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whilst I urge my fellow-Christians universally, to seek to restore those who once sat with us to commemorate the Saviour's death, whom we once esteemed, in whose prayers we have delightfully joined, but who have dishonoured by their fall the worthy name by which they were called. Such are still our brethren. Though fallen, let our employment be to raise them up; let us show kindness and Christian compassion for the transgressor, whilst with the deepest indignation we frown on the sin. We are ourselves exposed to the tempter,

and equally liable to fall. Oh, then, whilst we seek for protection from Him who is "able to keep us from falling," and to "hold up our goings, that our footsteps slip not," let us also earnestly labour, "in season and out of season," to bring back to the fold of God those who once enjoyed its comforts, but whose 'sin has separated between them and their God. If in this employment we are successful, our success will be our reward. ́ ́i I remain, dear Sir, yours truly, A YOUNG PASTOR.

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SELECT THOUGHTS.

TWICE DEAD.

This kind of antipathy of heart to plain

When is a church twice dead and gospel truth denotes that they are twice plucked up by the roots?

They are once dead when there is no spiritual life in the members-when their services are merely formal-when one attends social or public meetings because another does, or because their pastor or their brethren will notice their absencewhere no personal effort is made for the salvation of the impenitent, and no interest is felt in their own sanctification, -where their zeal, so far as they have any, is for their own church, as their own, rather than as Christ's church-when their interest in a sermon is, that it may please men; not that it may please and glorify God. Such a church is dead, and its fruit, if ever it bore any, is withering.

When, in addition to this, its members are not only dead so far as spirituality is concerned, but when they dislike to hear their own condition portrayed, or urged on their attention;-when they are restive under appeals to wakeful devotion and self-denying labour; - when such truth as Jesus preached in relation to cherished sin,-"If thy right hand offend thee, cut it off; because it is better to enter into life maimed than to be cast into hell-fire ;"-when, in order to please them, the sins of life must not be noticed at all, or noticed in such a form that there is a graceful side to a lower note.

dead.

If a church in such a state does not repent and do its first works, there is danger that the candlestick will be removed out of its place, or that the Spirit will en tirely withdraw and leave the church with the mere selfish and worldly form, instead of the power and purity of the gospel.

"Brethren, it is high time to wake out of sleep.-Christian Treasury.

EPITAPH ON THE TOMB OF TWO INFANTS.

Bold infidelity, turn pale and die!
Beneath this stone two infants' ashes lie;
Say-are they lost or saved?

If death 's by sin-they sinn'd, because they're here;

If heaven's by works, in heaven they can't appear;

Ah! Reason, how depraved!

Revere the sacred page, the knot's untied;
They died, for Adam sinn'd; they live, for
Jesus died-ROBINSON,

PRESUMPTION.

A religious professor, of Antinomian sentiments, boasting to Rowland Hill that he had not felt a doubt of his safety for many years, was answered by Mr. Hill, “Then, sir, give me leave to doubt for you."

PRAYER AND HOLINESS.

Prayer is that by which a man engages all the auxiliaries of Omnipotence itself against his sin, and is so utterly contrary to, and inconsistent with it, that the same heart cannot hold them both, but one must soon quit possession of it to the other; and either praying must make a man leave off sinning, or sinning force him to give over praying.-South.

THE FULNESS THAT IS IN CHRIST.

Oh, sirs! there is in a crucified Jesus, something proportionable to all the straits, wants, necessities, and desires of his poor saints. He is bread to nourish them, a garment to cover them, a physician to heal them, a counsellor to advise them, a captain to defend them, a prince to rule them, a prophet to teach, and a priest to make atonement for them, a husband to protect, a father to provide, a brother to relieve, a foundation to sup

a treasure to enrich, a sun to enlighten, and a fountain to cleanse them.—Brooks.

TRUE PERFECTION.

Naaman was a mighty man; but he was a leper. Every man has some but or other in his character; something that blemishes and diminishes him - some alloy in his grandeur-some damp to his joy. He may be very happy, very good; yet, in something or other not so good as he should be, nor so happy as he would be. Naaman was as great as the world could make him; and yet, as Bishop Hall remarks, the basest slave in Syria would not have changed skins with him.-Henry.

ETERNITY.

A gulf whose large extent no bounds engage,
A still beginning, never-ending age:
Which, when ten thousand thousand years are

run,

port, a root to quicken, a head to guide, Is still the same, and still to be begun.

A CONFESSION.

"COME unto me, ye weary, And I will give you rest!"

Poetry.

How sink these blessed words of Christ
Into the sorrowing breast.
Lord, I have oft beguil'd
My mind with visions bright

Of fame, and love, and wealth, and all
That maketh earth's delight.

Or I have kept my guilty eyes
Full on my path so dreary,
Instead of looking on the skies,
And listening to the voice that cries,
"Come unto me ye weary."
Oh, do thou give me rest!
Weary and sad I come,
Timid and fearful, lest

I never gain my home.

Thy saving health, great God! impart,
In this our early prime,

That we may serve thee as we ought,
While sojourners of time.

Oh, let thy Spirit's sacred fire
Refine and purify

The hearts we consecrate to thee,
That if we live or die

We may be thine,-on earth, in heaven,-
The children of thy love;

Thy church may hail us here below,
And welcome us above.

Thus clothed in righteousness Divine,
And sanctified by grace,

Our path may brighten, till we see
The glories of thy face.

J. S.

RACHEL L.

LINES

HYMN

SUNG BY THE CHILDREN OF THE FOLESHILL
SUNDAY SCHOOL, JUNE 29, 1847.

GIVE us, O Lord, thy way to know,
That we may cleanse our own,
By thy blest word,-the guiding star
That leads us to thy throne.

COMPOSED ON THE DEATH OF SAMUEL WALKER, WHO WAS DROWNED WHILST BATHING, JUNE 13TH, 1847, AGED 21 YEARS.

"Thy brother shall rise again."

I LOOK upon the bright hedge-flowers
In the glimmer of dawning day,
Cheering the lively summer hours
With sweet odor and colors gay:

And they say, dead

"We were lately as branches But it pointed our faith to what Jesus spoke, Thy brother shall rise again!".

No bloom, no beauty then;

Therefore, O mourner, be comforted,

'Thy brother shall rise again.'"'

I look at the east with its crimson glow,
'Till the rising orb of day
Pours a flood of light on all below,
And the shadows flee away;

And it says, “When I sink in the glowing west,

I look for the morrow, when

I come with new beams of splendor drest— 'Thy brother shall rise again!'

I look at the growing fields of corn,

First the blade, and then the bursting ear;
And they point me to the same blest morn,
My faith and hope to cheer-
Sown in corruption, yet raised anew,
With identity of grain :

So with the dead believer too,-
"Thy brother shall rise again!"

I look on the painted butterfly,
With its light and airy wing;

Flitting o'er flowers 'neath the sunlit sky,
Like an ethereal thing.

From the lifeless chrysalis how it broke
We try to explore in vain ;

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AMERICAN SLAVERY.

HARK! the Macedonian cry

Sounds across the Atlantic wave, "Christian brothers, come and help us; From the bonds of slavery free us.

Oh set free the Christian slave ! "Sisters of the sea-girt isle,

Lift on high thy gentle hand;
Free-born children of the free,
Join in one united band;
Send thy voices through the land;
Break the chain of slavery.

"Is there one who loves the Saviour,
Is there one who knows his love,
Can refrain from prayer and effort
On earth below to heaven above,
To remove this blood-stain'd chain-
This darkest spot on Christian fame?"
Hark! that sad, that bitter cry

Sounds aloud o'er land and sea,
Let it not be raised in vain—
'Tis the soul's deep misery-
Christians, break the cursed chain
Of wicked, hateful slavery!

Review of Books.

The TYPOLOGY of SCRIPTURE. MOSAIC DISPENSATION. By Rev. PATRICK

FAIRBAIRN, Salton. 12mo. pp. 564. T. and T. Clark, Edinburgh; and Hamilton, Adams, and Co., London.

MR. FAIRBAIRN is a theologian of more than ordinary penetration and research, especially in the department of sound Biblical interpretation, the only true basis of a genuine theology. He has availed himself of all the modern aids in the department of Biblical Criticism, without falling into sympathy with the speculative tendencies of the age, which have been imported largely from the German school. His first work on the Typology of Scripture, of which this may be regarded as a practical illustration of the principles there embodied, is one of the most valuable investigations of the question of types which has appeared in any age. Indeed, we do not know any work of its kind in which so much valuable information could be obtained; or in which the extremes of laxity and over-severe restriction are so carefully eschewed. It is a book of solid worth, that will go down to posterity.

Now, the work before us may be regarded as an application of Mr. Fairbairn's principles to the earlier revelations of the Divine Being, considered as preparatory exhibitions of the leading truths of the gospel. It is, in fact, the completion of the plan sketched by him in his first volume; and will be read with more than ordinary satisfaction by those who really wish to understand the real character of Judaism, both in its moral and ceremonial elements. The question of the moral law is here fully discussed; and we think Mr. F. has made it fully manifest that the ceremonial of Judaism can never be well understood, in the absence of a clear and proper estimate of its moral code. We cannot but cherish the conviction that this part of Mr. F.'s critical labours will be highly valued by all who are able to form a satisfactory judgment on such questions.

The present work consists of three Parts: I. The religious truths and principles embodied in the historical transactions connected with the redemption from Egypt, viewed with an especial reference to their typical bearing in regard to the higher things of Christ's redemption. Here, the

naan, and the institution of the kingly go

We beg to express the deep sense we entertain of the value of Mr. Fairbairn's labours, in the department to which he has devoted a large portion of patient and critical research.

bondage of Israel, the deliverer and his
commission, the deliverance, and the march | vernment.
through the wilderness, with all the signs
and wonders attending it, and its strange
and perplexing duration, are all investigated.
II. The direct instruction given to the
Israelites before the erection of the Taber-
nacle, and the institution of the symbolical
service. Here Mr. F. shows that the Deca-
logue, in the strict and proper sense, was
termed the Law; that it could not effect
certain things, as was manifest from the
fact, that the covenant, standing, and privi-
leges of Israel preceded the giving of it;
that there were certain purposes answered
by the giving of it; and that there was an
intimate connection between it and the
symbolical institutions. Then follows an
admirable chapter on the relation of be-
lievers under the New Testament to the
Law, showing in what sense they are free
from it, and why it is no longer proper to
keep the symbolical institutions connected
with it.

III. The religious truths and principles embodied in the symbolical institutions and services of the Mosaic dispensation, considered in their typical reference to the better things to come. Many questions of great interest are here investigated, as-Why Moses was instructed in the wisdom of Egypt? What was the general structure and design of the tabernacle? What the object of its ministers? What the design of the separation of the tabernacle into two apartments-the fore-court, with its laver and altar of sacrifice; and the most holy place, with its furniture, and the services connected with it on the great day of atonement? Here the fundamental idea of sacrifice by blood, and the three main points connected with its presentation. are ably elucidated. Then we have all the minute appendages of the holy place explained, such as the altar of incense, the table of shewbread, the golden candlestick, and also the offerings and services connected with the brazen altar in the court of the tabernacle, the sin-offering,-the trespassoffering, the burnt-offering,-the peaceoffering, and the meat-offering.

And,

finally, we have a very enlightened examination of certain special rites,-such as the red heifer, the purification of the leper, the offerings of the Nazarite, the distinctions of clean and unclean food; with a full development of the stated feasts and solemnities -such as the sabbath, the passover, pentecost, the new moons, the day of atonement, the feast of tabernacles, and the sabbatical year, and year of jubilee. In the concluding chapter, Mr. F. furnishes a brief but striking sketch of the special developments, in the subsequent history of Israel, especially the conquest and possession of Ca

The YEAR-BOOK of MISSIONS: containing
a comprehensive Account of Missionary
Societies, British, Continental, and Ame-
rican. With a Particular Survey of the
Stations, arranged in Geographical order.
By ELIJAH HOOLE, one of the General
Secretaries of the Wesleyan Missionary
Society. 8vo. pp. 432.

Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

This volume embodies an admirable conception, peculiarly appropriate to the times in which we live,-times, happily, in which the great and glorious cause of Christian missions begins to take that hold of the public mind to which it is entitled, on principles of general philanthropy no less than on the higher considerations of religious benevolence. Though different sects willnaturally look with a concentrated glauce upon their own mission schemes, we have that good opinion of the friends of missions generally, that they regard with a profound interest the whole agency now employed for the spiritual evangelization of the world; and the combined effects produced by the friends of the gospel upon the darkness and misery of the heathen world. Of one thing we are sure, that so far as the friends of missions are truly Christian, they will consider their work and their record to be substantially one.

To those who think and feel aright on this great subject, a volume which, at a glance, enables them to see the position of every Christian mission extant, and to form an accurate idea of the actual change produced on the intellectual, social, moral, and religious condition of those portions of the human race, who have been subjected to missionary culture, must be a very welcome addition to their means of correct information.

We, therefore, thank Mr. Hoole very sincerely for the important service which he has rendered to the cause of missions by this labour of his useful pen. And so far as we have been able to test the accuracy of his details, we can speak with much confidence of them. They have been evidently supplied as the result of much faithful and laborious effort. Most cordially do we respond to the concluding paragraph of the author's preface:

"It has been thought that, to present in one view, as in this volume, all the opera

tions of missions throughout the world, may induce the conclusion, that enough is already done, and that nothing more need to be attempted. Such an inference would be as unjust to the eternal interests of men as it would be disastrous to Christian enterprise. It is, in truth, very gratifying to observe how all Christians of orthodox faith have entered on the work of extending their religion abroad. But it is mournful to reflect, that this zeal for missions is only of modern date. The churches are beginning to awake to their duty to the world; but woe to them and to the world, should they again slumber and sleep! No reparation for the supineness of past ages is possible. The present duty has not yet been discharged; nor will the sacred command of the Saviour, "to preach the gospel to every creature," be fulfilled, at the present ratio of effort, during the life of the present generation. There are, without doubt, wealth and energy enough, in the professing Christian church, to fill the world with the sound of the gospel before the present generation shall have passed away. It remains to be seen, whether the wealth and the energy are under the control of Christian principle. It becomes those to whom talents of so valuable a character are committed, to consider whether the riches and power which might be employed in the extension of the kingdom of Christ should be allowed to stagnate in their possession; and whether there are not higher and more desirable objects than those of worldly ambition and self-indulgence. Happy they, who, when their Lord shall require from them an account of their stewardship, shall be able to say, 'Thy talent hath gained ten talents,' and shall be admitted to an eternal reward."

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This is the first complete treatise that has appeared on the Sunday-school, considered in all its important bearings, as a settled institution for the benefit of mankind. That it should proceed from a female pen is a circumstance not more natural than it is creditable to the enterprise of the amiable author. Variety of opinion will doubtless arise among the fast friends of Sunday-schools in reference to many subjects which Mrs. Davids has seen fit to discuss; but we promise them, in this volume, a searching and intelligent examination of almost every conceivable topic connected with the Sunday-school system, whether it relates to the qualifications of teachers, the best modes of instruction and discipline, or its well-defined re

lations to the Christian church. We could not by any means commit ourselves to all the individual views of the author; but she has furnished ample proof in these pages, that she has well and deeply pondered her theme, and that she has brought to its elucidation a more than ordinary share of practical knowledge and sound experience. It may be difficult to carry out, except in some rare instances, a few of her recommendations; but of the mass of them we are persuaded that they would work well for the greater efficiency of the cause.

Nothing is more important than the hold over the Sunday-school which she maintains on behalf of the pastor; and we are persuaded that where the superintendent and the teachers are anxious to secure his influence and co-operation they will rarely be withheld. On the mode, too, of introducing teachers, we think that the remarks of the author are extremely weighty and pertinent; for much of the imperfection which has hitherto attended the Sunday-school system has been owing to the introduction of incompetent teachers. We recommend earnestly Mrs. Davids' plans for augmenting the qualifications of teachers. They are truly rational, and in most cases attainable. But the most valuable portion of the whole book is that which relates to the adoption of a more uniform and perfect system, which shall pervade the whole land, and, in fact, the whole world. It is time that the organization of our Sunday-schools should be perfected, and that these institutions should rise to that measure of efficiency which lengthened experience ought to have secured.

Mrs. Davids has made a noble contribution to the Sunday-school cause, for which posterity will revere her memory, and place I her among the philanthropists of her age.

BY

The ELEMENTS of MORAL SCIENCE. FRANCIS WAYLAND, D.D., President of Brown University, and Professor of Moral Philosophy. Small 8vo. pp. 404. 4s. 6d.

Maclehose, Stewart, and Co., Edinburgh. Mr. Wayland is a clear thinker, and a correct writer; and has altogether a mind fitting him to deal effectively with subjects connected with moral science. The work before us has reached a fourth edition in the United States, and has gone far to supplant other treatises on the same interesting topic. As a class-book, it is, perhaps, better adapted to the ordinary run of students than any similar production extant. The author's plan occupies a wide range; and is so handled as to render a branch of study somewhat dry and uninviting, peculiarly interesting. He has very wisely eschewed the classic and technical phrase.

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