Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1875 — Oriental Topographical Corps. [ARTICLE]

Oriental Topographical Corps.

The corps is incorporated under the laws of New York, is a national and un. denominational organization. It has as its local correspondents some of the ablest scientists in Northern Africa and Western Asia, thus securing a large amount of first-class work at small expenditure of money. Among its representative men are Rev. Dr. Duryea, Dr. Conant, Dr. James Strong, the encyclopediaist; Col. Paine, the famous explorer and military engineer, and others well known. The corps has already done a large amount of work in the preparation of maps and pictures. Oil paintings of Jerusalem, Mounts Taber and Carmel, and other subjects executed by artists for the corps araccumulating as the nucleus of a gallery soon to be opened. The maps of the corps are provided with a scale, which enables one to find a place instantly. Subscriptions to this work, varying from five dollars upward, entitle the subscriber to» maps, pictures or other scientific and are tistic matter to the full value of his contribution. The contributors to this work are among the most prominent men of the country, who give full testimony to its value. Another expedition is in preparation by the corps to the Euphrates under George May Powell, who led the previous one. An article in Scribner's Montidy, of June, 1874, entitled “Oriental Exploration,” and one in the Missionary HeraUl, of April, 1875, “Debt of Science,” contain Valuable information in this connection. Mr. Herbert A. Lee, 245 Broadway, New York, is Treasurer of the corps. < » The Christian must be filled with one spirit, guided by one.standard, throughout‘Nis whole existence. The same refreshing breezes visit him while toiling through the Valley of Humiliation, or climbing the Delectable#Mountains, resting in the land of Beulah, or passing through the Dark River made bright by the faces of shining ones leaning from the other side. In the falterings and the triumphs of his course his need is the same; the air that strengthens him, the only air in which he can breathe freely, is the pure atmosphere of Light and Love that flows down to him from his Father’s House, through the open gates of the Beautiful City and over the Celestial Hills. —Lucy Larcom. Voting is a poll try snow, and the victors firing but the roosters.