LITERATURE.

Under this head appeared the following notice of this periodical in the “Campbelltown Journal,” published in Argyleshire, Scotland. It is a friendly voice from a far country, uttered by the political organ of a notable place on the Frith of Clyde. Let our readers take the hint. It says, “the Herald deserves to be encouraged—indeed, demands encouragement from all who wish good to their fellow-men and glory to their God.” Should the time come for us to discontinue the Herald for want of adequate support, which is not improbable, some of our friends may then wake up in drowsy astonishment and exclaim “What a pity!” Their regrets will then be “too late.” They will have permitted an advocate of the truth to perish, “whose place,” says a correspondent, “cannot be supplied.” The disgrace will be their’s, not the editor’s, who for eighteen years has operated on the principle of working for nothing and finding himself that the truth might be sustained.

“The Herald of the Kingdom and Age to Come: a periodical, devoted to the interpretation of the ‘Law and the Testimony,’ and to the defence of the ‘faith once delivered to the Saints,’ by John Thomas, M. D., Richmond, Virginia, United States. —London: Richard Robertson, Esq., 1 Berwick Place, Grange Road, Bermondsey.

“However much we may differ from some of the individual opinions set forth in this work, no one, and far less will we, but approve of the general object of it. ‘To the law, how readest thou,’ is as applicable today as when uttered by him who ‘spoke as never man spake:’ no better safeguard against the inroads of popery and infidelity can be adopted than a thorough and minute acquaintance with the living oracles. And now that those two agencies are putting forth their most strenuous efforts to bury man in superstition on the one hand, and to strip him of all religion on the other, a work tending to fix the mind upon the Bible by means of clear logical argument and exposition, and to elevate the soul above the grossness of carnal superstition by the magnetic influence of the glorious promises pertaining to the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, deserves to be encouraged—indeed, demands encouragement from all who wish good to their fellow-men and glory to their God. The Editor of the work before us says, —‘The Herald of the Kingdom and Age to Come, may be considered as the organ of all those, be they many or few, whose hope the Kingdom is. The Editor is their humble servant for the truth’s sake. When they can find another who will serve them in that truth more patiently, perseveringly, and self-denyingly, he will readily give place to such an one, and retire into that obscurity which is far more congenial to his feelings and habits than a notoriety which exposes him to the rancor and ill-will of the rulers of the present darkness, and of those who do their will.’”

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