out using your teeth, suppose you bolt down the buns ;-what then? Why to morrow there must be 3000 sick children, and 3000 doctors to see them, and 3000 dozes of physic to cure them, and all because they could not digest the buns they had swallowed down so greedily. But what have the buns to do with what children ought to do at school? Children are to inwardly digest what they are told; that is, they are to think over it, and to mix what their teachers tell them, giving every one a fair proportion; they are to turn over in their minds as it were to feed upon it, and then it will nourish them, and make them spiritually strong. But can this teaching ever do them any harm, like the buns which some children eat up without using their teeth at all. Yes! if a boy does not attend, it will have been better for him at the last if he had never been taught. God will say to him, that he had opportunities, and has thrown them away, that he is now far worse than a heathen child, and so must receive a worse punishment than he.

When in school, boys must intend to profit; go there for that purpose, and no other; and, moreover, they must be very thankful. I am sorry to say all children are not thankful for the instructions they get; they are always looking at what is disagreeable, and not at what is pleasant. They remind me of Susan Taylor and the rose. You shall hear what Susan Taylor's grandmother did to her. She was a very discontented girl, never pleased with anything, always looking out for what what was disagreeable, and not for what was pleasant in anything. Well, she was going away from home, and her grandmother asked her if she would have a rose to stick in her bosom. So being fond of flowers, she told her that she would like one. Away went her grandmother with her stick in her hand into her little garden, and gathered the finest rose that grew there. There were two buds growing on the same

stem with the rose, and the leaves were as fresh and as green as the leaves of a rose bush could be. You may suppose that she was not a little surprised when her grandmother snipped off the rose, the two buds, and the green leaves with her scissors, and offered Susan Taylor the stem alone, all covered with thorns. Grandmother! what is it you mean? Why this is not a rose. Do you think that I will stick that ugly stem in my bosom, without a single flower or leaf upon it? No; that I never will. You do not deserve to have roses growing in your garden, if you spoil them in this way. "Perhaps not," mildly replied her grandmother," but there are other people in the world beside me who spoil their roses." Then said Susan, pertly, they must be very silly people. "I think so too," replied her grandmother, "and now I will tell you the name of one of them. Susan Taylor!" She reddened to her very ears, while her grandmother said, "It has pleased God, Susan, to mark your life with many blessings, mingled with a few cares, and you are continually neglecting your blessings, and remem bering your cares. If then you thus wilfully despise your comforts, and repine over your troubles, what is this but throwing away the flowers and green leaves of your life, and sticking the thorns in your bosom?"

Now this is the story of Susan Taylor; and my dear children, it concerns some of you. Who is like Susan Taylor? Whoever throws away all the delightful good he might have at school, just because something happens there that he does not exactly like.

And now, I have only one thing more to speak about, viz., What is to be done out of school. When children leave school, they are to practice all that they have been taught in school. There is no good in learning, unless we do what we know how to do. What good is it to any boy to know the way to the Great Exhibition, unless they walk upon it?

Knowing the way will never get them there.

Take care of small sins. Little sins soon grow into very big ones; they are like the young thorns which have -sprouted up this year in the shrubs in my garden, which are pretty and soft, but then they are just the same as those on the lower part of the tree which grew there last year, and which prick me now if I touch them. Little young sins soon become old strong ones, and sting and prick our conscience, and hurt us very much. They are like the little wedge, which is very small at first, but when pushed in, breaks and splits everything before it. Dear children, take care of little sins; and just one thing more, remember that Christ is the Saviour from sin. He is the ladder which reaches to heaven. When a house is on fire, a man comes down by a fire-escape, which is a kind of ladder; but when men are saved by Christ, they go up from a wicked world to the throne of mercies. The ladder is narrow; Jesus is the straight and narrow way; if a man lets go the ladder, he is dashed to pieces; hold fast to Christ, and you shall be saved.

We must not omit that the speakers, in the course of their addresses, put questions to the children, all of which were readily answered, and that the young people did not fail at times to applaud, and that at the right time, various points in the speeches. After the last address,

May the grace of Christ our Saviour," to "Sicilian Mariners," was sung, and the Bishop concluded the order of the evening by giving the Benediction.

The Bishop then briefly expressed

the pleasure he had derived from presiding over such an assembly. He said that it was a Meeting he hoped the children would never forget; that he saw no harm in mingling temporal with spiritual enjoyment; they had had a spiritual treat, and the Committee had provided buns to be distributed as they left the Hall; while these were getting ready, he was sure they would all join heartily in singing a verse of the "National Anthem." Having repeated the first lines of the "God save the Queen ;"- -as the noble organ pealed forth the first notes, the whole assembly, heart and voice, sent forth a volume of harmonious sound, which we can only say we wish our beloved Queen had been present to hear. When this was ended, a Clergyman on the platform called on the children, and three hearty cheers, and one more, were given,

The assembly was now at an end, and preparations were made for departure. The good Bishop regarded the breaking up for a few moments, as if loth to leave; on reaching the Committee-room, he expressed the great pleasure he had derived from the proceedings of the day.

It was the anxious wish of the Committee, that the Meeting should break up in good time, so that the children should not be taken home at an unseasonable hour; they had arranged to close the Hall by eight o'Clock, and at ten minutes past all had departed, and we are thankful to record that the whole passed over without an untoward event to mar the pleasure of this large and interesting assemblage of Sunday scholars.

THE CONSEQUENCES OF ADDING THE WORD "VISIBLE" TO THE APOSTLES' CREED. By. Rev. H. Crawford, Curate of

North Mimms, Herts. 8vo., pp. 48. Wertheim and Macintosh, Paternoster Row.

WE cordially recommend this to all

who are interested in bringing the errors of our troublous times to the light of God's Truth. It is addressed to Mr. Dodsworth, whom the author calls "his old and respected pastor." It comes from the pen of one, who "had a strong bias in favour of Mr. Dodsworth's ministry," but who was reluctantly forced to acknowledge the unsoundness of that ministry, from his perceiving that "the foundations of our faith were more and more placed" thereby, "on the wisdom of men, and less and less on the power of God." These few pages then have, on this ground, an especial claim to attention.

But they have a higher recommendation than this; they seem to us to go to the root of our present difficulties; they state the real issue joined by the two great parties now dividing our Church; they appeal to the highest and only ultimate standard; they go to the Fountain of Truth, and on its teaching, ground every argument adduced. In short, they are a brief analysis of God's Word, as bearing on the Article of our Creed, "the Holy Catholic Church;" that Article being, in our author's opinion, the battle ground on which the issue is to be fought between those who have "the Church and Sacraments," and those who have "Christ and the Gospel," for their banner or watchword.

As meeting the climax of error, displayed by Mr. Dodsworth in his late apology for endeavouring to pull down the fabric of sand, which he and his Romanizing coadjutors had spent years in erecting, these pages will be of great value. Their style is clear and forcible; the reasoning well sustained and logical; the hammer is weighty, and its blows are directed to good purpose; but, better than all, there is an earnest application of God's Word to the whole subject under discussion, as though the writer were fully imbued with the persuasion,

"Magna est veritas et prevalebit."

Free from all bitterness, too much saddened by his late pastor's fall to be sarcastic, having evidently tested socalled Anglican views by the light of Scripture, and found them wanting, and honestly indignant that the infal lible Church of God should be brought down to the level of a phantom of man's creating, he writes with a warmth which convinces the reader of his earnestness, but with a moderation which shows his spirit to be one of love.

Were we, indeed, to point to any portion of these pages as peculiarly felicitous and striking, it would be to the contrast which he draws between St. Paul's description of the Church, and that of Mr. Dodsworth (page 17). But we must refrain; suffice it that we say, the whole question of the probable fall, and not merely the fallibility, of the visible Church, is treated in a manner to force many a solemn thought into the mind of every true Churchman: the recovery of a fallen, and support of a declining Church, are here set forth; the object of every true Church's faith is exhibited, and the authority of the Church defined. Subjects these for all our readers; only let those, into whose hands these pages may fall, open the Volume of God's Word, when reading them, and test what is therein asserted by that Standard of Truth. Let us all, and especially every teacher in the Church of England Sunday school, look first and last to what the Word of God says of our Church, and we shall not go far wrong in our attachment to it, and zeal in its behalf. Knowing then, as we do, how important it is that our views of its stability and development, as well as its authority, should be derived from that source, we venture to recommend the above advertisement to the notice of our friends, fully persuaded that a half hour will be profitably spent in the perusal of the pages thus advertised.

REASONS FOR LEAVING THE CHURCH OF ROME. By C. L. Trivier, formerly a Roman Catholic Priest. Translated from the French.

fcp. 8vo., pp. 208. Regent Street.

We must quote the following passages from the Appendix to Chap. 3, (see summary above).

WE must speak in terms of high commendation of this book, both as regards the plan on which it is written, and the spirit in which that plan is carried out. It is far from being mere declamation, as too many books on this absorbing topic are. The subjects handled, briefly and yet very conclusively, are the following:

Chap. 1. "The Church of Rome op. posed to the Word of God as concerns the Word itself."

Chap. 2. "Did the Sacred Authors write on their own authority, or by command of God?"

(With an Appendix on the original Version of the Holy Scriptures)."

Chap. 3. "On Reading the Word of God."

(Appendix-In Protestant Churches is each individual a judge of the sense of the Holy Scriptures ?)

Chap. 4. "On Tradition."

Chap. 5. "Of St. Peter, and things concerning him."

Chap. 6. "Of Transubstantiation. Chap. 7. Of Purgatory and Indulgences."

Chap. 8. "Of Saints and Images."

The writer's admirable plan, in each case is, first to give the statements of Scripture on the point in questionthen to bring forward passages from some of the Fathers in accordance with Scripture (for the purpose of shewing that the advocates of Popery cannot take refuge in the doctrines of the Church earlier than the Fourth Century); and thirdly, to prove by authority which no Romanist can dispute, the doctrines of that Church; which is done by extracts from many Romish writers, amongst whom we especially notice their great Controversialist, Bellarmine. Each chapter then (usually) concludes with some judicious remarks by M. Trivier, on the discrepancies thus revealed.

"The word judge is susceptible of two Sometimes to judge,' signifies 'to discern.' Thus the eye judges of colours, and by the taste we judge of viands. But 'to judge,' also signifies to pronounce judgment with authority.' Thus, by a tribunal, a process is judged, or a criminal condemned.

"Of these two sorts of judgments, the one is a judgment of discernment, the other a judgment of authority.

"According to the judgment of discernment, every one chooses what he thinks is good, without thereby pretending to give laws, to pronounce sentences, or to constrain others to do as he does. It was in this sense that the Apostle wished the Corinthians to judge of what he had said to them, (1 Cor. x. 15'judge ye what I say.') He does not recognise them as his judges,' and would not submit to their authority; but he wishes them to discern and recognize the truth of what he had written to them." •

"Besides these two sorts of judgments, there is a third, which, as it were, holds a middle place between them; and which, while remaining a judgment of discernment, is also one of authority. This occurs when several persons of great science, and of much maturity of judgment, give their advice on any point of difficulty."

"This distinction being established, we assert that not only individual Clergymen, but even assemblies of Clergymen, are not sufficiently authorized judges to pronounce infallible and irrevocable opinions and decisions on the Scripture. We do not believe that any man on earth has this power."

There is one point to be noticedthe vital importance of accuracy in our quotations from Romish writers. We do not pretend to have verified M. Trivier's quotations, but he has given the student every facility for so doing, by giving his references to every extract. We would beg our readers, if ever they enter into a Papal controversy, to be especially careful on this point, as otherwise they may be confounded by a flat denial that the errors they are combating, are doctrines of the Romish Church at all.

We most cordially wish this book a wide circulation; and its style is so perspicuous, though far from being rude or unpolished, that our elder scholars would easily master it.

THE VILLAGE ASTRONOMER; or, the Kalendar Man of Veitsberg. By the Author of "Anna, the Leech Vendor;" and translated from the German. Fcp. 8vo., pp. 263. Wertheim and Macintosh, Paternoster Row.

THIS is a charming German Tale, of the time of the Thirty Years' War. It is a narrative of the labours, sufferings, and pious consolations of a worthy Schoolmaster, whose heart is fixed upon a brighter world, and whose great delight on earth is the study of astronomy. Pursued almost to the last by the causeless enmity of a wicked and unscrupulous Advocate, he bears his troubles meekly and without a revengeful thought-until he heaps coals of fire on his oppressor's head.

We consider the characters exceed. ingly well drawn, especially the old charcoal burner, and the veteran soldier, whose simple piety cannot fail to win the heart of the reader.

We must find room for the following beautiful little simile on contentment.

"It happened once, on a hot summer's day, that I was standing near a well, when a little bird flew down, seeking water. There was indeed, a large stone trough near the well; but it was empty, and I grieved for a moment to think that the little creature must go thirsty away; but it settled upon the edge of the trough, bent its little head downwards, then raised it again, spread its wings, and soared away singing; its thirst was appeased. I walked up to the trough, and there, in the stone work, I saw a little hole, about the size of a wren's egg.

The water held there had been to the bird a source of revival and refreshment; it had found enough for the present and desired no more. This is contentment."

We should add, that the Kalendar Man is not a fictitious character.

LOUIS' SCHOOL DAYS. A Story

for Boys. By C. J. May, fscap. 8vo., pp. 340. Binns and Goodwin, Bath. Hall, Virtue and Co., London. If any of our readers, in putting away "childish things" for themselves, have so far forgotten their own early days,

that they have ceased to take an interest in the pursuits and hopes, and enjoyments and sorrows of childhood and boyhood, they certainly had better not expend their money on this narrative. We, however, who are not made of such stern stuff, do not blush to acknowledge the eager interest with which we read it, and the unusual regret with which we arrived at the last page.

It is the history of a boy in the middle class of society, who finds his way to a large boarding school, Ashfield House, under the control of an excellent and pious master, Dr. Wilkinson. The child has been piously trained, and is a true, though young Christian; and the interest of the book turns on the various scenes and incidents in and by which the reality of the young disciple's faith is tested.

A number of characters are introduced, and very skilfully drawn; school habits being depicted in a life-like and natural style. Unlike many imaginary writers, our author does not err against truth and nature, by making his hero perfect. On the contrary, we are shewn how grace has to strive against the evil within, as well as the evil without; and though that grace comes out victorious, the struggle is (as daily life often exhibits it) protracted and severe. The whole tone of the book is one of pure unaffected piety.

SACRED ALLEGORIES, and other Poems. By Rev. P. B. Power, Minister of Woburn Chapel, and Curate of St. Paneras, 12mo. pp. 194. Charles Haselden, Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square.

HERE our readers will find poetry for the poet, thoughts for the thoughtful, thick coming fancies for the imagina tive, and all hallowed by the master tone of Sion's harp. But the following beautiful stanzas will better recommend the book than ought that we could say.