that farther uniformity which his word has appointed for the end of days.

"May the God of my Fathers bless and preserve you and yours; and enlighten you in the ways of eternal life, prays,

Dear Madam,

Your affectionate elder brother,

JACOB.'

A QUERY ANSWERED.

AN anonymous correspondent mentions that she was lately perplexed, when enquiring for the Irish school in George-street, St. Giles', by being directed to a Popish school, to which it seemed that some children had been inveigled under the impression, that it was immaterial which they attended. The lady requests a fuller direction to the Protestant school. We perfectly remember the opening of that rival academy and its object; and we choose this page, rather than the "Notices to Correspondents," to inform the enquirer that the Scriptural Schools, Boys, Girls, and Infants, together with the Dispensary, are on the right hand side going down from Great Russell-street to Holborn, not far from the former thoroughfare.

We do earnestly direct the attention of our read

ers, to an Advertisement on the Cover of this Magazine, in reference to the Schools and Dispensary. Again, and again has the Christian sympathy of our kind friends been called forth to aid the noble work there carried on; and we hope this appeal will be responded to. Ere long, the district will be swept away to give space for a wide thoroughfare, and the scene of many labours wholly changed: but in every poor squalid specimen of distressed humanity sent forth to seek some other den of wretchedness to pine in, there dwells an immortal soul, that may become a crown of rejoicing to the Christian who ministers unto it. Many an hour have we spent in that fearful district, from the horrors of which the female mind naturally shrinks; and bearing as we did, an open but most affectionate testimony to the poor sufferers against the delusion that destroys them, we never encountered a rude word or an angry glance, but reaped an unmingled blessing. For who can shut a door which the Lord has opened? The gentlemen who now solicit aid have carried on a much more protracted and laborious work of mercy, and gathered in a richer harvest. We ask one more effort on behalf of our poor dear Irish: means for one more vigorous sally into Satan's domain, ere he carries off his captives beyond our reach: and may the Lord recompense a thousand-fold into the bosom of the donor, whatsoever is bestowed in answer to this brief but anxious appeal!

Review of Books.

A CHARGE DELIVERED TO THE CLERGY OF THE DIOCESE OF LONDON, at the visitation in October, 1842. By Charles James, Lord Bishop of London.-Fellowes.

CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE RIGHT REV. C. H. TERROT, Bishop of the Scottish Episcopal Church in Edinburgh, and the Rev. D. T. K. Drummond, Minister of Trinity Chapel, Dean Bridge, Edinburgh. In consequence of which the latter has resigned his Charge.-Lindsay and Co.

REPLY TO RESOLUTIONS OF THE CLERGY OF THE SCOTTISH EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE DIOCESE OF EDINBURGH, in which the Rev. D. Drummond is declared to have separated himself from that church, "Totally without cause." By the Rev. D. T. K. Drummond, Oxon Presbyter of the Church of England.-Ibid.

REASONS FOR WITHDRAWING FROM THE SCOTTISH EPISCOPAL CHURCH, and for accepting an invitation to continue his ministrations

in Edinburgh as a clergyman of the Church of England. With a full reply to the charge of Schism.—Ibid.

WE take these highly important pamphlets in connection, because, if they do not throw light on each other, they tend, in combination, to make very visible a certain darkness that we would gladly see dispelled. It is not our province, nor our wish to sit in judgment “to teach, or to usurp authority over the man of any kind or in any degree; but belonging, and desiring always to belong to the Episcopal Church, we have a personal interest in these matters, as have the great bulk of our readers; and looking up to constituted authorities with a sincere desire to Hear the Church," we want to know what is the church which we are to hear?-where resides its authority? In matters of doctrine and discipline, where shall we go for necessary instruction?

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This enquiry becomes the more needful, because the Bishop of London, who is undoubtedly looked up to as the leading authority amongst us, has laid down in his Charge, and farther confirmed in his Appendix, that the proper work of a chief pastor is not to decide whether such and such doctrines are unscriptural, which is, he says, beside the purpose, but, "Are they, or are they not in conformity with the teaching of the church?" This then, according to his lordship's view, is the test to which every Episcopally ordained clergyman is bound to bring whatever doubt and difficulty may arise in his mind, or cross his path. We all know how hard it is to lay hold on the precise point where lies the assumed infallibility of Rome-whether in the Pope, or in a general council; or in the Pope and a general council combined it strikes us that the relative infallibility

which our own clergy are required to recognize, is hardly less difficult to grasp.

The Bishop of London decides that the standard of ecclesiastical faith resides in the Articles, which are to be interpreted, where any dubious point occurs, by the liturgy. There is another party; affecting a still higher tone of Hear-the-Church principle, who assert that the Articles are to be interpreted by the Tridentine decrees; but we will pass that by. We understand that, according to the doctrine of the Charge, a clergyman may find his rule of faith complete in any copy of the Prayer-book which contains the 39 Articles: for though in other parts of his Charge the Bishop of London has most unequivocally asserted that scripture alone is the true rule of faith, yet if a clergyman is to believe and teach only as the Church believes and teaches, or privately to believe one thing, because the Bible says it, and publicly to teach another thing because the Church decrees it, it amounts to an open recognition of the supreme authority of the Church. For example, a minister does not believe that baptism is necessarily connected with regeneration, because God has told him the contrary: but as the Article, if interpreted by the liturgy, may be easily made to convey such intimation, the Bishop rules that every clergyman of the Church of England must teach and preach accordingly. And the Bishop has made out a pretty strong case too: for, he tells us, in the 9th Article, where the English version says, "There is no condemnation for them that believe and are baptized;" the Latin is, "renatis et credendibus." If an angel from heaven came and told us that baptism is, or includes regeneration, we would not receive his