St. Louis Reading-Room.
By Joseph Clarke
IN the name and interest of the Missouri International Tract and Missionary Society, I have presented to the Public School Library of this place, the following periodicals, bound in portfolios, viz: Good Health, Herold der Wahrheit, Present Truth, Review and Herald, Sandhedens Tidende, Sanningens Härold, Signes des Temps, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Stimme der Wahrheit—nine in all. These are to be kept up from week to week and month to month, by new copies. Much interest was manifested by the officers of the Public School Library in these periodicals, not only for their moral worth, but for their literary merit; and as St. Louis is almost a European city, these will all find many intelligent readers. It is worth more than we can compute to have such good, religious, and literary work to present to the world, in behalf of the present truth; and should we not thank God that we may be the bearers to our fellow-men of such pure and holy doctrines, in so neat and becoming style as is displayed in those publications, so attractive, so useful, interesting, and important? The International Tract and Missionary Society certainly deserves much credit for its energy and enterprise in launching into the field one periodical after another until almost every language and nation in Europe is represented by a periodical, either weekly, monthly, or quarterly. And further still by its tracts and books, which enter alike the homes of the Italian, the Swede, the German, the Scandinavian, and the Roumanian. Indeed, we can but see in the wide circulation of the publications of the International Tract and Missionary Society, the hand of God in the fulfillment of his word. The publications and missions of the International Tract and Missionary Society in their progress east, by way of the Atlantic Ocean and Western Europe, and westward, by way of the Pacific Ocean and its archipelagoes, have nearly encircled our planet, and the way is preparing for a mighty display of the power of God in the triumph of his truth.