most vivid story writers, and his sketches of Western life and character are superior to anything we have. The Union shows as much tact and enterprise as any daily journal in the country. It has a corps of the best contributors of all shades of recognized Christian opinión, and gets the best thought out of all of them. It shows more plainly than any other religious family paper in the United States the evidences of careful, thorough editorial worklts columns, always full of interesting matter, contam a greater vartety than those ot any paper of similar ature. It has been a very readable paper for years, and has steadily improved upon its own excellence, It advocates unity in a spint of conciliation rather than of dogznatism, and seeks to draw by fairness when it could not drive by pugnacity. In this respect it is a model Christiau paper, and its temper and Bpirit are a beautiful illustratiou of the ripened character and mellowed experience of its editor. lts pages give ampie evidence that Mr. Beecher's heart and hand are thoroughly enlisted in the great work the Christian Union is dostined to fulfill. The chromos " The Dinner " and " The Nap " which Messrs. Ford & Co. are now presenting to all subscribérs to the " Cbristion Union " for 1874- genuinely beautiful Paris-pnuted oleographs- - are even superior, in couception and executiou, to the famous pair " Wide Awake " aud " Fast Asleep," whose issue, by the same firm, caused so great an excitement two yeara ago. The subjects of the new pictures are boys - real boys- and the accessories are very natural suggestive and amusing. They are really artistic pictures, and quite as pleasing to a refined taste as they are to the popular eye and the hearts of the children. " The Lord is Riseu " is the title of an exquisite oleograph presented by the same firm to subscribers to " Piymouth Pulpit," which is a weekly pamphlet containing each week a sermón by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, and is eagerly read alike by the admirers and opponents of that distiuguished divine. The subject of the picture is a Cross, old and moss-grown, and wreathed with violeta and lüies of the valley. We have rarely seen the central sentiment of the New Testament so beautifully expressed by a picture as in this tender but striking sketch. lts value may be guossed from the fact that in the picture stores it frequently sella for $5.00. Edward Mudge, 46 William Street, is the agent for this town and vicinity and will cali and show the paper and pictures. We advise every body who is going to spend ?3 in auy way, to wait til they see how much is here offered them for the money.

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Old News
Michigan Argus