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a. J. STEVENSON, 64, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.

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Iv eoauDflneinff the fifteenth Tolnme of
Trb Eabthbic Vbmsl, I iludl not attempt
•ay fonnal addzeH ; bat nmply endeaToor to
BMt a tareefoM demand made npon me ; the
fint efwhieb ia, the inward eall of a liiing
ikilh to offer up my thankfginng nnto- the
Lord for hia oontmned coodneai toward me in
the field of labour, wherein ** with all my
power," (aa Jaeob nid) I hare aenred the
ebnrdiea of Chriat I cannot yet aay aa one
of old did— ' (?otf UOk Utkm aw0^ my r^

* tambim, like a gloomy eUrad

Have gMbved thiek, aod thoadered load :'

1mtalill,*dieGod of mr ihtber hath been
with ma :" and, *«in theumd of my affliction,
hahathcanaedmetobe ihutfdl/ Deep in
my tool, I fisel there ia a deaire to adopt the
laagnage of the ancient king, (2 Sam. xxii
Wn 'the Lord liTeth, and blemed be my
tocjk ; aad eialted be the God of my ealfation.
//tf^otfthatbrincethme forth from mine
eaemiei. He haa ufted me vp ; and deliTered
wtB from the Tiolent man. iX^rsfore, I will
«iTB THABza imTO THXi, LORD; I
wiU iiag praiaea nnto thy Name/ Albeit,
aa DaTid intreated the king of Moab for hie
firtbcr and mother, aaying, 'Let them be
with yoo, TILL I xvow what God will
oo voR MB "—BO, nnta mjr deliTcrance be
AdiY oome, I would beeeeen my fHenda atitt
to plead at Meaoy'a throne forme; and ttill
to aid in fhrther thmiting oat thia littlo JKw-
M^tfr of mumy mUuUf toaching the good news
the goapel bnnga, and the great work the
LoBO ia acoompliihing in the hearta of all
whom moe difine hath called into the
epiritnal warfare between the fieih and the
imrit; between tmth and error; between the
delomooa of eatan and the dcTclopementa of
the ereilaeting covenant which ia ofdered
IB all thinga nd enre.
VcL. XV.— Ko. IfW.

Secondly, gratitade demanda my unfeigned
thanka to ul my readen, correspondents,
agents, and donors ; for by their united exer-
^ns, and kind expressions of practical help,
thedrculation of this work has not diminish-
ed ; neither has the Lord withholden bis bles-
sing from it, as some hundreds of testimonies
declare. By very specUl proridences, thus far
I have been carried forward, and I cannot
forbear, QSke the Psalmist,} exclaiming^'*
bleu our Qodj y€ people ; make the praiee of
hie voice to be heard, which holdeth our soul
in life; andsuffereth not our feet to be mov-
ed r and may the happy day soon arrive,
when like the following verse, we may hum-
bly acknowledse, * Inou haet eaueed men to
ride over our heade ! we went through ftre^
and through water ; but thou broughteet ue
out into a (tpiritualj wealthy place /" The
third demand is, to ^ve a few thooghti upon
the words of Paul, in his second epistle to
the Corinthivu, * But we have thie treaeure
in earthen veeeele, that the excellency of the
power may be of God, and not of uef There
are five distinct branches growing out of thia
scripture. It would fiU a volume, to open
all the leaves which on the branches grow;
but a few words on each may lead to some
good refiection.

I. The gospel is called a treaeure,

II. There is an excellency of power going
with it

III. The mediums of communication are
comparatively mean— only earthen veeeele,

lY. The deeian of this is, to shew that
the excellency of the power is not of men, but
of God.

Y. There is a three-fold confidence,

1 Of possession— ' We hare this trea-
sure.'

2 Of humiliation, 'we are only earthen
vessels.'

3 Of submission — ' that the glory may be
giren to God, and not to us ; tnerefore, we
would, with all the church unite — " Not unto
us; but unto thy name be all the praised,"

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treMure: tluB will appear fint by cofUrtutf
lecwndly, by an examination of iti contents.

The gospel is a precious treasnre, as seen
in oontrast with all the perishing treasures of
time. It is by oontrasti and by adaptation,
we often see the beantr and the benefit of the
works and ways of Ooa; as for instance, the
son in the kingdom of nature. That bright
and splendid orl^ias a four-fold power : the
power of fhlneas and perfection in itiwlf: it
IS a glorious body of light indeed ; but then,
our God did not want a sun merely to look
at ; much leas did he reouire a son to en-
lighten him ; for God is light, and in him is
no darkness at all : beneath him, however,
there was, ih$ dry land, $ar^h ; and to light
up this otherwise dark world, he said, ** Lft
there be light in the firmament of the heaTen
to difide the day from the night And God
made two great lighti ; the greater light to
tule the day; the lesser lifht to rule the
night. He made the stars also." The sun,
therefore, hath now a reflectiTC power ; she
throws out her cheering rays upon the earth ;
and shows iti form and fullness too : then the
sun has a commnnicatiTe power ; it giyes out
li|[ht, heat, and life to tiiie eanh; and
brings iti fruits to perfection; and then men
laud the sun; thousands of millions bleas
their Creator for a ^t so useful, so essential,
and so good. So, in a higher sense, it is
with Chjost : as, a High Fiiest, as a Media-
tor: as a sacrifice for sin; as a Sariour;
God did not need the Messiah ; but, on look-
ing into the predestinated ages of time, the
Almiffhty saw there, deep in the fall, the en-
snarea and enslared spouse of Christ — ^the
election of grace. To redeem^ to justify, to
toardon, and to present thtm unto himself,
God called, anointed, gave up, and sent his
Son. To the awakcMd, the alarmed, the
guilty sinner, how precious doth the Lord
appear, when in the soul of such an ons^ the
Holy Spirit shews Him 1

It is oy contrast, and by adaptation, then,
that the glory and excellency both of Christ
and the gospel doth appear.

There are pleasures and treasures too, be-
fide the gospel : but what are they, when
vomparea with thii? The Bible plainly
says— < Through faith, Moses chose rather to
suffer aflliction with the people of God, than
to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.
There are the pleasures of sin : the world-
ling sings his song, enjoys his dsmoe, ob>
tains his desixo, and rejmoes in his posses-
sions; but, as God made man for holiness
and heaven ; Satan came and turned him to
unholiness, and then presenti a thousand
treacherous snares to beguile and decelTe his
heart ; and after all, where ^race preTenti
not, drags him down to the regions or death,
where mercy never smiles; where not one
whimer of salvation is ever heard. How
ptMious that gospel, then, which oalU ua

from darkness to light ; and from the power
of Satan, to seek and to serve the living
GodI

The gospel is a precious treasure, when
contrasted with the law. There was the
Levitical law. What a gorgeous ceremony I
Look at the tabernacle : examine its con-
tents ; see the beautiful table of shewbread ;
the candlestick; the altars; the mercy-
seat ; the high-priest in his splendid robes !
Ah I saith ue Jew, look at our religion I
Here is something to look at ; sometbiog to
admire ; but you, poor Gentiles ! you have
nothing but a mean place to meet in : a few
poor om p^ple to speak to, and an unlettered
man as your preacher. We admit there was
a glory in the Levitical ritual; but it
was but a ihadow. Presently, the Great
High Pribst himself arises ; and in the
full blaze of his immortal glory all theae
shadows pass away. In the ceremonial law,
there were deansiogs, aild healings, too ; but
they were only for the bbdy ; and for time ;
but Chbist, in the gospel, sanctifies, purifies
and saves: gives grace, and then he givea
fflory. Bv his blood, he purifies and par-
dons : by nis righteousness, he justifies and
honours ; and, by his power, he preparti the
sinner fbr heaven; preterves him unto the
heavenly kingdom ; and, having perfitted the
work hegaHf prnenU him (o himself in all the
reality, Uie dignity, and purity, which heaven
demanda— which God bestows. Oh! there
is, indeed, an excellent glory in the precioua
gospel treasure ! And, was there no ^lorr in
the moral law ? Bead that twenty-eighth of
Deuteronomy. What streams of blessings!
'^BUmd in the city and in the field; in
basket and in store ; in coming in, and in
going out; yea, in every paii, and in every
place beneath the sun." But there are two
iron eates, which yon will see, enclose these
blessiags. First--the gate of a perfect obe-
dience :—< if,'— what an ifl If thou thaU
hmrkm Mi^mtiy, to e^Mrv* tmd to do all
kii oommmidmmii ;' bnt, if yon fail in one
point, the iron gate of cosdemnation dosea
upon yon — ringing in your eaii all the cotsea
of a justly offended— «n angry Jndge. See,
then* the goapel asks for no perfeet obedienoe
on the part oc the sinner. UoomesftomHim
who pot away sin, and brought in everlasting
lighteonsness; and, having dene so, heeaid,
'Gospel— Go, and ery alond ; say— Wheao-
evern^; let him come; and take ol the
water of life fireely'—

* WiHiont money :
Come te Jesus Christ and bvy.'

There is a fnlness of mercy, a fieeneas ol
gracious bestowment in the cornel, whieh
makes it a precious treasure indsed*

We say, in some sense, the gospel is better
to as poor sinners, than the oovenant of
grace. The oovenant provided eveiythingi
'arranged everything; ptonuMd evarrthing;

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lu all things ordered welL'

For, with Satan oataide, unbelief inside ; re-
news of sins in the past, and fearful fore-
bodings in the future, all these hare said—
' That covtnani wom not made for you /* Oh,
bo; we have mournfully said, that holy
eoTeoaat doth not ns embrace; where God
is, we can never come. We haTe felt a little
gladness for a moment, that there was a
coTtnant which wonld sare some ; but then,
inch a dark sadness wonld sink us down,
while a fiendish Toiee would whisper^' Uia
not for such as you t After a while, one
gloomy ni^ht ; just when we were about to
lay down m despair, the Gosnel came where
we lay : it looked upon us witn compassion ;
it poured into our poor sin-sick neart, a
Ixttu of the wine of a precious Sariour's
loviasr heart ; it softened our wounds with
the cfl of graoe ; it bound up our wounds,
by the application of the promise ; it raised
nsi^; It took us in; and MAid-- Whatever
flHre ti wantif^, I loiU supply. And, after
dtti, vlien winter came; and some thick
imti srose, it called in and said — * Knowing,
hntiiren belored, your election of God ; for
oar gospel came to you, not in word only ;
but in power ; in the Holy Ghost, and in
■adi asRuance:' and because, to ns, the
Mwi sppeared too good to be true ; it came
■ad nt down with us : and explained the
wofk of grace so Uessedly, that Doubt and
Ikeui—tSosit two uglv ghosts, fled in a

t! and then the Gospel said—'Jfi
tnbv, ye aiao trusted^ after that ye heard the
wwif 0/ truth, the goipel of your salvation :
ia whom, also, after that ye belicTed, ye
wen sesled with that Holy Spirit of
prauM.' Oh, Lord I we said— it is enough.
Thsfe is ia the gospel, then, a snper-excellent

And as to all the counterfeit gospels of
nan; the wooden crucifixes, the masses, the
eooftssions, the penances and purgatories;
the PoserisBis, and ereatureisms of ten thou-
and different shades ; together with all the
deep-drawn pretended horrors and hollow de-
Tiees of partially deluded experimentalists,
as some must be termed, we say of them all
' We*U eall them vanity and lies,
And bind the gospel to our heart'
Oh ! tat words, and the heavenly wind, to
speak aloud the tnusoendaat glories of the
fOBpelplan!

For, while our happiest experiences
whither ; our sweetest seasons pass away ; our
dsaiest fdends dedine; and while our in-
bied sins and heart-felt sorrows ot^^n
thiaatsB to deluge oar hopes ; and to sweep
sway oor all, the go^»el stands fast: this
(rest Boaroe of oomfort to the belieTer re-

JJBSTJS OHEIST tkb sjlhx, yes-
terdayf to day, and for ever,'

^ I hare indulged myself sometimes in re-
viewing with secret and holy pleasure the fol-
lowing three-fold character of the gospel min-
istiy, I may appear to occupy unnecessanr
space by giving it here in few words ; but af-
ter some struggles I venture, resolving pa-
tiently to bear all the contempt which my
taller, stouter, and nobler bremren may hie
permitted to cast upon one who is ' a Utile
one* indeed.

The first is, the best around a minister can
occupy: Peter says of himself, he was • a wit*
ness of the sufferings of Christ; and also a
partakers of the glory which shall he reveaU
ed.' Peter takes his stand between the cross
of Calvery and the crown of everlasting glory.

He looks backward upon his Saviour as
bleedine and dying on the tree ; and then
forward to his Bisen Lord as waiting to re-
ceive home to glory all who in his name be-
lieve. Oh ! that 1 oould ever stand on this
holy piece of ^ound ; while in tlis world I
stay. Faith in the cross, and fellowship with
a suffering Saviour, will deeply crucify us to
the world, the flesh, and all false systems;
and make us more than a match for Satan ;
it will help us to sing in the midst of lUl <yhr
sorrows and desertions,

Did Christ my Lord suffer.
And shall I repine ?

A sight by faith of our future home will
cheer and strengthen, fire, and fill our souls
with energy, zeal, and power ; and at times,
we shall rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

The second feature, is, the work we should
aim to accomplish. An old author, Suidas,
by name, writing of Melchizedoc, says,* he
built his city in the Mount called Sion, and
called it Salemf the city of peace ; the peace*
fui eity I there he reigned as king, and wor-
shipped as priest, one hundred and thirteen
years ; then died a holy happy death.' I catch
from this, an idea of yie work we should aim
to accomplish. Every cospel church is a
city. God help us to Doild our cities in
Mount Zion ; and, to make them cities of
peace : and instead of pastors and ministors
being hired servants, may they, through
grace, and the power of the Holy Ghost, reign
as kings, and worship as anointed priests of
the Most High God! Would it not be a
happy contrast to much now going on in
many communities called Gospel Churehes ?

The third feature, ia the ropreseniatian of
all that is essential to sahatumt which tlie
Gospel ministry should give.

Come with me, for one moment to the foot
of the mount, whereon our glorious Lord was
transfigured. There you may behold all that
is absolutely required to take a fallen child of
Adam out of the horrible pit, and to land him
safely in the heavenly Canaan. There is on
that mount a 8eTen.fold personality ; and in
that penonality aseven.fold representation of
that flowing out of the grace of God which
biingeth salvation. I really could, (my
reader may smile ; but I feel I eooM) spend
years here in pleasant thought : but I only
give the naked idea. First, then;4he coven-
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-Mi of grace ii vepretented by that krigM eUmd
which OTenhAdbwed them. Peter speaking
of that event afterwards, says, Christ there
' received from God the Father, honor and
elory. When there came such a voice to him
trom the excellent glurv, this is my beloved
Son, in whom I am well pleased.' Here there
was God the Fatubr, the covenant God of all
his chosen and predestinated family ; and with*
out personal interest in this covenant, certainly
none can be saved. Secondly : there was the dit-
cipUne o/ths law represented by Moses : by
the law IS the knowledge of sin; and in all
Jehovah's dealings wiUi Moses, His holy ab.
horenoeofsin was most solemnly declared.
It is true, the law makes noihiag perfect, but
it has its preparatorv work to do. See, then,
Moses is there ; ana I know our God will take
care he shall so deeply wound the chosen seed,
that they shall feelingly need a salvation
which none but Jesus can give. Thirdly.
BevelatUme from Heaven are represented
by Elijah. You know how God instructed
the good old prophet Fire came down from
heaven for him; and in the still small
voice the liord waa found. Fourthly, there
sUnds JESUS in the midst. I presume not
to sav one word of Him : His Father speaks
aloud to proclaim His person and His worth.
Prostrate at his feet, there are three others.
A living Faith represented by Peter ; a lively
Hope, by James; a perfect Love by John.
When Jesus comes to take a sinner up into
glory. He taketh Peter, and James, and John.
He takes the sinner up into the exercise of
a heaven-born faith ; faith produces a hope
that shall not be ashamed; faith and hope
conduct the soul through the desert; and
love takes them in to dwell with Hik for ever.
Forgive this little effort to stir up your
pure minds.

The gospel, then, brethren— to pretch thb
gospel, IS oar work. We cannot make men
see Its beauty ; we have no power to carry it
into the hearts and ooaeienoes of our fellow-
man ; ice cannot even unite the hearts and
hands of those whe profess to know and love
it. No; there are divisions, party strifes,
and petty jealoosies ; but, if our impotence
be such, that we cannot bring up men from
the pit, nor unite those who are brought up ;
if we cannot do these things, we may, (if
truly called and anointed of God, we may,)
aim more than ever to preach tub gosfbl
of the ever blessed God : it is the power of
God ; it is the sword of the Spirit ; it is the
revelation of Jesus Christ ; it is the church's
lamp of direction, and her light of oomfort :
Tea, it is, instramentally, the trbb which
the Lord shewed unto Moses. Let us, dear
brethren, Uke this healing, healthful, sweet-
ening Tree, and cast it into all the bitter
waters of jealousy, strife, divisions, and
discord, which now so moch siflict and
weaken our cause. Let us labour to live
more m, and upon, the gospel ourselves me-
ditatively ; let us be ooncemed to proclaim
•nd publish it ministerially; to wear and

walk It practically ; and I think our conso-
lations within, and onr prosperity without,
will be moch more abundant. Our Master,
the Lord Jesus, preached the gospel, in a
three-fold manner more particularly : (1) by
a delightful declaration of doctrines : read
the evangelist John through ; and there in is
such a chain of New Covenant doctrines as
never before nor since proceeded from the
lips of man. Surely, this is the garden of
hirhe, the garden of nute^ the garden of Goo,
of which the Old Testament saints so fro-
quentlv spake ! Brethren, for Zion's sake I
beseech you, gather the herht, they will,
under the dirine blessing, heal you, and vour
people too ; epn^ the nuts, they will feed the
soab of saints, and encourage seeking ones :
and, if withall, the Lord shall make you and
me, more useful in bringing poor sinners
into this garden of the glorious. God-xan,
it will be an honour indeed. The ^iritual

Cisure, and deep soul-profit I have, at times,
while in this garden, I have, with the
Saviour walked, none can ever conceive, but
those who thus have with bim walked. Let
Jesus to us say, < t^me with me !' Let him
* take iM aeide V Let him there anoint our
eyes, fill our hearts, purifv our consciences,
and talk to our souli ; ana we shall be well
prepared to feed the church, to find out sor-
rowful q>irits, and to search into the dark
deep dens where his yet uncalled hidden ones
are laid. (2) Jesus preached the gospel by
practical parables. Bead Luke's gospel for
these more specially. The uiwer gpes forth
to sow his seed : the good Samaritan goes
down to the place where the poor man lay
of his wounds : intercession is made

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for thelutrren fig-tree :— we are too ready to
say of a poor captive-bound sool, ^cut it
down, why eumbereth it the ground t But
the kind Intercessor savs, * Let it alone this
year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung
It.'. Oh! precious, ADV0GA.TB I Almighty
Friend ! If he had not stepped in near twenty
years ago ; when friends and foes, saints,
and sinners, pastors and people said, * cut it
down /' If he had not stepped in, Oh ! where
should we now be found ? Ah ? where ?
But that. * Let it alone f It was like an iron
wall of aefenoe to us for full four years ; and
then the digging and the dunging commen-
ced ; and aU the good we have ever done \
all the fhiit we have ever borne ; all the
hope we have ever had, has been because
Hb has abode by his promise, ' him that
Cometh unto me, I will m no wise cast out.*
But, withal, let us notice (3rd) Jesus beffan
to preach the gospel experimentally. He
went up into a mountain and opened his
great commission, by snewing what kind of
chariicters they were ; and what special ex-
periences they were the subjects of, who
were * blessed.' The poor in spirit : they
that mourn : the meek : they which do hun-

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cifMl : the pure in heart : the peaamakera :
the per ^ sated for righteoouieis sake : the
. jrnkd, and so on. On each of thei« I would
wiih to dwelL Bat I dare not occupy more
rDom this month. The apeoial elementa of
the gospel treasure ; the kind of TeMels, in
whi^ It is deposited ; the excellent power
which goea with it ; and the design of the
whole. Shall he considered, if mce and
itxengih he con tinned to yours in Jesus,
Charles Wateus Bakes.

EPISTLES TO^raEOPHILUsT

Mt good Th«ophilu8~I wish yon dis-
tinctly to nndersUnd, that I do not intend to
eacnmber what I have to say upon the
'scrcii seals with the opinions of others,
any farther than just to ODserve, that learned
wntara apon the book of Bevelation hare
geoerally oeen in their interpretations too se-
calar ; making the book take notice of wars,
tad poiitieal rerolntions, which hare no ma-
taisl oonaection with the ohoroh of the
hnsg God ; and haTe thns in a great measure,
kst Bgbt of the main and essential object of
the hMk ; the intention of which is, to set
Artk the charaeter, sufferinffs, and final
triomphs of the people of (Sod ; t<^her
with the destiny of their enemies. And
thoBy as the eTangelist sets forth the snffer-
iags of Christ, ttiis book of the BcTela-
tion seu forth the giorr that shall follow.

But, if moot of the learned haf e been too
seealsr, there is on the other hand, danger of
fucifall^ spintaalising CTerything, and so
sabstitatin^ mere ooaneils for true interpre-
tatioa. I will aim to SToid both ; that I
■ay neither sink into the whirlpool of Carib-
^ nor £dl upon the rocks of fiylla. That
is, 1 thysll try to avoid goine oot of my depth,
and deal only in that which I can make
plain both to you and to myself.

Bat I cannot forbear savinr, that although
most wrileiB apon this book have been too
seealsr, yet the iaboars of great and learned
■en have thrown mnch light upon this mys-
teiioiis book. There is much respect due to
ooeh Banes as Bishop Newton, Mr. Elliot,
Br. Eeith, Dr. Camming, Octavius Winalow,
Ac. These names shine among the great in
Bihtieal Uteratore *, and though one takes the
' four mystic horses' ^ken of in the sixth
chapter to be foor conspicuous Boman Emper-
•is, namely, Yespasdan, Trajan, Seferos, and
Msarimillion ; and aoother, that these four
hones are the Gospel, Mahomedaoiss, Caiho-
licisa, and Infidelity; yet, notwithstanding
these differences among them, they are no
donbt ri^t in many things ; and cannot, I
think, he justly charged with having in their
■tense and immense labours, any object in
view eootnvy to honesty, and uprightnev,
sad the good of their fellow men.

. But m^object chiefly will be the Gospel of
theee 'seven seals.' That which is not
merely intellectual, but that which bears
upon our daily experience, Christian prac-
tice, and ultimate destiny.

Now I think that Psalm 45th and the
19th chapter of this book will explain to us
the * white horse seal.' That this first seal
is declarative of the successful pro^ressiou of
the Saviour, not in hii humiliation, but in
his exaltation ; even the very colour of the
I horses api>ear to have a meaning. But,
before coming to the progression of this first
war horse, let us just look for a moment at
what is meant by the seal being opened, and
also what is meant by John being comman-
ded to * come and see. Now the opening of
this first seal is in Psalm 45tht called, * indi-
ting a ffood matter.' Ihe Psalmist then
goes on to speak of the things which he had
made out touching the king ; that he was
fairer than the children of men ; that grace
is poured into his lips; and he is blessed
forever. < Fairer than the children of men,'
because sinless. * Grace poured into his
lips,' denotes the pure truths of the new
covenant which he, by the Holy Ghost,
recortis. It denotes, also, that nothing im-
pure could ever enter his mind ; and as he
did no sin, he lost nothing : and not as it is
in the first Adam, where by sin everything is
lost, and we ourselves are lost ; but this man,
the second Adam, the Lord from heaven,
hath done nothing amiss, therefore has lost
nothing ; and hasl>y the sacrifice of himself
put that away by which we lost everything.
So that he, as King in Zion, * is blessed for-,
ever ;' and * of his kingdom there is no end.'
May not the Psalmist then well say, that

* his heart was inditing a good matter P And
this grace, by which he reigns over his
people; this grace reigning in us ; we shall
hereby reign with him. Hence it is, that
we are kept by the power of God, through
faith, unto etenial salvation.

I think you clearly see that this 4dth
Psalm bears upon the subject of this first
seal. You see that *a ennvn' was given
unto him that sat upon the white horse.
And, as I have before said, be did no sin,
therefore he does not lose this crown, but is

* blessed for evermore.' And, indeed, there
being a crown given onto him means more
than at first sight it seems to mean. It
means in truth ul that is meant in Dan. vii.
14 : and there was g[iven unto him dominion,
and glory, and a ungdom ;' power over all
flesh — ^there is the dominion ; ' to give eter-
nal life to as many as are given him' — there
is the glory; thus, to save much people
alive, — * come, ye blessed, inherit the king-
dom.' All this then is meant in the one
fact, that a arown was given unto him.

But I shall in another part of this seal
have to come back again to this 45th Psalm,
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and iee what help we ean g;et then, to en-
able us to understand what is meant bjr the
* opefiMiff of this seal. And there, in the 19th
of Revelation, what in the 45th Psalm is
called * a good matter ;' is here caUed * A#a*
v^ hem^ opened^* (Terse 11). This 19th of
Bevelation, from rerse 11th to the end of the
chapter, lai^ly opens unto us this first seal.

But let us stop and look at what is meant
bjT * heavm heinr opened,' some take it to
mean, the New Testament dispensation ; and
no doubt it does mean this ; and also, some-
thing infinitely beyond the mere outward dis-
pensation. 8m and the sentence of the law,
had scTered us fiom God. The opening of
the heayen therefore will mean the end of
sin, and end of the law ; both of which we
have in Christ So that of himself he might
well say, * I am the door, by me if any man
enter in, he shall be saTed.' And well also
may he testify, * I am the way, the truth, and
the life.' It wss by him, that Abel obtained
witness that he was righteous. It was by
him, that Enoch walked with God. It was
by him, that the hearens were opened to
Jacob on his way to Padan-aram. It was by
him, that the heavens were opened to £zek-
iel, by the River Cbebar. It was by him,
that "Nathaniel was to see the heavens
opened, and theangels of God ascending and
descending upon the Son of Man. And as
it ife by him, that heaven itself is opened, so
hf him, are opened the mysteries of the
kugdom of heaven ; and by him, are opened
the councils of God, in relation to niend
and foe ; to believers and unbelievers ; for
* all judgment is committed unto the Son.

But the opening of this first seal, called
here (in the I9th chapter^ * the opening of
heaven :' this opening of neaven will mean
also the setting aside of human tradition :
*• woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypo-
crites, for ye shut up the kingdom ot heaven
against men ; for ye neither go in yourselves,
neither suffer ;^*e them that are entering to
go in.' Such is the tendency of all human
tradition; fieshlj meddleings with God's
truth. Nevertheless, the kingdom shall be
given to them for whom it is prepared.

Daniel saw in vision the aboundings of
human tradition, making void the command-
ments of God ; (Dan. vii. 10.) but he saw
also, that the Saviour would open the sorip-
tures. * The judgment (saith Daniel) was
set, and the books were opened,^ What books
were these but the books of the Old Testa-
ment ? *■ And beginning at Moses, and all
the Prophets, he ex{K)unded unto them in all
the scriptures the things conoeminff himself,'
(Luke xxiv. 27.) Now, my good Tneophilus,
remember Daniel is not, — ^in saying *the
judgment was set, and the books were
opened, — ' sfieaking of the last judgment,
but of the judgment which the Saviour
would pronounce against his enemies, as
simultaneous with the opening up of the

scriptures to his own disciplei; and hence
the thronee pan. vii. 94,) will mean the
truths of the gospel, together with the rights
and dignities of the people of God. Now,
Uiese thrones were cast down by enemies and
persecutors, until the Ancient of Days inter-
pcHied ; and the man of sin^the mystery of
iniquity — fbll, and must yet fall, before the
spirit of his mouth, and the hrightneee of his
coming, and so shall the heavens be opened.
Thus you will see, this first seal pertains to
the Saviour, the opening thereof will mean
all and much more than I have here said.

But before I enter into the details of this
first seal, I will yet notice the otMMmafuf to

* come and see.' One of the four living
creatures commands John to * come.' Now,
I have before shewn you, that the likeness of
the four living creatures is taken from the
square encampment of the Israelites in the
wilderness ; and here is a representative of
the church making John welcome to div«
ine revelations : * come aiid see.' Now this
accords with the feeling of every true church
towaryi their minister ; as though this livine
(not dead, mind, but living,) creature should
say, John here is something very mysterious ;
come, and see ; and trv and explain it to us,
who are desiring to look into these things.
And so it is, that living souls can never he
content with a blind watchman, a blind
guide, a miierable comforter, a forger of
lies, or inth a physician of no value. Liv-
ing souls see something of the mysteries of the
kingdom of heaven ; and by a true smt, they
hope to see stiU more ; and go on seeing and
seeing until they ' behold, as in a glass, the
glory of the Lord, and, are changed into the
same image, as from one degree of glory to
another, as by the spirit of the Lord.'

The true teer is one who is bom of God ;
poor in himself, * having nothing, yet poss-
essing all things.* Now this true seer, is

* made wise unto salvation ;' he is but a child
in spiritual thin^ ; that is, he is poor, and
bit a child in his own eyes, even less than
the least of all saints.' Now Solomon
(Eccl. iv. 13), saith « better is this poor and
wise child than an old and foolish kin(^, who
will no more be admonished.' This old
and foolish king will mean old Adam ; and
out of the materials of this old Adam are
manufactured men for the ofiice of ministers ;
but they are not new-bom, heaven-bom
children ; and though such may be person-
ally, young in years, they belong to the old
Adam stock, and are of the world; and
therefore speak they of the world. But they
are, in eternal things, self-contradictory,
confused, and very cloudy ; or, as Solomon
says, * foolish, and their name is legion,'
both in the Church of Rome and in the
Church of England, as well as among Diss-
enters. Now, for a poor and wise diild of
God to attempt to admonish one of these
great book-made kings, ^ippiearB in their

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THB BARTHBN ySSIBL.

cfcft Qm iMiglit of praamptioo ; fhey look
dom nwm auch a dbild with all the hauUur*
of utich they are capable ; aayinr, * thoa
mit altogether bom in rins, and doit thoa
tmA ttt r and so they cast hini out Thus,
thk man-made minister, is after all bnt a
foolish hio? ; for * oat of priion he cometh
to i«ig:n.' Yea, he has completed his studies,
fiaiihed his edaoation; this department
has been bia priaon ; ao oat of this nnson
ht comes, to make some little noise in the
world, and to rei^ npon some clerical
throne ; whereas also he saith, * the wise
maa that is bom in his kingdom becometh
poor/

Kow there are two daises of persons bora
in his kingdom, who come to pofcrty. One
is Uioeewno are called by grace under his

' ' ' ' Qi

i; for the Lord does some times
make nse of his own word from the lijps of
soch men, and now and then one is eonTinced
trely of sin, and made to hanger and thirst
for more gospel than it is in the power of
this onwise king to brinr forward; saeh
being bom of Q<m, they wiu become sensibly
poor; and they will leare this duty-faith
Idagdom in which they were bora, and seek
that free-graee kingdom, for whioh they are
Itted, and where they will find what they
vaat; they will seek to those seers who can
szpoimd onto them the way of Ood more
wneetly ; and thus th^ come oat of Baby-
Jon, and partake not of her errors, lest they
nceiTe also of her plag|aes; and so this
feoGsh kin^ haa unwittingly tanght these
poor and wise children more ih^n m mimded
tiem to hww. Bat whea once their eyes
are opened: they cannot again be closed
while each is bearing his own testimony ; and
Bayio^f * whereas I was blind, now! see/
God IS the Lord who hath shewed them light.

The other dais bora in the kingdom of
ifans fooliih kinj^, who become poor, are those
whose coarexnon oonsbts merely of tiie an-
dean ^nrit ffoing out ; bat there is no su-
feroatanil life in the soul ; and these dyine
10 that state, will lift np their eyes in hell, ana
be so poor as to beg eren for a drop of water
to cool their tongue ; and the deril that de-
ceifed them will glory to see them thus de-
graded.

Thus, my good Theophilus, yon see some-
thing of what is meant by opening this first
•eal ; and also something of what is meant
by John, a trae seer being requested to
' come and see,' and so tell to us what he
sees. A Littub Owb.

htt/'iaaem, meantnf great haoghtlBeM.

A handsome Tolome of ' Letters to Theo-
philoa,' by * A little One/ is now just pub-
lished. I( may be had of Mr.> Cox, 100,
Borwh-road ; and of Mr. Holmes, St. Paure
Chordi TanL Our review of this Tolume is,
of aecefsity, deferred.

DBiLTH oi omi OF THi OLOBflT Mnnams

MK THOMAS SHIELEY.
Of Btvmtoakt.

*Goed dd father Bhirley, of Berenoaks,'
(says a writer,) is gone home at last. Upon the
whole^ he has bad a long, and happy, a laborw
ions, and a useAil day in the gospel zniniatrT;
bnt he has now left the work, under Ood, ra
the hands of oar mneh rained pastor, Mr. J.
Motmtford. As, a church, we hare Tory great
eanse for gratitude to the Lord for sparing
him so Umg; also, for sending ua another
faithful broUier in Christ before he took our
spiritual lather home.'

Serenoaks has certainly been a favoured
spot ; and we hope Mr. Mountford's ministry
may oontinue to be mneh honoured of the
Lord his Ood.

From oommunicaUons reoeired, we make a
brief selection. Mr. J. A. Jones, of Jireh
Meeting, London, writes as follows i

Mr. Thomas Shirley, Baptist minister of
BoTen Oaks, Kent| died November 18tb, in
the 84th year of his age. Thomas Shirley
was an honourable man, a sterling ehristisa,
and a good minister of Jesus Christ. One
that adorned the doctrine of God our Saviour
in all things. He was pastor of the Baptist
chnrch at Seven Oaks about 40 vears. In
the early days of his ministiy, tbere were
some excelkiit ministers likeminded in Theo-
logy, suoh aa James Upton» William Shen*
ston, John Chin, John Keeble, Samuel Bowles,
Thomas tthxrley, &c Their views generally
accorded with those of Mr. Abraham Booth,
in his odebrated and excellent work, entitled.
' The Beign of Grace.' They served the Lord
in their day and generation ; and note the
last but not the Uaet of them, has ' entered
into his rest/

The life of a Dissenting minister, residing
the whole period of his labours among one
People, and that in a Country Town, afforda
but few materials for narration, or even obeer-
vation, suffice it to say, that, perhaps no
minister stood higher in the affections of his
people than Thomas Shirley. Indeed those
who knew him most, loved him best. He did
not often leave home, except occasionally
visiting some of the churehes around him.
He was present and took part, in the Ordi.
nation of Mr. Bichard Glover at Tring, in
the year 1814 (44 years ago; and he
preached at the Tring Anniversaries for 40
years, with only one exception.

Mr. Shirley had been declining tor some
considerable time, mostly laying m bed in a

Slarid, and rather an imbecile state, till a few
ays before his departure. On the last Sab-
bath that he spent on earth, in the moraing
he spoke very blessedly of the Lord's good-
ness to him, and the blessed prospect he had
of being shortly with him in glory. He re-

2 nested a chapter to be read, and then he
imself engaged in prayer, and was very
comfortable through the day. On the next
day (Monday), he seemed evidently ffoing
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tbree dayi he lay as in a daep deep, and on
the Thnnday about seren o'clock, the UatUr
ealled him home, and he departed without a
sigh or struggle, November 18th, 1858.

The funeral took plaee on the next day
week following, via., Friday, NoTember 2ath.
Host all the male members of the church
followed the oorpic, to the burial place at
SeutiVs QrMm, Mr. Mountford (the present
minister at Seven Oaks) with ICr. Haiffh
and Mr. Bead, took part m the serrioes. On
the following Sabbath Mr. Mountford preached
the funeral sermon from Job t. 26. * Thou
ahalt come to thy grave in a fuU age, like a
■hock of com oometh hi, in his season.'

* The memory of the just is blessed.'

A copy of the funeral sermon by Mr. Mount-
ford has reached us ; we reserve our notice
for February.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.

< Landmarht of Faith : ChapUf imi mde d
for iks Comfori of tJU Doubtimf, ike Fsar-
fkU and the Bereaved.' By Bev. W. B .Lewis,
London : Wertheims. we do not say this
volume is perfect production: but to us it
has a been very precious : in reading it, we
found our love to the Saviour, to the Saints,
to the Heavenly Kingdom, and to the Truth,
to be kindled into a holy flame : its title and
contents go well together.

* Jfy Beeolleetume of the Four Laat Popee,
and of Borne in their Timee* By Alessandro
Gavaszi. London: Partridge and Co. We
h«>ard Gavazzi once : his apparent angry bit-
terness toward the pope, and the papal hier-
archy, did not excite any desire to hear him
again. He has worked hard to gain a popu-
larity in this kingdom ; but we seriously be-
lieve his enmity against Christ's Ooepel is as
severe as it ia against Cardinal Wi^man.
When a man of immense powers of mind
leaves the Church of Home, and comes lec-
turing and preaching as a Protestant ; but in
those preachings and lecturings hurls ^ the
heaviest b^sws he can at those very principles
which giye life and strength to the true
Church of Christ, what do we gain ? the en-
emies to truth hail him, and make use of him ;
some of the silly sheep are misled by him ;
while Zion*s real firiends (weeping in secret)
are treated with the direst contempt. We can-
not think well of these mountebank exhibi-
tions.

' Sijf Daye Tranee :' being an account of a
remarkable Illness, Trance, and Vision, as
seen and related by Isaac McCarthy, now of
Bristol Our very aged and deeply afflicted
friend, Isaac McCarthy is in the Jordan, and
passing homewards. For six days in Novem-
Der last, he lay as in the stillness of death ;
but during that time, he was enjoying sweet
meditation on the kingdom of Clirist He has
been enabled to write this narrative ; with a
brief memoir of his life. It is just published
by 0. J. Stevenson, 54, Paternoster Bow ; at
one penny.

*yeffer alone f or IHoine Support. Affee^

UonaMf addreeeed to the Mourner. By
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Wright $ and Partridge and Co. This is a
spiritual exhibition of the Lord's goodness;
and a pressing exhortation, to look to him. 1 1

*Tke Original Baptiet AlmamaeK inter*
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forthe jear.

' The Little Gleaner .*' a monthly magasine
for children. One penny. Houlston and
Wright. Orumbefrom Clifton Chapel i and
Small Seede. We are frequently asked for
little books suited for children, and Sunday
Schools : we cannot do better than recommend
all such enquirers to apply to Mr. Septimus
Sears, the Editor of the lAttle Gleaner, and
the minister of Clifton Chapel, Sheiford.
Beds. He has worked with nis pen, and
through the press, to some purpose. If the
JAtUe Gleaner was as neatly printed as it is
ably conducted, its circulation would be im-
mense. Besides this monthly, we have copies
of the following pretty Uttle books, all pre-
pared by Mr. Sears ; for which labour of love
ne richly deserves the support and assistance
of all WAO can value trulA-telling little man-

Graee in the Touiu: a Xemoir of William
Deoonekire, This is a jewel; everything
about it, is good :— >the narrative is powerful ;
the frontispiece is ornamental; and the prin-
ting; (beinjr executed by that good friend to
Zion, J. Billing, of Guildford Surrey,) is all
tiiat can be desired.

U fete Worde ofAdoioe to Boye and Girle,
Lade and Laeeee, Toung Men and Maidene*
By a Country Pastor. London : G. J. Steven-
son, 64, Paternoster Bow. Price 2d. We
have read every letter of this IS page little
book. Heads of houses may give it their
young people with hopes of goodresults.

Mmime of Truth for Home and SehooL
London: Lsmare, Oxford Arms Passsge.
For two-pence, Mr. Sears, here gives you a
hymn book, containing 136 Hymns, original
and select; all in accordance with tae truths
of the gospel. We have long thought of com-
piling sucn a work; but Mr. Sears has here
set sJi competition at defiance : his children's
hymn book is a miracle for cheapness. Be-
sides these, he has many more. La every
sense, we wish him good success.

< 2^ BrWeh Workman: The Yearly Pert,
No. 4, for 1868. Partridge and Co. Of all
the literary efforts made to raise the character,
inform the mind, and correct the errors of
the working classes, we know of nothing so
appropriate; nothinr more likelv to be effec-
tive ; nothing which has obtained an influence
more powernd, than the Britith Workman,
This new part is an elegant, and delightfully
interesting present, either for the cottage, the
reading room, the factory, or the servants
hall. The Editor evidently throws head,
heart, hands, wealth, and an untiring seal, in-
to his work. A glorious harvest awaits him
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No. L
THE LAT'E SAMUEL ETLB8 PIEECE.

" A holyman of God." 2 Kings vi 9.

OOVTSIBUCTD BT VS. JOHV ANDRBWB J0NS8.

Ms. ESditob — ^At your request I intend, the
Lord sparing me, to famish yoa with a brief
memoir of some three or four fiimouB gospel
ministera in theb day and generation. Men
of God, sound in the fiuth, sterling dirines.
liAj it be as a Toice to the uprising j^oung
miaisken in our dar, sayins to them, * irhose
fiuth foQov, eonsidering tne end^ (i.e. the
whole drift and soope of) their ministry/ Jesus
Oizist, the same yesteorday, to day, and for
erer.' Heb. xiii. 7*

I begin with Mr. Samuel Eyles Pierce. I
h&Te his life written by himself in 180 pages
oetaro; I would give your readers the eream
«l those pages, and dose with a notice of his
iBTiliiablB writinxsL J)r. Hawker held Itr.
Pioes, as a theoloBian, in high estimation.
He oare obaerred, * I do not plsice myself on a
hfA with that great man of God, but I hope
I SB hobbling after him, though at a distance
bdiiad.' Bat^ I attend to my work. I am.
Ton's fte. J. A. JosBS.

Jvib, Deo. 1868.

Saxvbxi Stlbs PnobCB, was bom June 11th,
1T4B, at Tip Ottery, near Honiton, Devon.
Hii mothes^s fiith«r was Vicar of the parish,
sad he was bom in the parsonage nouse.
He says, ' my grandfather well remembered,
when a boy, the Prince of Orange landing at
ftrtoj r; and proceeding to Exeter, he de-
■BBded the keys of the city, which were cast
ofsr the eity-waUs to him. Mr. Pierce was
an only diila. When young, he was fond of
bosks, espeeially d&ooHimal ones ; and would
at times leaTe nis play, go home, read his
beok% and say his prayers. He says, * I veiy
eariy began to have some discoveries of my-
self aa a sinner. As my natural devotion in-
er sa s s d , so it was expnaaed by my loving
llie Lara's house ; that is, the puce styled ths
Ckmrekf and also the /Vrms therein observed.
To be very good and dawmtf read good books,

wsa one) onderatood ox being rengious. Bo
that I lived an animal fife, a rational HCb, a
le&iiiBed life, a devout fife ; and all without
say trua JtmtmUdge of the Lord Jesus
Ghrisl.* I was in my rin; I had no spirit-
ual life in my sow; I was an entire
Granger to Obnst. I knew not his person,
blood, and righteonaness. I sinned and re-
pcnAed; I sinnsd again, and, repented again;
sod had no remedy ti) fly tobut,«N»y ototi iotN^s.
There was a Iv. Jessie, who preached at
BaekkBd Chureli, he said to the people, 'if you
have 1^ off aJA your sins, ana done all good

duties, and are not eome to Christ for Hfe and
salvation, you are as far from heaven as if you
had not taken one step on the way thither.'
He then spake much of the precioas blood of
Christ, and although I knew nothing of this,
yet I conceived it was veiy sweet. No one
could be more dark than I was. I had no
human instructor, and there was no preaching,
but the morality of the Parish Church. A
person came to our house on Lord's-day even-
mg and spoke to us of a Xr. Toplady, This
mat and most tmly excellent man was than
the minister of Broad Hembury, which was
five miles from Honiton. I was asked to go
and hear him. I did so. His text was, ' theaa
that have turned the world upside down ara
eome hither aUo* Acts xvii. 6. He expressed
what gospel ministers (as instruments) turned
the people from ; it was from aU their false
foundations, their self- righteous views, and
meritorious schemes. Ifelt the aame. I
walked into the Churchyard, and looking on
the graves, I was led to consider the state of
fallen man to be as the dead ; and that the
Spirit of GK>d <Uone could quicken a dead sin-
ner : also, that the Zeat< breathing of a spirit-
ual life, was evidential of a spiritual oirth.
In the afternoon, Mr. Toolady preached from
* ha shall eome to ha glorified in nia saintly &o.
2 Thess. L 10. He entered particularly into
the righteousness of Christ; and wbiat he
Bpeke entered also into my aoul, and I said
within myself thia ia what I want. I had
been aimimf to be righteous, hut, by all my
aota and deeda I oould not attain the same.
I returned home full of what I heard. I
went again to Broad Hembuiy, to hear a
/WfMrafsermon, and a most solemn one it was.
The righteousness of Christ was again set
forth as the ouiy garments of salvation. I
haard it; I received it; I dwelt upon it in my
mind ; I was thus led, by Uttle and fittle, to a
real knowledge of gospel Truth, and an ex-

perience of gospel (

Mr. Pierce then relates his Jlrat coming to
London, and his hearing Mr, Soma4ne. His
text was, 'O the hope of laraal, and the
Sanfiimr tharsof* Jer. xiv.8. He said, *'Sir8,
if you had all the righteousness of all the
angels in heaven, it would profit you nothing ;
thore is no righteousness inll pass current in
the hiffh court of heaven, but the righteous-
ness or Jehovah-J'esus.' I was overoome with
holy admiration. The blessing of the Lord on
the truths deUvend caused my heart to danoe
fior joy. I was swallowed up in spiritual
hearmg. I did not lose one sentence. There
was a nolv sublimity in Mr. Bomaine's min-
istry; and when he ascended the pulpit, it

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wBi the prayer of my heart, 'Lord give Mm
to moMk a great word for Ckritt to dajf*
Btimoe it to say, that to Mr. Pieroe there was
no man livlDe equal to Mr. Bomaine. He
became under his ministry, nourished up in
the words of faith and sound doctrine. He
had most blessed apprehensions of Christ, and
was led into holy communion and fellowship
with him.

Mr. Fierce during his first yisit to London
was walking one evening, in a very distressed
state of mind down Lmug Aero, near Covent
Gharden. He says, ''I was exercised with a
Tiew of myself as a poor, lost, and undone sin-
ner, and as diutueajrom head to foot* I saw
a light which led into Long Acre Chapel, 1
entered the same. MrMadan was the preacher.
He named his text Just as I came into the
place. It was from John y. 6 ' Wilt thou he
made tehole ? * He seemed to fix his eyes full
upon me, and I viewed the question even as
directed by the Lord himself personally to my
soul. I meatallg cried out, " Tes, dear Lord
Jesus, I ^eill be made whole, and ten thousand
thanks to Thee for the same. I left the place
enjoying all peace in believing in Christ, Uie
Great fhysician, who alone bringeth health
and cure (Jer. xxxiii. 6.). He said, "1 shall
never forget the same."

I would here relate one more circumstance.
In the evening of his life, when very aged and
infirm, he had been preaching at Mr Henrf
Bowling's Chapel, at Colchester. He felt

Ctly exhausted, and, on retiring to rest, Mrs
ling assisted him to his bM chamber ;
upon reaching the landing place on the stairs,
he fell back into her arms. She soothed him
with remarking the eare the Lord Jesus had
fbr him. He exclaimed, * Ah! I fear he Aas
other fUh to fry** Mrs D. said, the thought
of Jesus being employed in frffingfUh in heaven
caused an involuntary laughter. But. (said
she) I well knew what the dear ageo saint
meant', even the Lord's care over his people^
and fears of his ooerloohimg one so utterly un-
worthy as him ; the least of all saints.
[This was told me by Mrs D. herself.]

Ah ! no ; he could exclaim with the apostle,
' He loved me, and gave hinself for me.* And,
with the Psalmist, 'I am noor and needy
(aged and feeble) yet the Lora thinketh upon
me.'

After some time, Mr Pieroe was advised to
apply to Lady Huntingdon, for admission into
her College at Treveeea, He was accepted, and
soon sent hither and thither to preach. But
his ministry was not very acceptable. Her
ladvship did not imderstand lum, and his
fellow-etudents did not aj^prooe of his views ;
it was above their conception. He had receiv-
ed his education in a higher echool. He [went
to several places to preach, such asFrome,
Midhurst,Petworth, Brighton, Chichester, &o.
But (says he) go where I would, I found a deal
of legahty, and very little knowledge of Christ;
so that my preacninz of Sim and his great
salvation, constrained me to take up the pro-
phet's words, '^ Ah, Lord Ood. they say ofme.
Doth he not speak parables " P Esek. xx. 49.

In the year 1784, Mr Pieroe became Pastor
of the Independent Church at Truro, in Com-
walL He was fully employed in the work of

the ministiT at home, and in Tarious parts o^
Cornwall, ice He studied closely the sacred
word. Concerning Anthore,he says, *'Dr
Goodwin, Dr. Gill, Dr. Crisp, and Stephen
Chamock were my favourites.'^

In the year 179o, he removed to London. Mr
Bomaine had recentiy entered into his rest, so
that his people were left as sheep without an
under-shepherd. Mr. Pieroe might be termed
an out-ancUout Bomainei^ so that there was a

Sthering under his ministry. Thomas Bailey,
iq., of St Paul's Church tard, Mr. Bye, Mr.
Amott, and several other moneyed men gave
him a hearty welcome. They first took for
him a small place of worship in Printer's Court,
Fleet Street In the year 1805, they built him
a new and larger ChapeL Three months in the
year, during the summer, he always visited
the peo^e in the West of England going to
Chard, Truro, &c., and returning to London
by way of Plymouth ; occup}ing the pulpit of
the Old Tabernacle there. Dr. Hawker at
those times was always a hearer of him. I
have prayed for Mr. Pierce previous to his ser-
mons there. One evening tne Doctor said to
me, '* My brother, Mr. Pierce is a great man of
God ; we have heard the full notee of the
glorious gospel to night ".

For several years Mr. Pierce preached alter-
nately at Printer's Court, and at Bethel Chapel ,
Brixton ; Mr. Bailey having built the latter
chapel for him on ground adjoining the house
he himself resided m. Principally in those two
places he laboured, attended by a very choice
ffospel-disceming people. My late dear brother,
Mr. James Castleden, of Hempstead, was one
of his deacons about nine years.

Bu^ the days drew near fbr the Master to
call his aged servant home. 1 have an account
of the same, written by his second wife, who
was a real help-meet to him* It is too long
for full insertion. Just a sketch :— She
says. " His conversation was in heaven. He
Uvea above the world in every sense. By
reason of his great bodily infirmities, he was
in the constant expectation of death : but, he
was blessed with great patience. His mind
was firmly staid on the Bock of Ages ; and he
was persuaded that he should die in the full
belief of personal interest in that gospel which
he had preached so many years. He said, ^* I
have a olessed prospect Before me, and am
fiill of the hope of a alorious immortsHty. The
Lord be magnified ! 1 live and die in the Aill
belief of interest in Christ God-man ; of the
perfection of his work for salvation, wherein
alone I trust i and to the Three-in Qpe be
everlasting praise." Thus the Lord granted
him much of his presence and support when
passing through the valley of the shadow of
death. He remained apparently insensible to
anything in thie life for about a day and a
half ; and fell asleep in Jesus on the 10th of
May, 1889, aged 88 years.

Tnus, reader, I have given you, what I term,
merely a scrap or two, concerning a great man
of Goa; the limits of a periodicsl allowing no
more. But I would crave leave of the Editor,
to spare me one or two pages in the next
month's Ybssbl, to gknce at some of Mr,
Pierce's unoaluable Works. He was a sterling
preacher, but % far greater writer, J. X, J

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ME. HAZBLEIGG AT GOWEE STREET.

UmL that ijkmouB mora, when no olood
dull darken the alure tkj, and the eon shall
■hine forth in all her splendour and majesty—
ve say, until the glonous mom whicn shall
Qiher in the aeeoiM coming of our gracious
Bfldeemer, partU§ t^nd party tpirits will exist,
both in the religious, as well as the poUtiou
world. But tke» we shall be so swallowed up
with our loving and living Redeemer, that
we shall have no time to inquire, or desire to
know, of **what party we are.'* Nbl No!
for then

"The great Hallelujah from each shall reeound,
And the saints in all tbisob be agrwd;
And Ood in the highest with glory be crown' d,
Oh I this will be heaven mdeed/'

I hav« this month been "A Wandering
Star:" (probably the effect of the Comet).
On liord^-day nnoming, Oct. 28rd, 1 sat in
Gower-atreet Chapel, Euston Square, a capa-
dous^ well-built, substantial chapel, capable of
holding perhaps a thousand persons. Bumour
ssid that a Soldier was supplying the pulpit ;
and bamg aosous to see and hear how this
man of arms understood his Captain's orders,
his Captain'a service, and his Captain's laws,
I went thither. ** A SokUsr^' generally suggests
to the mind the idea of a man of power; a
man of stern countenance ; a man of strength,
vigour and great energy. We had pictured
such a .man m our own mind as we crossed
Sttston' Square; and expected to find *<a
mighty man of war" occupying the pulpit
But our imagination had played us false : for
Kr. Haaelrigg is the reverse of all this. A
gentleman of slender build, about the middle
heighth, dark complexion, mild and nervous
expRsBoa of countenance, with a shrill voice,
and gentle manner ; probably about forty-five
jaanof age. I should think well educated ; he
veads with great precision, but rather too
Quick. It appears ne has been an officer in
tne army, but has more recently been called
to the work of the ministry. He is denomi-
nated '< A Standard man," and labours more
statedly at Leicester; and is looked upon
with a considerable degree of pleasure by
this (Ktrty, who oonoeive him to be a great
aequisition in their ranks ; and some little
enquiry b manifest throughout the Churches
to near and know something of this new
soldier of the croea. He is an experimental
preacher ; and talks soberly and seriously of
the tfaiogB touching salvation, as a man who
has handed and tasted the same.

Mr. Hazelrigg on this occasion, took his
text from Solomon's Song .(u* 10,) <* My be-
loved spake, and said unto me, rise up my
love^ mv fair one, and come away." H!e
told us, it was often the case that in reading
the Song of Solomon, a difference of opinion

was held as to who the speaker was, but the
text admitted of no hesitation upon that
Doint: the speaker is the spouse of Christ.
In discoursing upon this subject, the preacher
1st noticed, the tponte §bU More ne the vitU
ehe ha$ had from the Lord; and then he
spoke of the toorde the Lord epake to hor,
** Rise up my love, ^my fair one, and come
away."

It is a great mercy to be able to say we
have had a visit from the Spirit. No pre-
sumptuous professor ever realized the blessed-
ness of one of these visits. The poor sensible
sinner, who has been humbled— who has had
all his transgressions set up before him, — ^who
has been made experimentally to cry out,
'* Lord to whom can we go ?** — ^who has felt
that if he perished he would perish at his
feet. These are the characters to whom, in
due time, the Spirit will pay a visit, and
then you will have a great aeal to bless God
for. But seme, cannot arrive at this point in
experience.— they cannot sav with Thomsi^
"My Loro, and my God!''^ Tou feel you
dare not sa^ to the Lord, **My Lord;" or to
Jesus, ** Jljr Jesus." Many a day have yon
waited at the post of his doors, but yet no
visit have vou yet had. No man can time
God,— but deoend on it, your time of mercy
will come, ana a blessed visit you shall have.
There are some too, who say, we long to
know whether we really love the Lord Jesus
Christ ; they have never received one of these
visits. I would ask them two questions : Do
you feel and see yourselves utterly lost and
undone sinners P and, do you see and feel
that in Jesus Christ there is just what you
want P Then, I say to such an one, the time
will come, when the Spirit will prompt you
assuredly to say, '*Ky Lord and my Ood."
Then there are others who have confidently
used this language, but cannot now say, " Jfy
Twi^ " Are jovL indulging in^ sin, trifling

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with sin, inclining to the world, tampering
with the world, longing after the flesh pots
of Egypt P To you, I would say, when the
love or the world comes {», the love of Jesus
will go ont.' remember the exhortation.
" Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
I have to charge myself with inconceivable
baseness ; and do feelingly know, that if we
are saved at all, it must be by the free, sover-
eign grace of God. These visits of Jesus also
are always seasonable and suitable; if you
are low, ne lifte you up ; if in weakness, he
comes and strengthens you, and says, ** My
son, be strong." Bemember, Jesus *<is a
Brother born for adversity." They will be holy
visits, heavenly visits, and refreshing visits.
Notice, — ^it was %pereo»al interview the spouse
had: Ahl it wont satisfy a poor sinner
to know that (Jesus) he has visited others

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Oh. no, TOtt wiU want Jams Christ to come
ana ipeaK to you penonally. Having trial«
of your own, you want a penonal exMrionce
of the Toioe of Jesus of your own. Tours is
a secret religion. How many here can say, I
hold intercourse with Christi and he with me P

II. The W9rd9 the Lvrd »Pfhe to hsr.
There are a rariety of ways in wnich the Lord
Jesus Christ speaks. In CnaUon; '*the
heavens declare his handy work," Ac. The
meanest flower that grows, displays his won-
drous work. The sun that shines in the
firmament hespeaks the mighty power of
Jesua. Tea, ** by him were all things made,
and without him was not anything made that
was made." Tea, all things declare that Jesua
Christ has a Toice in Tisible creation. Again,
Jesus Christ speaks in pmidtnee; he guidea
all things by the word of his power; and you
may rely upon it that ''all tmngs work toge-
ther for good to them that We God. and are
the called according to his purpose.' Jesus
Christ speaks in the word of his grace. All
the blessings of the Bible, all the doctrines,
all the precepts, all came from and through
the lips of Jesus. Jesus Christ also speaks m
rode and qffUetume ; and a good thing it ia
when we can hear the rod, and profit by it.

There are a variety of ways in which the
Spirit of Jesus arte upon the hearts of his
people. Sometimes a good word applied with
much sweetness and power. Sometimes we
have words applied by the Spirit eimilar to
those in the JBible, and when we find this,
the deril says,— "Oh, that is not in the
Bible." But it is applied with remarkable
power ;^ and you are enabled sometimes to
drive him back. Sometimes no word at all;
but the Holy Spirit will come into your
heart with such a soft and heavenly sweet-
ness, that you are strengthened, helped, and
made to rejoice on vour way.

Then there is the nat%re of the voiee, —
when the word thus speaks to you, it enlightene
your hearty it also enlivens you, and sets your
soul all alive, and causeth you to excUim,
« Speak, Lord, for thy servant waiteth to
hear."

Jesus's voice is a voice of affection ; "My
love." Christ loves us. and thus it is that
we become in bis eves "fair.^ It is a free
love ; if it had not oeen quite free, how ooiild
such monsters of sin have ever expected to
realiaeit. It is a full love; can't be ex-
hausted; if it could, we should have ex-
hausted it long a^o. It is perfect love ; not
a shadow of wrath is left in Jesus; he is
nothing but love; even where he afflicts, it
is in love. It is everlaeting love : *' having
loved his own, he loves them to the end." u
is a never-chanjfing love ; vou may be in afSio-
tion, in prosperitr, under douds of temptation,
but the love of Jesus changes not, it is the
same as himself unchangeable.

I must not go further with this brief sketch
of the sermon. Mr. Haaebigg at the close
informed us that there was a debt of £600
on the chapel, which they were anxioua to
remove. The congragation was good, but
the pkoe was not ftH. B.

I SIGH IN THE DAEK.

LlVSB BT MxiL B. TUXXXB,
Cf Netherton^ near DniUyu

« Thou hidast tby fsee, and I sm troabled."
How dark the aoul when Christ withdxawt

The rays of heavenly light !
What little love to hia bleat oanae ;

All seems as dariL as itight.

No beauties in his word I see :

No wonders then unfold :
No promise there appears for me.

On which I can lay hold.

If to God's house I do repair,

Where I have oft been blest,
I find anon aome earthly care

PoBsess my troubled breast.

I oft in aorrow seek his face,

And on my bended knee
I ask, if ere' I knew his grace,

Would it be thus with me P

Should I so unbelieving sigh P

And feel a heart so hardP
When Christ has promised to be nigh:

Should I not tilus regard P

How oft like one of old I sigh.

And well her words repeat,
Tis just, O Lord, thou shoulds't deny ;

Tet dogs the crumbs may eat.

I am unworthy, dearest Lord ;

And when my heart I see,
How many times it doth record.

That I have pierced Thee.

But low before thy cross I bend,

I look on thee, and mourn ;
I know thou art the sinner's friend,

Thou for this end waa bom.

Then, Saviour, listen to my prayer;

Ob 1 don't m^ suit deny ;
Or else my soul in dark despair

Will pine away and die.

O send thy influenoe frtnn above,

Let faith lift up her sails,
To catch the breezes of thy love,

The 8pirit-8 heavenly gales.

Then with mv blessed port in view.

And with tne sacred oreexe.
Though faint, my journey I'll pursuCb

0*er rough and stormy seas.

And when my soul by tempests ioased.
Shall reach the heavenly shore.

Dear friends will hail me on tilie coasts
Who Ipng have gone before.

There I shall meet my Saviour too,

Who did the winepress tread.
And tune my glorious harp anew,

Through mine exalted Head.

* Walking with Ood^ is minutelv, experi-
mentally, and scripturallv, declared in Mr.
John Bloomfield's new forth-coming work,
entitled *A Voice from the Pulpit* The
same work contains an essay on * The Work
of the Ministry;* and some other able, useful,
and interesting papers.

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THE JEW— THE GENTILE— AND HIS FIB8T SERMON :

PSTBS» THE

OB,

GREAT

No. n.

PIONEER.

TfiB fint thing .ve promised to seek
for was— the possession of grace itself in
the tremendous large sonl which Peter
Caitwngkt evidentlj possessed during the
fifty years* and more, he hnnted after
the sonls of others in the wild woods of
Ameriea. There has been much said of
late, of " Christianity going <»uzy ;" and,
certainly, if one could oetieye one quarter
of the statemoits Cartwright has recorded
in |h]s R^^ter of his eventful life, we
Bust belicTe that Christianity, or the
profesaion of it, was run wild indeed.
We do not suspect that Peter has pub-
hsbed falsehood; but we veir clearly
tee tfaat^ just in proportion as the camsd
■iod is exercised in matters touching
tke ■jsteries of the Gospel,— (that carnal
fflffld not being powerfully instructed,
directed, and sanctifisd, b^ the Eternal
and Almighty Soirit of Life and Righ-
teottsnessj will be carried about in all
dirediofis ; hurled into all kinds of en-
thusiasm and excitement; and become
more like one deluded, than one dotKed,
Md in Us right mind. Professors of
ereiy creed, of every kind of character
are practically brought before you in this
Yolume. The gemune faith of Chbist, —
most distinctiy called ike faith of Qod^t
tUd^ as altogether differing from the
Anmman's dead and creature faith, —
may be dearly seen by examining some
of the scenes throng which Peter passed.
In lenewing such scenes, it will be
necessaiy to look at both sides, — the
hUek and the white: the natural and
the tpirituml; for by such an investiga-
tion, the truths the realitg, and tne
bteoedneu of oracx may here and there
sometimes be seen raising its little head,
lifting up its heavenly voice, and putting
forth its vital power, although its dwell-
ing-place iB a neap of ruins, — the law, —
convictions of sin, — ^the terrors of a guilty
oonsdenoe, the poisons of the priesthood
of men, and the subtleties of Satan, like
so man^ ghosts surrounding, and aiming
to auflfocate that Qraee of Qod which
briMoeth ioioatum*

We will this month, only catch a leaf
or so from Peter's entrance upon the

ministry of the word ; the derelopement
of Grace shall come after. One of those
singular events (thousands of which were
connected with his travels and labours) —
is the following illustration of the bold*
ness of Peter's spirit.

I WILL now raiame my personal narrmtive^
I went on enjoying great comfort and peaoe.

There was a great ttir of religion in the
orowded oongregaUone, Manj opposed the
work. an4 among the reit a Mr. J) , who

callea himself a Jew. He was tolerably smart,
and seemed to take great delight in o{>posing
the GhristiAn reli^on. . In iSb intezmissions,
the jroung men and boys of us, who professed
religion, would retire to the woods and hold
prayer-meetinffs; and if we knew of any bora
that were seeing religion, we would taaa
them along«and pray for them*

One evening a large company of us retired
for prayer. In the midst ci our little meeting
this Jew appeared, and he desired to know
what we were about. Well, I told him. He
said it was all wrong, that it was idolatry to
pray to Jesus Christ, and that Gh>d did not,
nor would he, answer such prayers. I soon
saw his object was to get us into debate and
break up oar prayer.meetin^. I asked him,

* Do you really helieve there is a God?*

* Yes, I do,' said he.

'Do Vou believe that God will hear your
prayers r

* Tee,' said he.

'Do you really believe that this work
among us is wrong?'

He answered, * i es.'

* Well now, my dear sir/ said I, ' let us test
this matter. If you are in earnest, get down
here and pray to Ood to stop this work ; and
if it is wrong, he will answer yonr petition and
stop it ; if it is not wrong, alTheU cannot stop
it.'

The rest of our company, seeing me so bold,
took eoura^ The Jew hesitated, i aid

* Qet down mstantlv and pray ; for, if we are
wrong, we want to know it.' After still lin-
gerinff and showing unmistakable signs of his
unwiUiagless, I raUied him again. Slowly he
kneeled, cleared his throat, and coughed. I
said, ' Now, boys, pray with sll your might
that God may answer by fire.'

Our Jew began and said, tremblingly, <0
Lord Ood Almighty,' and couched again,
cleared his throat, and started agam, repeating
the same words. We saw his evident oonfu*
sion, and we simultaneoudy prayed out aloud
at the top of our voices. The Jew leaped up
and started off, and we raised the shout and
had a glorious time. Several of our moomen
were oonverted, and we sJl rose and started
into camp at the top of our speed, shouting.

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having, u we firmly belieyo^ obtained a aig*
nal victory over the deril and the Jew.

After many ooQvnlaife moTements,
Peter oomea to a decision for the minis-
try. Here is bis commencement, — after
several smaller beginnings,—

At last I literally gave up the world, and
started, bidding farewell to father and mo-
ther, brothers and tiBtera, and met brother
liotepeich at an appointment in Logan Coun-
ty. He told me 1 must preach that night.
Thia I had never done ; mine was an ezhor-
ter's dispeniation. I tried to beg off, but he
urged me to make the effort. I went out and
prayed fevenUy for aid from heaven. All at
once it eeemed to me aa if I never could
preach at all, but I struggled in prayer. At
length I asked God, if he had caUed me to
preach, to give me aid that night, and give
me one soul, that is, convert one soul under
my preaching, as evidence that I was called
to this work.

J went into the house, took my stand, gave
out a hymn, sang, and prayed. I then *rose,
gave them for a text Isaian xzvi. 4 : ' Trust
TO in the Lord for ever : for in the Lord Je-
novah is everlasting strength." The Lord
gave light, liberty, and power ; the congrega-
tion was melted into tears. There was pre-
sent a professed infidel. The word reached
his heart by the Eternal Spirit. Be was
powerfully convicted, and, as I believe,
soundly converted to Ood that night, and
joined the Church, and afterward became a
useful member of the same.

I travelled on this Circuit one Quarter.
The health of brother Crutchfield, wno was
on the Wayvesville Circuit, having failed,
he retired from labour, and brother Gkrrett
placed me on that Circuit in his place, and
put on the Circuit with me Thomas Laaley,
a fine young man, the son of an old local
preacher who lived in Green County.

Our Circuit was veij large, reaching from
the north of Green Biver to the Cumberland
Biver, and south of said river into the State of
Tennessee. Here was a vast field to work in ;
our rides were long, our appointments few and
fiar between. There were a great many Bap-
tists in the bounds of the Circuit, and among
them were over thirty preachers, some of whom
were said to be very talented. In the four
weeks that it took us to go round the Circuit,
we had but two davs' rest, and often we prea-
ched every day and ever^ night ; and although
in my nineteenth year, I was nearly beardless,
and cut two of my back jaw teeth this vear.
Hence they called me the ' boy preacher, and
a great many flocked out to hear the boy, A
revival broke out in many neighbourhoods, and
scores of souls were converted to God and
joined the Episcopal Church; but there* was
also considerable persecution.

American, and Arminian Reviralism —
as contrasted with a sacred faith in, and
fellowship with, a Triune Jehovah, will
more folly appear as we dive more deeply
into this work.

A LETTER

Fbox SAinrsL Fostbb to C. W. Bavxb,

On the Ka^pg 2)Mth of Mr UnderdownB

Tharp0,

Mt dsab Bbothbb tv Chsist Jbsvs—
I am sure you will be glad to hear of the
peaceful end of our dear brother, Mr. John
Underdowne Tharpe, Broad Oak, Sturry;
especially as he was one of your first little
flock; and one of the first seals to your
ministry. He has often spoken of the blessing
he received from your ministry. He sweetly
fell asleep in Jesus, Wednesday morning,
November 24th, 1868. After a few days of
severe suffering. He is home before me^
where there is no pain nor sorrow.

He's gone in eternal bliss to dwell.
And I am left below,

Tograpple with the powers of hell,
^1 Jesus bids me go.
I long to leave this house of clay, that with
him and those gone before to unite in singing
the song of Moses and the Lamb. Ue could
feed on nothing but the truth as it is in Jesus.
That which was his support in life, was his
support in death. For some years he had
been brought into the sweet liberty of the
gospel ; and blessed with a stedfisst faith in
Jesus. Feeling his feet placed on the eternal
rook of ages. He stood fast in that sweet
liberty, where with Christ had made him free.
Last year he was taken ill with a heart dis-
ease ; for some months he could do nothin|f :
the means used were blessed to restore him
a little while longer. All this summer he has
been able to attend to his business, and work
a little. He had felt poorly a few days. On
Friday the 18th, he was taken worse, and
sunk very fast. He knew in whom be had be-
lieved ; and to him death had lost its stinr ;
Monday evening he felt he was dying: he
longed to be gone : all was joy and peace.
Satan with a fiery dart, thrust at him, that
all bis religion was a delusion ; and that he
would find it so after death. But with the
shield of faith he was enabled to quench the
fiery dart of Satan. • It is writtm,* was the
precious words; it was the sword of the Spirit
in the hand of faith. Satan left him to come
no more. He bid his dear wife and son good
by: and blessed them, stretched himself out ;
spread out his hands; closed his eyes; 'Fa-
ther, into thy hands I commit my spirit,'
thinking he was going. But be again revived.
Tuesday morning a cnristian brother calling
in to see him, spending some time with him,
said, it was defightfuf to be with him. His
conversation was so heavenly, he said, 1
thought I should have been singing before
now. At his wish, he read the 21st and 22nd
chapters of Bevelation ; at times he would
speak a little on some parts, such aa, thart
shall be no pat», no sorrow ; there shall be no
night thore. The 14 yerseofBev. xxii, was
much blessed to him ; he spoke sweetl^r of en-
tering through the gates into the city, h^
would say, * O what a mercy that J esus
should look on ns, woHhless, ffiU sinners.'
Another brother visited him again in the

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tfrmsmg; iiewu itaU rejoicing in ]
^f^orvot God, Wnipne to be g(
Icannr ium, he wished him to retun
to theXord for his great goodness to ]

erenmg: he was still rejoicing in hope, of

i return tJn ^Vf
I great goodness to him, he
Wis tak^n worse, and at one o'clock he fell
■sleep in Jesns . there he hungers no more,
aeither thirst anv more, for the Lamb that is
ia the midst of the throne shall feed them,
sad shall lead them onto living fountains of
waters, and God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes, liaric the perfect man, and
behold the uprieht, for the end of that man is
pssee. When he has come to see me^ and
■* by my bed, he would say, * we are met
ones more; but so much nearer our Father's
boose.' His couTersation was hearenly, we
talked together and rejoiced together in hope
ofthegloiTofGod. I have lost a dear and
kind finead ^ut my loss is his gain. Jesus
still Utcs. Weary and in much pain, I am
knking and longmg, hoping soon to join him.
Then loudest of the crowd, I'll sing,
With shouts of sovereign grace.
that the dear Lord, may hear and answer
the many prayers the father put up for his
oily son is the prayer also ox your afflicted
brother in Jesus,

Saxubl FostBB,
Starry, near Oaaterbuxy, Dec. 1868.

[taa foregoing letter has been most preoioas to
■i. Hr. Tharpe was a brother belored indeed !
He was the third of the same family oalled by
mes, abont the same time, Aill twenty years
m; all of them are now in glory. We pnv
the Lord to support the widow's heart ; and daily
givs her to Drove that * her Maker la her Hoabaad :
tW Lord of Hosto is his name. Ed. j

ADDRESS TO THE MOST HIGH.

hBsatahle, Eternal, aU Saprnne I

Gire a worm ntteranoe to proelalm thy piaiss.

JlthfeeUnff heart I O, how shsU he express

TMse honours high, thyglorr, sad thy greatness !

HlMdTbat feeblenesi, and that estrsme.

la lofty stndps sssist to magnify

I^ovah laflaito I la esaeaee One.

Three In eabsisteness : that essenoe in

^eP^sr, Sod. and Spirit, truly God.
laeoBpisheasIblB indeed the modus,
fBt yet, 'til truth, sad elaarly toe reveaPd.
^aayea the bieas'd eternal page
OfasnedWrit. My faith reoelvee the witness
or thlB grand Ihet, and satisflM remains.

-_j with mind in man'a oonstmetlon see,
Tet, who professes Ineldly to trsee
The oBanner how it is eo f And yet we
«• truth reeeivB. How eaa it CTer be
That ws who little understand onreelvee,
Aoald think to comprehend the Infiaitei
Torevclatioa bissaed to submit,
On wisdom Is to trust sad to adore!
And thou blees'd Jesos, Ood, and truly man,
Thy eomplcx eharaeter, and each diillnot,
not Godhead manhood, nor yet manhood God :
Jwr» eammix*d, but, that each natureU
Wannet ud elear ; ao, we beUeve thou art,
™enuel truly ! adequate to save,
f^ kiwer regions of eternal woe I
Ijm, help in glowing atraina to magnlfv
ThscL sveriaatfiig God; that he who apeidcs,
•* as bom where mersy oould be aought and found.
bMadnsss great, for gratitude stills ealla,
noin hia thus fovour'd soul, bless, ever Ueas.
«e God of tove and meroy, all divine.
Thee he adores, that e'er the joyfal aound.
Broke OB his esr of pardon thironghths Lamb.

Through blood beaprinkl'd on the eonsdenoe so

Aa to recognise its amaalng power,

To still the tempted aoul, U mercy great.

Beyond ezpreeaion I O, my thankful heart.

Herein rejoioe afcaln, as heretofore

The Lord ^ve thee to do by living faith :

Uia helpless aoul had never foand it sweet,

In blood to trast, badst thou not wronght within

The principle divine which Chriat embraces :

Bat ainoe thoa hast bestow'd the precious grace.

And glv'n the Spirit's sealing, he doee know

The vilest of the vile his Lord can save.

And give to triumph in redeeming blood.

O'er aggravated aina, and over hell.

Thv servant asks that trvdt of this free grace.

In him may rise to honour thy great Name,

For thine eternal truth he knows deolarea

Wisdom is of her children Justifl'd 1

That firnlt, that much fruit destin'd to remain.

In thee, give him to bear. Help to o'eroome

The oft repeated stratagems of Satan,

The ill desires of flesh, end this vain world,

And all the powers of darkness thro* the Lamb !

Past sins, and heart baekslldings do forgive :

Those proofs most certain of a nature base^

Originate from Adam, nndestroy'd.

Though kept hi eheck by principle divine;

Regeneration's seed, wherein's no sin

But that which eoniliete with one body vile.

Sin in the members making saints to groan,

Bleas, bless thy name, msjeetio, awfnl, high«

Sighing before thee,— shows uneasy state

For shi that dwells within, hot, shall not reign.

And have dominion over the sons of grace.

That conflict ehews the presence of a power

Unknown to nature, springs not from Its root.

But from God's sraoe indwelling, since the time

Of being bom of God. Almighty Lord,

That day be gladly hail'd when sin no more

The child of God shall harrass and perplex.

But loae ite being, never to regain

Ite awful preeence or deceitfiil power

O'er thine own shildren ; but. when saactifled

And wholly so, thine houaehold shall appear.

Most glorious day, august, triumphant season

When all thy Zion's enemlee ahaU be,

Eternally subdu'd. Once bleeding Lamb,

Through thee, we all our foea ahall overcome.

In triumph place our feet upon their necks.

In token of their final subjagation I

O Father, Son, andjSpirit, fsraers God;

Thy servant help thine honoura to declare,

Throughout life's date, not that he worthy is,

On selTs nosount, O no, he knows he is not,

But for the reaaon why thy grace be tested,

Becauae, eternal Father, twas thy pleasure I

And, as it must be, thou wouldst have it so.

So publish thee, in love, blood, energy

In our salvation intermmgl'd sweeUy ; [hit

That *neath thy guidance truth'a sure shaft may

And wound ao deeply, nothing but the blood

Of Calvary, can heal, and aolace give.

To thine already brought to know they're gracious

Bless thou the word for holy confirmation.

If thou thy truth, O gracious God wilt use

For purposes so holy and so blessed

In thy dust's hsnd, the glory shaabe thhie.

To thee, and, aolely, unto whom 'tis due

And, praise and honour now, Oh, God be giv'n]

By men on earth, by thy redeem'd In heaven.

RoBxaT Abbott.
Satarday, September 4th, 1868.

[We trust our readers will carefully, and then,
we believe, they will profitably read the
above lines. They contain the germ of love
divine in a true Christian's heart. Brother
Abbott—the author-— is a laborious reader ;
an elaborate writer ; and a useful prea-
oher.^ED .]

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ELECTION, SANCTIFICATION, AND SALVATION.

Thb Ibllowinir thongrhts are the sabstance
of a termon preached in great Gransden
meeting house, on Lord'e-day, July 11th, 1858.
From 2 Theu. ii. 18. the leading feature of
whioh ie the great and fundamental doctrine
oteUetian, Or, as the apostle expresses it,
* God ha§ eho$enpou from the beffinningj to
talvatiot^ through tand^icatUm of tlu Spi-
rit, emi belief of tks truth,* Here is the
whole gospel m a few sound words. This is
a beautiful text containing much in a little.
It has three all important points worthy of
particular attention :— electioui sanotification,
and salration. The first secures the second,
and the second is an evidence of the first and
the third. The text may well refer us to the
Father's love, the Saviour's life, and the
Spirit's power in the gospel plan. Love takes
the lead, and life and power are limited by
love. Men speak ill of election, and this
shows they do not think veiy well of it, but
they can have no true holinea nor happineas
without it. It is the fountain that supplies
all the blessings of salvation. There u no
other source from whence they can fiow to
any of the sons of men.

Election is not the only doctrine of the gos-
pel, nor would I give it a greater prominence
than itfaas in the word of God; but as it is
brightly and abundantly written there, it
ought not to be excluded from the public
ministry. It shines like the sun in scrip-
ture, and has a high place in the purified con-
science : shall we conceal it in the pulpit P Or
shall we teaeh it as if it would bum us, rather
than bless usf How are the people to know
and believe, and love, and enjoy this glorious
truth, if ministers deal with it m this unfaith-
fiil manner P ' If the foundation be destroyed
what can the righteous do ?' They are likely
to do veiT poorly. Do we wish to edify the
saint ? the doctrine of our text is well adap-
ted for such purpose. Do we wish to feed the
hungry? hare is wholesome and satisfying
fbod for them. Do we wish for holineas in
our hearers P let ns tell them that eleetion ia
the cause of sanotification by the Spirit, and
encourage them to follow after it to the ut-
termost. Do we desire salvation for the lost P
our text declares it comes from electing grace
in and through Christ. Do we talk of preach-
ing repentance, fkith and forsiveness to sin-
ners? let us be sure to say they are aU the
gift of free electing mce to all who are sen-
sible of the need of ttiese things.

I would give all the eneouragement to such
sinners to repent, belieTe, seek and hope,
that the gospel can supply, knowing that they
oome from election andlead to salvation ; and
what can we better preach to sinners tiian
UiisP Bntif bypreaehingtosinnaiiismeant
an oflbr of saving grace to all the unregen-
erate, on condition of their dutr-faith, I re-
ject it as fallacious, delusive, and utterly in-
consistent with the doctrines of distinguiah-
ing grace. Let sinners be encouraged to act

reammabijf in religion as much as they can ;
but before they can act tpiritmaU^f there
must be sphritual principles planted m their
souls. In preaching to nnners, we should
carefully distinguish between the living and
the dead. The former are fitted both for
spiritual blessings, and spiritual obedience,
but the latter are fit for neither. By a fool-
ish fuss about {^reaching to sinners, many seem
to be getting rid of reid grace as fast as they
can, and for this reason, merit our distrust
more than our admiration. Dear friends, I
hare no wish to offend, but I do wish to be
fiuthfWl. I am very willing to profit you,
but have no desire to please, contrary to that
which pleases Ood.

I understand then, that yon, who are true
believtn in Jesus, were chosen or elected of
Ood, in Christ, from the beginning, or before
the world began, not for any forseen good in
you, but of his own sovereign good will, that
you might be pardoned, sanctified, and saved,
so as to repeni obey his word, and believe his
truth ; and hereafter to be glorified with him
for ever. By the act of election, our salva-
tion is made an absolute certainty, and they
are both secure in Christ, who is the chosen
head and Saviour of all his chosen church. It
is by his perfect obedience, precious blood,
prevalent mtercearion, and spiritual power,
that salvation is effected; nor is there any
other name in which it can be found. It
is finally a fixll deliverance from sin, and all
the eniuess punishment due unto it ; and it
is to all the elect whom he eiFectui^ brings
'to believe in and obey him. SeeHeb. t.9.
It is through sanotification of the Spirit, who
is holy in himself, and so wonderfullv works
in aU who are chosen to salvation, that they
are more or less changed into the holy image
of Christ, who is thus made unto them sanoti-
fication. 1 Cor: 1. 30. To this is added a
'Miefofthe truth,' as it is in the text, in
oppoation to anti-Christ, who is left to believe
a%, and be damned, as in verse 12. Some
speak as if a sound creed was of Uttie conse-
quence; but Paul proves it is most impor-
tant And we are bound to be thankfU, and
thus glorify God for such sovereign grace and
sacred truth.

PRAISE FOB BLECTIKG GBACE.

2 ThMS. iL IS.
Now we have known the Father's ohoioe,

And felt the Saviour's love,
We wiU in Jesu's name rejoice.

And praise the heavenly Dove.
Salvation flows from sovereign grao^

And while it works within.
We shall appear the choeen race.

And rise from every sin.
Since we are made to know his name,

And sovereign grace receive,
Thus we are bound to bless the same,
And sacred truth believe.

Tho«. Bow.
LitUfl Graniden, July 27, 1858.

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JPinK AvKiTXBflAXT ov THB Omiiro
OF MouvT Ziov Chapbl, Shadwell St.,
CiriKKSswBLi., WM held on Lord's-daj. Deo.
ISth, when Mr. G. Murrellf of St. Neots,
preftcbed morning and evening; and Mr.
Foreman in the altemoon. On Tuesday fol-
lowing, a tea and publie meeting was held.
A large number of friends took tea; and in
the evening, the chapel was well filled. Mr.
Haselton, the pastor, in opening the proceed-
ings said, he was pleased with tne good atten-
dance of friends, pleased with the church,
pleased with the deacons, pleased with the
congregation, and very thankful to God for
what he had been pleased to do for them in
that corner of the vineyard. It was the fifth
aaniversaiy of the opening of that plae^ At
the opening services, he rememWed the
Lord helped him to speak from those words,
* If thy presence go not with us, carry us not
up hence.' He could now say that the pre-
sence of God had been very manifest in their
oidjt, having increased and blessed them,
ll vas sJao alwut the 7th anniversary of the
fmation of the church: seven years ago
tim csnae did not exist. The church was
fbmed of about 36 members, at that time in
IftUe Mount Zion Chapel, City Boad ; they
w«re there two years, till the place became
too small; they obtained tlus chapel; and
bore they had spent five years of uEinterrup-
ted peaee ; they had had their afflictions — but
BO breach of peace had occurred, and he had
not bad a word of disagreement with any of
Ins bnthrwn in office. During the past twelve
aooths, 18 had been added to them ; six had
gone to glory, and some few had left to join
other ehurdiea. But thejr had increased a
littk. He had been kept in the truth; and
believed that* the truth was so powerfully im-
bedded tahis heart and soul that it would be
imposRblefor them ever to be removed or
changed. Four very excellent addresses were
then delivered by the brethren appointed.
Mr. If m. Palmer gave a well digested essay
on * God's deai^ in giving a visible form and
ebsracter to his church on earth;' in three
words it was for Ood^$ own glory. Mr. John
Foreman spoke on the ' subjection of the
ehurdi to Chriet in all things.' Mr. James
Wells gave a sound, lively and practical ad-
dress on *The Advant^ea of Membership
with the Church of Ood ;* in which he spoke
warmly of the late attendance of many of^ our
Biembetsat the house of God: they were
fittle aware how it damped and half froze the
aiinister's spirits, and cooled his warmest
desires. Very often such ones would go awmy
iSTing, ' Ah ! how cold and dull he was, what
a Ufelees prayer ; how dry the sermon !' Oh,
ret, but remember it is $fOu that made him so.
If yon all had been in your places when he
cntined the pulpit, he would have felt that
you were there ready to receive him and to
strengthen his hands. Members ought also by
thdr regular and prompt attendance) to set an

example to the congregation. Church
berahip was also spoken of as more stronfflv
manifesting our separation firom the worn.
Mr. Wells's remarks were thought to be very
seasonable, and appropriate. Mr..Milner was
to have spoken on the * evidences of spiritual
prosperity in a church ;' but owing to the
time, he gave way for Mr. Georffe Murrell—
who was called upon to answer the Important
question, — ' Do tne si^ns of the times indicate
a healthy state of things \n the churoh ot
Gk>d ? If he answered in one word he should
say, ' No.' He believed, as far as his know-
ledge extended, that the spiritual church of
God was not in a healthy state. Mr. Murrell
spoke of the declensions from truth of several
young ministers who had started fair with the
truth, but had slidden off till you could hardly
tell what they were, fie referred to several
instances. Altogether, Mr. Murrell's address
took the dark side of the question. We hope
things are not so bad as they appeared from
his remarks. Mr. Haselton, in concluding, ex-
pressed it as his opinion, that it was the best
meeting they had ever had. B. •

BB-oFBKiiro ov Froyidbvcb Cbafsl,
Pkotidbvob PIiAcb. Uppbb Stbbbt, la-
UKGTOV Gbbbn. — The church and congrega-
tion under the pastoral care of Mr. J. Glaskin,
have retuay . and
lessed be the name of the Lord, ' by these
things the Lord speaks to us, O ma^r we hear
his voice, hepealto ready. My wife unites
with me in love to all the dear saints in the
land y>f our fathers whom we love in the
truth. Oraoe, mercy, and peace be with you
all, so prays your brother in tribulation and
in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ,

JOHH BUMTAN M'oGUBB.

Our kind brother Henry Bowling, has for-
warded us a packet of spiritual letters. We
hope to insert some from time to time. We
hear from various quarters, that Mr. Bowling
is still honourably and usefully preaching the
gospel, in Tasmania. He has also sent us an
excellent epistle from the pen of Baniel Allen,
the faithful Baptist Minister in Melbourne,
under whose mmistry the cause is growing :
and whose writings and ministry we shall
iiotice more fully.

The anniTenary of Brother M'Cure's new
chapel was holden on the fint of Becember ;
ai^d brother Allen's anniversary on New Year's
day^ 18dQ. If an express carnage could shoot
us uto their midst in a few hours, we should
gladly take a peep at and listen to, them ; but
we must be thankful we can reoeive good tid-
ings of them. That the Lord will comfort
and increase ihem. ' will be the prayers
of thousands in their own native land.
Zealous Christians will hear with joy that
both John B. McCure, and Baniel Allen are
opening and preaching in different parts of
Australia, beside their own fixed places. Of
these movements more anon.

We regret to learn that a time of great
commercial oppression has been passing over
the cities and towns of our colonies. We hope
a return of better davs yet awaits them. We
^tefuUy acknowledge the efforts now mak-
mg to spread Tub Rikthsh Vxbsfl. and
(jUEBRiao Words extensively in all the
colonies. And our hearts are gladdened by
hearing frequently of the acceptance of our
labours by thousands in those distant shores.
Bless the Lord for the Printing Press, and
steam power, by which means we are sending
good tidings to millions of our lellow men.

Our brother Charles Hooper, the Seoretarr
to the Salem Chapel Book Society in North
Adelaide; and < Matilda' — our Australian
Poetess, both write cheerfully of Mr. Qunn's
ministry. The pressures of Providence which
drove some of our good brethren from our
midst, have wonderfully worked for good.
*The Christian at the Biggings*— ' The Cri-
tioisms of a Believer who Ium suently weighed
the Gospel Ministry in Australia'— and other
papers, will prove this assertion ere long in a
most interesting manner.

THE XJLTB SITB&a AVVLTCTXON 07

OUE BEOTHBK W. FLACK.

(The dangerous illness which had lately
fallen upon the esteemed pastor of Salem
Chapel, Wilton Square, New North Bead,
had created alarm lest the Lord should remove
from us a brother so useful, so much beloved.
Just on going to press^e received from him
the following letter. We read it with sincere
gratitude to Qod, and give it our readers en-
tire. Ed.]

Mt Dkab Bbothbb— In answer to your
kind enquiries, and good wishes, I am thank-
ful to be able to inform you 1 am fast im-
proving ; and hope, by Qod's blessing, to oc-
cupy my pulpit again next Lord's-day. * I
have been brought low, but the Lord has
helped me.' It has been a severe affliction ;
but goodness has run through the whole.

I feel I cannot sufficiently express my
gratitude to Almighty God, for having sur-
rounded me with such kind friends ; and es-
pecially for such devoted men of God, as I
have in my dear brethren, the deacons.
Their unwearied attention, care, and affection,
I trust will never be forgotten. But if I
have to thank my God for friends, and a
thousand kindnesses in them! much more
must I thank him for the si(t of himaslf. Uh I
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how pracwns the dear Lord has been to me
thron^h the whole; more partioalarly when
the storm was at ita height The 4th of 9e-
eember will erer be a memorable day with me.
Mj diaeaae was that day at its higheat ; and
on' that day my wife waa confined. When I
cnzisnlted my feelinirg, I had the aentence of
death within me ; but, despite of all feeling,
the Word of Ood would assure me that I
akonld not die, bnt live and declare the works
of the I/ord. Never was the word of God
■M>re predoua to me than then. I could in-
dk^ look death in the face, and ask where is
thy sting } The grave, and ask where is thy
power f The devil, and triumphantly ask,
where ia thy malice? And though wave
upon wave aeemed to roll nearer and nearer,
whiklaang,

* Jesoa ! lover of my soul.

Let me to thy bosom fly.
While the nearer billows roll.

While the tempest still is high.'

I eoold ahnoat say, even then,

* Kot a wave of trouble rolls
Aeroas my peaeeAiI breast.'

They were kept, (though apparentlv rolling
■Mfer mad nearer) at a distance, and * not a
dof mar^d his tongue, nor any beast.' I was
fcr oBoe in Paul's strait, not knowing whether
it were best to live or die. I can also say,
thraogh the whole sifliotion, I have been kept
sweetfy ealm. Truth has been more than even
Mdoaa to me. I was sweetly prepared for the
trial, by the words,' My counsel shall stand,
■Bdl will do all my pleasure,' from which I
preaghed on the last Lord's-day morning I was
•nt; said eould not help telling my friends I
waa aaauredthatthose words were given for some
apedal pmpoee, that either myself or some of
them were about to paas through some fiery
trinL And in the evening of the same dav, I
praadied from Bev. iii. 14. 'I counsel thee
to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou
Bsayest be rich.' "Twaa a solemn day to my
aonl, and licit asaored something woiud come
oat of it.

Bat one eneoaraging fret for praviog souls
I must net forget to mention. On Lord*s-
dny the ISth, my dear friends instead of the
oanal preaching, held a special prayer-meet-
ing in my behalf. The cnapel was full, and
many solemn Drayers went up to Ood ; and
at taat very soleinn hour, — (toe hour of the
evening aaoifice, — the hour on which the
finvioor died on the cross,— at that hour,)
while they yet prayed, the first frvoorable
miptom took piaoe. And from that hour,
tfaoogh I have passed through many ehanffes,
I have eontinued more or leal to mend. JIf y
dear wife, though still low, and weak, is also
mending. I would not lay down my pen,
withoot acknowledj^g the kindness of my
brethren ia the ministrjr, who have so kindly
aapplied my pulpit.

And now hoping soon to be restored to
health, I pray to be more than ever devoted
to my MMter and his work, thnt in season
aad oat of season, I nmv spend, and be
■pending, tn hie honour ami glory. Oh! the

blessedness of serving such a Hester while
we live, and when we die, to enter into his '
rest, yea his joy.

Wishing you, my dear brother, every new
covenant blessing, I am your's, very trulv
hi the Lord. W. Flack. '

40, Ufhm-road, Downham^road, if.
J>soiia6er 20, 1858.

(Diit (CnmkriltgMliirf (Cjinrrjjw,

IVTRODVCTOBT VOTS.

DBA.B SiB—Cambridgeshire has been called
the granary of England for its a^iculturai

groduoe; the countiy itself contains about
57 square miles, with many thousand acres
of fertile land, rich in its produce of wheat
and other grain. But what is far better, it is
rich in the sacred and distinguishing doctrines
of divine grace. Scattered over the surface of
this country, we have many hundreds of godly
praying souls ; * the excellent of the earth,'
the salt of the land, and precious in the sight
of Gk>d who redeemed them, and made them
what they are. In Cambridgeshire we have
about 26 causes belonging to our denomin-
ation, that is, places of worship where the
distinguishinsf truths of the gospel are frith-
fnlljr preached ; we have about twenty stated
ministerB or pastors, who are men of truth,
and as a body, good, useful hard-working men
with no mean preaching abilities; these
reuses on the whoU are increasing in their
numbers, and if not in a positive flourishing
condition, I believe Goa is blessing them
with a gradual inerease, and a prosperity,
steady m its progress. They have sevenl
itinerant pfeacners, who, U^ether with Uie
stated ministers in the county form as large a
body of usefhl preachers as can be found in
any other county of the same sise, and in
general their ministrr meets with acceptance
among the people. It will be seen by our
following Mpers that some of these causes are
large, considering the sise of the place, fhe
number of inhabitants, Ac.

Cambridgeshire is arranged under two great
divisions (1) The Isle of Ely, and (2) Camb-
ridgeshire proper, the latter contains the
largest population, the former having the
most Fbv or Maksbt Und. But thanks be
unto God, the waters of the sanctuarr, the
gospel stream, has reached these ' low Iands>'
and marshy places also. Esek. xlrii.
{Bl$f and lAtiUport im ournwi,)

SiBLB Hbstnoxam, Esbbx.— We had *
happy day at the Old Baptist Chapel, 8ible
Heoinghmn, Dec. 6th, our brother Charles
Shipway, spoke from Acts viii. 39; after
which he baptised seven persons, four males,
and three females. And the males being
teachers of the Sunday School : in the after-
noon our pastor gave each the right hand of
fellowsbip, and received them into full oonu
munion; it was a precious season. As a
ehureh, we are at peace among ourselves ; and
the blessing of the Lord of Hosts attends the
word spoken.

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THE FAITH ONCE DELIVEEED UNTO THE SAINTS.

rW0 rajoice not, in being compelled to oommenee a new volame with a ControMrsial Conur;
bat, from the nature of the letters oonatarillT pouring in upon ue, we are driven to « double
conviction. Firrt, it is elear, the pure and My gomt of 0*ri#« <» iw* fully and fairiy
preached in our pulpits. From the Bishop of London, down to the most obooure Itinerant,

minds are becoming uneasy. Some send us denunciations ; some send' us encouraging conso-
lations; not a &w send us important questions, and oontroyersial communications. We must
attend to them aU : having for our aim, the exposuro of error, the unfolding ot Truth, the
edification of the people, the arousing of the churohee, the comforting of the saints, the glory
of God. Brethren, help us, in our work. Every day it becomes mow weighty, and heavier in
responsibility. Ed].

CHARGES AGAINST
•IBTTEES TO THB0PHILU8.'

BVOOND BBFLT.

We hero just give, in few words, the sum
of Mr. John Foster's charges against the
' Letters to Theophilus ;' or, rather, a sum of
the doctrines advocated by Mr. Foster. And
as the roader will sea in going through his
piece in Uie J)eoember numbttr, they are
these ; that if a man be lost, it is his own
fault; and that the bitterest portion in that
cup of tiie lost^will be that it is their own
wilful fault that they ara in that place of
torment; that the Saviour must be trusted,
that the benefit oi his passion may be se-
cured; that all men every whero aro com-
manded to npent; that men cannot help
themselves ; that they cannot even pray, but
only ask for the Holy Spirit; that all the
Lord Mk$ ia, wilt thou be made whole? if
thy heart reepond, ves, I/>rd, thou art saved ;
the desiro of salvation is salvation; that when
laith is swallowed up in sight we shall Itmow
why one is taken and another left ; that it is
our being Baptists that aggravates the ofibnce
of 'Letters to Theophuus;' that he (Mr.
Foster,) holda no yea and nay preachments;
that
"Twas the sane love that spread the feast

That sweetly fore^A ns in.'
Thus fkr Mr. Foster. We will now proceed
to point out to him the work which he must,
in order to establish his doctrines, do.

WeU then, friend John, youmnst know that,
although your name should iio< be in the
book- of lue; and though none can enter the
heavenly ci^ but thoee whose names wero
thero written from the foundation of the
world: if, friend John, your name should
not be then; and while the Saviour laid
down his life for the sheep, and you should
not be one of his sheep ; and while no man
can oome to Christ, 'oxcept the Father draw
him ;' and while M the duHn&i citizens of
heaven are to be taught of God ; and if you,
friend Johii« should not be one taught of God ;
yet you can surmount aU these difficulties,
or, according to your own shewing, it will
be (to use your own words) ' your ownyrJee*
ONS witfkl fault. Tea. it will, aoeovding to
your own wotds, ' be the bitterest portion in

your cup, if you do not surmount these diffi-
culties ;' and if you do not surmount them,
the Lord may well say to you, *out of thine
own mouth will' I judge thee, thou wicked
servant.' Now, friend John, keep to the

Eoint. You know * all things aro possible to
im that believeth ;' only it must be him that,
by the faith of Qod's elect, believeth the truth.
Now then hxik at it again. Your name not
in the Book of Life, yet you vi W enter the
city; you not a sheep; yet you wll kavs
eternal life ; you not redeemed, yet you will

be on Mount t\on ; you not rogenerated, not
possessing the Spirit of Christ, yet yoa^ll
oe one among the sanctified by the Hoit

ahost. NowJ friend John, can you do all
this or not? If you can, then whero is your
profeation of its being all of groMi and
& you cannot do all thU ; then what becomea
of your doctrine, that it is, if you are lost,
wmr own fault t Do you say God's people have
nothing to do with thedootnnesof election, cer-
tain redemption, effectual calling, and cove-
nant choice, and eternal security ? Do tou
say they have nothing to do with these doo-
trjnes? ah, then, as well, just as well, may

50U say, that they have notMng to dowUk the
mie. And if you can believe in Christ, and
at the same time despise his truth, then you
have found ont a secret we should wish never
to come into.

Now, friend John, whether you wiU own it
or not, you are, by your fall in Adam, in a loat
condition; you are a sinner, a lost iuiner.
by Adam'a transgression; and if you should
be lost, then hero, in the faU in Adam,
lies the criminal eaute of your bemg loet.
Tou were in an utterly lost oondiUon Ufore
you ever committed one practical sin ; thoee
sins have augmented your guilt: but you
wero alreadyin a lost condition; allbeinffm
this lost oondidon. It laid with the Lord to
save all, or none, or any— whichever he
pleased. We do most soUmnly tell you, that
Uiero aro times when we fairly ^^^^ •*
professors of your stamp-blammg the dam-
nation of men upon the Baviour, and uijon
tiie graoe of God ; carrying in yo«r vile doo-
trinea a denial of the real state of men aa
rinners; denying also that Uw which is the
sole legal and righteous cause of condemnar
tion. We aasuro yon, that J^^^f?* "•
moro shocked at the dootrmes of *ALittto

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tiiif one part of thft tratli of Qod to oaabr^
diet mother ; aad oo represflnfeitig the blessed
God IS divided Against mniieif. Sir, we defy
TOO, tad all the men of your school to prove
thai the Bible coatains truths opposed in yonr
wise of the vord, one to another. We defy
yoa to prove, that if a man be lost, that it la
bii own faolL It ii sir. arigimU sm's fmult :
rar loot oandtkion was there and then oomple-
ted ; there we died to God. Steeped in sin,
sssUby the fall axe, yet foralUhia boast that
we thoold not have been lost but for the
gospel That the gospel offi^ra life to the dry
bones, and the unconscious bone is to be
buraedyor not believing. Bead, sir, the I8th
'Letter to Theopiulus;' and if you have any
of that xeverenee fbr the Bible of which you
10 mmkip boatt, you will desiie lo nmrk,
Issni, and imtottrtUy digmL

Bat, sir, go on again : * ilU Saviour «Mwi
Ii irmaUdtiatihsbmtsfU of kit passion ma^
ks mmtrsd,' Where, sir, do you get this from ?
As we esnnot find it in the Bible we
mat leave you to And it for us ; only just r»-
miadbg you, that the Saviour does say, ' It
•bsil be given to those fbr whom it is prepared
of his Father ; also, the Saviour said, * it is
wot snae to give.'. Now, sir, if it were not
\m lo give, koto came it fomr^s to qff^T
Wbeneeeomeswch a mission? Kotoertainly
ftm shore.

Bat, go on again: 'mm ars sommandsd
mrfwha r s to rmmi* No doubt about it;
end this command is as effectual as was the
wnunand to Laaarua to * oome forth !' John
M« a great multitude out of all nations ; and
Ood had commanded the light to sMne into
the bevts of everrone of these} and by this
CDoiiBsad oausad them to repent; and if
ever they held the abominable falsehoods that
yea do, those errors would not be the least of
the sias of whaidi they repented.

Bat go on again : '«M Oe £ord oefa i«,
wiUtkimUmadowhioUl Well, but how do
you prove tins ? Bo you prove this from his
havmg Hod this to one person P Did he ask
Saul of TsBMis if he would be made whole ?
JDid he ask the three thousand, en the day of
^ntooost, if they would be made whole ?
J^id ha ask ^ dry bones, in Ezekiers valley,
if they would be made whole? Alas, sir, all
men are whole already, until God himjelf
wound them. But you settle the matter verv
easily, for say you, * tk» desire of saUtation m
solmatiom," Well, where did you set tha
from ? Was it from the stoney ground hearer,
or from the way-side hearer, or from the
thoniey ground hearer ? For these all dssir^
si smloatitM^ yet were not saved; but

Aa we must sajr but little more, perphaps
jou will m on again : But the quewwm, whv
«i, Xord f mmtt he Uft until faith is svsal-
Umsdnpim si^ht/ Well, and what then?
Is that whioh la not revealed to contradiot
that wUeh is revealed ? la revesded truth,
end merer, to endure fbr erer? Is the stlva-
tisn whkiL is revealed to endure fbr ever i
Aad is the riffhteousnaas which is revealed,
aoc to be abofaehed, and yet something is yet
to be revealed to oTerturn what is revealed ;
md while he hath mercy upon whom he will
We merey, is now a revealed truth, is thia

truth to be by and by set aside ? and are you
prepared to oarrjr your quarrel with your
Maker's counsels into heaven, and there and
then call in question, the right of the potter
over the day of the same lump ? Thb, too,
is Mr. John Foster, who would not have us
'scrutiniMS the plans and purposes of the
Most High. We ask, sir, where do you get
the authority to suggest that any reason but
that of the good pleasure of the Most Hirh
will ever be assigned for doing as he pleased ?
* we shall know even as we are known.' True
-^he people of Gt>d will know, as thev are
known; but they will never know anything
contrary to revealed truth : * his truth en-
dnreth for ever.'

But go on again: *Our hsing Baptists
aggravates the off^nee </ Letters to Theo*
philus* Now here we confess we are a little
staggered, for we know not how (Mr. Foster
and Company,) being Baptists, con aggravate
the oflfence. Beally, Mr. Foster is almost too
much for us here ; except it be something
simtlar to the people we read of in the 6th
chapter of the Gospel by John; that the
people having eaten of the loaves and fishes,
aggravated the offence of the Lord's discourse
to them ; for they were all very friendly with
him in one respect, and liked the loaves and
fishes very well ; but the sermon aCterwarda
was very offensive. Now we would not for
a moment charge Mr. Fo^r with having
any respect whatever for such trifling things
as loaves and fishes; but we refer to thia
circumstance to help us out of our difficulty ;
and the slight analogy stands thus ; that if
the people were so kind, and friendly, and
obliging, as to partake of the loaves and fishes,
it was very ungracious in the Saviour, so to
preach to them as to offend them. So Mr.
Foster and Company being so kind as to be
Baptiate. therefore < Little One' being a Bap-
tist also, ought not to have written anything
contrary to Mr. Foster's creed. This then
agqra/oates i\td oS&aoo.

JBut let ua leave this, and yon go on again i
^It was the same love that spread the feast.

That sweetly foreed us in.'

Well, we were staggered just now ; but here
we are thoroughly beaten ; for whatever Mr.
Foster can have to do with the doctrine of
forced to eome in, we cannot make out. Thia
looks to us, more like mere pretension than
anything else. It is true, Mr. Foster telia
us, that we are helpless ; but then he cannot
iB PM i thia— because be says, 'he holds no
yea and nay preachments ;' so that his telling
oa that it is all of grace — that we cannot help
ourselves ; that we are ^forted in ;' and that if
we feel our need of the Saviour, this he gives
us. Mr. Foster, of course, does not seriously
mean one word of all thia; these are ezprea-
akins he has picked up from the Bible and
Hymn books, and from his minister, not
that be means a single word of it ; for he
protests against ^yea and Mjr,' ao that
we*«Mca< not believe that he leally means
that it is all of graoe. We must not do
him such injustice, as to believe that he
really means what he says, when he tells us,
that we are compelled to come/in;Lfor^»«r«

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we to believe that, he reellj menu at is ell by
grace, we should make his preaohmente to m
^ea and najr ; for in one part of hia creed, (and
m that part too which lies nearest his heart,
he tells us that * it was their own ikult if they
do not go to heayen ;' so you see, if these
lost men had dons thsir vart^ they would
have been saved ; and as Mr Foster reckons
liimself saved, he of course has done and is
doin^ his part. 60 that his saying it is all of
grace is a mere delusion, nor would all hia
protostations against salvation partly, at least
by works, have with us the weight of a straw :
hunuin msritf however much they may labor
to disguise and hide it, is the qumt-essenoe of
the doctrines held by the whole duty-faith
tribe. And although it is he who beuereth
the truth in the love ofU, that gives hereby evi-
dence that he is a sound man, and that he that
beliBveth not the truth in the love of it, does
thereby give proof that he is in a state of na-
jfcure ; and that as one is not saved/or believing,
to the other is not damned /or not believing
untoetomal salvation; butislost,as a fallen sin-
ner in Adam, and condemned also for whatever
personal sins he has committed, we would not,
therefore, do Mr. Foster the injustice to sup-
pose for one moment, that he believes that
laith. is the gift of God ; he and all his tribe,
may say so, but we do not happen to possess
ability to believe them : w;e believe the whole
daty-roith legion to be nothing but Armin-
jans in heart; and of aU the delusive doc-
trines in the world, we believe that there are .
none more deceptive, more feasible, more en-
tangling, to the unwarv, or more loved by
the flew, than this suiddal dutj-fidth contri-
vance; and the wise as well as the fooUah,
,'seem one half of them sleeping while the
.enemy is sowing tares among the wheat, and
thousands of professors love to have it so.
[Mr. John Foster's second oommnnieatioa is
to hand : it shall be inserted. We most not
exdude such controversies as tend to lav
open more fully the r^oeaisd word and will
: ofQod; although owljr «
ean bs spared.— So.]

^anon. xae oioer oay mx, jn.oi««, ok xivw^
^ork, made some stetomente through our
>ages, charging < The Old School Baptiste*
vith apostacy. That Letter of Mr. Mott's

THB OLD SCHOOL BAPTISTS IN
AMSBIOA, AND MB. MOTT.
<• All things work toffether for good."
THia great truth is every day being more
inUy confirmed in our experience, and obser-
vation. The other day Mr. Mott, of New
York, •

with apostacy.

contained a question for our brother James
1/Vells, which was answered. Mr. Mott^s
assertions have spread like wild-fire through
the United Stetes; and several able scribes,
and sound hearted Christians have taken
upon themselves to defend the Old School
Baptiste. We have some thorough good let-'
ters from Jamea Joyce, from JBlder George
Beebc, and the friends of Elder Globe, with
packete of * TAs SigH$ of the Timn;' and
copies of other truth ddSsnding Joumab in
America. We shall fumlA our readers with
a review of, and eztracta from, these American
Papers ; and we think a correspondence win
be opened up between our brethren in Christ,
on the other side of the Atlantic, and ourselves,
which will be profiteble and encouraging.
Thus * Old Sam will be put to his ahifta again,*
as the Hampshire parson would say.

KBCOGNITION OF PASTOBB.

We hadprepared a full aooountof iheserriees
connected with the settlement of Francis

' Collins, as pastor of the Churoh, meeting in
Howe-street, Baptist Chapel, Plymouth, on
Tuesday and Thursdav, Dec. 7th, and 9th but
circumstances compelled us to defbr ito inser-
tion until February : we regret this ; but ito

' interest will not be lost.

CHATTSRia— The Baptist Church Meeting
in the Chapel, (late the scene of Mr. Horsley's
labours,) have recognised Mr. Joseph Wilkins.

' as their pastor themselves. On Sunday even-
ing, Dec. 19th, Mr. Wilkins steted publicly
from the pulpit his call by grace ; call to the
ministry ; views of Divine truth, Ac On
the foltowing evening a venr interesting so-
cial church meeting was holden for the mem-
bers of the church to receive him as their pas-

'tor. The meeting was unamious, happy and
eheerful : thus the deacons and members have
adopted a new mode of ordaining a minister.

REDEMPTION FUND.

Amount umoQBoed in December No. 106 1 7.
By Mr. MoCarthy, Bgertoa ForstaU :

MrMeCartby ... S 0,

MrDavies 10

MrJMBieBuss ... 1

Mr O. Pack ? ^ •

MrPask,Jan. 6

Mr J. Turk 10

Mr A Dawson 1

Mr White 6

Mrs Bartholomew and Friends, Ridgwell, 2

Mrs Thorn, Clapham... 2

Mrs Ponder, Maldon 2

Contributed by the obnreh and eoogre.
gadon at Cramner Oonrt ChapeU Oap-
ham, after sermons by Messrs, Gaunt,

0. W. B. and Mr. Bird, paster, ... 2 0^

Thomas Farrington, Buntiagford ... 2
Mendleaham: toC. W. B.

Brother Brett, Leiston (2ad donation) 2 6

Toong Man In Vestry 10

Jabes Hart and his Sister 10

Friend ... 10

J. Hankies, Wandsworth, 4

A Friend fVom the Tabernacle ... 1

A Friend, Woolwich 6

B.B.Stew ... 2 6

J. P. 2 6

J.T. ... 2 6

P. Town ... , 2 6

8.8.E:,G. ... 10

Thomas ... 10

B.6. L. S ... 10

Deacon at Woobnm Qreen 6

N.M. • ! S

Mrs. P. Kent Bead... .. « 2 6

A hated depised ontcast ... - S ! 2

A PoBdo-baptist, but constant B^ader... 6

F.B. ... 10

D. H. ... 2 J ?

Mrs Hays Brentford 9 1^

A Friend at Sqairries-atreet 1

I As aabsGripdons have been sent throogh virions
channels, if any donation ahould hate been OBdued
we shonld be glad if the Mends would Inform a.
Banks, of 182. Dover Bead, who is making out
one entire list for publication when the Bedemp-
tlon i^rioe is fhlly paid, EiU

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To THs Editor ov thb Ea&thsn YtassL,

Sir — ¥cfr my motto, I here place before
jonr rettders, Jeremiah vi. 16. * Thus saith
the Lord, itand ye in the ways, and see, and
wtk for the old ]^ths, where is the ^ood way :
and walk therein, and ye shall find rest to
your ionls: hut they said, we will not
wUk therein.' At the time these words were
detiTcred, we find the Jews practising three,
of the most heinoofl sins, which now, and
have ever, more or less, affected and afflicted
the ehareh of Ood. Covetoutnest, deceit^ and
fMMf of JUUlity in the mimsiratitm of holy
things. Erery obserrer cannot but be af-
flicted with the extent of these sore erils in
our da^. We may, therefore, safelr press
upon the church, the directions of the pro-
phet, at the present moment.

Ai we are traTclIera to a coming etemit;^ ;
and the (to us,) anbom future is covered in
the mist of darkness ; surely, it behores us
to enquire earnestly for the true road, that
leada to endless bliss. The little gpace
allotted us here, is of small moment. The
time wfll soon be, as though it had not
been. The last sigh, which separates from
the preaent^ will be short ! The vast eternal
world of spirits opens, and we enter in ! We
leave this little house to mix again with its
common parent. But, where goes and dwells
thb immortal, indsible tenant ? This earthly
boose must be left, before we can be clothed
with that which is from abore. The waiting
millions to receive us, who can count ? The
songs of praise, who can utter ? The eternity
to dwell in, who can conceive ? And yet,
how we stray from the path, that leada to
this endless state; forgetful of the past— re-
gardless of the future! From friends and
from foes, are we warned of our departure,
and yet how slow to watch and to pray !

We have hen, first, a duty enjoined : to
ask and enquire. Thus, being on his jour-
aey, the wayfaring man, lest he should loose
time and exhaust strength, by straying, when
paanng through a strange country, duigentlv
enquires for the best, svest and nearest road.
Hare we maT laam a safe and sure lesson.
The Old Patha can still be fonnd, providing
wa ooBBiilt the Old travellers, who have
heao, and still are travelling to <that rest
whkk remaineth for the people of God.' By
the cnqutiy, we not only obtain information,
bat fraqoently happen nf a companion to
ciftear na in this dreary desert. Thus are we
aalh from being loat, cheered and encouraged
to preas on, should we again be left alone.
Diaary forests, dark night^ and heavy loads,
with prowling beaats all around, not on*

Vojfc. XV.— Ko. 107.

frequently alarm the young traveller; let
him, therefore, never ceaae to make all need-
ful enquiries for the good old, beaten paths.
Thus he will be able to speed his way.

Some new way will, perhaps, be pointed
out ; a nearer way. The old way in which
the Prophets trod, cannot, with safety, be
departed from.

Oonneoted with this, is another beautiful
word. ' The Good Way.' Being good, as
well as old, we must see, that the two are
united. The safety does not consist in its
being old ; Adam, E?e, Cain, all walked in
the way that was not good. Sad proof that
old ways, are not always ri^ht. Satan'e
ways are not of yesterday ; neither are the
ways of the Greek and Romish Churches.
Age, in the estimation of millions, his
made their churches sacred, reveled, adored.
This can neither free them from error— from
vice— from despotism — from idolatry — from
beluff the enemy of man — nor of being the
hostUe foe of both God, his word, and his
church.

We are, therefore, brethren, to look for
the good with the M, The pleasing em-
ployment, becomes increaaingiy delightful,
with the charming and heavenly quality,
good\ as our sure and safe guide. If we
turn to our Father, our Lord, our Teacher,
the Grospel, we are at once arrested with
this divine element, good.

Perfectly clear and explicit are the three
directions. — Stand, We stand by faith.
Here we are brought to comply with the
word, or words of the Lord. Wisdom
has ways; Her ways are all pleasant.
The wayfarmg-^an will here find his
safety. When the Lord directs, there is
something of goodness to be realised,
however painful may be our trials. The
child of Qm will ever be safe, in constantly
attending a gospel ministry : bible reading ;
private and public prayer ; communion with
the saints. These ways are evidently laid
down, pointed out,. and commended to be
stood upon, that we may see and ask. Here
we shall see the Father, gradually unfolding
his holy, loving and unchanging nature, to
his astonished children. The purity of his
justice will startle : His love and tenderness
will melt. The one will create fear, the
other, love. This is seen more and more
clearly, as we gaze upon the Son, as He is
made known to us in the preaching of the
OospeL The words of Paul to the Corinthian
church, are here verified. *But we all,
with open face, beholding as in a glass, the
glory of the Lord, are changed into the eame
image^ from glory to glory, hT-4he Spiijil of

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the Lord,* Whatever diatreflsee, or whatever
becomeB doubtful ; wlMtever wants we feel,
desires, or wishes, we are instructed to
ask. This has reference to the good, old
way. This we must endeavour ever to
keep in view ; we must mind that we
are at the posts of the tf«e Doors ; where the
Lord's f^mdes eater.

For all this we have the Lord's autboritv,
therefore a Divine «Thus saith the Lord.'
Satan and his minions will eonstantly endea-
Yoar to draw us from this. How diversified
are the systems — proposed to entangle the
unwary, scarcely need be named, except a few
of modern invention, or old errors revived with
a little eloquent language, and made to ap-
pear as great and sablime truths. When we
nave to encoaater sacramentarian and priestly
errors — we have to encovnter a literary
and polished press, as well as historic, argu-
mentative, and highly polished eomposition.
* Bntiefaiff words cJ man's wisdom.' From
tiieie lordly adversaries we must not shrink,
especially when they proclaim, both from the
pulpit and the press, that ohildren are born
juttijiedt 1$tapifid, and refenerated. Where
svoh teachers make room for repentance,
penance, and absolution, it will be difficult
to find. • But the glaring inconsistency of
such teachers, warn us by more startling
statements. Although the child is born
re^nerated, he must have a Kpcond ret^encrd-
tion, and that by the Holy office of apostoli-
cal succession. Here, sir, we mij^ht wish
to stop, but no ! Though bom, inspired and
justified, muob work remains for the priest,
eonfession, penance and absolution are essen-
tials, from his hands, or no eternal happiness.
These fearfnl errors are neither confined to
Papacy, nor Episoopal, but are cpenly pro-
claimed by some of our professing Evangeli-
Dissenters. 'Fhe dangers from such and
uany other of similar dangerous errors,
to our weaker brethren, and rising jouth
should stimulate us to vigorous action in the
oanse of Christ against such subtle and dead-
ly foes. They generally come in sheep's cloth-
ing. These havemeniT persons in view because
of advantage. Satan's ministers being trans-
lated into angels of light, shews that the
error is not always confined to the letter of
truth. We are, therefore, exhorted to * try
the spirits.' This ii, certainly, an all-ab-
sorbing sabjeot

As there are seducing spirits, as weH as
doctrines of dbvih ; it the more behoves ni
to enquire 'what manner of spirit we are
of ; as it is dearly stated, if we have not the
spirit of Ohrist, We are none of his.' Thus
ire are brought to the great internal main
spring, whioh moves ^e two opposing worids
— th« spirit of the world, and the spirit of
Ohrist. Satad and his host may clothe them-
strives witb the letter of truth, but can never
obtain or impart the spirit of Ohrist. The
Bpbittud church, will therefore ever stand,

an everlasting monument against all and
every fornt of delusion : th$ feebkat babe in
Ckrisi can bHow what no erroneous profeuor
ean : the Spirit of Christ. By this is he led.
Thus is he sweetly encouraged. *And ye
shall find rest to your souls.' To the wicked^
there is no rest. He that believeth, entereth
into res^ And yet, happy thought, thera is
a rest remains for the Lord's tried, and afflio-
ted, tempted, poverty-stricken family.

At this point, I must pause, I say, breth-
ren, farewell. J. Bloodwo&tu.

LsiCBSTEli.

EPISTLES TO THEOPHILUS.

LBTTBR LIT.

My Good Throphilus,— I now proceed a
little further, with the first seal. Now look at
Psalm 45th, and there you find this Prince
of Salvation, this King of kings, riding forth
in msjesty and prosperously ; having on his
side truth, meekness, and rigbteousuess ; in
all of which, he is invincible. His truth
cannot fail ; his meekness is such, that his
heart will never be lifted up above his
hrethren ; their hearts sre by nature lifted
up above him, but he knows how to
hring them down, for his arrows are
sharp in the hearts of his enetnieSf whereby
the people fall under him, and become
t;lad to submit to him, and are made
to rejoice that he has conquered them : for
he goes forth » conquering, and to conquer ;*
ana as his righteousness endureth for ever,
so his throne is for ever and ever. And do
not forget that he hath hated sin/or us ; that
be hath loved righteousness for us ; jour de^
pendence must be, not upon pour hatred to sin
and love to righteousness, but your hope
will be in his having hated sin in perfection
for you. Tour glory must be in Cnrist hav-
ing loved righteousness for you ; for you^
through the law that is in your members,
will often bo as though you neither hated
sin, nor loved righteousness. Tea, you will
at times fee), as though the very reverse was
the case. What then, at such times, would
beeome of you, were it not that Christ's
perfect hatred of sin, and love to righteous-
ness, stands always to yonr account ; ahraya
to plead in perfection your cause ; so that
whatever faults there may be in you, (anc}
there are many yet), there is no fault in
htm ; so that you ever appear before Ood,
not what you are in yourself, but what yon
are, as represented by -him !

And, if it be said of some of *h« CTbureh of
Sardis, that, they b**} irot defiled their gar-
ments; bow much more, and in a higher
sense, msy it be said of him, that the son of
wickedness could not defile him * Therefore
it is that ' His earments smell* of mvrrh

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places, wherebr they have msde thee ^lad.'
x>s! these mediatorial garments had heen
kid ap io the palaces of etef aity, and none
bat the Kino: of kings could be entrnsted
with them ; he alone could wear them in
nfety throujrh all the paths of mediatorial
life and death : wherein he has not only
kept his (garments white, hut he has added a
frtgranee to them, they neTer before had;
they saTor now of all he did and suffered.
*AU thy garments smell of myrrh, fte. :
whereby they ha?e ma(!e him gUtd.* Here
port! J and fragrance are a demonstration of
the excellency of his name ; he therefore
rejoices in his righteous conqaests ; for in
ri^hi£ouane99 he doth judge and make war ;
and while hi* char&eter is good, ourt cannot
be finally bad«

Ton will thus see, that this 46th Psalm
hel{» OS to oaderstand the meaning of this
fimseal.

I will now go again to the 19th chapter
of the Rerelation, and trace out a httle
ferther, the meaning and progress of this
&m seaL And if we follow out this 19th ebap-
ier, it would take us along into the 20th
chapter, where his conquests extend to all
uaUons ; but for the present, I will trace
the opening of this first seal, through the
19th chapter. We here see, that as he set
out at tlie first, conquering and to conquer,
we here, in the 19 th chapter, see that he did
•onquer; He is ne?er at a loss; he sees
ererything at once; his eyes are like a
flame of fire. We are pretty often at a
ij9s, and we are short-sighted enough ; well,
nerer mind — he, himself, knoweth what he
will do ; and he will guide us with bii eye.

Jual h>ok at the progress he has made, for
he has on his head many erownt. Xow, my
good Theophilus, try and get the meaning
of these manjf crowns,

I think that these many crowns will
mean five things.

First, that as Darid subdued the kings
aroaad him, and in some iostaooes put
their crown upon his own head ; so the
Saviovr takes away sin's dominion, and
where sin reigned over the sou), he now
rri^i ; where death, dnrkeness, the world,
error, and the eurso reigned, be now reign-
eth. Thos does he spoil these princi-
palities and powers, and takes their dominioii
to himself.

Second, the many croumt will mean the
naay souls he acquires ; for as the church
ooUeettTely it a crown of glory in the hand
W^theLord-— so is not eaoh saved soul a
oown Qf glory to tho Prince of salvation,
to the Kin^ of kings ?

Third, itwiH mena the many hononrs
whieh God the Father, and the Holy Spirit,
crown him with ; fnlfiUing as he does the
eoQQseU of the Father, and carrying out thv
testimonies of thd Holy Spirit; for the
Holy Spirit g:loxifl«th Ghnity and the

Father fPsalm xxi. 3.) ^setteth a crown of
pure gola upon his head.'

Fourth, the many crowns of gold on his
head, will mean also the many honours be
has to bestow upon his faithful servants ; for
he will make them all kings and priests to
God.

Fifth, the many crowns will mean those
honours and glories with Which the saints
shall for ever do him honour.

And thus you see, as he (as I have
before said) set out to conquer, so be doeg
ooBouer, and still delights to do the will of
the Father ; and none but himself knows
the delight he hss io glorifving^ God hy
the salvation of sinners. Ana this appears
to me, to be the meaning of the next
words, namely, 'that he had a name
written, that no man knew, but he
himself, (verse 12). Some have thought
that this unknown name is intended as a
declaration of his God-head ; I do not think
so myself; you of coarse must use pur own
judgement ; but it appears to me, that
the promise to the conquerors at Pergamos
is a key to this name, which * no one knew
but he himself,' You will perhaps say, that
if no one but himself knows it^ is it not
presumptuous to attempt to find it out ? Tes»
it would be, if the Word of God was silent
upon the matter, and if the Lord did not
reveals his secret unto his servants, the pro-
phets. Now mind, it does not say * no man
can know;' but 'that no man hn9%o*\
therefore it does not follow, that while no
carttal man knew or can know, it does not
fellow that his brethren shall not know at
least wmethiny about it.

Kow, look at it thus. Those at Pergamos
who, by ftith in the blood of the Lamb,
were conquerors, were to receive a white
stone, and in the stone a new name written,
which no man knoweth, saving he that
reoeiveth^ it. Now this white stone may
mean chiefly two things ; first, pardon, ana
seoondly, election to some place of honour
and dignity. Wei) now, it is clear, that
HO one knows in reality, what pardoning
mercy is, but he who receiveth it ; it is a

* peace which passeth all understanding.^ Go
and ask the woman in Sttbon's hoQse^
see her washing the Saviour's feet With'
her tears of pardoning love ,- see her wtp-
img his feet with tresses of her hatr,*
which have been her pride ; see her devote
those tresses to him; see her anoint his
feet with costly ointment; stnd she can
tell vou somethins^ of the new name i
something of paraoning love^-redeeming;
blood, and saving grace.

And if the white stone means election to
dignity and honour, the same woman, tfud*
all like her, will tell you that the Lord

* Baiseth up the poor out of the dust, and
lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set

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the throne of glory.' This, then, it the mw
name, which no man knoweth, saving
he tiiat receireth it. So the Saviour,
— God knoweth — but no man but he him-
self, the delighU he has in bringing poor,
perishing sinners to his feet; bringing
them into their right mind. If unfathom-
able were the depths of his sorrows in his
humiliation, unmeasorable are the heights of
his joys in his exaltation. Thus, you, my
good Theophilus, see that angels reioice at
the repentance of one sinner, and shall the
Sarionr, who giv^t that repentance, be silent
in this matter ? Conclude that none know-
eth what it is to be a new creature, but
those, who (like the woman in Simon's house)
are new creatures. So the Saviour has many
crowns on his head : he is laden with many
honours ; and, as no man knoweth but he
himself what it was to be what he was in
his humiliation, so no man knoweth but he
himself, what it is to be what he is in his
exaltation, conquests, and final glories.

Is there not then, in this, as well as in
other respects, a likeness between himself
and his brethren ? He, in a most solemn
sense, knows what it is to be what they, but for
mercy, must have been : * Rt was made sin
for them ;' < made a curse for them ;* and they
know what it is to be like other men, but
other men do not know what it is to be Uke
them.

Thus, I think, we get a little light upon
the meaning of the name written, which no
man knoweth but he himself. For if I am
right in this view of this < hidden name,'
it is^ nevertheless still true, that no man but
he himself knoweth the delii^hts thereof.

You will, of course, notice, that in the
sixth chapter, he set out by himulf: bat
here, in this nineteenth chapter, there are
armist following him — and following him
too in a state of conquest ; hence, says the
Apostle, < thanks be to God, which always
causeth us to triumph in Christ.' These
' armies in heaven,' 1 take to be his people
in the heavenly dispensation. These armies
are carried alone by the pou:0ri of the gospel,
— denoted, I snould think, by the wnite
horses^thelr raiment is the righteousness of
saints—that is, Christ's righteousness put up-
on them, and by which they draw near to
God. These armies do not go before him,
but ihej follow him ; knowing, as they well
do, that * without him they can do nothing.'
He wears the robes of victory, while we
greatness of Ids name shall still go before us,
and still make a way for ns ; and the last
enemy shall be like the first : Satan was the
first ; sin the second ; and death the last. But
all must bow to the King of kings, and Lord
of lords.

Hit kin^om cannot fail ;

He reigns o'er earth and heaven 1
The keys of death and hell
Are to our Jesus given.

So believes A Littlb Om,

LBOTUSBS OV THI PSBBOVIXXTT i.VD WOSX
OV

THE HOLY SPIRIT.

A communication has just come to hand, call-
ing our attention to the fact, that Mr. James
Grant's comprehensive and scriptural work
entitled 'Tnx Comfo&teb,' has been the
means of stirring up the hearts of many
ministers in the metropolis, inducing them to
commence a course of lectures expository of
Ths Ptraon and the Work of the Holy Spirit.
Among the list of preachers publicly announ-
ced on this subject are Dr. James Hamilton,
Dr. Weir, William Chalmers, and John
Bloomfield. At first sight, this appeared
something novel to us. It was as though
some one said, * Hexi Sunday evening, Mr.
John Foreman is announced to commence a
oourse of sermons on the Gospel of the grace
of God!' Our reply would be. * Why, Mr.
Foreman has been preaching the Gospel all
the kingdom over for very many years ;' and
we should have thouj^ht that every spiritual,
every faithful servant of Christ did preach,
more or less, the person and work of the Holy
Spirit in every public discourse he did deliver.
We have heard for some time past, that the
Glorious Comforter's Divine Personality, and
Bssential Work, has been omitted in multi-
tudes of ministrations of the present day ; end
this announcement would seem to confirm it :
for when a man says, * I shall next Sunday
commence a series of Discourses on the Holy
Spirit's Personality and Work;" thai an-
nouncement implies that ho has not done,
that which he purposes to do. However true
such an inference may be as regards many
of our metropolitan doctors and evangelical
divines, we know it is not true of Mr. John
Bloomfield, the minister of Meard's-court,
Soho. We do not mean, it is not true that he
has not begun a course of Sunday Evening
Sermons, specially on this subject ; we mean
it is not true, that he has omitted it in his
ministrations : because, last summer, nearly
all the countrf over, this great subject waa
principally his theme. From Mr. Grant'a
able work, many good discourses may be made
up ; but will the power of the Holy Spirit
accompany such labours ? We piuse : we
enter no protest against such work. It will
rejoice our hearts to know that God has thus
honored the author of ' Ood ie Itove ;' that
he has been instrumental in leading the min-
isters of the day to see how fearfully thi«
great subject has been ommitted : Jn thus
commencmg a new course, we b^artily pray
that PentecosUl blemiBg* mny be poured
down upon our churches, upon our people,
upon our world : for if the distinguishing at-
tributes of the Holy Spirit are fully preached
and maintained in our pulpits, we shall cer-
tsdnly have more pure gospel in them than
b« b.«n for »^Ji,^|5«?^@bOgle

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tan ISAKTHXH ri88EL.

THE EARTHEN VESSELS OF OLDEN TIMES.

OE, THE SUPEE-EXCELLBNT GLOEY OF THE GOSPEL.
No. n.

Tir» words I entered upon lut month, wore
Paul's to the Corinthiuu, * we Aa«e this trsa-
Mr« m mrOM «MM/e /* Ac. &o. The aim
was to shew that the word treagure, as des-
ttiptire of the eoapel, was not an empty term.
Just eompare the gospel with the law, and
then see how its super-ezoellent glory appears.
Not that we would speak, think, or write, dis.

pan^gly of the laio :
that IS hol.f , just,

no ; by no means ; for

„ . , ,^«t and good. Its author is

THE GREAT I AM-^BUOVAH-God Al-
mighty. But, then, where the super-exoellent
pkwy of the gospel appears, prinapally, is, in
itsKss; in the treasures it reveaU ; and in
the unspeakable and immeasurably, holy,
happy, and eternal blessedness it leads the
elMtwu of grace to rM/»ss ; and enjoy. I am
not ^nite certain that our law^oontUtion U
•uffioeotly understood by professors of the
gosDcl in this dav : and, in reality, the gospel
of the graee of God, will never be fully appre-
oated, but where the stem and solemn real-
tim of the law are ezperienosd, and fully
known. William Dyer tells us, that when
Chiysosiom was onee preaching before an
assembly of the clergy, in describing the
eflsets prodaeed in the Tires of God's people
by grsee, he paused; and then he said, * I
hardiy iare to hop* that ClergwmB» toill be
sMsd.' He meant their lives bemg so bad, it
did not appear that they knew the erace of
God in truth; or that they lived at all under
its inflnenoe, power, and holy teaching. And,
feally, when 1 look at the pride, and carnality
ofttspanoosin these days; when I reflect
upon the most dreadful desire which there
evidently is in the great bulk of us, to be
thought something very great, while we be-
tny ererjrthinf^ that is little, and very unlike
Jotnt Christ — when I deeply and dreadfully
feel the awful propensity that lives and lurn
vitluii us, oaosmg us to backbite one another :
to eavil, to criticise, to censure, and to con-
demn ; I am sometimes led to fear, that the
law has never so entered into our hearts as to
break and humble them ; nor the gospel so as
to purify and strengthen them. It is a fearful
thing to be merely trumpeters to our own
£une; or mere talkers of those things which
vs have not in possession : and during a fifteen
ysan travel amid the ranks of English par-
■oQs and professors, I have seen and felt
much thnt has been lamentable; while on
the ether hand, I have enjoyed much, and
have had fellowship with a few whose souls
hsvs sometimes snone in their faces, and
vhoee Ilrixig Ungnage h^ been, 'The Lord is
mr light and my Mtlvntion, whom shall I fear P'
mmn d be God, hu grace is to be seen here
sad there ; and in t h ousan d s of precious souls
(who live almost unknown eitheif to the church
or to the world) —Hia Spirit dwells: and
lofUy whiten peaoe.

I have been for many weeks ezoeedidgly
anxious to enter more fully into the treasures
of the gospel; and as I have gone hither and
thither speaking, I have been &voured ; and
had resolved in this pap^r to notice a few
thmgs which have been a source of neat com-
fort to me, and to many : but now when I come
to write, our condition under the law so lays
before me, that until I have briefly spoken to
that point, I cannot even get up to the gos-
pel door, much less enter in. I do feel assured
that in giving the following epitome of the
law ; of the hopeless and helpless condition we
are in under it ; I have no desire but that our
ministry may be more ttmnd; our testimonies
more savourjf ; our hearts more and more
humbled; .and that our souls may be led
more fully to behold, to confide in, to possess,
and to live upon, the unsearchable riches of

frace and glory which are in Jesus Christ for
is Father's glorv, and his people's good.
Bead, carefully, then, I beseech you, the foU
lowing few sentences touching the law of
God.

' Many are the mistakes at present about
religious matters; but none are moredeatnm-
tive than those, which concern the law and
the gospel. The generality of our people
confound them, and put one in the place of
the other. Some suppose they are to be ac-
cepted of God for their works, and that they
can be justified b;^ the law in the sight of God.
Others make their keeping of the law the con-
dition of their receiving uie blessings of the
gospel, as if those were to be the purchase
and reward of their partial obedience. Some
are persuaded they must do all they can, and
keep the law with all their might, and where-
in they come short of the perfect demands of
the law, Christ will, out of his merits, atone
for their failings. And others again, think
that Christ has abated the rigour of the law,
and that the gospel is nothmg more than a
new law-dispensation, in which the Lord has
been pleased to declare that he will accept of
a sincere obedience instead of perfect. We
have some also, who begin in the Spirit,
but end in the fiesh. They will submit to
take Christ for thej[>ardon of their sins, and
for what they call justification, but they re-
fuse to take nim for their righteousness and
salvation, unless he will make them inheren-
tly righteous, and let them see they are per-
fect in themselves. These and many more such
like mistakes prevail in our times, and they
are exceedingly dangerous, tending to the
utter ruin boui of body and soul.'

Such wa sthe judgment of William Bomaine,
as, drawn from the word of God; and after
some elucidation of the terms of the moral
law : and a brief comment upon that sweep-
ing, but eertam and faithful sentence of Paul

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T^B MA^^MMH Y«8iSI».

(Fe^ 1, IMP.

— ' Now WG know that tohat things tower the
law gaUh, U aaith to them who are uiuter the
law ; that every mouth may be stopped; ako
That all thb wobld may bbcomb guil-
ty BBFOBB 600 ; therefore, by the deeds
of the law^ there shall nd flesh be justified
in his sight ; after this, he proceeds and
says —

The law haa auide no proniion for the
paidon of the leaat tranagreasiiMi. It requires
{lerfect nnBinnn^ ohodieoce in thought, word,
and deed. This is its just demand. And in
ease of the least failing, it immediatelj passes
aentenoe and eondemns. It will net accept of
aenow or tears, of repentance or amendment,
M an J satisfiMtion ; out its lan^rge is, * Bo
this, or thou shalt die.' There is not a word
said about sorrowing for what was past, and
reforming for the future, as if the stVle of the
law was, * Be sorrr for th^ sin, and reform,
nnd then then shalt not die ;' hut it is pos-
itive and express, * Keep the law, and thou
ahalt lire. Tmnsgreia it, and thou shalt die ,
for cursed is every one, itho continueth not in
aU thinffs, that are written in the book of the
kw to do them.'

I have been anxious to give this, not in
my own words, bat in the words of one whose
Judgment most Christians acknowledge,— be-
cause X have latelv received letters cavilling
with, and asking for a reconciliation of some,
apparently contradictory statements which
have latelv gone forth. Heaven's one great
antidote for all man's misery is JBSUS
CHBI8T ; and the only deliverer from all our
dark ways— the only true light whioh can
eorreot our errors, convinoe onr spirits, con-
iltm our hopes, and eomfort onr hearts— is
that gospel whioh is the power of God unto
salvation. Let a man fully and feelingly know
his utter and entire ruin, under the law, by
veasen both of his original and actual sin :
let sudi a man have some solemn discoveries
^tfae Holy, the Righteous, the Eternal, the
Immntable efaaraoter of tluit God who gave
him his being; and by whom he must be
jndged ; let a man be thoroughly convinced
that while that law which he has violated is
holy and good, it can never revoke its sen-
tence but upon the eround of a perfect obedi-
•noe being rendered } let such a poor guilty,
Irin, self and law-condemned sinner, find his
soul sinking into the shades of eternal death ;
and then^ to him, in such a perishing plight,
to him, in such a hopeless condition, the gro*-
pel will be joyful news indeed, as the Holy
Spirit shall preach it home, and into, his bro«
ken, woimded, and contrite heart. The rolling
tides of gospel truth, as they flow into his
waiting and weeping spirit, will be like the
unfolding of treasures whioh will astonish,
relieve, raise up, enlighten, cheer, and save
his soul ; and will so set him upon the Bock
of ages, as that he ehall never fall.

Before coming %o Bible illuslrationi of the
treasure whioh the Lord puts into earthen
▼OMels, I was oon^jiieUed to write these few
]|r<wds touching the law— and our entire ruin
in the fall. X am not sorry I have thus di-
gressed : becfkuse there has been a suspicion
in my mind for years, (sometimes it is more

than a suspicion} that we have had, and that
we still have, many men in the ministry who
afe exceedingly zealous for «ome of the doctrines
of grace, as they are called ; but from whom
you can never get any account of how they
were brought in guilty before God ; — no tes-
timony from many of them can yoif obtain,
of how ' the commandment came — how sin r«-
vi««2— andhow terribly they died to every
hope, every comfort, and every atom of crea-
ture righteousness and strength. No; you
can almost feel their hearts weAohole hearts,
and never have been broken: and their
contempt of the poor guilty sinner's feelings,
their presumption, and their pride, as most
dreadful to witness ; yet, many times beforo
such I have felt dumb, dark, and dismal to
the last degree, the devil telling me all the
time, that they were right, and I wrong. Ah !
some ofyou proud priests, and daringly pre-
sumptuous parsons — ^some thousands of you
haughty, unhumbled, and tyrannizing dea*
cons ; and some shoals of you speculating and
ensnared professors, may curse and condemn
me : and oast me out, as you have done as
unclean; but the Lord knowcth, I only de-
sire— as God's mouth — to undeceive you, and to
this end, I do assure you that that terrible
aocount whieh Christ gives of your final end —
if grace prevent not— has indeed made my
heart to tremble. He says in Luke xiii.
* When once the Master of the house is risen
up, and hath shut to the door, then ye will
begin to say— ah ! then your profession will
end where it should have first commenced —
then ye will begin to say — ' Ijord, Lord, open
to us :' further, you will say, ' have wo not
eaten(been satisfied, although with empty dead
sermons) and drani:, (rejoiced) in thy pre-
sence? and hast thou not taught in our
streets P To whom the Master will say, * I ne-
ver knew ffou V that God may come and save
you from such an awful end shall be my
fervent prayer.

I had fully intended to open the feast in
Isaiah : the measuring line in Zeohariah, the
first of John ; and the little model church st
the foot of the cross; but these mu.^t stand
over till March. Forgive me if yrrong.

Chablbs Watbks Babu.

** Best in Jesus Christ:* Such is the title
of the sermon preached by the He v. John
Knapp, in Exeter Hall, Jan. 16. In that
discourse, Mr. Knapp has well defined what
< Coming to Christ ' is ; nnd by whom, and how
Gospel invitations are to be used.

' A World Saved: Such is the title of No.
4, of The $urreg Tabernacle Fulpit, Mr.
James Wells has commenced some sermons on
that greatly controverted text, • For God sent
not His Son into the world to condemn the
world ; but that the world through Him
might be saved.* We are persuaded tiMse
sermons will excite considerable interest, sad
throw much light upon many portions of scrip-
ture.

Mr. Martin, the Bantist patriarch, of
Malmesbury, is quite laid by from his work.
He has had a long and useful ministerial
career ; but it must soon clofie*

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MU. HENRY HALL, OF GARNER CHAPEL, CLAPHAM.

Pbsacbsbs and prMchings at tbe dawn of
*iQ, oeeap7 * )*i1ger and more prominant place
in tlie pniblie mind than at any preceding
period. With the openinr of the new year,
aonoaneements of ' special serricea ' meet us
on erery hand. Churchmen are no less pro-
minent in the movement now than dissenters.
For the fint time in history that large and use-
less spaee under the doom in ourmi<yhty " St.
Paul*a " haa been opened for preaching. The
crmngeliefd party in the Church of England
have also engaged and opened Exeter Hall for
' special serricea,' and some good gospel scr-

.... jSj

I hare been preached there. The nave of

Westminster Abbey is used for the same ob-
ject: but the preachers and preachings there
smell strongly of Tractarian lire. The splen-
did Si. James's Hall is secured by the Noncon-
fonniata, and they also are holding * special
aerricee.* Truly, liondon never had so much
j^eaching effort at one^ and the same time as
It has now. The question critically arises, ' Is
ike GoMpel preached T The question is an
j&portnnt one ; and we fear that but a very
email meaaure of gospel truth is heard from
tbe raatruma of these large and denaely
enwded places. Kevertheless, the public mind
ia aroused, and many thousands flock to thesf
places, in all of which Ma Wvrd of Qod is
read.^ In these /acts alone we have occasion
to rejoice.

Kot only is the pulpit brought more
prominently before the public mind, but the
presa aJao is made to swell the sound, for penny
aennons meet tout eye in every direction :
'Sermons for tne Million I* 'Special Sermons
for the People 1' * Sermons to the Working
Glaaaes!* and paper ' Pulpits ' in endless var-
iety, are now to be had : and last, and not
laMt to onr mind, we have now a ' Surrey
TMmmmeU FulpU,* a aerial Ve ought to have
bad, wa think, years ago.

But, to ' onr Prraohert,' and ' their preach-
infai' Thja month, we purpose noticing
HijrmT Hau^ the present minister of that
den and neat little Chapel, <^ed *' Gamer,' '
at Qapham. Mr. Hall is a youne man and a
young minister : two features which in our
day aeem to add interest to a preacher ; for
aevM> do we recollect the time when 'our
youne men' took so prominent a position in
this field of public labor. Mr. Hall is yoong
ia the work : as to his ability, he is not
se ready and fluent as some we know ; yet he
speaks with dcscision; and his manner and
matter tell you at once, he talks of a subject
the mighty importance of which he haa been
made to laaru out by dally experience. Born
ia a small village (in Surr«iv,) of ungodly pa-
rents, be was never paternally taught religion ;
mil a thing as a prayer was never heard by
him under we parentiu roof: his knowledge
of rcHgion and of God, being confined to toe

bare idea that * €bd was ^ood :\ only a step
beyond the heathen. Being a sickly child,
and not expected to live, a desire was created
to learn more of this God, and of his goodness.
This led to his first prayer, which was sent to
heaven on Kipley Causeway, on his return
home from school one day. Shortly after this,
he was removed to a newly-opened school, in
connection with the Church, and the custom
here was to open and close school with pra;^er.
This was the first place our youns enquirer
ever heard anything of religion. The warn-
ings of the School-master to * flee fVom the
wrath to come ' took fast hold of him, and
deep convictions followed. He heard there
were several God-fearing persons in the vil-
lage who were accustomed to go to Guildford
and Bipley, to listen to the preaching of the
gospel ; and from what he saw of their man-
ner and deportment, ho felt a great desire to
be like them. About this period, (being tl\en
about thirteen years of age) a marked differ-
ence was manifest : young Hall became a con-
stant church-goer ; separated himself from
his former associates; and attended strictly
to the exhortations of the pcor blind Clergy-
man, thinking^ by these means to ' work out
his own salvation.' But sin was too nowerful :
resolution after resolution was broken ; and
the path of rectitude was left. Thia brought
on deep distress of mind, and great darkness
of soul. The Clerg^p man continued to preach
* onr duties,' and telling his hearers to repent
and be saved; but our youn^ churchman
found he had no power to do the duties im-
posed, nor the heart to believe. ~ Oh! the an-
guish of mind then felt was great. But in the
vil!age there was an * Old Antinofnian ;* and
(as we wrongly say,) 'quite promiscuously,*
young Halt met him, and without any pre-
vious idea, and almost before he was aware of
it, he related to the * old antinomlan " the
exercised state of his mind. The old man was
astonished and delighted, and gave his ' young
pilgrim * words of counsel, caution, and en-
couragement. This simple circumstance was
the means the Lord employed, as the turning
point in Mr. Hall's experience. The poor
Clergyman was left to his duties; new associa-
tions were formed, and from the<ie new friends,
the way of salvation was more fullv learned ;
and under their guidance, Mr. Hall was led
under the sound of a gospel ministry : the
irst gospel sermon he heard being from the

rst gosp(
ps of th<

e venerable Mr. Oxenhatn. Now the

Wnole system of things becamn changed : it

Jras manifest to Mr. H. that salvation was not
y worktf but by grace. Increased longings
after spiritual food were felt, and oftefi
(though now only 14 year* of age) be used to
walk to liipley in the'moming, and t# (luild-
^Drd in the evening, lo bear the preaching ef
tihewurd. Then followed imieb eawfiae of

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mind reipedingtlie doctrines of grace; temp-
tations assailed ; the devil was alive ; and Ions
seasons of bondage ensued. But the Lora
eventually set his soul at happy liberty by the
application of those words. * 1 have loved thee
with an everlasting love, therefore with loving-
kindness have I drawn thee." About the
same time, the Lord aUo appeared as his * Je-
hovah-Jireh.' and temporal circumstances
were made right Mr. K. left Guildford for
Hastings, where his business associates were
men of the world: often while here he has been
praying in the same room as his companions
have been card-playing at the same time.
Eventually circumstances, and his own wish,
led him to London, and on the day he com-
pleted his 21st year, he was baptised and re-
ceived into Church'fellowriiip under Mr. John
Foreman. From here, Mr. Hall removed to
Mr. Newborn's : where he spent three years,
and became a Sunday School teacher. Here
and while at Mr. Foreman's he was much ex-
ercised respecting the ministrjr. He after-
wards removed to Mr. Glaskin's Church,
where he fulfilled the office of deacon ; and in
that capacity was more prominently brought
before the people at the prayer meetings, Ac.
One Lord's-day, Mr. Glaskin was absent, and
no supply could be obtained : Mr. Hall waa
requested to occupy the pulpit, which, with
much trembling, he did. Following this, Mr.
Glaskin was laid aside by illness, when Mr.
Hall was again desired by pastor and church
to supply the vacancy. From this time, invi-
tations came from all quarters to supply desti-
tute churches. This he did, till he felt he
was following the leadings of providence, by
taking a lengthened invitation to supply the
then nearly faded cause at Dartford, in iCent.
Here the word was owned and blessed by the
Lord. During eighteen months stay, twenty-
nine were added to the church ; a new bap-
tistry was sunk, and the cost nearly paid.
But great labour and inconvenience were con-
neoted with going to this place from town, and
this exertion told much unon the health of Mr.
Hall. A request to supply at Gamer, Clap-
ham, waa made to him. He accepted the
same ; and his ministrations being very ac-
ceptable, he was desired by that church to ac-
cept of an invitation to supply for 12 months.
The matter was brought before the Dartford
Church ; and they, with much love for Mr.
Hall, and feeling persuaded that his strength
would not permit him to continue his journey-
ing and preaching to them as he blad been
wont to do,— with their permission and best
wishes for his soul's proenerity and ministerial
usefulness, he acceptea the invitation at
Gamer, where some fruits of his labours al-
ready appear. B.

NEW BOOKS.

< Th$ Smrrwg Tahernael$ Pulpit* London :
Partridge and Co. ; B. Banks and Co.
We had written a lon^ notice of this new
weekly issue ; but, the pnnters having return-
ed it to us tor want of room ; we only, this
monthf announce that Mr. James Wells's
Bimday moming disoonrse, is taken by a first-

rate reporter; and, after being revised bv the
preacher, is published on the following Wed-
nesday: so that the thousands who would
gladly hear Mr. Wells, but cannot, have now
ap opportunity of reading* preserving, and
handing down to their children, some of his
choicest discourses. The criticisms sent, and
our own review, will not be forgotten. The

Eublioation of these sermons will do good, we
ope, in many ways. The demand for them
at the present, is very encouraging indeed.

' Watw BaptUm :—Beaionfor not XTaing.
By B. Tatham, Eastbourne.' Mr. Tatham,
is, no doubt, a good minister of Christ; and
we rejoice to learo from his tract, that hia
call to so sacred a work, is clear to himself,
and is confirmed in the souls of others by their
conversion unto God, their belief of the truth;
and their faith in the dear Bedeemer : but
inasmuch as Mr. Tatham tells us he has been
subject to change of mind, alteration of prac-
tice, &c. perhaps if we read him a few lessons,
in future numbers, he may be inclined to re-
turn to the good old ways. We have some
hopes of him yet.

' Fartieular Bsdenwtiait : A sermon by W.
Bidder, London : W. H. Collingridge ; and of
the author, 22, Sutherland square, Walworth.
When our brother Bidder preaches, he obeys
Paul's injunction to Timothy to the very letter
^* Prtaeh the Word,' Many have declared
they never heard Mr. Bidder's equal for cor-
rect, consecutive, and numerous Biblical quota-
tions. This sermon is enough to drive the theory
of a universal redemption clean out of the world
if men could believe the Bible ; but the unfolding
and experimental reception of truthis the alone
work of the blessed Spirit ; nevertheless, Mr.
Bidder has established the great /act, the Be-
demption of ths ehureh of Ood, hy the letter
of the word ; by conclusive arguments drawn
from the word — and by the experience of the
elect of God. No man can do more ; and the
blessing of heaven is promised to aecompanj
all such holy work.

Mr. Bloomfie]d*s new book entitled * A Yoiee
from the Pulpit," contains the foUowing
important papers: — I. — The Work of the
Ministry. II. — Enoch walking with God.
III.->Heaven]y Citiaenship. IV.^The church
of God. T.— The Smitten Shepheid. With
Preface. It is published by G. J . Stevenson,
64, Paternoster Bow.

* Affectionate HintB on the Importance of
Attending^ and the eniU of If fleeting the
meane of Grace.* By William Chappell. Lon-
don : G. J. Stevenson, 54, Paternoster Bow:
and B. Banks & Co. There are few places of
worship now — except the * special service'
places^and some where * popular preachers^
are to be heard, but need a little book of this
kind. Mr. Chappell has furnished a nMtC
penny manual, wbich if freely distributed
among the thousands who proku to follow
Christ, but whose devotion appears to need
firesh fire, it may be useful. Copies may be had
of Mr. Chapell, Parchment Street, Winches-
ter ; also, of G.^. SUvenson, 64, Paternoster
Bow ; or through any of the bookselien.

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BGSTACIBS OP JOY, & CONFLICTS OF SOUL, IN THB DYING CHIMBBE OF

MRS. LEANEY,
Bt Tkqmaa Sdwauw, of Tunbiiiogb Wmlis, Kbit. .

Mil Bj>rroK — Haviiiff a few spwe minatef
tliM New Tew^s Ere, I embrace the oppor-
•oaltf of aaoending the hill Mixar, and nom
^enoe, vith no orainarj degree of folemn re-
fleetton, I look back on years that are now
paat and gone for ever, etpecuJIr on the one
thaJL ia now dosing upon me. While pennini^
tifteia lines. Oh ! now deeply can my soul en-
ter into the spirit of the man after God's own
beait. in his 42nd Psalm, which, not only
KiTea OS a Tiew of ICzai^t desirable summit,
hat opena up also a descent into the sool-
fcewKiipg ana self-loathing yalley of humilia-
tSQo ; (see rene 9) ; and I presume not a few
flf Stm'B traTellert, and espeoially her minis-
tMBg aecrantSy bat have found in some places
0» mndi vneTaoeas in the road, as to cause
fhdr aoiils, like Israel of old, to be much dis-
•oancad, because of the way. However, the
year la, we may now say, gone, with idl its
triak and mingled sweats; and on the part of
tlfta Lord, we may add, imlkiUng goodness ; and
I hapa wUh Jeremiah, I can feehngly and be-
fiavinf^ add, " it is <tf the Lord's mercies we
m9 noi oonavmed, because his compassions
Cdnot.*

Bat, to be brief. I wUl now give you my
reason Ibr addressing you. No doubt you, or
at leaat aome of your readers, will remember
(and by reliBrring to the August number of
tte YnsBL, for 1S58, will seef an 'account of
the Lord's dealing with Blrs. Leaney.' And
it ia mnah xmprMsed on my own mind, as
w«ll aa the wiin of some of my friends, that a
brief relatioii of the Lord's Mlings with her
ia l a mo f in g her from the Church Militant to
the Chardi Triumphant, should, for the glory
«f Ood, be laid before you.

Mra. Lsansy, departed this life Not. 28ih,
U6B. Oar dsar friend and sister had been in
a deeltBiqg state through the whole of last
anmmar ; and, to use her own words, had felt
aoeh axtraocdinary deadziess in her soul to the
world and all its attraedons, that she seemed
w ci i ia d uito it, acdit was crucified unto her.
Aboot two months before her death, she gave
birth to a ebild, (iHneh is since dead) ; after
whieh aha baffled tiie skill of her medical at*
tandaaty and sank rapidly under a fiill per-
aoaaifln alao that she ahould not survive but a
ahort pariod the birth of her child. Having
aent an azptaas wish to see me, I, as soon as I
aonld, aallad upon bar; and what I was an
•fa and aa ear witneas to in the course of mv
two visits I can bat fidntly deseribe ; for such
mai M nm of jov, and such conflicts of soul with
tha anamy gr her peace, I never before wit-
n emed. when I first visited hei^, she informed
mm of a test I preached from some years azo
(Issiah zzvL 4,) which had been brought
hooa to hor while on her bed of afllictioiL in
a very confbrtiag way, aanring me it nad

been as freshly remembered, and as sweet and
savory as when it first fell with refreshing
power upon her spirit. She then told me she
was sure she shomd never recover, as her soul
had been so much swallowed up in anticipating
glory, and that she even saw angels hovermg
over her person and bed, ready to^ take her,
ransomed spirit to its eternal resting place.
Often did she repeat, * Great is my reward in
heaven, and my soul ii all glorious within.'
She blessed the Lord for withholding woridly
riches from her, as she saw it profited not in
the day of death. She declared bow much the
word had been blessed to her soul the last few
times she had heard me preach. She then re-
ferred to a sweet time she had on the previoua
evening, in meditating on Abraham's fiuth in
the offering up of his son Isaac ; and how her
mind waa led from that to the glorified Lamb
of God. We conversed freely upon the beat
things, and after reading and prayer, I left
her.

On my second visit, as soon as I entered the
room, with a look of penetration and peace
which almost went through me, she said, ' Oh !
Mr. Edwards, I am going to glory 1' But here
I wish to observe, that between the time of
my first and second visit, which might be near
three weeks, she endured at times deep distress
of soul, that was overwhelming to witness by
her devoted and affectionate huMand ; and yet,
as she afterwards told me, she could see satan
held as by an adamant ohain. However,
scarcely had she said, ' I am going to glory,'
when an horror of great dackness came ovec
her soul ; and turning to ma, she said, ' aince
you came into the room I have laltsuoh a thick
doud over me, and auoh dsrknoas of soul,
although I was so happy before you came in.'
Thia she repeated several timea, until X fdt
wretdied, and it seemed to arise in my mind
as a proof that I must be a false miniater, or
the hidings of the Lord's oountananoe would
not have been so strong^ felt by her.^ I ra«
mained for nearly an hour, but no signs of
the rising of the Morning Star or Sun cf
Bighteoosness could be f dU She tlMn wished
me to read one of mv swaet Fsdma. I did
so, and then engaged in prayer. But still the
doud remained on her weak tabemade. After
staying some time, I oondudad I had better
retire, as my presence seemed more aa a
stumbling block than a blessing. I tharefbre
put on my great coat, and bid her (aiawelL I
then went toward the end of tha loom, and
yet strange to say, J fdt X conld not go. So I
sat down in solemn nlenoe. I could ndthef
talk nor go ; when presently she broke out with
these words, * Arise, shine, for the glory of tha
Lord has risen upon thee!' I thought tha
words remarkable, as the Lord had so blessed
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and truly she did shine— for the icene waa m
changed at the burtting ferth of the aun from
a total eclipse : ahe praised Eather, Son, and
Holj Ghost ; she sung hymns of praise ; she
was as a hind let loose ; jea, like Napthati,
' full with the bleasing of the Lord/ Her soul
was so full of glory, that I could scarcely look
eren upon her countenance, for her Terr fea-
tures beaming with brightness, looked almost
more than human. She then broke out in
earnest prayer for me, and for our little hill
of Zion, m language fiilly corresponding with
that weight of glory which rested upon her
soul. Not many days after this, she entered
sweetly into the joy of the Lord.
. On my first visit, she wished me to preach
her funeral sermon firom ' Pradous in the
sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.'
I endearoured to do so on Dec 12th, 1858,
after which, I gave out the following linea,
which oame to my mind the evening previous.
How precious in JehoTah's sight
Are thote who lova his name :
For them his ancient, fond delight.

Burnt with eternal flame.
Bedeemed they were with Jeeu's blood :

Who poor for them heeame ;
That in their sools his dying love

Might bum with holy flame.
In Area, in floeds, in life, in death.

When heart and flesh doth ftdL
He never will his sainto forsake.

Bnt make their faith prevail.
Bedeemed they are, and in his sight

Their blood is predoos too !
And soon in gioiVs dondless light

The 8Uaghter*d Lamb they'll view !
Oor sister's now before the throne,

Bedeem'd tnua hell and sin ;
<3uto at his feet her blood-boaght crown.

And glorious is within I
Vo more aseail'd with unbelief.

The weary one's at rest ;
And what can eanae a moment's grief
When once with Jesus blest !
I would add, while I admire the goodness
«f the Lord to our departed sister, in the
abundant grace bestowed on her, I should be
truly sorry for any of 2&on's little ones to be
disoouraged because they cannot rise so high
in the scale of gospel comfort ; for truly it
shall be well with aU that fear God, there-
fore it ia written, < He will bless them that fear
the Lord, both mnall and great.' Psalm cxv.
18. Here we see the small are noticed before
the great; and the loving Saviour, told Peter
to care for the lambs, and feed them before
the dieep; henc6, while the sheep in their
troublee are dealt kindly with and gently
led, he assures us the lambs shall be gath-
ered with his arms ; yea, even laid in his
bosom. Isa xL 19. How near his heart then
moat every truly seeking soul bet and how
deep ia Jehovah'a sympathy for those of
whom he has smd, « He that toucheth you
touoheth the apple of mine eye. Zech. ii. 8.

I^,*!^'J^^ '"•«* shall Uve that seek
Qed.' Psalm Lux. 82.

^ ^ "iT?!?^^ ^^ adding, our departed dster
haaleftbdimd m this vaUey of Baca, a sor-
■owing husband and six small children to be
eared, $aA provided for, by manual labour,
Md no other dependance, that I am aware of
^^I'fJP^?/' ^ Thomas Edwjju)6.
Xunbndge Wdla, Dee. 31, 1868.

SANCTIFIED AFFLICTION.

THE SAFPT DIATH OT XBZIA BTSmrB,
WBITTXir BT HBS MOTHBB A8 AM BVCOUB-
AOEICBMT TO PBATDTG PABBITTS.

Mt dear child waa first put under medical
aid, on Qood Friday, April 2nd, 1858 : our me-
dical gentleman said he hoped a little medi-
dne, and change of air mignt have the effect
of restormg health ; but although all was
done that could be done instrumentallv, the
decree was gone forth: the Lord haa pur-
posed to take my last child to himself.
The Lord has heard our poor breathinga for
our dear children by giving them his grace,
but he has been pleased to take them soon to
himself. The l«ord*s ways are not as our
ways ; nor his thoughts as our thoughts. Our
last and only child bad reached womanhood ;
we had hoped to spend many years in happi-
ness together. Our Father wisely hides our
troubles from our view ; if I had seen the end
at the beginning of, the affliction. I should
have sunk under it ; but the Lord gave me
strength from day to day to use all the meana
in our power to keep our dear child with us ;
and when all means failed, and it was told
me there was no hope of her recovery, al-
though my flesh trembled, and my heart waa
ready to burst, I did then, and do now, desire
to say, ' Father, ih$ will U done.* Bspe-
dally since it has pleased the Lord to make
her manifest in this aflUction to be a vessel
of mercy afore prepared to fi^lory. My dear
child was the subject of serious oonvictiona
before the afflicting hand of GK>d was laid
upon her. When we have been walking
toother from the house of Gbd, she has aaid
with tears in her eyes, < I wish I felt and
enjoyed what you and Father do ; how happy
should I be 1' And after my dear husband haa
been praying at the family altar, she would
often weep, and particularly when her Father
had been led more espedally to intreat the
Lord for her soul. At other times she would
say ' Mother, if I am not one of the elect, I
dudl not be saved ; if I am, I shall.' But
when the Lord laid his afflicting hAnd upon
her, and brought her to feel herself a sinner,
and the chief of sinners, she did not talk then
about election ; but her great concern waa to
know what would become of her soul when
she died. She took to her bed on Lord Vday,
April I9th. On the morning of this day, shu
said to her Father, * I fed very ill this morn-
ing ; and while I have been 'laving on mj
bed, I have been thinking if I should never
get well again, where will my soul go toP'
She wept very much ; and we began to enter-
tain the hope that the Lord had created in
her soul a real spiritual concern: we oould
not say then with confidence whether it was
only the fear of death ; but afterwards we
were encouraged firmly to beUeve it waa a con-
cern about her never dying soul« aa the re-
sult of grace implanted. Tnougfats about her
atate kept her awake for weeks; thinkini^
what a sinner she was, and wishing she waa
like the dear children of God. Thia concern

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difltrcMof herpoorBonlvMgreAt'to know if
there ooald be meray for wo sreat a flfamer at
■hefaltheiMirtobe. I knew she reaUydid
feel it ; it often eauaed me to weep both tean of
joj and aorrow. I did all I could to aUeviate
&nd comfort her under her pains of body, and
distreaa 0/ mind, but I oould not bring peace
to her poor dn-wounded conscience ; nothing
but the application of the precioni blood of
JeMis could do that; although she did not at
all timea feel that sweet comfort and peace in
believing she was the Lord's; yet, from this
tinie she had a little hope that the Lord had
forgiren her sins and would take her to him-
self she waa so afraid of being deceiTod ; or of
sajiag anything that she did not feel ; she was
apiritaally honest : for many hours she laid
upon her bed and wrestled with the Lord to
hare mercy on her poor soul and give her to
feel an interest in the precious blood of Christ
One day in particular, she said. Bear mother

that solemn portion of the word of God,
*What9kallUpn!fUa man ifU gaina the
vkoU world and lose hU own aoul T Or
mkat tftolZ a ntan give in §xekamg« for kit
oomi T I said, *My dear, it is a mercy that
Tou are conoeraed about your precious soul.
Is it more concern to you tluui your poor
body ? * Yea, dear mother, she said, and if the
Loid would be pleased to manifest himself
to me as ay Saoumr, I would rather, if it waa
the will ot the L<^d, to leave this sinful
vorld-and be with Jesus: for if the Lord
ihoula raise me up again, and these feeling
ahoold pass away, what a solemn thing it
woidd be.' Anotoer time she said, * Oh ! dear
mother,

^'Ih a point I long to know,
Oft it causes anxious thought,

Do I lore the Lord or no^
Am I his, or am I not P

' Well, my dear child,' I said, ' tou did not
always feel so; and Satan would not put
audi feelings into your mind. I know it is the
lictrd; snd ne will manifest himself to you:'
Another time she said, ' I was thinking of what
Band and, * Tea, though I walk through the
Yaiky of the shadow of death, I will fear no
eni,n)r thou, Lord, art with me.' If I could
aay, with confidence, the Lord was wf Baviourt

1 ahoold indeed not fear death ; the grave is a
cold, dark place, but it is only the body will

£> there, and the dear Saviour laid there he-
re.' Another time she said ' in my Father's
hoosssze many mansions:' and the Lord said
*I will go and prepare a place for you ', and
I will come again ; and receive you to mv-
salt' Oh, if I could but see wty name in the
Lamb'a book of life ! I desire no more.' I
aaid, ' My dear child, what are you resting upon
for the salvation of your never dying soul ?
laituponyour prayers, or anything you can
do ?* * Ho, my dear mother, she aaid,' I have
proved my poor feeble prayera, if they can be
calledpr»yer% can never save me. 1 shall not
go to heayen by my prayoro, and yet I cannot
go to heaven without prajfer, my only hope
fat the aalvation of my soul is upon what
Christ has done and suffered for poor lost sin*
aen.' She smd, 'the Lord would be just if he
vereto cast me for ever from his presence;

bnt. (oLuping her poor thin hands together,
and luting her evea to heaven, she said,) * but
if the Lord will have mercy on such a sin-
ner as I am, I will give the Saviour ten thou-
sand praises.'

She was very pleased when Mr. Hazelton
called to see her, which he often did: but Sa-
tan used afterwards to harrass her and suggest
that ahe had said something she ou^ht not to
have said : or something that she did not feeL
Often she haa said, ' Bear mother, I cannot
speak any more, for though when Mr. Hasel-
ton comes, and I feel a httle comfort in hear-
ing him talk to me, and pray with me, yet
something seems to whisper in my ear, ' .few
areonlpanimeriUJ I said, 'My dear child,
you have said, and often say, vou are a sinner,
and a i^reat one ; and after all, you really do
not think you are a sinner, nor stand in need
of that precious blood of the dear Bedeemer
to wash awav your sins.' I think I see my
dear child's looks now ; she said, * What, mo-
ther! not a aUmorl not a iimurf I am the
chief of sinners ; and nothing but the blood of
Jesus can wash my sins away. that the
Lord would reveal himself to me as my So-
eioftr.' She prayed aome length of time, till
she was quite exhausted, ror often, when
ahe thought I waa aaleep, I have heard her
praying m the night (0, ahe aaid,) ' time is
abort ; my aoul is more concern to me than my
poor body.' Shortly after this, when I came
mto the room, ahe aaid, ' Bear mother, all at
once theae words seem to come to my mind^"

" Nothing in my hands I bring.
Simply to thy cross I ding.^

I said, ' My dear, is that the language of
your soul P She said, * Yes, it is.' I said, * xour
soul will never be lost if Chriat is your only
hope.' Satan was not permitted to harass her
much after this until the Lord's day before
she was taken home. She had been talking
with me in the evening ; but she was so ex-
hausted ahe oould not aay npch, but ahe aaid,

* I long to see Jesus !' she aaid aeveral times to
me, hark ! some one is calling my name, and
you, too, dear mother. We must go home,
this is not our home ; we must go to our better
home.' She seemed much in prayer; her dear
eves looked up as though she could see some-
thing beautiful, a smile came over her eoim-
tenance as though ahe caught a glimpse of
eternal glory ! but after this Satan was again
permitted to harrass her as to her state. About
11 o'clock at night all at once she clasped her
dear hands together and aaid, ' I thall be lott^
l9kall bo lo9tl 1 shall not be at the ri^ht
hand of Qod at last ; I have been deceiving
myself— I thought I had a hope that the Lord
had forgiven alTmy sins: but O it ia all gone,'
Her anguish of soul for some time was great :
she wept, and we all wept and prayed the
dear Lord would again appear to her; and ao
he did, for with her hands clasped ahe aaid,

* May I pray P Yea, I may,' ahe aaid, * Bear
Jeaua help !' The snare waa broken ; Satan was
driven away. She rapidlv annk the three
following daya. She spoke but little, but
seemed much in prayer. She looked often at
her dear father and me with mu^ aireetkn.

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8116 norer iDurmiifML but wstf gpwtflfiil bo/ond
meamire for erery ihmg that was done for bcr.
I prajed to feel rengnedf eiCber for life or death.
A dear friend sat ap with her the last iuirfat» to
whom she eaid, ' bare yon prayed fer me r The
reply waa» *Yei^ aiid many friendi too.'
Again Bhe repeated that peeaage, ' What shall
it profit a man, if he shall nin the whole
world and Ioom his own soidP' My fHend
said, * And do jon feel the importance of that ?'
Bhe said, * I dovfor the Isat day is oome, ey

She aearoely elosed her eyes during the
night, bnt seemed to be looking upwaids to
her better home, as she so ofken spoke te me
about. She said in the morning part, ' Media*
tor,' «CherubimaI>and'Sentp&ma!' ^OloryP
wiUi a smile on her ooontenanoe, ahe attend
these words. She said, * I lore Mr. Haile-
ton, but I shall nerer hear him speak any
more ; and I cannot read now.' The fnendaaid
to her,,' But cannot you read your title clear P*
She replied^ with much feehng and eameet-
neaa, * J can/ Xmmi /* That Yem waa repeated,

' When languor and duMase invade
This trembUnff house of clay,
'Tie sweet to look beyond the c^
And long to fly away.'

Sli« then opened her dear eyes, and said,
'-^ Sweet, stp^ long, lon0,* In the afternoon
aho aaid, ' Oh Satan, how often Satan ! how
often Satan ! but with a smile ahe looked up
apd said, * Open the gatea of glory, open the
gates of glory/ She kissed me, dear girl, for
the last time about 6 o'clock. I can feel cTen
now her dying lips ginng me the laat token
of affection. She did not after that, apeak so
as to be able to be understood ; the last sound
I heard fh>m her lips was ' happy* Thus she
sweetly breathed ner soul into (he hands of
the dear Hedeemer about 9 oMock, June 16th,
1858, aged 17 years, and 10 months.

Her mortal remains were depointed in
Abney Park Cemetry, on the 22nd of June,
when Mr. Hazleton spoke from the words in
the book of Job jxv, 10, * But man dieth and
wasteth iaway, yea, man rlreth up the ghost,
and where is hef and on uie following lord's-
day, Mr. H. im^ved the event from Ber.
xiv. 6, ' And in their mouth was found no guile,
for they are without fault before the throne
of God.'

DEATH OF

MRS. MABI M. HARRIS.

Tbi subject of this short tiotioe. was bom
of Godly parenta, February 4, ls30 : both
being members of Soho Chapel. Oxford-street,
—the father (Mr. Charles) having honourably
Buatained the office of deacon for more than
twenty yean in that place.

Mrs. Harris, from an infSiint, had been
brought to Bono,^ and continued a constant
hearer Uiere within two yean of her deoeaae.
Bhe waa alao a scholar, and, for seven yeara,
a teacher in the Sabbath school at the sakne
place.

In February, 1852, she was married to a
lellow-seholar, by Mr. 0. Wyard, at Soho

ehapeL As a wtfs, she waa tdirarpa»ed,
devoted, loving and alfeetionate; her laat
days aa the first; my loas therefore, is ex-
tremely grtet.

* No tongue can tell the loss I feel.

The breach that's made none e'er can heaL

During six yeats of our married tife, I
never saw her out of temper ; this was no
small mercy, and calls forth much thankful-
ness. To strangers she was reserved ; but the
mor^dhewas kndwn, the more beloved. She
waa not a talking Christian, but a wattina
on«. She was taken ill in July, 1867, with
every svtnptom of that fktal disease, consump-
tion. In September she improved, and went
out of town for a short tuiie : but soon re-
lapsed into the same state, and became gradu-
ally -worse, suffering the most acute agony,
but never known to murmur at the providence
of God, that placed her on a bed of slcknesa.
Happily she was always a great reader, par-
ticularly ;the Bible; and t^en was she seen
in prayer, that she might not grow impatient,
and her request was granted. Up to a fbxt-
night before her deatn, she had strong hopes
of recovery. A few days before bet dectose,
in answer to questions, she said, 'I know hi&
that is able to keep that which I have com-
mitted to him against that day.' To another
she replied, * From a child I have known the
Scriptures, which haa made me wise unto
salvation; adding, 'The race is nearly run
out of this poor suffering body^>Z Umg to ho
^ofie— this world liaa no charms for me.' I
aaid, 'Touare happy P* ' She replied, 'Tea,
he will never leave me; bless his dear name,
he healeth all our diseases ;' ' 'twill not be
long,

' And then, oh, how pleasant,
The conqueror's song.'

On bein^ asked if her trust waa in Christ,
ahe rmUed with areat earnestness, ' All agr
truH r Frequently she was heard in prayer,
to sav ' Take me homo^take me home,* On
the following verse being repeated in her
hearing:

* And whene'er theaignal's given

Us, from earth to call away.
Borne on angels winga to heaven ;'
she imikiediately exclaimed^

' Glad to leave this cumbrous day.'

At this time she expressed a great desire not
to spend another Sabbath en eartk. Her
repeated request wis to have a Imnn read ;
then a psalm, and tUm pray«r. On hearing
her trying to siiw, I said, *what are you
singing P She repued,

' When I survey the wondrous cross.'

Being asked why she had never made a pro«-
fession, she said, ' I have often looked at the
water, and longed to go in, but did apt, for
fear of being found a hypocrite, unol that
man of Ood, Mr. Irisb, set me firee.' She waa
generally in a happy f!rame of mind. A
friend said, *I am sorry to see you ao ill.'
She replied, * yes, I am getting worse.' He '
said, ' but your's is an eDvii|b^i>OBitien ; to

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vpoB wlddi ahe repfied, 'Though I imm
tfarooiih tiMTaUeycrtlw ihjulMr of d6«ta^ I
iriD Mr no «tU/ On Bgun hiong oiked if

On agun being oiked if
hsppj, ihe Mid, 'yefy the world hee
BO thanoM^ exeept my deer husband and
cfaOd.' The friend replied, ' leare them to
the lardf and ipeke of the ewwn of thorna
Oirial enduied fat her. She Mid, 'if that
WB^m0 lammff: He then aaked if the
enemy had troubled her much. She add, 'a
little the last Cbv days; but I amfitd ^fMd
Udi€: 1 am aalb in Ids hands : a few more
atapa op the ladder, and then I shall be at
rest.' Being asked the InstramentaUty used
in her eonvertiott, she said * the hfiflwenee of
OodlT parents— the house of God, and the
BoBday adiooL' She then bid us ^ood bye,
adding, * take eare of the chUd; tram her up
in the way she should go, and keep her to a
plaee of worship/ Just before she expired,
she threw up her arms, and with a beaming
eoonteaanee, exclaimed, ' I can see my fisther
sod my mother. lOkaUtwm hewUhl^tm*
She said to a relative Jot before she expired,
'goodbye: we shall meet again; Iwillweloome
you there. Oh! I will welcome yon there.'
She then, apparently, without the slightest
pain, pasaed througn the river of Jordan,
almoat without a sigh. Surely we may say,

* Osegentle sigh, her fetters broke,
We searoe oould say she's gone.'

She was interred at Highgate, on September
18. Mr. Pells spoke over the grave to about
one hundred friends fkom Soho ; andontiie
foUowing Sabbath, he preached a most ex-
eeUent sermon from Erv. vii 9, to a crowded
aaifience. W.fl.

THE ONLT FEISST THAT CAN
PARDOK.

On Priest alone eaa pardon ms^

Or bid me ' Go in peace.'
On teeath that word« • Abaolvote,'

Aad aeke these hesrt-thTObe cease.
My toal baa beard His PrieeOy voice;
It Mid, • 1 bore thy eiae-^BaJoice V

He shewed the apear-raark in Hia aide,

Tbe BsO^prlnt on His pahn ;
SaU, • Loek on Ma, the Cradfled;

Wby tremble thuif Beoalml
AU aoweria aaiae— I set tbee ik^ee—

Be not afraid— 'AbaolTO te.*

la ^aiaeof sin onee tied aad boand,

IvalkinUfeandUght;
Saeh root 1 tread la hallowed ground,

mJIst bia I keep in sight
Wbo died a 'VtcUm oa tbe tree.
That He migbt say, * Abeolvo ta.'

By Him my aoni Is pnrUled,

Ones leprons tfid doAled ;
dcsaaed ay tbe water from Hia aide,

God eees me 'as a child;'
No Priest can heal or cleanse bat Be,—
If o other aay, « Abeolvo te.'

He robed me in a Prieetly dreaa.

That I might incense bring.
Of Prayer, and Praise, and BIgbteonsnese,

To Hsaven't Eternal King;
Aad wbSD He gave this robe to me.
Ha smiled, aad mid, • AbeolTO te.*

la Heaven He stsnds bsfore the Throne^

The Great High Prieet above,
' MaumtsBiwc'— that name alone

can sin's dszk stain remove ;
To Him I look on bended knee,
Aad hear that sweet * Absolve te»'
A girded Levite here below,

I willing service bring :
And fain would teU to all I know

Of Christ tbe Prieatiy King;
Vonld woo all hearts from am to flee^
And hear him aiy, * Abeolvo te.*
•A little while,' and he shall come

Forth from * the Inner Shrin^'
To call His pardoned Brethren home;^

O bliss supreme 1 divine \
When every bkrad-boag at ablld ahall ase
The Pamar, who aald, * Aaaoavo ca.*

THE BXEBOISEB GHBISTIAN.

Bom. viiL 38.

Bow hard is the leeeon to learn,

That all things are working fbr good,
'While Satan and sin tai each tarn

Entangle my soul in the wood.
This sorely osnnot be the way

That leads to the msnsions above ;
My sonl's overwbelm'd with dismay.

And fear I shan't baak in his love.
I'm tempted and tried within ;

No peaee can I find to exist ;
Bat prone to all manner of eln,

Tet frin, if I ooold, woold resist.
My pathway with foes do abound.

And thistles snd thorns grow smain;
I'm terrified with the sad sound

Of ravenons beasts o'er the plsin.
The way is both ragged and dark.

Bewildering me on the road.
Which makes me lose sight of the mark

That leads to my Father's abode,
I'm barrsss'd by night and by day ;

Perplexed within snd without;
Mo peaee <wr I find to allay— '

My Boul*8 overwhelmed with doubt.
At timee, on the ocean I saiL

With Jesus, my Pilot, on board,
JEnioylng a heavenly nue,

I sing tbe high pnlses of God ;
Bat, ah, O how short is the day I

GU>w soon doth the darlmess appsar :
The winds, and the wavee and the spxay,

Encompass my soul with sad fear.
The doude gather thick all around ;

The waves do like mountains arise ;
The Pilot's not now to be found,

And ligbtninn shoot forth from the ekiss;
Huge rocks ana quicksands do abound ;

Rough seas upon which I am toss'd
O sure I shall soon be aground.

Or split on some rock, and be losti
Thus, whether by land or by sea,

I'm called to travel below,
Hiere's little but sorrow for me.

My heart is o'erwhelmed with woe.
Bow such things can work for my good

i feel at a loss for to tsU,
Tho' Jesus bath, said in his word,

These things, altho* trying, are weU.
O let me, dear Jesus, but know

I'm washed in the oeoean of blood ;
Then welcome these crosses below,

Since they are deslgn'd for my good.
P11 passively lay in thy hand.

Nor murmur whate'er the design,
rn willingly hear thy comnnnand,

If thou dost but say ' I sm thine.'
Winch^ter. ^. GKArnpu,.

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Mt Dbab Bbothsr m ms Lord—
Many thank* for yonr kind and quick reply to
my letter. I was voiable to call at Karehmont
Street, as you wished. I am bat very poorly,
and walking diatrenes me greatly; besides,
you orerrate me in Taluing my opinion on
the subject. I have re-perused your letter in
the May number of Thb Sabthxv ViaasL,
and cannot but think with you that the pre-
cept is wofolly oTerlooked by the children of
God. If it be not meant for them, for whom
can it be meant, seeing we do not expect Ut-
ing acta from those who belong to tiie oongre-
^tion of the dead ? * If 1 be a Father where
IS mine honour?' I can also feelingly enter
into your protest against God's family makinjg
a scape-goat of the old man, throwing their
sins upon him, and sending them into the
land of forgetftilnesa. It is one thinr for
€h>d to haye put our sins behind his back,
and quite another when we attempt to make
• excuses for them. The former is a glorious
fact, the latter is a sorry proof of the posses-
sion of real Christianity. So did not DaTid, so
did not Peter, as you obserre ; and so do not
we, when the tbu of God is ruling and reign-
ing in our hearts, and God nres us a tender
conscience towards him, which is a gift aboTO
all price. But we have known the times when
we would fain hsTc thus disposed of our bur-
den of uneasiness, and this makes us so well
know the eril of it, and its consequences.
But it is, as you well obserre, a deep subject,
and I shall get out of my depth, if 1 enter
upon it, and yet it is one in which I feel a
deep interest. I think I can enter, in a small
measure, into Paul's statements, ' For we know
that the law is spiritual, but I am camal^Bold
under sin ; for that which I do I allow not,
for what I would that do I not, but what I
hate that do I. If then I do that which I
would not, I consent unto the law that it is
good. Now then it is no more I that do it,
but sin that dwelleth in me,' and so on to the
end of the chapter. Daily experience makes
u^ adopt this language as our own. ' For the
good that I would I donot, but the eril whi<di
I would not. that I do.' But Paul did not
treat the sucject as some modem professors do,
or he would not haye concluded nis remarks
with that bitter lamentation which re-echoes
in the heart of eyery child of God, * wretch-
ed man Uiat I am, who shall deliyer me from
the body of this death.' A clear understand-
ing of the two natures, and their separate
workings, and yet both indwelling in our mor-
tal bodies, Oh, it is a very deep subject, my
brother, and the more I muse upon it, the
deeper it seems.

I think much of the mixed gospel of the
present day, may be referred to the want of
a clear understanding on this point. Am I
correct in this thought } I am a very coyet-
ous body, oyer wanting to gain something
from those who are better taught in the scho^

of Christ than m^lf ; and truly thankfiil
shall I be for any instruotion Irom you by
letter, now I oan no lonmr occasionally lis-
ten to your yoioe bom the pulpit, as I haye

lately done with so much reu vleoiure^ sotts-
faeU&H, and profit It is, as dear Hart des-
cribee it to bie.

' A narrow, narrow path.'
In steering dear of arminianism, how many
run upon the dangerous shoals and quick-
sands of antinomianism ; and those again,
who are alarmed at the hue and cry against
hyper-calyinism, and hi^h doctrines, cling to
the fklsely supposed ability of the sinner to be
beforehand witn God. (Die dear Lord him-
self must be our keeper, and our teacher, or
where shall we run to ? and what error will be
too glaring for our reception, if left to our-
selyes P How true is that most excellent re-
mark recorded in dear Harf s life, ' Pharisaio
seal and antinomian security are Uie two en-
gines of Satan, with which he grinds the
church in lUl ages, as betwixt the upper and
nether millstone. The space between them
is much narrower and harder to find than
most men imagine. It is a path which the
yulture's eye hath iiot seen ; and none oan
shew it us but the Holy Ghost. Here let no
one trust the directions of his own heart, or of
any other man, lest by being warned to shun
the one. he be dashed against the other : the
distinction is too fine for man to diM»m;
therefore, let the Christian ask direction of
his God.'

But I think I must yenture to teU jou what
has made dear Hart such a fayourite with
me, especdally as the experimental strain of
your's ii in dose accordance with the subject

It is about 16 years ago that a horror of
great darkness fell upon me. It was truly
darkness that might be fdt : neyer before
that time, or eyer since, haye 1 sunk quite as
low as I did thetf ; I can scarcely teU. yon
how it crept on me ; but this I know, I waa
well nigh in despair, and could, truly haye
reiterated at that time the remark in tout
last, * I cannot be much lower out of ndl/
After hayinff enjoyed the spirit of adoption,
and entered into the priyileges of sonship,
glorying in my rdationship to a Triune
Jehoyah, Father Bon and Holy Ghost. I
was cast down into this low pit, this deep
and dark dungeon ; and as I then fully feared,
altogether oast away ; not that I could belieye
the Lcsd eyer forsook his people, but mv per-
suasion was that I had deceiyed myself and
others, and that I did not belong to the fSsmily
of God. How yain were all the remonstanoes
of Christians, and the expostulations of a
beloyed pastor, ' Miserable comforters are ye
aU,' from my inmost heart I said ; I looked
with enyy on the brute creation, because I
thought tl^ey would not be damned. I could
not read a line of any book, saye only the
Bible, and dear Harts hymns: the former

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«M nuMdoed for an the thzMteningB and da-
n n nriarioM agaiait the hypocrite; the latter,
I nmd with aTiditj; and beeaase I eould not
bvt «ee and aefcnovledge that Hart had tra-
TeOed in a limalar path to mj own, I tried
to beliere he must be a hypoente alao ; and I
know not whether I ftopped ahort of thinVing
the aame of wmie of the dear sainti spoken of
m the Bible. So ftr did the enemy preyaU
or« ae at thti time, that he penoaded me to
beliOTe that God pitied me aa his creature, but

" not safe me, because my name was not

'ed in the Lamb's book of Ufe. Here
pretty use I made of the doctrines of
Prayer I then thought I knew noth-
is« aboat ; but thousands of times since then
I koged for the earnestness and agony of
V I now beliere I was the subject of at
time. I wore out, and utterly destroyed,
«sse oopy of dear Hart*s hymns in toree
months. Tmly, they were watered with my
tm, for day and night these were my portion.
X^from sheer fatigue, I used to sleep, the
terror of my waking destroyed all the benefit
or the short cesMtion from my sorrow. It
vns heart-grief and aoul-trouble ; and nothing
caa eompare with this. The thought of curs.
img God in hell, thrilled through me with
bflrror. I eren went so far as to beg of Qod
to mitigate my torments iriien I reached there ;
mmd not allow me to curse him. My friends,
■ad amongst them many of my christian
ftieads, who had not travelled in thii dark
path, thought my mind would go : I was as one
newildered and sorrow stricken; that hymn
ef dear Harfs was erer on.my lips which

prayer
that

* Deep in a cold and joyless cell V

Oh, it told out all my feelings, and my
inward groanings to the Lord. That also,
• Gird thy hnnTnp, Christiaa soldier.*

* Oh, what a narrow, narrow path,'

'Te tempted souls reflect'
' Zeal extinguished to a sparir.'
' Te lambs of Christ's fold.'
Baft Che one that cut me all to pieoei oom-

' Faith's a conTindng proof.'
To an those who tried to comfort me, I
pointed to two lines in that hymn, as contain-

I ehild of hner UneU drest.
But not the liruig ehOd.'
And to this day, whenever I get into a low
pbce (which is frequently the case,) these
liBes are a terror to me. So dear Hart was
my eloee eompanion in deep heart-felt sorrow ;
and this has endeared him to me beyond ex-
prssaion. When I take up his hymn book
sow, I often say in doggrel rhyme,

'When sunk almost in black despair,

I yet oould trace my features here ;
Twas Hart alone my case eould tell.
fie not surprised, I lavs him vsU,

But I must tell you how the Lord gradous-
ly appeared for me, and drew me out of this

pit. The temptation to which I have referred,
that God could not save me, sunk into my
heart ; and Satan suggested to me that no one
else had erer harboured such a blasphemous
idea. ^ I awoke one night in my usual terror,
but with this suggestion on my mind, look at
Bunyan's life. What for ? I kept answering.
Still the thought pressed on me, till I was
forced to rise from my bed, and unpack a box
of books to get at my treasure ; and there I
found the devil had palmed a lie upon me, in
tellinff me no one else had harboiued such a
thought, for Bunvan had the same temptation.
This loosened the snare, and gave me a wea-
pon against the enemy ; and you know well,
my brother, what an arrant coward he is.
He was eontinuallT telling me it was of no
use to pray, for I was an hypocrite. The
first text that came to me with any power was
this in Peter, ' Unto whom coming,' Ac. I
was helped to see, if I had never come
before, now was the time to come. Oh that
participle, present, was very valuable to
me, 'Unto whom eomina;* it helped me
to go to the dear Lord, with my sorrows.

1 continued going to the house of God con-
stantly, though here m^ agony was threefold,
I went on Tuesday evening, 14th, March, 1843,
thinking it should be the very last time I
would venture there. I should tell you, many
sermons had been preached, especially for my
comfort, which only greatly increased my
pain. The preacher did not think of me that
night, but the dear Lord did, and he sent me
a full and fi«e-deliverance, whilst his dear
servant, (Mr. Irons,) preached fix>m these
words, ' That hath maae the depths of the
sea a way for the ransomed to pass over.'
Isa. li. 10. I will not — I dare not— attempt
to describe my feelings in the sudden transi-
tion from the low dungeon of despair to the
hanquetting chambers of royal love and favor:
suffice it to say, dear Hart's hymn,

' Beep in a oold and joyless cell,'
was exchanged for one of dear Kent's com-
mencing thus,

" To banquet once the spouse was led.*'
My never ceasing soul could now sing,
'* Oh sweet repast of living bread.
In thine emoraces, Lord, I laid
I'm sick of love and faint to see
Thy banner thus spread over me."

Instead of poring over the threatenings of
the word, theSOth Fkalm was my song. All
things were changed. I had no need to tell
any one of my deliverance: my happv conn*
tenance told to all around me, that tne dear
Lord had turned my oaptivitj^, and given me
" beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for moum-
inff, and the garment of praise for the spirit
of neaviness.' I * went oown in the dances
with them that make merry.' Oh ! how dear
and preeioua he was to me then I I walked
with him, and talked with him, all the day
long. I oould no more find my trouble again,
than I oould cast it away from me when the
Lord hid his frwe.

So, my dear brother, I know a little of the
experience you speak of.

When men are cast down, thou ahalt say
there is lifting np. The Lord wounds but to

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iMftl; and *fidtfiftd are the woonda of a
friend.' * Serriee involTea rafRBring/ is a re-
mark of nj UgUy priied oorrespoodeat of
niuMBi you hare heard me speak. Ton are
made Tory naeftil to the Lord'i flumly, and
yoa must tniTel Arongh theae dark patha,
thatyoamay have a word to apeak out of
^onr heart to the moumen in Zion. When
it ooaei out of the abundance of the heart
then it ii it reaches to the heart. It ia no
light matter to be a steward in the Lord'a
household ; an nnder-shepherd orer the flock
<rf slaughter. You mnst taste of many oupa
of bitterness for the eleof s sake, but I know
my dear brother, you do not want to change
your aerrioe, for

* Although your cup is mixed with gall,
There's something secret sweetens alL
As for Satan's cruel suggestions, what a busy
foe he is ! busy with the seed royal, whilst
he lulls the hypocrite to sleep in his false
seouritr. He must have a great spite against
faithful ministers of the gospel, for a great
part of their work is to uada ms work, and to
expose his artifices. No wonder he is angry
with them : he lets the false shepherds go in
peace, and oftentimes presents to them the
poisoned cup of popularity. What false es-
timates are made of the "BflMp^*fff of minis-
ters, at least so it seems to me— euoh a man is
doing a great work-— see the crowds that fol-
low him. I am, in some cases, uncharitable
enough to think, that a little more iaithfiUness
might lessen such congregations, and be in
the end, a better prodT of usefolness. Be-
poTe me freely, my dear brother, if I write
hastily ; but a gospel meal in the house of
God is a predous b(x>n— my soul longs for it.
Well, the dear Lord has promiseato blesa
* Zion*s proTision, and to satisfy her poor with
bread.' ' Then the poor of the flock knew it
was the Lord.' It may be, my dear brother,

rare eait into this low place, that you may
made instrumental in the lifting up Gi
some poor, weary, way-worn traveller in
Zion^s pathway. ' Comfort je, comfort ye my
people, saith your God/ ana who so weU able
to present this comfort to them, as those who
hare experimentally known tbe need of it
thbmaelTes ? It is cold work, I presume, to
speak onhr out of the book ; but, when the
preacher is enabled to speak from the heart,
of the things he is tastmg and ^}>ti^liwg for
himseli^ at the time, the liTing testimony
teaches the Hiring experienoe of God's wailing
people. I know not whether I oonnrey my
meaning to you. but I would comfort you in
the tlumght, that your nresent sharp exev.
eises are for your own good, for the aoiil pro-
fit of Zion's children, and for the ^lory of
God. Indeed, I ought to apologue for
writing you such a lengtliened scribble. I
hate been beguiled «n (I know not why,) to
speak more fmly, of my own psinful exsr-
0ises, than is my wont I shall always be
pleaaed to hear Dram jwi; but, never let me
mtnide upon your tune or conTemenoe. I
will not always dius burden you in reply.
Ht pen has run on, till I am thoroughly
aabamed of the unusual length of my letter.

Umj the dear Lord comfort your heart, and
▼isit you, restoring to you, the joys of his sal-

and u ro w uin g your miniatary with hia
dng. May the moumera in Zmh

be eomforted, ud Jehofsh, Iktliar, Sen and
Holy Ghoet be abundantly glorifled in you,
and through you, and b^ you. Yoor'a teiily
in the relationship that is from aboTe.

Bly.

Bit is a city, a bishop's see, and the capital
of the Isle of its name, sitnaled in the centre
of the shire. The gospel has been preached in
this city by different men for many years ;
but I eannot learn that there erer was a flour-
ishing cause of truth here. It appears that
the little cause of truth in this place, has un-
dergone many shifts and changes, that it has
never been thoroughly esUblished 'as a
cause,' to enjoy permament prosperity. But
let us hope Uiat bHter day» are m reserve for
our friends and brethren at Bly ; yea, that
they have already dawned upon them ; for I
find that our brother NswBOur is prearhing
the gospel in tUs dty, and not without some
success, for the people aro gathering around
liim, iome have lately been baptijied and added
to their number. Thus, the Xord i$ at work
through our brother at Bly, and w^ should
he not be the instrument in thehano of God,
of permanently establishing a cause of truth
here in his old age P ah ! who can teU. Let ua
both hope and pray that this may be tbe case
—that our brother NsWBonr, may have the
honour of leaving an established cause of
truth in Efy. when the Master of the Vine-
yard shall call him ftrom the ohuroh militant
to the ohuroh triumphant. I understood that
our brother has preached the gospel in Bly
beforo numy yean ago ; Binee then several
ministers have preached to the people; and«
during Mr. Sturton's residence at Bly, some
few wen baptued in the river, at Sutton, by
Mr. W ilkins, of Cottenham, but many changea
have taken place since then, and our friend
Newborn has found his way ftom London,
round by Quyhiun,to Bly again. ' Send now,
I besaeeh thee, O Lord :0 Lord, I beseech
thee, send now prosperity.' Psalm cxviiL 25.
LimvpoBT.

Littleport is an agricultural village, quite
in a fenny part of this Isle of Bly t thero is a
neat littie chapel in the City-road, supplied bj
various ministers, as moot of the people who
attend the plaoe aro poor and unable to sup-
port a pastor. Hr. FUvell, of Barith, CHunts)
very often supplies the pulpit, and Mr. Gri-
ffiths, of ChaMiBris, nve them a Sabbath dur-
ing the summer. Mr. Kewbom, of Bly,
E reaches herooocasionany also. Thus with a
ttlesssistanoe ftem ncighbouriag miniatera,
and by the help of itinerant preachers, this
little interest is kept on, the gospel is preaished,
souls aro blessed, and some few oelievers have
been baptised during this last summer, and
aro now connected with the little cause at
Littleport. < May the little one become a thou-
sand, and tbe small one a stronfr nation.' Isa.

Ix. XSii. A TSAVBLISE.

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ORDINATION SERVICES.

[For want of both time and spMe, our re-
* I on these Mnriees lure defered ; but the
of God upon them, shall be giren
The pubUe aetUement of Mr. F.
OoUtna, as pastor of How Street Baptist
ehnrch, Fljmouth, we pledged ourselves to
give, as full as possible. To redeem this
pledge, we must divide it into three sections.
The ant and introduetory part, is contained
IB the foUowini^

LiTTBA TO Mr. J. B. M'CUBB,

Of O^elonff, and other C?triHkin Frimtdt

in Australia,

Obbat Wsstbbv Moybablb Barbacxs,

Manday^ Dee, 4, 1868.
Dbab FsiBBDi— As I cannot write you
all separatelj ; 1 address the following railway
to you. Our home people, will

nU; but tben, I can afford all that, if I
may be of any use to you.

8om pec^le haTo little or no sjjrmpathy
with any ntorement. or any class of men, or
any event, beyond those thmgs immediately
eonneeted with their own interest; there are
others who feel a lively interest in all those
saen, and toward all those movements, which
are identified either with the nation's weal, or
the chmeh^ onward work. For my otin
paitt I foel a keen desire to hear of the happy
and heij progression of the whole Christum
efaoreh, bnt most especially those branches of
it which are known by the name of the * New
Testament Churehss,^ or * Particular Bap-
tists.' This feelings toward Zion, and a oon-
stani and perhaiis over anxious desire to be
neefal in ner midst, comnelled me to arise
this maning by four o'clock ; and although
old aatore quaked a little, yet, by the help of
God, and with Ms tender eare over me, I
hope to be carried this day more than two
hnndred and fifty miles ; and after thirteen
hoars' safe shaking in a Great Western move*
able, to enter the pulpit, and begin a few
day's work in the Gospel in Plymouth and
Devonport; and my special business is the
public settlement of xny friend and brother
m Christ's gospel, Mr. Francis Collins.

In contemplating this interesting days'
work, my mind has this morning been led to

r a suitable field for practical thought,
and a gospel beauty, in the closing verse of
Isaiah's fourteenth chapter, where these words
are written, * Whai §kall one then answer
the mmsemgers of the nation T That the Lord
hath fomnded Zion; and tho poor of his
p^ovU shall trust in it* If the blessed Spirit
of God open his own truth unto the eye of
yo«r sanctified minds, you will discover in
tbcae words, both the holy oonduet and the
Fsal ^karaotsr of the gospel church, as hinted
at, aoggeatedy and mUred by the prophet

Isaiah in the words referred to. This scrip-
ture furnishes a comprehensive scene, illus-
trative of some public gathering; of some
memorable event ; of some special movement,
in which the whole of Christendom, the whole
of the living family, have a most peculiar
interest.

First, We have the messengers of the nation
coming to make their enquiry, touching the
vfelfare of Zion,

Secondly, we have the two-fold answer-^
* The Lord hath founded Zion ; the poor of
his people, shall trust in (or betake them-
selves) unto it'

I. The messenj^ers of the nation are a dig-
nified representation of tbree great leading
bodies of^men, in whose righteous movements
the life, the liberty, and the lasting pros-
perity of the nation is elosely bound up.
Men, raised up to stand at the head of our
national afihirs are * the messengers ot the
nation.' They come from the throne of the
nation to the people. The men (qualified and
sent forth as me neralds of salvation, are also
*the messengers of the nation' — and on all
occasions, where the happiness of Zion is
at stake, they are supposed to bo sent up by
the people to enquire diligently into the state
of aiiairs. The same may be said of the lay
leaders of the Church's temporal interests.
The Church is the spiritual nation of the
world ; and she sends forth her leading men
to search diligently into the truth of all those
constant occurrences which, like Esekiel's
wheels, are carrying out the purposes of
heaven, in the providences of Qod upon the
earUi.

I hope I may say, I have seen a little of
this during the lost twenty years of my life;
especially during the last fifteen. I have
been called to anniversaries, to ordinations,
to the formation of churches, to the openings
and re-openings of chapels ; to Sunday school
meetings, and assemblies of various kinds. I
have always noticed there has been a few
who have come up to those gatherings with
an iutenso desire to ascertain how it has
fared with the church, or those churches, on
whose behalf those meetings have been con-
vened. And on hundreds of such occasions,
we have said, from the bottom roots of our
little soul, *How good and how pleasant to
dwell together in unity ! More of this prac-
tical svmpathy, more of this loving Zealand
blessed unity we certainly desire to see. Why
should not Particular Baptist churches have
one great National United Association?—
whose aim should be to defend and to diffuse
the truth? To watch over the best interests
of all the churches ; to aid and encourage all
Qodly and faithful pastors; and to endeavour,
by all Bible means, and prudential measures,
to lengthen the cords, and to strengthen the
stakes, of the visible church on earth / For
surely the times we live in seem to demand a
movement of more than an ordinaiy kind!

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II. We have the dire«fc. the decided, and the
delightful answer, which shall he gi^eo, < The
Lord hath founded Zion ; and the poor of bis
people shall trust in it.' Zion is * a monu-
ment raised ; not a pedestal of lifeless bits of
stone ; but a worshipping company of people,
who, by the powers of the Eternal Qod, are
raised up out of the pit of sin and death.
Every branoh of the^isible church is, so to
speak, a field of labor wherein the Holv Spirit
employs ministers, and others, to bring out
the elect stones, the precious sons of Zion,
and to prepare them for the Great City of the
Bterual Jehovah. And so the building is be-
ing carried up : and the work will not stop
until the last stone is laid on with ' shoutlnes
of grace ! grace ! unto it.' * The Lord hatn
founded Zion :' — this is a characteristic an-
swer. He hath founded Zion : that is, he
hath laid down some wellprepared plans for
her safety and glory. * whose goings forth
have been of ul^ from everlasting. The de-
crees of the Almighty, hie predestinating,
electing, and oovenantmg purposes are of old,
from everlasting : by them, the affairs of Zion
are all regulated. He hath laid out a large
revenue for Zion's good success : / have given
men for thee; and people for thy life* How
bountifully hath the Great Creator of the uni-
verse endowed and foimded Zion ! And how
beautifully do idl the messengers from heaven
speak of this amazing endowment ! ' I have
given thee for a covenant of the peopled This
covenant is Jesus Christ himself; this
anointed gift of God comprehends all the
good that either heaven can give, or earth can
need :' all things are yours, lor ye are Christ's,
and Christ in God s. ' Be that spared not hist
own Son, but gave him up for us all ; how
shall he not with him freely give us all
things?' He hath founded Zion ; he has laid
down plans for her before time; he has laid
out an amasing revenue for her in tame ; he has
laid up a glorious inheritance for her after
time. To the inheritors of Zion's holy city,
there are gifts beyond all mention. The
covenant of grace, the person, worthiness,
work, and offices of Christ; the person and
blessed administration of the Holy Spirit ; and
the noble army of martys ; with all the patri-
archs, prophets, apostles, ministers, and angels,
ordinanees, praying men, sinsing people, and
every thing that can he good ; or that can
work for good in this school of training—the
church militant upon the earth.

* How vast the treasures they posseM,
Who in the liOrd believe !'

6. To shew their faith and affection to
Christ by oboying his command in the ordin-
ance of Believer's Baptism.

G. To commune with the Lord in com-
memoration of his doing, dying, and rising;.

7. To be corrected or comforted as their
circumstances may require.

[These thoughts were written while joumej-
ing from London to Plymouth fast De-
cember. The reception 1 met with : and
the si'rvices engaged in ; with Mr. Comns's
testimony, come next— 4). W. Bakks.

There is another answer very deseriptire of
the kind of people which make up the
ehurch :^the gospel church becomes a very
welcome refuge in a seven-fold point of view.
It may be said, tkeg betake ihemeelvee unto it,

1. To hear what God the Lord will speak
of the way of salvation.

2. They betake themseWes unto lt> spe-
cially enquiring if there is hope, and room ftyr
such as they are.

3. T« bear testimony *e the Lordli mercy
to them.

- 4r. To be fed and nourished np in the doc-
trines of grtee and truths

yOVBTSSHTSC ijrvUAL MSETIKO OV

''THE SABTXSV VfiSSBL.'*
[The foUowiag short report of the above
meeting kas been famished by an old friend, and
a once frequent eoniribotor to tbis work. The
4th of January, 1859, will never be forgotten by
us. We gratefully acknowledge the amaaing
goodness of Ood toward us on that oceasioa.
The prayer-meeting in the moraing, althongh
bat fbw attended, was a moat special season to
ufe; the brethf^n pells. Cave, Oakley, Jfran-
el9, and Frith, all evldenty prayed in the spirit
with heart-movlDg power. Mere than fifty
preachers of the gospel were prerent daring the
day to espreas their attachment and their z«al
on our behalf; while friends from all parts of
London and the conntry filled the plae« ; bat we
mast leave oor eorrcapondent to give ear readers
aome further idea of the day's proeeedtsgs. We
wish we oonld give the addresaes delivered by
aome of the foUowIg brethren ; J Wella, Gk Wyard,
John Bloomfleld, T. J. Meeser, B. Wale, J. Brant,
A. L. Gordon, J B. Craokaell, R. Powell, ThosMS
Smith, Joacph Phlmer, of Wcstminatert Joaea;
Batterfleld ; O. Webb ; Braeher ; Keys ; Bird ;
Whitteildge ; W. Moorto, Ivlnghoe ; W. Loag,
of Triag *, R. O. Edwards, of Sattoa ; J. Ray.
meat; J. Flory; Beaooek; J. Rowlaads, ef
Clapham* and others; bat they would more than
fill op this aomber; therefore as asaal, oar
pride mast he mortifled, and their noble senti-
ments mast, in measare, pass away with the day,
bat to them, and all oor f^ienda who did attend ;
or who have otherwise shewed their kiadaoM,
we sineerely tender the deepest gratitada of heart.
—En.]

(From a Correipondeni,)

Tha fonrteenth annual meeting in oommemor^
tion of the establishment of the Eabtbsh TyssxL
and CaaiSTiAM Rkcosd, was held in Unicom Tai4
Chapel, on Tuesday, the 4th day of January. It
waa indeed a glorious day. There has searee
passed a ' Vbssbl day* when we have not been
present; batweaever witnessed sueh a scene as
that meeting on the first Tuesday in 1859. There
was tho greatest cause alike for weeping and re*
Joiehig. Very many who once took active part la
theae meetings, have been called to f heir reward.
William Allen, has exehaaged his, < who can tellT*
for * who'd have thought it!' James Raynsford,
has thrown away bis pilgrim's staif, and waUu now
with hia Heavenly Master : John Stenson, has
ceased his earthly song to Join in the mighty and
everlasting chorus of • Worthy the Lamb.' Wil-
liam Skelton, too, with nobler powers, has joined
that happy throng. Man^ others we might ana-
merate, bat we forbear. BulBoe it to say that
these were among the first and warmest Qiends
of tho Vsssn., and their memory Is blessed. Wcl^
very early in the mbmlng the friends of the

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TKSBvt, were beitiRiBf themflalve^ and shortly
mti^T 9 o'eioek a snaU aMcmbly nad gathered
th«m«eWes together in the ancient Chapel of Uni.
cam Tard, the soeoe of the pastoral labours of the
£ditor, vben aetcral earnest appeals were offered
•t the throne of grace on behalf of the hook and
ItB Editor, after vhleh, oar young and esteemed
Mend Mr. John Pella, of Soho Chape!, Oxford
Street, was to deliver a short address on
' Tike Necessity of all Truth-loving and Christ-liv.
tag Brethren, strivitig together to Unily and a
Persevering Co-operation for the Defence and Dif-
fusion of nocestant Principles and ^eir Testa-
Bent Order/ bat it was defeired until the
afternoon. At eleven o'clock a pnblic service
comacnoed. when Vr. James Welle, preached
fy«mi Proverbs vflL The congregation seemed
bi«lily delighted with this praclTcal address of the
pasror of the Surrey Tabernacle. He was par-
tlenlarly happy ; James Wells was hid behind his
master. At the close of the morning service, a
large eompany sat down to dinner In the school
rooos ; and In the afternoon a pablic meeting was
be14 in the chapel presided over by the Editor:
vbea several interesting addresses were delivered
by Messrs Pell^ BkwmAeld, Smith, Meeser, and

jFneniHG vxKnNo.
At half-past 5 o'clock, Ua was provided in the
dMpet, of which between three and four hundred

hour was thus pleasantly and
nacftaily spent ia sodal intercourse; all seemed
happy. At the termination of tea, thanksgiving
was song ; and the Ubles cleared for the great
event of the day, for after all it was the evening
mcettng which was truly to be called ' the Vbsskl
■fceetlng.* Although a very spacious platform had
been ereetcd, it was tu too small to accommodate
the large number of ministers who were present.
9nch an assemblage of gospel ministers we never
rcaember to have seen— no not even at a Surrey
nhcrnaeie annirersary. If our Editor has any
pride at all, and we do not think him quite desti.
tate, it must hare been warmed when he took his
PHitiaB on the putform that evening : surrounded
tnr a perfect host of Levltes ; ana the chapel
tarottgvd with a company gathered not only from
in quarters of the metropous, but many Ttom dis-
tant parts of the country. According to previous
■naoancement, Mr. James Wells, occupied the
ehalr ; among the mlnisterB present were, Messrs.
C. WoUscott, O. Wyard, B. B. Wale. T. J. Messer,
J. £. Ciacknell, J. Pells, J. B. Bloomfleld, J. Brunt,
fte. A hymn having been sung, Mr. Cracknell offer-
ed piravet, the chatrmaathen addressed the meeting.
IB dmag so, be expressed the great pleasure he
experieaccd In meetmg with so many brethren in
the jninistry; espedaUy he congratulated his
~ ' 1 npo* secdBf so lu|i an assembly
It was a certain proof that the

was highly
himaeff he

that he

vadly sou ¥» himaeif he ooald si^ tt
liked it OMra and more. There were oftesi
iBMrtcd which he did not like, bat they were
■ore than eooatnbalaBeed by the many things
which bddid like. The Editor, ia his nnbooad-
ed charity, would aow and tbea puff up some-
hody they thoaght lie shoold not puff np; he
wold aow and thea Insert sonethlng they thonght
wmM have heea better left oat, aad he (Mr. Wells)
had psished hisa (the Editor) coaxed him, sqaeesed
hiai, and threateaed him- bat it was all to ao
par p «Me he was immoveable; so that after all, he
was really aa iadependant nuui ^ aad he was glad
sa maay miaiaters had that day oome forward to
svayort hia ; aad they had a right to do Mk for
tlHre were very away miaisters ia the land
who woald aerer have heea lieard of if it liad aot
beea for Taa Caaraxv Tasasi.. He should aow
eaU apea Mr. Baaka to state the preseat position
af the « Vessel.' The Aditor thea arose, aaiid the
piaadita 9t the assembly, appsreatly overcome by
e which preeeatad Itaolf tohis view. With
"s p ioesc d s d tostala the

eircamstaaces under which ho was induced to
commence this publication, and the almost insu-
perable difBculties which ho had to encounter
in carrying on the work ; and when he contrasted
nls circumstanoes, when he commenced the work,
with his present position, he was astonished. It
was not commenced with any view to supersede
existing periodicals. The •Gospel Standard*
was commenced with gold and mflutnce; the
Yksskl had neither; and he had no notion
whatever that it would ever have occupied the
position it now held. Some people had said to
him, * If you were doing It at a loss, why did
you not disooniiane it V In reply he would ask
another question, * why did not they give up their
hope V Many and many a time he had determined
to giro it up, when in stepped a friend with assist-
ance saying, < you shall not drop it.* Thus it was
kept on until through a serioas mtsunderstanding
between hia stationer and another creditor, he was
throwa iato the Bankruptcy eourU It was then
diseoversd by the official assignees that if the
whole of hia estate was realised there was sulB-
cient to pay every creditor 20s. in tLe pound.
Then those who were the instruments of placing
him in that OouH, begged him to come out again,
aad the baakraptey flat was virtually superseded,
•ad the business placed in the hands of trustees.
At that time the copyright of the Vessel was sold,
with other publications, to the Bev. A. L. Gordon,
for the sum of £250; and the fact becoming known
that be (Mr. Banks) had ceased to have any inter-
est therein; the sales declined, and there was
every reason to fear they woold go lower and lower.
Under these circomsunces it was deemed advis-
able to repurchaMc the ' Earthen Vessel' and it was
accordingly so repurchased by him for the sum of
£250, jwyable by monthly instalments; and in
Mareh, 1856, a public meeting was hold, when a re*
demptloa fund was commenced, by which a sum
of £113 had been raised, and £100. 16s. paid off
the £250. The Vessel was now made over to cer-
tain trustees and would be secured to the churches.
He had been libelled much ; calumny's foul tongue
was ever uttering vile aspersions, but hechalleng*
ed an inTCstigatioa of his every act, and he
prayed that he might yet live to see the day when
no man ahould be able to say to him, * Par me
that thou owest.* (Loud applause). The Chair-
man was sure every person present must be per-
fectly satisfied with the very lucid statement'of the
Editor. He was satlseed it would not be long ere
the redemption was completed : and he hoped that
when that was completed, they would show their
brother BanJu that they valued his services which
he had rendered for so long a period without any
adequate reward, but the reverse. He should be
very pleased to put his name down for £5, (cheers)
and he knew that many would follow his example.
He should now call on Mr. B. B. Wale, formerly
lecturer at the Great Globe, at Leicester Square,
but now a preacher in the upper chamber of tos*
pel liberty at Reading, to speak on the religfoas
literature of the day. Mr. Wale, said, that the
earnest address of the Editor, as he described the
fesrfal storm, in which the Vessel was laonehed,
must have fonnd its way to every heart ; it had
oaased tears to flow unbidden from manv aa eye,
aa it had from his own. Whatever might be the
opinions of others he felt that they had no maga-
sine equal to the * Vessel, and he loved both the
book and iU Editor. Mr. Wale then delirered e
most eloquent address upon the subject before him,
which we cannot here describe, but which we
hope to give. Mr. T. J. Messer in his usually boId«
poetie, and racy style, next addressed the
meeting, and succeeded in holding his aadience In
almost breathless saspenee as he told tale upon
tale to illastrate his subject. At this period of
the evening, the Kev. A. L. Gordon, to whom the
* Barthea VcasCl' had beea sold, wss introduced to
the meeting. Ue spoke of the many eiEorto he
had made to prodoee cheap religioas works for
the people ; and the imagwasc hMses he had sos^

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Uined in to doing, wbereby he was able fblly to
symtMithize with Mr. Banks, in the trials he had
undergone. He was pleased to see so many friends
around the Editor, and hoped they would speedily
free him from his thraldom, in which ho would be
willing to meet them to the utmost of his power.
In business transactions with Mr. Banks he oould
bear his testimony out, he was a man of nnflinoh-
ing honesty, and perfect integrity. The meeting
was further addressed by Messrs Wyard, Pells,
Bloomfleld, Brunt, and others ; when a coUeetion
was made ; and a happy day closed by singing
* Grace I 'tis a eharming sound,' &o

[SivcB the meeting on Jan 4, kind letters hare
oome In. One of our best friends request Inser-
tion of the following. We must not deny. —

DxAA BaoTBXft Banks— Cheer up; we bsTc
heard of your great meeting in support of the
£AaTBBir Vbssxl: the Lord is moring in the
hearts of the people ; here in the weet many have
a strong desire that brother Ck>llltts, at How
Street Chapel, Plymouth, should get up a pub-
lie meeting, to support you ; and we, God wil-
ling, mean to call a meeting Tery soon. I find by
the Tolce of the church of God in the three towns
that the Lord the Holy Ghost abundantly blessed
the preached word through yon, while bear last
month, there has been much good done by you
visiting lu, CTcry heart in the quickened family
of God seems to rejoice who heard your toIcc in
answer to many prayers. We heard the sound
of the gospel, and drinked in the fulness of it by
the operations of God the Spirit, and are llTing
witnesses that you was sent by the Lord of hosts
to stand between the living and the dead in the
strength of the Lord to feed, and in the mi^esty
of the name of the Lord your God. If your dear
people give you a month In the year, I want yon
to oome down to visit the flock again, and to go
into Cornwall, from whence I have many letters
from dear souls : not a man of sterling ex-
perimenUl truth in all the country that I hear
of, to preach God's truth purely, but all yea and
nay trumpery. 1 can get many doors open for
you, and great good Is likely to be done by cir-
culating the Tbssbl where it has never been
heard of. May the Lord make a way for you, and
go with you in the paths of righteousness for
Christ's sake. Tours in love of the Gospel,

JOSBTH GnUMSLAOB.

HOBWICH.-THE GOSPEL PREACHER EN-
COURAGED AT NORWICH, [From many parts
of England of late, our letters are anything but
cheerful. The following by a friend from Norwich
conunands the thanksgiviiags of our heart. Zu]

'Mr. Editor, believing yon rejoice to hear of
the good of Zioo, I give yon a faint outline of a
social Tea Meeting held in Orford Hill Chapel, on
the S7th inst : about 180 persons partook of a well
ordered tea ; which elicited a vote of thanks to
the managers. After tea, more fHends assembled ;
when one of our members, Mr. Barber, was called
to the chair, and the public meeting opened by
Mr. Oorbttt, then after singing, Mr. Joseph Field
addressed us, at some length, and was led very
sweetly to expatiate on the unity of the Spirit,
and the bond of peace : he spoke very feelingly
upon the state of Orford Hill about S4 months
back, and of the spirit of prayer that himself and
one or two others felt th«t the Lord would remem-
ber them In their low esute, and oould now re-
joice and say as Hxanah did to Eli, " I am the
man, and we are the men that stood here pray-
ing.^ 4fter again singinx, Mr. Barber repd a
statement of the expenditure for alterations, re-

pairs, and other matters, oonsldered as extras,
showing that above £100 had thus been paid,
besides the support of the minister, who expresses
himself perfectly satisfied with the salary he has
received. The report weut on to state that all
this has been done by the free will olTerings of the
people ; we have also established a sick and burial
fund, which is in a good state as regards finances,
but the greatest cause of all for rejoicing is in the
fact that during the last 18 months, sixty six per-
sons have been added to the church, such as we
have reason to hope are saved in the Lord with
an everlasting salvation. Mr. B. then made a few
remarks upon boasting, shewing that although
boasting is excluded in regard of any thing we
can of ourselves perform, yet that the Chrbtian
has a right to boast of what the Lord has done for
him ; therefore we do desire to speak of what the
Lord has done for us personally, and unitedly as a
chuBCh of his own peculiar care. Another verse
or two was then sung, when one of our constant
hearers and supporters, a Mr. llott was called
upon to address the meeting, and gave us a very
able and oonsistent discourse upon charity, shew-
ing the vast difference between the so-called char*
itr of the professing worldling and the real charity
of the true Christian ; also explaining the various
kinds of charity, in regard to words as well aa
deeds, with a few simple rules for the guidance of
the charitable: and concluded bv expressing his
thankfulness for the privilege of a sound gospel
ministry, and his determination with God'e help to
abide fast, as Ruth did. Two verses more were
sung when Mr. Corbltt, our esteemed pastor, gave
us one of his heartiest addresses, selecting his
subjects fh>m those of the preceeding spe«xers ;
it would be in vain for me to attempt to give yon
an outline of what he said; you are aware ho
sometimes sars a good deal in a short space of
time, Bufflce it to say that he feels overwhelmed
at the honour the Lord has put upon him, and de-
sires most heartily to render unto him all the
praise ; feeling perfectly confident that it was of
the Lord that be ever came amongst us; and the
church is now comparatively a new church, and
is conducted more in harmony and Ooepel order
than ever it was before. The meeting concluded
with prayer. A collection was made for the bene*
fit of the sick fund: and thus ended a pleasant,
and a profiuble meetinc. May we have many
more if it be the holy will of our heavenly Father ;
our earnest prayer to our God is, that we may go
on ftrom strength to strength, till we come to the
end of our pilgrimage; and then find beneath ma
the everlasting arms.' A. B. C.

Norwich, Dec. 28th, 1858.

WHITTIBSEA.-NEW YEAR'S MEETINO.

The periodical return of the entrance of a minis-
ter of the Ooepel, amongst a people may well be
obeerved both by him, and the people, by an oboer-
vance of the hind of God in their midst. Nay, I
tell yon that such a period was pleasingly obser-
ved, on Monday, Jan. Srd, bv the minister and
fkienda worshipping at Zlon Chapel, Whittleeea,
it being the fifth anniversary of the beloved pas-
tor's settlement amongst us. Mr. Forman, of
March, and Mr. Whiting, of Needingworth, aeain
visited ne. In the afternoon, the members of the
church met for fellowship, and prayer, when a
short sutement was given by Mr. Ashby, of God'e
dealings with us as a ehurch, which was very
pleasing, and encouraging; after which the mem-
oers partook of an excellent tea, kindly provided
by Mr. Aahby. In the evening, a good con-
gregation assembled, after singing, and a tmly
•plntoal and earnest prayer to the God of our
merdes ; Mr. Forman was ealled upon, to address
the meeting, and to shew some of the pleasing signs
of a gracious state, and the fearful marks of nn-
regeneraey.' But Mr. F. said, he had somethiBf
else to say, and to do first, and that was thai the
friende at WhitflesM, loved their minister, and
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ziovs to tet kioa kaow It in another finn. Mid re-
qscflfted him to preeent the pMtor with a parse,
aad iu oonleote, and he felt yreat pleasone in
dtnac ao, ea he kiiew it waa an expreasion of their
alaoarf tore, and eaneat affeetion. After Mr. A.
is a fev words had affsationateiy acknowledged
kia felt debtocship to hUOod, and the friend»,
Mr. Forman gave ns seren spiritual aigns of »
atete of grMet followed b/ several fearful marlu
ml osregeneraey. Another hymn was aong, after
wUeb, Mr. Whiting gave a very solemn deecrip>
tkam of the fntnre abode of the wieked; and
■onnn aonl-^eering words npon the future inheri.
taaon o( the aalnta ; when our minister gave us a
fev worda ahawing how tenderly God had dealt
wUh, na aa a Chnreh, aa not one of the members
ImA been removed bjr death, through the year;
amd only two flrom the eongregation ; while many
ted been added to both ; but he aaid he oould
bnrtfly cnfeourage himaelf to hope that it could be
■n thRM^h this year; aa many of his friends
marked by old age, and were drawing
Bear lo their * Heavenly Inheritenee.' And
, after einging that very sensible hymn, * All
knil the power of Jesn'e name,* we lingeringly
left the hooae of God,— for though young in rears,
nad fta the waya of the Lord, my heart cleaves
aftiefMinarily to hia hoose, his ordinanoea, and
kia people, who hath shewn so much mercy to
«■• who la— A LaAanan.

Whiftlseea, Jan. 7, 1859.

I For thia neat report we thank * A Learner,' and
aflen hope to hear from her of our much-loved,
and greatly favoured brother Ashby's good suoeeas
la the goapoL Bo.]

GUK8F0RD'— 1>XA> Baornta ; The chnroh
have again iovited me for three montba, after the
cnpiraUon of my present term, which I have ae-
•cpled. The ground of my aeoepting the extended
term is the Inereaaing attendance which has
reached its utmost bound on Sabbath afternoons,
far want of room ; the week day services at home,
aad at oar atationa are greatly increased, and the
anmber attending the prayer meeting more than
daaMcd ; one and another are coming to declare
what the Lord ia doing in their souls, so that very
ahortly we mnat tronble the water. From the
happy change which the Lord has wrought within
aa, firom the wrestling apirit he has given me,
from the great sweetnees and power the word of
Ood baa been to me, and from the solemn confl-
danee he haa possesse d my soul with, I am persua-
dod hia hand te with me. I have had a long wll-
decvcaa aiato ; but, bieeaed be his name, I And the
trath haa bean eweetly aoeompliabed. Hosea. ii.
14 -"SOl And I am now waiting to see the olose of
I chapter faUlled with reapeet to this little cause
re. I have organised a elasa of my young
tor iaatmctaon in Biblical literature, in
hopa of obulning a band of fpiritual and intelll-
gnat ■abbath aehool teachers, which will prove a
^rcry valaable acquisition to the cause here. If
we eoald hat obtain a reading people the demands
fv yaaraMathllea would be inereaaed. The Lord is
■Daweriag tha maay netltlone so frequently sent up
by oar lamented and Justly eateemed brother, the
lata paator of the ehnroh here ; praying breath ia
aat met, aad eepceiaUy when it la so in unison
with Ood^a graeioaa promiaea of mercy to bis

la my aast, I hope to send yon
joyAil tidlnaa. Till then I am, tout's in
.JotaTBAJf , (focBWlj OB the ' hoQse top,')

TAXKLT, HAHTB.-Knowing yon take a
Uvely latcreat in the cause of Christ at Tately, I
Isrward yon an aeaount of our meeting on Chrlst-
. Oar fldnister preached to ua in the
r aad evening : in the afternoon we had a

aortal meeting; a hynw being aong, our senior
poarcd out hia sonl in earaeat prayer,
with praiec and thankaglving. Other
■poke of the goodnaae and merey of Ood

■daclcd

MhM

In bringing onr mlniater, brother Ferrett, amongat
us, in bleedng the word to ua, and inereasing Uie
chnreh with twelve additional members, most of
whom have been called and set at liberty under
his miniatry; also in preserving our p ea c e and
anion which although it haa been extended wider
tnd longer, yet it has not in the least degree be-
come weaker. At this point the meeting was ad-
journed, and the company took tea in the chapel,
afterwarda onr brother Stone, (on behalf of onr
female friends) presented oar paator with Dr.
ours Body of Divinitv, which drew forth from him
a suitable reply, and a few remarke from Paura
words, * he thanked God and took courage.'— An
iHHABrrAirr of Zoau.— [It is delightful to hear of
such good anecesa at Tately— aa peaoefU and aa
pleaaant a little gospel garden aa ever we saw.
Go on, brother Ferrett ; and the Lord enable you
to baptiae Dr. Giirs Bndy of Divinity in the laver
of golden oil which stands in * the holy place ;' and
then it will both strengthen and rejoice thine
heart.— Ed].

WOOLWICH.-CARMEL CHAPEL, ANGLE-
SEA ROAD. The Lord is greatly blcMing the
ministrationa of onr dear paator, (Mr. Ilanka,) at
Oarmel. During his four years' pastorate, one
hundred and fourteen have been taken into
ohureh fellowship. The chapel contiauea to be
well flUed with an attentive audience ; power di-
vine attends the word ; and many will have to
blese God that he directed the hearto of his chil-
dren to ereet onr new and oommodlous chapel.
On the last Sabbath in the past year, eight persona
were baptixed in the name of our Triune Jehovah,
amongat them waa one young girl from onr 8a1>-
bath School. The Lord grant that we may not
only increase in numbers, but that each member
may be inereaaing in the internal adomings of the
Spirit, ahining as a light in thia benighted world,
holding forth the word of life. Our school haa
been in existence about two vears : we commenced
with sixty, and now number one hundred and
sixty. May we who are tcaohera, Im aaeiated by
the Holy Spirit truthfully, and snocesefui to in-
struct the dear children : may many amongst them
rise up a generation to serve onr God 1 Gratefully
and adoringly we exclaim, *What bath God
wrought!' whilat we still supplicate at hia merey-
throne, * Oh Lord, send now prosperity."— Amr.

NEW HOBTH BOAB.- SALEM CHAPEL
WILTOK SQUARE.— On Tuesday, Jan. Uth, tha
servicee commemorative of the paatora settlement
were held here. Our highly respected brother
Mr. Jamea Wells preached in the afternoon from
* neither shall any deaire thy land.' Ac. Hia dia-
course waa unflinehingly truthful and strikingly
inatmctive. In the school room under the chapel
a tea waa provided on the voluntary principle^
which appeured to be well filled with vlaitora.
ManT ministers were present. In the evening a
public meeting was held. The subject en-
trusted to the speakers waa *thc goodness and
merey of God exemplifled in the hiatory of Moeea,*
brother Fenlon opened the meeting with prayer.
Addreeeee were then delivered by brethren C. W.
Banks, Meeres, Attwood, Cracknell, Ball, Joseph
Palmer, and Williamson. The chapel was crow-
ded throQghout the erening. But it waa painful
to wltneaa the extreme debility of brother Flaek»
suffering still severely fhmi the weakening dleeta
of hia late affliction. The few particulars which
he was able to fnmidi respecting the progress of
the cause ircre highly pleasing, full of encourage-
ment, and spoke lovely to the soceesa and accept-
ance of onr brother'a ministry. May a covenant
God gracioualy hear prayer on his behalf, and
raise hUn up again to health and strength for far-
ther and increased nsefulnesa in his much-loved
Salem.— J. P.

BLAiCKHBATH, xiFT.— DACEB PARK, on
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Oneknell, who is labouring in this part of the
goepel vineyard, and not without laeoeM. The
friends seemed very happy, the ohapel was taste*
fully deoorated with ereryreens, &e., and all pre-
test evidently enjoyed a enp of tea. At a an mar.
ous sQbsc<|aent meeting, brodier CraekneU (after
brother Smith, of Wootoa, prayed,) gave an inter-
esting opening address, and introdaced the subject
of * Indivldod Bflbrt,' which was heartily respoo*
ded to by sereral brethren, who spoke in the fol-
lowing order : C. W. Banks, the loud call for
effort in the eanse of Christ ; 6. Wyard, the law>
f^l means to be employed ; J. Pells, the souroes of
encouragement; C. Box, the impottanee of prayer
aeoompanying efiort. The main object of the
meeting was to obtain means in order to procure
gospel tracts for general distribution by friends
ooKinected with the cause. Brethren Wyard,
Banks, and others, promised to supply a goodly
number of tracts to atart with, that this may
prove a step with us in the right direction for much
good under God's blessing is the prayer of-^Ova
wxo was PAMurr.

BZL8T0N.— A new Baptist cause is rising
here, a noble muster of Truth-loving Ariends re-
cently spent a happy evening together in Broad
Street, it would have pleased us well to have
seen their beauUfnl hall ; and to have heard onoe
more the happy and ready address of our old
friend Thomas Jones, under the presidency of our
voung brother John Lindsey. the present minister :
it was our honouraUe privilege to send John first
to Bilston ; if the Lord be pleased to make him
instrumental in eetublishingasound gospel obureh
In that town, it will be a sweet reward for our
toil. At the meeting referred to, the veaeraUe
bishop Veal, the powerful pastor Qwinneli, and
the faithful Ritson, took good part. When the
<Anroh is formed, we hope to have further details.

CHATTBKI&-At Zion Baptist Chapel, we
had a tea meeting for the members of the church ;
the first, slnee our pastor Mt. Wilklus has been
unanimously ehoeen to labour amongst us ; we
Uess the Lord, for directing his stepe to us. It
was on Monday evening, Jan. 10, (all the m«mbere
could not attend,) I think about ninety et^oyed
themselves: our beloved pastor said and did all
he could, by his excellent advice to promote unity,
and Affection amongst the brothers and sisters
present. We sung a hymn to that effect, and an
ezeeilent prayer was offered by one.of the deaeons ;
other meetings were proposed, and agreed to,
mhitHa. we hope will be Sot the good of the church,
the glory of God, and Ike eomfort of our paetor.^
A.L.J.

VSBTMIN0TSB.— BAPTIZING AT BOM.
MET 9FRKBT. On Lord's-day evening, Deo. 10,
18W, our pool was agaia opened, and the pastor,
Mr. Jos. Palmer, solemnly baptized two belierere.
One of the eandldates evinoed a resolute ihith,
after many yrars belonging to a pedobaptist church
in the neighbourhood, by gladly, though greathr
affiicted, following the Lord through his despised
ordlnsBse. The other candidate had testified, in
his confession before the church, that the pastor's
ministry hsd, through God's blessing, been instru.
mental la raising him from death unto lids. Other
inquirers are standing around. May the Lord eon-
ttnoe to go ibrth with his preaohed word la this
oorncr of his vineyard.

OOZXteS CHAPBIi, STBPirST &KSBK,
* Iota ' sends an interesting report, arising out of
Mr. Vaughaa removing from * Hephesibah,' Mile
End. to Stepney Green, where services were holden
on Thursday, Jan 13, and on the following Lord's-
day : the report came too late ; but we crowd in
this notice. Mr. Bloomfleld, and Mr. Charles
iHovell, preached on the Thursday, Mr. Vaughan,
Mr. G. Wyard, and Mr. BuseeU, of Austin Street, |

Keaehed on the Sttndny. The oongregatiooB md
e oolleetioiM were excellent. The prospeets of
Mr. Yaughan and his flriends^ in this new sphere,
are said to be most encouraging; his ministry
having been UReful in calling In many, a large in-
crease to the ehuroh Is anticipated.

CBAH8F0BD, 8UriblK.-On Lord's-day,
Jan. 9tb, four believers were baptised by our pas-
tor, Mr. John Baldwin, in the name of the Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost, io the presence of a large
and attentive oongregatlon : three males; and
one fbmale, the flr^t fruits of our Sabbath schoob.
The text preached from, was Acta xvii. 11, 'and
searched the scriptures dally, whether these things
were so.' In the afternoon, they were received
into the church, with a suitable addrees, and came
to the oriinanoe of the Lord's Supper. It was a
good day to many of our souls.

SOTHmHITRE.— An excelleiit meeting was
holden in Mr. Butterfleld's Chapel, on Monday
evening, Jan. 8, the first anniversary of hts pas-
torate ; during this first year, perfect peace, and
great prosperity have been enjoyed. Many sinners
have Deen called in, baptised and added to the
church ; and during this year, Mr. butterfleld's
friends hope to build their new chapel. Addressee
were delivered at the meeting by the hrehren P.
W. Williamaon ; B. Bowles, T. B. Psrker ; C. W.
Banks, and J. E. Cracknel!, on the Old and New
Covenants.

LITTLE MOORFIELDS. WHITE 8TRBBT.

On Tuesday evening, Jan. 18th, a goodly number
of friends surrounded brother Webb, on which occa-
Hlon several addressed the meeting on God's Build-,
ing.' Brother Wyard, on the Great Architect ;
brother Hazlcton, the foundation ; brother Chi vers,
the builder; brother Anderson, the materials;
brother Pells, the design of the building. The
happy meeting was opened with prayer by brother
Ben tout, and concluded with prayer by brother W.
Webb.

QX70ED STBEEtT^OHO CHAPEL; We

are glad to hear of our brother Pell's welfare;
al80 of the church, through his instrumentality.
He has on devcral occasions been in the baptistry ;
nearly SO have been added to the church during
the past 3 months ; others are enquiring the way ;
the church is (as it has ever been) dwelling
in peace; conregation steadily increasing; the
signs for the future very cheering,

BUCKS, COLNBItOOK.-On Thursday. Jaxt.
iSth, a goodly number of friends partook of a
comfortable tea in the British School Room, /kindly
lent for the occasion,) after which they adjourned
to brother Bruot*8 Chapel, when brother Pells of
Soho,) preached with great earnestness, In defence
of the cause of God and truth.

BLA]n>!FOlt0 8TREET.-0A Sunday, Jam,
16th, three sermons where preached in bebolf of
the Sunday School eonneeted with the above pNtee
of worship ; morning and evening by Mr, Bonnir,
late of Oxford ; afternoon Mr. Pells.

BHSlfTFOSB-^The OhurOh here have gtvoa
Mr. Parsons, (late of Cheshais,) an Invltatton
to supply the pulpit lor throe meattac, with a
view to the pastorate. It is hoped through his
instmmentaUty, and the LOtd^f bl«Mlag, the
csuse may be revived.

:8SITR.-At the Baptist meeUng in this little
fishing town, we had a happy time oa Tuesdiiy^
Jkn. 14th. C. W. Banks preached in afternooii;'
after tea, Mr. Bowlee, Mr. WalRe, and other*
cheered our hearts with good news. Our cauie Is
growing.— A Bsomrsatna.

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AS ENGLISH AlfNIYEBSAEY IN
AUSTBALIA.

Dbik BttOTHBS BASK»--6i«ce, merej.
aii'I peace be with Tou and ell the true Israel
o/ irod in dear old Enf^land, and wfaeresoerer
se-it tiered ihou^hoat this habitable globe. As
part of the bodj of Christ you will be gtad to
t:?«' of the prosperity of Zion in this, the ends
of the earth.

Suadaj, October, 31, 1858, was tbe first
anmTeraary of the Opening of the building
« hi'-h our God has given us, when our dear
PiUtdr, John Bunjan McCure, preached
m«~'min^ and erening ; we have not vet in this
t*'wn any of the Lord's ministers, with whom
our brother eould exchange Dulpits, or ask
to come and assist us. But, blessed be the
nanaeof oar prcdoos Immanuel, it is not bj
(oAtaral) might, or by power, but by my
spirit aaith the Lord*

On the following day, Monday Ist Novem-
ber ; we bad a tea meeting commendiig at
6 o'clock, which was provided by the sisters
on the ▼olnntary principle ; jm oharge being
made either for the providing or fbr the par-
tieipation thereof. Our collection amounted
to £35; which, considering the ^reat de-
prc^vi^n of buiinees, and the tr^fing time which
lus now for some months existed here, we
eovider very good ; and would desire to raise
aa Bbencxer to the goodneft of oar €h>d who
has brooghi as thua iar.

Brethren Alien, Ward, Stevens, ami Kat-
thewt, from Melbourne, addressed tbe meet-
iaj;; after oar brother Friend had given a
statement of our temporal affairs. It was
tml/ a blessed opportunity; the subjects of
the addreMni were Faith, Hope, and Charity:
with ui interesting aeoonnt from brother
Stevens of oar brother McOure's commence-
ment of ont-door preaching at home in Eng-
land, with brother Stevens as his elerk, some
18 years a^o ; and a review of the preserving
mercies of that Ood who hath said that he
will never Isave or forsake his people.

And now, I would say, *' come, let us
mMBify the Lord together ; for he is good ;
and his mercy endureth for ever,' for, al-
thooffh th*t threat and subtle fee halh tried to
make inroads upon J&iob, as he ever hath

ceeds from under the throne of God and the
Lamb; and bringeth healing wheresoever
it flows. May you, and 1, and all our dear
friends who love Zion for Jesu^s sake, partake
of the sweetness thereof : is the prayer and de-
sire of, yours for Christ's sake,

.TouN B. Etjuis.
Geelong, Anstralla.

N.B.— .\fy christian love to Mr. J. Welts,
Mr. T. Chivers, and those friends of both ccn-
irr«'gations with whom, either myself or my
wife were associated or connected, as members,
or otherwise.

[Beside the foregoing interesting letter, we
learn from another source, that brother Mo
Cure's first anniversary of his new Zion, was
a most happy and holy season—tho English
brethren all said— since they left home, they
had never before enjoyed such a joyful feast.
The times hsve been very trying in Australia ;
our brother McCuro labours m the gospel with-
out any reward of an earthly kind ; but as the
Lord owns his labours; and lengthens his
cords, we hope to hear he is entire^ devoted
to that work in which his soul has to truly
delighted for manj yean.-~£D •]

MR.

THB L1.TB

BENJAMIN

done, jet be has not, aad blessed bo Qod, ne
ver shall be able to tan a sheep into • goat
tbouf^h by eloibiiigthe wolf in the garb of a
sheep, he ouky be pemitted oftines to scatter
theoL Bat he who aeaketh out hie sheep in
tbm eknidj aed dark day, will take tfaem in
the onu of hia love, place them qa the ahoiil-
ders of his power, ana brini; them as^ain into
Ins fold ; take off the yoke from their iaw,
aad set meat before them t they shall near
his voice and shall fellow him in the days of
old, as in the time of their first love, and he
shall lead (bem by the rivers of etiil waters,
evea tbe watan of life, which runneth dee^^
y«a, so deecK as to go to the bottom of all their
siD, and poUotion, and wash H all out: and
yet an hi^ in its source that Satan and all
the adverse powers of hell Cannot reach to de«
file or stop tAe springing thereof; for it pro*

LEWIS,

Formerly MinisUi' of Trinity ChapeJ,

Southwarh,
Mb. Bonnbr, now sapplyin^r Trinity
Chapel, preached on Lord's -day morning, Jan.
9th, 1859, a funeral sermon occasioned h^ the
death of the above recently departed mimster,.
Mr. Bonner, in speaking of Mr. Lewis, said— >
*' I regret there is no one more competent
than myself to perform this dutv. la what
way he was brought to the knowledge of the
Lord, I cannot sav. He was in soul trouble;
was led to hear the late Mr. Chin, of Wal-
worth ; the text was, * That Christ may dwell
in your hearts by faith :' this was the means
of setting his mind at rest. In the year 1820, '
or 21, he be^n to preach: he was nearly forty
years a minister of the gospel. First otxiained
at Dockhead, over seven persons, in 1825.
The church at Dean Street, being in a low
condition, inrited Mr. Lewis; in 1829, tha
railway took the chapel down, and built the
t>resent one, where he laboured until five or
six years since :-^ftDm 1824, till 1853, being
twentv-eight er twenty-nine years— a lonff
period for ooe plaee, but it oame to an end.
Ihvtik this phwe, he went to Cottage Greea
Chepd. Buty for some time, he appeared
uawell; and, rather onezpeetedlv, in a fit of
coaghing^-hie soul psiMd away, m the sixty-
eighth ymt of his age— oa the kst day of last
year.'

MIBIAMlnrAfiS.

CffBinuv IlK8iONi.nov.— Died, on Friday
Morning, Jan 14, in her eighth year, the be-
loved child of G^rge and Hannah Wyard, of
Zion Chapel, New Cross Koad. Deptfoid'.
Our beloved little Miriam was the youngest
butnhie living : the hst often bom ; perhape
too itaueh its parents' pet ; bntOI who eaa*
hrtplaflnrwh«tiiii^|Ui^w^^" ' ""^

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innocently playfa], yet thoughtful, and fond of
eood reading! however, God has taken her.
We will not murmur, he had a greater right
to her than we. She was our't for the time
being, we will try and remember the loan
with thankfulness, and believing it to be taken
from all evil to all good, we will pray for
grace to say becomingly, ' rather, thy will be
done.'

Its mortal remains were deposited in its
own little dormitory, purchased for the occas-
ion, in the new Cemetry, Bokely Road, Dept-
ford ; a goodly number of old and young of
Mr. Wyard's friends had gathered together
on the occasion ; and our worthy brother and
friend Moyle, of Peckham, kindly officiated.
He spoke encouragingly to the parents, affec-
tionately to the brothers and sisters of the
departed, and wisely and judiciously to all.
In the domestic circle at home (he following
beautiful hymn of Steele's was sung.

< Father ! whate*er of earthly bliss.
Thy sovereign will denies,

Aooepied at thjr throne of grace,
Let this petition rise :

Give me a calm and thankful heart,
From every murmur free ;

The blessings of thy grace impart,
And make me live to thee.

liCt the sweet hope that thou art mine,

* My life and death attend ;

Thy presenoe through my journey shine,
And crown my journey's end.

G. Wtabd.
Thb beloved partner in life of our esteemed
ministerial brother, W. Gaunt, of East-street,
Greenwich, left him. and all here below, for a
better city, on Tuesday, January 18th. <* Her
departure was one of the most joyous, and
triumphant ever known :" so writes our bro-
ther, who hopes next month to furnish some
deUils.

TxB ObituaTT of the late Mrs. Pepper, the
beloved wife of Mr. T. Pepper, Minister of
ZionChapeL Newington Green, will be ^iven
in our Maron number. She departed this life
in a most happy, triumphant name of mind,
on the 16th ot last December,

"BEADING TBACT8."

' Smding Tracts, No. 2.' Robert Banks
& Co., 182, Dover Road.— A most awful at.
tempt has lately been made to east a elond
over the gospel of Christ, by a tract called
<The Lamb of God!' by oneHorton, of Read-
ing. Of all the specimens of daring perver-
sion of the Holy Word of God, this Horton'a
traet is the vilast we ever heard of. The
Ikct is, Mr. Wale's powerful and truthful
ministrations in Reading have thrown such
heavenlv fire into the |>eople there, that the
mongrcumen in the ministry are frightened;
and m order to allure and blind the people,
they are straining every nerve. Such miser-
able false glosses as this Horton has sent
into this word is enough to arouse the lealous
indignation of the whole body of God-fearing,
trutn*loving men in Christendom ; and were
we to hold onr peace, we should expose our-

selves to the most fearful condemnation. A

young mechanic in Beading, who styles
himself *■ A Lover of Truth,' has issued a penny
tract, entitled, ^ Horton' s Lamb of Qoi,

Weighed in the Balances, and Found Want-
ing,'* This 8 page penny pamphlet is wor-
thy the notice of all to whom the gospel has
been made dear. If a few additons could be
made to it, it ought to be circulated by tens
of thousands. We hope much more will

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poison.

AN AUSTRALIAN SCENE.

OcTOBsa Srd, 1868.

*They went down both into the water.* ACta vlii. 38.

Softly the river murmured by ;

The sunshine glistened on the sand ;
And many an expectant eye

Was resting on the little band.
To testify in Jesu's name :

Beneath the oross they meekly bow
And willingly to all proclaim,

That Jesus is their sovereign now !

Steep rose the bank on either hand.

And belted in the little throng ;
l*he limped waters washed the (and,

And wandered tranquilly along ;
And sweetly falling on the air,

Swelled fotth the voice of sacred song ;
And softly breathing words of prayer,

To silence hushed the listening throng.

Closed is the sacred page of truth ;

The word of exhortation past;
From manhood's prime to early vonth.

The candidates stand forth at last.
Our southern sunshine never fell

T7pon a holier, happier scene.
Hark ! now again the voices swell.

Enough our hearts from earth to wean.

Jesus ! the sacred wave has trod.

His people from their sin to save ;
And in the footsteps of our God,

'Tis sweet to pass the liquid wave :
And those who now his name confess.

And boldly in those footsteps tread,
Will find that he is near to bless.

His hand shall raise the fainting head.

And she,* who in her early youth,

Has meekly taken up her cross.
Responsive to the worn of truth.

Shall never, never suffer loesl
No — he whose sacred name she bears,

And in whose footsteps she has past,
Will guide her through a world of snares,

And lead her to his home at last 1
Mount Barker. Matixj>a.

At 'Salem' Particukr Baptist Chapel,
North Adelaide, six were baptised in the ri-
ver Tonens, Oct 7th, 1858. Our little *Sa.
lem' is greatly on the increase.

« A young ftiend of the writers.

Mr. Coien's pamphlet,'T^ Ssosn Baptisms'
is the best new work, we can recommend ' A
Doubter ' to read. It is to be had of Partridga
and Co. r^ \

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BAPn&U OP EDWABD SAMUEL, A CONVERTED ISRAELITE,

XX nrOLAND.

•n unofiud stir at Um pre-
ttOT pUoM. with ntSaranoe to
I of AiptUB. Mr. Biztar, of
Kottinghaa, that ezoellent and talented
janfWBitifho twj neeiidy, and ipeeday
too, Mm been eaUed into a Iubo and appar-
mmOj haopj field of oeeftilaeai in tho goepel
imefM, e? en thia Mr. Butter haa ' writUn
m hml^ Oft baptism ; and ?«j great paina he
kaa tafcoa to prore tbatbaptiam by immtr9ion
m % BieooDeeptiont and a great miatake.
Tbia TolaaM baa been wnt to na for reiiew.
We Mt tndined, at flrat, to eend it either to
Bfr. J. A Jooeii or to Mr« Samuel Gosens,
to wmUk it iq>, and fairlj to adjodieate upon
iti m a rtt e} bat ftaiiag tber wonld not ezer-
oie aaiBeMnt patience wftn the yomtf man,
«• hata reaolTed, Ood belping—to gi? e Mr.
Baxter a flur and an impamal hearing ; and
to fandah oar readers with a righteoiis re-
Mt; thia will be no easy task; for Mr.
Mzter haa gone so deep into natoral history,
a, and eostames, and
1 thoee Goliatha against
^ . Thon, of Winoheater,
high aovnding antagonism haa re-
mm^ been a Uttle teeted and hnmbled too
bv Mr. Chappell, the able baptiat peator of
the same oityO that it will not be an easy
itdar to wade throagfa the whole of Mr.
Baziei^B ovidenee. There iaako Mr. Tatham,
of Kaatbiiume, and others, on the aide of oar
c ype a i i nts ; and at the reeent annifersaiy of
the CMcenwell Goqiel Sanetnary, there was
tba ▼enerabla Frederic ^Q^ar, the meek and
etaady /ay, of Grove Ghap^ ; and the noble,
and lief film neJ Mr. LnCTin, all nniting to
Bttla oontempt opon na poor and

JMSMr naa gone so oeep
into national emtoms,
haa iiadao largely all tl
hajtJM (soflkaaMr.Tli

aaah doipiasd bantiats: and sooh sneering
apiadaa aoau of tkem send ns ! enongh to
■■ka sneh titda folk aa wa are, to tremble

. were it not for the nnahaken
pwMWHim which we cannot get rid of that
Iba woida of the late Dr. Golliar, of Peckham,
sptAaa aa ther were to a departed friend of
oina, who^ beug called onoer the doetor'a
aumsCry, and yet beixi^ afterwardi conTinoed
of the troth of the immersion of beUerers,
haeeeehtag^y said to Dr. Golliar, * my dear
paolor, doteUase foaraundr 'Mymind,'
aaii tba Dr. 'u iiii^^--0u Aytfute htm M
tf# Wmo TmUumeni m iMr fuCr; bat we
JUapeodants being called into oar present
Bositum we cannot aee our way oat of it!'
That waa an honest confession, at any rate ;
ami ao it ia with many of theae good brethren
of ooia : they hope we are wrong : and yet |
Voi^ XV.— Ko. 168.

snapect we are rt|[ht; bnt anises thiy were
prepared to saorifioe a greatdeal, iteif dare
not confass it :---ao they it on. ^ ^

It is aingolar enoagF^<^e Uttlh po'''
who apMarad so happy^^tlf Joha Jr ^^
Isle of ratmoa ; and so Msy there in 1
ing <The ScTen Seals,' tfitt we^pspectA ho
wonld have delighted hinUSlfalM.ttxaiisanda
of hia readers, with the bM&^ inysteriea
of thoee snblime metapfan 'the whble
of thia Tear ; yet, to oar %iasement, ^e
has. witnont tel^granhio mdlsage, or an^
notice, ran dean off from llitmoa'' into
the preeints of Jordan— and this month
we find him going with all his hatft and soul
into the qaestion of Baptism, las to oar«^
selrea— in oar meditations'-^wa t^ve been
taken oaptiTC right aoroes the Atlatttio— and
there we ha?e witnessed one of the most
hearenly spectacles, that erer oar eyea be-
held, of things connected with the sewicea
of the Militant Gharoh apon the earth, and
this transporting contemplation has been
afforded ok in ue pernsal of the Tolnatoa
entitled < Th$odotia JSmert; or^ ihi fferime
of faith: ^ "

This Theodosia Ernest wss a most pflb .
young lady, as she would be oondaerel
among our lofty ^eral churches in Bag- *>
land. She was trained up by a mother moat
dcToted ; and attended upon one of the first-
class Presbyterian ehnrehea in America ; and
withall, she waa espoused to a young gentle-
man aa rigid in hia profiBssion of relig&n, aa
conld be desired. One Sabbath morning,
Theododa waa walking out ; she paased by
the ai^A of a ri?er, where a poor Baptist
preacher waa about to administer the orain-
anee of Bantism bv immersion. Theodosia
stopped to near and see : we beliefc the Lord
the Spirit came down, and sealed home the
truth upon bar heart. She went home to
weep, to pray, to search the word ; tncLord
(^ened to her heart His own will ; com-
manded bar to forsake all opponents, and to
follow Him. She did so. We here giro
the account of her going forth in the path*
way of a lofing obMienoe. She went to the
Bi^tist Meetii^. The minister took for his
text that mormn^ the words of Jnsua, < T$
Of mifJHemUf %f ydc whaUo09ir I eom*
mandfou: He ddirered a moat powerfol
sermon. Theedoaia heard it ; felt it; was ^
constrained by it The following extract
describes the soene which ensued : —

After the sermon, he came down ftom the
KUle platform, whio|i^^^(g^^fet4Kl for

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his oonyenienoe. uid •nnoaaoed the ohurch
u ready to reoeire applicationi for member-
■hip, re^ueeting if there were aiiT present
who desired to unite with it that they would
oome forward while the brethren sang a
hymn, and take a seat allotted for that
purpose.

Tne brethren immediately commenced sing-
ing the hymn^

"Tis religion that can five
Sweetest pleasures while we lire ;
'Tis religion can supply
Solid comfort when we die/

Before they had completed the first couplet.
Theodosia arose and walked to the appointed
seat. And when tbey had finished, the minis-
ter asked her to pre to the church some ao-
eount of her rehjpous experience, that they
aaight be able to judge of the nature of her
faith and hope.

My reader, who ia familiar with her
strength of mind, firmness of purpose, clear-
ness of conception, and habitual command of
the most appropriate language, can form lit-
tle conception of the surprise which was ex-
cited, as much by her manner as her words.
Sbe did not wait to be questioned, and simply
answered yes or no, as is customary on suen
occasions, but modestly arose and turned her
face towards the audience, and began to relate
in a low but still in a perfectly audible Toioe^
her experience of grace before she made any
profession of religion. The house was still as
death. ETcryeye was fixed, cTerr ear was
attentiye to CTcn the slightest modulation of
her Toiee. After describing in her modest and
simple, vet most ifflpresslTe style, her eonrio-
tion ana oonTcrsion, she paused a moment as
if to think of the propriefy of saying what was
yet upon her mind.

< And why/ inquired the minister, who was
ignorant of her history, ' did you not Mm'
unite with the people of Qod F*

< At that time,* she continued, * I had rarely
been in any other but a Presbyterian house of
worship. I regarded Presbjterians as the
true church of Christ Perhj4M I would not
be going too £sr if I should say, that 1 re-
garded them as the only bue church, or at
least as the only church that was not involred
in some most important error of doctrine or
practice. It was my mother's church,' and |
ner roice faltered and eyes filled with tears I
as she said it. * It was the church in .which <
God's truth had been made efibctoal to my
conversion. I had no shadow of a doubt that
it was th0 ehwrcky if sot the onip church, and
with them 1 did uniU. Nor until last Sab-
bath, did I ever hare a doubt that I was right
in doing so. Last Sabbath, you will recollect,
one of your number was baptised. I had
the curiosity to go to the rirer. As I aaw her
plunged beneath the water, the thought im-
presMd itself upon my mind, if that i§ bap-
tism, I hav€ never f>een baptised ; for what-
ever baptism mav be, it must alwavs be the
same — * One Lord, one iaith, one oaptism.

I went home and commenced a careful and
tborouffh investigation of the subject. I
found Uiat it was immersion, and not sprink-

ling, that Jesus Christ commanded. It
was this which Ha himself, as our example,
submitted to in the river of Jordan. It was
this which his disciples practised in his life.
It was this which he commanded atter his
death. It was this, therefore, which he re-
quit^ of me. I have not vet obeyed him,
but I deeire to do whatever he eommoMde me .
Mine ii. I humbly trust, the * obedience of
love/ 1 have come here to^dav, and that is
the first time in my life that I have ever been
in a Baptist church. I have come to ask yon
to bapUMe me, if you think me worthy, mo*
cording to the commandment of the Lord
Jesus.'^

*Why this is wonderful I' exclaimed the
minister, as she resumed her seat

* It is the Lord's doing,' rejoined Mr. Coui-
ney, * and it is wonderful in our eyes/

/ Brethren, what will we do in regard to
this application ?"

< I move/ said one, ' that she be baptised,
and received into the fellowship of the church.'

This was, of course, unanimously deter*
mined on.

< When will jou be baptised, my siiter V iih.
quired the minister.

'As soon as it may suit your eonvenience,
sir. I am ready now/

Then after prayer we will at once pro.
oeed to the waters side. Let us pray.'

They kneeled and offered up a snort and
fervent prayer, that Ood would own the or-
dinance about to be administered in his name
— bless her who was to be its recipient— fill
her with the comforts of the Gospel — ^make
her a Ihithfhl and useful Christian, and at
death receive her into his heavenly Kingdom.

When Satan finds that he cannot prevent'
the performance of a religious duty, he ofteo
strives to render its perftwmance as distressing
as he can. Theodosia had not yet left the
house, before she began to be assailed by tho
most terrible temptations. First came the
magnificent churcn, with its soft Ught, its
cushioned pews, its richly carpeted aiues, its
tasteful and costly pulpit, its deep-toned or-
gan, and its well-trained choir, which had all
her life been the accompaniments of her pub-
lic devotions. And she could not but con-
trast their rich luxurious elegance and com-
fort, with the rough platform, the naked, dirty
floor, the hard benches, and harsh, unskilftal
voioes which had surrounded her to-day. In
that splendid church she saw her mother
weeping over her daughter's apostacy— her
brotiier showing no interest in her fate — ^her
uncle, whom she loved as a fiither, and upon
whose approbation she had confidently relied,
vet he had not come near her, though she
had earnestly requested his presence — ^her
pastor who hsd taught her in childhood, and
prayed over her at her converrion ; and there
was vet another whom she scarcely dared to
think of. They were all there--all hs^y,
all united. She! was only a poor outcast man.
all— yes. yes, from all ehe Utoed, With her
own rash hand she had out the ties which
bound her to her kindred and her friends.
She bad left all the elegance so congenial to
her delicacy and refinement of taste. She had

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lifrof her fond, oliaging, lanng hesrt, and
here iha stood aloms mmoog iheie 9iramg§r»
viMOi tks fislt inntinntiTely, with one or two
aaeptioo% had ieoeely • iftntinHmt or a
tMte in ocwninmi with her own. Then, at ahe
to the river, thej paased the
» she and 1^. Percj stood on
the preriooa Bahbath ; and in a single mo-
nent what ▼istons of afllaenoe and ease, of
alflgant toeial enjoyment^ of domeatio joy;
all the happineaa of the loved and lovinf wife
eitending down thronjg^h manj lone and blisa-
iall years came vivuly before ner mind.
She eoaU aee nothing elae. She foigot for a
Moment where ahe waa, and why ahe came
Ihse. She walked on unoonaoioaaly. Unp
eoaaaooaly ahe took the offered arm of the
■iaiater^aa he came to eondoot her into the
liTer. The Umeh of the water reoalled her to
havad£r-«She paoaed, and anddenly withdrew
her ana, elaaped her haada together, and

1 up to IteaTaiii and so stood for aome
BBOBants, loai in ailent prayer. Thoap who
eoold aee her fSaee^ ohaerred the exp res s ion of

I and tenor, (which they attrihated to
a aatoial timiditj at entering the water,) sod*
dealygaToplaee tooneof joy and eonnidence
as Iha again phMsed her ann within the mm*
islsi's ud walked on-^eaua had heard her
pnyer: <Oh, Lord, aave me! gire me
atragth to naake all thia aaerifioe for Theel
IhoB art my fiarionr. Thou hast commanded
Ada. I do it in obedience to Thee. Oh,
lasre me not ! Help, Lord I I have no other
hslper-^llioii art mow mg alV And as she
mf ed, the risiona of earthly bliaa Taniahed
Oram before her, and ahe aaw Jesoa stretched
apon the eroas in dying agony, and he aeemed
IOMy,*Iboieali C&it for thee.' And ahe
thoaght of the worda of the Apoetle~« He
died for aa.' And aa she walked along, she
leaembend what Jesoa said, ' BU$§ed are ye
when men shall hate yon, and when they ahall
•^eratoyoa ftmn their company, and ahall re-
vrpa^ von, and ahaU east ontTonr name aa eril
mtkeBoBofama'aaake. Ucjoice ]^e in that
day, aad leap for joy, for your reward is great in
bearea.' * Aad every one that hath forsaken

y er brethren or sisters, or father or mo-
ther, or wifo or ehildxen, or lands for mv
aaoM's sake, ahall reeeiTe an hundred-fold,
aad shall inherit everlasting life.'

So folly waa her mind oeeupied with this
dsb^tftil thought, that she felt no further
■anefy.andnotthealighteat fear. And aa
iha waa lilted from the liquid grave, ahe
aoald not help esdaiming in an audible voioe,
< JaiKt, I timmb tks§r And then, aa th^
toned towaida the ahore, aueh a gleam of
beavflidy peace and holy joy illumiiiated her
beantiftil foee. that aeveral of the brethren
and sisters who stood upon the bank, aimul-
taaeoiialy exdaimed, * Blessed be the name of
the Lord!"

'Tee,' ahe exclaimed, 'blessed be His holy
oame I' — And suddenly she stopped, and with
s voiee wMeh waa naturally sweet and power-
folt aad had been earefoHy cultivated, and
pew waa rendered deeper and more express-
ive by inteoaity of fooling, she commenced
nagiag:

• ** Jeaua, I my oroaa have taken.

All to leave and follow thee ;
Friendless, poor, despised, forsaken,
Thou from hence my all shalt be.
And whilst thou shalt smile upon me,
Gk>d of wisdom, love, and mitfht,
Foee may hate^ and friends (usown me.
Show thy face, and all is bright.
Man may trouble and distress me,
Twill but drive me to thy breast ;
Life with trials hard may presa me,
Heaven will bring me sweeter rest.
Oh, 'tia not in grief to harm me.
While thy love ia left to me !
Oh, 'twere not in joy to (jiarm ma,
Were that joy unmixed with thee!"

The effect upon the audience was electrioal.
Tears streaming from every face; many
sobbed aad wept aloud. Among these waa a
voice which instantly fixed her attention.
She looked up among the assembly, and waa
aurprised to see that it had increaaed since
ahe started into the water to a great multi-
tude. The congregation firom several other
charohea had hurried to the river aa aoon aa
they were dismiiaed from their aeveral plaoea
of meeting. Foremost among the crowd stood
uncle Jones with her mother on one ride, and
Edwin on the other. It was her that she
heard ; for when she saw her daughter stand-
ing thus alone, and heard her sing, ' Friendless,
poor, despised, forsaken,* she lifted up her
voioe and wept Nor did she weep alone.
Strong men, who were not professors of reli*
gion, and who were thought to care for none
of these things, stood and gased at that sweet
face, all radiant with the love of Jesus, aa
though it had been the face of an angel; and
aa they looked, the h\f tears chaaed each other
down their unconscious cheeks. The br^
thren and sisters of the church wept; old men
and mothers in Israel wgpt. Toung men
and maidens wept Bat xheodosia heard
none, saw none but her mother. As she
came to the water's edge, that mother rushed
down to meet her, and daaped her cloaely to
her heart The brothers and sisters or the
church who were approaehing to give her the
hand of fellowship^ stood respeetfoHy aside.

' Oh, mother, do you— can you forgive me P*

* Don't talk so, my child ; I have never
blamed you. You have done your duty ; you
have done ri^ht Tou have obeyed your Sa.
viour— He will bless you. X with I had the
courage to follow your example.'

< God bless you for those words, my mother I
Oh I how full of joy my heart ia. He maketh
my cup. run over. Barely goodneaa and mer*
cv hatn fallowed me all tne daya of my Ufa
Undoj dear uncle, it is blsssed to obtjf, Oan't
you give up all for Christ P

' Mr. Courtney, I thank yon for jour teach-
ings. Now I hmtw I am baptised. I have now
done juat what Jesus commanded. I have
left all and followed him ; and Ueased be his
name, I have already that peace which paaseth
understanding.' And as the brethren and
sisters came crowding round to welcome her
into the communion of the church on earth.

ng asrain with that sweet, soul-thrilling
voice, to wnich the intenrity of hm feeUnga

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and utter mHi abaadonment, gare a ten-ibld
power;—

" Children of the linng God,

Take the stranger to your hearts ^
Let me dwell in jour abode,

Kerer more from you to part.
Can you love me P Will you help me ?

Help me on my way to God —
Can you love me ? Will jou help me }
Help me keep his precious word."

While singing, she continued to giyo her
hand to one after another as they^ came up ;
and as she finisbed the strain, a sister stand-
ing by aans^-

" Tee, come tbon blessed of the Lord,
No stranger art thou now-^
We welcome thee with warm aooord,

Our friend and sister tbon, —
The band of fellowship, the heart

Of lore we offer thee :
Leaving the world, tbon dost but paii

With lies and vanity.
In weal or woe, in \aw or care,
' Thy portion shaU be oars ;
Christians their mutual burdens bear,
They lend their mutual powers."
The minister propounced the benediction,
and they led her up the bank, and then each
went on his way rejoicing.

We must not gire another line tbia month ;
but the whole of Theodosia'a history ia to be
either given in * the Barthen YeBsel;' or iit
ebeap penny anpplementa ; ao that our
readers may aee for themselves the matchleaa
grace of God aa developed in tbia splendid
record of his power.

We have lately been looking again into
that Tolnme written by £. Samuel, the min-
tater of the Baptist Chorob at Salford, enti-
tled * The Triumphs of Christ on the Crou ;'
and there we read the following account of
hia baptiam. We give it in hia own worda.

' I will here digraaa a little, and give a brief
account of the manner I waa brought to aee
the ordinance of believers' baptism bv immer-
aion. During my atay in the late Mr.« Good-
cbild^a house, thia gentleman, being a lover of
the Of dinancea of the bouse of Gted, as well as
the experimental truths of the everlasting
gosnel, and who in truth adorned it by his
walk and conversation ; he would occasionally
bring forth the ordinance of bsptisnk He
had used to speak in a very kind affectionate
manner, at the same time with much fervour
and reverence. One evening wheo we were
converabg on the subject, Mr. G. mildly said
to me, " Mr. Samuel, have you ever prayed to
the Lord that He might open your eyes on
this sttbfeot, aa he haif done on the other parts
of the gospel?" I replied, ''No." He then
said, "It behoveth you as a minister of the
Lord Jeaua Christ so to do." This impressed
ray mind, and I asked the Lord to teach me
the whole truth, and lead me in the right
way ; and if thia waa the right way, to remove
my prejudice, and enable me to obey hia com-
mand : and thus prayerfully I waa enabled to
Bearch thoee nortiona of the word of God that
refer to it. I was acquainted at the same time

with a gentieoMHi who waa a Tery great friend
to me in temporal matters^ but a great oppon*
ent to the oroinanee of believers' baptiam. I
was quite sensible that sho«ld I be led to em>
brace this ordinance, I ahoold loee hia friend'o
shipy aa the event proved. Thia waa a mighty
barrier in my way, aa I very highly eeteemed
him aa a frimd. Aa I waa one day meditating
on it, these words came — **• Whoeoever he be
of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he
cannot be my diaeiple." 1 then began to eon-
template on these worda, which appeared to
signify that I must leave all fbr Christ, and
follow him in thia ordinance, whirti I waa then
meditating on. Here a new atniggle oom-
meaced between the fleah and the spirit. TIm
6esh and the devil said, follow me, and the
word of God toUa ua to follow Chriat; and
when that word oomea with Divine power to
theaoul, it breaka down all oppoeition, and
the living aoul ia enabled to trsad upon fleeh
and blood, and follow the Lorc^ not only
through water, but throujj^h fire.

As the conflict kept co mcreaaing, so earaeat
anppHeationa at a throne of graee also tn-
creaaed ; I trembled leat I ahouM embraee aa
error, eapeciatty as a preacher of the goapsl I
might be the meana oiF leading others aatray ;
thMc things cauaed me many groans, erica, an4
okhs. One morning as I waa going from
Hartley Bow te the railway atation, just aa I
waa ateppinr into the carriage these worda
came to me, I believe in the power of God tho
Holy God~"The bi4>tiam of John, whence
was it, from heaven or of men ? And they
reasoned with themeives, saying, if we shau
say from heaven, He will say unto ua, why
did ye not then believe him ?" Thia waa a
bleaaed season to me,it produced great humility
of soul and contrition of souL The sufforinga
of Christ in the garden of Getfasemane, were
opened unto me in such a glorious way, that I
never hud before nor ainee in like manner.
Being quite alone in the lailwav carriage, I
took out my Bible, and as I read I wept for
joy, all the way to London. I told the Lord,
tfadtt by the po ^er of bin graee enabling me, I
would obrp nis divine commands. I then no
more conferred with flesh and blood. AH
ftUore conaequencea, frienda and foea, I waa
enabled to leave m hia handa. I waa iM^tiaed
at Hartley Bow. I preached the aame even-
ing previoua to being baptised. The chapel
bemg very crowded, I waa extremely hot;
while in the vestry, a medical man who atten*
ded that place caaoe in, and told me that aa I
was so overhMted, if I were to go into the
cold water, it might prove instant death. I
repUed, "I wiU leave this with the Lord.'*
The joy of my aoul waa very great at that time ;
I, likb the eunuch, went away rejoicing^ in the
waya of God, having the approbanon of
heaven in thia ordinance.'

Widi the word of onr God for onr lamp
ta gnide iu— with the answer of a ^ood eon-
acienoe (baching bi^ptiam by immersion— and
with aach teatimomea aa theae, what ahaU
we tay to Mr. Baiter, and all like diaputanta }
There ia diredfyf and in^trtetlf^ a powerfnl
effort pat forth againat the lawa of Chriat'a
house. We muat neither be neutral nor
silent any longer. C^ r\r\n\o

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•PiMlowlB tb«8igbtor tk9 Lord !» the dMtJiof his MiaU.*

TBATbleaed promise which JesuB left on
record for the eneouragement of h» foilowen^
wmjmgf ' I TO to prepare a place for you : and
if I fo aai prepare « plM for you, & vill
sain and reeeiTe yoa unto mT^elf, that
. am, there ye may be aiao» has '^^ —

awMtly falfiUed ia the haroy ei^erienee of
the beloTed wile of Hr. Pepper. minUtei
of Zion Chapel, Ifewington Green, Middlesex.

Her raneomed and liberated soul took its flight
from the frail tabeniacle on the morning of
the leth Bee., 1868, into the hmg anticipated
mums of li^t and glory.

The occasion of hn converaion to God, was
a sennon from Malt. xtL 24. preached bj Dr.
Ooz, late of Hackney, while on a visit to
flhalhiwa And being led to a decision of
dmracter^ahe was bi^taced at the age of 28,
by Ber. W. Giles; but subsequently finding
hsr soul more profited under the mmistzy of
B«r. W. G. Lewis, of Zion Chapel, Chatham,
(now of Cheltenham) ; she contmued a useful
member of his church till her marriage in
1832 ; wboi with her husband, she united
with the Baptist Church, at QraTeeend, her
httsband being early chosen a deacon of the
dwreh. Bar\tnt and dUigence were soon
called into aetiTO operation for the good of
tho charok : for she would say, if the iLord is
1 to eall to office, he expects a faithfitl
ge of the duties connected therewith.
smMmm tToly. tfio wss uutixing in her efforts
fior the wellbeing of Zion. and the comfort of
the poor and afflicted wno enjoyed a large
abare of her sympathy, both in spiritual
eoneolatioii and in pecuniary relief*

In the year 184£^ March 3rd, she, with her
d united with the Baptist Church.
that day in Phillip Street, Kingsland
, London, subsequently remoTod to
ZuMi, Mewingtoa Green, of which ehurdi
her hfiihaad was on the i

day ordained

> now felt, she said, a hesTy rei^nsi.
bility resting upon her in the veir important
oAee of the pastor's wife; and earnestly
prayed that the Lord would give her sustain-
ing grace, and counselling wisdom, that she
might prove a real help meet to her husband
in the work of the ministry; and he a blessing
io the church. And in tlus she laboured
dihgently and prayerfully, being found in
BsasiM and out of season in her efforts to do
^ood. Tha distribntion of the word of God
IB the neighbourhood; visiting the sick and
poor; the prosperity of the Sunday Schools;
the saalovs attandanee at the prayer-meetings,
and partianlarly the female prayer-meetings
which she formed, and which proved a blessing
to many ; toaether with the prosperity and
barmonr of the chnrch, were subjects of deep
aoiidtuoe with bsr.

Ia Jf oT.y 1864, she experienced a severe

afflielioa, which prostrated her powers, and
threatened to put an end to all her labours
here ; and to translate her to that rest which
remaineth for the people of God. However,
the Lord araHou$lg spared her till now, to
testify of uis goodness and merer, and to
cheer her husbimd in his arduous labours.

There are some points in her experience
which are very aaeouraging.

1. The deoeased was an eamtH and affrn^
patkiHmg Christian. She was always anxious
to prove everything by the word of God, as
she would say the everiasting ccmeems of our
souls, are matters of too great importance to
be taken upon credit; we must have the
reality. The Scriptures were very predons to
her, mid she spent much time in their perusal,
comparing Saipture with Scripture, so as to
know the ndna of Oed therein. She was
very earnest in prayer; and was much in
seoret prayer: in merenoe to whieh she
would say, that the state of her heart waa
such as to require her to be often seeking the
Lord for preventing and sustaining grace.
She would firequenuy complain of Satan's
temptations; and yet she would say, * I think
we often attribute to Satan more than what
directly belongs to him, while it is really
nothing more nor less than the ooiruptions of
our own hearto at work. Satan is bad enough,
but we often forget that our ovm hearts are
as bad ; and we are too ready to throw th»
hUme upon him, rather than acknowledge the
depravil^ of our own hearts.

She laboured much to lead sinners to Jesus,
especially her friends and aequaintanoeo*
And many, particularly amon^ the young,
will have to bless God for the pnvileee of her
Christian instructions. Uer oapabuities fov
letter writing were great ; and her letters,
which were generally long, were so thoroughly
embued with the spirit of the gospel, and an
evident ardour of soul, to set fbrth and reoom-
mend the salvation of Jesus as the one thing
needful, and himself as the all in all things,
that ther were often acknowledged to be rery
powerftil appeals for the trath, and sources oif
much comfort and encouragement to those
who were hungering for spiritual food. She
well knew how to give a word in season to
the weary traveller. And no doubt many
will now prise and read over with inereaslng
interest and pleasure^ those letters of counsel
consolation, and encouragement, whieh they
were favoured to receive from her pen while m
the land of the Uving. Ilie poor and afflicted
of Christ's flock were objeots of her anxious
and prayerful concern. It was a source of
great pleasure to her to be able to contribute
to the neoeisities of the needy, and to soothe
the brow of care ; and many a day of heavy
fiitigue, has she joyfully spent in visiting the
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their mindly and rdief for thdr wanta. She
oftan azpreaied great thankfolnen after her
aerere aalietion, that the Lord had eo far rea-
tored her to be able to be driren ta the homes
cjf the afflicted ; and when unable to go her-
aelf , would take oare they were not forgotten.
2. The deoeaaed waa a rery imUlligeitt
ChrtBtiam Added to a well informed mind,
aoquired from much reading, prayerful itudy,
ana thoughtful obeerratioL ahe poaaeaeed a
moat retentiTe memory. Sne felt it to be a
good thin^; that the heart be eatabliahed with
graoe, leat it be carried about with direra and
Btrange doetrinea. In early life, the devoted
mueh tima to the reading of the aeriptnree, and
to which she often alluM, aa a great Ueanng
and a aouroe of much conaolation in her afflie-
tions. Bar exhortation to the young waa»
* atudy the ■criptureo^ and pray the I^rd to
give you an uiidentuidin||p m them, for they
are able to make you wue unto salration.'
ComparatiTely few women were better read in
the word of Qod, and had a more oomprehen-
BiTe and dear understanding of t^e mind of
Qod, in the Scriptures, than the late Mrs.
Pepper. The rery important prayer of the
apoetle (Eph. i. 17^19) was to a Tory
psat degree blessedly realised in her exper-
ience. In this respect, she was of great asaist-
ance to her huaband in the work of the min*
istry« who highly esteemed her knowledge of
truth, and styled ner his Qospel Conoordanoe.
She was a great lorer of Uie whole truth aa
exhibited in its harmonious economy in the
glorious plan of salvation by grace: and
would say, we sadly mar tlie beauty and
sweetness of this plan when we attempt to
add to it anv thing of our own. The evenast*
in^ lore of God, Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit, in the origin of salvation: the full^
free, and perfect work of Jeaoa Christ the
Son, in the Bedemption of his church; and
lihe efficadous work and ministry of the
Holy Spirit, in the hearts of sinners, aa an ea-
aential meetness for heaven and glory ; were
Stthjects she delighted to dwell upon.

And while always most anxiooa to prove
the reality of the Bpirit's work in the heart,
yet at the same time, she was strenuous for
the fruits and evidences of that work to be
Men in the life and conversation of the
Qhristian. She was a great lover of the preach-
ed gospel, when preached in its simplicity:
apart oom her own husband, whom she heard
vary profitably, there was no minister in
London whom uie could hear with so much
8atisfiM)tion as the Bev. J. Bloomfield, of Salem
Ohapel, Soho. She would frequently allude
to the benefit ahe received from his sermons,
and the productions of his pen, particu]arl;|r a
aermon he preached at Gheshun^ from lauah
Uii. II.— 'He shaU see of the travaU of
his soul, and shall be satiafled ;' which she
often said was one of the greatest sermons she
ever heard. She often said, there were three
things too much associated with the preaching
of the present day, which greaU^ offended her :
1, The hiding of the Truth. 2, The introduction
of ludicrous sayinn into the pulpit. 8. The
railing acainst other mimBten and people,
instep ofpreaching Christ.

(Iv 6« amended next month,)

EPISTLES TO THEOPHILUS.

Lvrm Lin.

Moat excellent TheophilnSi as yon are
now Ueom0 a BapHtL I inll, instead of going
on this month with ttie *< Seven SealBy'^^give
one, if not two, short Spistles upon Baftism.

Now, there is in each department bat one
Baptism, the baptism of Christ's death, the
Baptism of the Holy Ghost, ahd the ordi-
nance of Baptism.

I will notice, first, the Baptism of Christ's
death. Let us take first, as omr guide in thia
matter, Ps. xlii., every word of which ia an-
swered to better, and more perfectly by what
the Saviour endured, than oy your own per-
sonal experience and path; not but the
Psalm is beautifiilly descriptive of the path
of the real Christian. In truth, this 42nd
Psalm, like many others of the Ftalms, an-
swers the double purpose of describing the
path both of (he Saviour, and of the aoul
bom of Ood. But I ahall notice thia Pealm
now chiefly as setting forth the path of the
Saviour, espeeially his Baptism; or, which
is the same thing, his immernon into death.

"As the hart panteth after the water-
brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O
Ood." Who ever panted after God as he aid?
Whoever tiiirsted as he thirsted for the fiv-
ing God ? Who ever longed to appear before
Goid as he did ? and he 2om now appear be-
fore God for us ; and whose tears have ever
been their meat day and night, as were his
tears ; and who ao taunted bj the enemy aa
he was, saying unto him contmnalfy, ' wnere
lis thy Godr And when he remembered
' these things, he poured out his soul nnto
I God. Ye^ from his youth he went with the
multitude to the house of God ; with, the
multitude that kept holy day. Tet^ they
laid no hands on him as vet, because his time
was not yet come ; ana yet whoae aoul waa
ever cast down as his soul was caat down }
What soul was ever disouieted as hia aool
was disquieted } Infinitely short do we oome
in all our castings down, and disquietudea,
in comparison of his castings down and hia
disquietings ; yet he could not (as we often
are^ be moved fix>m an assurance that God
was his God. * Hope thou in God,' waa hia
own effectual command to his own soul,
while he waa sur$ of the j^v set before him ;
< for I shall yet praiae him for the help of hia
countenance.' Yet he had to go on again to
more work, more solemn casting down,
when bis soul should become exceeding soiv
rowftil ; *no sorrow ever was or ever can
equal it ; yet he would remember the God of
heaven and eartb, ' from the land of Jordan,
and from the Hermonites; from the hill
Mizar,' or little hill.

Now, my good Theophilus, if you know
not tchirs to look for these three ^cet 1 will
shew you. Look then at the^Saviour as just

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into tile depAi dMeriM In the
> Deep eelfeth unto deep.' Look
•t the SftTioor aa Hke the ark, Jast begin*
tag to be fQnonnded with the flood. See
haauuity tremble, and * >weat great drops
•f blood, ruling down to the ground.* See
the fonntaida of the great deep aboot to be
broken np! See the windows of hearen
aboBt to be opened 1 See him left by him-
ael/, like the Ark in a ahorelem aeal aa
there wai not another ark ; so there waa not
another Snrety, there waa not another Savioar.
If the one Ark fiul, all mnat fhtl ; so, if the
one Savionr^ the only SaTionr, ' the only
name given nnderheafen whereby we must
be aaTed,'~ir he fafl, all must ftuU No
doiaga omttidt of the Ark ooold save one
fife; they most be tfi the Ark; the Lord
hiaMelf most abut them in. See then
tha flanonr alone ; aee him by himself; and
than look at the <Aiw plaoea whence he en-
eowveth himself. First, the land of Jor-
Jn. But why the Immd of JortUmt Ah!
here it is, ' when he came np straightway
md •/ tiu tcaUTf and stood on dry land,
the hearena were opened unto him, and he
mw the spirit of God descending like a dore,
and lighting npon him ; and lo fa roice from
heaveot nj&ng, this is my beloved Son in
whoaa I am well pleased.' This, then, is
one pinee that, aa Man, when he waa entering
the derpeat of all gnlpha, that he would re-
member. *I will remember thee from the
lead of Jofdaa.'

How, look alao at the Mount of Transflg-
watioa ; this took place as is evident in the
northern part of Canaan, here called the land
ef the Hennonites. Here then, there came a
voiee from the excellent glory, — * This is my
beloved Son, hear ye him.' Then where
ahall we look for the hill Mizar,— or the
little hill aa the worda mean ? Where, I say,
dhall we look for thia litUe hill, but to that
little kill en f^eh stood the Temple at
Jerusalem ? when but a few days before his
death, eCandiny on thia little hill, he said,
'Father gloryiff thy name;' then eame
there a voice from heaven, wpng, * I have
both glorified it, and will gloriff it again/
(John xii. 28).

Thna, did Uie Saviour, as man, remember
God the Father from these three plaoea, and
thase three are all that are recorded, so
axaellj did he walk aa it was written of him.

Ton will eee that the opening of the
hssimii foihtotd npon hia Baptism : it was
when he eame up out of IA# waUr that the
heavens were opened, aa a pledee of what
shonld, and what aetually did, ana does still,
fellow upon his immersion into those depths
which, to mere creature power, are unfath'
osuble. Truly, on the day of Pentecost, the
heavena were opened, and hare ncTer yet
been doaed, and never will be aa long aa
there ia one sonl on earth thirsting for the
living and true God. Now, mind-^esua

was not nmtiMod in Jordan, but Baptised,
The Greek word for sprinkling ia raft^ffo ;
the Greek word for imnurMion is baptixo.
Now, I say, the SaTiour waa not rantiaed
in Jordan, but baptized. John need not
eome to Enon, where there was much water
toroM^tM, that is to aprmkle; but it waa
needful to come to where there was much
water to Baptize, that ia to mmerae, U
John had been sent not to baptise but merely
to rantize, it would have been quite needless
to go into a river like Jordan ; or indeed in-
to any river, merelv to rantize, but as he
waa sent to Bapiiu he went into the water
and Baptized in Jordan« It u not said that
John came rantizing, bnt baptising. It ia
not aaid, he that beueveth, and is ranlized
shall be saved, but, * He that believetb, and
is baptized ahall be saved." 'Ihe Saviour
did not send his apostles to teach all nations,
ranticing them in the name of the Eternal
Three, bnt ' hapiuina them in the name of
the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Ghost.' The Eunneh did not sav to Philip,
aee here is water, what doth hinder me to be
rmUtMid } but, * what doth hinder me to be
baptised.' It is not said of the three
thousand, that they that gladly received
the word were ranttMed, but bttpttMed, In a
word, no where in the New Testament do
we find a oommand to raniiUf but to baptite.
And so much did the Saviour himself think
even of the ordinance of baptism, that, not
only he himself submitted to it, but had in so
doing the presence and teatimony of the
Father and of the Holy Spirit. Nor ia thia
in one sense, much to* be wondered at, for
* the Lord delighteth in meroy,' and it waa
by the Saviour standing in our place, in his
immersion into death, tnat merey * over the
gnilty reigna.'- And tliia immersion of the
Saviour into death ia one of those tbinga
signified by the ordinance of baptism.

Therefore, yon can but feel justified in the
atep you have taken ; yon have the word of
God, the example of GJnrist himself, the testi-
mony of the Father, and the presence of the
Holy Spirit on your side ; and for you now to
turn from it, would be to turn your baek
upon Christ* a example, it would be to turn
away from that which Christ, God the
Father, and the Holy Spirit delighted to
sanction. An ordinance thus Divinely prac-
tised, thus Divinely owned and sanctioned,
and trebly consecrated. ** Not eveij one that
saith Lord, Lord, ahall enter the kingdom of
heaven ; but he that doeth the will of my
Father, which is in heaven.*'

But, let us come back again to our 42nd
Psalm : a Psalm that^ every real christian
knows something experimentally o(^ but not
so perfectly as did the Sariour, even with us
deep sometimee calleth unto deep. A
deceitful heart within, and trials, deep trials, '
and temptations without ; how often, have
these 10 awallowed na up, th|it everything

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Qodl J and tpaifml lecmi orenrhaliiiad and
lott, and, aa it ware, (mboarda» «r on brokan
maoea of the ahip we agajb get aafe to land,
bat we have nethinr to bout, azaapt that
aoddat it all the Lora holdeUi oar mm in Ut^
and ia£RBrath not onr foot iktallj to be
mof ed. What wonld have beoome of Peter
on the lea, if the Lord had not bean there
with him? So here, in Ghzirtf a Baptiam into
death, ia'deep ealUng unto deep; all thy
waTsa and thy biUowa are gone o?er me.'
Doea not thia look Tenr mneh more like
SopHtmgihvkratrtmnpt Here itwaathe
waten were ffathered together into mm plaet ;
theerimeaoi ^aat and latore agea met on
him, all penaltiea doe thereto, met on him;
tnxly these were noiiy billowa, mighty
waTea, and terriflo waterqK>iiti;no lorijp-
tnreaara aodiffleolt to opennp, or amplify
aa thoie which relate to what the Sanonr
endured. Well may the Bavionr ny to
Peter upon this matter, *Thon canst not
follow me now,' but let die mystery be
deep as it may, one thing we know, and
that ia that he hath (U^ 10,} drisd thia
sea, these waters of this great deep, and hath
made those d^ths throngh whiao he passed
a way for the ranaomed to nasa orcr ; so that
while there was sea left to drown the
^yptians, and so there are left sin and
wratn to cbrown thoae in perdition who die in
their sins. Yet, while tnerewas sea left to
drown the Egyptians, yet the Israelites, in
pasBiii||; throngh the sea werenot even rantised
or sprmUed ; for the waters wers a wall to
them on either side. They were immened
in the sea and in the dond, but not in a way
for the sea to tonch them* The flood could
not touch them who were in the Ark *, it ii
the ark that encountered and overcame the
flood : so here it was the power and presence
of the Lord that dried up the sea. It waa
the Xx>rd that carried tiie Israelites safely
throngh it : so the Safionr carries his people
safely through ; they were one with him, and
were, ahall I say nlatiTely, Baptised with
him, yet not in a way that touched them*

Thu then ia the way, and that you may
walk flrmly therein ia the aineare prayer of
A Ijttlb Oxa.

No. ni.

'* Wo Jkaoe iki$ troamnre fo oarikom om-
teU,^ &e^ &c These are the words with
which I commenced this ▼olome, and with
which I commenced another year in the
miniatry of the Goepel ; and certainly I have
found the truth of tnoie precious words which
the steward in Joseph's house addressed unto
the SODS of Jacob wnen they stood trembling
.before him — ^he said unto them— 'Peace be
'to you : fear not : jMwr Ood, and the Qod of
you ftither, bath ^Hmh fou troaoure m pour
$aek§,* Joseph's steward had learned better
things of his Master than many of the pro-
fessed stewards hare done in our day ; the

feeling of this man was like one of the
ancients^— who said—* HU fitbU''miitdod sMist
nai he enuked; tkeaf tmui be oomfarUd^ fie<
eaOiA&Md ;' and thu calls up in my mind a
drcamstance of very recent occurence, pror-
ing that the sweet Steward, (or AdTocate,—
the Comforter, or Dispenser of New Corenant
Meroise) in our 8]^tnal JoanPR'a bouse, does
not (aUf to give us Tre a ewre in onr sacks.

I had pMsed through a week wherein
Watts's passiTc <£•<* waa turned into a
poeiUvo ; and I did aay—

* Cares like a wild deluge haee ccme.
And sorrows like storms have descended.'

Saturday night airived ; weary and worn-
down in spirit— knowing I had three times to
preach the next day— and my sack as empty
as could be, I sat down to read the Bible.
My eye fell upon Isaiah vii. I read and
retired to rest: but after a short time, sleep
refodng to comfort me— and heavy anzietiea
rolling over me; the word whish the Lord
commanded Isaiah to speak to Abas, 'in thar
highway of the fullers field,' came to my
mmd, ^ Take heed, mtd he s«M/ fear naif
neither hefaini-hearted* fe, #c. Thia waa
about three o'dook on the Sundav morning;
I arose, went down to my study, looked into

morning and afternoon of that day I found
some of the ridiest treasure in my poor sack
that ever mortal man could e^Jov. In the
morning I wept and shouted too, wnile preach*
ing from Zephaniah's text—* Se trill reet im
Rie Loves' or, * B« eUeni heeameeef Sia

Bel

lovej And in the afternoon, * Ify
iemine; and hie deeire ie toward wte,* Oh!
Christian brethren ! how true it is, of all God'a
real sent servants. 'We have thie treaeura
in earthen veeeeUi that the e^celleneg of
the power might be (seen and known to be) of
Qod ; and not qf ne P And how good to a
poor minister's soul it is, to have that promiee,
realized, ' It ehall he in pm ae a weU of
water, epri mg ing np into eeerlaettng liftf
Here are three blessings in one promise:
— First, the Word of Life is •»««; inournew
and heaven-bom souls. Secondly, it is there
aa a deep well ; not a shallow or surface soft
of thing which the scorching heat of peraeeu*
tion or temptation can dry up ; which the
cares of this world might choke or stop up.
Thirdly, the promise says, * epr iuffinff np
into everlaeUng l\feP Oh, glorious truth I
At the veiT outset of my conversion, the
Prince of Peace, by the direction of the
lawgiver, diaged deep into my heart; so
that, near thirty years since, the love of
Christ in my neart, would so overflow,
that I could soarcety speak of bim, or
pray to him, in public or private, but my
feeungs would over-power me. This is weil
known to some now living. After my first
love had passed oS, as reauds its eftrvesdng
outbursts, and some hard winters came upon
me, I thought the well was dried up indeed ;
but, not so; it was sunk. deeper still; *We
haTC this treasure in earthen vessels.'

So many good brethren have come crowding
into the YBaanL this month I the Printer can
find no more room for me ; but not monUi I
am te have more space. / vjOOV^^

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TBI EARTHSM YBSSBL.

TRUE FAITH, AND ITS COUNTERFEIT.

Bt Mb. B. WALB,

Pastob of thb Baptist Chuiich, Bbaoibo, Bbbbs.

are

Thb Ibnowing vei^tr and important pa-
ir apcn * Faith and its Connterfeit/ was de-
iTeced in a speecli at the last annual meeting
of the E^BTHBV YsB8Bi« by Hr. 6. Wale, of
BaadiBg. It was listened to with hraathleiB
attaBtioB hj apwards of a thowuwd heareta.
▲i tho eeiwUwoBy a numitet appearaofle of
B K iifca t ii ni, pbMoio, and aBrpriie, ww
vaiblo aaMBgit both the people and tiie min-
who heard it More tnan one person,
in the meeting asking to have it pnb-
Mr. James Wells, (the chairman}
qp fO i Bo d himself jerj warmlj towards Mr.
wafey and hoped it would Se found forth-
•ooing. Mr. Wale has kindly oomplied;
nd we htte furnish our xeaden with the

Mr. Geeige Wyvd^afeplf to thia addrsas,
w hope lo notice ; and to uwert some por-
tiav of Mr. WyaRTapaper on « jwtifleatfoa.'

I>HAB Bbotitbb BijrKa— At the earnest
reooeet of brother WeOs, yowiel^ and many
ethar mimaterial bre tt iren, prewnt at the
a nee tmg vhere the aeooeapanynuc speech was
deiiwed, I send yon the snbetance of it, as
iv as I am able to reeall it^ for pablication in
Tbb BABffSBB VBasBXi. The importance
ef the snbjeet of which it treats can hardly be
eaagccfmted, cmiaideTins the entmeoos Tiews
whra are entertaifled eoneerning it ; the diffi-
cvl^r «f tfeatiBg it deariy and sat^Gftotorily in
ae tmnted a epeee, mar be better understood
fkan d e ee rib ed. Hew it has been aooomplirii-
ed, I mast leave your readers to deeioe. I
remaiB, meet cordially yours,

Beadiag, Jan. 86, 1(950. B. Walb.

Mb. Ckaisxait, abd Chbistiab F&ibnd6.
ne subject allotted to the speakers at the
preeent meeting, is ' the Beligious I4teratare
of the Age/ In the short space of ten
minutes or a quarter of an hour, which is the
utmost len^ of time I am expected to take,
it win be impossiblB for me to do more than
to touch upon OH4 ot its leading characteristics
teoTing its oither features to be taken up by
succoring speakers.

In adopttx^r this course, I shall single out
one of ita fkidamffUal charseteristics. some-
thing which amid all its shades of differ-
CBoe, on minor points, penrades the whole,
and which being fundamental, is the comer
stone OB which the whole buuding rests. I
xefer to its Tiews aifaUhf as constantly pub-
lished and enforced. Tuth has to do with
oar jastificatian before Qad; practically and
ezperimentally realixed, it inroWes an ao-
omttanoe at Qod*s bar of judgment; and
tne happineas of eternity.

How, eiTOiieotts tIows of that fiith, whiob

lies at the bottom of all vital godliness, is a
fault in the foundation, and threatens the
ultimate fall and entire destruction of that
building which is reared upon it; and this
fiiult we charge home upon the general Beli-
gious literature of the age^ and that almost
without exception.

What is the one prevailing £Mture of that
Literature? Bead any of our religious pe-
riodicals, any of our great rdigious books,
or the reported sermons of our most popular
preachers, and what is the one thing that you
nnd repeated again and again, ad nau9$am t
Is it not exhortations to Indiscriminate read-
ers, and to indiscriminate congregations, to
'beHeve! believe! believe! have fidth?'
IWng up a pamphlet the otiier day, written
by an Independant minister, my eye just
caught the closing sentence, 'aml^MUeve and
Aeaom U ponr^,' and yet in the whole of that
pamphlet there was no attempt to explain
what that faith was.

Now, this want of discrimination, in deal-
ing with the fundamental principles of real
religion, characterises and Titiates the whole
popular religions system and literature of tiie
aj^. Men are absurdly urged to possess that
faith which is exclusively the ^\ft of God !
The source of this error is the faihng to re-
ooraise that two-fold f(»Uh so manifestly dea-
enbed in the book of God ; and the distinotion
between which is so constantly maintained*
Th^re U a faith fphich it wiihin man* t power /
there U another faith which is e^etueiveUJf
GhSegifl, A man may poseeas the former,
and not be saved ; while he who poaseases the
latter, can never be lost. The latter has jus-
tification and ealration attached to it, 'being
Juetifiedhj {^\h'^ *He that heUeoeth shaD
be saved,* To the former, neither is attribu-
ted.

That fhith which is man's duty, and oonse-
ouently within man's power, I would illustrate
tnus : a Book lies on my table called the Bi-
ble; itprofeesestobe tlie word ot God; to
oome direct from heaven| with a message to
man ; to unfold and explain the mystery and
purpose of hia being in tbia world and the
world to oome. It is my duty to examine its
pretensions ; carefully to peruse its contents ;
to see if it be adapted to my requirements ;
and if convinced of these, to conform myself
to its precepts, and to make it ever after the
undeviating rule of my life. Tet, where ia
the man tlutt has done this ? Tet he who haa
not done it, has neglected his duty; while he
who has done it, may after all only possess
that cold, li&less, fruitless faith, which is in-
finitely remote from the saving fkith of God's
elect. The fiiith of Simom Magus was of
this kind. Acts viii. 12, 13. He continued
with Philip, * beUeoed* on, and wondered at
the miraoleB which he did ; yet, after all his
heUeff he was in .' the gall of bitterness,

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and tbe bond of iniamtr/ Snch also seems
to hftTe been the faitn or tboee spoken of in
2nd chanter of St. John's Qospel, Teree 28, 24 :
** nuuBT Deliered on Jesus when they saw the
miraeles which he did ; but he did not oommit
himself unto them, beokose he knew what was
in man :"— had their's been a faith of his own
implanting, he would not have hesitated to
haTO committed himself to them. This spuri-
ous faith is opposed in all its essential features
to that faith which is tbe nft of God. Strik-
inglj does the Bedeemer illustrate this in the
parable of the sower ; (Luke riii. 13,) 'Thej
on the rook are thej, which when thej hear,
receive He word MtUk jog ; these hare no
root, and ybr a while beuoTe, and in time of
temptation fail away/ Kow, here Christ des-
cribes this dead and spurious faith by a three-
fold obaraoteristio —

1st. It receives ike word with fojf ;
2nd, It is a temporary^ faith ; it endures but
for a while; that is in its practical effect.

3rdy It cannot endure temptation, test, or
trial. This false faith too, is only seated in
the head; it is a mere intellectual assent to
the truths of the Bible. The devils them-
aelves possess it ; they are said to * believe.'
It is a faith indeed that may be productive of
a oerfcain amount of seal and activity, and
carry its possessor up to the «m gate of heo"
«Mi, hut no farther. This is illustrated by
the case of those * workers of iniquity,' des-
eribed by the Saviour, who came np to the
▼ery gate of heaven, and knocking loudly
thereat, unload their bales of spiritual mer-
chandise, and invite Christ himself to examine
them ; ' Lord, Lord, open to us. We have
preaiched in thy name; and in thy name cast
out devils, and done many wonderA&l works.'
* Lord, let us in.'

Now it is manifest that these men were
helievert in Christ ; preaehere and worierei:^
many seemingly benevolent works in the
name of Christ ; they must, therefore, have
had epeaking iaith, and a working faitii, yet
it was but a false faith; for after all, they
were lost Now let us oontrast this spurious
faith, which is of man's act, with that justify-
ing faith, which is God's gift. The false ftith
. is based on joy ; * They immediately receive
the word with ^ladHeee/ Markiv. 16. Bre*
Chren ! not with joy did your soul and mine
first receive the word of God ; that first word
6f God to every awakened sinner is a word of
oonbietion.' guilt charged home upon the
conscience, and that brincn no 'joy ' with it,
but much of sorrow and of anguish. When the
Phllippian Jailer eried out, ' wnat must I do to
be saved P* he came in * tremblings' not rejoic-
ing. When three thousand were converted
by Peter's sermon, they were said first of all
to be * pricked in their hearts.' that is to say,
they had sharp convictions of sin. So Paul
says, that when ' the commandment came, sin
revived ;' stood out in all its hideousness and
condemningpower— 'andl died.' The first
word that God speaks home with power to the
ooqscienoe of a sinner, has a three-fold effect :
it makes the man feel the guilt and burden of
Sin, the spirituality and inflexibility of God's
law, and his own inability to get rid of ihe

one, or to faliil the other; and neither of
these nan be produetiTe of 'joy.'

The second charaeteristie of a spnriona faith,
is that it is * temporary' — endures bat for a
while; while the faith of God's eleet is aa
abiding faith. *Now abideth these three
faith.' fte. 1 Cor. xiii. 18.

The third feature of this fidse ftith is— thai
in time of temptation it fidls away. When
the hour of trial comes, it perishes. Not so
with a living fisith : Abraham's fidth lived for
near thirty years on God's bare promise, with
all appearances against him ; he was seventy-
five years old when he received the promiae,
that in his seed should all the fiunilies of the
earth be bleased; and ha waa a hundred yean
old when Isaac was bom. (Compare Gen. zii.
4, with Gen. xxL 6) The ^th of God's im-
planting lives through all the temptationa thai
Satan can bring to bear upon it ; and all the
trials with whieh God may test it ; and, like
Job, its language is, ' Though he slay me,
yet will I trust in him.* Tms fiuth is called
*the victory that overeometh the world;'
while the spuriooafidth is overcome by the
world; it endures bni for a while ; the Ihlae
fiuth is seated in the head; the tme fbith,—
justifying fisith,-*ia seated in the heart:
* With the heart man believeth unto righteooa*
ness ;" that is, up to righteousness— Christ'a
righteousness, reaches forth ita hand to thai and
takes hold of that : henoe, it is called |o "^
ing faith; not that the met of faith is jn

ing, but the oijeet of which faith lava ]

that is Christ and his finished work. And here
again, this true faith differs tmm the false ia
its oUeet, Tbe otrieet of whieh tbe false fiuth
lays hold is the sAfetift ike groee. Bat the
true faith lays hold of Gftrisi ^Pfoi^Sf- Noi
that it rejectaany part of the Bible, but re-
oeiveaitallaatheinfaUiUewordof God; bai
in the neeial matters of justifieation and sal-
vation, it has to do with Christ alone. For
instance : I believe that Judas betrayed Chriai;
and that Peter denied him ; but tAere ia no-
thing in that whidi can justify me before God.
For par p oesa of justifioation ead aalvation
I must have a faith that believes tip fodrM'e
r^A^eoNSiMss, and stops not short of the fall
appropriation of that righteonaneaa. Henee^
faith IS sometimes compared to an eye, a fbot,
a hand; it is compared to an eye, for it ia
called, * looking unto Jesus;' to afoot, *we
walk by faith, and not by sight; to a hand»
•let him take hold of my strength, and he
shall make peace with me.'

This liring fidth too, (for that mutt be a
'living faith' which can ' see,' ' walk,' and
'take hold,') differs firom the spurious fkith,
not only in its object but in its vatubs and
B79BCT8. It IS caUcd <justifyin|: faith.'
Why P Because it brings a sense of j ustifica-
tion with it; otherwise there is no meaning in
the name. But what is justification t lAier-
allg, it is a sentence of acquittal, to be pro-
nounced at tbe bar of judgment, by the Jud^pe
himself, innocent— just— justified SpirU^
ually, to be justified— declared innocent of all
things, and chargea which Dirine Justice had
brought against us, and fVom which we oould
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id Maintt ntiiitwo pUoos; tli«
eont of Uv, aaa tho ooart of conieienoe. If,
tkenfm, I an to be deUrond fjtx>in this two-
fold ooademnatiim, it miut be bj a sense and

fesdj

lee of jaitifioation and acquittal mani-
aad sensibly realised, where seotenoe of

»w/.r» is reoorded : that is in the oon-
Heaee, the iaith that brings that
I of pardon with it, is called justifying
Its langosge is that of the apostle,
I IS therefore now no oondemnation.'
Bst the apnrioas faith never did this. Ne-
ver brought home a sense of pardoned sin to
•BT oooseieQeB^ mere belief in the Bible never
M this ; it may prodooe muoh of seal, much of
actini^, hot like that of the workers of ini-
ftMj, It is A belief >^ righteousnew (atiempt-
Uf to spin a righteousness out of the £uUi,)
MM not 9p to righteoiisneM.
Jnirtiiearirwi is God's way of dellTeriitf a
r from the oonseqnences of his sins. Bui
I the one be felt, the other will never be
d. lUl a man's month is stopped before
6ody he Barer feels the neceosity of an Advo^
asto with the Father.

Faith is the flight of a penitent sinner to
God throogh Chnst. But not till a man
kMVS that the avenger of blood is at his
' , will ' he fly for refuge to the hope set
.' AaBnieofguilt,andof (langer,
tpreoede the flight of a soul to Jesus
St. * The whole need not a physieian,
Wtth^Hmtanaiek.'

80 that to sum up: a justifying faith is
preeedsd by, and is based upon, a eonviotion
of BBy aad sorrow finr nn ; a revelation of the
apifitnali^, inflexibility, and terrors of God's
law: aAtfaeedofaSaviour; and A view of
dvisLl^i

the objaet of Ikith wbieh ii Chriit alone. And that
is preoiMly 1117 meaninff, in wing the terms. I
em aaite sore that brother Wj srd and myself are
one in meaainr, Uuragh we may diifor in forms of
I append this note oat of deferenoe to

brother Wyard's objeetloos, considering his sape.
rior age, and ministerial labours, knowledge and
position. B. W.

SPEAKING AGAINST THE HOLY.

GHOST.
SoMBTiMBB the enemy of souls, with other
aocosations against poor sinners who are
made to see their sad stete, and to feel the
burden of sin, brings this in to condemn »*
that they sinned against the Holy fihost|
and there is no pardon for them ; and some
of the Lord's people in after experience. And
they are not free from his darto on the Bam»
point ; and if the Lord did not come to their
nelp, they wonld feel his power too sinking
them in a dismal gloom; bat it is qaite
clear, that all who have sinned that sin never
' mourn and groan on aoooaot of it ;' and
when the Lord comes and speaks to them
who are thus harrassed, he gires peace, and
seals their pardon, and Satan is soon gone to
his infernal den. But there is a solemn
truth spoken by our Lord Jesus, that
demands onr notice, and of which I fea»
many will be found guilty. He says, ' 10AO-
tower tpeakith offaintt the Hohf GKost, U
ihaU not be foryiven Atm, neither in thie.
worlds neither in the world to come"

The Holy Ghost tolls us in the word, tha£
men by natui^ are dead, spiritoally dead.
How many there are who preach, and write
and flatly contradict the truth. Is not this
speakinff against the Holy Ghost? The
Holj Ghost quickens to life all whom th»
Savioar bought with Ids precious blood}
and, as a consequence, the sinner is brought
to contrition, confession and prayer ; then^
but not till then, did ever one yet have one
spiritual emotion, one holy longing for
mercy, or any desire for Jesus. And yet
poor sinners are told they have the power, to
do all this : ** Go now to Jesus ;" «* delav not
^.»v..^wxr ..w.»..». *,». »w another moment f — " you can repent r Is
i a man to possem^t^'luth" which is j ^® "^^ ^^ man— 4nd carnal men like it too.
ezelttalvelythegiftofGod,isa contradiction 1 Bat is not thie epeaking againat the Hoty
is tsras; and only illastrates'the spiritual Ohoetf The question is a serious one: and

bliadiiesiofthoaewhooandoit. For,if faith ^ •- " ^— ^^

be Ae^ofGod, can it be my* duty' to

I work and righteousnesS| as adapted
to all the vequiremento and neoessities of the
Ihe spurious faith is based on ' joy,'
lot on eotrow. It believes for righte-
, and not wUo and nf torighteousnessL
The only objeet it grasps » the Bible ^m-
vwllf ; and not Christ's work and rigbteous-
nees ep oei allf , Itis ssatedin the Asad; and
aetinthe heart. It brings no power to a
iMsdeoed eoa oei enee ; no eemee of pardon and
J B s tifleati en to a guilw sinner. It is the act
of mtm, and not the gift of Qod, Man may,
therefim, be exhorted to perform it : but to

It before God gives it to me?
« . .- jj ij, „

kvlAg' faith

Wyard objeoted to my uselog
Lf jing ' and * saving ' faith ; oon-
twiHag that no act of the ereatere conld be *sai

tf 'Jastifjl

i^'or

'^aatUying.' Admittod. Bat I (
RsalvadoB or jostlfleation to the
at to the objMtof fkith— that is
work, la wrttinc oat the soeeeh. ]

did not
act of
Mtfe. bat to the <rt>jfbt of fUth-thak is Christ
amk his work, la writing oat the speech, I woald
wflflagly have used other woids to express the
OHme tUag, bat 1 flod it impceeible. And I am
* to this aeoessitf, beoaase I find the
Ml warranted by 8erlptare: * being
, 1 by fldth,* says the Apostle Paul. Bom. v.
1. lftheretor«,IamJastllledhyfUth,thatwhiieh
•Jntlfliie»a,masi be « jostifyiag.' Again, 'thy
ftfth hath saved thee,' sold Christ; yet neither
ieoas, nor Pool, OMaat to say, that it was the act
of felth, that either •Jnstifled

I hope some able correspondenta mav take
it up, and furnish you with their remarks ap-
on the same according to the word of God.

I knew a man who made no profeuion.
but on hearing a preacher say, *< men could
repent and turn to God, and believe, ^.^
just when they like," he said to me, •* that's
the preaching I like; I know I caa da all
that when I like ; and I shall when 1 am
tired of the worid, and ito pleasures," &e.
Poor man ! he is still deluded with the false
hope such a stile of preaching produces.
May the Spirit quicken him, and defirer htm
from the dire deloiion. Qh \ ve Spirit*
^^ t^nght servante of the living God, exalt the
'saved;' bat ' Spirit! Speak largely of him. Aif Obssetb^

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AmB the addreM, the nibftenoe of which
wai given lait month-^Mr. F. Oollint, in
answer to the questions presented to him, by
0. W. Banksy deliYered the following oon-
fesrion.

It does at times afford me forest encourage-
inent| to review the manner in which it was
pleasmff to the Lord to eall me from darkness
into light and translate me from the kingdom
of Satan into the kingdom of his dear Son.
The earliest reeoUeotioB I know of receiving
fnj conviction of the reality of divine things,
was when I was about seven years of age.
About that period, I was one day in my bM-
room, when Buddenly I became convinced of
the solemn realities of eternity. I then felt
sure there was a heaven, and a hell, that there
is a Ood, and a deviL Also, 1 was convinced,
that I had sinned against Qod, and if I was
not forgiven my sins, I must perish. This
disooTsiT led me. though a child, to bow my
faiee before the liord, and seek by prayer tfaie
forgivenesB of my sins. The impression then
mside, never left me, but continued to follow
me through the days of my youth, and under
the blessing of the Xord, was the means of re-
straining me from those outward forms of
crime to which otherwise I must have fisllen
a victim' — thus

'Determined to save, he watch'd o'er my path,
While Satan's blind slave, I sportea with
death.'

These impressions upon my juvenile mind,
produced also a constraining effect, in leading
me to attend all the public religious services
held at th^ church and chapel where my
friends attended, so that I obtained, by way
of reproach fivm my school-fellows, me name
of a Methodist At this time^ however I was
ignorant of my condition as a sinner within ;
the depth of my inward iniquity was hid from
my sight; the spirituality of GNmI's holy
laWp I understood not; neither the way by
which a sinner is made just with God. These
solemn matters I understood not: yet was
counted a veiy religious boy.

About th^ sge ofnineteen, I became united
to a religious Society, and then it was that 1
set to work in right earnest to work out my
salvation, for my idea was, that my salvation
dependedf upon mv doings ; therefore, with
deep sincerity, ardent zeal, and diligent ap-
plication, I applied myself to religious duties
in order to make my calling and election sure ;
reading prayers, watchings, fastings. I fol-
lowed with an samest decision of muia, seek-
ing to acquire by my doimra that hoUoess
which would make me meet for heaven, — and
as much calculated upon reaching heaven bv
those doings, as I did upon the s\m's fuT*
tilling its (uumal course. My convictions of
sin at this time were light, and the leprosy

of my nature hut as a soab npon the sonra;
there was no spreading, but little acute pain ;
no opening off the fountains within, so that
with my religious doingti, I began to grow
into ndghl^ consequence with myself uid
was not a httie petted by those with whom I
was associated. The assiduous appfieatfoit
of my mind to my duties, soon recommended
me as a young man adapted for uscAilnesa,
so that shortly I was called utxm to fill se*
vetal ofilces in the SooietT, and was sent oog
into the neighbouring viOages in order to ex*
hort sinners to i^pentanee, and shew flie way
of salvation; this I did in great sincority of
mind, though at that time I was ignorant of
the depth of my own ruin, the deep depravity
of my own nature, the entire hel|4essnes8 of
my soul in spiritual things. Thus I grew up
a self-righteous phaiisee ; a pharisee of the
strictest sect ; the doetrmes off grace I regsrrd-
edas dangerous and blasphemous^ and the
people who professed them as a people abore
all things to be avoided. But it was the
Lord's gradoua purpose that this self-right*,
eons devil should not cheat me out of my
spiritual inheritance, nor hold me back froni
Christ as my salvation.

During these years, many times the question
arose in my breast.— what is the ground of
my hope P— I have been exhorting others to
go to heaven, if death should come, where
should I ffoP This led me to review nay
duties, ana the maimer in which they had
been performed ; and perceiving much tluit
was imperfect, a heavy sigh would break
forth from my breast, for fear would take
hold upon mej still 1 tried to quiet thoee
fears, and satisfy these enquiries, by pro*
mising to do better, and resolves to be more
prayerful, &o : but the question would con*
tinue to trouble me, neither could I ever get
satisfaction from my repeated attempts to do
better, but rather grew worse and worse; the
famine increased in the land; the mysteiy of
iniqui^ within was more and more devel-
oped ; corruptions which I suppose had been
dead, sprang, forth fh>m their hiding-placea,
and wiUi violent power worked in me to over-
flowing ; the devil, with great power set in
upon me ; my religion failed me ; my free-
will powers were found wanting ; all efforts;
and they were not a few, to oahn down my
boiling nature were fruitless. Beep "^(p*^*!!
filled my soul— refUge failed me — ^my hiiqui-
ties compassed me about — and the pains
of hell gat hold upon me. In a pit of horrors
was I and my feet in mire ana clav ; fiery
assaults from the adversary continued to aaaail
me ; a powerftil temptation for sotoe months
followed me, to diBoelieve the truth of the
Bible : the reality of religion, or the being
of a God. A principle wiUiin sided with the
temptation, so that on one occaaion I went to

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a BookMlkf^ thop in the (Sty of Bristol, and dentood, though I had never heard it hefore;
* "* * * it wai to me quite a new dialect ; bat it eidted

my oaM ; and though not delirered firom my
bonds, yet with deep feeling my soul would
say, if these things be true, then there is hope
for me. Nerertheless, 1 was still in bondage ;
neither could I lift up my head : m^ oon-
seienoe was wounded, and my sore ran in the
night season. My language was ' I go mourn-
ing all the day ; my wounds stink and are
corrupt through my foolishness ;' the night of
darkness was long, and very dark. But the
days of my distress were numbered, and in
due time the morning light appeared. One
sabbath etening, in great bondage of mind, I
repaired to the tabernacle, as I had been wont
to do ; out of the dust my soul cried unto the
Lord, * O God, delirer me.' On that evening
I was put into a seat in the gallery on the
right hand of the tabernacle. Mr Wella
ehose for his tett, * By terrible things in right-
eousness wilt thou answer us, God of our
salvation ; who art the confidence of the ends
of the earth, and of all them that are upon
the sea.' As the minister opened up the deal-
ings of Gk>d with his people, by terrible things
the word entered into my heart with divine
power. I felt a sweet melting of soul. My
stubborn unbefief gave way, and the chains of

Infidel pn b iiea t i on s, in
order, if piiBsible to take refuge there. Fesrful
pvcdpiee !— 4ny soul shndden now at the
theoghi— hut the Lord would not soiTer me
to be swallowed up in that pit j < Bless the
Latd, O my soul, and all that is within me
bless his hmy name^' for when I bought my
id began to read them, the fire of
k so burnt m me against their Ues,
'lying imputatioiiB against the desr ser-
' I of the Lord, the writers of Beriptuie,
tiiat I fisH eoBStrained at onee to eensign
them to the flstmes ; nevertheless, my inwud
miisMji ooIt inereaaed, the holy Umt of God
was ferealed in its spirituality, and univer-
ssiity, emit, bondage, fear and wrath filled my
BouL The temptatkn thstt I was given m>
of God— that Iwasa reprobate— and that it
would be best for me to ceaee to live than
te eootinae in soeh misery, foBowed me day
after day. The anguish of heart I then telt,
b beyond deseription. At times, I have felt
the auaerable tempter at my very side, when
iisMMif the water, saying, * why net make an
e^or it?' Hterally fonaiagme to the awftU
deed, — ao that 1 have felt my flesh to creep,
and my hair to move aa eieet. But here
aka, acaia, the Lord graeiously preserved

I did not

; my soul
I of my sal*

not suffer the enemy to take advan- 1 bondage were rent asBunder : tears copiously
tage over me. * O then magnify the Lord flowed ; and as the nature of God's salvation
with ma, and let us exalt his name together, wss stated. 1 plainly saw the God of Israel
I waa brought low, and Uie Lord helped me.' was my God and mv Saviour;
Baring ttns long and painftil struggle, I did triumphed in the Lord, the God
obtain on eevend oeeasions, relief from the | vation.
Lard. Onee when in great distress of mind, | Tbe preacher looking me in the face, ob-
thie Seriptare eame with great foree te my j served, ' I know I am preaching to some one
relief: * There shall go forth a deliverer out present' My heart responded, * It is I—I
of Son, who shall turn away ungodliness \ know yon are too.' A precious peace perva-
firam Jaeob.' I felt that I was tbe ungodly , ded my whole soul. Blood — we precious

. • .^„^_.. ... . , * blood of the Lamb— was applied. The than.

deiv of Sinai silenced ; the terrors of the law

This greatly relieved me on several oeeasions,
and emjwii egeil me to hope the day of deliver-
aiee would eome for me, in Gh>d's own time.
A little book also fell into my hands, which
was made of ssrviee to me at this time, called
the Cealheaver's Oenain. I read thui book
with many, ■uny tean; it encouraged me
te hope my day or dehveranee woukl eome.

It was the good pleasure of the Lord in his
providsnee to direet my feet to London. I
was in g r eat distress, after arriving there,
I was then 180 miles from my family, and
destitute of all means to carry me back : yet
thateirevmetance, which might be regaraed as
a gieat calamity, was made the means by Qod
or my remaining in London i^ for I knew no
ooa^ and no one knew me. But in this state
of aoHtade in the great metropolis, a gentle-
man met me who a short time be^re, was at
my heme in the country. This was a kind
for he kindly recommended me

te a Mitleiiian, a friend of hu, who instead of
aappmng me money for my return, presented
me the offer of a situation in London, which
I aeeepted. I had not been long in London,
befere another fHend took me with him to
the Surrey Tabernacle ; and it was here that
I flist hand my case opened up, and where
the preeioua doctrines of grace first reached
BIT eaiB ; my soul was much taken with what
I haard ; ma language ef the preaoher I un-

subsided: satanwas bruised. The bursting
waters or a precious Christ filled my heart!
charmed my every fear; then could I say
with rapture, * Us 'mouth is most sweet ; yea,
he is altogether lovely. This i» my beloved,
and this is my firieud, daaghters of Jeru-
salem.'

When Mr. Collins had ooncladed hie an-'
■weis— 'Which were, in every sease^ aatisfec-
tory: and ezpresrive of a mind thoroughly
imbued with a saered and savoury knowledge
of the graee of the gospel, and of every
hftmoh of divine tnith, answers which com-
nended them89lves to the oensciences of the
ehurch and Christian friends present ; after
this, the lervice was adjourned until the
evening: brother Westlake, of Devonport,
read and expounded the scriptures in an able
manner ; and pleaded very powerfully at the
Throne of Graoe. A large oompany took tea;
all appeared happy ; the evening ser? ioe we
hope to give next month.

A carefhl, yet criu'cel review of the
Churehea in Plymouth, Devonport, Stone-
house, &e., has been partljr written. It mav
be finished; -and if given will fonusa
many leMOne of a fearftd character.

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THB HAPPY AND TRIUMPHANT DEATH OF MfiS.

(irifK^Mr. tr. Cams, BtftM MMtlmr, Ontmokk.)

CAUNT.

Mb8. Clvixt the esteemed wife of our
beloTed brother William Cftuut, Paetor of
the Baptist church, East Greenwich, fell
asleep in Jesus, on Tuesday afternoon, Jan.
18th, 1859. It will not be uninteresting to
the child of GK)d, if I refer to a few incidents
connected with the life and departure of our
■ister, illustratiTe of the power of Divine
grace in her soul, toother with confidence
lad hope which sustained her, when nature
itself was sinking and djing. In pourtraying
the child of God, we necessarily refer to the
first symptoms of divine life. Our departed
•ister was bom at Greenwich, and grew up
without ti^e fear of Gh)d. like as we once were,
aUenated and ftr off by reason of wiehsd
worh$. On one occasion, when writing to
a friend, and on the point of posting it. a
messenger arrived announdne his death; tnia
intelligence^ made such a deep impression
upon her mind as to produce a godU$ torraw
for Mil which worketh repentance unto Ijf;
Severe and painful conflicta she passed
through, nntil the power of the Holy Spirit
was muiifested in her deliverance. She was
led to attend the ministrr of the late Dr.
Andrews, of Walworth, whose ministrations
God was pleased in his infinite merej to blesa
to the joy and rejoicing of her heart. She
felt that a poor, nelpless, and guilt;^ sinner,
6annot be too humoled in its desires for
spiritual life. She continued to attend the
late Dr. Andrew's chapel, and occasionally,
other ohapels in Southwark, were the dis-
tinguishing doctrines of grace are proclaimed,
until her husband accepted the pastoral oflloe
at Greenwich, to which place she resorted
and united with the chnroh of Christ.

This was the commencement of a new and
important era in her existence ; she felt the
responsibility of the position which she sus-
tained with her husband; she had publicly
avowed herself a follower of the Bedeemer.
It became increasingly her desire, not merely
to acknowledge, but to exemplify, that she
herself and all she posse s s e d, should be eon-
•ecrated to the servioe and glorv of Christ.
Her active co-operation as an helpmeet with
her husband, was considerably impeded, in
consequence of an incurable diMase which
eventually developed itself, and set medical
skill completely at defiance. During this
painfidlv protracting sickness, there^ were
times wnen the physical appeared to triumph
ever the spiritual; she felt her infirmitie^
and often mourned over ihem, and prayea
for graoe to conquer through him who loved
her with an everlasting love. It will be
requisite more especially to refer to the last
month of her earthly pilgrimage. Three
weeks previous to her death, her medical
attendant gave it as his decided opinion, that
her recovery was hopeless; her appearance
and symptoms fully mdicated it ; tnere was
noUung ambiguous; death would soon do its
lawful workf ue body must die; the pins of

the tabernacle must be taken down; the
outward must perish, the inward preaerved
and imperishable. She was asked, * Are you
happy r She replied with emphasis, 'quite
so, 1 am on the Moek^ and nothing can mova
me, no not death itself/ and exclaimed. ' Oh
my Father, come and take me home, do not
delay, for the sake of Jesus Christ I plead.
Oh come quickly.' Her pain and agony aft
times, was the most excruciating, in the midst
of which, on one occasion, she exclaimed,
*0h my Father, I cannot bear this.' Her
husband reminded her that she now fiiUy
understood what it was to be a partaker of
the Lord's sufferings, she replied, * Tee, He
bore all, incarnate God could bear, with
strength enough and more to spare..' The
enemy at intervals, applied his fiery darts,
which caused her to exclaim, ' I am afraid I
am not one of the Lord's children ; shall ba
lo&t,* She was reminded of her former tea-
timony of being upon the £ocib, she appeared
cheered, and eaula med, * True, nothing can
alter that eternal Bock.

* Did Jesus onee upon me shine P
Then Jeeus is for ever mine.'

She then referred to the greatness of the
mercy of God in exercising us prerogative
in snatching her as a brand from the buming«
and quoted the Poet with much feeling :

'Jeeus sought me when a stranger.
Wandering from the fbld of God,^ Sbc

After giving expression to these lines, she
was observed to strike repeatedly her heart.
Upon being asked if her pains wereinereaaiiig,
^e replied, ' Ah, death is padually approach*
ing, but mv life is hid with Christ in God,*
and then Wing her hand upon her hearty
with emphasis she exclaimed, 'That is Christ
formed in the heart the hope of glory.' Upon
being asked if that was what she meant whea
striking her heart, she replied, ' Tes,' and
then with joy uttered the following linea.

' How sweet the name of Josus sounds
In a believer's ears,* Ac.

At the same time, expressing a wish that it
might be sung at her funeral sermon.

The sabbath preceding her departure, ahe
clapped her hands, and said, ' I am sll on
fire for heaven,' which was understood to
express her deep anxiety to be there.

The engagements of her dear partner called
for his absence for a short time, when she
replied, ' I may be gone, when you return,
but rest assured I shall be in heaven.' The
whole tenour of her mind clearly indicated
she was not afraid, but rather as one calmly
awaiting her departure amidst intense suffer-
ing ; her experience fullv and dearly demon-
strated the power of divine love. She had
for many years possessed strong double and
fears^ but truly had a song in the night, and
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tiouroiM aonlRad theie fines, my they be
1 to hope in the lame mereuiil mani-
for the Lord is nigh onto ell his
end bee eiadi * I will never UeiTe thee,
onake thee.' And inUjr in this instaaoe,
wu Peelm xziiL nndentood in dl itc beauty.
Oa Monday evening, her enfferingi reached
their elimax ; previoasly, there was a oalm ;
Dortiiieation supenrenMl. The night waa
dark, the morning was bright, the sea was
na^ the aurgee of the miffhty deep sub-
cided, and with energy tnperhnman she ex-
claiflMd:

'Nothing in my hand I bring,
Simply to thy eroai I cling/

The worda han|f qniTering on her lips, as the
Borial pat on immortality, as the spirit took
its iwht to the realms of perpect bliss. Shall
not the Judge of all the earth do right ?

Her mortal remaina were eafelv deposited
in its last restinf^ place, Nunhead Cemetry,
by Mr. Gunner, in the presence of a large
orde of sorrowing friends. On the following
Bibhath, Kr._ChiTers preached her funerd
ixxziT. 19; at Greenwich,

Don from Psalm :
to ao oTerflowing congregation.
Ftbrmaty 6, 1869.

C. C.

3&tmn Df ^mtotiit J&vasim.

THB ULTB

SAMUEL ETLES FIEECE.

(OoBtlBaad from Psge IS.)
80UVD DifUli'iX.

At the eloee of my memoir of Mr. Samuel
Sylea Pierea, as inserted in Thi Eabthxv
Vbhsi. ft»r January, I ptomised the reader
just to glaaee at some of bis unparalleled
writingSL I have neariy the whole that he has
wTiftfen ; the neater part of which was giTon
me by himseu. I value them beyond nibiea.
Forty-five years ago (in 1814) during my
pastovsfte aft Hartley Kow, I was invited to
preaeh at Beading, in Berkshire. When there
•Ao oU disriple,' Mr.Thomss Maclean, made
ms a preeent of Mr. Pierce's book, entitled.
'Growth in Grace.' I took it home, and
almost devoured, (as it were,^ its contents.
My eyes were opened to truth in a way I had
Bcvsr e x peri e nced before. I am not over-
foUmg this volume. The late Mr. Isaac
y>cfa3aon, minister of Mulberry Garden Cha-
pal, in Pell-street, wrote a preface to it, in
which ho says, * After a most attentive and
critical perusal of this work^ I consider that
it is not onl;f of hifinite and unparallded im-
portsnoe in itself, and of univeival concern to
the church of the great Jehovah ; but that it
osatsins a greater quantity of excellent mat-
ter, eom pi case d in narrow limits, than is com-
pnssd in many huge folios. This volume
presents a table well furnished, laden with
sbunduDco of the richest viands that Wisdom
bas provided for her guests. A spiritual
Aest is prepared, reader, for thy entertain-
ment inluiitely more sumptuous than that
of Ahasoarus at Belshaaxar. The work is

executed with that jnd^ent and abilitTy
which a sulneot of such importance, deptn,
mystery, and sublimity demanded; reflecting
honour on the ifastsr, and discovering the
9erv€mt * To be a workman that needeth not
to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of
truth.' ' I extrMt no more, as 1 wiU not
mortifv the reader. The work has been long
out of print, and I expect will never be re-
printed. It contains twelve glorious chapters^
comprising a hod^ of DMnitjf,

Now, in presenting an eMtract, it is im*
material what page I turn to, as the 9ampU
and hulk is all one. I take from the beginnmg
as somewhat Introductory.

' Cfraee is a subject of vast extent, end of
infinite tmportanoe. Slection ta Christ, re-
demption bu Christ, regeneration b^ the Spirit,
effectusd calling, an actual translation into the
kingdom of God's dear Son, perseverance in
holmess, glorification, and ultimate uninter-
rupted communion with Father, Son, and
Holy Ghost in heaven, with that immutable
blessedness, which will accomoany the same.
The»0 are the e^ffeete and fruit* of grace.
Election is wholly of grace. It is dlisplayed
in God's loving his church and people in
Christ with an immutable love ; in his blessing
them in Christ with all spiritual blessings ; in
his accepting them in his Beloved, to
to the praise of the «lokt op bis osacb.
The union which subsists between Christ
and his people; their relation to lUm.
and his interest in them, is altogether of
grace. The love which Christ bears to his
church is a transcendent love. He says, ' As
the Father hath loved lae, so have I loved tfOM.'
The coflMi«mto» which Christ holds with them,
is altogether spiritual and Bivine. He -is
united to them as their Head ; and, they are
memben of his body.

' My design in the following pages being to
set the CKOWV Of cbowvs on the head of
PBSB om^cs, it will be my study and prayer
to the Lord the Spirit, that he may be pleased
to teach and guide me throughout the whole
subject, and uess it to the praise of bis holy

After several more blessed Introductory
pages, he says, ' Haring now given a general
plan of the goroel, truths and doctrines thai
will be drawn forth in the following Treatise,
I commit the same to the reader's own con-
sideration, and the Lord's blessing ; having no
other end in view, but that Chkist may be
exalted in hie grace and olokt.'

I now just give the reader the heading
of the first chapter. ' Of the eternal designs
of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, towards the
blbct: with some account of their distinct
and respective outgoings of x<ovb towards
them in Christ Jesus from everlasting.'

This chapter leads us to the ocean of all
blessedness. Alas ! I fear the generality of
our present writers and preaohen have not
been taught in thie school. It is a ehihhoUth
which many of them do not understand. O
th^t the Lord would ' Turn to our ministera
a pure language,' (Zeph. iii. 9) that they
might preach thegoepel clearly, unequivocallv,
and with * great pUiimc$9 of epeeehJ r2
Cor. iii. 12.)

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Bot I 0II1SI noi trispMi further on Um
ptSM of tlie Vs06BL this month. It m tho
commonoemont of the jenr, and if the Sdibar
ifl dMiroiui thnt ite future numberi shaU be
enriohod with real gofpeltruthi, I will (n.v.)
eonUnue my emploj. But thii I leuTe with
him* I have seren volumes in octavo of Hr.
Pierce's writings, beside many single invala-
abie Sermons, and four volumes of Jjetter*.
These have not lain dormant on my book-
shelves. Oh, no. Had I the means, ue last
aet of my long puhlie life, should be the re-
publishing the whole of Mr. Pierce's worka.
But alasf old-fashioned Bible Divinity is at
a ^reat discount, in what is called * llie re-
ligions world.' Beader. * Buy the truth, and
sell it not.' Prov. xjdii. 23.

Jireh. J. A. Jovm.

IBM

CHfUOTIAN'S HAPPY LOT.

OV THB DniTH OF ▲ M17CH LOVBD VRISKP.

Br TKX Latb Jamxs Moss, ov Peokham.

How happy is the Christian's lot,

In every state secure !
While in this world of sin and woe.

His bread and water sure.
^And when he's call'd to leave this world.

And pass through death's cold shade,
The word of Gtod on which he rests

He finds doth never fade.
His hopes are j&zed on words too firm

For sin or hell to shake >
Though foea eombine to east him down,

His peace they eannet break.
He's felt his needs; his many needs;

To Jesus has been led,
For full salvation, throuch his blood,

And by him has been fed.
He's seen by faith thp solemn spot

On which the Saviour died ;
He's seen his hands ; he's seen his feet ;

He's seen his wounded side.
He's seen the tomb in whioh he lay

The three appointed days ;
He's seen him loavo the tomb again

To ascend beyond the skies.
Then seated on the throne of love,

Close by his Father's side.
He lives to plead the cause of those

For whom he bled and died.
"TSs from those wounds the Christian says

X now derive my hope ;
OThe thought that Chnstnow lives above ;

'Tis that which bears me up.
The .sweetness of those precious things

Our friend that's gone, has felt ;
And by the blessed sraoe of fiith,

Enjoys them for Umself.
He long had felt his need of Christ ;

His pveciousness ei^od.
He walked by frith, ana not by sight,

And on his grace relyed.
He suffsred much while here below,

But now it ail is o'er;
He never more shall say, I'm sick,

Or leave that peaceful shore.

If we b<rii«re the word of God,

And rest upon the same,
Though wo are oalled to pari awhile,

We soon shall meet again.
A few more rolling sons, and we

Shall leave this stormy shore,
And enter in that happv place.

Where he is gone before.

These thoughts support our fsinting minds

While swFering m the flesh ;
Help us to look beyond these scenes.

And view the promised rest.

A blessed word there is, which says,
** The dead in Christ are blest ;"

Have done with sorrow and with sin
And sweetly are at rest.

This hope we have of him that's gone,

Whose loss we now deplore :
He's left this world of sin and woe.

And reach'd the blissful shore :

Then, Christian friends, forhear to weep,

To shed your tears in grief ;
But think on what our Jesus says,

And you will find relief.

If we believe that Jesus died.

And rose again on high ;
Bemember he himself lus said,

That his shall never die.

But when their race is run below,

He will their spirits meet.
When called to quit this house of day.

And thua to fiul asleep.

Then in the sleeping tomb awhile,
There sleeping dust shall Uy ;

And slumber last in swaet lepose
Until the rising day.

Whan on that great and solemn hour
The trumpet loud shall sound.

Then Jeeus shall himself come down.
And daim them as his own.

The sleeping duet he'll raise with Ufe^

Unite it to the soul.
Bring them triumphant to his throne,

And so complete the whole.

Then placed on thrones of glory there^

The^ shall enjoy their God ;
And smg his praise in perfect strains,

Who bought them with his blood.

BENJAMIN EEACH,

Bom Feb. 29th, 1640. Called to the mimstf7,
1058. His Trial. Pfllory, Imprisonment and
Fine, for publishing a book called 'Tha
Child's Instructor; or, Basv Primer,' 1664.
Came to London, 1668. The same year bo.
came pastor of the Baptist Church, now meet-
ing in Unicom Yard ; bat at that lime tho
comer of Stoney Lane, Tocley Street ; and
continued until his death, July 18th, 1704;
86years.

Benjamin Stinton, immediately snceeeded
and continued until his death, Feb. 11th,
1718, or 19; 16 years.

William Arnold, ordained pastor Nov. 15;
1790 ; and continued until Us death, 1784
14 years.

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liB. JOHN BLOOMPIELD'S ANNIVE£SABY ADDBESS.

IIIHD.-S4LSI1 CBAFSL,MXARD'800I7BT.
Ttem^ nnifvmry orllM pwtoiateoC Mr.
iote BiDOwnrirt, at 8id«B Gtapil* MMrd*8 Ooiirt,

■mthlMS both to poopio aad to ndnirten,
wUeh tbev «««ld IUb hare ooMlfBod to obllTloB ;
ttkwko, MBy thlBs% whleh awAkoa tai ns th«

fcallMi <tf fffMltBa* to tbo Ood of all o«r mi
Bat w vtUaot tfwpoM, oMirt than ainaly

HlwilfiW. lAd let blm ipaak ftr hlmwlt An.
4ay,itee^ of Nmiaty, bttof tha aaf ttth mu
whinuj of Mt n a rt atol a at Btimuhm addrMMl
Ui ifcat^ BBd aoajiaaatloB aa Mlova: «Tliia

, I «o^B«ae &• tifhth jmr of my paa.

limy JOB. Ttooagh tha lavw yawra that

^ to ffaat chaiiiai: bat, la aU the

^Bwm^twma, aU tha abaBgca «a have as.

wrieaaad, «• haw foimd BO chaoaa in oar aw.
MiaOoA : ha to ImmvUMa aB4 t«Dder hi hto
waiaaLlam. aod avar laadf to ffWa attantiaB to
oarprajan; aod baa fiamMBtly aomfortad (by hla
preiflMu) o« iplrlta. I aemn Aoad my Bdato-

of MlfatloB by tha aioM, waa
I aomBiaBaads it baa bsfii my
ttamTan Uia way throaah, and aefar, for ooa

^wvad ftaatdedarlag, mltatloB

««Mi of Chrtot. 1 tniat I

S«t God's deallBga; moia aboat

, aad aboat hto marsy. I trott my

of Ood'a tmtha ara aBtoifed, mora

~ my miBtotartol labonra

aow/lhatto, tha dwtriBa of mlvatloB throach tha
LDrdJaMsCtotat. That to tha thamavhtoh baa

i myhMTt: vhtoh haa oerapAad my mo>

» aad whtoh totha thame of my lonffoa.

TbadaSghtaf myaalpltlabanahaabaw, to Mt
torth GhrM mvk^i to ipcakof tha glortosof
hto amami: th» nltabUity of tha araM» aad t

• graaad af iha ainuar*! hope. A

[ CavaJctaedthaahaiah,dBaaIflnt
r; itmayhaMid, wlMta are the

taken away by death, mmbo peaeefUly, mnbo tri-
OBiphantly, to be Ibr erer with Jeeaa; some haw
baoB ramored ia prorldenoe, to a eooslderablo
distanoe; others, from thair adtaneed agVL ara
not often abto to be present. Borne hsTe mllen
sway into a staU of worldlinem %ad ladlflbrsnae ;
* 'r end, Ood only knows. Bnt.watrnstwehaTa
ly wia as, wIm> hsTe been ealled b v araoa, aad
DOW liYtBgaaderthasmlleeofOod,mhopeAal
sipatloB of etarlasting gtory. If thinas had

pmitoaawf Meal of them aia with aa. that have
MMtoriaealhaTabaaBhara. Bat ahen were-
■wibir, that a yaaBfawa to aoma to bathe pastor
«f aa aU aharah, gtowa up with tha lata muah-

krs

» died, thaohweh waa left desUtnte,
thMUashSBhsrd. Itwaanoaasyt
maa* tonUowaDmaiapwaehcr,

etarlasting gtory. If things had
gone on ea whan 1 first eaaM to Salens, we shonldy
perhaps, hsTe been proad ; bat, there was nothing
to be proud oi; ss the eeqael shewed. Manr, who
profcswd the greatest lore at the first, showed
sAerwaid, thefr'a was not lara, Ibr it dSaappearcd

ssff amlL I sayTSSk thaasal^

1 «ip alSh, I traa^ haa tha a]

Ml, to liteiMa t0 ov MOBbai

,1 do not regret the
kppr^allon of Ood.
m, BMBy hava beta

as' tha first alorm eaaM.' Mr.

seleeted for hto test. • For we psesohaot ourselves
but Christ Jssos the Lord : aad oorselvee, yonr
serraats, for Jssas*a sska.' 2 Cor. ir. 6. And
proeeedsd as follows : 1st, Tha eomprehensiTe
theme of the ministry — Jesus Christ our Iiord.
Snd, Tba praaBinant objeet of tha ministry. *d»
The aourosof real saoeesa.

In the afternoon, Ibnr sdditlonsl membsra wata
reeelved to eommuatoate at the Lord's tabto ; after
whteh, many members of the ehnreh sat down to
tes in the eh^el, with thair psstor; when he gave
a Ihrther statement as to his ministrattoas, snd
the firm frieadship from nwny, with whleh he had
been toroored. Mr. Kant also vafenad to tha
setiTe part he took (whea deseon,) in rseammcad*
ing Mr. Bloomfield to the pastoimte, whleh, he was
happy to say, ha aarer ragretted, though he ra*
graUed the triato through whloh hto pastor hsd
bad topees; yet, he eonesived the school of triba-
latlon was ona^ in whleh the Lord often ehaee to
train hto ministers, ao that they may be abto to
oomfoxt otheia. Mr. Tlbbeit, llkevtoe^ added hto
testimony, sad Mr* Amm c l ose d with i
priaie prayer.

wwoM AMOTBEE ooaaBfK>KD«inr.
80H0, BALEM CHAPEL, M£AIU>*BCOUBT.
Serasone were preeehed on Sundayi Februaxy Gth*
to eoBunemorate the oomptetion of the sevaath
ysar of Mr. Bloomfield's psstorate over the ahursh
worshipping in tha ehapiel sitoaU ss above. On
tha foUowiag Tnesday, a tea sad a publto meeting
was holdea. Mr. i. Btoomfield preaided; and,
(after singing and prayer,) in opening the meeting
lia said 1— Dear Christian Friends, we have no
report to read : we have had a year of unintar*
rupted peaae with esoh other^ao ehureh oeuld ba
mora happy. I have bow eatared upon my eighth
year hares and, from the time I oama till tha
present, 1 have not undargona the least ehanga;
if any, it has %eea to tore those truths mora, and
tofeallt to not simply by preachiaa that we " "
; it to good, out not c

see a health fnl etate ;

thing. If we would ba a happy peopto, we mast
be a pmying psoPle. It has been ona of my
greatest meretos, I have been snrronnded with a
praying people. During the peat year, we have
Seen aUttle of the goSaess of God. It haa not
beea so large ss last year ; betweaa twenty and
thirty have Joined us during the past year ; be.
tween mysali and brethren la offloe. there has beea
but oneftaUng, aad that of love. Last Lofd's-day
was my saaivcraazy. aad I wss rather csst down ;
but I was grcaUy anoooraged by ths good fseUng

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w« Uw to the aawtloM of • gt«|t iM^ «hur^
both to London Mid the ooontry ; I ^^^^
Meodahlp m«li; I wiib well to att our mtototon,
SSdiSiBepelflhorohes. I should reJoloMf there
WM a better feeUng among onr ehorehea ; I thtok
if we were onited to each others not merely on
the platform, the olond would soon Altperee. The
eabjeot tor the erenlna wai, • The ffnMB of the
Spirit.' Among the mlnlitera preeent, we noticed
hvethren Ball, Flory. Isaaos, tof BriKhton.) Moyle,
W.PaUnor, (of Homerton,) ). Palmer, (of Weet-
mtoeter.) PelU. WUUamMm, Woodard and Wyard.
Brother Diekeraon was caUed into the ooontry,
or would have been there.

KABTLEBOBB. — RBHOBOTH GHAPBL.
BIDlNGtHODSB BT&EKT, LANOHAM PLACE.
Oar annual meeting waa held on the 7th of Feb.,
Itor the purpose of reoeiTtog the report of the
proBeedings of the past year, and to hear an ad-
mass Item Mr. John Foreman, who ooeupied the
ehair. Mr. J. Wigmore briefly sketohed his first
appearanoe in London, to the position in which he
Sicnstood. Lastyear (he said,) the; had proposed
to pay off SlOO, Arom the debt of the chapel ; he
then stood forward to eongratulate his friends,
that that design had been aeoompliahed. About
Bine or ten years ago, he was caUcd to Um pro-
Tidence of God, to exereiae his gilta to a few oeo-
. ^ ^ ^Tr!^__... — J — j„ Uj^ mtoiatry of the
he had preached to
ilcBMd to bless his
were in
mww HcmHB iiw ■ wnyMaM J, •«« —•'.«— ..ooiieetea
when they did not know where to go, Mr. Foreman
took him up as a forlorn man. lie (Mr. Wigmore,)
' I Mr. Foreman present.

pie, who had worshipped under the mtoiatry ofihe
late 'Mr. Blaekatoek. After he had prer
them some time, the Lord was pleased to
laboura by ealUng other aoub in. They --- ~
greaft stcmita for a baptistry, and he weU reooUected

when they did not km *- — *'' -" **'

took him up as a forlt. _

felt great pleasure to seeiog MJf- •-— -— »--""-'
he had never received anythinf bnt btednese firom
him. be never rcfosed (and his people with him,)
to come and aosist them. When they looked at

the providence of God, to so supplytog thdr needs,
(if their hearts were not of adamant,) thev must
dissolve to gratitude, before the mercies of their
God. The Seeretary, Mr. Wakeltog. read the
report, from which, it appeared, • twelve montha
•go they owed £6S4; received in the past year by
ooUeetions, £IM; balance still remaintog on the
chapel, B19t. Mr. Foreman then observed, the
subjeet under consideration, that evening, waa a
duirone; yet money was necessary, and if we
wanted it for our immediate use, we might find a
duller subject. Mr. Foreman then referred to Uie
time, when Mr. Wigmore was brought under his
BOtSs, as a soliUry todlvidual. If Ma brother
bad been a sprtokler, there would have been
plenty to have taken him by the h»»d. He be.
Ueved Mr Wigmore to be a man of the right eort,
and he (Mr. Foreman,) was not wtnid of how
many good men he hid for his neighbours; he

bad no sympathy with those UtUe pettifogismB ^
many would say, 'Lord, let thyktogdom cone,'
but by their aotiona, 'Don't tetany proMber

withto ten mUes of me, as I can do all thework
where I am.' He believed God had marked out
hie work, whether there be one good man or fifty,
no difference to him. He was a lover of good
men, and if he were bleesed with a larger sphere
of useAitoess than another, he was likewise under
toereased obligationa ; though he had many things
to be thankChl for, he bad nothing whereof to
boast. Mr. Foreman eoneluded by reeommendtog
united eflbrt, and the whote remaintog debt on
the chapel would vanish.

WBBIMIirSTBB. BOMNBT 8TRBBT.~On
Monday, the S4thor January was held, the first
tfuarterly tea-meettog, stoce Mr. Palmer's settle-
ment, to oomiezion with the weekly subscription
fhnd. There was an encouraging attendance;
and at the public meeting after tea, the following
leeolntlons were passed, via., (l.) ^'That this
meeting acknowledge with unfeigned gratitude,
the goodness of <aod to havtog directed Mr.

Palmer to OB, M an under shepherd.' (S.) *That
the present meeting gratetolly acknowledge the
unwearied efforts, subUity and courteous conduct
of the deacons of thia church ; and eameatly pray
that they may Utc to see ultimate proeperity
crown their perseverance.' (8.) 'It ia the con-
viction of thia meettog, that a dose adherence to
the doetrtoea of sovereign grace to all our efforts
and undertaktoga, will alone ensure the bleasing
of the Lord.' (4.) That the lovers of thegoepel,
preeent, shall enaeavour, by personal inflnenee.
to toduoe others (especially the ungodlv,) to attend
regularly on a gospel ministry: and that they

E ledge themselves to support the oanae of Christ
1 thia place by their attendance^ their prayere,
and ttMi contributions.' It havtog been re-
mariced by one of the speakers, that durtog the
time the ohurah baa been destitute of a pastor, a
great variety of supplies had been engaged; one of
the frienda said, *I do not feel called on to
apologiM for the fact referred to, but I would beg
permteaion to remind yon of the welUinown
nunery tale of * UtUe Bed Ridtog Hood, and her
Brothera and Sisters.' There wa^ as you are
aware, a numerona family of them; and their
mother baving occasion to leave home for a time,
gave them etriet tojunotion to bolt the door, and
when any one knocked, to look out at the wtodow
before they opened it, because the wolf waa lurktog
about. Mow, it happened that there waa, at no
great distance, an old wolL who had been expelled
from the aocisty of hia fellows and was roaming
aboutin search of plunder and ibeltar. Be bavtng
the craft ofaserpent engrafted on the ferocity of
the wolf, knew very well it would not do to shew
himself in his real character: he, iherefoie, dia-
guiaed his voice and appearance, and came tap-
tap-ptog at the cottage door, meekly begging ad.
muaion to eome auch terms as thcee- O my pretty
deara, I am so venr fond of you. I could eat you.
And, no doubt, had they admitted him, he woold
Uterally have cruahed thdr bonce : ymi may re-
member, tbat such waa the stuplfying effect of hia
pestiferous breath, that some of the iniatnated
children did not see through his disguise^ bnt
would have admitted him ; and, incredible aa it
may seem, some of them were inclined, had they
been strong enough, to turn out two or three of
the big boys, who had laboured hard and long to
pay .the rent, and keep the cottage over their
heada.' But you will, perhaps aak, what baa all
thia to-do vrith the church at Boroney Street, or
any ChrieUan ehureh 1 Juat thia, the church at
Romney Stieet. did not open the door till they had
looked out at the window ; and this brtogs me to
the moral of my story. In all matters, to the
church, and in the world ; and, particularly young
men, and more particularly youns women, seeking
to form a connexion for Ufe-before tou open the
door, look out at the window. Mr. Palmer prayed
and dismissed the meettog.

BOTJTHWABX, UNITORN YARD CHAPEL,
TOOLEY BTREKT. Tuesday, February 8, 1869,
the parents of the children attending tbe Sunday
School held in connection with the above-Aaased
place of worship, were tovited to take tea with the
mtoister, deacons, and membera of the ehureh.
A large number assembled; and tea waa served
in a kind and eomforuble manner by the teechere
and ft-iends. C. W. Banka presided at the puhlio
meeting ; Mr. John CUrke of Hull, prayed for a

blessing; woen C. W. Banks said, this was a
mesttog for the purpose of shewing to tbe parente,
the sympathy and concern the church felt for their
welfare to every sense, and he waa glad to see eo

many preeent. Mr. Samuel Gosens then delivered
an address to the parents generally, whieh waa of
a meet practical and edifying charaotcr. Mr. John
Kealy followed, and, aa the father of a laige
family, as a Snnday.sohool teacher of- olden times,
and as a useful preacher of Chriet'e goepel, made a
very pathetic appeal to the hearts of the people ;
and gave them some wholesome advice ; but, the
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ooooToar bappint meetings, and we twlieve real
food «aa done. We haTe great hope tbat tbe
Lord li raiHBg the oanae here with hie
aadUeariBc.

IBSLASD, DUBUN. — A atroDg eflhrt la
wa^ng to bdlld a good Butist chapel in the
Oraavaaor-road, Bathminea, Dablin. We! have a
hope of Bcciav Irelaod thli year; and of being
hwrr aa m ii t i l . in aoine small meaaore, of pabliahing
the g aspi l s^ieh eamo from boaTsn, and whkh
haavaa approvaa. We wiah to watch tlie only hand
• t laaafaMtarigbt. There Ja a apirito^ king-
dom riaimb ermi in Ireland. Of the bniUers we
tamwbvtBttlo; bot, a.hint has 'been given that
a fcw good wortmen acquainted With inside work,

jbowsbumb, wmn., bbtbbsda bap.

TUT CflAPBLk,— PnnsBirrATxoK or PuiTB.^At a
lu^fathetlBv of the frienda of Betheada chapeL

IfceLetdia

rwtfth t

the good hand o^
them from a debt, originally
eaeon fMr. Kaiah|) preaented
■■ itly Obaaad Tea-pot and

MricB of aflbelaon and gratitode,
In relieving them of the heavy
hioh they had labonred for ao
■ny yeazB. The meeting was presided over by
ft. CSIft, Wmp^ a tmstee and former deacon, and
addraHBd wj Measrs Salmon and Mann, mimsters

sf the town, Mr. Cloak of BeeUngtoa, and Mr.
fteisi^ Wtm of Boad. Mr. Webater, in aekm>w-

^ _ ^ _ , nTBT e«a fld hia thanka to

<be frisnda of otery paitv, who had liberally aided
Urn; and to the ehnrd^ for the sacriilcea they
bed made, to eorapleta the work. The three
B^dst cbnrefaos (Book Street, Betheeda and Zion,)
am aB aov free from debt, and in peace. The
msedngwaa enHvaned with soluble hymns^ and

Lcfd.

_ bymns^

people aapotated, praising tbe

worablpb in whie

Uidnmn laboDred,

B. a. Bdwarda, baa pamed into oi
Bomar bavtag p

Tbna iha large

Jeoas Paraan, far the caoae, with tke boilding. is
loat to tbe deoomfaiatkm, and oauae of trath! by
tbe frfine of one of its professed friends_PnoM a

J and after him,
I pamed into other hands; the
■ ■ ■ ■' Hvng iwviaaed tt for a ehapel of ease.
Tbna iha large saeciflees made by onr brother

tJ^VfS^^""^ Bmidv, Fsbnptfy 6, Mr.
Mhn COrbAtt eommeneod the third year of his
psiCeram, Tbe ebnrab baa greaUy increased; the
eoaiMilioa is BUinf the ehapel ; aome are wait-
niff frr Butiam; and all appear in good heart and
m gnapcl mOowsblp. I am only an ooeasional at-
MadntatOifordHill,beeaaaeIamnot moeh in
Borwtab ; tat I ftmad, that aa a pastor, Mr.
OorMttIs giantlv bakived; as a preaoher.'be la
ninmaiiigly oaeml; as a Christian man, be ia

• -'- ^A 4g u writer and aothor.

* -'"-'- —mew
I the
fright.
r— t j—Jw m » gra« vur, man gooo WlU OOBW Of
».— A IlUTKUn IR ZBMf.

J3TT BOAB, MOUNT ZIOK CHAPEL, NEL-
SOX PLACB. A happy and united band of gospel
mtes sorroondsd brother Wbitteridge, on Mon-
?l»?T5»» Z^5™^^M»b, to eneoorago him
S "■ '?^^ ?[•*'« "^^L Bracher, FOnkm,
Moaa, Seek, Sbaltoa, O. wTfanks, and others
2^wlthauNbdsoldoD,oBthirshIraet«rof thi

WAIW0BIH-EA8T LANE. Tbe 06tb Aa.
nlversary of the East Lane Sunday School was
commemorated in the New School room, on
Tueeday Evening, Feburary Sth. Avery ample
tea was supplied to a large body of fHends, who
met in the afternoon. After tea, a public meet-
ing was held to acknowledge the Lord's good-
nees in preserving the school for such a lengthen-
ed period. Mr. John Foreman, of Dorset Square,
predded, and in a most cheerful manner, enoour-
aged both teachers and friends. A report, well
written, (but decidedly too long,) gave a very
aatisfaatory account of the position of the ichool,
and shewed a christian perseverance on the part
of tbe teachers worthy of so noble a cause. Mr.
Milner spoke of the imporUnoe of teaching our
Sabbath Bshool flbildren the fbndamenul prin-
ciples and ordinances of our profee^on. Mr.
Cannt, of Greenwich, Ibllowed with a practical
addrem to the teacbera, noticing the neeemitj of
gaining the affection of the children — * love'
must be the motto of the teacher, combined with
deeUion of action. Mr. Meeres, of Dermondsey,
•poke of the great benefit he had received from
Sabbath School instruction ; it waa the instru-
ment employed as the turning point In his life.
Mr, Mateland, who 90 years ago, was a teacher
in that school, gave one or two interesting ac-
eounta of the benefit of Sabbath Behoole to men
who now held high and honorable poaitlons in
Sodsty; one who had entered that i«bool«I.
moat destitate, beeame one of the wealthiest men
in the city of Lombm; and it might be traced
ftom tbe rmolU of the iastmetlon remiered lb
this place. Mr. & K. Bland, also an old teacher,
gave some good counsel. Other ministers were
preeeat to give their aid and countenance to the
frienda. After a few words from Mr. William
Beach, tbe meeting conelnded with thedozology.
The thanks of the friends are due to Mr. Samuel
Beach, and the whole of the teasbers, for the
kind ezertkm made to render every comfort to
tha large body gathered on the oeeaaioB.

BIL8T0V, BIAPFcijraHIBE FORMA-
TION OF A NEW BAPTIST CUUBCH. Thia
intarostiag endlong looked for servieek took
place on Lord'a-day, Feb. 18 ih. Two special
prayer meetings had been previously held, to
imploM the Lord'e presence^ blessing, and appro,
val of the contemplated step ; and many fervent
prayora and snppUoationa were olbred up that
God, in hia infinite mercy, would place the broad
seal of his approbation npon tbe eervleea of tho
day. The weather having been very stormy
daring the previous week, fean were entertained
lest it would continue during the Sabbath, aa it
would thus prevent many persons living at a dis-
tance, being present ; but the Sabbath morning
dawned bright and Mr, and tbe weather during
the day was flue and favourable for the oecaaion.
There were persona present from Birmingham,
Wsstbromwlch, Wednesbury, Dudley, Netherton,
Wolverhampton, Willenhall, and Goaley. Oar
eeteemed brother, Mr. 8. Ooaens, (of WarboysJ
with whom we have been favored to walk in fel-
lowship for many years, preached three sermons
on the oocasion.[Morning sabject : ' the ehorch ;'
text, 182nd Psalm and 10th verse. * Here will I
dwelL' Afternoon text, 2 Chroolelss ix. 7,
' Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy
servante which stand eontlnoally bsfsre thee,T

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■ad hMT th J wMoB.** Alter lh« iwnM lh«
ehvnh WM ImiiimI by the following lour br^
tiuwB ifnding round iho eommnnton tablo, «nd
Joining oaeh others bende, Kiehard Baaki, Peter
Peeraoo, Tboe. Johnaon, and Bei^. AUwood, Mr.
Ooient taking the Joined banda in hia own
and oiTeriog np a moat aolemn and impreeaive
prajer for Ood's bleMing to reat upon the obnrch
tbaaformedt be then took by the hand eixteen
other baptiaed peraona, and pnblisly reeogniaed
them aa one body, the elementa were then part^
ken of by the ehnroh, and aome deaeona and
frienda fhun neighboaring efanrehca. It waa folt
to be a meet aolemn time. The anbject for the
ereningy waa * The ofBeera of the Chnroh,' Mr.
C. eommeneed by aUting that there were but
two oflHaee in oonneetion with the ehoreh of
Cbriat, the miniater and the deaeona, and would
aeleot Moaca to repreaent the miniater, and Ste-
phen the deaeon, wbieh be apoke npon with great
liberty for more than an hoar.

The whole of the aerrioea of the day waa
marked by maeh aolemnity and reverenee and
the attention paid to every aentenee that fall
from Mr. Ca lipa eridenUy ahowed that the
people fed npoa the word, and aercral expreaaed
their aatiafaetion and aUted that they never
heard aooh tmth before the day'a aerrioei^ and
the eoUeetion, aarpaaaed oar expeoutiona. B.

BLAGKHEATH-DBAm Bnonnn Bama^I
think it right to tell yoa one of the eandidatee,
I bad the privilege of beptisiag at Deere Park,
atated in the aeeonnt ahe gave of the Lord'a
dealings with her, that bar ikrat impreeaiona of
divine tmth were reeeived ihroogh reading * Tn
EAaTHBM Yaaan. ;' after thia, ahe waa led to at-
tend the ministry of Mr. John Oorbitt, under
whom ahe derived mueh profit; ehe then re-
moved to Btaekbeath, and the word at Daere
Park being bleaaed to her, ahe waa led to follow
the Lord in Baptism and unite heraelf with the
Cbureh there. Here, dear bioCher, ia encourage*
ment for you ; it ahewa what variona meana the
Lord employe to aeeompUab Hia own purpoaee.
Would it not be well if when our brethren
Baptise any to whom another miniatry liaa been
made aaeful, they ahoold eommunieate the aame
to him t— it might often eheer the heart of aome
wiko are tempted to think they have laboured ta
vain. There ie a Spirit of prayer amongat the
IHenda at Daere Park, and I traat the Lord ia re-
viving Hia own work there. Ireouin, dear
Brother, Toura in the truth,

J. B. Cbackwklu

[We praiae and thank the Lord ; and foal grate-
ful to brother CraeknelU Bneh teatimoniae do
help ua to bear our heavy UnkL-^Bd.]

BXPITOBD— On Monday, Feb. 14tb, aooord-
ihg to a );>revious snnounoement, a servioe was
held, oommemorative of the teitlement of Mr.
C. Wyard, at Zion Chapel, NeW Cross Boad,
on wbieh ooeasion a numerous and eheerful oom-
pany gathered together. In afternoon, brother
Williamson, of Netting Hill, read and prayed,
and brother Foreman delivered aa addreaa on the
deaign of the Gospel ministry from Epb. iv, 18.
* For the per/edinff of tht Sstftto/ fto. After
wbieh, about 200 persons sat down to tea ; bro-
ther Wyard introdooed the evening services by

a hyma ) bralhcr Moyll iMd and piayad s ow
paator than atated the eljcetof the meeting ; nad
guve some account of the pi o gr aac daring hia
twelve mootha poatorate ; beaaid he had ban
encouraged by the additiona which had baan
made to the ehureh ; (%$ had been added; and
he had about ten more to propoee at the mzt
ebureh meeting;) by the peace and harmony
wbieh liad charaeteriaed the cbureh meetinga ; hj
the fervency, feeling, and aflMtkm, which ap-
peared to nwrk the prayera of the brethrea ;
and by the general good feeling which aeemed to
pervade the whole ; and he liad lelt often induced
to exclaim with joy aad feeUag, *The X«ord of
hoeu ia with ua, the <3od of laeob ia oar rataga.'
There waa, he believed, a perfoet reciprocity of
feeling between Uembtn, Deacfnu, and PoMtor.
They had thought and acted in perfect agree-
ment with each other ; everything looked eaeoar-
aging and promiaing. The Sabbath Bobooi wee
proapering with a good ataif of leacheia. Tha
good brethren, loaea, Hanka, Bloomfleld, and
Pabner, then spoke very adminbly, very edifying
and encouraging, ezpreesing their good wishee
and aihction for the church, with iu Bishop aad
Dr aco n s. We were thaakf al to eee eo away of
oar miniaterial brethren present; they wara
eheersd aad delighted with the preseat aapcaC of
things. We hope to see them another year.
Kay God continue to bless ua 1 After the aer-
vioe, a oolleotion was made towards the liqaida-
Uon. of the debt on the ahapel, whiah ie now a
little over £iOO. Signed, W. Manaaws, 1. O.
KawxAan, Gio. Woone, Deacem.
Feb. 19, 1899.

THE VIOLENCE OF SATAN;

▲HD

THE VICTORIES OP 0I1£I8T.

Dbab Ms. Editor— At the particular re-
queat of a friend, I send thia for pttbiiaataon ;
ane ia anzioua I abould teatify to tiia Lord*a
faithfulneas to one of hia triedpilgrima.

My much beloved mother^ Hrg. Thomaxan
Vaughan, whoae happy spirit ia now before
the throne, was for more than thirty yoara a
tniTeUer in bondage ; never during tine pjnod
able to realize her intereafc in the greait work
of Bedemption; her eonalant ery was *<Mi,
this wretched heart of mine ! what a aink of
ain and unbelief;" and whenever her children
have tried to point out from Beripiure there
waa mercy for the chief of sinners, and at
other timea to comfort her from the promiaeei
ahe would reply, ** iheg ar€forjf<m .• mot for
me : there ie no Iffe, no love ta me, I fear ;
Tou do not know what a wicked mother vou
have ; and frequently did ahe regrel ahe bad
ever made a proleesion. Qreailj did we
mourn to eee theae alaviah feaie, to And her
thus harraased by the enemy, when her life
waa proving to ul around, ^Dorn of God.'

In a letter to my aiater J ^ dated Dee-
ember, 1864L ahe remarks tbua, ' aad do yo«
mjf deargM eHUmmfbr me, mmowH^ me 7
I oamMoieay Iprof fir mfeeifs O, prmy that
the dear Lord may yet lift up the light of Hia

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eoantAiittiee upon me^ if it be Ikk aovvmn
vUl: goon, dear, if so be there maybe hope.
1 do not want you to think me eTerythinff,
vhoi I am nothing; nothing t O boI The
d«ar Lord knowa the heart. O. pray, dear,
that the Lord may purge me with hysaop, and
maia me dean, and make me ail that he
▼oaUliaTeme to be ; the mercies of our
Crod are^eat, and his eom passion fuknot/

SalTstion was at hand, though the set time
to fiTour fflon had not fully eome j— at length
"*f^ed, and her God was found faithful
aeconfiiw to his promise; (to a beloved friend
whilatnteadingforhor in the year 62.) 'at
ftm UmeU shall hd liaU:

In Jinuaiy, 1856, she was seised with a
paralytie stroke; after a few weeks she
reeorered so fitt a» to sit up a little while,
^th flopoort In a chair, when she said, take
me to bid, dear chUd; I did so. She had
«trcely laid down before she burst forth with
uu raptoioas ezcUmation, ^Let «m hUg$
^hOf MSM Ui^Hher f Se ha* redeemed me;
OMnt magnify hUhol^ name, for he hath
r«iimei •«/ I read several of Kant's
Jymn*, which she very greatly enjoyed, and
fonad Tery precious.

In KoTcmbw, my dear sister, Mrs. S

vMiXm eldest son, « dear boy, to whom
nwtMr was much attached, not only for his
sffeetwoate attentions to her, but for his
gn)wthm grace, which endeared him to all
wwmd. We feared to t^llhw; but our dear
1^ ^ared us this additional trial ; immedi-
atelj ay dear sister went to her bed-side in
th^moranifc she said, ^the dear hoy ie H
9^'9rg: the Lord hath told me so ; and I have

For loae time she was tranquil and happy,

tmt, ala^ was again for months more distressed

than ever; and said the enemy was near her

«ii«f«Ter die went, and oft-tunes made my

*»*w L- get up in the night : he was

Cfibe faid)tn the room; his form so hideous,

^»«tmg to take hw awav. In May, 1867, she

'^ ««^ wiib a third stroke. We did

■0* tfcittk Ao eonld surnve many days ; but

•be.sgatanffied. Never shall I forget (while

■ttmgw aiehing her sleeping one day) her

•wnWaad distressed countenance, feeling

« tned I eonld not remain in th# room alone

^ her, 80 called my dear sbter L ,

>Dd told her ray fears; when she awoke it

f« M maeh as we coald do to hold her in

bed : aKhoogfa her weakneaa was great. After

v>«tlingi in pvayer, the Lord bronght deli v-

cnaee ; *tbe vision was for on appointed time.

•i tbeeadit did speak.' How was her joy

er«ater than had been her distress. I repeated

ti»M sweet Knss~

' fiegoae aobeUef my Savloar li near,

Aa4 inr yoor rslicf, wtU sonly appoar ;

£! rac ^ra wlH wrestle, and he will perfonn

^tui Ghrirt hi the veisei, yo« shaU snUe at the

At this last Ime my dear mother lifted her
^es to me with snefa a look of joy I shall
i^er forget, and said. Ha X8 kibs ; Hb is
uu! »fileas the Lord, O mv soul; and
^ that is within me bless his (olv name ;'
He has loved me^ and given himself for mo ;

and beeausB He lives I shall live also. O
praiee him! Praiee hhm/ I ehall wear the
erown he hoe prepared for me I »or mi I»
I said, yes! you will see him as he is, without
a fflass between. Tee I and I shaU bear the
palm, and help to crown hun Lord of axiL !
So great was W ioy, weak nature was over-
come, and she fell into a sweet sleep, a dear
friend coming in at the time, raised her hands
and said, what a heavenly countenance I She
will die as she has lived, a good woman, to
{ which I can bear 40 years' testimony. This
I joy lasted for many days without interruption,
and my Lord favoured me with a sweet as-
surance that she would not again come into
bondage : nor did she ; for the Uut 13 months
of her life was spent in praise; and so near
did the Lord appear to her view, she would
Mil those around to 'JBehoid HimV Some-
times she would burst forth into singing :
'There is my house and portion dear ;
Hy treasure and mv heart are there.

And my abiding noma.
For me my elderbrethren stay.
And angels beekoning me away,

Bat Jesus bids me come.'
And again:

' All hail the power of Jesu's name,
Let anffels prostrate fall.
Bring mrth the royal diadem,
And crown him Lord of alL'
A dear friend remarking how grieved he
felt to see her 80- heavily afflicted, Might
afflictions; light afflictions ; I only long for
my Lord to call me home.' Many Ibund it
good to spend a little time with her ; a few
months before her death, she called my yoiin«
gest sister to her, and told her she ■ could
behold the Lamb, and the land that was afar
off.' A few days before her death she fixed
her eyes as though in communion with Ood.
and again called her, saying, * I can behold
the Lamb, and the land that was afar off,
brought nigh: I shall soon be at home.' My-
bister said,

* Jesus can make a dying bed
Feel soft as downy pillows are.'
She quickly answered,
* Whilst on his breast I lean my head.
And breatho my life out sweetly there.'
which she did in four days after, June 14th.
1868, aged 67 years.

' Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord,
from henceforth ; yea, saith the Spirit, that
they may rest from their labours.'

Elizabbtb VAUaSAB
Vanborough Fields, Blackheath, Feb. 1869.

Old BsBimroBD. — Mr. Parsons, late of
Chesham, has accepted an invitation for one
year, of the Church at Old Brentford, with a
view to the pastorate; his labours eom-
meneing Lord's-day, February 20tb. He ^
will preach Lord's days and Wednesdar eve-
nings. We return our most sincere tiianka
for the kindness of those ministers who have
so cheerfully assisted us for nearly four years
and she months. J. LninLBT.

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OUR C50L0NIAL MAIL.

[MakIi 1, 18«.

A Letter from a chbistian brotheb iir new Zealand.

Mb.C. W. Bavkb,— Dear Sir.— I Bhould
feel obliged by jour Bending me the numbers
of ' Eakthbn vbsbbl' for 1868, and continue
to send them monthly. I have enclosed half
BoTereign for that purpose. ScTeral copies of
the Vessel hare found their way to this dis-
tant land. I hare the ten first relumes ;
sereral others hare them through friends in
England. The general information of the
Prorincial and lA>ndon Churches hare been
exceedingly interesting to rour distant friends.
Idesire toolessGodfor tliat support he has
afforded yon and your Correspondents in con-
tending earnestly for ' the faith once delirered
to the Saints,' in this day of dead formality,
error, and superstition.

I hare been Eighteen years in the Colony :
in my isolated position, free froip the influence
of parties and sects, the Scriptures hare
been my study day and night ; I hope to some
profit From what I hare seen amrngst pro-
fessors in this part of the world, and from
general information of what is going on in
Europe and America, I am dail^ more oon-
rincM of the truth of that assertion, uttered
many years since, by that able minister of
truth, John Sterens, that * the world and the
church are become one oommon field ; dirinity
is now taught and followed as any other dto-
fesfion, for sordid gun.' It appears eriaent
to me, that the ministry of the professing
church is daily becoming more unprofitable,
and is . less acknowledged by the Spirit's
power. Jeremiah's commission was to ' sep-
arate the preoiona from the rile ;' our pro-
phets, I fear, hare their oonunission from
another quarter ; their aim is to amalgamate.

and not to separate ; in order to strowthi
their party, and augment their funds. X)ut,
fisith, and offered grace, which rings from

nearly erery pulpit, is the net to catch their

lliat a fearful doud is gathering orer the
religious horizon, I hare no doubt: and God
only knows what the result will be. Deep
humiliation should be the position of all his
children at this time, on aooount of many
neglected pririleges. Anti*ehristian errors
within a few years past, hare been scattered
orer the world like wild-fire^ under the
rarious names of Popery, Puseyism, Armini-
anism, and other isms but litUe better ; and
the further from the truth, the more success-
ful their efforts : and those churches who (by
profession at least) hare maintained the
truth, are looking on with indifference.

In the order of Froridence, thousands
yearly are learing your churches and families
for the Colonies, wnere they are left to be the
prer of erery seducer. The Baptists, nor the
Inoependants, hare, I beliere, nerer made an
attempt to send the truth to these Colonies ;
nor eren to establish an agency for their
numerious publications, while nearly erery
other sect has its paid agents at ereir post.
Although the brethren hare orerlooked us ;—
yet, I trust Qod is not without a witness in

these Islands ; there are many sincere Christ-
ians scattered orer the different settlements
who cannot conscientiously join the ranks of
apostacy ; who hare been kept by the power
of Qed through faith from bringing disgnuw

rn the cause of truth they profess : but for
want of ministers, and being much scat-
tered, there is but little union among them.

The low-sentiment Baptists and Indepen-
dents, when they oome to the Colonies,
generally fidl in with the Arminians or some-
thing worse. I hare known sereral of them
go boldly into popery at once. It has been m
mat consolation to me that amongst all tha
falling off amongst professors, 1 hare nerer
known one who was brought to experience the
power of those great truths bo much despised,
who hare been permitted to fall away. I
desire to bless Goa it was my pririlege to hear
the Gospel proclaimed for nearly fire years, by
that faroured serrant of God, Mr. J. Foreman,
and others. The ererlasting lore of God the
Father, the all-prerailine atonement and
mediation of an adorable Bedeemer, the
effectual working of the Holy Spirit in the
regeneration and sanotification of all the
election of grace, was the theme of their song;
these truths are, and I trust they erer will be,
the joy and rejoicing of my heart Dear Sir,
I hope you will insert this in the Ywsel, in
order, if it be possible \o awsken the churchee
to their neglect of their distant brethren.

We profess to follow the primitire churehae
in doctrine and praetioe ; was it earned ont,
such men as Mr. Wells, Mr. Foreman, ICr.
Philpot, and others, would (ere this) as the
apostles of old, hare risited ererj Britidi
Colony, and not, as is often the ease now when
a poor unfortunate, for lack of talent or
energy fails at home, is recommended to emi-
grate. 1 oould say more on this point, but
forbear. Jobbph whiti. '

Htttt near Wellington, New Zealand.
Nor. 10th, 1858.

[We hare sent to this brother a pareel of
* Barthen Vftsels,' ' Cheering Words,' tc We
want to send out some thousands for distri-
bution in the Colonies. A plan is suggested bj
Mr. Skinner to hare a fund for gietrntoas
distribution. We wish to send our brethren
at the ends of the earth, all the good news we
can ; any one may see brother White's spirit
is rery low.— Bd.]

MELBOURNE.

Our brother Daniel Allen's long and exeel-
lent epistle, iwentr-six pages, full of biblical
exposition, reached us too late for insertion :
this oommimication leads us to belierethat
the word of Christ dwells ftiUy and richly in
our brother's heart ; we are glad that Mel-
bourne has a witness so truthful: the Lord
long presorre and prosper him and the cause
with which he stands connected.

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* A Voiet film the JPulpU; By John
Bl>3niBcld, of Salem Chapel, Meard*8 Court,
Si^ho. London ; publuhed by Eobert BaqIu
mJ Co. O. J. SteTeneon, 54, Patemoeter
It^w; 76 pages ; price 6d. There are three
di^itinct claaaet of revievers : the first, praise
netrly cTery book or pamphlet which falls
iQto their hands : the second, ezertslBe a eriti-
«iim so seren, that nothing escapes their
WMoie in some way or other ; the third,
^ sU sUenUy by, with the exception of a
lev fiifoorita authors; from them they ex-
ptct Twy largely, and extol them to the
bi^bflrt We deaiiy lore i«newing good
br>oki : and pur desire is to deal with Uiem as
we woald with good men i admire the grace
^ Qsd in them; and as to the spots or
blemiibes ; or little defects ; we prefer to say
iK4hiQg, rather than magnify. Mr. Bloom-
fold's new edition of « The 6hritHam*9 Com-
paniom* has receired a hearty welcome from
til who renew this class cf works ; and the
Vmeg from the PutpU, will add much to Mr.
B] cornfield's fiune as an author. This book
funiishes eridenee of three things:— fint,
that Xr. Btoomfield is an industrious student
and minirtsr; secondly, that his spirit delights
tn dimb the highest hilla of theology; and
thirdly, that he is anxious by all means to
feM, sod to eomfert, to edify, and to enervate
tJK living toemben of the true Church of
Obriit We sincerely wish him God- speed.

Ftre haportant essays are given in this
rohoie >-The Work of the Mimstry ; Enoch
Walking with God; Heavenly Citisenship;
The Church of Ood ; and The Smitten Shep-
herd. Andld, a loving, and an intelUgeat
ipirit, nms through the whole.

' Jfodirw Athene; or, the City Wkollf Qiven
vptelMtOrf: ByJ.CarbiU,Bi4>tistliinister
OrCoffd HUl, Norwich; sent for six stamps,
to say address ; or one dozen copies for five
ibiUiagB. The city of Norwich has become
notonmas fiov the unholy work carried on there
by loiae of the Leaders of an old established
Baptist caass, of which ftirther mention will
b? made^ Mr. Jofa^ Corbitt^ the pastor of the
Churth on Orford Hill, is well known in Eng-
hnd, ss a perfectly originaL strictly honour-
able, and fearlessljr fiuthful testifier of the
truth ss revealed in the gospel The Lord
has given to him a proaperons and useful posi-
tioo in the OU Cathedral City of Norwich ;
&nd beside preaching the gospel in his own
piioe, John CorbiU has looked closely into
the idolatries^ Ibrmalitias, ceremonial fooleries,
*Qd hypocritical professions of his fellow-citi-
tsti» His \axfs^ heart* (and John Corbitt is
^'* % little man in any sense,) has bled within
hiffl ; and his soul has groaned deeply, while
he hss witnessed the SmxV delusions, where-
vith thoosands of his church and chapel -eoing
Kfifbhoors, are being led captive hy blind
bats and empty boasters. John Corbitt knows,
failnreU, the preciousnesa of that salvation
vhkh is in, and by, and through, the Son of
0.id :^oba was a sinner as blmd, as bad, as
^t^ue, as any under the heavens : the sovereign,
U« iafxneible.

the spontaneous grace of God

came to him ezpntosly ; opened h&s ejrei aff-
ectuaUv ; changed his heart radicfdly : trans,
lated him from the kingdom, of Satan into
the kingdom of God's dear Son manifestively ;
brought pardon and peace to his conscience
most blessedly ; and for years John Corbitt
has been one of the noblest, and most success-
ful chamnions for Christ's gospel, that we
have in all the provinces. Could such a man
witness the deadly doings of these Norwich
professors, and remain silont P God forbid !
he could not. He has written a complete
body of divinity in this * Modem Athene ;* it
is making an unusual stir— the dogs are bark-
ing, the sheep are feeding. All we now say,
is, let John Corbitt's l^k fly through the
land by thousands.

' The Prince of thie World Judged.' Such
is the title of No. 7, of ' The Surrey Taber-
nacle Pulpit:* a title which is powerfully
sustained and illustrated in the sermon itself.
We have read it with profit and interest. The
few last numbers of this series, have enhan-
ced the value o^the work to a considerable
degree. • The World Saved ;* • The World
Judged;' * The World Lost;' are all sermons
which pour into such poor minds as ours an
immense amount of Scriptural knowledge :
they have opened up in our souls more fuUy,
the terrible nature and consoquenoes of sin, of
error, and of a mere outside profession of
religion : tbey have endeared to us the faith-
ful and honest ministers of truth ; the gospel
of truth; and the eternal Gon of truth: and,
we have believed that the blessed Spirit of
the living God who indited these discourses.
Will render them of inca](iulable serdce to the
churches of this, and of future ages. ' The
Prinee cf thie World Judged? is a sermoa
somewhat out of the common track, and is,
we think, wisely handled. If the great Ad-
versury does not make a dreadful attack upon
the minister of the Surrey Tabernacle, for
this- sermon, it will be simply because he has
made so many attempts to overturn him, and
hasalwaysbeen defeated : and, therefore, retiree
to his dtfk den, biting his. lips with madness,
saying, * I can, as an angel of light, as a
fowler, laying snares ; or as a roaring lion,
master most of these ministers, as they are
called ; but that long, strong, unbending, de.
termined face-like-a-flint aort of a 'flying
angel,* at the Surrey Tabernacle, he haa
been battering me so many years; anddriv-
iag such a successful trade with many hun-
dreds of them who were once my willing sub-
jects, that I am tired of trying any more to
throw him off his throne. He has drank so
deeply of the river of life ; and has so thor-
ongnly taken to himself the whole armour of
GcM ; and is surrounded by such an army of
^pel warriors, that I can do nothing I' It
IS evident, from one part of the sermon that
Mr. WeUs knows well that Satan would soon
overturn him, but for his 'oneness with Jesus.'
Mr. Wells, speaking of this our common foe,
says I —

' He is (as I have said) a dreadful enemy; I
am no match for him, not the slightest. 1 am
no moro in his hands than a straw or a fea-

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iher ; he eoiild tarn me «boat at « mere no*
tttiiiij'. Bat give mo * ododoh with /esno,'
then I em o match tbr him ; gire me the
pnaeneo of the blemad Ood, then I am a
mateh for him ; give me the Holy Spirit reat*
ing npon my booI, and eanaing me to triumph
in Christ, then I can raritt the derilj then
he flees from me ; then I can reiotoe in the
Messed fteedom that 1 have m Chnst Jesus/

'The Saner Xabernade Pulpit,' is eri-
dentlyaooeptable to the people : its mreulation
steadily increases; we are determined, God
helping, to send, it through the nations of
Europe by tens of thoiiiands if possible ; as
an antidote to the millions of poisonous, and
anti-truthful productions now issuing from
the press.

In No. 8 of S. T. Pulpit^entitled, TksEnmiiM
J>rfeaUdy we hare an exposition, a spiritual
and an experimental opening, of the twelfth
ehapter of Bevelation, in wBich tJU woman
eUiih$d with ike Sun is represei^ted, we think,
in her STew-CoTcnant and true Gfospel cha-
neter. This sermon wil^ justify the oon-
▼iction that Mr. WelU has read moet exten-
nvely the writings of the learned on the
ApooaIypee;~it abo clearly shews that while
an eiforta to explain the Word of God Uto-
rdHf, are connicting and unoertain, erro-
neous and extravaffant, the $piritual deve-
lopement ot Qod'a holy Word, as brought out
by the Spirit of life and truth, in the history
of the ehuroh, and in the hearts of the ran-
somed—is simple, certain, delightfully har-
monious ; so dear, and brilliantly illumina-
ting — that the wayfkring man — although
wrapt in 'ignorance as regards the higher

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sdenoea, natural and artifioial— in the qnrit-
ual knowledge of the mysteries of grace, he
can noTor fatally err. It is considered a rare
and intaluable blessing to afllieted souls, to
hare ^An Xnierpreter with thmn:* in this
department of toe Gospel ministry— (without
~iile or partiality—) we certainlj think our
other at the Surrey Tabemade is honoored
to a great degree.

*« GsMs to B^gfUmn," By Joseph Palmer,
Minirter of Bomoey StreetOhapel, Westmrns-
ter. Lendons B. Pahner, 18, Batemoeter
Bow. A little two-peimy manual for diatribo-
tion in onr eoag r eg ati o ui ; it will arreat the
attention : with God's blessing, it' will canr
home oonTietion, and lead to a loring obedi-
ence, as in the ease of Theodosia BriMst.

^*Ths Chtpel JBjraM JBooki fitr Sunday
(MkooUand Tmohmri M§Himin:* London;
Houlston A Wright; and of the Bditor,
Bradford, Wilts. It can never be eaid of
William Mawkina, of Bradford, let him go to
heaTon whenoTer he mav, — that he has done
no good, flis beautiful little volume^ with
above SOOof the best Hymns for Sohools is
oseAily cheap, and in eveiT wi^ ezoellent;
ten thousand copies have been issued :— but
what is that amgng «« our Ohmrckaif Vary
feeUngW we ask— when a man has vaated
brains, body, time, and substance, to eerre
the best of all oauaea, shocdd not he find a
hearty reepoMC P— This Gospel Hymn Book
must be used in all oar sehools where semi^
nets in thsfiUth is the rule of teachinff ; be-
eanse we know of nothing that oan oooaistent-
ly oecupy its place.

" THE DOCTRINES AND THE DISCIPLINE OUB CHURCHES
IN DANGER."

A Taliant Israelite onee said, * Andrew
Fuller did all he could to destrt^ the dooMnsa
and Bobert Hall did all he could to destroy the
diteipUna, of our churehes." The present
aspect of tSban rsall v requires a calm and
wise consideration. Some great-headed boys
on the one hand, and some exeeedingly res-
pectable aeoommodators, on the other, are eo
oomfMely taming good old foshioned thincs
oat of doors, that us 'jMHicnlor Mople* wul
not dare presently, to say that uie jKUs is
God's Holy Word and Will ; and that to walk
oontrarr to it, is dangeroos.' HoweTer, if
Goepel Principles, and Gospel Praeiieiu are to
be continued in our eburohes ; the faithful
few must be awake, and at work. Bvery body
has heard of the learned Einghom. He was
pastor of the old Baptist Chareh at St llarr's,
ITorwich, which, for a oenturY or more nas
been a strict communion Baptist Church.

During ICr. B ^"s pastorate there, he fav«r-

ed open communion ; his successor, has per-
petuated this breach of the trust-deed. The
consequence is, a suit has been eommenoed,
in order to secure the property to the Partiea-
lar Strict Communion Baptists. Seeing that
mauT honorable members have been most
orueuT, most unjustly excluded f^m the
church, simphr because they contend earnestly
for that whicn is right and scriptural ; and

seeing they hare been compelled to take their
complaint into oourt we solemnly beeeecfa
erery honest Baptist Pester at onoe to bring
the matter before his people ; let a meeting
be holden at once; in erery city, town, and
TiUage; let Mr. Wilkin, and Mr. Norton, the
Tlnistees of St. MaiVs Chspel, Norwich,
have letters of sympathy, and tangible help,
forwarded to them : that Justioe and IVuth
may be maintained. Let our Baptist ohordiaa
rise simultaneooslT; righteoosness shall tfwii
look down fhmi nearen; and Truth ahall
still spring ap oat of the earth.

Beports of meetings, and resolutions pnased
at tiiose meetings, have been sent as vy Mr.
John Corbitt, and hisdeaoens ; by Mr. Gowen,
and his deacons, (both of Kcrwieh,) and by
Mr. Samuel Milner, and his deacons, of Knipol
Street, London. These brethren haTe alood
forth nobly. We cannot publish these letten
and reports ; but we this day issne a PeniiT
Sunplementarr Number, entitled, ** A LOUP
C£LL TO THB BBITI6H BAFTIgl
CHUBCHE8." This Supplementary Num-
ber may be had from oar Puolishers. at Sa. per
100 ; or, 9d. per dosen eopies, for distribntion
among all congregations. This will iMf open
the case; and produce a powerfitl sympathy.

Surely our people wul not sleep while the
enemy is breaking down the walls of Zi<m!

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[Wi /mI boand to give uoiuual prominenoe to the Letter of A Little One this time : ita
eon tents are of TaAt moment ; leeing that the Dissenting aristocracy are endeavouring
to throw a largo amount of contempt upon that Ordinance which our Lo&D^rtf^ observed ;
uid seeing, moreover, that those who professed to be our friends, and the decided firiendg
of truth too, are now boldly going naif-way over to the ranks of our secret foes. We
solemnly believe it is high time to awake out of sleep.— Ed.]

superior rirtne to the Baptism performed by
them ; or, as the Apostle says, < Lest any
should say they baptized in their own name.'

EPISTLES TO THEOPHILUS.

LBTTJSR LIV.

Ht good Theopiiilus, — As you are a
Biptist, I wish you also to be decided for
itritt eommunion. Nerer give your vote
for toy cue to come to the Lord's table nn-
■mptnrally ; neither do you yourself ever sit
down at the table, either with Independants,
or with mixed communion, or where they
sdait none into the Church as members but
by Baptism, yet admit others to the table :
bat itaad clear of all.

lift, Because of the importance of confor-
mity to New Testament ordtr. Faith eomes
first; baptism stands next. Baptism is not
so important, nor anjthing like so important,
u regeneration, as living faith, having living
works ; or, as redemption, justification, eter-
nal election, the truth of an ererlasting cove-
Bsnt, with eternal glory. If Baptism were
u httportsnt as these essential truths, every
hetven-tSQght man would be sure to be a
Bsptist: Baptism is in no way essential to
salTadon ; it is not in the vital sense, an essen -
tial doctrine; but it is essential to right <fw-
<^P^>M. Nor because Baptism is not essential
to salvatioaf but only to gospel discipline,
^ht we to make light of it ; nor does the
^^«d «( God anywhere make light of it.
Some have thought that the Apostle Paul
did treat it rather lightly, when he thanked
God tbat he had Baptind so few ; but then
|te sssirns the reason of this thankfubess:
jt vss, lest any should say that * he baptized
is iii own name.' It does not appear
^ti the apoBtiet ever made it a common
PfBctioe themselves to baptize ; hence Peter
UBself, at Ceaaarea, did not himself baptize
tkose who were made partakers of the Holy
Gkost; but *h0 eommanded them to be bap-
tiisd in tha name of the Loid.' And there
*R fonr naaona which suggest themselves
vhy the spoatlea themselves did not baptize,
bat eommanded others to do it. First, because
tbey were giwn up chiefly to the ministrv of
tbe ward. Secondly, because of the numbers
Called at times by their ministry, that it
voald hinder a large portion of their time.
Thirdly, because it waa a matter so simple as
sot to require apostolic gifts to enable one
^^hfistian to baptize another. And, fourthly,
Icit owing to the greatness of their gifts,
flstsaihoaldtake sldwantagty and attach a
T0L.XV--N0. xe9.

But, although they themselvej did not, as a
general rule, baptize— still they commanded
it to be done ; for they were not sent person*
ally to baptize, but to preach the gospd.
And even the Saviour himself, though he
himself was baptized, yet he himself ^id not
Baptize others (John iv. 2,) yet did he make
Baptism one part of the missison be gave to
the apostles. Do not then, my good Theo-
philus, make li^ht of that order of Church
government which the King of Zion hath
given. Surely he is worthy of being
obe]red ; < For behold, to obey is better than
sacrifice ; and to hearken than the fat of rams :
for rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft ; ana
stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry/ 1
Sam. XV. 22, 23.)

Keep then to strict communion ; not only
because of the importance of conforming to
gospel order ; but also because yon prefer the
word of the Lord, even before the most es-
teemed of your brethren in the Lord. There
are some who are not Baptists, to whom I
feel very much more union of soul, than I do
to many that are Baptists: But still, when
I am nlled upon to decide which I will do,
set these esteemed aside, or set the command
of their Lord and Master aside, I cannot
hesitate which to do. I dare not alter the
order of the Lord's house ; I cannot to oblige
them, sanction their disobedience, nor go
into disorder with them. I must wait until
they come into their right minds, and there I
must leave it, ' and go my way till the end
be.'

So then, it comes simply to this, that you
must either set a child of God aside from
the Lord's table, or else you must set ttia
command of God aside : the one i» painful^
but the other is einful : for ' Whatsoever is
not of faith is sin.' Abide then by atri^
eomtnuntont

Abide then by strict communion also for
the take of othert, A conscientions abiding
hereby will do much towards bringing others
over to order, but if we ourselves totter and
stngger, can we expect to see others fall into
our ranks ? They may call us bigots, and a
variety of other ugly names,— and this will
prove that they are angry with us,— but it
will not prove tW they «^e l^^^^^'C^^^t

THB BAETHEK YESSEL.

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are wrong; ; and the great thing for us is, to
quietly, but firlnly, ataud priicticaUj by what
we know to be the good and the right way.

Stand fast by strict communion for con-
teieneeaake; and if you are placed where
there is no Baptist minister that you can
iear, and where there is no church of New
Testament orderi then stand out ; and rather
than oome to the table unsoripturally, eome
not at all. Be thus, a practioal witness for
truth and order. Let conscience hare her
^fe«t work, and take not the Lord'i Sapper
unworthily, which allopen oommunionistsao ;
btit < Be not thou partakers with them;' pay
no attention whatsfer to the aignment that
•ome of the best and greatest preaehers we
have had, were not eren balf-way Baptists,
intioh less itriet commnnionists : this argu-
ment amounts to this, that as we ought to
follow such men where the^ followed Christ ;
fo, in eonsideration of their many and great
exeelleneies, we oupht to adopt their errors
also. Such a notion as this would at once
•et ns on the high way to Rome. Just adopt
Luther's consubstantiation, and Cal tin's prac-
tSoe of perlMuting men tor matters of eon-
science, and we shall not be far from the
kingdom of Rome ; adopt the old semi*ar-
mintan fathers' duty-ftiith doctrine, and we
corrupt the truth, and cover Zion with a
cloud. ' Be not thou then partakers of other
taien's sins.' We sin enough by infirmity, and
from want of experience and judgment,
without sinning witfuUy. Until, therefore,
another law be given from heaven, to sanc-
tion another way to the Lord's table, be you
steadfast, and unmoveable, just where you are,
go not thou over unto them, but let them
eome over unto thee.

I will here give you but one more reason
for abiding by strict eommunion ; and that is
ih» preterMtion 0/ Ik^ ordmtmses «i they

are delivered unto U9, One of the laws most
emphatically given to the Israelites waa, that
they were in every possible way to teaoh their
children the laws, and statutes, and ordi-
nances, which the Lord had delivered unto
them ; and a substituting of other laws, in
whole or in part, in the place of the laws of
God, made their worship vain, and ultimately
proved their ruin and oispersion. The truth
of God in all its departments is the salt of
the earth ; and the people of God, are the
salt of the earth only as they abide vitally
and practically in the truth. Apart from
this they are neither fit for the land, nor for
the dunghill ; not savoury enough to be any
uae in the Chureh ; and yet, as with aU their
want of savour, they cannot hate the truth,
and so are not fit for the dunghill of this
world ; but in tbis their sad cajptivity, are
trodden under the foot (not of God, buQ of
men ; but they shall be salted with the uery
heart- warming love of God, and that by the
power of the Holy Ghost.

If then we would save ourselves from an
untoward generation, it must he by abiding
by the truth ; and if we are set for the de-
fenoe of the gospel let us defend it, and not
corrupt it ; for it is only abiding by the truth
that we oan serve God acceptably ; nor can
we get real good, or glorify him in any other
wayi

Thus, then, let the importance of abiding
by New Testament order, the preference of
the word of the Lord, a good conaciencc,
and the preservaton of the troth in its purity^
have due weight with you. * Trust in tl^e
Lord, and thus do good, and thou shalt dwell
in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.'
Stand by his truth, and he will stand by you ;
for so it has been found even by

A LlTTLB OwB,

WHO WAS THEODOSIA ERNEST?

AKD, HOW BID SHE BEOOliE A BAPTIST P

Wb gave, last month, a faithful account of
Theodosia's Baptism. That; account has
been read bj Uiousands with feelings the
iBost convincing and powerful. Bverywhere,
whara we have been« the baptism of Theodo«>
■ia has been spoken of with ffratitude and
^rmpathy. The question has been asked —
* Shall we not hear more about her ?" We
have promised our readers they shall. And
we now proceed to redeem that pledge.
Since the work first fell into our hands, we
have believed that a careful perusal of it,
would, (the Holy Spirit anointing the eyee
of the reader's understandiag,) do more to
wifold the sublime mysteries of this ordin-
ance, than all the aiguments, and controver-
sies, that ever yet were published. Mr. E.
Tucker, of ITpavon, in Wiltshire, very kindly

sent ns the book for perusal : but althc«igh
the first glance of it gave as a love to it, Wo
could not get time carefully to review it. Mr.
Tucker, at length sent ff>r his book. Wo
were not willing to let it %0j until we were
in possession of another copy. We eear^ad
^ the book-market. Found a new editioia of
it in two volumes, price twelve shillings.
We purchased the two volumes; and «iir
hope is, that the Lord wilt make us the hon-
ored instrument of giving the Engltsli
Churches a cheap, a correct, and a reviaed
edition of this work in numbers : but, * <mr
people^ generally s^kitig, will not much
aprist in the dtssemminatioB of truth iu this
way. Our zeal, our ambition, and e«ur aar-
nest efforts in this direetton, have •anriad us
into difficulties and danjr^ of bo orMmry

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; «4 wluk w« lltfiB tlie tiMioki of
to wboQ our UlNwr% hftve Uoi
UMty wt hft?» the heart^imUiiijr OMtfom, and
eoldnrcanM of thoee» who^ doing notbing
tbemMlfes, irill gladly tnuoiph over the
trihoUtiotts of (hose who become eireumstan-
tial mart JT9 in the proqiulgation of the holy
principlee of the faith onee delivered pnto
die taint4. We daiiy and deeply sigh over
the thingi which haye occasionea the ' Aha /
Ak^ SQ wfM Kw htw^ it r Nfiferthelesa,
« 1FM eamiM^M that (M tnay yH d^livtr
ear Thia qneatioii whieh hann in oar aoul —
«ii^>ended between hope ana deipair, atill
wgee na on onr wav : and again, we aay to
all to whom our totla have been ntefiil, preti
into our aid; eironlate onr work ; aet ns free ;
gnd ,44 lopg as life shall last, and itreogth
from heaTen ia given, to ^ Fight the good
Jght rffaith^ ihall.be OQr unceasing employ,
wd tbtn to * U^ hold on eternal life,* will i%
Uiesindeodl

Bat, in oommencioj^ tbe history of Tbeo«
4aeu, take the following fint chapter irom
tke fioit of the Tolnmea, of which we bare
spoken.

«< Mothiv, hare I ever been baptised 9'

Hie queetioner was e bright, intelligent,
Mne-eyad lad, some thirteen summerB old.
Hie deep eerioosneH of his oonntenance, and
Ike earnest, wistfiil gese with whieh he looked
into bis motbei^e mce, showed thAt,lbr the
■HmieDt at least, the question seemed to him
n very important one.

' Geitainly. ny son ; both yon and your sis-
ter were beptiaed by the £ev. Doctor Fisher,
ai the time when I united with the cfaUroh.
Tour sister remembers it well, lor she was six
years old ; bat you were too young to know
miy tbing about it. Tour aunt Jones said it
wea the meet solemn soene she ever witnessed ;
and stMh a prayer as the coed old Doctor made
tor jcn I nerer heard berore.*

«Bat, aaother, rejoined the lad, eiater and 1
linro been down to the rifsr to see a lady bap-
tised by the Baptist minister who oame here
laat month nd oommenoed preaehing in the
•eboel-hoQee. They went down into the rirsr.
and then ko plunged her under the water ana
qiiiekfy raised her out again. And sister says
Utkai was baptism, then we were not baptised,
beeaose we stood on the drr floor of the ohurch,
and the preaeher dipned nis hand inio a bowl
ef water and eorinklea a few drops on our fore-
heads. And she says, eousin John Jones was
ftaC baptised either ; for the preaeher only took
aKttle piteher of water, and poured a little
stream upon hia head. Sister says she don't
see how there ean be three baptisms, when tibe
scriptmro says ' One Lord, one faith one bap-
tism/

' To«r sister is always studying about thinffs
aboTe her reach, my son. It la better for
young people like you not to trouble yourselves
too much about these knotty questions in
theology.'

* But. mother, this don't seem to me to be
a knotty question at all. One minister takes

% person down into the wite. and dins hoc
unoerit; another stands on the dry floor of
the oburoh before the pulpit, and sprinkles a
few drops into her face; another poura a little
#trevn upon her head. Now any body can see
that they do three different ihingn; and if
each of them is baptism, then there must be
three baptisms. There is no theology about
that, is tnere ?*

* Tes roy child, this is a theological question ;
and I supposo it must be a very diflicuit one,
since I am told that some very good ^and wise
men disagree about it.'

* But, mother, they all agree that there is
only one baptism do they not ? And If there
is only one, why don't they ^'ust look into the
Testament, and see what it id ? If the Testa-
ment says sprinkle, thcu it is sprinkling ; if it
says pour, then it is {touring ; if it says dip,
then it is dipping. I mean to read the Testa-
ment| and see if 1 cannot decide which it ib for
myself,*

* Do you 'think, my sop, that you will be
able to know as much about it as your uncle
Jones, or Pr. Fisher, who baptized you, or Dr.
Barnes, whose notes you use in learning your
Sunday School lesson, and all the pious and
learned ministers of our church, and the Me-
thodist church, and the Episcopal church?
They have studied the Testament through and
through, and they all agree that a child who is
sprinkled is properly baptized.'

* Yes mother, but if the baptisms in the New
Testament were sprinkling, (and ofcourse they
were, or such wise and good men would not
aay so,) why can't I find it there, as well at
ang hoijf V

Very well, mv son, you can read and see ;
but if you should happen to come to a different
oonolusion from these great and learned men,
I hope you won't set up your boTish judgment
against that of the wisest theologians of the
age. But here comee your sister. I wonder
if she is going to become a theolonan too !'

Mrs. Bmest (the mother of whom we are
apeaking) was bom of Tery worthy pa-
rents, who were consistent members of the
Presbyterian church ; and she had grown up
as one of * the baptiaed children of the church.'
As she * appeared to be sober and steady, and
to have euBicient knowledge to discern the
Lord's body,' she was doubtless informed, ae-
eording to the directions of the confession of
foith, page fi04, that it was * her duty and her
pririlege to come to the Lord's supper.' But
she had felt no inclination to do so until after
the death of her husband. Then in tho day of
her sorrow, she looked upward and began to
feel a new, though not an intense, interest m
the things of religion. She made a public
profession, and requested baptism for her two
childreD. ' , , .

The little boy was then an infant, and h)s
sister was about ox years old, a sprightly, in-
teresting child, whose flowing ringlets, dimpled
Ohio, rosy oheeks, and sparkling eyes, were the
admiration of erery beholder.

Twelve years had passed. The lorely girl
had become a beautiful and remarkablr inteU
Kgent young lady. The little babe had iprown
into the noble looking, blue-eyed lad, with •

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strong, manly frame, and a face and brow
which gave promise of capacity and independ-
ence of thought far above the average of his
companions.

Theodosia and Edwin . How they loved each
other ! She, with the doting affection of an
elder child and only sister, who had watched
the earliest derelopements of his mind, and
been his companion and his teacher from in-
fancy ; he, with the confiding, reverential ^et
familiar love of a kind-hearted and impulsive
boy, to one who was to him the standard at
once of female beauty and womanly accom-
plishments.

Theodosia came io not with that elastic step
and sprightlv air, which was habitual with
her j but witn a slow and solemn ffait, scarcely
raising her eyes to meet her mother's inquir-
ing gaze, she passed through to her own room
and closed the door.

The mother was struck with the deep and
earnest seriousness of her face and manner.
What could it mean ? What could have hap-
pened to distress her child P

' Edwin, my son, what is the matter with
your sister }*

* Indeed, mother, I do not know of any
thing. We stood together talking, at the
river bank, and just before we left, Mr. Percy
came up to walk home with her. It must be
something that hss happened by the way.'

The mother's mind was relieved. Mr. Per-
cy had been for many months a frequent and
welcome visitor at their pretty cottage, and
had made no secret of his admiration of her
accomplished and beautiful daughter ; though
he had never, until a few weeks since, formally
declared his love. Mrs. Ernest did not doubt
but that some lovers' quarrel had grown up
in their walk, and this had cast the shadow
upon Theodosia's sunny face. She waited
somewhat impatiently for her daughter to
come out and confirm her conjectures. She
did not come, however, and at length the mo-
ther arose, and softly opening the door, looked
into the room. Theodosia was on her knees.
She did not hear the door, or become conscious
of the presence of her mother. In broken,
whispered sentences, mingled with sobs, she
prayed : * Oh Lord, enlighten my mind. Oh,
teach me thy way. Let me not err in the un-
derstanding of thy word, and oh give me
strength, 1 do beseech Thee, to do wlmtever I
find to be my duty. I would not go wrong.
Help I oh help me to go right !'

Awe-struck and confounded, Mrs. Ernest
drew back, and tremblingly awaited the ex-
planation she so much desired to hear.

When at length the young lady came out,
there was still upon her face the same serious
earnestness of expression, but there seemed
less of sadness, and there was also that perfect
repose of the countenance, which is the rteult
of a newly formed, but firmly settled deter-
mination of purpose.

Mrs. Emett, as she looked at her, was more
perplexed than ever. She was, however, re-
solved to obtain at once a solution of the mys-
tery.

*Mr. Percy walked home with you, did he
not, my daughter P*

* Yes, mother.'

'Did you find him as intereating as vsiuQ f
What was the .subject of your conversation f

* We were talkmg of the baptism at the
river.'

* Of nothing else'

* No, mother, this occupied all the time.'
' Did he say nothing about himself?'

* Not a word, moUier, except in regard to
whether he had ever been baptized.'

* Why what in the world possesses you sli f
Tour brother came running home to ask me
if he had been baptized ; Mr Percy is taking
about whether he has been baptized. I won*
der if you are not beginning to fancy that jro*
have never been baptised ?'

* I do indeed begin to doubt it, mother, ior
if that was baptism which we witnessed at
the river this morning, I am quite sure I never
was.'

' Well, I do believe, that Baptist preacher
is driving you all crazy. Pray tell me, wl»t
did he do or say, that gave you such a serious
face and put these new crotchets in your head?'

' Nothing at aU, mother. He simply read
from the New Testament the account of the
baptism of Jesus and of the Eunuch. Then
he took the candidate and they went down
both of them down into the water, and he
baptised her, and then they came up out of
the water. I could not help seeing that this
is just what is recorded of Philip and the Eu-
nuch. If so. then it is the baptism of the
scriptures ; and it is certain a very different
thing from that which was done to me, when
Dr. Fisher sprinkled a few drops of water in
my face.'

' Of course, my dear, it was different ; but
I don't think the quantity oftcater employed
affects the. validity of the baptism. There is
no virtue in the water, and a few drops aie
just as good as all the floods of Jordan.,

* BuC mother, it is not in the quanti^ of
water, the the difference consists: it is in
the act performed. One sprinkles a little wa-
ter in the faoe ; another ponre a little water
on the head ; another buriee the whole body
under the water, and raises it out again. Two
apply the water to a person ; the other plunges
the person into the water. They are surely
very different acts; and if what I saw this
evening was scriptural baptism, then it ia cer-
tain that I have never been baptized.'

* Well, xny child, we won't dispute about it
now ; but I hope you are not thinking about
leaving your own church ; the ehuroh in
which your grandfather and your grandmother
lived and died : and in which so many of the
most talented and influential families in the
country are proud to rank themselves^ to unite
with this little company of ignorant, ill-man-
nered mechanicaand common people, who have
all at once started up here from nothing.'

(To be continued.)

Died, April 18, 1858, at Clifton Street, nnsbury,
Mr. Ebcneeer Swain, aged 70, forsserly pastor of
a Baptist Chnroh at Oxford, and for many years a
Qflcfal and faitbfbl Itinerant Preacher of the
gospel. Bon of the lata Mr. Joeepb Bwaine, of

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TUB BAKTHBN YBSSEL.

A WORD FOR THE OLD FOLK

▲T HOHE.

Oin observed to me the other day, con-
cerBtng the doctrine of the Trinitj, "I
hare ^ another endenoe, beside the letter
ofSenptore, that oaeh of the Divine Personii
is God ; for in m j tronblei, I have somek
timei piayed to the Father, and he has heard
■«; and, sometimes I hare prayed to the
Son, and he has heard me ; and, sometimes
I hare prayed to the Holy Ghost, and he has
heard me. I have had answers from them
all, ai God : therefore, in my experience I
hare proved them each to be God." Divine
testisioBy to the tmth, is the only thing
that will satisfy a child of God, and the
kaowled^ that yon are one of the children
of God, is a truth that most be revealed to
yoQ by God. Haman testimony will go for
nothiiir. Evidences derived firom what we
lei and feel, will not stand for long. Divine
power alone can make us know our child-
ship. ** Because ye are sons, God hath tent
forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts,
oyin^, Abba, Father ;" and the beginning
of Uus mercy, the dawn of this glorious day,
is to have the heart laid bare, and the dark
eoraen (mened up* and the creeping things
(long hidden,) exposed to view ; light let in,
vhcRhr the darkness ia discovered, the igno-
naes saewn up ; all the secret evils of the
sool tvoed out, the chambers of imagery
opened, and the soul trembling at the sight,
saji, «Can ever God dwell here } — Can aueh
twretdibe saved?— If God had mercy for
Be, should I feel such evils striving in my
breast } If I were a child df God, ahould I
feel such worldliness, such carnality, pride,
malice, eovetonsneas, and a hundred other
evils r Why, God is shewing you all these
thiflfs, beeanae yon are a child ; none but
the ehildren see them, and all the children
ret to God in this way. They are given to
Christ, and Christ must be given to them ;
sad to Talue Chriat, thef must be taught
feelingly their need of him, and thus get
fechafly, into the sweet experience, that they
«e given to Christ, through Christ being
given to them; and when they catch a
mBpae of this blessed tmth by Divine reve-
Btion, which is the discovery to the heart
of the soul's interest in Christ, then some-
thiag is apprehended of this glorious truth,
that the church of old was taught, '* I am
black, but comely." Black in their nature,
sad fit only for hell, but perfect in the come-
lificsi of Christ; comely in eternal union with
htB; comely in his riffhteousness ; comely
ia vtrtoe of lua doing and dying ; and because
of this eomelinees, the language and spirit of
the gospel, and of all God's dealings with
^ PMple, ia, « I know the thoughU that I
think towud yoo ; thoughts of peace and not

of evil, to give you an expected end." I am
not going to send you to hell, because tou
arc black, but *< I am come to seek and to
save that which was lost;" to make you
prize me, and mj work for you ; to get into
the very core of your heart, and occupy a

Elace there, that no creature shall fill." Has
e got into the core of thy heart ? " Ah,
(say yon,) I don't know aoout that,— all I
can say, is, — there is a hankering after
Jesus in my soul, bad as I am— vile as I am,
I cannot do without him." Then he cannot
do without you. These are the feelings of
the children in union with him, and these
feeling^s are the fruits of eternal union— that
shall issue in everlasting union with him,
when time shall be no more. — J.A.W.

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SUOOBSTBD BT BBADlMO

** An Austuali^n Scbnb,"
In the February number of Tub Babthkk Vimbl

Oh I who oau imavioe bo lorely a aoene—

The tranquilly, bright blae sky I
The distant mouotains which iatervene ;

UnleBB seen by the very eye !
I hare seen it, and lore on the scene to dwell.
When I felt in my wanderings God doeth well.
Ah yes! I once stood by^that river's brink,

As calmly its waters roll'd on ;
And memory will love on that scene to think,

B'en tho* many long yeara be gone ; T strength
When the pride of my heart in his manhood and
Thus gave np his life to Qod at length.
And the God who had guided and watched our

Looked down from his throne above ; [path,
He had aaved from evil, from aln, and wrath ;

And now in his soyeieign love,
lie will own the act, and amile, and bless,
And keep them safe in this wilderness.
'Twas Just saoh a morning ; I fancy I see

Dear 8 — — in the prime of her youth,
Thns giving her heart and her efforts to be

Devoted to God and to truth ;
God strengthen thee, dear, in thy highest resolve,
And make thee still nseful as years shall revolve.
And, oh, may the band whose int'resta are dear,

Tno* mine were not wholly with you, [clear,
See heaven's light guiding ttiem shining and

Till heaven their home is in view. i earth.
There, there, may all Christians long parted on
Find sections have merged in their heavenly

biith.
And there, too, ahall fHendahips whieh Qocl has
decreed.

Should be snapt here and riven in twain.
Be renewed In his likeness, and as we oft read,

Never more shall be parted again.
Ota then let onr prayers to his throne still aaoend

If the work is begun, carry on to the end.

SOUTBNKXB.

' If wc are bom again, wo shall feel sin to
be a terrible burden to us ; we shall hayo eon-
tritiiion of soul, more or less, deep ; we ahull,
frankly, with Oodly aorrow, oonfeas our sina
before the heart- searching uod. There will
be a forsaking of sin, a loathins of sin, an
abhorenoe of self, and an intense cleaving un-
to the Lord. There will be * Bepentanoe to-
wards God, and faith in the Lord Jesus
Christ* ' — A Voice from the Pulpit. B^
John Bloon^ld.

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^kUfy^ 0f illttiU(«^ of i5< IPres^irt I3ftg.

Ko. ni.

ME. J. B. CBACKNELL, OF BLACimfiATH, KENT.

ICoT perbaps trithoat some ground tot it,
onr younff men in the miniitrj, at the present
time, are looked upon with no email degree
of tutpieion. The liusts are too plain to be
passed bv unnoticed. The popular feeling
dnring the past feiv yean, lias placed the
ytfung minister b*fw» his aged co •Worker, in
the public mind ; that is, the yowng man is
now preferred before the more adtnnoed in
Tears« In our denomination, we hare lately
bad a good number of young reemiti in the
ministerial ranks. AU haTo started well : —
clear in dootrine; decided in ordinances;
and bold for the whole truth. But, some,
(oatching the popular feeling of the day,)
hare not eonttnued steadfast; they hare
' chaoRed their views ;' and are no more with
us. Hence, arises the sospidon. Notwith-
standing these drawbacks, we puipoae to
notice tnis month one of our * ytmng men in
the ministry.'

J. £. CBA.CKKBLL, uow fuUHllnf u proba-
tionary term with the Churoh at Blaokneath,
Kent, was bom in London, July llth, 1835,
of parents who regnhurly attended the Church
of Knriand, where he also constantly accom-
panied them, passing through the usual cere-
monies of sprinkling, oonfirmaiiont Ac, &c.
He continued to attend the chuith of his
father till about 18 rears of age ; but was
still in ignorance of his state as a sinner.
Moral training had the effect of keeping him
from going to any length in open sin ; still,
there was an eager ptirsuing and seeking
after the vanities and follies of this world.
About this period his attention was attracted
by a notice of some Sunday eveniog Lectures
delivering at Poplar, by the Ret. George
fimith. He decided to attend one of these
services, and was at once struck with the
earnestness and warmth with which the
preacher spoke of eternal realities : so differ-
ent in manner^ and in matter too, to what he
had all his life long been accustomed to lis-
ten to. His attention was arrested ; the im-
portance of the subject began to appear ; the
miat ftotn the eyes began to be removed ;
the mind began to enquire; and there was
a soul-longing for something notin possession.
The State Church was forsaken; young
Cracknell became a constant hearer of Mr.
Smith's; the Lord laid his afflicting hand
upon him ; aud he was laid upon a bed of
snffering. Daring this confinement, some

Siritual iMters written bv a fHend ^cre
est to his soul; the Holy Spirit was
working in his heart, with soul^umbluig

power; conviction followed; although not
then lead so keenly, or brought to feel
the terrors of a oroken law, so acutelji
as some of the Lord's children. He oontinm-
ed to attend Mr. Smith's ministry, and was
desirous to do something to merit salvation ;
to obtain pardon. While these desirea were
aggitatiog his breast, he heard a diacourse
founded on that all-important querr, * What
think ye of Chriet f The Holy Spirit ap-
plied the worda to his soul; the way of
salvation was made more plain ; Christ was
revealed as the way, the truth, and the life.
The word was effectual ; * Old things p a w od
aways behold all things became new.' He
joined the Independent Church, Poplar, July
31. 1854 : and became an active ana efficieat
Sabbath School Teacher there, where he con-
tinued till the end of *65, One of the dea-
cons noticed an aptness and readiness in our
brother to speak ; and remarked to Mr.
Cracknell one day, * It is laid upon my heart
that the LiOrd has a great work for you to
doj' and followed up this, by asking him,
* IT he would i^eak in the name of the Lord."
With some hesitation, he consented : and on
Sunday morning, Dec 29th, 1855, the Lord
first enabled him to speak in his great name,
in a small chapel, near ^e Victoria Docks,
Plaistow Marsh, Essex. For twelve months
after this Mr. Cracknell continued preaching,
seldom less than four times in a week, m
various cottages in that locallity ; som«.*imes
cheered by the testimony of the hearers ; anu
as often discouraged by the diificultiee of the
way.

In May, 1857, a few friends thought it
desirable to obtain a suitable plaoe to worship
in ; and the place now known as Zion Chapely
Ann Street, Plaistow, was obtained, fitted up,
and opeted ; and Mr. CraokacU continued to
preach here ; and formed a Sunday School^
of which he became Superintendent.

During the whole of this time, his viewa
of the doctrines of grace were not very clear.
But conversations with the friends of truth in
the village, and the light given by the Holy
I Spirit, in the oontinuM readinff and study of
i the word of Ood, led his thoughts and mind
I into a new channel ; and in a very striking
manner, the doctrines of free and sovereign
grace, God'a eternal, everlasting, and un-
alterable love to his ohoeen people, came witii
peculiar power and sweetness to his sou).
The friends to truth soon marked the differ-
ence in the .ministnr* while others wen
offended and left Fraih light oame in aa-l

April 1, 1959.]

TUS BiiETUKX VEB8JE|«,

htppin— «ad freedom was felt and
^cBk IB the work. Contmuad study
and meditatioo on th^ word, had alio rose
aaother quaiUoa in Hr. CfackaeH's mind i
aa4 jrai B«t a quealioo, for be read, that
*Jeaai commandeH them to be baptized/
Prater mas ra»orted to; the answer was
mmn^di and Hs. Craakfiall not only felt it
kit diUfy kot alio his ^ririlege, to some for-
vaidt tmd dodara his coa?letion. Con-
s sqa a ntlj , ka withdrew his connection from
the fkwh ODder Kr. Smith'*s care , and was
baptiMd by Mr. Field, at Shadwell, on April
14, Ido^ ; on which oceaaion Mr. Bloomneld
read mod pcafod ; and after a sermon hj Mr.
Field, Mr. Gracknell pabliel? stated the
motif ea that had led him to take that step ;
and arowed it has his solemn coDTicUon
(after mach prayer to God,) that strict Bap-
tist prindples were according to New Testa-
ment church order. Measures were taken to
form a ehureh oo these principles at Plaistow ;
aad on Aogiut 17» 1858, Hr. Cracknell was
paUidy ordaiaed aa pastor of the newly-
lormed ehorch ; (Mr. 6. W. Banks, and Mr.
Field offieiating;) although at the time
dobota were entertained aa to his continuauce
in so limited a sphere of labour.

Sometime after this, Mr. Cracknel! was
inritad to supply at Dacre Park Chapel,
Blackhealh, for a month ; but failing to pro-
cure a soitaUe snppl? for the Plaislow church,
(vko were then unable to pay any expenses,)
ae dediaed the invitation. He wus then
dr^rsd to supply at Dacre Park, on the
Thonday eTenings for the month of Novem-
ber, vHuch he fulfilled; the church then
repeated the invitation to supply for the
mumlh of December, on Lord's Jays. In the
meaa tima, a ^ood brother had .been raised
up to speak, bring in the neighbourhood of
Fl^atow, who was willing to supply the
pulpit tkeca. Believing the Lord's hand to
he manifeet ia the matter, and with the ad-
vice of aeveral ministeriid brethren, Mr.
CrackuaU accepted the invitation; which
kaiaff fglPM^, he was again requested to
aupfHy lor three months ; uid that time hav-
ifl^ enired* he was again onanimously in-
vited m aix months, ' with a view to the
pastenta.' Hare the Lord ap^ars to be
grmtlj •wning his labours ; and it is hoped
that through Jus instrumentalitr, the cause
at Daave Park may be revivea and estab-

I boioi( coii fused; and there is an entire -
I absence of that cslentation and pride so very
I prevcUat with many young ministers of the
' present day.
* Thou man of God, tbou lover of the troth;
Celestial hero ! lively, zealous youth t
Tuuffht by the Lord, aad fired with liia apptauMb
Bold you appear in his all-f loriooe cause ;
purely commiAsioaed from the eternal Ood.
Warmly you preaeh the 8avtear*§ flowing blood;
MorUto auiy raff*, Imt th^ shall lage ia vmia : '
Cleave to yoor Ood, ami all their pewer diiM|»*

€iix\^n 'B!Hsrl3 of dMfett tf imtJ.

HO. IV.

How often I have wished that beautifhl
discourse had been giveir us which the
Saviour delivered unto the two in going tp
Emniaus.— How shorty yet how rich, the
tejitimoay conctirning it, — 'And beginning
at kCoies, and all the prophets, he expounder
onto them, in all the Scriptures, the thingp
coacerning himself.' We have the best
authority for saying that Moses was one of
the Earthen Vessels of olden times, in which
was deposited heavenly treasure. I should
be glad to enter rather fully into the history
of this man of God ; but cannot now. A
simple reference to one Scripture which baa
lately boon useful to many, ia all I can
attempt, in still further endeavouring to
approach the subject which since Jannaiw
has occupied my mind. The Scripture I
refer to is, 2 Cor, iii. 12, 13. * Seemg theft
that we have such hope, we use great plaia-
ness of speech : and not as Mosee, which {rait
a van over his face, that the children of
Israel could not steadfastly look to the eod
of that which is abolished.' These '

Tooahiog Mr. Cracknell's wpearance and
akflitifw. wa most be brief. He is now 24
yeasa of age; short in statue, but rather
thadt boiU ; a face as amooth and as bright
m tiM poUshed marble; a bright, penetrat-
iag, qmdt eye ; a forehead well developed,
■armouaUd with light brown hair, and a
eoaataoaiice at once inviting and pleasinq;-.
Ia mannar* he is kind and warm-hearted.
In hatgaa^ie^ he ia plain, without bein^ low,
or vulgar. In delivery, he is rapid, without

if any of jou ministers, or private medi-
tating Chnstians, are disposed to look prayer-
fully into them — will furnish you with fottr
exceedingly interesting subjects which even
to my poor mind, have appeared to hold a
large and rich vein of prectovs New Oeve-
nant, experimental truth. And it ie no
small mercy for me to see anything iMit,
for my eyes are bat poor ones now; and by
reason of the tronbles of the way, I am, iti
mind, ereatly afflicted; still, 1 am often
favoured to realize David's beautifol aeene
and happy sayings too — *The Lord is my
shepheiV, I shall not want ; He makelh me
to lie down in green pastures ; He leadeCh
me beside the still waters.' The preeiovia
Bible opened up in my weary soul by the
soft anointings of the Spirit, is the souree of
all my comfort, my strength, and my joy.
Bot to the words themsebres. First, they
contain a contrast between Christ vailed, aad
Christ unvailed ; between the Gospel in type,
and the Gospel without type. 'J hese worda
shew, also, the imperfection of an IsraelitsTe
siglit while he is in any measure under the
vail of the Uw-they cannot * StaadflMtly

THfi EAUTUBK rSSSSt.

(AiirU 1, 1850.

look to the end of that which is abolished/
Lastlr, these words refer to the plainness of
speech, and the boldness of persnasion, which
is possessed by thoee who have a real,

8»intual inwrought hope of eternal glory,
hrist railed— Christ nn?ailed -* the im-
perfection of a sinner's Tiew of things
while under the Tail of the law — and the
justified belierer's confidence when Christ is
clearly rerealed in his heart the hope of
fflory ; these are the subjects in whicn are
Dound up onr experiences both of a dark, and
of a delightful kud. There are some sub-
stantial and eternal principles embodied in
these words, which, when drawn forth by the
Eternal Spirit, are found, by living soub, to
be ten thousand times better than all the
curious nets whfch men are nowweafing, and
whereby they catch multitudes with a some-
thing which is neither law nor gospel ; nei-
ther natural nor spiritual ; neitner Mosaical
nor evangelical ; but a carnal fiction so glossed
and covered over, that many are deceived:
I am glad in my soul, for this one thing, that
with all that is distressing without, I can sing,

' The f^oKoA bears mv spirit up,
A faithful and unehaxi^ng uod,
Lays the foundation ofmy hope,
In oaths, and promises, and blood.'

Nothing has been permitted to stop me
from freely and openly testifying of the free
grace of God to hu chosen people, and this
testimonv, scattered by pen and from the pul-
pit, in all parts of the world, is declared by
the Lord's people to have been a great bless-
ing. Onwsrd — ^in the way of righteousness
—to the end, I hope to go. My praver is
constantly in the end of ninety-first IPsalm,
that every promise therein written, may in
my public position, in my private experience,
and in my final salvation, be completely ful-
filled.

First, then, we have Chritt vailed. When
Moses came down from the Mount, a/Ur the
Lord had proclaimed His New Covenant
name, the face of Moses was filled with such
a glorious lustre that neither Aaron, nor any
of the children of Israel, could come nigh
him : they fied for they were afraid. WTtat
do€9 thii mean t I shall try and answer this
question next month. Only now premising
that, in many things, Moses was a type, a
glorions Old Testament Representative, of
our blessed Mediator and JDays-Man, the
Lord Jesus Christ.

The old historians say, and Scripture con-
firms nearly all they say, that Moses was a
mighty orator, " learned in ail thetoiedom of
the Egypiiana ; mighty in worde and deeded
There was an heroism in and about Moses,
which greatly enhances his character ; and
in all this dignified nobility of mind, person
and deportment, ho beautifully shadowed
forth, that much better Mediator, who was
to oome. Oh ! it is refreshing to see any-

thing of Chxut in t man, whether that man
lived before, or since, the Friend of sinners
died on the tree ! Tes ; if in my aoul there is
any desire worth naming, it is that I might
so have Christ in mb, that even in the
outer man some faint glimmerings of him
might be seen. I fear, it is very few men in
these days, whose spirit and general oaniip,
declare that Christ is quite at home with
them ; and they with Hix ; that He dwelli
in their heart as Knro ; in their oonsoiebee
as Priest; in their mind, as Prophst.
Where this three-fold victory of Christ is
achieved in the three essential departments
of the inner man, it is most precious indeed.
Oh ! that I could always say,

* All this is Jesus Christ to me !*
We gather from the Old Testament, that
on three distinct occasions, did Moses go up
into the Mount with God. In this three-
fold ascension, I do think, the glory of the
Gospel was, in measure set forth ; I mean,
in all this, Christ woe Vailed. The first
time I pass over now: and come to the
time when Moses came down from the
Mount with the tables of Stone. First ; it is
distinctly said, ' When the Lord had made
an end of communing with Moeee :' there was
a long and solemn council holden : even so,
before Christ, the Mediator came. He was
brought (as Mediator and Days-man) into the
secrets of ffie Fathfr's heart ; Into the deep
thoughts andpurposes of the eternal mind.
Secondly : < Eie gave unto Moses, two tables
of testimony, tables of stone, written with
the finger of God. So were the tables of tes-
timony put into the heart and hands of onr
Great Law-fulfiller. But, now, look at the
subsequent events. Thece stands Moses
upon Mount Sinia, with the tables in his
hand. Joshua is between the top of the
mount, and the camp ; he is neither on the
top of Sinai with the Lord ; nor is he in the
camp with Aaron and the Israelites. Pre*
sentfy, the Lord said unto Moses, * Go, get
thee down ; for thy people have corrupted
themselves.' The icrath of heaven waxed hot
against them. The Lord said, let me alone
that I may consume them. But Moses be-
sought the Lord his God : and Moses pre-
vailed. He came down : Joshua met him ;
and seems first to have called his attention to
the reality of the dreadful effects of Israel's
Idolatory. When Moses saw the calf, and
the dancing ; his ancer waxed hot; he east
the tables out of his hands ; and brake them
beneath the Mount I look at Moses even
here as a type of our Great Substitute. I
have deliberately said, it was not a sinful
act of Moses : he was induced to this act by
the fall of his people. Here Christ standi
railed as we shall presently see. The
breaking of the tables by Moses must not be
considered simply an angry accident. No.
No, Indeed it must not, C. W. B.

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TBB KAmTHKV YSSSBli.!

8fr

8CENE8 IN THE CHAMBER WHERE THE GOOD MAN DIED.

BiVYAjmr Flobt wm bam in the year
119% at dspten, in the ooonty of Suffolk,
vhere hie aaeeelon lived more than a oentury.

la Ui joulh, hie mndfather apprenticed
Ua to a Biker in Ipewieh. One Sunday
■oninff, when e ng ayea in eoUaeting dinners
to be bak4d, ■naing toe people going tochuroh
and diapeL he was stmok with an impression
that he had a soul, and had some fearml feel^

n?1

about etamity. These thonghts wore off,

he grew np in sinful practices^ partly from

' and piartly to drown aU thongnts of

Lsavm^ bis serriee at Ipswieh| he beoame
SB open smner, and renler of religion, par-
tieoiatly of the Baptists. HJinng a heUday,
hs wpeai it with his nnde, wlu> was muoh
eaiaged with the Baptists. He left his uncle
ia the evening, yowing he neyer would haye
sajtUag to do with the Baptists. The night
wss dark, and he lost himself in a field, and,

the effect of making him consider and think
sboot his never dying soul ; he determined
aeicr to rerHa the Baptists a^n. Often has
be spoken of that day, pndsmi^ the Lord for
[swwi liin, Idm, and not suffenn^^ him to be
eot off ia his fbolish and wicked opposition to
6adsadhis cause.

About tfaja time, the Wesleyans came to
Otley, and preached in the neighbouring
Tinsfs; and one eyening my father was led
to besr one of the preachers from these words.
* And I saw the dead, small and great, stand
befofe Qod; and the books were opened^ and
anotter bocA was opened, which was the book
of HU, and the deed were judged out of those
things which were written in the books, ac-
eoidmg to their works." Bey. xx. 12, 13.

This prodnoed much effect; sin was felt:
the law reyealed in all its claims; his soul
■nk, thinhing that something must be done ;
not only sin fbrsaken and hated, but pnarfection
attainea beftnre he could expect Christ would
mn. But soon he found his works iifdl ; for
one day, when he thought hehadattunad
poftetiaB, be was aflhmtad with the seryant^
sad ipoiU aU his fine performances. The law
ems, and aaid, ** Pay me what thou owest."
** Cursed ia eyeiy one that oontinueth not in
aa things written in the book of the law, to
do them.'' "The Soul that sinneth, it shall
die." For some time he was in a sad, ssd
ftate of socd-dirtresBw all hope of being sayed
was gone. He oougnt the good of his soul by
prner, reading the Scriptures in priyate, and
a the public mimstij <n the word. He no
longer eontinned with the Wesleyans; he
foimd tfieir system opnld yield him no com-
fort ; tharefbre he trayelled many miles to hear

among the Baptists. His ylews of grace be-
came strengthened ; he knew that salvation
was aU of grace. Tet aU his efforts failed tin
the blessed Spirit spake these words with power
upon bis heart, *' Ho ! eyezy one that thirsteth,
come ye to tJie waters, and he that hath no
moneyi come yei, buy and eat; yea, come, buy
wine and ndlk, without money and without
price." Isa. ly. 1. And this. '^The Spirit and
the Bride say come, and let him that is athirst'
come, and whosoeyer will, let him take the
water of life freely." Bey. xxU.17. With these
portions of Scripture, a wonderful yiew of
Christ came into his hearty followed by tiiesd
words, * All we like sheep, haye ^ne astray^
we haye turned ereey^ one unto his own way,
and the Lord hath laid upon him the iniquity
of us all ; and with hii stripes we are healed.
Now his peace was g^eat in belieying, not
only that Jesus died, but, that he died foi'
him, and in this state of soul he appeared
before the church, and was receiyed and bap-
tised in 1802. He felt he had much forgiren;
and he byed much. At tins time he waa
enabled to open his mouth in prayer and in
expounding ine Word.

Boon after this, he went on yisits to see my
mother, at Sutton, Suffolk j and here he could
not be nappy iu spending his SabbaiJis without
the worship of Ghod ; so he opened a prayer
meeting, and expounding the Scriptures. This
was much connected with th^ liBC of the cause
there.

In the proTidenoe of God, my father was
remoyed to Chathun, in Kent, in 1805. Here
he was formally sent out by that part of the
church of Christ, meeting at Zion, Cloyer
Street, then under the pastorate of Kr. John
Knott Whereyer a door should open for
him. he preached ** Christ, the wisdom of
Gbd. and the power of Ood," all round the
neighbourhood.

And here also the Lord blest my parents in
proridence ; but after a time, they had topsss
through yery trying losses iu'busmes^ and in
theremoyalof a dear child. But the Lord
was a present help in time of trouble.

From this time, my Esther preached in
many places in the country, and also In
London,

In the year 1882, he fell into great trouble ;
but the Lord preserred him. He was brought
yery low in soul; he was also in sharp con-
flicts through temptatloii, being tempted to
destroy himself lyr drowning; and so mr was
the enemy permitted to go, that one day he
left Lonaon for that purixMe, and walked to
Two Waters, in flertforashire ; but when ha
got to the side of the*riyer, the Lord spoke as
with a yoice firom heayen, 'Do thyself no
harm.* He was stayed. He would often sav
when referring to Uiis deliyeranee^ *' Kepi,
Kept hy the power of God. Salration I Sul-

THB BABTHBir TB881L.

[April 1, IIM.

ration! SaTiiig,keeDmg, allof God,fh>mfint
to last/' 80 for, and no fvrthar.

Soon altar this, my father went to Vonrieh,
where he preached nine years. Two years
with considerable tokens of the DiTine faTonr
in the open air to hundreds^ and more than a
thousand persons on several occasions, which
At that time, was a large out-door gatherinr.
He was one of the first in that part to preach
A free grace GK>speL He* used to say, " If the
Free-wiUers are not ashamed nor afraid to
preach an uncertain salvation, I need not, by
GU>d's help, be ashamed or afraid to preach a
certain fiui Gospel." Go, ye minuters of
Jesus now, and do likewise.

He never received any regular support for
preaching the gospel, as he had a business,
and felt quite satisfied, until all other doors
were cloeed. and then he gave himself wholly
to the ministry of the Word, preaching at
Hewcastle, Hoxne, fieading, Spalding, and
Donnington, statedly. Having only left Spal<
din^ four years : and till within two years
havmg ministerea the word of life. He was
often himself, tossed with doubts and fears,
and was very enoouraginj^ to the Lord's exer-
cised people. But in his mioistrv, he was
often led into the everlastinr love or God, and
the libertjr of the children of God, by faith in
Jesus Christ; and so it was with him to the
end, as he often expressed himself.

For the last three years, my dear parent
lived in London. Two vears ago, a blood
vessel broke in one of his legs, from which he
lost a quantity of blood. This weakened him
much. In that affliction, as he expressed in a
letter, Ms soul was blessed witn the sweet
assurance ** That all was well, whether for life
or death ; that he felt he was on the solid
Bock, and all beside, was sinking sand."

Last October, he said to me, one morning,
when walking with him, he had been dreaa-
fiilly attaokra with infidelity and nnbelief,
not of God, but of what he had done for him
in his soul ; but he added, -" When the enemy
eame in like a flood, the Lord lifted up a stan-
dard against him," and he was brought to
hope and beUeve all was right.

On Wednesday, December 16th, I walked
ont with him, not thinking it would be the
last time. We had some sweet conversation

On the Lord's^T, ha wished my a
go to his esteemed fiiend, Hr. Lamo, who, on

eni
and

terinff, took my dear fhther by the hand
id looKcd at him with affectionate stedfiwi-
ness, he said in his emphatic way, * Pm going I
I am gomg ! not a single aoeaaatioOf no not
>, ulispeaiMi!'

Monday ni^ht was a glorioos one of praise.
He told me his donbts were all removed ; ha
waa on the rook, had followed no eanningly
devised fables ; Jesus was all and in aU. Tna
way, the only way. the truth, and the life.
Soon after he said this, he burst out
* Jeans 1 lover of my soul.
Let me to thy bosom fly .'

This he repeated, with Inoreased energy
again and again. * Christ Jesus' he said,
* triumphed over sin and hell, we are saved
through him, and by him for ever saved.
Praise him ! Praise him !'

" Pnuse, everlasting praise be paid
To him who earth's foundations laid."

Again:—

** Oh, for such love, let rocks and hills.
Their lasting silence break ;
And all harmonious human tongues^
The Saviour's praises speak."

Also:—
•* Blessings fbr ever on the Lamb,
Who bore the curse fbr guilty man.''

In the course of the day, Monday, Mr.
L. called. Among many sweet expressions,
this was much like himself, " Our Father will
not turn us out of doors. Blessings on hia
Holy name." Here was the full assurance of
£uth triumphing over death and hell !

Tuesday, 21st, he said but little, but to a
friend who called, * Jesus is all in alL' 'He
will not break the bruised reed, or quench tba
smoking flax.' A letter was received froaa
Spaldingp expressing their regard and trust-
ing the Lord would be with him ; he felt it
muchj and expressed Ms thanks to them, and
all friends for kindnesses ; also to Mr. L. ha
expressed his thanks and praise to the Lord^
for all kindness. When Mr. L. said, ' the Lord
bless you, and be with vou, my brother, he
'When tnou passest through

has promised,

by the way, and on passing a Catholic chapel, I the waters. I will be with you ; I will never
he said, I have had several conversations with I leave thee,' &c. I enouired of him, acme timo
them, and tried to set before them the truth afterwards, how he felt in his soul. He an-
as it is in Jesus. What a mercy, we have j swered, ' Stfe ! Lord, send, dear Lord^ send

not been left to such errors, but that the Holv
Spirit has made us light in the Lord. " AU
e&cting, sovereign favour."

He seemed eradually sinking, and on Sa-
iurday the 18tb, before the doctor came, he
Md each of us farewell. I asked him how he
felt, if he should be taken away ; whether
his mind was now dark, as he expressed him-
self, on Friday ? He said, he trusted all was
right, but he wanted more power in his Soul.

1 had to leave him a short time, and when
I returned, on the Monday, my fears were
^confirmed, that his race was almost run ; and
*lhat bliss, eternal bliss, was near. I found
that during the night he had often been in
prayer, and that many blessed things had
lieen spoken by him.

more pibwer, if thy blessed wilL' I said,

** Did Jesus once upon yon shine }
Then Jesus is for ever yours."

I know, dear Father, you want the power to
feel it now, and you shall have it again : even
with Thomas, to sav and feel with all that
holy newer your soul desires, 'My Lord, and
myOod.'

Wednesday, 82nd, when Mrs. B. called, he
expressed his thanks for all kindness, and
then said, ' I want to tell you Ood is faithful.
'The foundation of God standeth sure.' * He
is all in all to me ! Christ is precious I Cnrist ia
precious ! praise Christ ! He will never leave
me, never forsake me. Tes, Emmanuel, Ood
with us.' Re desired ma to read the 91st

AptflUiaM.!

THB SARTHSN TBSSBL.

▼ored to do.

CBM^ ui pVAJWi wbioh I WM la-

•omo larour in mj ovd

la the ewmungf he eeid, * I want to be with
Ood. I want to feel thet love which was be-
fiore timeb when there was no nn, nor pein,
thai I niaj be finr ever a wallowed up in Father,
Son. and Spirit Amen.' Thenhe a[>peared
ae if he thoofht, he did not feel hia ain and
nworihiaeaB aa he oii(ht» and broke out aajr-
tnfe ' O Laid, ahow bm mote of what ain ia
and the riohee of thygraee in aannr ainnerL
thai 1 Bwy gWrify Thee, Oh holy Ctrd, God
Akuffhir, i^ither. Word, and Spirit.

Thanday, SSn^ Mr. Bloomfield oaUed,
fwhoae miaiatiy m j father attended) with Mr.
PeUa: to Mr. Bloomfield, he aaid, * I am ffUd
toaee joa : the Lord bleaa jou ; I hare been
apeor wanderer ; but, the Lord in hia tender
wm% , 9 baa dealt tenderly with me ; he haa.
greaUj b lc w ed jour miniatrr to me in my
<dd afe ; ihe Laid haa bl o iaea yon to othera,
and will blev you. Stand feat ia the truth.
The Lord bleaa yoa and preaerYe you and the
' ai 8ah»m.> Brother Bloomfield aaid.

'The ererlaatinf goapel ia all your aupport
now.' He anawered, ' 1 hare none elaewhere,
aalj aa in a jneeioaa Cbriatt let forth in hi*
fiaMhed work and free-graoe goapel.' fie ap-
peared overeome, bat to brother Pella. in
parting, he aaid, * The Lord bleaa jou, I am
going where flittering robea for eon^aerora
wait. All oigraoe, Iree graoej Praise the
Lard.'

IVidaT, 2ith, he lay quiet oMat of the day
and night, now and then erjing to the Ijora,
* Baiee me^ lift me up, let me go.' On this
night, he eaid, *• Vm eddying man, I die. Lord,
p«t the ererlaating arma around me ; dear Fa-
ther, dear Jeeua, eome, come, and fetch me.'
'lin them, and thou in me^ that they all may

be made perfect.' I want to be perfect, per-
fect.'

About 6 o'dock, my mother and Mr. L.
went to him. with mvielf and abter ; he took
hold of her nand ana said, * I haTe aeen Je-
hovah, — ^Emmanuel ia hia name.'

In the early part of the night, I laid, ' Je-
aua oyer Uvea. Looking unto Jesua.' He took
up the worda, * Looking unto Jeaua; looking
wnolly ; Lor^ enable me to look; enable me
to look entirely for ever and ever. Amen.

Soon after thia, he gradually sank into the
arma of his Lord and Bedeemer for ever to
possees the inheritance of the saints in light,
*Tbanka be unto Qod that giveth victory^
through our Lord Jeaua Christ.' He died
on Tuesday morning, about 8 o'elock, tha
SSthofDeeember, 1858, aged 77 yeara, bar-
been a preacher 66 yeara. 'Hu end waa

His mortal remains were depoaited th^ foU
lowing Monday, at the Gemetry, Woking^
Surrey. Mr. Bloomfield attended the fanenX
Other miniatera would have been ther^ but
were prevented, eepedally hia old friend and
brother, C. W. Banks. Mr. Bloomfield

5 reached the funeral sennon at Salem, on
'huradav, the 13th of January ; firom Prov.
xiv. 32, laat clause. It waa a good disoourset
setting forth the righteous and their righte-
ousness, hope, ana blissful end. Brother
Bloomfield testified to my father's feitbfulnesa
in the gospel and kingdom of Christ by divine
power and grace. Our loss is his gain.

* While everlaating agea roll.
Eternal k>ve shaU feast hia soul,
And scenes of bliM for ever new,
Biae in sucoession to hia view.'

JOSEFH.

Hackney.

THE ACTIVE CHRISTIAN— THE PASTOE'8 WIFE.
AN OBITUABY OP MBS. PBPPEE.

(Goarioded from page 67.)
Maa. Pmax waa ^d&uUimp CkritHan;
thofligh in eireomstanoea of real tronble and
daanr, woold diapby remarkably atrong

la the earlier period of her life, ahe waa the
sabieet of moeh fear and doubting; yet her
doiiMa did not eaU in queation the great
tnithe of the Gospel, but her own intereat
thereia. She woiud aometimea say, *I do
insly and eenfideiitly believe in the Uened
phn of Salvation by Gtaee ; that Jeaoa
Chriift haa made a Ihll and f^ alone*
lor the ana of hia people; thai he
'^ ' I aa everlaating ana a glorious
that he ia a mighty and a
wilKag Savioor, * Able to aave to the ntter-
meotatt that come vnto God by hun; but
saleOer ks will m90 m ia a matter of pain-
fcldedbt and anxiety to my mind.'

I of her nervooa affections had a

tendener to piodaee a doubting atate of mind.
She haa each a aenae of the amaaing love of

Qed ia aalTalioBi ewmecied witlya deep leBia

of her own nothingness and depravity, that
she would often fear she oould not be a subject
of this love, else her whole heart would bum
with love to the Saviour; and her anxious
aoul would often exclaim, *0 Lord, thou
knoweat all things, thou knowest that I do
desiie to love thee, with all my heart.'

Thia doubting atate of mind continued more
or less till her aevere affliction in 1854, when
the Lord ao gradoualy broke in umm her
eottl with the discoveries of his love, that she
waa filled with ecstaciea of joy, and while all
were anticipating her death, and weeping al
the thought of so soon having to loose her, ahe
would beg of them not to weep, but to
help her to rejoice in the Lord, and to bleaa
ana pnuae hia preoioua name for his wooderful
lovingkindness and mercy to her. Observing
her husband weeping at the bedside, she said,
< My dear, pray don't weep for me, but rather
r^oice. because I am going to be with Jesus,
my Beloved, for ever. I have been a poor
doubting one all my life time, but now my
doabts are all removed, and Z '"*'■ "' *

Digitized t

tmie, Du( now my

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Away an tean from my «yea : thoefiyre^ re-
joice with me. mj dearest, for I am happy,
and shall dwell with my Jesus for ever in the
mansions of bHss.' ind some time after this,
she took a final farewell of all in the house,
saying, * I am jpoine to leare you all behind,
and to enter into that blessed rest wlnoh my
Jesus hath prepared for me in heaven. And
my dying praver for you all is, that Gh)d wUl
hless yon with all grace and merey here, to
liye to his pnise, and then bring you all to
ftieet me again in the regions of glory for
eyer.*

Her mind was Utterly mueh ezerdsed with
doabts about the article of death, fearing that
she should dishonour the Lord in her death,
bv a Mjpint of unwillingness to die ; and that
Cne pains and struggles of death would be
too mueh for her to hear, and she should be
tempted to say something in her distress that
Would reflect discredit upon her profession,
and upon the name of the Lora; in this
6atan harassed her rery mudi at times.

A few months ago, when her hushand re-
turned from Bristol, she told him that she
was in great distress of mind, heeause she
felt such a strong denre to live ; and feared
she could not be right with such a feeling, as
the Lord's people had a desire to depart and be
With Jesus Christ ; whereas she had no desire
to die, but rather a strong desire to live. Her
husband then explained to her that such a
fseling was quite comdstent with the work
of grace in the soul. That the Lord having
more work for her to do, did not wish her
to die yet ; and Uievefore. it would be wrong
for her to wish to die, while the lord wished
her to live. * But dear,' she replied, ' How
sad. it would be when the Lord sends for me.
if I should then have such a wish to live and
be unwilling to go. O you don't know
how the very thought of it distresses my
mind.'

Seeing the state of her mind, and knowing
it to be one of those temptations with which
Satan so frequently harMsed her soul, her
husband took much pains to show her that
such a state of feeling oould not be as she
feared; for though now she had such a strong
desire to live, yet the Lord could with one
word in a moment chmige that desire to live,
into a desire to depart and leave all things
here. And that she might rest assured that
when the Lord was ready for her and wished
her home to glory, he would certainly inform
her of it, the very thought of which would fill
her soul with a aesire to go. 'For the Lord
will open the windows of heaven to you', dear,
and let a little of the brightness ot tiiat
heavenly glory shine upon you, which will

tnite melt your soul to joy, while yon will
ear the words of such winning affection
spoken by the Lord to you, * Arise, my love,
my fair one, and come away/ that you will
be as ready to go as the liOrd will be to receive
you. And as to the pains of dying, the Lord
Jesus will take care to be with vou that you
will forget all about them, and all things else
below in the sweetness of his presence.' ' O
my dear.' she said, 'if it should be to, how
Messed it will be to die, and who can tell P
He is able to make all grace abound, and give

me strenglli equal to my day; then I will
leare myself in his hands.'

The truth of her husband's enoouraging
words was signally proved in her happy ex-
perience; for her mind became gtadnaUy
absorbed in heavenly reaUties as the time or
her end drew near. And several days before
her death, when no one had the sligbtesk
thought of her decease, her ecnvenatioii
turned upon the subject of death, with the
sweetest composure imaginable; not a donbt.
nor fear, seemed to rest upon her tranqoil
mind. And .as the time of her departure
drew nearer, she talked of dying and of ^oing^
home to Jesus, with such pleasure as if aha
was anticipating a most deligbtfnl journey.

On the night previous,-— when death, thou^
no one at that time had the most distant idea
of her dying, then,— she oooHy, ealmly and
most affectionately spoke to her husband of
several matters which she wished him to attend
to after, as she said she was gone home to Jeaoa,
which woidd be veiy soon. And referring to
the love of Christ, she said, with peeunar
animation of soul, ' Yes, my dearest, now I
do knew that I love the Lerd Jesus, and I do
know that He loves me, and has redeemed
my soul firom death, and that he will never
cease to love me. Blessed be his name, bo
has never left me, and I know he never wilL
His love is an everlasting love, and his araeo
is all sufilcient. O yes, dear, I can trust him,
my ever-faithftd, ever-loving Friend. 1
know he will keep me safe in nil everlastinf
arms. O to be found in him ! This is blessed,
is it not, dearest P And though soon after this,
she suffered mueh from internal pain and con-
stant vomiting, yet the greatest placidity of
mind, and the most calm resignation prevailed.
* my dearest,' she said, ' the Lord will not
lay upon me more than I can bear, and when
it is too much, he will either remove the afllie-
tion, or take me home to himself, where there
will be no aflliction but everlasting jov ; this
is much better. The Lord will do all things
right, dear ; he always haa^ and why should we
doubt him now } Surely we have ,had prooib
enough of his love to enable ns to say, ' Fathar,
thy wiU be done.' < O yes, dearest, let ns
pnise him for alL'

After this, when her disease had evidently
taken a sudden and unexpeeted turn for too
worse, and she was troubled to apeak, ber
husband said to her, ' My .dearest, is Jeeoa
precious to you now ? Do you feel happy m
his everlasting arms P If so, put upyour nuid.'
She then hfted up her hand with all the
strength she had. He again said, 'My love,
if you are happy in the love of Chris^ and
feel that you are going to dwaU in his boeeai
fbrever m heaven: do lift np both your
and she at once put forth all her
i, and lifted them up, with evident
deUg&t and joy.

Yery soon after this, all eonseionsneas Ml
her, and about four o'clock in the aftemooD.
she began gently to fall asleep in the arms of
death. And she continued to breath ent her
soul into tiie boeom of her beloved Jesus witii*
out the subtest sympton of pain, or the least
change upon her plaaid oonnlMaace, till dO
minutes past 18 o'dook at night, when ahe

Afri;i,taNL]

THE EAKTHSK TXSBAL.

niptneptibly ccMed to bralhe: ^er
Md isiil lumng hevd tiw orer-lioTar-
in^ niTitatio&s of loTe, *A7iM,Biy k>Te, my
Cur one, tsd eome anray/ had taken ita joj-
ou ffiigkt ia the arma of Jeaua to the long an-
tidpatad laawaona of bliai in glory. The de-
eeaied ittd often earopwod a wiah, that when
■ha might be naooneeioua of all

nooad her, that loe might not be diatnrbed
hj nman^g objeota. bnt be allowed to
hmtk Mt her aool oalmlT and nndutorbed in-
to the boaooi of Jeaua. And in this the Lord
Iblly panted her deaire, for nothing leemed
Id interrupt her henteoly vepoee dnnng the 8
hoan andiO mnintea ahe waapaaamg tnrongh
theTiDeyof the ahadow of death; wbeiwn
riie evidently feared no evil, nor felt any re*
faKtanee to go forwaid, for the Lord waa
with her; hii rod and boa etaff, they eomforted
her. Anditwaaenly by thecloeeetwatehing
of her hnaband and family, who were with her
thatitooold b^diaoeniedwben her happy api-
lit readied the end of the ndley, and took ita
jeyom flight from the elombenng body into
tbe reehoe of ererlaetinr fifo and glory.

The dceeaaed waa boned on Toeeday, Deo.
flit, ia Aboey Paric Oemetry; the Rer. J.
Bloooifield, of 8oho, eondueting the aerrioea.
The body waa fixat taken to Zion Chapel,
Heviagton Green, which waa hong in blaok
^ the Bemboa, and where they . with many
« the eoBgiegation, had aeeemwed in mourn*
iofaltiie. intokenef theChriatianloTe, and
ateea^wmehtiley bore to the deceased. Mr.
Bhooilield, deliTOM a most truthful, pathetic
aadeooioIatoryaddreaBto the moumera and
I and t

Ithe eernce was felt by all to be
Bostieiemn, aa waa manifeet by tlie iotenae
vefptng wfaieh prerailed. The prooesshm then
mortd on to the Cemetry, where the body
waa deposited in the quiet resting place ti&
the momiiig of the resurreetion ; Mr. Bloom-
field hanog ddiTcred another short addreas.
conceded the aolemn aerriee in aweet ana
tjnipetkiiiiig prayer.

Ofthedeeessed it may be truly aaid; she
vn a cxBTim woaiAH; an ivTSLuasKT
Chusraw; a vaithvitl pmixiid; and an
ArricTxovAxa wivn.

Let me die the death of the righteous, and
let my end be like her's.

OENAMENTS
15 THS H0IT8E OF GOD.

Of what net am I here P— ia the enquiry of
Buy an infirm and worn-out aaint, while
nflimng in a body of ain and death. And of
vbst aae ia aueh a one P^fMka the minister
<» siek Tiastor, aa time alter time he teaves
tha aidL room of some poor bed-riden child of
God. Of what use in the world? Of what
tt» in the ohnreh P Surely, none, is the eon-
dwiflti. Then, why does not the Father take
neb home P Why, keep them solfering here,
rear after year to no purpose?

Such waa the eamal reasoning of the writer
t&w yens ago, when an aged Godly woman,
«bo bad weattiOTed between ninety and a hun-
<had yean ha tbto wHderaaHj speiitnn even^

ing with him. On entering the house, afanoat
brealhloas, shepaoaed toask, *Howis it? I
ean't thiiik how it ia my breath is so bad«
surelT it ia not my great age V While we
could only wonder, and aak the queatinui
* How ia it the Lord keeps such a poor useleaa
sulTerer so long in this Tale of teara.' The
erening waa apent idieerfuiky, and in some
rea^MKSta profitably, but as fresh marks of im*
becility. or seoond ehildhoed, weremanifested^
we oouid only ecain and again repeat the
queation. ^Gtfwhat use is she here? And
now ia it her Father does not take her home ?'
But, like all erenings, howerer proAtnUe,
however pleasant, tlMre was an end to it*
We had to aee her home, and with much diffi*
oultyahe dragged from stage to atage, erer
and anon halting to regain her breath. At
one lonely halting place, we stood in front of
our neat ehap^ burial ground, (Sutton, in the
Isle of Ely,) within a yard or two of her own
family grave. * Where am 1 now P was her
enquiry. *fiear to your hmt roating-pboe,*
waa our reply. And |h^ will soon occupy iL
waa our conTiction. She hardly understooa
the term; but, on a further explanation, ahe
cast her bat look at her own grare. breathed
an earnest prayer foe her Leva to come
ouickly ; and again leaning on our arm, by a
deeperato efibrt, ahe reachM her home. Beat-
ing herself on the sofr, a riolent fit of cough*
ing waa endured, and while in deep sympathy
we pitied her from our rery heart ; such fear*
ful expectoration followed, as to make nature
reooil ; and again we aaked, * Of what possible
use can she be here? How ia it her Father
does not toke her home?* With perplexed
mind and deep feelings, we breathed a silent
prayer, for God either to take her home, or
give her patience to endure for his sake, who
endured so much for her.

She recovered a little; and with uplifted
eves and hands, she broke out in praising
God for'hia mercies once more. We were
silenced; we were admonished. And these
words spoke solemnly but powerfully within,
' She is an ornament to her profession.' And
we said, * Thy will be done. Lord ;" thou shalt
hare ornaments in thine house, as well aa
that, that is usefuL She went to bed that
night for the last time. Li less than a fort-
night, we buried her mortal remains, and
preached her funeral sermon from words of
ner own choice, ' Oh, that 1 had wings like a
doToI for then would 1 fly away, and be at
rest.'

We had to bless the Lord for that evening ;
for while ahe talked of her text for funeral
sermon, her grave, her grave stone, hsr
funeral, Ac., it was all done aa by one who
oould look death in the free, calmly as a con-
quered foe I contemplate the grave as a rea^
ing phwe till the morning of the resomotion ;
and anticipato the hour that should bring the
summons to quit this clay tabemade, and
' enter into the ioy of her Lord.' Still we do
not forget the big tean that rolled 4pwn her
cheek, while for the moment her nth gave
way, and she exclaimed, * But, if after all, my
profession, I should be deceived, and prove a
cast aaray.' But, we can hope better thuigt
of her, even thus^ she ia now 6efo» *«• ***»••»

TUB EARTHBM VEB&ML.

[AprUl,18M.

not only ao ornaoMnty bat Mrfiiig God dav
and night. And, are there not many suoh
ornamenti in Ood s hooaet We think there
are. Buffering aaintsl be eontent to be an
ornament ; Tea, to be anything, to be nothing,
aa God ihauaee fit, if therein he may bat be
glorified. Bat, we pauae farther, to ask, ' are
suehofnouie in tne honae of QodP* God
forbid j they are of great uae. It has been
our privilege, for many years, aa • siok visitor,
• otty missionary and gospel minister, not
onW to visit such ; but to get great good from
such visits.

They are Uvinff epistles ; ia£BBring, groan-
ing preachers. ^Hiey teaoh us (1,) Gratitude,
for the unspeakable meroy of good health.

(2.) Humility, shewing what we are reduoed
toby reason of sin. (8,) The vitality of the
religion of Jesus Christ, whieh Jieither floods
nor flames ean annihilate. (4,) The all-sufil-
oiency of divine graoe for evei^ aflliotion. (6, )
The unohangiag fitiithfulness of the Sternal
Tbree^ who never leave nor forsake them. (6.)
The preciousness of eternal truth, r?,) The
triumphs of the cross over sin, death, nell and
ever J thing else opposed to a work of graoe in
the soul. (8.) The difference between the
religion of the flesh, and the religion of the
spirit But cases of real usefulness are not
wanting, where the sick, the suffering saint,
has |>reached not only comfort, consolation,
and instruction to the living child of Qod;
but life to the dead sinner.

We may, perhaps, if affreeable to the Sditor
and profitable to his readers, in a few papers,
further illustrate by those, '* Who being dead,
yet speak." W. Flaok.

Salem Chapel, Kew North Boad.

3^nnairs of (^minist Hiniatta

No. II.

CONTBXBUTKD BT J, A. JOHBS.

JOHN IIABTIN, OF KEFPEL STHEET,

STI88BLL BQXTASB.

JoHT Mabtik was a great man in his day
and ^neration. One of an Herculean grasp
of mind. He was considered somewhat eccen-
tric, but, with all, a holy man of Gud. I have
memoirs of his life, as written, by himself in
twenty^ona letters to a friend. I shall pro-
oeed to give the reader the eream at thoae
letters, and then continue the account ef him
to the dose of bis pilgrimage. He says in the
first letter :— * The writer of his o«m lift has.
at least the^rs^ qualification of an historian,
Tu , tks hmnoMffe ofiks truth,*

John ICartin was bom at Spaldinf , in lin-
oolnshire. March 16, 1741. His faUier was a
respectable farmer. When a child (he saysj
' I was active, sprightly, and vain, rery •»-
qmBiHee^ and strongly inclined to find out the
ffoson of things,' when about fourteen, he
was apnrentioed to Mr. Nowmaric, of Stam-
ford, ffs styles him an enterprising gentle-
man of many trades. < He was a oonrootioner,
china and glass man, mustard maker, brick
. maker, malster, a considerable dealer in tiles.

His mother died daring his apprentioeshiBb
She was buried in Spalding Chureh-yaid.
^tiM of her daughters had been buried in the
same place, and her twmtk and only surviving
daughter was soon added to the goodly num-
ber. * Of her three sons, then living, William^
died in the year 1768: Thomas, her youngest
son, I have not heard of for more than SO
years, so that, in all probability, I am the 9mia
surviving child of the tMrUtm,* I ^foeeed

(omitting much) to an eventful penod. I

E've it in Martin's own words. — ^'In the
unmer of 1767, 1 went with my then master
to Skiptam, The day proved extremely wet.
We were compelled to stay for ahelter at a
UttleviUagecsiled Olamoorth, This was an
evening that must not be forgotten. I found
myself restless and indisposed . The landlady
came into the little parlour where I sat alone^
and said, < Ton seem to want company, jon
and my son shall go totiie Methodist meeting.
It foill b0 rart §portfor ^ou. The Metho-
dists (said she) are a queer sort of folk, but
they won't hurt you.' Mr euriosity was ax*
cited, and I consented to nar propoaaL The
meeting was held in a dwelling hqjDse, in
which were about twenty or thirty persons
assembled. A grave-looking man stood oppo-
site to me, h*hnmd the book of am old CMir,
and in this strange situation, he took the
following words for his text, * They shall ask
the way to Zion, with their fooea thither-
ward.' Jer. 1. 6 : Although very attentive
to the preacher, vet I was not surprised with
any of his remarxs, till near the dose of his
sermon, when he addressed his hearers thos,—
* Some (said he) instead of asking their way
to Zion with their fooes thitherward, are
asking|i I fear, their way to ksU with their
faces set thithenoardr iW unexpected turn
I thought eeoere, but, he added so much, to
justify liu opinion on the subject, that I con-
cluded that what he had reported might be
true, so that I began to be emrioueljf amrwud
at my own eitnatum. The effects .that fol-
lowed were,—! was afraid of Uving as 1 had
done, and resolved to retorm my life i still
hoping there was no need for enj oerjf greai
ehanae in my behaviour! In this state of
mino, my former passions were still eomowhai
indulged, but, witn this difference, that when
my moral feelings were wounded, I feared
tfaiat I was still asking my way to hell* with
my face thitherward.' After tms, John Mar-
tin went to bear a Baptist minister, whose
name was Watts, at Donnington, near Boston.
He says,— * His diacoorse, Uke that at OUy-
worth, was uninteresting to lae till it was
nearly finished, when Mr. Watts spake to this '
effect x—^SUmer, thou thinkest that Ood wiU
perhaps oomnound with thee for thine iniqui-
Ues. I telf thee*he wiU not JSfo, he wiU
kaoe the mttermoet farthing f This alarming
sentence appeared to sm, aa the handwriUng

ri the wall to Belshaakar, they were terri-
to me ; and on retnming home^ I mused
thus with myself— What! have I been aakins
my way to hell with my face thitherward, tiu
I am pUinly told, that Ood wiil not com-
ponnd laith einmere, but will have thentter'
meet farthing ? 0, such tidings are tremen-
dous r Thai I hftTo done nj thing fully lo

ltU»l

THB EAETHIN TISSSL.

r Dmne JoitiM, J dtn not pretnme to
littiod that I ATCT 9haU make A./kZ2 oom-
iliOB ibr the qrimet I hare oommitted, I
I BOi imagina; bat, to hear what I hare
nw haard, that, no p a m m mt im part will hs
mcetpUd; that God wul not eamponmd with
■aoen; wimt tkaU I Bag 7 Is this oqaita-
hie ? Is it not being unrta^onahljf severe f
Tbeae U^al reaaonings produced in mj mind i
' ikoM^kU of Qod : and I found that he '
b dunleaaed with the Almighty, can j
porform, witty nor tkinh of that whieh

M aeeeptable in hia sight. Mj oasehoA for
aoma tune appeared to me to m a loei ease g
and I eoneluaed that unUee I could hear of a
remedjf whieh would allow me to Buppose the
m orU of my oondition, and jet permit me to
hop* te eoaupUU delioeraneo, — I oould not
be aavad. ooon afterwardf, I fotmd that
fCBedy in Him, who waa made fin for ua,
thai va night be made the righteouaneM of
eediaHim.' 1

Hiavio^ been brought to beliere in Christ,
and to reat his all upon him for salvation, he. in
the jaar 1763 was baptised, and joined the
Charcb of Chriat at Qamlingay near Fotton,
in Bcdlbidahire ; and was verj soon after
eaUed ooX by that church into the work of
the fluoistrf. After preaching at Wittlesea,
aad at Peterborough for .a few months, he
was ioritad to Sheepehead, in Linoolnshire, to
iMeaad Mr. YTilliam Christian* who had long
bean their pastor. In August 1766, he was
flfdaiaad to thepastoral office.

Mr. Brown, (iLettering,) garehim his charge
bom Acts zx. 28» " Feed the Church of God.
whoA he hath pofchased with his own blood ;''
and the celebrated Sobert Hall, of Amsby,
areaehad to the church from 1 Thess. ill. 8,
^*2low «• live if ye stand fsst in the Lord.'*
Alaa ! there sve but few ministers, in our days,
that isad the diurdi with gospel food ; and but
few charehaa, that, as fer as Truth is ooncemed,
stand feat in the Lord.. Mr. Martin states,
— ^ While I continued at Sheepehead I met
with many affieting changes, notwithstanding
moMj members were added to the church, and
the number of the congregation was neatly
iiMtfsaad. There I bnned mv dear wife, aged
only 2B jaan ; alao my brother William, my
•WB h y n tfi ed fether, and serehd of my beet
fiisada to whooa eounaal and kindness X had
beaa Boali indebted. Xhese afliieting changes
aaada Bhaapahaid unpleasant to me. — ^Mr.
Martin sbaerraa, * I never was thoroughly re-
wmIwI to my situation at Sheepehead;

* Mr. William Christian waa a minister of
stwiina' tmth. I am in poas o ss i on of a most
falaaUa little book whieh belonged to him
(havinf hia aatogra]di) on Jm^fioaUooy by
W.Sm,of8aliBbary. It waa to Mr. Chris-
(fan ttat Mvhnid'a pooUoal LoUor waa written,
9i w^SA I have disposed of aeveral thousands.
Mr. GhrlaliaB did not long survive the receipt

of that haUm. He diedsaddenly, at the very
MKt anaiml meeting of ministers, and while
he was oonveniBg with them on religious
sa tj e et a. Mr. Woodman, of Amaby^ preaohed
hia ftiiwralaennon firom 2 Kings ii. 11, 12. A
striking passage^ and suitable to the solemn

though whUe I oontiniied there, I pursued mr
studiea elooely, with, I suppose, a student's
common lot, sometimes wita great pleasure,
at others with moeh vexation.' But the Lord
waa preparing him for a more enlarged and
important field of ministerial usefulness. He
was invited by the Baptist Church then meet*
ing in Grafton Street, Soho, London, to visit
them, in August, 1773. It resulted in his re-
movsl to the metropolis.—

But Mr. Editor, I most trespass no further
on your pages this month. Most interesting
matter still remain for your May Ynaii.. I
am, your'a truly, J. A. Jovbs.

Bblotbd BROTiraB B^VKS,—! send you ■
copy of a couple of letters I received from
friends in America ; assured, as I am, ' As cold
waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from
a far country,' (ProT. xxv. 25.) you will feel
encouraged to proceed in your editorial work,
and be Uiankful, since your good Lord blessee
the same. T. Poock.

Atlantic City, New Jersey, Feb. 5, 1869.
DBA.RLT Bblovbd— With heartfelt grati-
tude we received your kind letter, also the
' Memoir of the Doubter Delivered,' your dear
wife, and our beloved sister, now with her
Lord and Sariour Jesus Christ, of whom she
so often talked to me while she sojourned
here below. I have to be thankful I ever
became a subscriber to the Eabthbv Vbsbbl,
it has often cheered my spirit this side of the
water, bringing me news from afar, remind-
ing me of dear friends with whom I have
rejoiced, with whom I have wept It was in
the Yebsbl I read of your Memoir, which I
have now before me, and aa I read, I do
rejoice in what God has wrought ; the doubter
is delivered from all her sufferings, sins and
sorrows ; her gracious Lord has taken her in,
to go no more out for ever ; and as you say,
she is gone but a little while before, and I
shall be highly favoured, if my last end is
like her's. 1 am very pleaded with what the
young friends have done in putting up a
Tablet to the memory of their dfeparted sister
in the Lord. I hope they will always unite
prayerfully with each other, and live in eaeh
other's hearts and best affections, for their
soul's comfort and the glory of God. My
heart's desire is also, that the mutual blessed-
ness of you, as pastor and people, mrf be con-
tinued, uving in each others love ana prajers,
you may yet be a blessing made to them, and
many more ; by dirine help, preaehing a fbll
Christy a rich salvation, a me redemption,
declanng to all around what a dear Saviour
you have found.

As to temporal things, we aboutfd in mercies,
all we can wish for we have; but 0, my
brother, what are these compared to spiritual
blessings? I have been nere four years.

, hearing yea and nay preaehing, not a single
I quotation from Solomon's Sour, and rare
; indeed ii the intercessory work oT the Son of
I God referred to. I do think they are better
off for the gospel in Australia,— there a tne

m lARTHlM TlSaKL*

CAvrilUMlii

Me WO!

> pMMiier etn tUnH wiUMUt iiiinlt» hare
ie wovlil be etUed Antmomiaa^ md otiier
TiieiuuiiaB.

I often heftrd von speak of the eandleetiok
betnff xvmoTed ; oat aiaa, I remored firom the
eudleetiok, and well I know it. May the rod
bo dipped in love and blood. Do pray for me,
that I may be rooted and g;rounaed in truth
and loTo, and kept faithftiL O, that the Lord
would aend me to the gospel^ or eend his
gospel to me ; sanetify this deep trial, bring
me out more deroted to the will, work, and
serrioe of my nacioos Bedoemer !

I do hope the dear brethren and sisters in
England will prise their privileges, live close
to weir Lord, sit constantly nnaer the drop-
pings of the sanctuary, dip their morsels in
vinegar, and their feet in oil, bathe in sano-
tuary waters, and swim in Bsekiol's river.

Mav every blessing be granted you, to .fit
you for vour work, support yon in every
trial, and crown you in death with viotory,
and after that a victor's erown. Believe me to
be yonrs in Christ, Framgmb Shbldbicx.

Mt Bxloybd Bsothsb— I hope you will
pardon us for being so long before we answered
your^s, but I ean assure you, it required time
to ooUeet our nerves, for our jov and sorrow
was so great, we could not Tne pleasure in
hearing of the blessed deliverance our do-
parted sister obtained over her fears, in her
departure out of this troublesome state into
|iory, was enongh to excite wonder and praise.
SU>w true is our God to his promise, " At even-
ing time it shall be light. ' Zeeh. ziv. 7. Our
sympathy for you, dear brother, is not lacking
although there is much mercy in your cup of
trial ; the dear companion or your youth was
forty-one years spared to von. and though
the greater part of her life sne was much
ai&ieted, yet in many respcts, you must and
do miss her.

" ▲ few more rolUog suns at most
Will land you on fair Canaan's coast ;'*
then, oh then, scenes and seasons of sorrow
will have no existence. I have no doubt but
your faith looks forward, anticipating the
Malisation of what your Lord has promised.

Great is our distance; we, on the Atlantic,
you in England; when it is twelve with you.
It is seven with us ; but Jesus is the centce of
attraction to all his people, in all pkoes, and
while yon speak to us with pen, ink, and
Mper, I almost fancied heanng of you in
Ipewieh, where I hope I shall aeain, for 1 do
b^of the Lord to make our wayclear, although
we are every way weU supplied in eartmy
things ; but what is the shell to the kernel r
The crossing the sea is no trial, compared to
the being debarred from the gospel ministry.
The blessed truths in the Eulthbv Vbssbl
and in your little Memoir, are more despised
than sought for, or loved in these dark places
of the earth.

Give my ehris^an love to your dear people,
thanking Mr. Clarke for his kind present of
Dr. Hawker's Portions, they are our Bible
oompanions.

Believe me to remain your affectionate
brother in the Lord, Willia-m Sh«u>biok.

To Mr. Thomas Poook, Ipswich Suffolk.

(Dur Ctmitnltgujrtn C|tsic|ia.

A£DBiTH is a small Hamlet in the Isle of
Ely, belonging to Haddenham. The popula-
tion is small, but there are a few of the Lord's
people here. They have a small chapel, I
believe free firom debt. Mr. King has been
the pastor of this church for several yeara ;
but he has just given up hii charge at Aldreth,
and enterod upon hu stated labours at
Gransden. May the Lord prosper him where
hell gone, and appear for the little one at
Aldreth, in sending them another minister as
good as the one that has just left.

8irTT0!r was onee a fionrishtng town in the
Isle of Ely; but it is now a village only, of
less than 2.000 inhabitants. Here is a large
Chapel with a small endowment, and a good
congregation, considering the siae of the
place. The Chapel stands in a good poaitioa
to get a large attendance from snmmnding
country plSMS. Sutton was for many year*
the scene of Mr. Cattell's Inboura. Mr.
Meekins, and other good men have aleo
laboured at Sutton. Mr. Hack, now of
London; was the last pastor of this Ohnreh.
which still continues destitute of a staled
minister, though it is thought that Mr.
Edwards, ot Oottenham, Is likely to become
the minister of tUs place. Should the provi-
dence of God direct his steps to SnMon, wo
may expect to hear of several being baptiaed
and added to the Church, as it is thought
many in the oongregation are gra c iou a charao^
ten, and are only waiting for God to aettio n
paator over them. How glad we ahall be to
hear of Mr. Edwards' auoceaa at Button, and
of the oomfbrtable aettlement of thia people,
who have been ao long deatituta 1

■TBITHAIC

At Strstham, in the Ue of Slv, we hmw
a email cauae of tmth. I believe Mr. Howled
was the first minister of this UtHe intersat
who maintained his atanding at Slretham for
80 years. He was aneceeded by Mr. Walla,
who died about the aefMith year of his paalor.
ate over thia Chntoh. Mr. Watta waa ane-
ceeded by Mr. Orampin, the pr e a en t aai
of the puee, who baa labomd hers^
tainaiig an honounUe standing, for nbout
fourteen years ; but I understand that he haa
resigned bia naatorale, and intends to leavo «t
Lady.day, after which time he will be at
liberty to aeeept the paaloimte of any deatitoba
ehnroh to wfasMi the Lord may direct Ua. I
am not aore thai thb haa ulwt^$ been a eanao
of tmth. but it haa been loeogniaed as aoeh
for thia laat twenty yeoia at least; the hialorv
of thia little oauae haa been twico nobliakod.
We hone the Lord will apeedily aend anothofr
man of truth to fill the vnenum at Stiwlham.
ATba'

ATBAVBlUnu

(To 6s cor«iM»d.pOgTe

April 1, ISM.j

THIS SAKTHBK VESSEL.

€>ttr €^ViKcfy$i ify^v JPrt$i0r$> ftttt) ifyxt p^^jf^.

TBI FB SSHTikllOH OF k HiLVBSOlCB TfiSTXXOHIAL TO HE. SDWAU) BUTT,

A. DB1.C0V 1.T TIU SI7BBBT TABBaVlOLB.

Iir xctirinjc ''OB^ <^ ^r^ meeting holden in
the Soirey Tabernacle, on Thundaj evening,
Mardi ITth, 1839, we eoald not refrain fm
tbe eUfliit meditations of oar heart,) from
adoptia; and applying the wordi of Solomon,
when ipnaVing ttf thn true charoh of Christ,
onder the eharaeter of a woman — he said,
' Kany daaghten have done yirtuously, but
thoaezeellcst Ihem all.'. In looking round
upon ttw charehei of our faith and order,
thM« are many of them whieh have done no-
bly ; and hare prospered, (through the gifen
gnee of Ood,) and snceeeded, in establishing
nd maintaining the great principles of the
New CoTeaant dispensation ; and, in this day
when a gradnal declension into a fashionable
amalgam^tjon, ia the leading feature, it is a
BMRy, that we haye ehurches not a few,
whose paators are both faithful and fruitful,
■ad whose order is beautifully oonsistent with
■11 the rerelationa of hearen, respecting the
tWngiiobe obaerred and done by the pro-
lesssd spooM of Christ while in her militant
state upon the earth ; but, if we may be allowed
freslyt? ezprem onnelTes, we must confess,
that for a generons, a prosperons, and a bene-
Tolent exhibition of gospel conduct, the church
at the Bwrey Tabemaeie doth excel.

ThiM pfopodtion was fully justified in the
cbeoautaiiees of the erening referred to ; and
which we shall now briefly describe.

A large eompany sat down to tea, between
ife and six o'clock : bat by the time the more
poblie meeting eomroeneed, there were pre-
seat aearlr or qaite 1200 persons.

Mr. James Wells prended ; and delivered
a warsii, H^^ly* And truly eonmtnlatory ad-
drsss. Afler a hymn read by Mr. Carr, John
Thwaites, Siq., took a review of his own oon-
■eetioo wilh the Surrey Tabernacle, during
tte last twelre or foorteea years : and in a
iteewd, and interesting speeuh, described both
fte eoofliets and the comforts, which he had
expsrieneed, as a member, and as a deaoon of
that Christian body. There were three
poiais m that speeoh, we consider worthy of
■peeial remark; we dtstinotly record them,
seeanse we are ezeeedingly anxious that our
ifport of this meeting may be the means . of
sturriag np the desoons, pastors, and mem-
ben of oar ehnrchee to seek for a much
b ap p i a i and more harmonions coarse of action
thaa is now enjoyed ia many plaoes. The

points were these: (I) that through the
goodness of the Lord toward them, they had
been helped so to fulfil their office that the
pastor had never been compelled to call them
i'> account for any direliotion of duty. This,
we hold, to be a most happy statement to be
able to make. Here arc seven deacons : all
of them working on for a number of years in
much perseverance; beholding the growth
of the cause to an amasing extent. (2.) Mr
Thwaites confidently assured us, that among
the church and the deacons, there was a grow-
ing conviction that the prosperity ana the
harmony of the church was the result of that
clear, unflinching, that full, comprehensive,
that truthftil, and that oxperimenUl ministry
under which they had been favoured to sit ;
and Instead of wishing Mr. Wells to modify
in anydegrec his ministry of a full Qospel, he,
(Mr. Thwaites) would say, and he knew his
brethren in office, would say,— and he believed
the whole of the church would say—* GO ON !'
Mr. Thwaites was here most emphatic. He
spoke as a gentleman, as a chnstian, as a
tried believer; as one who daily felt that
such is the wickedness of the world in whieh
we dwell ; such the weakness of our poor sin-
ful nature, that nothing short of a (}ospel
which takes us up, and carries us through all,
right into heaven itself, could ever bo a solid
support to the battling church of Christ, in
her present warfare and woe. The third, and
last point was to the effect that, in presenting
a handsome testimonial to Mr. Butt, there
was among the deacons, members, and con-
gregation but one feeling. No jealousy ex-
isted ; no party feeling had suKgested ,it. No
complaint from Mr. Butt, for his arduous
labours hod called it forth ; it was the fruit of
a deep sense of the church's gratitude toward
a brother, whose devotion, untiring perse^
verance, and most acceptable services, had
constrained them to express their love to
him, and their desire to do him good. Never,
on earth before, did we behold, with our own
eyes, an illustration so powerful of the Psalm-
ist's words as this meeting presented; *How
good and how pleasant, for brethren to dwell
together in unity !'

Mr. Lawrence then gave out a hymn ; and
Mr. Edwards, (a senior deacon, having been
with Mr. Wells nearly thirty vears) delivered
an enthusiastic address, as full of Welch fire
and Gospel zcal^ it well could be.' A hymn
by Mr. Thomas Howard ; and then Mr. James
Wells presented the Testimonial to Mr.
Edward Butt. It was a beautiful purse,
made by a blind person, containing Oke

HUITDBBD AND FiFTT NBW SoVBBBIONS,

laid on a handsome Silver Salver, worth ten
gnineaa, in the middle of which-was engmved
the following lines :— itized by VjOOQIC

THE £ARTHKN TE88EL.

[April 1, 18M.

'^nmltX

WITtt A »VU» OV OHl BVVDXID AXD ttttY
BOTXRBIOSS TO

ME. EDWAKD BUTT,

BT Tin CBITfiCtt ATD COKa&BOATIOV AT

THB BUBBBT TABBBBiLOLB,

BOBOUOH BOAD,

A8 A TOILBH 07 CHBBTXAK BBOAKD,

MiBCH 17th, i869.

DEACONS,

JosiPii Lawbbmoi, I Jouir Caab,

£VA]I KdWARDI, I HkNBT ArriKLD,

Joiur Tbwaxtu, I Tbomas Howaad.
MINISTER,
Jakes Wblls.

In preuBti&g the tMtimoBial, Mr. Wells
•zpnued, in a most affeetionito manner the
oMigatkns he waa under to Mr. Butt, and the
other daaoona. It appeared that Mr« Butt, lir-
inf near, and hanng nit ereniaga at oommand,
had heen the principal working man; the
other brethren being eloaelj engaged in theSr
■eveml departments in commeroe, Ac, oonld
not give that ^me and energr to the Chnroh's
affain, and to the wanta of the poor, which
Mr. BttU had deroted —consequently it mi|^t
be aaid he had weii earned tliia good degroe
in ofl&ee ; and thie noble espreeahmof thank-
A&lnen now Awarded.

Mr. Butt, in receiving and aoknowiedgiag,
the teetimonial, found great diffieuky in giving
utteranee to his feelioga. One aentenee is all
«• ean give. He said " the heneTolenoe of
this ohuroh toward the poor, ought not to bo
passed by in silence. Dnriog the last twelve
yvars, no less than £4,fiOO, had been distribu-
ted by the church uid eongregation in the
Kurrey TShernaele, among the poor, in vmrions
wnjs.

C. W. Banks epoke a fern words after Mr.
Butt; and Mr. Wells thencloeed the meeting ;
srhtoh, in every sense, was one of thohappieat
develo^emonts of Christian phikntluropy we

WHAT ITE AB£ 2K)IKG AT BSi^Har0.

Dbib Bbothbb Bah&s,— Tou have re-
peatedly urged me to give you some infor-
mation as to our proceedings here. I now
propose doing eo with all brevity.

The crowded state of our present chapel,
towards the close of last Summer, oompelled
us to think aboiit building a larger one. All
our sittings were let, and still we bad many
applications for more. We had iorms placed
along the aisles, and they were filled, and
oftentimes the pulpit stairs, and vestry too.
Bspeoially was tnis the caae after my open-air
lecturesln September last. Some said it was
an unhealthy and temporary excitemcut, and
would die away, and advised us to stand still
for a while, before we thought of buUdii^.
These wero the *slow coaches ;'--drags upon
the wheels of progresa, but most benefioiBl
and useful thmgs in their place. Others
advised us to * go a*head,' and get the obapel
' up bj Christmas last, These wees thssteam*

engines, the express trains, they needed the
' break,' and our * slow* friends put it on ; so
that what with the warm* hearted eamsstness
and activity of the one, and the stow and
cautious prudence of the other, we havo been
kept movmg on at a medium rate. And under
the gmdanoe and approbation of him whois
counsel has been earnestly sought at every
step, I believe that we haveneither gone on
too fast, nor too slow. In October iast» we
began looking out for an eligible site for our
new chapel. After examining the elsims of
nine difllerent plots, one on the south sido of
the Oxford road was unanimously seiect^dt
A site which has since been pronounced alike
by friend and foe to be the hett poHtUm tn
Beading. It fronts the main road, and ii
fift^ feet by one hundred aild £i»iT. Prior t#
deciding upon the sito, we had a special
praver-meeting on the Sabbath morning at
half-post ten o'clock instead of the ittuu
servico. And though nothing ^>ecial ehft*
racteriasd the serrioe, the friends soemed to
have their minds led aOl in the same directioiL
and to be satisfied that the hand of the Lord
was in the matter.
The ground was to oost ns £160. ThonnS

Question was, how were we to raise the funds P
Ine evening, brethren Martin and Yinden
commenced canvassing a few of the friends,
and in the coarse of an hour got neariy ninety
pounds promised. Wilh aueh a beginning*
we were not long in raising the vim. requir^
In December the money was raised and paid,
and the conveyance of tiie land made over in
trust to the seven deoaons.

A design for the new ohapel was pepsMd
by a friend^ and a contract entered into for
building it, for £1,036. The chapel to seat
oVQr 500 persons, without jralleries.

To raise Ibnds for buildmg, we issued wwh*
Bcription cards, k>r donations, and shares for
loans, and on Wcdni>:?dBy the 16th of February
wc convened a public t^a meeting at the New
Hall, London Street, to eall in the int imse
of cards, and the subsoriptions rniaed. About
three hundred sat down to tea, tickets tor
which were one shilling each. Eighteen
ladies connected with the chnrBh and oongro*
gation Toluntoered to pay tho ezpensea of tho
tea, so that the prooeods were clear pvofit, nod
two other friends sombined together to p»j
for the hall. After tea, I entered into a short

id within a lew days after) waa
onies prossised at the mootiBg,
way of gift, or loan, to be ibrth-

of our past proceedings, after which
the ooUeotora handed in the amounU thay
had reoeiyed. The gross amount of moBseo
pmid Ml -at thameoting, (indading i
pounds paid within
£194k Mamos pros
either by way of gift^

coming by April next^ £176, making a iaHtl
of £370^ to wbioh if we add the £150 paid im
the land, we have a gross total of £690 in
about five months. Do you not think thaS we
have abundant cause to thank Go4* mm! tskke
oouivge? When the h un n t eg of tho tea naart-
ing WM over, I delivored a lecture in the JKew
BaU on the * Koligious History of Man.'

We commenced building operatSBna kni
week, and propose Uying the fbiuMUtionatMO
on Thusids^, tho 31st of Msroh* on wliMi

AprU 1, IBA9.1

TH« BAETUHH VSSBEt.

oecMioa, btotbef Weib hiM ooxuented to bo
witli us.

Such ii « biisf ouUiae of our procoedinfj^
■fi to tk0 praenl time, and I think you will
ftdait with iu that wo hAi« tattoh to be thAok^
fol for, iBd miieh to eoeouMge lu. For your
nt'xt Buniber, I bo^ to forward tn account of
tbe neetiDg for la/iiig the foundation atone.

to. W.

P. S. The three laat Sabbath aaembons in
i^bnUT, I preftehsd in tho ITew flftll« Lm-
dM Stmt fwhi«hwnhif«4 and |)«i4ftir, «b»
the paf)KMe, br A warm-hearted, and liberAl*^
ttiaded fHend; to congregatlonB conibting of
about fourteen to filteen hundred pefion«i
Um fiaU beinf^ lilled eadi time by a most
attcBftive asdieace. My first mtbjeGt was,
*The FUnl n^Btake at the Gate of Heaven/
bawd (A Matt. ni. 22. Mjy second, ' Spiritual
Ahthmettc,' baaed on Mark Tiii. 36;* * What
•haU ii profit a man/ 4o. My laat—' The
Fool aad hb Fun ;' baaed oa Pioyerbe adv* •»
' Foola make a moek at sitt/

tPSWiOft-— "Ko man hath seen Oo4 at any
tisa. If w love oae another, Ood 4w«lleth in m,
aad hii love ia pcrfoeted In ot. And this eom-
■aadaent haT» we from Um, that be who ioveth
Ood, laveth his brother also/' I Mm X\L 31.
joba dnak largely at ihte •ahDerating foontala,
he Mt the toftMiBf, sweetening, pnrif^tBg power,
^ it hi his own soul, wrote mnsh on its wooder-
M sffeets, coasmcnds it every way to the Chareh
or God, exhorting thsm to behold it. John iU. 1.
Aad If every means in their power to exhibit the
fraits thereof in their love to Ood, who loveth
tbcM, snd le one aaother as bciae alike beloved br
hia, with a dateless, endless love. And don't
joa thiak, brother, if we, as ministers, were to
dwsn Biore npen Itti htess^^ subject In our minis-
try, we should caloy more of Its savor and flavor
ia oar own soois, oe lem eama) in our objeets and
labiseist Satan toerafty among the saints of Ood,
sad if be can work a spMt of jealousy in the
miads of Skm's walshmen. they soon shew it ; out
It eomes in private or pnblio, and we know hnman
natwe k prane to drink in this deadly opiate,
tefsttteg that •*aatrsd adneth up strifss;
bat Io?e eoreceth •* ■ •• ^ --. _

an i

?rov. X. 12. To

sympathy iru felt. Us advtoeeKeelleat, hlii i _
tuUtion warm, eb^Hng and Mttuhii. His owa
soul anp«ared nnder divine Inlusaeei and lolona
feelings prevuUed the meeting thtoughoat tha
entire service. Dtr good hrethm^odd^BaMt
and I ■ - - -

walk in love h very bleseed. it is an evidenoe
of soBSbiPb sad a proof of anion to Jesns, Kph.
V. 1« i. And soeh welking is but too scarce by ns
Bow.«-day ; y«t Ul s te are some trtto fM disposed
to regard these things ta word and deed, who es-
tscm the I<acd«a servsBta Mghly in love for their
wotfc^sake, and Wish to be at peabe smoog them.
aelTss. 1 Thee. v. 18. And I am happy to say, I
am one so Ihvoared, far on M eaday, m. 21st, my
frimds held a tea meeting in order to eoagratnlate
mesa my Mad Mrth day ; three hundred sat down,
both ioymt and happy. After tea, a more pablio
lasffHif took pldoe, and after singiag, snd brother
Boddy prayliig, our Treasarer, Ur. w. Clarke.
vss ssUed to the ehslr, when with his usual
vsrmth of manner and love to the cause, people,
*' : ua with evident fteUngs of

sad pastor, 1
gratttadeto

the Lord, aad aya^iafhy to Mabereaved

jd adaister; detailing the Lord's deal-

lap to this caoae dattag the 11 yean of his trea-
sorenhip. Sinoerely aad prayermlty be congratu-
lated the poator in the name of the friends, pre*
•eatiag him with a poraeof six gninoss, aa a token
of loTs aad esteem. The parse was thankfully
rseelTed and duly aeknowledfed, by an expressed
dssire for further union, uat^uiiBess, and greater
■ool prosperity, which is far more valuable than
cold or silver. Brother OolUns, of Qnindisboro',
next addnosod, and truly It wss an address, every
vmj to the point^eeasonabla, saitableaodaavoary.
Jest wimt was wanted, and ought to be spoken : his

of peaee. and beggln( the like bleninga upon att
the chutehes, to iThieh we add eat hearty aaiia«
Our kind IHends, the singen^ Ihtwired ua wltiiiai
antheai suitable, between emy addrcai, tad
their performances were good. Kay the qpMt m
the livitag Ood ereate, and eonHaae his love In usi
to m, and by us, and to his people la an plaw i
through Jesas ChHst, Aiaeh.

TaoKAft FoeoK*

DBVOHPO&T.-On Monday, Feb. »th. was
hshi in the Partloalar Bsptist Chapel, iPembroke
Street, a teachers' tea mesiiag; about oae hundrsd
and seventy persons sat down to partaks of a re>
paat nicely provided, for which gieat credit Is due
to the young people who assisted. We guue en-
Joyed it. After tea, we repaired tO the chapel,
when our pastor (whom ws lovsi) rose aad said he
was glad to meet ao many friends, and begsu by
addreseiag the teachers, spelling thdr name M
teachers : T, (said he) stands for truth ; which 1ft
the standard. J£, equity of Ood in the kw as weQ
aa the gospel. A, answer ; the Word of Oo^
C, eharity, or love, manifest towards the thliws (a
God. IX humility; ths effect nroduoed. S, ekp
perisBse ; shewiag that without that, profes^
amonats to nothing. XL rightcousnsss, which la
fonnd alone in ths Lord Jesos Christ : snd hu^tly,
S, salraUon, the sure results of it; dwelling
largely as he went along. Mr. Udstone, the sup-
erbiteadaat of the school, wai called to read the
r^ort. I was pleased to hsar him sUte that the
only book they uught the children out of was,
tH£ BIBLE, Ood's own word ; they use no Cate-
chisms of any sort or kind; when he had finished
his report, brother Bmminaton, spoke very plabily
as to the tsaehing of the children, shewing that It
was a good morally, but it must he the work of
the Holy Spirit alone to api^ It to the soul sav.
iogly. Brother ColUos gave us a spirited addrsss ;
a few words from brother Westlake. minister of
the chapel, after whloh, brother Essterbrook, closed
with prayer, thus endsd one of the most plessant
meetiags I ever attended. May Ood r^'vs the labors
both of the ministry, and Sabbath School in this
place. We have resson to bless the Lord, that wo
have the gospel preached to us in purity|and no
mixtnie. W. T.

.(Brother WestUksk of Devonport, (likehrother
Meeree, of Bsxmondsey,) has laboured In faith
and in eharity, for years ; and now the harvest
begins lo sppsar. Men who thui labour with
their hands all the week, yst freely feed the
ohnroh of God on the SahbathrMre surely worthy
of doable honour— Bn.]

It has been feasant to aa to behold young bma
rklag up in Spheres Of assfahmss, and earnestly
devctod to the Lord ; but, there has rsemtly, been
saah dtaeoveriss— doli« anything, and being any-
thing, to gain peopls: aad to gain popularity;
that we ahacet tramhie for the Ark* We have
received eeveral palnlhl letters from Chuiohes;^
here is an eatraet ft<om one; it Is a type of mueh
that la oomtng on before us. *To the Editor of the
Eaxtbkk VxssiL. Were I a stranger to the
Cbaieh at ■■ ■ -w of which the late Mr. ,

was pastor, I should suppose by the account
inaerted by you, that it was in a prosperous state,
aud that the ministry of the present pastor, was
in all respects, of the sams character as that of our
late esteemed pastor. Ths present minister pro-
fesses to believe in all ths glorious truths : but
how dow hs beUeve in them, when he can sfford
to spssk of their advosatsa m hypers, *«.•.•»?«£
associate wiu that class of preachers who avow

THB EARTHBN TK88SL.

[April 1, IBM.

tteir 0Biiiil7 to them. I am lorrT to nj, tbe pre-
■mt miaistry dow not «gre« with that whioh we
here heen toenstomed to lit under. Some few
months ago, the present pastor appealed to the
ehnroh in referenee to hie staying amongst them ;
his new sjstem of address to the nnoonverted,
was one eonditlon upon whioh he was to remain «s
their pastor; this being agreed to, and knowing
that he had been mixing up with men whose views
ax* in opposition with those held bj us, as a
•hnreh ; I felt bound to ask him how it was that he
had altered his eourse in going to the Wesleiran
Missionary Meeting, which formerly he refhsed to
dot This was the laoonlc answer I reoeived : " I
will give yon an old woman's answer; I did not
gow beeause I did not go ; and I did go, because I
did go; and I do not choose to be eateohised."
This is ezpressiTs of that pride, wicked presump-
tion, and spirit of apostaoy and deolension, whioh
is oreeping into our ehurohes : old faithful minis-
ters are either removed, or oast into the shade ;
and spoken of with much oontempt; while un.
humbled, and haughty aspiranU are carrying the
people over to a system of uneertainties. This is
the beginning of a ohange. We add no more now.

SiniBUBT*— Opening of Ebenezer Strict Bap.
tist Chapel, Sudbury, Suffolk. On Tuesday, Jan-
uary 25, 1859, the ohuroh and friends met in the
new Chapel: three sermons were preached; two
by Mr. John Foreman ; and one by Mr. Diekerson,
in the evening, from Exodus xx. ; who, like his
brother, was sweetly assisted by the presenee of
his Heavenly Master, and enjoyed sweet liberty.
(The writer who has been greatly favoured in set-
ting under his ministry for twenty years, knew he
was in a very happy frame of mind ; and brought
to his reeoUeotion the many sweet seasons enjoved
when the words from his lips oame as the oil of
graee, flowing through the pipe of eommunioa-
tion from heaven's gracious stores; and my dear
brother or sister now reading this narration where-
ever you may be ioeated, and although unknown
to me, allow me to advise you to use all becoming
means to enoourage your pastor, and thereby ame-
liorate their sorrows in their labour of love; and let
yonr actions manifest your love ; and you will be
sure to gain his ; for love is reciproeal ; I oan bear
testimony to this, and feel eeruin, as a means, it
will add much to the peace and happineas of the
several gardens of the Lord. Have we not a de-
monstration of this in our salvation :— * We love
Him beeause he first lOved us T*) Friends oame
from the towns and villages all around, to shew
their sympathy and good will to the cause, whioh
very much eneonraged Mr. Plaioe, and the little
ehuroh In embryo. It is true, the ohildren of
Israel saw the pUlar of fire by night to guide their
otherwise erring footsteps ; if ever this part of the
hlRtory of the children of Israel were analagous to
any part of the true spiritual Israel, it is to this
people, for the Lord Jehovah has guided and pros-
pered them, and far remote from their expeetation
has eaused this place of worship to be ereoted, and
now filling with attentive hearers, and blessing the
ministry of Mr. Plaiee ; indeed, the plaee is illled.
The ohapel measures 44 feet by 25 ; seating com-
foHably 220 persons, with a Vestry whieh will ae-
commodate 70, and is a very neat and eoavenient
place of worship ; and both the ministers, with
many of the friends, expressed their pleasure, and
said it far exceeded their expectation. The collee-
tions during the day amounted to £22 8s. 4d.

G. O. WflOBi^ow.

DACBS PABX— BLACKHEATH. The Lord
appears to be blessing the word here, under the
ministry of our brother Craeknell. The attendance
has been good ; God's ohildren are feeding under
the truth, five have been baptised by brother
Craeknell, and added to the ohureh since the com-
mencement of the year. He seems veir happy
in his work, and to have had much of his Master^
prwenoe, while unfolding the wonders of etexnal

love and sovereign grace. He purposes as soon as
the weather permits going out {into the open air on
Blackheath, and preaching the word, for which
arraneements will be made, and partieulars aa-
A tract society has been formed, and
Amened iu operations. The chnreh at
k, have given brother Graoknell, a una*

recently eommened iu operations. The chnreh at
Dscre Park, have given brother Graoknell, a una*
nimous invitation for six months with a view to

the pastorate. I have not been acmiainted with
Daere Park long; but I hope its good am are com-
ing. I am Ak Anxiotni Ls^ainnu

XAII>0TONB.~MOTB ROAD CHAPEL. The

Annivermry of the paetor*s settlement was held by
a Public Tea meetug, on Feb. 14th. A warm*
afTectionate feeling pervaded the assembly; and
we trust that both thanksgivings and supplieations
ascended from many hearts to our gracious and
glorious Jehovah. The Pastor, in a lengthened
address, referred to the past vear ; what the Lord
had done for us as a Chiureh, our present state,
and our expectations, grounded on the word and
promise of the Meet High. A hymn, oompoeed by
the pastor for the occasion, was sung very cheer-
taWj; and he was presented with a beautifril
Hand-Bible, as ** token of esteem and love," for
his use in the palpiL Several of the brethren
prayed, and our Deacons gave a short address,
both evincing a deep solicitude for our welfare and
proeperity. It ought to be mentioned, that
although it was stated in the notice of our last
anniversary that we expected to baptise three on
the last Lord's^ay of that month, yet a fourth
oame forward and was baptised with them. He
had been a partaker of graee, and a hearer here
for some years, but he had stood aloof fhrai '* the
ordinances/* till finding his wife determined on
Baptimr, he felt his boart drawn towards us ;
sU obstacles overcome; and, after fivlnr the
Church some account of the dealings of God with
his soul, was immereed, and reoelved into tall
communion with the others. O may the Lord add
unto us fk«quently, roch as shall be saved I

When our Jesus rose triumphant

Over sin, and death, and hell.
Seraphs hail him to his glory ;

SainU on earth his wonders tell ;
And all honour
We will give him evermore.

Has he not rich gifts imparted

In his ehurehee here below ;
To frilfil our Father's purpose.

Here to have a kingdom growt
Tis his power,
Through his servsnts, gives success.

Though the world and Satan Joined,

Oft conspire to pull it down ;
Tot the cause our king has planted

Never shall be overthrown.
All our safetv.
And our peace, are, lord, in thee.

O that Pastor, Deacons, Members.

May united be as one ;
And let faith, and seal, and patience,

Thronah our words and actions run ;
Love and pity
Alway to th' afflicted shew.

Open blind eyes, hard hearts soften ;

With thy loving-kindness draw
Saints to walk in tv*rj ord'nance.
And obey thy holy law :
Freelv giving.
To maintain thy righteous cause.
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
Give abundantly thy graee;
Strengthen, sanctify, refresh us ;
Let tby glory fill the pUce I
And thy praises
In our hearts and lives abound I

Jonx Dixon.
MaidBtooe, March 16th, 1850.

Affill,lU9Lj

THE EARTHEN VESSEL.

PKAIROW-— ZIOK CHAPEL. On Monday,
matth 7th, ta iBtereating meetinff waa held. This
eaaaa kai aiiaeo oot of tha cottage meeting com-

Id the fillage, by oor brother Crackntll,
three jaara ago. If r. C. W. Banha oceupfad the
chair. Brother Craekacll opened the meeting
trith prayar; the chairman gave an intereating
ti ii wm ; alter which Mr. Hardwlck, who ia anp.
pljing the pulpit apake upon Love, with much
vsmth and aweeCnCM. J. £. Craeknell, late of
Plaiatow, who ia now labouring under the DiTine
bicaaiBg atDaera Park, Btaekheath, then addreaaed
the mwtlug giving an account of the riae and origin
efthie emuae, auting the intereat he felt in it and re-
joieiag that the truth waa preaehed, and New Teata-
BCBt Chureh order maiatalned. Brother Watta,
who oeeaaloBaUy auppUea, apoka very truthftiUy ; it
i« hoped he may Uve to be uaeftil in the Lord'* vine-
Tard. Brother Stainca. auperintenda the Sunday
bcboel, whieh Sa progreaaing favourably. A large
party took tea ; the chapel waa crowded ; and 1
Mpe good waa done; Ohs ik ma Coumsk.

lAFTUT CHVfiCHSS IH TEE COITNTBT.

—On Tucoday evening, March 16th, 1859, a pnb-
bc meeting waa holdenin Unicom Yard ChapeL
Tooley Street, with a view to form a aodety to aid
«ach Baptiat Churchea in the country aa really
help. Mr. Samuel Jooea. preaided; and
' . C. W. Banka, apoke of Wan-
and Woobum Green. Mr.
the Wantage poaition very
BiiBBtciy ; and apoke very highly of the Wantage
ckcTth, ea aflectionate and faithful, but aeverely
tried. Mr. New entered largely into the Woobum
Cntm caac: Mr. Sindall, Mr. Kealey, and othera,
rkaded hard ftir churchea of thia kind, a commiu
tee vaachoaen. One friend (through C. W. Banka,)
cave two aovcreigna to oommenee a fund with;
ether thJing aubacripUona were made. Mr.
Kea^cy, of Oakly Cottage, Chelsea, waa chosen
Trcaiurcr; Samuel Jonea, of WatUng Street,
LoodsB, Secretary. Further particulars soon.

CLAPHAX BI8S.— On Tuesday, January
Sad, waa eelebrated the flxat anniversary of the
pwtorate of brother Eowlanda, at Behoboth
Chapel, on whieh oeaaalon aermona were preached
by brethren C. W. Banka. and J. Pella ; the people
leeaKd deeply Intercated in the truths proclaimed.
May the Lord long bleaa brother Eowlanda, and
other brcthrca hi that neighbourhood, jea, all his
■ainlstaring aervaau for much good, is the prayer
of Ons WBo waa raaaanr.

8T. LnX8>-^OB Tueoday, March lat, tea and
pohUo meeting waa held in the above plaee in
cammcmoratfcn of the annlveraary of S. School.
Mr. AadeiaoB (peator) preaided, when aubjccta well
mited to the oeeaaion were treated on by brethren
J. PeOa, J. L. Mecrea, S. Milner, J. Bloomfleld.
Abe report read waa a very cheering one, testifying
to the power of God in the salvation of the young,
throogh the instrumentality of Sabbath iSchool
iascractioB. Thia happy meeting waa brought
to a dose by aiaging the uaual dozology.

WHTB.— Benjamin Wilkina. father of our ea.
teemed brother, Joeeph Wilkina, of Brighton,
catered into rcat February 1 7th. aged 69 years,
•ad lor forty years a (kithADd mintater of Jesus
Cbilst. He dtod at Tatton. near Briatol, where
fcr many yaera he had resided, and preached the
«md vtih mjeapianna ; he waa interred at {forth
Ers^, ever whieh ehnreh he had presided for
Sljcara. Bla fhneral was attended by several
aiaistera of the neighbourhood, brother Hawkins,
of Bradford, delivered the addreee; brother
Pteee, of Weatbury, preached a aolema and «-ff.
•rtive fhneral aermon in the afternoon, lo a large
•ad atlanlive eongregatloo ; and on the following
LarAVday morning, hia eldest son preached in
Betbcada Chapel, Trowbridge, and in North Brad-
••y(^pel,Uk the evening. 4 Couiic8ro](0B.HT.

KEVIEWS.

* A Loud Call to our BaptUt Churcket:
London: G. J. SteTenson, 64, Pateraoster
Bow. Thia penny pamphlet furniahea aome
information connected with the atrtiggle
which the Strict Oommanion Baptista of Nor-
wich are now passing through, in conaequenoe
of ibo free-will, the dat^-faith, the open-
eommonion, and the anti-goapel profeaaora
haying determined to take St. Marv^ Chapel,
Norwich, (an old CBtablished Strict Baptist
Chapel,) out of their hands. A bill has oeea
filed in Ohaneerr ; and the Open-Communion-
ists, * openly ' aeolare, they will never sub-
mit; never surrender; never restore the cha-
pel and property to its legitimate owners * «»-
tU the Sou9e of Lords hat decided against
them* This is a bold and determined stand
against the principle of New Testament Com-
munion ; and if the question be driven into
the House of Lords by the Open-Communion
partT ; and if that house decide in fhTor of
the Open-Communion practice, then, good bye,
for a season, to all the Strict Baptist Trust-
deeds in the kingdom : they will no longer be
considered of any value, where a minister and
his party choose to turn over to the open.side.
It 18 not, perhaps, generally known, that
nearly all the leading duty-faith men in the
denomination, are farourablo to tho annihila-
tion of close, Scriptural, New Testament Com-
mnnioD. We have an immense bod;|r of men
Against us. The moderate Calrinists; the
iluntingtonians ; the General Baptists; the
Independents; and multitudes beside; all
are determined foes in this one branch of gos-
pel practice, and church order. But, we
naye truth on our aide. We have God on our
side. We have the prayers of many thou-
sands of the Lord's dear people on our side.
And if, with all this, the enemy triumphs; it
will only be for his ultimate overthrow. Ne-
yerthek'BS, every man of Ood who is firm in
the faith, ought at once to arise ; to anoint
his shield ; to gather together his friends ; and
to seo what can be done for the Norwich Bap-
tista. We have ventured to issue a supple-
ment on this subject. It is entitled — *A
Loud Call to ibk Baftibt Chubchbs.'
It may be had of our Publishers ; or of any
Bookseller in the world. Mr. George Barber,
of Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich, is the Secretary
of the Committee, for the Strict Baptist
Friends. We hope thousands of helpful let-
ters will be sent to him

Death: A Visian.-^The Solemn Departure
of Saints and Sinners" By John Maegowan.
With Prefaee by William Cowper. London :
John Gadsby, Bouverie Street — Better than
any remark we cm make on a subject so aw-
fully great, as is Dsath, are the following
woras of the good man who has been the
means of giring to the world, a new edition
of this scarce and deeply-interesting book.
Mr. Cowper, in his preface, says : —

'In this uncertain and ever-changing time-
state, there is but one thing sure^ that we
must die ; and as the tree falls, so it lies ;
therefore, my dear reader, whether young m
old, what an important subject Dbath ispc

THB BABTHIN VBSSIL.

[April 1, IIM.

Should not tli« awlbl clwa^ firam lime to
eternity be our daily ooxuideration ? Bemem-
hw, ii it is BQt to we pleMuree for erermore
•t God's Hght hand, it nmt be an eternity of
misery, the gnawing worm of a gvilty con-
saieBQe, arising ^ni unpardoned sin. The
solenin seotenee of a Holy Qp4 hangs over
the head of erory son and danghter of Adam ;
•nd it is awfully sad to see how regardless of
both, the generality of mankind live all their
da^s, full of eager care, anxious eonoern for
this life only, and put *nway from them, as
intfusire and disagreeable, ever/ thought of
another world, and that oertam messenger,
iDeath, who is waiting to usher them into it,
as if they knew not tbey were mortal.

' I am glad to read in this little book these
ihinn so strickingly set forth i I muoh ad-
mired the powerful and aoeurate manner in
which the contrast was drawn between tho
death-bed of the thoughtless and ignorant, and
those taught of the Holy Spirit. The Author
has most feelingly set forth the soul-support-
ing power of free and so?ereign grace nchly
bestowed on the godly, when flesh and heart
shall fail s also the chequered scene of conflict
in the reg^enerate family of eternal choice.

* Here is shown, likewise, the false peace of
earthly eandidates for an ideal hcaven^tbo
useless resistanoe made by the young and
yobttst^the baffled skill of the physician, the
Tain intreaties of the worldling xor longer life,
and the disappointed hope of the apparently
oonvaleeoenL |

' As you read of these true things, oh I that i
there might be enkindled in tbe souls of I
many, as there was in mine, a fervent, prayer- 1
ful hope that when the damps of death aie
dislogmg the spirit, we shall realise a hidden
Ufis with Christ in Ood.'

' TraetarianUm : its Obfsctt. Nature, and
Tendency.' By B. Wale, Reading. London :
Q. J. Bteyenson, 5i, Paternoster Bow. Thi»
six-penny namphlet contains two lectures de-
livered bj Mr. Wale in Beading, and in some
other neighbouring towns. It is said, " these
powerful Lectures have set the Oxford Dio-
pete all on fire. The Lecturer may well foe
carefVil; for such exposures of the masked
marches of Bomapism will certainly bring
upon bis head, the curses and anathemas of
the harlot and her sons.' Mr. Wale has
proved himself a man of metal. Both as a

Sreaoher of the gospel, and as a Lecturer, he
I amasingly ana increasingly successful.
Some thousands flock to hear the hard argu-
I, the telling speeches, the beautiful dis-
and the fervent i4>pea]s ot this re-
son of David. This pamphlet on
HSmotariamitm demonstrates one faot : when
Mr. Wale takes a subjeet in hand, he enters in-
to ks roots, examines every branch, exposes
every error, sets Satan at defiance, and lifts
up toe standard of truth with all nis might.
Wewantalbw move such bearty fellows as
this Wale. He is no tame turn-coat, no smil-
ing double heait : ha goes to his work like a
man— -like a man prepared of his Ood to da
good to Ziim ; ana to unmask the awful de<
oeivevsofoarday. ♦ 2*e "
b the prayer of thousand s .

ooarsas.
■owned

* QUamiMg$fr&m Df*. jH<NeWi<^# CbaMMii-

tary on ike 2few fesiamfnt.^ Compiled by
ElisaChinery, London : Colllngridge ; Lea-
mington I C. U* Cox. This volume of 105
pages of ehoioe extraeta from tha writings of
a great and good man, will be a nleascut oom-
panion fbr the voune Bible student ; and for
such thoughtfMi Christiatis whose libraries are
small, and seasons for reading sparce. Hiss
Chinery has done a good work.

</7«rMoii« and Onilmet* By the Bev.
Alfred Hewlett, M.A. Inoiimbent of Astley,
near Manchester. Kottingham : J. Wilkinson,
London : Hamilton and Co. Mr. Wilkinson,
the l^ottingbam Theological Printer and Pub-
lisher, has produced this handsome volume in
most exoellent st;rle. Alfred Hewlett is well
known as alabonous and energetic clergyman.
At Astley, and in the surrounding districts,
he has, under Qod, been made a great blessing
In every sense. He is a Churchman ; but in
the foundation principles of the Qospel, hp is'
thoroughly ficnptural ; and in the experience
of the truth, he is savory, and sincere. The
volume before us contiuns some instructing
outlines; and a few good plain sermons.
Christians in the country, who cannot get to
hear sound sermons preached, would enjoy a
book of this kind. There are some passages
in this volume we hope to give to onr readers
another day.

The first Knmher of the Bartken Vessel
Pulpit : (printed uniform with that periodica),
in order tnat it may be bound with it,) con-
tains a Sermon preached by Master John
Turner, a Preacher of the Gospel, sixteen
years of age; at the Coppice Chapel, near
Dudley, in Staffordshire. The title of this
Sermon is—* Deliverance from the Pt # ;
Establishment in the Truth; and a Ifeip
Song ptU itito the Mouth,* It is issued by
Stevenson, 64, Paternoster Bow ; and may be
had for one penny of any bookseller. It u a
Sermon from a heart sanctified by the grace
of Qod. We purpose to notice tnis Sermon,
and some letters irom our young brother, very
soon. Our hopes of hiin arc gtcat.

< The BapUem^l Ct^mmamd ; 4» Address
delimered ftjr Mr. James Wells, at the Surrey
Tahemaele, en Wednesday ^ March IM, and
forming No. \\ of * The Surrey TahemaeU
Pulpit.* London : Partridge and Co.; Bobert
Banks and Co. After Mr. Wells had delivered
this Address, he baptized forty-five persons ;
and on the following Lord's-day, a multitude
of believers were added unto tliat already
large and influential Church. Mr. Wells is a
thoroughly determined, intelligent, and most
popular Baptist preacher ot Christ s Gospe).
This address of bis needs no commfsndation
ofour's. It embodies tbe whole of the Kow
Testament on the three questions ai issue ;•*-
the Persons— the Manner— the Authority.
Our Baptist friends should send it to those of
their friends who need a little sound Gospel
instruction.

'A Letter to the JSditors of the Gospel
Btandard and the Sartken Vessel, 4^e., ^c.
By Job BawUngs, Tiowbridge. iUMidon :

AprU, 1, 1859.]

THB EAftTBSK V£88SL.

SimplHii, Manhall A Co; We fear there Has
been aomethin^ wrone in the manner the au-
thor of this b<^k hasMen dealt with ; hat we
wait for clearer light; and if we get it, we
■hall fearleasly sp«dc our mind.

'Tk4 Wkuper: Koe. 7 and 8. London:
HoBiaton and Wrigbt^This double number
contains * The woman dothed with the Sun'^
aad other oommentfl on Her. xii. and xiii.

The Editor of Tke Wkitper^ in sending us
tide part for Beview, sajs—' Ton are desired
to ooodeon or justify the doctrine and spirit

then, IftheAMkf tadA«rft^^of the man illni.
trate the preeeptire part of (Jod's word, wo
consider him a safe, a useful, and will be a
sueeessful Minister. In this tract there are
some Tory weighty and valuable words. We
by no means speak lightly, either of the
author, or his work. TVe wish he had stewed
his brains less ; and let his heart and tongue
have worked more freely in thoia tilings,
which are the chursh's daily bread.

* The I^Hkfui Bhopherd: A Sketch at the
Lifb and Times of Godfrey Massey, fi.A.. Viear

of thia work.' We are not quite prepared to I of Buff. By l>owson Massey, M.A, London

" t:*^ii_ . 1_._ .. . Hamilton, Adams k Co. Seeleys & Co. Jf

you would see a little of real Irish life, and of
the sufferings and triumphs of a serTant of
Christ, in breaking up fallow -ground, then
read this thick, this powerftil biography. If
you cannot obtain it, we will endeavour to
furnish a few sketches another day.

* Letter 8 to Theophilu$,^ By James Wells,
Minister of the Surrey Tabernaple, Borough
Road. London; T. Holmes, 76, St. Paul's
Churchyard ; J. Cox, 100, Borough Bead. The
secret i« now out : the question has often bpen
asked Who it the ^ lAttU One 7' The first
twenty-four Letters to Theopbilus are now
printed very nicelj, making an ornamental
and useful volume. Mr. Wells has written an
explanatory Preface— has affixed descriptive
headings to the Letters, and carefully revised
them. The earnest wish of njanv is hereby
met; and we hope its sale will justify the
speedy issue of other volumes.

'Infant Salvation* The substance of a
sermon, preached in Jiioh Baptist Chapel,
HoUinwood, on Sunday, January 03rd, by
John Gardiner, minister of the chapel. Lon-
don : G. J. Stevenson, Paternoster Bow.
The author, in the preface says—' It may ask-
ed why this sermon is issued from the press.
It is because a member of my little church
having lost a babe by death, and intending to
inter tho body in the family vault, in the
parish church, in this neigbourhood. the In-
cumbent refused to read over what he called
an unbaptised child. On the day of burial, I
tcok my stand at the church gate, gave out ft
hvmn, spoke a little, and engaged m prayer:
This called down vengeance upon my head. I
was misrepresented ; therefore, my friends
engaged a ref^orter to take down the sermon.*
The subject is treated with plainess and de-
cision, yet in a becoming Christiaa spirft.

* Fellowship with Chritt in Affliction,*
This is a Memorial Sermon preadied at Lock-
wood, last year, by William Crowther; having
reference to the dsath of his hehived viie.
lianj will be glad to knov this Sermon
(preached in the furnaee of aiBictionO is

Srinled ; and may be hod of Mr. John Poyn-
iT, No. 20, Murray Street, City fiotad*.
London. Another Seimon entitled, *It i$
Finithed,* by Mr. Crowther, may also be had
tbrough the same channel. These 4Sermon8
are anusually weighty; full of the word of
God, as realised in the faith and feeling of the
heirs of heaven.

* Catherins Bray ; or, the lfand^4r JL$'
claimed: By E. Dingle, Tavistock. Pub-

LUeiftUy to explain the Apoca-
lypso is a work multitudes have attempted;
bat few, if any, have been very suocesaful.
"He kave had the presumption to think we
sbooid like to write a plain exposition of the
Bevelation onrselToa ; but the time is not jet
oome ; perhaps it never will ; if we did, we
should not write some things * Gideon' has
written here. We have never said much for,
or against, ^The WTkicper;* but wo must
eoofes% we are afraid of its tone, tendcnenr,
and doctrine. We fearfully fear that its chief
de«ign is to overthrow what never can be
overthrown on this side of the grave ;— there-
fore we havo sincerely hoped the Whieper
woaH cease his Whisperings ; beeause in all
rital and essential points we hope he is right ;
bat in attempting to publish his idol'theme,
we fear — indeed, we fear, he is ighting
against Oov.

'ThgFamilg Treasury of 8ahh€tth "Bead-
i»g.* London; Thomas Kelson and Sons,
Paternoster Bow. Andrew Cameron, who
was the verj aocceasful editor of the Christian
TVaosM, \B now the editor of this new and
beautiful Miscellany. The Messrs Nelson are
certainly firet-claas printer^ and ntost enter-
prising poblxshera. We do not think a prettier
M a gai i w ia in o Ti s tenfts than is this Family
Trmamry, It is deaerriOff of the highest pat-
ronage, embodying as it does, the pithy nar-
rmtifes of almost all the books which Europe
produces. For a family, it is full of intelii-
genoi^ and iHostrations of the highest order.

' What is tie Seripiurs Frinciple of Pro-
phetic Intcrfrwtatiant London: Ward &
Co. We aoawer, there ara but two modes of
Interpretaiion : first, the anointing and reveal-
tD^ power of the Haly Ghost. Secondly, the
real folfitmeat of prophetic predictiooji. We
firmly befiere thai Ohristianity ruts npon this
tmo^sid ioate, tho spiritual unhiding of the
Word of Qod m the oeliever's heart, and the
literal folfilfaent of the Word of God, in the
oatiooa of the earth. We esteem the author
of the traci. We halievfi it to be John Cox.
Ute cC Woolwich. One question we wi>ula
urfe:->how is U, that ahnoit every man
who makes tho literal fulfilment of prophecy
his cUef. his sole, almost his only toome,
hew is it an such men dediae in usefulness,
ikhongb tliey are studious, and men of good
^arts? it it not because, essentiaUy, nod
Mdineay, ibfi Holy Spirit is sl4^htsd ? Lot
a van'a aesd leviagly emJtffm, let a saan's
■JMihf ennesUf nfid ctjuaily eontend for
bolk iim MpftiintU and the Msrali and.

100

TllEEABTHEN VBS8KL.

[April 1, 1868

lished bj W. Brandon^ 26, George Street, Ply-
mouth. Poor Catberme \ru ftn orphan ; a
fallen sinner; a penitent aeeker; and a
triumphant belieTor. Her history is given in
a simple and beautiful narrative ; clearly
showing the blackness of the fall ; tho glory
of the gospel.

Me. Blooxfield's Nbw Wosk — Among
the multitude of sermons that in the present
day are teeming from the press ; none, I think,
will be found more worthy the attention of
the Christian reader, than those just pub-
lished, entitled, A Voice from the Pulpit.
They are from the heart, lips, and pen of Mr.
Bloomfield, successor of the late Mr. John
Stevens, of Meard*s Court, Soho.

The subjects are interesting, they are so
plain, methodical and biblical. The first
part is a very able piece on the gospel minis-
trv, and it would be well if many ministers
who profess to be evangelical preachers, would
take a lesson therefrom. May the work be
found useful to Zion's converts, and redound
to the glory of our Triune God. Then will
the under shepherd not have laboured in vain,
nor will he go without his reward.

F. Fbavkliv.

19, Harrington St. North.

Mr. SaHubl'8 Nbw Work,—* The Tri-
umph of the Holy Spirit over Sin in the Sin- •
ner,* By Edward Samuel, Minister of Ford-
Street Chapel, Salford, Manchester. With a
Preface by the Incumbent of Openshaw — the
Bev. W. Farks, B.A. The manuscript of this
work, comprising nearly one- thousand large
folio pa^s, has been entrusted to our care ; it
is now m the course of printing; and sueh
arrangements hare been made as will, we
trust, secure the work being speedily, and
correctly issued. It will be a volume or great
value at this time. Mr. Parks, an excellent
scholar, and sound divine, has gone most cri-
tically through the manuscript ; and has ren-
dered good service thereby. As the work ad-
yances, we purpose to notice its contents more
fully.

A new work by Mr. Samuel Cozens, of War-
boys, is now in the press. A Companion to
his * Thought Book/ entitled •Typology,'
Ac, Ac.

CLOSING NOTICES OF THE MONTH.
CLAFHA.x.-<-The church and congregation,
meeting for worship in Cranmer Court, under
the nastoral care of brother B. S. Bird, have
purchased a plot of ground, and hope, this
next summer to build a new chapel. The first
anniversary of Mr. Bird's settlement was
holden March 14. When sermons were
preached, addresses were giyen, and hymns of
praise were sung, by Levites and laymen in
good heart The brethren T. B. Parker,
Oradmell, Caunt, Cook, C. W. Banks, and
others spoke with much warmth, decision, and
liberty.

A BOON FOB DESTITUTE CHURCHES.
A Correspondent writes us of a minister who
has during the last few years been useful in a
few retired comers of the vineyard. Our por-
respondeut says :— ^

" I shoald maeh like you to hear him, I ahoold
mueh like you to give him an introdoetlon to
some wider sphere, than the one now offered,
for I am sore he is well adapted. His matter Is
ezeellent. His manner very pleasiog. His
phraseology most respectable, and his flow of lang-
uage abandant. And, farther, I may venture to
say, there is a large degree of originality aboat
him. I ssy this of him beeau^ yon have not
heard him ; I have ; and I sometimes go where
he does, and I find general opinion eoinoides with
mine. He has not laboured in vain. The Great
Head of the Charota has given him already sovia
for his hire ; and this me thinks alter all is the
sure test and proof of his eall to the worh. He
does not know of my writing to yon ; I do not
wish him to.**

We shall be happy to famish partiouUrs
(in confidence) if i^utred.

QuBBY ?-^A Sunday- School Teacher wishes
Mr. Coxens, or some able Student of the Bible,
to answer this question— Was Melchisedec a
man ; or was it the Lord Jesus Christ himself?
—[An edifying reply might be given ; but, in
the meantime, let the Querist search the New
Testament. There, we belieye, the question
is fully answered. — Ed.]

Thb CaanTiAiv Bund Abukf Bociitt. —
Another year of the exlstenoe of this Society has
oloeed: — ^lls annual meeting has been holden;
its report has been read ; iU inereasing gloiy
and greatness has barst forth with brighter rays
than ever. The Lord If ayor^the ehlef of the
City of London— presided ; supported by aome of
the best ChristUn laymen London holds— among
them were saeh men as Thomas Poeoek, Thomas
Pillow, and John Vlekers, Esqt. A good army
of Oofpel ministers were alio aetively engaged ;
the lead being taken by Mr. James Wells, and
Mr. John Pells, others following their aealoas
coarse. When the Report is printed, we shall
review it, if spared.

REDEMPTION JFUND.

£. 8. d.

Before Advertised - - . 113 7i
Collected at the Anniul Meeting,

in Unicom Yard Chapel, on

Tuesday, January 4th, 1859,

(including Donationsfrom Thos.

Poeoek, Esq; Mr. James Wells;

Mr. Thomas Bowland, of Cog-

geshall; Mr. Blackshaw, of

Hackney-Boad ; and Mr. Ed-
wards, of Tunbriidge Wells, of

one guinea each.) - - - - 18 14 9
Collected after a Sermon preached

by Mr. J. £. Cracknell, of Dacre

Park, Blaekheath, and kindly

E resented by the Peaoons and
lends there - - - 3

Mr. Robert Blagden,8onthgate 10

Mr. Carter, Baptist Minister,

Down, Kent, 3

[Some few letters with stamps haye been
received; these shall be duly ackowledged.
Many encouragiag Epistles, exoressing the
usefulness of the * Earthen Vessel ;' and i

promises of help to be afforded ; haye come to
hand; we cannot express oar gratitude.
Pur cinilaCion has iBoreised this year.— Bo.]

Maj h IW.]

THB BARTRBN TX88BC.

101

HIB SimDAY 80H0OL— HIS A.PPBENTICESHIP— HIS FLIGHT TO LONDON—

HIS INTIDBL COMPANIONS^HIS SOUL TBAYAIL-PSLiyEBANCS—

PANTING FOB THE HINI8TBY, BTO., ETC.

' T« %ac99 sot ehoMB mt, Ini I haTe ehoan m,
fnity sad that your fruit Mhoold remain.'— John s

Smr lefleetiiig ■Mmbcr of th« redeemed
bmltf who hM leirehed, and dag into thoie
■aoi of ziohee tnoenred np in Christ, in
loaf .eaffering and tender-mercy, diiplajed
bj tko loTo of God in hia own eaie, mnat
acknowledge that the above is a title well
aaplied, while relating the leading!, and
nealinge, of God with bii aool : bnt the in-
initade of God's power and wisdom is
displayed in the endless Tsriety of ways, and
m e aa a, whieh he caases to work togetner for
the ^ood of thoae who are the ealled according
to h» ponwee ; hj relating these displays of
his proTiacoee, something may be found so
' to the passing e? ents of a tried child
ef God, thai will inspire hope, where hope
ssems leat ; nay giTO eoozage, where courage
ssams vanity and weakneas; and may give
ledoahled anai|y to the prayers of some who
an hoping against hope.

It is for thia reason, I have been led to pen
a few oiri m nists n nns in my life, as a oontinua-
tioB ef my belored mothers eiperienoe, which
s ppss s e d in November number of the Eakth-
ai VnaxL. Praying that the seed may not
he entirely without its results, being watered
by the Holy Spirit

On relsmng back by memory to childhood's
days, I cannot think of a time when I had
not a sense of the importance attached to the
CBBseins of the soul ; naturally of a thought*
fol tcmBcrament, impressions were early
esnveyed to my niittd, through the teachings
of my paieats. Well do I remember the times
when alone, I thought on the future of
eternity, yet seldom spoke to any one on the
salncet One occasion, I remember particu-
larly when about seven yeaxs old, an irresisti-
ble something within seemed to give me such
a desira to praise God for having made me to
thbkoftheee things, while soman^ of my
eomnaaiona were cereless about thetr souls'
«eUare» that I could scarce restrain myself
from outward exclamation. And this, in my
sftsr yeaiUy when seeking after the pleasures
of sin, haa been a thorn in my flesh, which
sesmed to say, that I had received opporta-
atties which no one ever had before ; and
kavia^ deapised them no pardon would be
tstralsdioma.

At the age of ten years I was sent to a
man eilMnt school than I had hitherto
•tteaded; here my love of literature had

Vol. Xy.— No. 170.

and ordained yooy that ye ehoald fo and hrinf forth

zv. le.

w ; or wnicn i naa lormeriy oeen a
r. My mind when engaaed in this
was at home ; vet, I felt I needed
bing mifr§ than I had, which was mere

more scope : I soon gained a monitorshin,
which I deemed a great honour. I afterwards
was induced totue a dais at the Sabbath
School, connected with Salem Chapel, Great
Marlow ; of which I had formerly been a
scholar,
work

something i

head-knowledge. I knew the new-birth waa
not mine ; for this I prayed, and beeouaht
God that I might be brought into the fold
of Christ ; but no answer was then vouchsafed
to me. I had yet to learn how vile and fbll
of sin I was ; now my proud nature must
stoop before it could accept the terms of
unmerited pardon from the hands of a recon-
ciled God. Ah! how often does Satan
attempt even now, to revive those feelings
in my breast, that I can say, it ii restraining
love alone, that sustains me in my path :
" Hold up my goings in thv paths, that my
fooUteps slip not." I weU remember the
circumstances of my parent's temporary de-
rangement, and wondered why God sent such
afflictions on our family, above all others ; my
rebellious heart was set on fire by Satan
against the hand of God, which waa even
then providing me a course ; marking out, so
to apmik, a track in the wilderness. But to
pass on : at a proper age, I was apprentioed
to a Cabinet-maker ; this seemed the only
opening for me, after waiting months to find
a suitable trade. After staying two years, I
took a dislike to mv employment; a few
words between myself and my master, led to
an examination of my case before a bench of
magistrates, which ended by ordering me to
serve my time out. This led to a deeper
dislike to the trade I waa bound to ; and aa I
returned, it was with a firm determination
to take the law into my own hands. From
this time I sought little jobs of work from
my friends; thus employing my overtime,
and producing a little pocket money, whieh I
had intended for a special purpose : I gave
up my place as teacher, that no scandal
might be brought on the cause. I had yet
to learn that washing the outside of the
platter was not sufficient to justify me before
God. Having laid my plans, one dark night
saw me leaving my parents^ roof unknown to
them, to try my fortune in the metropolis,

lOd

THl XA&THSV TSUSL.

{M^liUM.

handle of clothes on my ihonlder, and after
walkioff ele? en honn, reached London about
the MiMe of the ^y. I wm aoon e&g«g«d
in the houie af a lineiriraper in Hozton ; and
for the firet time in my life, brought under
€he lire of an In1idel*8 tongue, i had to
engage Sft th* ahop, on Sabbath norainga,
from eight till elefw, which at firet I lelt
Terr much : but in consequence of insinuations
and sneers, my conscience was stifled ; here
WM the ftrst falling «way of that morality,
which I had been building ud for so many
TCava, by reeolutioBS, and aaenameata, patch-
11^ «p a aoock raality, which under the first
blast of temptation was to fall to the ground.
I had not been here long, before mj ear was
shocked by the bUaphemies of iDfidels' coa-
Torsation. At first I refoltedtn my mind
at anch ideas : and spumed them ; bat by
degrees I was wrought upon, and gave way.
I b c(ga > to think there was acme weight in
the aiguments brought before me; giving
myself up to be tempted. I soon found my
ineliAatioB led to doubt the esktenoe of a
Ood. And as a consequence to think lightly
<of the SaTiour and his mission. How truly
is it proved in all such oases that» ** the natu-
ral BMUi Kceiveth not the things of the S|»irit
of God : for they aro foolishness unto him :
•either can he know them, because they are
spiritually discerned."

All this time my outward deportment was
not different to any time before; having
eolations in London, and fearing to grieve
my parents^ I durst not avow my ideas, and
generally attended a place of worship on the
Sabbath erening. A« a judge of aennoBs,
I could BtiU give my opinion, yet inwardly
qnesttoning, and criticising their truthfulness.
All this I have never beforo diaeloeed to one
of my relations ; but in referring to my past
lifo, I consider it my duty to cover none of
my misdeeds ; I have related this, to show
how deeeitfttl and desperately wicked the
heart of man is.

What infinite long-suffering and mercy waa
displayed by the God of love, m bearing with
me through such a defiance of his almighty
power I Alas 1 how many have split on this
foek! what numbers of fkir sailing vessek
have started, with pleasant prospects of at-
taining a aafe haven, and bera stranded and
lost on this afaoal of temptation. I am led
to cry, why me ? The answer ia, grace hath
put me in the number ; " By grace aro ye
aaved, through laith, and that not of your-
idves, it is the gift of God." I doubt not
many on roading this portion, will naturally
be led to think of some loved one, absent
from the infiuence of a parent's teaching ;
nesting on sobm hope ; to such I would say,
hope and be undismayed, " the Lord's arm is
act ahoitaned, that it eannot save ; neither as
km oar heavjr, that it cannot hear." Yoor
wttsa is plsia btfoit fo« : " pny witho«t

ceasing ;" for ** the effectual fervent prayer
of a righteous man availeth much ;" m aot
weary, for, thmagh be Urry 3rft will he «aaiai"
and in his own good time, an answer will be
given to your petitions : ** Cast thf brsad
upon tho watersi and it shall be found alter
many days.*'

On this part of my history, I dwell no long-
er. By the providence of God, I was romoved
into the country, as my health was failing ;
here again would I render thanks to my
heavenly Fattier, who watched over me wntA
human advice was of no avail. My kssdth
declining, would, in ail human prebahiiity,
have ooBsigned me to an uariy daatk, to
awake to the death that nevur dies. Birt it
was not to be so; a kind providenoa wsn
watching over Bw, and allowed ne to reniain
only, ao lonf as to shew what kngthslm^gkt
go to.

My aeoend aitnation in the country, wan Ht
Maidenhead. My thoughts on a futmn aliia
wero now more serious than formeriy, and my
views of the BiMe more real than beforo; yut
still, grace was not giron me, Che timo wsn
not fti oome. While here, a vury signal
detiverance was manifested towards me. I
had started one Sabbath meniing for London,
to carry out a whim of tho moment ; aSsrted
with a bad head-ache, and when I i sas k ai
London, went to bed ; my friends, thtnUng
I had a bilious attack^ do ct ero d me am
ly, by bathing in eeid water, Ac (itv
Christmas). Finding I got no hettm', n
physician was called in on the second day,
who ssid, I was sickening for the typhus fovtr,
and was to be removed that night, Aeaoi4-
ingly I commenced mv journey about fivo in
the evening, and finished it at eleven o'fMk.
This was only a dutance of 35 milaa^ but
through delays, was detained ; at one limn
neariy an hour in the open air, waiting Ihi
arrival of a branoh tnin on a eoM fro^
night. This, and many other oontiury air-
eumataneea, any person would have pi e gnu^'
oated, would combine to accelerete the disease
under which I was about to suffer ; the ooM
generally striking inwardly, whicb, in moit
cases, is certain death. When I awoke in tki
morning, I was covered with small psK

marks, Under which disease I was prcatralad
for three weeks; which passed oif, sennelT
leaving a trace of its finger behind. 1 hie, X
say, ia an indispuUble evidence of the poww
of God, manifested in acting even oontinty to
the laws of nature, and preventing thoae affl
consequences which must have ensued.
From Maidenhead, I removed to 8si
Walden, where I was still in mi nndaeided
state, yet hopinj^ and believing in a Ikcnn
brighter period in my history ; now waverinf
between the world and God, then determining
to give all up, and abandon all hope of Salva-
ti<Mi, devote myself to pteaauro ; anen, marui
I7 the feelnigs of foaf of jHotoa raM^

Digitized by VjOOQ IC

► ]

sABsnnr tbsssi..

md iwided ^vilh a
jonigcr nratocf 9 wiio nad roMstly bo6tt wd
to j&m \m hopes on tliB8nffBrm|B of Clmrt,
ai nu Redeesier, A ooiiTenation he held
viih me one eTening— which I helieTe was
aeved h/ the Spirit of God— led me to aak
aa ialereat ia hu wnjwn.

Sean aftar thie, I vaa induced to hear Mr.
SparMon; tha Maiia Hall hdiac fall, I oh-
tauHd adwaaian into New F^k fliraet
OmfA in the avaotaj^, whea Mr« 8. took for
kn text, ICark m, 34. •* My eoal ii exceed-
lag aeiTowftil, area unto death." I had
heird Mr. 8. hefora; and many excellent
auaiaten of the Oocpel, hat uoder none of
them did I experience inch feelings of love
towaide tha Sarioar, who gvre so much,
laffered ao mooh, ia body and spirit, as the
speaker was led to tell of Christ, that night ;
theasraanrifattodme; I ii^t speU-hoand,
as he paand ikoBi oaa aaffecxag and trial to
aaeUier; tralj tha SpiritTe wwk was mani-
fcet ia «ka words whi& issiied from the young
maa't acath.

I Tetomed to my ocenpation, and the ser-
moa I had heard oecnpied my thoughts for '
we^ I bemoaned the sins I had commit- {
tsd ; Biy tbonghts led to the conclusion I had
eeamiuad tha Qspsrdonable sin ; often have
I iiid aa my ^^ fearinfc» lest I should awake
k hsU, if i want to sleep: I thought I was
ia (ha aaaM positiaa as the barren ilg tree ; I
thought my ary waa unheard now, and that I
wmgncn over to destructioa: so ready is
the adrersarj of aouls, in placing a stumlAing
Uoek in tha way of those who are seeking
and oying for mercy.

About uiia tame, I heard a sermon from
the mouth of one of God's serrants, (Mr.
Gregory, of Marlow,) which was so sent of
God to my case, that I felt sure that God
was about to do something with me in the
caasii]^ jaar, mthar to fit me for his service,
~ €9Bsi^ flse to arerlasting punishment.

la fluh|aet waa from the panble of the

Btlesa fig tree. Bomethiag seemed to
tell Bsa that thia waa tha last trial of my
fruidaes hnmobea. " Lord, let it alone tiiie
Tem^alao, till I ehdl dig about it, and dung
It : and if it bear fruit, well ; and if not,
then after that, Ihoa shalt cut it down."

A few weeks alter this, I went over to
Maidenhead to impend the sabbath, and heard
a Buaaiimary aeoaon £rom Mr. If. Mather,
(thea raaently arrired from India.) In the
eeoma of his sermon ha mentianed the defici-
eaey of miasiaoaiiea, notfrom want af funds,
but ToluBtaan. Yhia B eame d aeat to ma ;
after it waa ovar, I mant&aaed to my motiber,
vim waa with me, how happy I should be
to bear tba Goipd to those who knew not
God, if ha woidd only give me a sense of
interest in Christ, and of pardoned sin;
uhkh in aone maaaora I troat has bean
aaswtrad.

One fiabfaftth m(

nUto U]

Ifaa

my bed, bemoaning my distance from
and crying for mercy, i was led to open the
Bible, which I did at 1 John Ist chapter, on
reading the first throe Tcraes, eueh a flood of
light and peace beamed upon my soul that
I cannot describe ; I read on, and tha Scrip-
tures were so beautiful to me, as I had never
felt before; all the world seemed at peace
with me, and I at peace with all ; I was in
such a frame of mind that I could hava
jumped for vary joy; then I began to think
mj burden was gone, and that I had fellaw-
ship with GK>d tmx>ugh his Son Jesus Chriat*
Faith %Mi givm m$ ; and my hape waa as
ttrong that I frit the Judgment oajr woaM
be postponed, so to apeak, rather than mf
soul should be lost Oh! how wonderful
are the dealiqn of God with his people 1
Out of whata aase mould does he chooaa
vessels fitted to his honour 1 and aU throuffh
his own sovereign grace and will ! Truly *he
leadeth the blind by a way that they knew
not.' *And maketn his^ople willing in
the day of his power.' What marked dis-
plays of his AlaughtT power are shewn is
all his leadings ! * He brought me up aka
out of an horrible pit, out of the mirr clay,
and set my feet upon a rock, and e st a bl iahad
my goings, and he hath put a new eong la
my mouth, even praise unto our God.' And
now, I trust in nim to enable me to say,
* many shall see it, and fear, and shall trait
in the Lord.'

* On Christ the solid rock I stand :
All other hopes are sinking sand.'

All glory be to his holy naam, I can Mfsr
praise him enough. How frr short daea ay
unworthy body of sin, come in this matter.

' But when I see him as he is,
ril praise him as X ought.'

I must not dwell longer here as I m
afraid I have already taken up too much
space, but will just shew that my predictions
were not entirely without the toachinga of
the spirit, for God had a work for me to do*
{jCUmtinued $uxt anonth.)

NEW BOOKS.

Cannot this moath iosart reviews. The first
portioa of a careful Critique on * Baxter's Bap-
tism,' inteaded for this month, is delayed until
Jane.

Mr. Bbomaeld*B Sseond Part of *A Tolas
from the Polpit,' is to be iMued early In May.

Another Part of Mr. Saraael Coseas's work,
'Typographj.'fto., aprodaetion of amasiog la-
bour, and of great use to students in divinity. Is
also in the press.

A new edition of * Memoir, Convereioo, and
Cali to the Miniitry, of Edward Samoel/ Is Joat
iasnad. His Gompanion Volnme, entitled * Trl«
ampb of the Holy Spirit over Bio in the 8inasr/
ii rapidly paaaing tbrongh the preas.

• Deaeon Craft, . the Bane of the Cborehes :* a
new foar.penny pamphlet: hsfOi-is trae Jadg-
ment; and but Uttle sserey, yV^OOQlc

104

THB SAETHIN YSflBVL.

{Umj 1« UM.

IS CHEI8T KING?
0B» IS HEKOT?

Delb, Editob— It may appear straoge to
TOtt, and to your readers, aa it did to me, to
bear that a minister, a leader of the people,
preaching a good measure oi truth doctrinally
and experimentally, should boldly affirm Christ
is not yet Kinff, lie not haring received his
kingdom yet If so, then it remainth that the
Bonptures are broken, and a greater part of
them are not yet fuUllled ; and, in fact, we
look for another Mesoah. But if you will
permit * A Suckling ' to intrude into your
paffM a little space, he will try to take off the
Teu of such of your readers' eyes, as hare im-
bibed such erroneous ideas. And may the
Holy Spirit bless you in your editorial and
preaching labours, as also the household of
laith, who lore to speak and hear of the
things touching the King, (Psalm xIt. 4.^ is
the prayer of your's in the faith of Ood's elect,
John Wbslby.

King

There are four things mentioned in the gos-
els, which form the history of our Lord and
[ing, which may be taken as a basis to these
remarks. First, he was born King. Matt. ii.
2. Secondly, he was acknowledged King by
a learned Scribe. John i. 40. Thirdly, He
vode triumphant into Jerusalem according to
Mopheoy, as King. Luke ziz. 38. Fourth,
He was crucified as King. Matt. xxri. 37.
Mark XT. 26 and 32.

First then, ' Where is he that is born King
of the Jews P' Now, I ask, who for a mo-
ment, would think that a minister should be
■o settled in his own opinion, as to deny
Chrift at a King f Who would not dare to
eall these wise men (who came from the east
to worship him as Xing) fools for so doing ?
Who can doubt, but these wise men &aw as
much in the appearanceof that star of Christ's
eomintt, as was shewn in any of the sacrifices
offsred up under the Le?itical priesthood?
And it was Yery plainly foretold that Christ
should be King, and also, * that his kingdom
■hall have no end .' But, here is another errone-
ous error, and a turning of things upside down.
This same minister says, that Chnst reigned
King over all the Jews nationally. Whereas
we know that he made himself of no reputa>
tion, and was subject to Ciesar. the king, in
that he payed tribute. * And also, when some
of tbepeople would hare taken him, and made
him King, he departed from them into a
mountain. John vi. 15. Therefore, as I
think it is evident that Christ did not reign
over the Jews as their national King ; even
to I think, and believetoo, that when If athan-
iel said, *Thou art the King of Israel,' he
meant ttie spiritual Israel, the Israel of God,
which will take the second bans of these re.
marks.

Isaiah, speaking of Christ, says, * Behold a
Banc shall reign in righteousness.' And Jere-
miah prophesying of the same thing, says,
* Behold tne days come, saith the Lord, that
1 will rute unto Darid a righteous branch,
and ft king ihtU reign and prosper, and shall

exeeute jodgment and jnttioe in the earth. In
his days, Judah shall be saved, and Israel
shall dwell safely, and thit is his name, where*
by he shall be called, 'THE LOBD OUH
RIGHTEOUSNESS.' Now, again, it is
evident that the Jews nationally never
did call Christ our King by this name, nor
will any, but what are Jews in heart. For
hypocritical professors love their own righte*
ousness too well, to accept of another man's
righteousnets; and the pvofiuie world, who are
so hardened, that they are not athtmed of
shewing their colours oiMnly m, *Away
with falm! Away with himr We do not
desire the knowledge of him. 'We will not
have this man to reign over us.' But the
church in the twentieth Fsalm^ addresseth her
prayer unto the King. And m Psalm cxlix,
she is rendering her praise unto him.

Thirdly, the prophet Zechariah when he
foretold the event ot Christ riding into Jeru-
salem, speaks of him as King, and see bow
exacUyit was fnlftUed. He says, * Behold thy
King cometh unto thee, he it jutt, and having
salvation, lowly, and riding upon an aat?
Now it appears, as the Jews as a nation did
not own him as their King, neither did he
reign over them as King; thus he must be King
in somo other sense, yea, and is in a farhigher
sense than an earthly king. He is king over
the heirs of salvation, and none but the heirs
of sal ration will own him as such. But the
day will soon come, when before him CTery
knee shall bow, and those that will not own
him as King, shall be made to own him as
their righteous Judge ; and woe be to those
that never know him as their Kinf[ upon earth,
for they will have no part in his kingdom,
which IS everlasting, but shall be banished
from his presence, * where shall be weeping,
and wailing, and gnashing of teeth.'

Fourthly, He was crucified as King. Now
see the madness of the Jews, when he is
brought before Pilate. Hear him ask them,
whether he shall crucify their Sans? Hear
what they say, * We have no other Icing but
Ciesar.' But was he not a King ? Tea, he
was, and Pilate was afraid, and asks him.
Jesus answered, * My khigdom is not of thit
world, if my kingdom were of thit world, than
would my servants fight, that I should not be
delivered to the Jews, but now it m^ kincdom
not from hence. Art thou a king than f
Thou sayest that I am a king.' ' To thit end
wat I bom, and for this cause came I into thit
world, that I should bear witness unto the
truth. ' Every one that is of the truth heareth
my voice.' But although Pilate's oonvietiona
were so deep, nerertheless to be the friend of
an earthly king, he delivers him up to be cmd-
fied, and wrote the title, * Jesus of NaaareUi,
the King of the Jews.' Now, thit minitter
admits tnat Christ wat a King when on earth,
but is not now, and is looking forward for a
time, when he shall oome personally, and
reign on this earth uniTcrsally . But the apoa-
tlesays, *Be not carried about with diTera
and strange doctrines.' Therefore we come
' to the law and to the testimony,' to provn
all things, and hold fktt that whum it good.

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of the eoraiiw of oor Lord, ia hii Snd BpU. uL
10. ** Bat tbe daj of the Lord will come as a
thief in the nwht ; in which the hearent shall
peas rnmvr with a preat noise, and the elements
shall melt with ferrent heat, the earth also
and the works that are therein shall be burned
ap.' Our Lord's eonfeesion. that his kingdom
isBoAofthis world, and this deecription of
the hr a r e n s, meaning the heavens that are
seea, aad the earth passing away perfectly, do
avay with erery idea (as to its truth) of an
anivenal and personal rei^p upon this earth.*
Ye therefore belored, seeing ye know these
thioge before, beware lest ye also being led
away with the error of the wicked, fall from I
Toar own eteadfastness. Neverthelesa, we
aecordiiig io his promise, look for new hearene
ao 1 a new earth, wherein dwelleth righte-
oasaees. Aad wain, Paul speaks on this
wise. ' For the Lord himself shall descend
froa heaTen with a shout, with the voice of
tbe areh-aagel, and with the trump of Qod ;
aad the demd in Christ shall rise first Then
we which are alire and remain, shall be
eaaght np together with them in the clouds to
meet with the Lord in the air ; ' And so shall
we ever be with the Lord.' So that it does not

rar that the Lord will set his foot upon
earth, but the saints will meet him in
the air. Now dear friends and readers, you
that have received Christ as King in your
hearts, beware of seducing spirits. Believe
not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether

they be of God, for if they speak not aooord-
ing to his word, it is because there is no light
in them. ' 0, ye sons and daughters of Zion,
consider and incline thine ear, forget also
thine own people, and thy father's house ; so
shall the king greatly desire thy beauty for he
is thy Lord and worship thou him.^ I beg
leave to ask the readers of these few reniarks,
to bear with my blundering way of writing,
for I am not learned nor am I one that his
much time for studying the word of Ood,
nevertheless when I heard the report, viz,
that Christ was not a king from a minister*!
mouth, I oould not hold, but told him of it,
and now I write wishing some more able-
minded man may have his heart wrought
upon by the Hol^ Spirit to speak some thinga
touching the king. 'Lift up your heads, O
ye gates of Zion, and let the kmg of glory in.
For tbe Lord hath chose Zion, he hath de»
sired it for his habitation. This is mv rest
for ever : here will I dwell for I have desired
it I will abundantly bless her provision. I
will satisfy her poor with bread. I will also
clothe her priests with salvation, and her
saints shall shout aloud for joy.

" Bejoioe, the Lord is King ;
Your GK>d and King aoore ;
Mortals, give thanks and sing,
And triumph evermore.
Lift up the heart, lift up the voice ;
Bejoioe aloud, ye saints rejoice.

EABTHEN VESSELS OF OLDEN TIMES.

No. Y.

Wb tan loddii^ for treasure in eaithen
■ell: aadthiiia no more, nor any less,

thaa the Lord's peoplo have all done, in all
a^eo or the world, what were the Patriarchs,
the propheli, the apoetles, the fathers ? They
we/e all earthea vessels ; and although some
of tham flood a much longer period than
any of Its can now stand, yet, thej passed
awaj ; they enunhled and tumbled into dost
sgau— aad there the vessels mingle with the
sttth, uta God shall call them to the tkies;
bat tha tnasnre-tha Heaven-bom intelli-
geioa, the zanaomed, the quickened, the
porifled ipirita whtoh dwelt in these vessels,
sre belbra the throne of Qod and the Lamb
for aw. Christ was railed in all those
sirthaa taswls who were, by Qod, ' afore
prepared, and appointed unto glory.'

Ohriit was vailed in Moses, of whom I
b«^ to write,— and of whom I have many
tkm^ to mjf — bat, becanae teatifjring of
Chnat ia thia way is my very soul's de-
light, therefore I im hindered by a thousand
liuoga, firom eominr to an employ so sweet
te myaelf, and which might possibly interest
othan. I mnit nbmit, and reluotantly leav-
isg Mom thii month, I eatoh one ghmoe at
GbigtrmladiB thfl prnoA of Boai. Dut

old Naomi speaking to her darling Buth of
him, says ; * The Man it near of kin unto ue ;
one of our next Kintmen* In a new volume
called * Dr. Oumminfe Buth ' we find the
following paragraphs, which in some measure
unvail a little of the Saviour's beauty. The
writer says : —

The most interestiag featore in thia passage, Is
the statement that Boss wss her kinaman. This
relation is often alloded to in the PenUteaeh. In
Levltloos zzv. S5, we read, * If thy brother be
waaen poor, aad hath sold away aoiae of hJa
posseMlon, and if any of his kin come to rsdeem
it; then let bin oooat the years of the eale
thereof, and restore the overplos unto the man
to whom be sold It ; that he may retam aato hJa
la the eoane of reeding the Ave
we And freqoent allatloa to that Inter*
relatioBship, whieh was created In
the Levitieal economy, of a K I nsm a n - B ede e me r ,
called la the Hebrew language, god, the redeemer.
His fnnetloas and datleo were of the ibUowteg
kiad ; first of all, to redeem the property that had
been sold throogh poverty by his relatlvee; so*
eoadly, to redeem the persoos who hsd been sold
into slavery ; and thirdly, to exact satlsfketlon of
the party who had ssaltreateA hlsaeanetead
dearest rslativa.

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fUty \, law.

•dfofcnliiAnrsfrMf tnitb, tbiit H Is eoBiUaflSf
rttend to in tbe Word of Ood, We all rcoellMt
tt« tooehiiif emo of lob. In tb« depth of aflliew
ttOB, wbea all nemt desperate, be mM, * I knew
tbat my redeemer If veth ;' In tbe Hebrew, It ie
tte nme word that is applied to Bee* ; 07 Cfoel
Hvetb.
And when tbe pMloilst saje, in pMlm six. 14,

* Let tbe words of mj mootb, and tbe neditatloii
of my beart, be aoeeptable in Tby sigbt, O Ood,
mf strengtb, and my Bedeemer,' in tbe Hebrew,

* mj Boes and my Goel ;' Boas meanisf ttrenfih,
nd Ooet meaniDf redeemer, I mfffbt qaote
pissagcs in tbe New TesUment, wbere this idea
is translated into tbe Oreek language ; all Indteat.
ter that Christ tbe 8&Tioar ia tbe antitype fore.
Aadowed, aet fortb, and tpeeiflcally Ungbt in tbe
fBatltation of tbe redeemer, or kinsman-rcdeemer.

Tiewing it in this light, lei os see bow our
Bedeemer, stronger than Boaa, for bis is omni-
potent stiength— richer than Boas, for his are
tbe riobes of tbe universe, on whieb He sits
•nthroaed — aaawers to tbe aneient flgnre in all
Its details and partienlars. We loot oar estate in
ovr great and common father, Adam. We were
all in Adam jnst as tbe fkull, and blossom, and
leaTCs, and branches, so beantiful in summer,
were all in the dry, lifeless stem, in the very
depth of winter. When Adam lost the estate, it
*was not be, tbe indlTidnal, that lost it, but all
bamaaity in him. We lost onr moral glory,
our great and beantifel possession ; and we are
BOW weary, dsaotate emigrants and wanderers
ia the land of Moab, naturally and deserredly
without a home and without a hope.

But lei us ascertain what our great Kinsman-
Bedeemer has done. First of all, then, he has
re-purohased and restored the forfeited estate.
We were placed in Eden, amid all its Joys and
all iU blessedness ; the fairest spot in a fair and
aafallea world. We had every inducement thai
a reasonable brine could bare to loyalty and
love ; wc had every disuaslre that a responsible
being could have from disloyalty and rebellion.
But we sinned, criminally and unJusUflably
sinned ; and that moment the tight of Paradise
was queaehed, earth was dismantled of its
beauty ; and we went fortb with our baebs to
the Mtof apleadour, aad oar faeea to the dark-
mriaf nicbt; earryiag ia oar memorice light
aaoufh from Eden to remiad as what it waa
which we had leet ; aad seelag about us miaery
eaoatb la the desert we had wea, to amike the
eatraat more terrible.

Bat Jcaos baa redeemed the estate ; it is now
Ub by right. Be, our represeatative, oar
retrieved tlie leet ptow
Tba prepbaey ef bis doing to ia la theae
wea^ < Tbe woaaaa'a seed shall braice tbe aer-
peat's ha^.' TbatriamphaatproefiithatHehaa
dflMso^afala these : * I saw a aew heavea. aad
a saw earth \ aad Gad abali wipe away all taara
twtm all eyee ; aad there shall be ao ssore death.
Bar Bonow^ aar eryiag; aeltber ahall there be
asp asasa pala \. fot the former Ihiapi are pamed
awi^.'

Va kftfd kielj lotiaad— pariMpa mora
tban we erer did before— bow IkUa there ia
ol Ckawp-^Wthe ■wewiVw/ ef CWelk tfce

nt gtadnafih^ ifidfR|^ off from flie ^oriont
eentre of Life end GTory into tbe oelvsif e
Tallies of a refined and so-caHed evangelixed
philosopbT. ITe stand onnelYea condemned
in this nmlt: bat we are not eaielcaa rnr
hardened. We therefore aeakwaly ealch at
any litUe breaking forth of the gloriea of
Cwiit in any of ear brethren's cAnIs te
preach the ge^ : and we emnot refrem
nom calling Tery special attention to Ifo.
17, of the 'SmTHf Taicmaels IWpiC—
where Mr. Jaoaes Wells unfolds in a most
excellent manner, tbe character and work of
onr gracions FoannuNNKB. In the early
part of this discourse, oar honoured brother
says :— (We only take a sentence or two ;
bat that was to as so good, we hope o«r
readers will enjoy It^ and be proiltted, aa
we were.)

' Now, how (s the Lord Jesaa Christ our Fo*a>
manor T We cannot get before him ; we aauat
follow him ; wa muai cobm after him. Lei aa
see the way in which he ia our Poreraaoer ; eo
that we can walk only in thai way wbioh he» aa
our Forerunner, hath made. Well, he ia oar
Forernoner in having gone to the end of the law.
He has obeyed and magnifled God's holy law ;
be has established the preeept of Qod'a eieraal
law for ever ; he baa gone before na; and tbare-
fore, his obedience, his righteeusnesa, hssnmra
tbe way in which we are to look for tbe Lord's
mercy, the way in which we are to look for
peice, tbe way in which we are to look for ae>
ceptaaee with God. Be ie alaa oar Foerruaacr
in having gone before us in enduring tbe penalty
of tbe law. He bath taken that hell which be-
longed to us ; be hath taken tbe enrae which
belonged to us; he hath endured tbe wrath
whieb beloaged ta aa; he haih endaved and
swallowed up in vieiery that sacoad deaths aa
well aa tbe ftrst» whieb beloafed to oa. Be boa
therefose» goae before na; ao that Ihalaw, fba
having goae before na,) ia dead to ue» and w«
are dead to that ; the law caanot find us bow»
for we are no longer under tbe law ; tba law
has Its dominion, but tbe law has no dominion
wbere the righieoosaess of Jesus Christ Is ; aad
therefore, if 1 am where that is ; if I am a
believer in Ghriat, ia bis righteousness, broagbt
to reoouaee all ereetuve deiage^ and looking for
Jaatlflcatlos by thai rigbteouaneee which jnaliilea
from all th&aga^ there ia aoi a slagte thing aver
eooaeelad wUh yen before eaHcd by frsea, esr
stnasi or ever eaa be, thai la dlspleeaing ha tba
fight ef the Urd, from whieb thU rigbteoMaeM
doth not free you and joatify yoa i and tbereCoie^
being wbere thia righteonsncas ls» you are whara
tbe law has ao dominion.'

Tbe law any leek for yen la an fts own
d e mialoBSy bat it aaaaot Had yoa, yoa era aat
there; aad if the goopel look fsr yaa lalta
dominioaa, it will find yea, aad pretty oAesa
does find you too, bat always Hade yoa to aay
soaMtbiog kind to you, to minister aoBM nscray
to you, soBM comfort to yoa, soma promiaaa to-
you; aad even when U flada you to mialataa
Bome gentle reproach ot rebake to yoa» it iaenly
Jnst to toaeh joa fa some tender ptoee to make it
eofv enough t9 nmke yov er^ oat ftr tbe Z«ord^

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hMBavWlm •# seny and gooAiMM to U »«&{-
tated a«l» 7«m. Tbertfere, Msf broaght t<»
lAae Chrtafc^ rtfhtoeosMM ia» w« art bo longer
mkr \Mm Uv** doariiiioB ; th* Imw m*^ hok for
•tl0»fftB«MlHtetw«aMnQtfooa4lbere; w«
m Mt then* bMaaa# v« ar« irbtft Gbrbi's
rigbiraincM ta ; and therefors wb«a Ua law
iMki for ttt. Uia acai thing it would flod would
b» Christ's xlgbteoasBem ; aad tbe law mait imk
aicgatiTo npan that rigbCaoasneAa^ whlob stand-
e:b, M it were, between us and the lew, and
batvera ae aad atl the threateaings of the BlUe,
tbe law iBBet pat a megttive upon that rtgbteoas.
am b tl br a It oaa pat any aegallve apon as ;
tkalsaitbaMmoiTeAoftt of tba way before It
eaawMbae. Ob, kawtrae the words al tbe
Aivtle are, that * There ia no ooadenuution ta
tkM that are im Ci&riafc Jeeas, and who walb not
■fltr tbefesh.'

JHMft Wells is att Earthen Yessel^ like
o^fit o# the Lord'i serTftDte ; but there ia
Me preeiew iTeeenre in his sou), because
hmm CnvsT is there. And when by
bnlbfr J$m»*w minishrf , the Master is ex-
aM^ieis noal hleesed htdeed. God help
« ifi teKIt Hm high. 8o prays, C. W. B.

EPISTLES TO THEOFHILUS.
urrTBB i»v.

Lit as i^ain, friend Thbophilus, turn to
the Seven Seals. We hare already, slightly
fneid the first seal up to tbe 15ih Terse of the
l^h ebapler of Rer, We must go on to the
end ef that chapter, and then come back to
e^^terthe 6th» In the progress then, of
tka first seal, we still see the preeminence of
the King of kings, and Lord of lords.

Here, then, in this latter part of the 19 th
of Berelatiau, ve see people of all ranks,
cbsso, state, and character, giren up to de-
luion, aad made the prey of the agents of
Safao ; al! this the Angel saw in Uie light of
eternal truth, ♦Isaw,' saith John, *au
Aagtl standin? in the sun ;* that is, standing
it the light or eternal truth ; in the light ot
Oed. who is to his peop!e, ' A sun and a
ehtsld.* This is the plaee for every aogel,
erer; sesMn^er, erery minister of the Gospel
to stand. Here, in this light it is that they
see light, and sa nnderstand the counsels of
the Host High, as boldly to declare the

Oae ihiag then, which the aa^l saw, w«b
gnat Brnmhers ol ^Mt o/^pr9^ ; thej wete to
eil thft fleeh ef kings, aad of aU their sub-
jeels. Can there he mueh diflleulty ia under- .
slndin^ the mfttieal meaning of this } Are
thoe not Kahommedan, and Roman Cath-
obcv aad State Church kings ? Do not tbe
priestly agents of those systems, prey upon,
la the most awfol aensc of the word, the
▼tfjf vitaU of those kings, and upon their
mbteets, free aad hoBd, smaU and gieat ;
: thmr be «kbtj^ SleB^ aUiteay mbb,
LiiiiSftkeT«i«ieilio#T

because hones are employed to maintaui the
interestsot the wild beast. What an awful
scene does this present ! Whole kingdoms
and empires deluded and made the prey of
ecclesiastical tyranny. This is the strong de-
losion to which they are given up ; thev are
the feast of satan and his ministers, and yet
they know it not ; for they are spiritually
dead, and the Gospel is the only remedy that
can give life and light, and so deliver from
these powers of danLuess.

And the angel fhrther saw that the kings
of the earth and their armies were gathered
together to make war with him that sat upon
the horse, and against bis army. Kow, even
if here be not a locil gathering together, still
there ia a menial gathering together against
him that sat on the horse, and against bis
army. They, however much they differ
among themselves, are all opposed to the
truth, all opposed to the simplicity that is in
Christ, all opposed to individual liberty of
conscience, all usurping the place of the Most
High, settling the destinies ef men by their
authority. But if these knew him that rideth
on the white horse half^ well as ho knows
them, they would tremble at their own pre-
sumption, drop their weapons, and gladly
submit themselves unto him; but they aro
blinded, and their end will be according to
their works. The wild beast, the whole
body of enemies, the false prophet that
wrought (pretended) miracles with which he
deceived them that had subscribed to the
beast, and had conformed to his image or
order of things, these must all go together
into a lake of fire burning with brimstone,
while thousanils thus sink to bell, others aro
blinded, or slain with the sword of him that
sat upon the horse, and the fowls (the birdaof
prey) still go on preying upon them. Thus,
my good Tbeophilus, you see here illustrated
the truth, that the election hath obtained, it,
and the rest were blinded.

But I will now come back to the 6th ^ap-
ter ; the second, the red horse seal, some
think, means Mahommetanism, and it cer-
tainly agrees well therewith ; and it is very
probable that It has special reference thereto ;
but it is not our business to dwell so much
in the learned department, as in the spiritual.
The rider of this red horse, takes peace from
the earth ; that is he takes the gospel of peaco
from the earin, and whatever power takes
the gospel f^om the earbb, takes peace from
the earth, and there have been, and still are
powers that do this; there can be no real
peace where the gospel of Jesus Christ is not.
* There is no peace to the wicked saith my
God.»

The gospel of God, even its mere moral
infiuenre, apart from saving g-race considered,
wonderfully tends to peace ; love to God and
man, is its first principle , as well as its ul-
timate glory. This gospel wh(BW it U sav-
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will towirds mm ; sneli are peace makeia,
theT live in peace, thej die in peace, and
shall dwell in peace for ever. Kow, where
thii goipel 18 taken away, lelfishneii becomea
the raling panion. Lotc, benevolence, and
all its loTely train of excellencies are absent,
and Ticions powers of darkness take their
place, and no one is snce e? en of his life ;
and so ander this red horse seal, they kill
one another* How different this from that
heavenlT Toioe, which saith * by this shall ye
know that ye are mv di^iples; if ye Tnot
kill one another, bnt} lore one another.' And
this red hoFM rider had a great eword to
denote the great havock he should make;
and if this seal refer to Hahometanism, it
has certainly to the very letter (iilAlled its
mission, its go? emment is still red with the
blood of men ; what a malicious fiend must
Satan be, to glory in the sin and misery of so
many millions of sonls ! and how unsearch-
able the judgments of the most high God !
what a favoured land is ours ! May true
converts increase, and glory yet dwell in our
land I And the time come, when the millions
now in darkness, may see the light of eternal
life.

The third seal is supposed to mean Cath-
olicism and it certainly, like the second seal
to Hahometanism, answers well thereto;
a black hone ; black enough mercy knows ;
darkness is the very delight of popery, the
▼err structure of its convents, and Cathe-
drals shew this; they delight also in very
dark halnUments, and in dark confessional
comers. Truly, popery is a dark horse, and
will certainly car^ its riders to his oum place.
Its chief rider, the Pope, I suppose, has a
pair of balances in his hand to weigh every
one; I suppose with his scales, and so put
them to the test as to whether they be true
Catholics or not, and if not, to turn them
out of the way ; bnt the word tugosy here
translated a pair of balances, is in every other
place in the New Testament, translatea yoifce ;
and Popery has sought, and certainly has
succeeded, m putting a yoke of bondage upon
men ; and this yoke of bondage is at this
moment on the neck of millions, but never-
theless this black horse, like the others can-
not go beyond its mission.

There u a voice from the midst of the four
living creatures; that is, from the mercy-
seat ; and this voice is a voice of assurance
to thepoor and needy— that is, poor in spirit,
and who follow not this black horse ; nor
heed the scales of the rider, or wear his yoke ;
the needs of these shall be supplied ; they
shall have their daily bread ; it i^ true, they
may hare just at present more barley than
wheat— the barley is the bread of captivity—
and they get three measures of this, bnt onljr
one measure of wheat; they have moie rough
than smooth ; more hard things than easy
things; more mourning than mirth; but
though they live much upon barley bread,—

trying experienees,— yet even of Hmm one
said, * By these thin|;8 men live, and in all
these things is the life of my spirit,' And
as a penny a day was the usual pay of a
working man— for good people are working
people, working by faith— so it is a measore
of wheat for a penny ; and three measures
of barley for a penny. Nor will they call
the Lord a hard Master, but will find, *His
yoke easy, and his burden light.'

Thus, amidst all the tyrannies of sin, satan
and the world, the Lord will take care of hia
own : they shiil have their daily snstenane^—
*As their days, so shall be their atrength.'
Ah! popery Ijthon arch* deceiver, thonheU^
bom, and hell-bonnd power! we pity the
millions thou dost deceive ; but thou eanat
not rob us of one arain of that heavenly
wheat which our God hath for ns ; and here
is golden oil which thou canst not hurt, whieh
thou canst not touch— even the golden oil of
God's grace which cometh to us through the

fslden pipes of heavenly troth; neither
opery, nor any other power, can ever find
a way to cut off theae goldenpipes, or stop the
fiowing of this golden oil. Tnou mountain of
falsehood ! Thou monster of the deep ! Thou
art commanded not to hurt the oil or the wine ;
and shall we thank thee for thy obedienee ?
les ; the same as we thank the sea for its obe-
dience—of which it is said ; * hitherto thoa
mayest come, but no further ; here shall thy
proud waves be stayed.' So then, in spite
of thee, we shall live ; we shall be anointed
with fresh oil ; and see, mj ^ood Theophiloa,
how the account of his provision closes ; * hart
not the oil and the ipine,* Here then, we
have the blood of the everlasting covenant
What can invalidate that i What can take
away its power to cleanse us, to give us the
victory, to make us cheerful } Hereby it ia
that God doth not behold inquity in Jacoby
nor see peryerseness in Israel. Hereby it la
the Lora his God is with him, and the shout
of a king is amonjp them. So then, the per-
son, the work of Christ, and his people, snail
ultimately be unhurt ; nothing shall finally
hurt them. 'Happy,' then *is the people
that is In such a case ; yea, happy is that peo-
ple, whose God is the Lord.' And so yon
may hope to hear again next month from
A LiTTLB Cm.

[This Epistle to TheophUos, at the present
moment ia most opportone, and aatfhl. In
aaoiker page, nnder tha heading, ' Oxford and
Boms/ wa have refonad to tha aetiva maaaares
adopted h7 Mr Hawkins, of Bradford, In laatoiw
ing to yonng people on ProtcaUatlam and
Popary. Wo nndaraUnd it is eoQtenplated to
invite Mr. Hawkins to give bis leotnree in 9oath-
wark, one of the strongholda of Bomaniam, and
that we know right wall. Qaery. If wa can
arrange for Mr. Hawkins to deliver Us llrat
laetora in Unieom Yard Chapel, will the pastor,
the deacons, the ehnreh and the iHands at the
Sarrey TabeaaaeK throw open their epaoloee
ehapellDrthesssoad! We hope they wilL—JU.}

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HAVE I EVER BEEN BAPTISED?

THEODOSIA EBNE8T, HER MOTHER, AND THE TOTING LAWYER PERCY.

Ov page 80, of laat month's Earthen
Ybssbl, we left this Christian young
ladj, and her mother, in deep and earaest
eonTenation, touching the scene Theodo-
sia had witnessed— namely, Mr Courtenay
baptixing in the river. We return to the
leeoe. There are delineations of charac-
ter in this narratiTe — and discussions on
tke word of God, which we hope will
ptrore oseful to the younger branches of
oar families. Young Percy's "form of
godliness" without the power, is a strong
representation of the real character of
thooaands who stand as members of some
of our fiishionable Churches. We hope
ihe canae of oi/o/ godliness, as well as tne
ordinances of onr Lord's gospel Church,
will be pleaded to some advantage in the
artieies we have yet to giro from these
Tolnmes. In answer to her mother, Theo-
doaia sajs : —

'Toa know, my mother, that it is about a
year sinee I made a profenion of religion.
I traat %hat before I did so, I had eiyen my-
■elf up to do the will ot my Heavenly Father.
fluMa then I have fblt that I am not my own.
I am bought with a price. It is my pleasure,
at weO at my doty, to obey my Sayiour. I
aak, aa Paul md, * I^nL what wilt Thou have
me to do^ You taught me this lesson of
obedience yonnelf ; and I am sure you would
not have me on any account neglect or refuse
to obey my Saviour. If Ha commands me to
be baptaed, and the command has never been
obeyed, I thall he obliged to do U. And I
tmst my motber will enoourafe me in my
obadienee to that precious Redeemer she
tenght me to bve.'

One who looked into the mother's face, at
that moment, might have read there * a tablet
•f tmntterabie thoughts.' She did not trj to
■peak them ; we vnll not try to write them.
she aat silent for a moment, drew her breath
deeply and heavilVf then rising hastily, went
to took for aometomg in her oauchter s room.

Tbeodosia was not only grieved but surprised
at the evident distress which she had given
ber BEiother. While on her knees in prayer to
God, alter ber return from the rirer, she had
determined io do hor dutjf^ and obey the com*
mamdmimt of Jesus Christ, her blessed Sariour,
whatever she might find it to be. But she
bad »oi determined to be immersed. That
river Baptism, connected with the reading of
those passages of Scripture, had only filled her
Btnd with doubts; these doubts had yet to
beeome convictions. The investigation was
yet to be made. The question, Havo I ever
been baptised? had been prajerfolly asked.
It was yet to be conscientiously answered.
But if the veiy doubt was so distressing to

her mother, and so ridiculous to Mr. Percy,
(as it had seemed to be from some remarks he
made on the way home from the river) how
would the final decision affect them ; if it
should be made in favor of immersion I Yet,
aided by power from on high, she felt her
resolution grow still stronger, to please God
rather than those whom she loved better than
all else on earth. And the had peace verging
almost on joj.

When her mother came back, Theodosia
saw that she had been weeping; but no fur-
ther allusion was made to the subject of
Baptism, until Mr. Percy came in after supper.

This young man was a lawyer. He bad
united with the Presbyterian Society, to which
Mrs. Ernest and her daughter belonged, dur-
an extensive revivsi of religion, while he was
yet a mere boy. Since he had come to years
of maturity, he had constantly doubted whether
he was really a converted man, and often
seriously regretted the obligation that bound
him to a public recognition of the claims of
personal religion. He often made it conven-
ient to he absent when the Sacrament of
the Supper was to be celebrated firom an inward
consciousness that he was an unfit communi-
cant ; yet his external deportment was unex-
ceptionable, and his brethren regarded him as
a most excellent member, and one whose in.
tellectual capacity and acquirements would,
one day, place him in a condition to reflect
great honour on the denomination to which
he belonged.

He had already taken a high position in the
ranks of his profession ; and had come to the
sage conclusion that the possession of the heart
and hand of the charming Theodosia was all
that was required to complete his arrangements
for worldly nappiness ; and having overheard
her remark to ner brother, that if what they
had just witnessed was baptism, thejr had never
been baptized, he hastened to her side, and on
their way home exerted all his powers of rail-
ery to orive this new conception from her
mind.

As for himself, he had never had a serious
thought upon the question. He had been
told that he was baptized in his infancy, and
took it for granted that all was right. He
had very serious doubts about his ever having
been converted, but never the shadow of a
doubt whether he had been baptised. When
he listened to the religious conversation of
some of his friends, and especially of the
young lady of whom we are speaking, he
heard many expressions which, to him, were
meaningless, and seemed almost fanatical.
They talkea of sorrows which he had never
felt ; of joys, the source of which he could
not undentand ; and strangest of all to him,
appeared that habitual subjection to the
Master's will which led them to ask so con-
stantly and so earnestly not what was desirable
to themselves or agreeable to those about them,
but what was required by thc-command of
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Christ. That one ihoald do thU, or tbftt, under
the oonTiotioii that to refuee or neglect to do bo
vottid endanger their eouVe eeUwUion^ he
oould omIIt nnderttand, bat how enj one
oould altaon much importanee to anj act not
tibeolutel^ eeeential to obtain eternal life^ was
to his mind an unfathomable mystery. He
had himself determined to secure hu own
eoule ealffotion at any cost, and if he had
believed that immersion would ineure ealva-
tion, he would ha? e been immersed a hundred
timeSf had so much been required. But
thinkmg it as easy to get to heaven without,
as with it, the whole business of Baptism
seemed to him as of the slightest imagmable
oonsequanoe.

' Wnat difference does it make to yen, Miss
Smest/ said he, 'whether you have been
baptized or not P Baptism is not essential to
•alTation.'

*True,' she replied, 'but if my Saviour
commanded me to be baptized, and I have
never done it, I have not obeyed him. I
must, so fkr as I can, keep all his command-
ments.'

< But who of us ever does this } I am sure
I have not kept them all. 1 am not certain
that I know what they all are. If our salva-
tion depended on perfect obedience to all his
commandments, I doubt if any body would be
saved but you. Tou are the only person I
ever knew who had no fkults.'

' Oh I Mr. Percy, do not trifle with suoh a
subject It is not a matter of jestinff. I do
not perfectly obey. I wish I could. I am

rieved at heart day after day to see how far
fidl short of his roauiremonts. Oh, na I
do not hope or seek lor salvation by my obe*
dience. If I am ever saved, it will he by
boundless mercy freely forgiving me. But
then if I love m$ Saviour^ how can I wilfully
refuse obedienee to hie reqnirem&nte f I do
not obev to eeeure heaven by my obedience,
but to please Him who died to make atonement
that a poor lost sinner like me might enter
heaven. I think I would endeavour to do
his will, even if there were no heaven and no
hell.'

Mr. Percy did not understand this. If he
had been convinced that there was no heaven
and no hell, he felt quite sure that all the rites,
and rules, and ceremonies of religion would
give him very little trouble. It was only in
order to eave hie eoul that he meddled with
religion at all, and all that could be dispensed
with, without endangering hie Ofon final sal-
vation, he regarded as of very little conse-
quence. He read some portion of the Scrip-
tures almost every day (when business was
not too pressing). He said over a fbrm of
prayer ; and sometimes went to the commun-
ion table, because be regarded these aa reli-
gious duties, in the performance of which,
and by leading a moral life, he had some in-
distinct conception that he toae working out
for himeelf eternal ealvation. Take away
this one object, and he had no farther use for
religion or religious ordinances.

«l know,' said he, * that you are a more
deroted Christian than I ever hope to be, but
you surely cannot regard baptism aa any part

of religion. It is a mere form. A simple
ceremony. Only an outward act of the hodg
not affecting the heart or the mind. Why,
even the Baptists thentselves, though they
talk so much about it, and attach so much
importance to it, admit that true believera can
be saved without it.'

* That is not the qoestion in my mind, Mr.
Percy. I do not ask whether t^ ie e m en ii al
to ealvation^ but whether it ie eommmnded b^
the Word of Qod. I do not feel at liberty to
sin as much as I can, without abandoninjg the
hope that God will finally forgive me. L can-
not think of following my Saviour aa €sr off
as I can, without resigning my hopes of besk
ven. Why should I venture as near the Terce
of hell as I can go without falling inP My
Saviour died upon the cross for my salvation.
I trust in Hik to save me. But He says,
* If ye love me, keep my commandmenta^
not this one or that one, but all his command-
ments. How can I pretend to love, if I do
not obey him ? If he commands me to be
baptized, and I have not done it, I wmet do it
yet. And if that which we saw at the river
was baptism, then I have never been haptiaad.'
"And so you think that all the learned
world are wrong, and this shoe-maker, turned
preacher, is right; that our parents are no
Setter than heathens, and a young ladv of
eighteen is bound to teach them their autt
and set them a good example. Beally it wiU
be a feast to the poor Baptists to know what
a triumph they have eained. It will be con-
sidered quite respectable to be immersed after
Miss Theodosia Ernest has gone into the
water.'

' Oh, Mr. Perov,' said the young lady, (and
her eyes were filled with tears) ' how can you
talk thus lightlv of an ordinance of Jeaua
Christ? Was it not respectable to be im-
mersed after the glorious Son of Gk>d had
gone into the water P If my dear Bedeemer
was immersed, and requires it of me, I am
sure I need not hesitate to associate with those
who follow hie example and obey hie com.
mandments, even though they should be poor,
and ignorant, and ungenteeL'

* Forgive me. Miss Ernest, I did not intend
to offend you ; but really the idea did appear
exceedinglv ridiculous to me, that a young
lady who nad never spent a single month in
the exclusive study or Theolosy, should set
herself up so suddenly as a teaener of Doctors
of Divimtv. If sprinkling were not baptism,
we surely have talent, and piety, and learning
enough m our churon to hifive discovered the
error and abandon the practice long ago. But
pardon me. I will not say one word to dis-
suade you from an investigation of the sub-
ject. And I am very sure, when you have
studied it carefUUy, you will then be more
thoroughly convinced than ever before, of
the truth of our doctrines and the correctaeas
of our practice. If you will permit, I will
assist you in the examination ; for I wiah to
look into the subject a little, to fortify my own
mind with some arguments against these
new-comers, as I understand there are several
others of our members who are almost as
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mony.

They parted at her mother's door. He
vtei to nis office, revolTiog in hit mind the
srgniBBotB that would be most likely to satisfy
bar donbit. She retired to ber closet and
povnd oat her heart to God in earnest prayer
ler wisdom to fenow, and strengtb to do all
bar Heevenlj Master's will, whatever it
mirbtbe; and before she rose from her knees,
h3 been envied to resoWe, with full deter-
i»iiify^;<» of purpose, to obey the eommand-
mcDt, eron though it caused the loss of all
things isr Christ. The only question in her
heart was now, 'Iiord, what wilt Thorn have
me to do P*

monnmeotf of the eweetneas of his pre-
senoe.

The plentiftdness of the mazma that fisll in
the wilderness, which fed above a million of
souls, was a prefiguratien of that fulness of
grace there is in Christ, for the myriads of
elect souls, whom God hath chosen* in him,
* Before the foundation of the world ; for it
hath pleased the Father that in Christ should
all fumess dwell,' for there is in Christ such
an exuberance and super-abundanoe of grace^
from whom all the angels in glory, and the

THE MANNA.

TnmB ia a p«at sweetness in the tjrpes
thai set forth Christ in hia person, offices,
and wnk ; hia name ia like ointment spread
ahroad, therefore his children lore him.

The manna doiotes that bread from heayen,
-'4hewa the merer of God-HK> that no child
of God shall periah for want, either in proTi<

or grace. The quality of the manna
waa while, which typified the purity of
Christ's human nature, the spotless perfeo-
tioa ef hie eoneeption, birth, and obedience ;
the infinite purity of his heart and life, being
the perfect tranacriptof the law of God, as
parity, hdinesa and heaTenly-mindedness
flowed from hie heart, as water from a foun-
tain. Another property of the manna, it
was reead like a coriander seed ; it may be said
to point ooi to us the eternity of Christ's Ioto.
whieh is too early for a dat^ too lasting and
dnraUe for a period. Another property of
this manna waa, the colour of it, as its lustre
sad briUiBaey, it being the coIot of bdelium,
whidi the learned call 'a pearl,.or a precious
stone, of a transparent nature,' and was
typical of the bright and brilliant perfections
A the Dei^, shining with c[lory ttoough the
^ — as it did at his transfiguration

anon the mount; his vision to Paul and John,
(the belored,) as the gracious God, and yet
the Glory-man.

The manna was sweet, and the taste of it
UkA wafers made with honey, which doth
ia a lirely aaaaner, shadow forth to us, the
tafinite sweetness that there is in Christ —
ia his presence — in his promises— in his word
sad in his ordinancee. His presence is the
sm of Bweetoeas, the life of life, the soul of
joy, the oeean of blisa, the heaven of felicity.
mM presenee spreads savour and fragrancy
thvoo^ all ibe heavenly host: mynads of
thousands of thousands, and ten
s ten thousands of saints— a
r that no man can number, are living

saints around the throne, have their oopiooa
joys, their refulgent bliss, and their super-
aboimding happiness; and it is from him that
the ehuz«h inilitant, in every stage, and
through every period of time, in ul their
wants and exigencies, have their aids and
helps, their supports and supplies; *And
of his fulness have we all received, and graee
forgraoe.' Johnl. 14.

The preparation of the manna. This waa
prepared by God alone, it was the work of
the Deity which was typical of the prepara-
tion of Christ's human nature ; who, speaking
unto his Father, said, ' A body hast thou pre-
pued me.' Heb. x. 6. And the formation
of his human nature in the womb of the
virgin, was the extraordinary work of the
Holy Ghost. Likewise, it was typical. of sal^
vation being prepared in Christ; therefore,
says the Patnarob, when he was taking his
farewell of the days of his nilgrimage— * I
have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.' Gen.
xviiL 49. And the sweet singer of IsxaeL in
the delightful exercise and expectation of his
heart, says. 'Truly my soul waiteth upon
God ; from nim cometh my salvation.' Psalm
eii. 1.

As the manna was prepared in heaven, so
salvation was prepared in Chris^ before the
world began, but is made known in time, and
accomplubed by Divine power.

The manna was a gift from heaven. * Then
said the Lord unto Moses, behold I will rain
bread from heaven for you,' which was typi^
cal of Christ; as God's unspeakable gift— of
his sreat condescension in leaving the glory
he had with the Father^ before the world
began, 'Because his deliffht was with the
sons of men.' * He says, (John vi. 61.) ' I am
the living bread which came down from hea-
ven, if any man eat of this bread, he shall
live for ever.' So then, we are to look upon
Christ as the Father's gift, and the donation
of rich love.

The manna, it was given every morning,
which ptoints out Christ to us as the morning
of mercies; as the morning is the beginning,
and pledge of the ensuing day, so Christ was
the pledge and earnest of all tjie mercies that
were to Follow ; as the manna was a free gift,
all the Israelites had a right to partake of it,
as it was prepared for them : so every soul who
sees its need of Christ, has an undoubted
right to partake of all the blessings contained
therein as they are prepared on purpose for
them, and conufiunicatea unto them.

The manna possessed a satiating nature.
It fed the children of Israel for fortv./ears in
the wilderness, (Duet. viii. 2. 8.) which typi-

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oftUy unfoldi the glory and flatufying of the
blessicgs of the everlaBting coTenant, as it ia
said of the manna— < fie that gathereth little
had DO lack ;' (ExodiLB i. 18J ao he that hath
Chriat, though he haa but little joj and conao-
lation from him, yet the ainner seea auoh a
glory in hia person, auoh a fulnesa of grace
treasured up in him, that he hath no lack in
the object, nor in the enjoyment, for he hath
aa much aa hia weak faith will take—* Whom
have 1 in heaven but thee (tt aaya, when faith
can speak for itself) and there is none upon
earth that I deure beaides thee.' I hare enough,
my soul ia aatiafied, for when fleah and heart
Ikil, God is the strength of my heart, and my
portion for ever, for every man gathered ac-
cording to hia eating ; therefore, aaya Christ,

* according to thv faith, so be it unto thee.'

The aeaaonablenesa of the manna that waa
plentifully given in the wildernesa, when la-
rael waa lust loat for want ; which ooena to ua
the auitablenesa that there is in Chnst to the
wants of a needy sinner, aa there ia a fulnesa
of pardon in hia blood, to forgive ains witiiout
number and Crimea of the most aggravating
nature, 'tranagressionathat have reached unto
the heavena.' laa. i. 18. There ia in Chriat
auoh a treasury of merciea. Waa there manna
for larael, when larael waa juat loat ih the
wildemeaa ? So likewise there is a Christ for
thj soul, oh sinner: with love in his heart,
with pardon in his hand, and forgiving mercy
in his looka, with a kind invitation upon his
tongucj with a gracious promise dropping
from hia lipa, *ho, every one that thirsteth,
let him oome I' and * he that cometh, I will
in no wise cast out." Here ia an answer to
every objection, a supply for every want, and
a door of hope to every case. Wnat ahall now
hinder thee from aaying — * To whom, Lord,
aball I eo, but unto thee, for thou hast the
worda or eternal life.' Note how the manna fell :
firat, there was a dew fell, then the manna,
then another dew fell upon the manna, ao that
the manna'lay between two dews, until the
sun arose, when the dew went up, and they
gathered the manna. By the dew firat falling
before the manna, denotea God'a everlasting
love, which is the ground work of our salva-
tion as Christ is not the cause, but the fruit
of Jehovah's love : 'Herein (says the apostle,)
is love ; not that we loved God. but that he
loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitia-
tion for our sins.' Secondly, the dew falling
upon the manna, and the manna being as
it were thereby hid and enclosed, may be
typical of Chnst being closed in the love
of God, as he was daily his delight one
in whom his soul delighted.' Isa. xlii. 2.

* Therefore,' says Christ unto his Father, ' For
thou lovedst me before the foundation of the
world.' John xviii. — 24.

And when the aun arose, the dew went up ;
which did figure out the Sun of Bi^hteouaneaa
arising in the New Testament dispensation,
which caused the dew of blessing that lay upon
the types and shadows to cease, because Christ
the suDstance is come who upholds all things,
and by whom all things subsist, he being the
Head of his body, the Church.

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INFANT SALVATION,
By Mb. John Fobsxait,

DiAB FBiBiiD,^Tour dear Mary tells ma,
that you have lost your youngest and very
dearly beloved child. I know what it is to
lose both wife and children ; and 1 know the
grief thereof. But, ray dear friend, death la
no accident or chance, but an appointed ordi-
nance of God, for 'It is appomted for all
once to die.' The days of every ono of
Adam's race are numbered, few or many:
' There ia a time to be born, and a time to
die;' and God himself is Timo^keeper, * for
our times are in his hand ;' and

" Not a single shaft can hit,
Till God, the wise and just^ sees fit."

Although death has so long been familiar*
ised to man, by its unwelcome travel up and
down amongst the human race, yet it haa not
lost its solemnity, nor ceased to give pain
within the circle where it strikes ; nor can it
until nature can lose its sympathies, and the
near ties of nature can cease to be dear.
Death came in at first as a judsment, and still
retains that Gountenanoe ; and its terriblencsa
is lost onlv in the desth and sting-destroyiDg
death and grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
We shall all die, and with ns death has no
consecutive order, as to name, age, or relation^
or any other circumstances j ami while there
lies one dead, surviving kmdred weep their
dear and tender loss, ao that we muat weep
our loss of those who are dear to ua, or they
to whom we are dear, must weep their loss of
us ; and the God of our being alone can and
will determine the order of this solemn point,
according to the settled counsel of his will ;
not without some deep and mighty design;
but perfectly without error or mistake. And
the will of God determined that your dear
little four, year old boy ahonld die, and you
aurvive to weep your lose of him ; and not
you firat to die, and leave a whole familv to

I weap their loaa of you. Think of thia, dear
friend ; wipe off the heart-fetched tear ; sns-

' pend the excessive grief, and behold how
mercy reigns and triumphs over judgment

I towards your dear family in this case. We

i expect death, because we needs must die.
First, because God haa appointed it ; second,

I because we are so constituted as to require
it ; for without disease, age alone must wear

I out our constitutional power to live ; and

I thirdly, that we must all come to that final
judgment, wherein a righteous adjustment

I will be made of all things, and the seemingly
unequal dispensations of God on earth will

I be equitably cleared up ; the prosperity of
the wicked, and the trials, poverty, and
adversity of the righteoua, will be accounted
for, on the erounda of divine integrity;
and right and wrong, receive that aentenoe
that shall declare for ever, that all thro' time,
with all his creatures, the ways of God are
right, and all his works done in truth and
uprightness. Bttt, you jkUI say, jdj detr

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diild ii gone, no more to return to me. But
by the laws of nature, according to the above
remarks, he is but gone the way of all flesh;
and the hand of him that made him, and
brought into Toor embrace, hath taken him
from jour embrace, and brought him into hia
own. Ah, perhapa tou will now say. Tou
touch one of the tender points of my gnef, for
the case has two points of grief, to my heart :
the one ia the losa of my dear child, and the
other ia, where ia he gone ? Where is his
dear and precious soul now P Hy sentiment
ift^ that hie is now happy with the Lord. The
Lord made him for himself, and for his own
glory, and haa taken him as one of his lored.
cboten, and redeemed, from the ten thousand
evils of time ; from the evil to come : grace
has daimed him, and glory f eceived him, as
one of Christ's own.

Bat perhaps yon will say, some dispute tiiis
point. 80 let them ; there is not one text in
tli the Bible, that can be fairly interpreted
against tkia sentiment. I know that some
have said, * How can a little child repent and
beUeve, tmst and hope in the Lord V My an-
swer to all such questions is, how can the
bones of a ohild grow in the womb, without
bang fisd with the breast, or with the pap-
spoon, or otherwise, as children bom areP
How did John repent previous to his leaping
far joy in the womb P The Gospel economy is
in administrative institution of appeal to the
rational eapaeity of human beings, and never
bad, nor never was intended to have anything
to do with little ehildren dying before their
reason reached a capacity, intelligibly to re-
ceive er reject the testimony of the Gospel
economy; and no one has authority to bmd
them op in the Qon>el economy. But does
this tie the hands of God's power and grace
fpom saving those whom he makes, and takes
awajT before he capacitates their reason to
receive the tsetimonial economy of the Gospel
* as it applies to us? No : for while aU salva-
tion is by ^;raee in Christ Jesus, Qod in his
infinite wisdom, may have modes of taking
little children to heaven, as happily adapted
to their case as the Groepel economy is to
oor^s. For while, aa to any communication
we can make to them, or they make to us,
' they are as things that are not, yet such hath
God chosen.' 1 Cor. i 28. And David believed
it when his child died, (2 Sam. xii. 23,) and in
my opinion this is a glorious demonstra-
tion that salvation is by grace only, with-
out human works, as conditions thereof;
for if such conditions were reouired, dy-
ing little ehildren must be excluded from
the salvation of God; and iLrminianiBm,
to be consistent with itself must at once
and for ever ahut helpless dying little
ehildren out of heaven, and consign them
either to perdition, or anihilation, unless
beyond different modes of application, there
are in principle two ways of salvation ; one
by graee, on certain conditions for men and
women ; and one by grace only for dying
little children of Adsim's fallen race. But in
the word of God, no hint is given but of the
one great salvation by Christ and him cruoi-
ied; and that is declared to be by^roce only;

and thousands of God's quickened Israel have
gladly found it to be so ; and no dving saint
nas ever found it otherwise than all of grace ;
this then is the one salvation of God, that
freely embraces all the chosen and redeemed
into life everlasting, and amongst them dying
little children, in Qod's own mode, adapted to
their case to Uie joy of everj humbled mind^
and to the shame of Armlmamsm, which in
spirit denies them, on their lack of required
conditions.

Think then, my dear friend, that your dear
child is, by the royal favour of the King of
kings, now in heaven, not as nature's little
child, as when here, but in full capacity,
joyfully to take in the immortal sweets of the
;lory of the grace of Christ, the everlasting
of life and glory ; as nature's chUdhooo,

glory <
Lordc

midage, and old age, belong to time only.

The God of all grace bless you, ana your
dear partner, with all the oommrt of a good
hope, in humble submission to the will of our
heavenly Pather in all things. So prays,
dear friend, by the grace of Christ Jesus our
Lord, affectionately, your's,

JOHH FOBBlLUr.

April 1st. 8, Faddington Green, London.
Mr. Catling.

THE SAFE REFUGE.

Ob I be not dismayed snd east down.

Though trials and cares be your lot;
Our Jesus a refuge has found,

'Tis the elefl in the side of the rook.'
There, eecnre from the blast and the storm.

His ohoaen in safety abide ;
Neither sorrow nor want, can they know.

Who are hid in the oleft of his side.
Oh I hear his sweet voice, how he calls

To the weak ones,— the poor in the flook—
My chosen, fear not— but come I

To your ref nge, the oleft in the rook.
My darling I my fair one ! my love I

Thus sweetly He calls to his bride,
When toBs'd by temptations so strong,

Oh I fly to the oleft in my side.
And shall we that call, then refuse T

Poor nothings with no earthly prop T
Tou may, but I dare not, IMl fly

To my Refuge, the oleft in the rock.
And wHen in the deep swelling Jordan

I'm nearly o*erwhelm'd by the tide ;
Tho> closely pursued still by Satan,

I'm secure in the oleft of liis side.

£. B. B.

LINES FOB THE EDITOB.

Cabxs have like a wild deluge come.

And sorrow's storms descended ;
Yet under all ; abroad— at home,—

He has my soul befriended.
At even tide mr hands were slack.

And weakenVd beyond measure ;
But morning came, and lo I my sack

O'erflowed with heavenly treasure.
The sacred fire within me burned

Consuming all my sadness ;
My mourning into joy was turned.

My sighs to songs of gladness.
Then let me praise Him for his care

Of my poor earthen vessel ;
And when distrest, by filth and prayer

With him, like Jacob, wresUe.

W. T«

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OUR AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

A L£TTER FEOM ME; SIMEON EMERT,

(baptist mxvistxb,)

HIS YOYAOE TO SIDNEf; AND HIS LAB0X7BS THERE.

[We ooBflider it a ^ireat pririleee to be fa-
▼oured with the following oommuiiication ; in
many respects, it is a most Taluable letter.
We nope Mr. Emery's labours in the colony
will have the blessing of heaTen.— Sd.]

liT DXAS VBinrD.^Meroy and truth be
with you. I take my pen to write and thank

nior sending me the Vessbl : it is tiie
periodical uat has been sent me since I
have arriyed in this country and I take it rery
kind of you. It is very refreshing to hare a
little intelligence about matters concerning
the Lord Jesus Christ ; I should be very glad
if I could send you cheering accounts of the
prosperity of the church in these parts, but 1
am gricTcd to say, that I cannot 1 hare met
with Tcry few loYexB of truth since I hare
been here. For the most put, what is held
forth to the people, and received bv them, is
this, that man by Christ is brought into a
state of salyability and left to his own will ;
he may, or may not be sared. God's soTcr-
eignty, is utterly rejected, and hated ; as to
unconditional election before time, it is for
the. most part cried down as an enorof the
greatest magnitude. I was enabled to speak
to the neop^ in the ship, all the way oyer ;
with wiut effect is known only to the Lord.
One man that had been in soul-trouble for
years, professed to haye found peace in beliey-
mg ; and I saw no reason to disbelleye him
all the^ time I was with him. But on board
an emigrant ship, the longer they remain
together, the more yile is their spirit and
conduct ; indeed, eyery bad passion is brought
out. I often considered, if I wanted to wish
eyil to a good wum, I think I could not wish
him a worse eyil than for him to be confined
in an emigrant ship, for a long yoyage of four
months. I shall neyer forget at times, while
I liye, the feeling I had the first Babbath
morning after I landed, finding myself in a
little chapel among ^as I thought) good peo-
ple, heanng them sing the praises of the
Lord ; I cannot describe my feelings; I was
asked to speak to the people, which I compiled
readily to do; but alas I alas! I found they
did not like my speech; I preach salyation by
grace, according to the eternal purpose of a
Goyenant God. I was then inyited to speak
in the city, to some Baptiits of the Scotch
order : they break bread eyery Lord's-day in
the afternoon, and had preacning on^ in the
morning: thev are like the Plymouth bre-
" f m

thren; they nold that eyery brother has a
right to speak if he wishes— they said they
did not belieye in the one-man system (as
they call a settled minister oyer a people) ;
howeyer, they inyited me to speak to them
until I desired them not to ask me again.
Borne friends immediately took a school nMu

for me, at ten shillings per week ; where wo
continued until about a month sinee^ when we
obtained a nice place used by the Toung Man's
Christian Association, at twelye shillings aad
sixpence per week— but the Monday after our
first Sabbath we receiyed a month's notice to
quit, the reason assigned was that the dergy
did not approye of our using it, Ac., and they
must not offend them, as they were b^
holden to them for their Lectures ; but 1 can-
not tell if it was so— 1 have heard ot their
pubiidy denonnoing the doctrinea I preach a*
dangerous, &o.

We had been together about three montha
when it was thought good to form ourselyes
into church order, which we did according to
the order of the gospel; and if uy memovY
is correct, about twelve members Inroke bread
together, and a yery comfortable time we had.
Since then, I haye Vaptised seyen others; and
we haye one or two more I hope soon to see
come in ; so that we moye ona little, and at
times we feel that 'the Lord's ways are pleaa-
antnesS| and his paths are peace.' But it ia
f cry painful to me to see so few that receiy«
the word ; indeed, so few that hear the report.

I left off writinc, and haye but little heart
to begin again. This now is the third morning
of the new year. I feel that perhaps this year
I shall end my pilgrimage. I haye not been
well this fortnight. It is now yery warm. I
think, if life is spared, to moye inland, where
it is colder ; but X am in a straight, there is a
few sheep that profess that I am a shepherd^
under Christ, to them; so that I cannot say
as vet what I ^all do as to my removaL Mj
wife is much tried with the heat— indeed,!
have seen her several times quite deranged.
I had a few lines from brother Warren, of
Beading, Berks. A brother, well known ;
hope to write him soon. I am very glad to
hear of the prosperity of Zion, at Beading, or
anywhere else. I sliould be glad for you to
send the VxasBL every month; a doaen a
month to begin with. How are you moving
on ? is the fire of tribulation, quite as hot as it
was sometime past? Is temptation coming
down on you, as usual, in torrents ? How is
it you are not overflown by it ? Is it so that,
poor Banks is both fire-proof and water-proof I
You are a blessed man, if the fire proves you a
fireproof! and the flowing torrents, water-
proof. Very many have seemed nice cheerful
christians, until tried by fire and water, (h«a
it turned out they were not proof against ei*
ther. Christians of God Almighty's own mak-
ing are sure to stand, but who are they ? How
can I tell P I can say those that abide the
trial. Is it brother Banks ? I can't tell. Is i%
brother Wells, or brother ^urgeon. Is it bro-
ther PhilpotL Tiptaft, or any whose names
aze&miliarP I caantt telL Is it myself ? X

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■B itill OB tbm Mone gimnid, I don't know.
If I enduTO to the end I ehall be nred. I hare
seen end felt lo mneh einoe I left Enslend of
mTMlf that I ha?e thought end f eered all wee
loeL It ie eeej to eit in en eesj eheir on lend
eadnnTigete a Teetel eoroes a tempeetuoue
eeeen ; on the other hand it it eas^to talk
abottt triala, efiUetione, end temptations, the
» of God ;

aad faithfalnei

^ ; talking

easy, eo ie writing, bnt trial is trial ; the do.
ver of water ie great; so is the oppoeite ele-
Meat» tmmely, fire, it ie very destructiTe.
Trials are not joyous, but ^rio^oos to be borne ;
thflfprodnoe heaTiness in heert; and that
makea even the strongest men to stoop. Oh,
My brother, how little do I know : how much
I ha^o learnt theoretieelly, as the torrents
aad firo doee fkdly prove to me. Aye, my good
IbUow, it eeense to cerrr erery Testue away.
aad aeaiee leeve ' Qoi he merei/M to me
behind ; or as mneh reel religion as the dy-
ing thief. Indeed I feel en every day wretoh. I
faaej I never half saw the lovely and suited
Snvioor ae I have seen at times since I have
been in this ecrfony. and vet I feel like an old
lotten, braken, hull, with neither mast, lig-
lag or eaal, hetan or canvass. I cannot move
into the worid, neither can I be in the ehureh
a fiouriehing braneh, a fruit bearing one, I
don't eeemntted for the oompeny of the hot-
toialses pit, or thoae that are on their way
thithar; and Iseemas though I wasutterlv
anfit for heaven, but I em sure he that will
eheage living eaints, when he comes a second
time, eaa quickly create all things new, and
make me take a willing flight to himself.
Wdl I mast eondnde this time, may the Lord
Usssand keep you, espeeielly in the hour and
power of trial, and prosper, and preserve you
to kia heavenly kinadom, is the desire and
player of a poor needy sinner.

BimsohBiibbt.

Vewtown, near Sidney, N. 8. W.
Aug. 81, 1856.

mipoirr ov thb pboobbss ob
SALEM PAETICULAB BAPTIST CHUBCH,

XjmifODB Stbbbt,
HOKTH ADSLAIDB, 6. ATT8TBALIA.

Mb. Sditob.— In attemptinff a record of
the events in eonneetian with the people of
Ood worshipping in the above place, I only
purfMae, by the help of Divine grace, to ^ve a
snnrinft and faith/ol account of its history
from tha celebration of its seventh Anniver-
aary, recorded in your number for November,
18o8. A referenee is made in that report to
a hope then existing, of an union with the
other little Strict Bi^itist cause. Such a step
was then contemplated^ and various proposals
made to bring alnmt this apparenUj generally
deeired eonsnmmatioo. Our prayers were
offered at a throne of grace, in private as well
as public^ for the countenance of our heavenly
Fether, to shine on our efforts towards an
union of the two churches. United monthly
praver meetlags were, and still are, held in
eeeh place of worship alternately, and at those
— ^ 1 the union of the two places was

made always a subject of earaest appeal t6
him who nues all events after the oouaaels of
his own will, until at length, overtures were
made by the people of Bbeneaer to us of
Salem, and oordiaUy entertained by us.

Thus far the Lord appeared to be highly
favouring us, but who can foreeee events }
And we must admit, that it is a most wiie
providence, which permits our seeing only
just so much of the event of human life, aa
his all-seeing wisdom deems necessarylfor our
good. A meeting took place, of deputies ap-
pointed from each ohuroK to arrange the terma
of the union. Alas, how short-sighted is man.
That meetittff was the means of dashing our
fondly cherished vision of union to piecee, and
leaving nothing hut the baseless fabric, in the
shape of a record in our Church Book, of the
unsucessfal mission. Doubtless, it was over-
ruled by our heavenly Master for our good ;
and not our's only, but for the good of the
people of Eheneser ; neither is it for us fioite
mortals to judge the will and decree of the in*
finite, eternal, and all-wise Jehovah. Our
proposition that the minister and deacons of
both churohes should resign, in order that an
election might be made by the united churchea
was not reciprocated by the Eheneser depu-
ties, who then expressed themselves, for the
first time, in fisvour of a co-pastorate, which
our deputies, not beholding with the same
favour, declined, and thus a union at that time
was impraetioable.

It was not without its modicum of good, aa
it was the means of setting the people of Salem
to help themselves, without reference to any
other churches, though, from the peculiar
situation of the two churches, to our human
wisdom, it might be a matter of regret, as they
possessed a large piece of waste mnnd, while
we are restricted to about 27 feet frontage,
more or less, by about 100^ or so, deep, ina
the sale of our small piece with the old build-
ing would have enabled us to join them with
the means in our hands of commencing a
building. It was however over-ruled, and
since then we have had the offer of some
ground adjoining and at the rear^ for £100,
which is quite a gift ; but here again, division
amongst the members, and difference of
opinion, appear likely to frustrate the wishes
of the sealous among the Salemites, and upset
the whole affkir for a season ; some being for
building on the insignificant frontage we nave,
in preference to completing the purohaae of
the land, and then trying what can be done
towards Duilding, which the opposite section
desire, among whom I must declare myself,
as I look mucn more to the future than to the
present, in an important measure, such as the
erection of a temple to the wonhip of the
Lord our Gk>d. Thus the matter remains for
the present, unsettled, many declining to
support in any way, while the thought of
buifdinff on the present piece of ground oontin-
ues to be entertained.

As I maintain, that it is the duty of thehia-
torian to give the two sides of his tale, I can-
not hold out such a broad banner as some of

my brethren who have alreadv addressed you,
for it would not, when unfolaed, dedare that

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the Lord WM pfoiperinjg^ Zion to the fall
smongtt MB ; for though it is correct to state
that 16 or 80 hare been added to us, yet the
obyerse would state that as many have either
withdrawn themselres, or been struck off the
Church Book, in the same time ; so that on the
whole, instead of numbering over 60 members,
it will be more correct to state it at about dO,
leaving rather a decrease than otherwise of
members ; but the congregation is still quite
as large as the building will accommodate, and
I can oonscientiouslj say with our brother,
tkat the place %m too ttrait for u»; and prav
that the Lord will give room for us to dtoell.
I must join issue with him, when he talks of
the poor duptsed Baptists being in povertv
and qffUetion here^ as having no state church
here, all sects are on the same level ; and if
they are despised, they have none but them-
selves to thank for it ; and as a body, the ap-
plication of such a term, is decidemy as inju-
dicious, as it is incorrect, showing, I am afraid
more of a spirit of defiant pride, in thus taking
up a term of reproach, than of that charity
towards brethren, which denotes the true
christian ; and lastly their poverty and afBic-
tion in this Colony is no more than obtains
among all the other sections of Qod's heritage,
and the Baptists must therefore take all the
credit to themselves wherein they are left
standing alone dangerous, on a pinnacle of their
own creating. I am very happy that this class
is Quite an exception among us here.

Another move is now making towards an
union with the Ebeneser people, but as it is
quite in its infancy, any account of it must of
course stand to a future opportunity, though
from my experience of past attempts, my faith
in the success of the present one is necessarily
YBirj limited.

Uaving thus brought down the history of
the Salem Particular Baptist Church to the
present date, 1 trust the length of the history
may not be an obstacle to its acoeptance witn
you, and am, Mr Editor, your's, E. S. W.

Korwood, North Ad<>laide,
86th January, 1869.

ANNIVEE8ARY AT MELBOUHNE.

Bbas Bbothsx Baku,— Peace be multi-
plied unto you, now and evermore. I received
Tour friend Mitchell, and entertained him and
nisAriend, who have now got situations at
Oeelong, at their own trade.

Our Anniversary Tea meeting was held on
Monday, Jan. 3rd. About 160 took tea with
us, uid afler tea, others came in to join in the
evening's worship and entertainment, upon a
•ubject most sacred, sublime, and sweet : viz.
'The Communion of God's Saints.' 1. Br.
Ward, of CoUingwood, spoke of the truth in,
and by which they have communion.— The
elect lady and her children, whom I love in
the truth.' 2. Br. McCure, of Geelong, spoke
of the power by which they are brought to
have communion in the truth; *For our
gospel came not unto you in word only, but in
power, and in the Holy Ghost, and m much
•ssanmoe.* 3. Br. Friend, of Geelong, spoke

of the effeots of internal oommnnion in tho
truth, by the power of the Holy Ghost^ mani-
fested in their walk and oonvertation ; ' See-
ing TO have purifiedyourselves in obeying the
truth, through the H!oly Ghost, unto unfeigned
love of the brethren, see that ye love one
another fervently, walk in love.' 4. Br. Peach,
of Preston, spoke of the best means of nro-
moting the communion of saints ; * Then uiey
that fwred the Lord spake often one to
another.' 6. Br. Mourity, of Collingwood, also
spoke upon the same point, kindness to the
apostle carried him to pray for him that did
it ; * The Lord grant tnat he may find mercy
in that day.'

There was a great number of anxious hear-
ers that evening, who upon the whole were
edified, blessed, and much delighted. We had
none of your English barefaced begging,
which is one of the sins of the church at this
day of gross darkness, but just the boxes at the
doors, and people put in just as they were led
by God, which was £27 7s. 6d. Our debt is
now only £200. The Lord's name be praised.

I believe if the churches left off merchandis-
ing the house of Gkxi with pew rents, and
shaming the people out of tneir money by
sticking the plate in their fisces, they would
be more abundantly blessed of Ood in these
things. It grieves my soul to read of some of
TOur collecting proceedings. Gh>d has east mj
lot amonfi^t a few poor people, and it has been
my happiness to see one chapel go up and
opened without any debt ; and now this one at
a cost of £1660, and only £260, now left, after
the first anniversary, and all done without snch
things as pew rents and plate pushing.

During the year, we have baptized nine into
our number, and have reoeived about that
number bv experience, firom the nortii, eaat,
south, and west, having been baptbed before.
While we rejoice that the Lord nas done great
thin^ for us, yet we lament that so little vital
religion, standing in power, ii to be found in
this city. Were 1 disposed to write as inoon-
siderate as some, I might give ;^ou veij glow-
ing accounts of our state, which is in many
respects cheering ; but pure religion is scaroe,
and the solemn truth of Ood will hardly get a
hearing. However, the Lord, he is God and
King, and will reign, and do his pleasure. I
hope I shall be enabled to keep casting in the
net, and I pray that the Goremor of * What,
soever passeth through the paths of the great
deep,' will cause more fish to be entangled
therein; for to 'toil all night, and catch
nothing' is very trying to my soul, especially
as the barking professors on the one hand
cry, ' Ko children, no eonversions ;' and the
croaking professors on the other hand, crying
'No savor, no power. They have not got
Himtington's grace, but they have become
Huntington's parrots. Bless the Lord for a
few children to answer these enemies in the
gate. I am your's in the bonds of the Gospel^
D, AUiBS.

Melbourne^ January 13, 1869.

Our brother John M'Cure's letten hare
arrived. We shall write him; and report
from him soon. r^i^i^n]o

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HISTORY OF THE OLD BAPTIST CHAPEL, DUNSTABLE.

A short time since we ^ve an aooount
of • Centennry meeting m the Old Bap-
tist Clia|>el, Dunstable. For that meet-
iag a reriefr of the Church's History was
oonpiled by our excellent friend and
Chnstian brother, Mr. Dell, of Dunstable,
sad was read by Mr. John Bloomfteld, to
tke nnmerous company then assembled.
Mr. Deli, hma faroored as with the copy.
It reads as follows :—

Im $iTing an aocomit of thij aneient eauie,
•t ar* pointed bmck. to a very remofce period.
SdvarUy in a book paUiahed in 16i6 aays :
Tkut were four famouf preachers in the
eomtj of Hertford, namely, Heath, of Woot-
ton ; fiiee, of Aston ; Field, of Hertford, and
Cbnw, of Sterenage. There ii but little doubt
that kheae four men were oonnected with an
•JMieat eaaae at Kenaworth, of which thli is
SB offihoot. Tbia cause at Kensworth must
lavs esiated for a raat number of years before
Idvtrda pnbLiahod his book; and that is 222
jfsn sgo. Tbe only authentic account I am
sUs to pTO, ia taken from an old Kensworth
Cbn^ Book, I belioTe now in the hands of
Mr. Upton, tbe Baptist minister, at St. Al-
baa's; on the firat page of which is written as
IbUovs. * Tbe namea of the respected mem-
biiB of tbe baptised congregation of the church
at Kaawortb, in Hertfo^hire, taken this
ninth day of Joly, one thousand dx hundred
sad seventy fire, by me, Hugh Smyth, of
Wcathamatead, in tne said county of Hert-
ford.' Tfaen follows a list of the members
aaovatia^ to 380. redding in various places
in the neighbooroood, nameljr, at AJabury,
AaCon, Berkbampstead, Briokmll. Ghalgrave,
Codioott, Caddington, DunsUble, Drayton,
EaloB Brar, Eddlesborough, Hampstead,
Horton, Hawridge, Harpenden,

Hemel Hempstead, Houghton, Kenisworth,
KcB^ilon, Imton, Leighton, Mimms, Red-
boame, Bidjpe, Shenly, St. Alban's, SUdham,
Sundon, Truig, TUsworth, Toddington, Wil-
liaai and Welwyn. From this list, it ap-
pears that Thomas Hayward was then min-
ister, or elder, as he was then called, but
be became so, it does not say; he
in 1688, just 20 years before the
i of this ehapel, and m the same year
ae John Bonyaa died. The history of the
namae at Kensworth is as follows. The cause
ea Keasworth ezisted for so long a time, (and
tfais written nearly two hundred years ago,)
and its traasaetioos had been recorded with
aadk care, that tbe minutes filled four folio vol-
waaes ; tbeae four volumes were entrusted to
tlae eave of a wealthy and influential deacon,
wrho afterwards beeoming so immoral, that
the Anreh a acln ded hin. Snraged at their
, he deekred they shoold qevrr have

the books again ; he afterwards removed to
London, and took the books with him, and it
is supposed, he destroyed them. After the
death of Hayward, 1688, three of the elders
were called upon to speak before the church,
for them to choose one of the three to be the
pastor; the names of the three elders were
Finch, Marsden, and Harding. The lot fell
upon Harding : this led to some unpleasant-
ness, and in the year 1694, there was a di-
vision in tbe ehurch. Mr. Marsden, his wifb,
and eirhteen of the members, residing at, and
near Luton, then formed the Old Baptist
Cause in that place. There is an entry made
in the Kensworth Church Book, dated Nov-
ember, 1688, and reads thus :—

* Immediately after the death of that laborious
■erraot of Christ, brother I J ay ward, the old
oharoh was stsambled at Kensworth to consider
their state, and the church did elect brother Fiaoh,
brother Marsden, and brother Harding, loiatly,
and equally, to offloiate in the place of orother
Hayward, la the breaking of bread, and the sd>
ministration of ordinaneea, and the church at that
time did agree to provide and maintain at their
own charge a sulnolent maintainaoee ; and they
were to go from meeting to meeting ; and to erery
place the church ahoold appoint them within thU
eongregation.'

There ii another entry made in the Kens-
worth Church Book, dated December 6th,
1694, this was six years after the death of
Hayward, and reads thus.

' Tbe names of all the members who rent oif and
departed from their plaees, and broke the peace of
the ehurch, aboat the matter and difference of Mr.
Tidmonth.'

At that time the church at Kensworth con-
sisted of 893 members. Then follows a list of
the names of 65 members that left the old
cause at Kensworth. and 1 think there is no
doubt the cause at Dunstable commenced at
this time (this was 26 years before the cause
of Kensworth, broke up.) We have no an-
thentie account when they first met at Dun-
stable, but probably about the year 1694 ; at
the time of the division at Kensworth; for the
cause at Kensworth was still kept up, and re-
mained a separate cause till 1720. when its
last remains were removed to St. Alban's.
The first account we have of the church at
Dunstable ii an entry made in the church
book, and reads thus :

* Sister Briggs reoorded an InhaUtaatof Blag*
shall, did come from the general people, and was
reoeiTed in f^ll eommunion with us at a ohnrch
meeting held at Dunstable, the 80th day of Sep-
tember, IS96.'

The next entry is as follows.

*8bter Dofi; recorded an inhabitant of Potters
Bar, did come from the general people, and did
sit down with us in 1696/

In the year 1708, thejr bought this piece of
ground for £10, and built a chapel for the
poblio worship of Qod : the^OMt of the ehs-

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pel Mid the gfound, inoludiuff all expenses
wu £92. 1^ and the trust deeds were put
into the hands of Mr. Britlam. This My.
Brittian was the first pastor of the place,
which o£5ce he held for about 45 years ; he
died in thejear 1754^ ayed 80. He was siw-
oeeded by Mr. Woster, fh>m Wi^^nton Com-
aen, who was pastor for 33 years ; uui was
iwooeeded by Mr. Cook, who was pastor for 3
years : then came the c^ebraked Mr. Hews :
dvtng the time he waa pastor^ there was a
dinuott, the Baptist eause in YTeat^treet
anae about the year 1800. Mr. Hews left
the people about 1803.

llext to him came a Mr. Tidd, whe> re-
moBed with them two yeara. For some
years after this, they had aupplies till abe«t
the year 1812 or 1813, when a Mr. Chessher
waa ordained over the peo^ In hia time^
th ere was aaothcv dirisiott in the eause res-
peeling the law as a rule for belierer's eo«.
dwt, and those that did net hoM the law, left,
and built a chapel in another part of West
Street, but this was soon broke up; and many
of the mea&bera returned to the old place
acam. After the death of Mr. Chessher in
1917* Mr. nkarttng^ eame, and was with the
people three Tears.

After he leh, Mr» Cream was settled over
them for about i years, and waa suooeeded by
MnPalmer^of HomM-feo«Bow, Londoa, who
heM the pastoral office for about fiv^e years, and
was succeeded by Mr. Fowler (late of Qolden
Lane, Barbican, London) he stayed with the
people two years ^ when he left in 1834, there
waa another division^ and he with a few of the
people built another chapel in Church-street,
calling it Bedford Chape), Duke's Place, but
this cause was broke up in a few years; and
sease of the peo(>le returned to the old ^ee :
Aia was the third and last dirision in this
ancient cause.

From Auguit 1834, to December in the
isme Tear, thcr had supplies, till Mr. 8hep«
pard,lato of €ruildfbrd, in Surrey^ was invit-
ed to take the pastoral office, and was ordained
the following Ma^ : the serTices of Uke mom-
ittg on that occasion were conducted by Mr.
J. A. Jones, of Mitchell Street, London ; those
of the afternoon, by Mr. 6. Combe, late of
fik>ho Chapel, Oxford Street, London. Those
of the ereQine; bT Mr. J. Foreman, of Mount
Zion Chapel, Hill Street, Dorset Sijuare, Lon-
don. During the time he was pastor, many
of the old members died, and others were re-
moTed in proTidence, so that the cause was
brought Tery low ; and in the year 1847, he
resigned the pastoral office, and was succeeded
bT Mr. Carpenter, the present pastor ; late of
Milehe)) Street, St. Luke's, London ; who
found the cause Tery low; but the Tery first
Sabbath that Mr. Carpenter preached here^
the word was so blessea, that the soi^ ol tlw
people were greatly reriTcd : and as sooiv as
ne came among them, the scene became so
ehaaged and altered, that truly il might be
said, that Uhe wilderness and the solitary
IpUuMriiioiced and blossomed like the rose.' Sin-
««■ ware called ; saints were oaaefocted^ and
built ii|» in. thalc most hely foUhi and m
great was the increase of numbers that came

to hear, that admittance oould not be gained ;
so that many were glad to sit neon the i^tos
and tomb*stones to hear the word at Qod.
The congregation still increasing, there was
great difficultr in obtaining seats; still the
friends hesitated about building, and enlarg-
ing, knowing that the people were a poor
and tried people, but for a cireomatanoa that
occurred. One Sabbath afternoon, in the win-
ter of 1848, a tremendous storm swept tluough
the town of Dunstable, and came oown with
tempestuous Tiolence upon the old Baptist
Chapel, diirinr dirine service : the bvilding,
though it had atoed mere thaa 140 winten^
and weathered many a storm before, waa
shook to the foundations, and part of the
ceiling blown down unon the congregation to
their great alarm ana dismay, but altlroug^h
through a merciful proridenee^ not to their
personal injury; it was considered expedient
to have the chapel surveved, when it was pro-
nounced unsafo to worship in, mauT of the
chief timbers not only being displaced, but in
a state of decay firom old s^e. A meeting of
the fticnds worshipping in the place» was
called to take into consideration the best
means of restoring their place of worship,
when it was agreed to establish a fund by
means of collecting cards, and the people,
though poor, were wilUng to work, and cards
to the amount of £105 were issued* The
woik of repairing was immediately begun,
but upon a more minute inspection, thebuild-
inx was found to be in such a dilapidated
state, as for the old building to be taken dowa
and a new one erected on the spot : this has
since been done, and a neat structure reared
upon the old ground, capable of holding 400
persons. The ohapel was opened for oivine
service, on Wednesday, August 11th, 1849, bj
Mr. Wells, of London, and Mr. Sears, of She'
ford. The chapel cost in erection, £480 17
and there is now a debt remaining of £165.
The minister's house which was built in the
time of Mr. Chessher has been enlarged and
Tery much improved, besides many other re-
psirs and improvements in erecting new foncea
and repairing walls, Ac &o.

There has oeen 73 members added during
the ten years Mr. Carpenter has been here,
the greater part of which have prof^ised to
have been called under his minisirr. Hav-
ing now brought down the history of this old
cause to the present time, 1 will eonclqd)9
with the language of the poet

Here may our unborn sons
And daughters sound thy praise.
To shine like pobshed stones
Through long successive days.
Here^ Lord, display this sovereign power
While temples stand, and men %dore«

P.D.

Since this was trritten, there has been
a departure f^om itu9 old caus« of
nearly ioii^ nembens who have heeia
forced iato a nev Baptist Chimsh hi
DuBstaUe i but we have letters inferm-
iD^ Qs thai Mr. Carp«iter is atiit maik n
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gootf ; Mb trieiHls arc mmj aad sineere :
and we hope the two causes maj both
: if audi he hea?eii'agood pleasure*

HV CHUBCH AT BUII8XUIE.

Mb. S»n«ni,~I im on* of thst happy ami
kigiilr-hoBoure^ •!•» of peiMns freqlwiuitlj
•iTM'OM H-MMM.* I h«pe, therefore, j^n
wul, lbreiM«, alloir aa eki woman to give
y^mr i mimn a little rery iaterectiDg infor-
BMliMi. 1 am mii * the eK-Garpenter*! Male*

■eraml Mhe pet sen Timothy/— bat I
ttm eae whe takea a deep iatereet in tke proa-
imi t j of EioB; mai I wish ta reeord the
UeaNd mcreiee of a eoTenaat Go4 tewarde
aoiaa of us who live apen theee Bedforct hills.
Om W cd a cedaj , Affnl 13th, a aew Baptist
I'liwpib was formed in this town upon New
I^ataflMal prinetples. I wish a Mi report
of al that was said aad done oottld be puh-
IfolKd ; it was a gl e r i c f M goepel day inmed ;
f hacdiy think there was one thia|f to mar
oar pcaea. Ttroly, the Lord was in our midst :
hiaminislervwere clothed with salvation, and
fais latnta did shout ahmd for joy. If early
forty p es s o w s have withdraws uom the Old
Bhptirt Keetfnf ; and after meeting together
for prayer, a wisuha tip n , and listening to 6od*s
vani, l es ol f cd to be formed into a Gospel
cAnrA. The foDowmg is a little aceonnt of
tie aerrieea of the day. In the afternoon, at
•wo o*cloelfc, we met in the Town Hall. It
was lull to oeerflowinr; many conld net get
ta. Mr. Coa;ghtrey, of Baton Bray, opened
tiho arrvico with that beautiful hymn,
' Kindred in Chriflt for His dear sake,'

Mr. Ourtledge. tiio pastor oi Bedboum
enwfek, then read the wftptares, and sought
ttm Ucsaing-of heaven, fie was fovoured in
pimyer. C. W. Banks then preached ns a
wooB, livdhr, loving sermon from these words
*•* And the' Lord added to the ehureh daily
wmA as should be saved.* One of our brethren
BOCod out ft few of his words \ we wish you
to Id others read them. [Another time.]

After the sermon, Mr. Banks ealled u|>on
Ifr. Rush to read our Articles of Faith, which
he £d most ^tinctly. Mr. Banks then asked
Mr. Bush if he be l ieved that all the persons
I to be united together in church fellow-
were true believers in Christ, and con-
t followers of the Lord ? Mr. Bush said

p baKered they were. Mr. Banks then

Bed upon the proposed members to signify

-^ farth in the Articles read, by fifting their

b to heaven. This they did. He then

rave to each and every one the right hand of
nSowahip; and addrf»ed them m suitable
ward*. This was a precious season. The
■it anso on serriee occupied nearly three hours.

Wo then removed in a large bodjy, to our
aaUi Temperaace Hall, where tea was provid-
ed^ mmd a numerous company assembled. After
tea, the JfiUon-Bray singers, and other friends,
aaacBost delightfhily; the largo haH was
filed : Br. CooghtTOT prayed; Br. Searle, of
Two Waters, read tba fiymna, and C. W.
Banka preached from ' "When be eame, and

aavlhomeaolGod, havaeglad^ and aa-
hcrted Uiom aU with pm-posa of heart- to
cleave unto tha Loid.' Christ waa everything^
indeed, in that discourso. We tiien returned
to the Town Hall, and thara eommemorated
the dyinc love of Christ, in the breaidng of
bread. The brethren C. W. Banks, Cartled^
Long, and Coughtrey all united in adminia-
teriag the Lord's Sapper. Some said, wo
never had sueb tm evening before in Dub*
stable. My poor heart, and my hauriband'a
heart were broken in leaving ike oki plaee ;
but trulv, Christ'* Gospel that day, wasa
ooedial for all our oares, a soothing balas
for all our woea. If yon. do not eaat thia
away, you shall hear again, from

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XV CAXBRIDOBSiriRB.

Mt J>mAM Ms. Snirox-^In looking
through your YsaaBi. this mentb, I folt &
little disappointed at the very short accoont
of the Cambridgcshiro churches, and being in
possession of some interesting facts oonneoted
with the Sutton church ; I have thought it
might be interesting to your readers to leani
somewhat of its birth and growth to the pre*
sent time.

The cause at Sutton, like many other of
Ood*s work*,, owes his existence to the weak*
est of instrumentality. A little more than &
hundred years ago. there waa no dissenting
cause whatever in Sutton. In those days» a
poor, but good, man feeling his heart bum
withlove to Christ and precious souls, ob»
tained a few tracts, and went from bouse to
house with themj preaching Jesus as he
went. In hi& visits»he found a few godly wo>
mea, and they soon arranged to meet at one
of their houses for prayer, and reading the
Word. This humble means was blessed of
God. This house soon became too strait foe
them ; God appeared, and found them a bari^
where they worshipped tiU that became too
strait tor them :— (that barn I saw burnt
down nine years ago this spriitt,) they were
again encouraged to lengthen their corda and
strengthen their stakes. They built their
present meeting house in 1791, on a beautiful
site, commanding a view of the oountnr
around for many miles. I have many times
stood in its neat burial ground, and seeing
the villagers coming in all directions, some
walking, and some dnving. have contemplated
the words of the Psalmist, * Whither the
tribes go up. the tribes of the Lord, unto the
testimony of Israd, to give thanks unto the
name of the Lord.* Few, if any, of the fli-
thers live that saw that structure rise, but I
had the honor of burying a few within the
sacred endoeure, who were witnesses of its
erection, and among its earliest supporters.
One young man, Robert 6eodj by name, be-
ing employed to cart bricks, siud» * They may
hire me to draw bricks to ImiM the meeliBg,
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when iti built ; Til never go to tbe meetinj[.'
Bttt'Bobert's ways wu not God's ways, for m
a very short time Bobert was found within its
walls, and God fastened the word home as a
'nail in a sure plaoe,' and bored bis ear to
the post, and Bobert never left the house. He
soon became a member, and though he lived
nearly four miles off, Robert's seat was «eldom
vacant for upwards of forty years. When I
went to Sutton, in 1840, Bobert was very aged
ond infirm, but for some few years after that,
every Lord'S'day morning, would find the good
old saint, leaning on Ms big umbrella, making
his way towards the house of God ; mostly
early enough for thejrayer meeting, before the
morning service. Thus, instead of never en-
tering the house he helped to build, he
walked many thousands of miles to worship
within its walls. We preached his funeral
sermon from these words» * And now, Lord^
what wait I for ? my hope is in thee.'

However, the meeting house was finished*
and in a short time, it become too strait for
its worshippers, and i^in they ]}ad to enlarge.
After this, side galleries were erected, and a
few years ago a front gallery was put in.

Thus much for the building. Ihe Church,.
I beliere, was formed while they worshippea
in the barn. Its first Pastor was a Mr.
Norman ; a man not quite sound in the faith,
and I am not quite sure that he was a Strict
CommunioniBt ; but a man God honoured.
Some few of his seals still live. We had the
honour of burying some called under his
ministry ; among whom was Thomas TTffendell,
a venerable saint of ninty-five vears of age. I
hare often heard him speak m the highest
terms of his father in God, Mr. Norman.
This good man was baptised on a Christmas
day, and they had to break the ice, to lead
him and others into the water. He maintained
through grace, an honourable standing in the
Churdi, for more than sixty years. He con-
tinued to hear three sermons on a Lord's day
till within a very short time of his departure,
when like a shock of corn, he was gathered to
his fathers. We buried him in his own
grave in the Meeting-yard, and there were
present a chapel full, and among them several
persons over eishty, and many over seventy
years of age. His wife and only son died in
the faith. His two daughters are now mem-
bers of the church. His son's only child,
Thomas Uffendell, was called under my minis-
try, and is also a member.

I eould give many pleasing cases here, but
space forbids ; but one I feel I must say a
word about The grandmother of that honour-
ed servant of Christ, Mr. Septimus Sears, was
in those days, called by grace, at Sutton. She
soon expreafed a wish to obey her Master's
oommands, but her husband strongly opposed
her. However she determined to go forward,
and her husband determined to leave her. He
said to her, 'Well, have vou made up your mind
to be baptised?' * Yes,^ was her reply. 'Then
I shall leave you : go and pack up my things
and I'll go.' < Oh ! 1 would not go to-day (she
■aid,) wait a little longer.' <No:rUgonow:
pack up my things.* Accordingly she did so.

She Moked up his olothea, and he went off.
But ne had not been gone long before he re-
turned. ' JSh ! (she said,) wbat brings yon
back BO soon P' ' Why. these words nkrB
come to my mind, I don't know what they are^
nor where they are^they can't be for me—
they must be for you, ' Be ye steadfast ;' and
he could think of no more ; but the good-
woman caught them up, * Yes, (she said, call-
ing him by name,) I know, 'immovable,
always abounding in the work of the Lord/
&c. ' Yes, (he sud,) that's it. Th^ can't be
for me ; they must be for you, and I wont
oppose you !' And he acoompanied her to the
water'a edge^and witnessed her baptism.
She also, with some of her children, and
children's children, to the third and fourth
generation, are buried in the Meeting Yaid ;
some of whom I also buried.

Mr. Norman was succeeded bv Mr. Orrias,
a man of God and truth, who laboured there
very successfully for I think about eleven,
years. However, many of his seals live to
this day, some of whom have worn well for
fortijr or fifty years, and some died during my
ministry in good old age. I eould give
several pleasing accounts of such, but I dare
not enlarge. Mr. Orriss, according to uni-
versal report, was a sealous, devoted, affeotbn-
ate servant of Christ, and perhaps during hia
ministry the church at Sutton enjoyed some
of its brightest and best days. However, hia
work at button came to an end. He rensoved
to Ely, and from Ely to Somersham, wherv
he lalioured for thirty- three qrears, and died an
honoured servant of Christ in good old age.
Mr. Orriss was succeeded by Mr. Biofaard
Lay, a thorough Boanerges. But if report
say true, there was a need be for a Boanerges
in those davs, and Bichard Lay was sent aa a
refiner. Tne celebrated Bitaon was popular
in those parts then, and hii heresies were rife
among the people. And this Boanerges stood
forth boldly, waging war with the deadlj
heresv for about three years, during which
time his labours were blessed, and some of hia
seals still live, monuments of his nsefulneaa.
After Bichard Lay came, the venerable Wil-
liam Cattell. Mr.Cattell was ono of Mr.
John Stevens's disciples, and carried with hia
the views of Mr. S. on the Pre-eziiteDoe of
Jesus Christ. These sentiments have sown
discord in the church at Sutton, that we fear
will take many years to uproot Still, I do
hope things are on the mend. Mr.Cattell'
laboured for some sixteen years at Sutton,
toward the end of which time, he had a hand-
some property left him by one of his hearers.
This caused jealousy and suspicion, whieh
threw a damp upon his ministry. But he
did not labour in vain : the early part of Mr.
Cattel's ministry must have been very labour-
ious, and greatly owned and blessed. He
never accepted another pastorate after leayinf^
Sutton ; but continued residing in the neigh-
bourhood, to labour as an itinerant as long aa
health permitted. And many times during
his later days occupied his oldpulpit at Sutton.

W. F.

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l>mAM But — Mb. Edwards reeeired a
Mto from Jon, wuhing him to write
a few linM raipocthi; the ohoreh at
BottoB, of which he is now the pastor.
Bia time hanng been so short with us,
he would rather I should write, stating the
dealings of the Lord towards us as a church
and people. Binee our beloved Mr. Flack,
has left v», we have experienced a wintry
season; for four years, we have been in a
widowed state, oast down, but not des-
troyed; though we have been faint, vet
we kept pulstting. We have not had ' Icna-
botf written upon our doors ; but have mostly
had oar polpit supplied with men after God's
own heart, to breek the heart of life amongst
nsb We have alwavs had the ordinance of toe
Lord's Sapper administered every month.
Die Chunm consists of about 60 members.
We have a few praying souls to carr? on the
worship of the Grad of our fathers. Since we
have been destitute we have had about 20 good
mioistefs on probation, but not any of them
was to be the man; we were like Samuel
with his horn of oil, he was not allowed to
anoint any of the sons of Jesse, until the
Btripliag David was sent for. So also with
mj till Mr. Bdwardi was sent for, we could
not anoint any one for our pastor. We met
together well ; for after preaching to us the
fint time, his mind was drawn towards us,
sad oars toward him. It was quite unanimous ;
by the ehareh that Mr. Edwards should
teeome our pastor ; so that I rest assured the
La«d has sent him amongst us ; and that he
iatendi to blesa his labours. I rejoice that
oar eofenant keeping God, is unoliangeable,
thai he lovee his people as much in adversity
as in the day of prosperity, as much in the
vaBev of Aehor mm on Mount Tabor. There is
a delightfol harmony in the purposes and
aetioiis of a Triune God towaros hu beloved
peopkb He reats in his love ; is of one mind
and none ean tarn him, therefore the sons of
Jacob are not eonsomed. He has his set times
to ikvoor Zion ; he waiteth to be gracious ;
he has answered our many petitions in sending
OS a pastor after his own heart ; my fervent
prajrer is, thai the dear Lord will bless his
Bimatryaokingst ns, that there mi^ be a great
gathering of nredous souls to our heavenly
fihile, that at Button the little one may become
a thousand, and the small one a strong nation ;
tbat stout-hearted rebels may fdl as victims
to the groand, cnring, * What must I do to
besared ?* If God is pleased to work, none
can let or hinder, ' For ne doeth his pleasure
ia the araiies of heaven and amongst the
iahabitanta of the earth, none can stay his
ksod, or mj unto him, what doest thou.'

Toar'% in gospel bcmds,

FlOWBR BATSBft.

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VBW BAPTIST CHAPEL.

Ov ninnday, ICardi 81st, Mr. James Wells,

eight hundred persons on the ground to wit-
ness the ceremony, which took place, aoeord*
ing to announcement, at 8 o'clock in the
afternoon.

The serrice commenced by Mr. Wale giving
out the two fint verses of the hymn begmning

' Behold the sure foundation stone ;'

after which, Mr. Wells engaged in prayer,
and two more verses of the same h^rmn were
sung. Mr. Wells then delivered a stirring and
most appropriate address, which was listened
to with great attention ; after which he pro-
ceeded to lay the first stone, and Mr. Wale
then laid the other. The Boxology was then
sung, and the friends adjourned to the New
Hall, London-street, where about two hun*
dred and fifty sat down to tea ; after which,
Mr. Wells preached an excellent sermon from
2 Cor. ill. 12, to a congregation of about one
thousand persons, who all manifested the
greatest attention. The proceeds from the
tea and the collection, after deducting all ex*
penses, amounted to about fifteen pounds.

The day was beautifully fine, and nothing
occurred to mar the happiness of any part of
the proceedings. We hope to have the Chapel,
opened about the first or second week in
August; but till then we have engaged the
New Hall, for our Sabbath evening services,
commencing with the month of May, the
crowded state of our present Chanel, and the
growing heat of the weather, rendering such a
step absolutely necessary.

(From CosaBSFOvsBKTS.)

SOUTHWASK-UNIGORN YARD CHAPEL,
TOOLBY STREET. On Tuesday, March 26(11,
our pastor, Mr. C. W. Banks, administered the
ordinance of Believers* Baptism to four brethren,
and one sister, who had prsTioosly witaeascd a
good confession before the ohurob, one of the bre-
thren is the superinteadaat of the Sabbath School.
Oar pastor preached an able aoal-eomforting dis-
course from Matt, xxvlil. *LoI lam with yoa
always even onto the end of the world.' It was
very refreshing; very many were truly blest.
Others are hotering around ; we trust many may
be gathered into this charch of Christ. On Ban-
day, September 3rd, oar pastor received four bre-
thren and two sisters into Charch fellowship, and
fall communion ; his address to each was faithful,
affectionate, and suitable ; there was a large con-
legation of attentive hearers who had previously
listened with profound attention to his discourse
from Hebrews v. 8,9. 'Though he were a son,
yet learned he obedience by the things which he
suffered, and being made perfect, he became the
author of eternal salvation to all them that obey
him.' I wish I could write an epitomy of this dis.
course ; it was so appropriate and full of the glor-
ious Person of the .Son of God, and his finished
work, that we think the savour will long be felt by
many that heard. There is in most of bis sermons
a raoiness and fulneeo, only understood by those
who wait upon the ordinanoes of God's house, to
be fed with the Bread of Life, and are hungering
for the same. On Tuesday, April 8th, thefourm
anniversary of the Sick Visiting Society, belonging
to Unicorn Yard, was held. Mr. James Wells
preached in the afternoon a sound gospel sermon
from Matt. v. 48. 150 took tea. Public meeting
in the evening, T. Pocock, Esq, in the chair; Mr.
Edgecombe opened with prayer, our pastor Mr.
C. W. Banks, read the report, which was adopted,
and the claims of the Society most warmly advo.
by brethren Thomas Jones, Cracknel. Tho.

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tlMAkfirily reoeWcd by Mr. JMm Oivic, OBCwmy,
61, Franoii Street, Newiogton, S.

[We return eineere tbenke to Thomes PiUow,
Em., Jaraee Mote, Esq. ; Mr, WhktAker, end eev-
ermi friends from Deore Perk, end other neieh-
booring ebnrebeB, who to kindly and liberally nr-
vQRd OS with their eompeny end eeuatenanee.]

HAKPSTBADBOIlD-IIm work «r the Lord
•frpears t0 be soing tm at 8ta« b efe Street, Heap.
Mead Boad, We had a very f«U and praftiaUe
meeting on Tocsday, March 15th; aboat 130 to
tea; after which the large room soon became
crowded. After prayer by brother Bland, Mr.
Aldlae, pastor, stated the o«Jeet was to svbmit to
tke meetlog the plan of a new plaee of wvnhip,
which was intcadcd to be baUt in Camden New
Town, where a oaase it much needed, being ea in-
ereating neighboarhood,«Rd no diatentiog mtcreat
near, it was intended to begin with the restry
and school nwois, which wouM be 51 fbet by SS ;
in two teors at Che C Kt ieme end of the groniML

taken for the chapel, and wbteh will form one end
of the chapel, when bnUt, and remain the veetxtos
and school rooms, opening into the chapel; that
aflbrding accommodation for aboat WO people, and
the tame number of children at onoe ; and when
the fhnds, and the state of the eaoee warrant it, the
ehapel will he hallt. By thia plan, no oMtiey will
be spent in waste. The groand landlord toM Mr.
Aldia, it was his Intentioo to builda chapel on that
spots as a tpeealation ; but he has now promised a
donation towards the building; alto two years'
groand rent. The united with of the church and
congregation, and the erident signs of the work of
the Lr»rd being revired in our midst of late, seemed
to shew that the movement bad the diTine appro-
bation. Brother Poremaa, gavv a ^etf Inetrvc
tl«« adCrsea oa the fbandalion and oomer stone of
tte tsmpls ; brother Hesleten, on the materials of
tha tem^e ; hrsUicr Wyard, on the fltnets and unity
of the bnilifng ; brother Bland, alto addressed Uie
meeting, end moeed the following reeolatten, Tti :
*That fk«m the psaMen of this ohorch and eett-
gvegntion, and the very inconvenient eondition
■nd prcearlons tenure of the preeent room. It
appears fhlly desirable to proaaote the ereethm of

a new place of vrorship, upon the plan and on the
ground now submitted to the meeting.' Tnls re-
eolntioB was very heattily eeeonded by brother

Foreman, and earried nnanimonsly. Brother
BloomHeld, oflbred prayer. It was one of the beet
and mo«t profitable meetings vrtth which the fdends
at Stanhope Street have been favoutod.

HOIXOWAT— t forward you a brief cratline
of our annual tea meeting at Zoar: brethren
Flack, C. W. Banks, Ball, and DoTcy were pre-
sent. Tour exposition of the dignity of tbe Sov.
ereign of the Kingdom of grace was svreetly and
powerfoUy received ; the vubjeets of the kingdom
defined by brother Flack: the laws, by brother
Ball; perpetual story of the kingdom, by brother
Dovey, were all littoned to, and joyfhlly received.
Ton enquire^ am I happy at Holloway t Let me
say, I have nothing to make me otherwise. I
never sought Bolioway cause, but it sought me :
and the way teemed «o lAear that I durst not turn
from tlm requisition mode me to become itt paator.
Since my laboort there, we have steadily increased ;
new members have been added ; and peace is
in onr borders. The causes that led me to Hollo.
way, are 1st, I sought it not. 2nd, when invited
the people gathered. Srd, I did not ehooee for pe-
onalatj gain. 4th, because I was not entering
«pon taotlier man's Uaeof tUngs ; then being no
Btrtat B^jttet OhTOch near. 5th. Its nel ghbonrhood
ifu ttt l^Mt ifhnt my dnyi HI tnlty ifsvt spvBty

and Mat Ma ipnt T WM vdWl by V^tm. Sth,
there is a vattly growing population rWng
anrandnt. niese am the reasons for my tMspt-
tegthepastointe, aadltwni Mft he a ttnii m«Mr
that will drtvoMn away. YnVa in Jesns,

€0GOS$HAZX - DsAn Ma. Eniroa •- The
Friends at Salem Chapel, Chureh Street, Ooggee-
half, had one of the best. If not the voiy host,
meeting en Aprfi 4th, 18M, tkojt ever w<e hove tad
since our Ohapel tai becK bultt, a W. Basks,
preached ta the aAemeea from theae Meesed
words, * Neither is there aalTaUoh in any othor.'
Setting forth Christ as the Amen of all onr salva-
tion; divine power rested upon the woffA; eo
gladly was the word rceelved, that eoraeoay they
shall never forget it. One Mend toM me, he nanwr
felt so happy before in all hie iMh . he eayv, I
ioaged to be none : asoet gladly eeold 1 have Isft
all below, and have gone home, to haTeheenot
rest, O ! he says, when Mr. Banks spoke of the
diristian's heart ; it quite Hfted menp, othata sold
what a Messed meeting ; It Is good to he here; aaaae
eald, weeonldhaveaMallni^t. The ten i

at 5 o'clock* vms a very ideeafng eight
The friends and ndghhoars around gathered lag^
ther, exnressing sympathy, for which we are vcqr
thankful; many of our brethren in the mtaistry
came to help ut; we were glad ta have them.
Mr. Wlnfleld, (from London) was called te prseMa.
svpportcd on the right hasid by Mr. Yhnisiaa, «<
Balstead, and Mr. Merritt, of Oolcheeter; luaiaat
the left by Mr. Banks, of London, and around him
was Mr. Battron, and Mr. French, aad other
firiendt. Above thiee hundred mt down to ten, nad
the order was good ; by theexertlotte«f oarfHemiL
every mm was made oomfortaUe, and ^thsf •■
ttt m t d to be happy. Very eavonry and apidlaBi
addresses were given hy the brethren present, m
that the hearu of the people were made to r^oiai^
Bro. Collis. (our dear alnicted pastor,) was at tha
chapel to near Mr. Banks ; and was very glad ta
hear him. hut he eonld ndtslqp ta the tea aml««eB
ing meettatg. He Ismnch better; nod hopee to ha
in his Maater^s wotfc i«ahft shortly. Tonr'a lAlfea
beet of boodsy Tnoiua Bowijuw,

ZOAS CHAPEL, fiwiCE-Chtlstiaa Bro-
ther : Tbe cause ot our adored Redeemer (altar
nearly four years of hard stmggnng in the i ^^
of opposition from pretonded friends;
foes, is at length riaing from ita apvar
We had the pleaaare of baptising in iheoovnaaAl
names of our Jehovah, ninc^ persosM on Lard'a-
day morning, April S, 1859, in the presence ol
about 500 persons ; after a very solemn and eenreli-
ing disoourre on the origin, design and hleaaat
n«es of the Bapdem of heTlevers, neeardlng to tki
authority of our Lord and Maaler Jeeos Chdati
see Luke viL ^ .50; John i. 91-SS. Theaarslaa
was listened to with much solemnty, and from 4htt
results we rejoice to believe * The Lord was thin.*
W. F., Betnngh Bosd, Ipswloh.

HIiflmraS—DtAE Mn. Smtck: Thnra at* «
few toversef a frne grsne gaepel atHattiaufcfei
flnatag, who have been made honeat hi siwitoidtol
for the order of God's house as at first deUv<arod«
(via). Strict Communion, that have taken a va^
commodious school room In Castle view-fdaca^
near Welltngton Square ; hy way nf vaklng th«
same known, two se im ana wna preaehad hy If r.
R. 8. Bird, of Olapham, on the 10th, and twobv
Mr. James Wells, of London on the 14th of April,
which we believe was attended by the unction of
the Holy One. They have Invited Mr. Waterer, of
Brighton, to preach to them for a eertain tSttann
Lord'a-days, and Mr. Wall, of Rye, kindly ptma^
ises to preach to them on Thunday evawMfc
May the hands of their anns be ma4» atrong tiy tha
mighty God of Jacob: fhr he hath said, *thaM
that hononr ma I wiUhmwur.' AndaoMlmft

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We' v«r« g&a to see a good gathering at brother
Diek««oa'a oa Thondaf •Teaikf, Mareh Utt, on
vhieh ooeasion the anxiiial meeting in connection
mitk Ito 9Uk Ouu tK y «m toM. Aftar tea, Mr.
Dickaraoo* took tha ohair, and called upon bro-
tber Cracknall, to lapiiiUeata the Lord's bieestng. A
«eU vrittan report ma road by Mr. White the
Secretary of the Society, by which we learnt it
waa ia a proapevMi acata, tkata being a balaace in
Treasaxvr'ahaada, through a legacy of £10 left to
the Society doring the year. Besolationa were
Mt to Om aMetSag and oarried, being spokes to by
lae brvthrm Wyatd. C ra eha e ll , Pelte, Jidgeeoaaba,
•ad ottera; bat we ooald not help thiakiag on re-
Uma« hone, tliat the moat telUag speech wa* thai
of a wovUng man, who at hia own request waa
invited cm the platform, and with a heart filled
with cvatitade gave an aeeonnt of his call by
graet tknragb tbe InatniMeBtaUty of the Sick
boeiety, daeiariag h im aul f to be a mooomeat to
aoreretiTB grace. That many anoh resalta okay be
fooAd from the labours of this and Jdndred aocic-
ties is tiM earnest dealre of

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Ctiilnonsnil CniBfi-

UTTLB HOOBFIBUM " BAPTIST CIIA-
PKL, WHITe 8TR££T. On Lefd'suiay, April
i7th, 1AM, ibe hnadrad aad firtecnth anaiTersary
wa« held, when three sermoaa were preached by
Me&sni Williamaoo, Banks, and Webb. On Tues-
day, 19th, the llrtt year of the present paator, Mr.
O. Webb, waa noticed by Mr. Bloomfield preaching
a geod geapel eenaea in the a fte iaoon. After tea,
a pabHc ■wttag waa held; after aiaging and
prefer hr brother Fk>ry, the meetieg waa ad.
drnaed egr brother Banks, who made a few
reaiarkB on Paatan zxiii. Christ the Shepherd of his
people. Brother Wyard, gare some interesting
words that the people are in peace aad prosperity,
whioh tae tr«atad weald leag eeatinae^ It was an
old MMa, aad aMbeegh It had aaak low, ItatiU
cakled: wUeh be traatad it wooM ; and aheep be
gathered in. The paator now said, he felt much
o » ei uwa e at the goodness of God, or he should
hare said mote at the opening of the meeting, he
wj o i e i d they weie ia peace, he had his troubles,
bat hai bean liavaared to add 91 last year, and
had aew 9 lor Baptism. Brother Hasleton, fol-

f waa also addresaed by brethren
ebb, and Chivers. It waa a
r; foil of lifcb larour, and freedom.
F. W.

CtAPSAH-OABIfEIt CHAPEL. DaAa Ma.
aiToa. la thaaUsg yon for the insertion of our

aaalTeraary notice, we feel asrared that yon will
be pleased to hear that our friends made a good
r ea p oaae to oar aanooaoemeat ; aad throagh the
tender nacrey of oar God, we had a good day. The
' teatfaiflay delirered by those noble ohamp.
ir tratli, Mr. Wells and Mr. Foreman, was

by the a ne tioo e blessing of oar God to
afort of Zion*a trareUcrs. The atten.
I exeeDent and the collections far ex-
eceded oar expcctatioo. To oar God be abandant
hoaoar» aad to oar frieada. both ministers aad peo^
pla, tboee of the adjoining oanses and those of the
more dletaat oaea, we present onr warmest thanks.
It is gtatUViav to ns that oar aflhirs are placed in
od bottaeae poeitSea. Mr. Hall has accepted
aad oar prayer is • O Lord, we

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mmM^MMJAL OBBSV-HOPE CHAPEL, in
5eeiaa Street, Twig Polly, (Mr. T. B. Parber's,) is
ahoal to be enlarged. It is a pleaaing sight to see
the ebapel crowded and etammed to listen to the
waria of life here; aad better than all iL the
Load laa^m^bH «id«oaCBCtteg hnadrediof hfi

Dbab 8iB,--In reading * Little One's * letter
on Baptism, insetted in this month's YvBOtti, 1
was astounded to find the following wnteneey
• War thejfj {ths Apostlet) were net feaf perioa-
aZfy to ftopeiee, 5at to preach the Ootpel* and
I could not help saying to myself, Surely tlift
ecod man mnst hare made a groat mtstalce,
becavae our Lord's command i» eqyuUlypoH'
tive, plain^ and personal on both points ; * €Fo
ye therefore^ and teach all nation»j haptiainff
them in the name of the Father, and of fka
Son, and of the Holy Qhoet ;* which commife-
sion 'Little One' » bound to acknowlei^
was giren bv our Lord to the apostles perttm*
ally. And if words have any meaning at alL it
contains a positire command for the apowim
peraonallff to teach or preach, and j^erwonaUjf
to baptize. I shall therefore esteem it a faronr
if *l<ittle One' will give his aathority for
saying that the apostlee toere not sent pereon*
ally to haptixe ; and also to state that if Miy
were not, who were, and when, and by whom f
For if the apostles were not sent pereoaallv
to baptise, others most hare been, or else b
follows that those wlio did baptixe, did so oa
their own head, er without any Dirine anl^
rity.

Yoar insertion of this in the Vsassz. «i&
giaatly oblige A Covstaw ]aiA]>BX»

T1BW8 OF PEOPHECY
(lb ae SdUor)

DBi.s Sir— The Whimr, Not 7 and 8 ia
trae to the title^an fizpositionof Bar. 12 aMl
13. My object in that, was not as yon state, te
dwell on one question. Since I published a
work entitled The Seven Beale, my mimi b«i
been led to publish a continuation of views of
pro^ecy; from a conviction, derived ilrom
reading the word, that the principle of inters
wetation oommonly applied is false : I had

. long pondered upon what must strike many at
a difficulty, namely— the kind of wisdom need-

I ed to understand the apocalyptic symheia.

1 1f general commentators oe true, the key In

< general use is great knowledge of the hittorr
of the world, and of the church If then tlJa
be absolutely needed, how can it be that tiio
Bible is its own interpreter ? Is it then Air
attempting to ghew that the wisdom required
is dirine, and not natural, that yon speak as

I you do P Is it for an endeavour to lead to tba
word, I am to be misrepresented f Then I

I shall feel it nodishononr; only I should prefer

I you to have left that to other reviewers. SPIe
Wltitper is needed as a medium of truth,
with all due deference to the YmtsaL, The
author conscientiously believes it has a mission
to fulfil, however feebly it mav de that work.
One thing the author would not consider
creditable io himself— to be frownod into
silence, after the clear tokens of the blessii^
of the Lord, in his search of the Word. Tear*!
sincerely, C. S,

fjDm ipii tt <K <liis Soto is ezoeUeat ; and
w« again repeal tbaft as a (AriMiaa mtta;o»
•n eaniMt stii(ioat» miM^mifl» tmiamty

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and at a mat aaorifloe, aaaki to throw li^t
into theaark mmdi of hlc fellow men — we
Tery highly esteem Mr. Charles Skinner;—
we do not think any one who thoroughly
knows him, can do oUienrise. It was there-
fore, painful to us. to notice his work as we
did— and seeing that, in every way, he has
heen to us a real friend, it would faiare been
cruelly ungrateftil, but for the fkot. that he
entertains and adrocates one particular notion
opposed, as we beliere, to divine revelation :
and in our contention for all which we believe
essentially and divinely true, we shew no

Jiuarters ; we ask no favours ; we seek no
orgiveness from men. Convince us we are
in error ; or, have pleaded for truth in an
anti-christian spirit, and we fall down in sor-
row : but when error, in a gospel garb, comes
in our way, we must speak out, u we die for

it-ED.]

NEW BAPTIST CHAPEL, CLAPHAM.

On Monday. April 11th, was laid the Found-
ation Stone of Bethesda Baptist Chapel, Cran-
mer Court, Clspham Bise ;— for the use of the
Church and Congregation, K. 8. Bird the
minister. A goodly number of friends from
London, Chertsey, and Uie neighbouring
Churches, were present ; witii severalminister-
ing brethren, who love our Brother Bird, and
the flock under his care : after the hymn,

' God moves in a mvsterious way,' ftc,
our long tried and laborious Brother C. W.
Banks sought the Lord's Blessing on the
Pastor, the flock, and worshipping xamilv ; on
the buUdinif, and the builders, that the house
might be raised, that sinners might be brought
down, saints built up, and Ood be glorified.
Mr. Jsmes Wells then, in his usual decided
manner, addressed the assembly, declaring the
only sure basis of real prospenW rested in a
close abiding by new Covenant Iruth. B. 8.
Bird then deposited in a metal case under
the Foundation Stone,— the following epitome
of the Church's Faith and practice.

<This building, to be called Bethesda
Baptist Chapel, ^is erected for the worship of
the Triune Jehovah, Father, Word, and Uolv
Ghost ; by a Church, the members of which
are composed of Men and Women, who upon
declaration made of Repentance towards God,
and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, (and such
only,) have been baptised by immersion in
the name of the Holy Trinity ; and then,
partake of the Lord's Supper ; maintaining
all the distinguishing doctrines of grace, and
contending earnestly for the truth once deUver-
ed to the saints. As witness our hands,
BicHABD Stixltbass Bibj>, Pagtor

SUfVBL RULTOF, ")

JoHv FiLBWoon, > Dbacovb.

Samubl Maiskt, )
The Foundation Stone was laid this 11th
April 1869, by Mr James Wells, Pastor of the
Surrey Tabernacle ; the further particulars
next month.

[This little garden has revived considerably
since Mr. Bird has been singing therein* The
Xiord has honoured him indeed 1]

B0KB 4VB QXFOBD*

It Is no use attsmptiBg to shut our eyas to
the terrible fMt, that an amalgamation betwasA
the EnglUh and the Romish Ghurehes Is fiut
approsehing. Letters, books, sad evidences from
all qoarters are eominf to hand; and elsarly
snoogh we see, that while good men are slceptag,
the enemy is busy at work. Thrse years siaee
— or m or e- -w e sommeneed a cheap serial. ■ The
Antt-popf ih Bevicwer.' Thoossads of that work
were eircalsted, bat the great Iom we sustained,
and the little sympathy we met with, threw as
upon onr baok ; — i nr foes looked oa, and laughed,
while wo were sighing in the valley. It became
Qs to bow with snbmlsston ; and to cease ow
efforts to resist the sdrsaecs of those most
dssdly opponents to the gfspel — that legion of
aati-Chrisilsn powers. While we inly moam
over the apathy of onr trnth-loviag Churches,
we rejoice in diseoTerlag a spirit kindred to onr
own, rising up in some of onr more able
brsthren. Mr. Wale's Leetores on * Trac-
tarianlsm' (now pabllahed by Stevenson, for
sixpenee,) have made the Pasejltes very an-
gry : but every gospel Minister— every Mend
to that Protestantism which was bom in
the council ehsmbers of the Mew Covenant — that
Protestantism which was brought forth by, and
embodied in the person sad work of our glorloos
High Priest — that Protestantism, which is pnb-
lithed wherever * the Gospel of the grace of
Ood ' is proolaimed, every lover of that heaven«
originating Protestantism Is bonad to use his ut-
most endeavoors to d^md^ ss well as to deelar^-
the troth. Why should act public meetings
every where be holden all throogh our ehnrches T
Mr William Hawkins, Baptist Mlniater, of Brad,
ford, has been deliTcrlog Lectures In some of our
large towns, with great suoesss. We hail bis
efforU with delight, and with earnest prayer.
We thank the Lord for the measure of health
given again to him ; and for the evident fresh
anointing with which he has been favoured ; to
aid him in a work so seasonable and so essential,
will be to us an ovaagelieal luxury. We ean
only this month quote a line or two from his
letter to us. He says :—

* Wherever I have been, we have as vet, had
most crowded andieneea however large the ^ace.
Bnt the Papleta are alive everywhere. Their
priests now equal in nnmber onr Baptist mlnlatera
of all ahadee ; their increase of places of wor-
ship beat ours, and the monastriee, and convents
are more than doubled ^ineo 1850 1 and besides
noblemen, clergymen, fte., going over to them, I
have partieulars of Independents, Baptists, and
Wesleysns truly sppalling.

TntTFoan, Mosfolx— On Friday, April Itt,
James Newborn, of Ely, opened a large room la
Tbetford, Korfolk, for preaching; and in the
foUoiring week, J. Oowing of Noiwich, spoke In
the ssme room fh>m Aeiit<>8th, later part of
27th verse. The little k ni would feel very
thankfiil, should sny miKlBte^ of the gospel be
passing from London, Ac, to Korwieh, Yarmouth,
fto., if they would stsy on iheir wsy at Tbetford,
for only one night, u they are without a regular

supply. Direct to J. Oiverlyi No. 4 Bury-road,

" )ogre

Thetford, a day or two before.

Jot 1. ISML]

TUB BARTflXN TB88BI.*

125:

®5< ®W0 6rrtttc5<ft ttt €^t\$i

OB, WHICH AM I?

Iv «■■ BMrly twelf • o'doek one Satoiday
mght whoa I returned from a hard week's
von in the mhiistrjf ; and in preparing for
the ^ri!aal neeetiitiei of the thonflands
whom it is mj hononr and my hanpiness to
proTide for, (aian initrnment,) in tne wilder-
nett. Aa I lat down in mj little hook-cahin,
I lecretlj aaid, ' I haTO no text for to-mor-
row! Lobd! do hsip me, I am wearj;
barrea; and •enaihlj dependent' I did in-
deed feel aanred of the great truth of the
Martei^a worda— ' Without mew am do no-
(km§: With Mr. Toplady, I eonld hare
sang— (although it might hare been to ra-
ther a Bonmfu tune : — )

* JfMt, ImmoUblf th« SUM t
Tliov true and Uriag Tint I
Aroand thy all-Mpportlog »tem,

Uf fMbls arat I twint.
' I 6*11 do Aotbiaf withoat tb«e,
Uj etrcsfth to wholly thioo ;
Withered sad barren thonld I be.
If MTtrtd from the Tine.'

In aneh a ij^rit, the words of the Lord
eame to my mind—' .fiJMry Waneh in me that
htmreth mot fruity he taketh aweaif : and every
brmmeh thai heareth fruit, he pwyeth it, that
it may brmy forth mmrefruU* I laid, there
are two maehei in Christ, one merely the
eicatare of his all-creating power, and, at
belt, hot tLpro/eeeor of his goepel ; the other
hnadi is ta Him bj eternal union; by
eovenaat vnioB ; by ntal union ; in Christ
by tke FATHxn'a donation ; the Son's re-
demption, the Holy Saint's regeneration ;
ur Ohjubt, by the dinnely inwrought life
of frith, meioQs fellowship ; and a holy one-
■cas IB aO the ehsracten he sustains ; in all
tka gloiiow attributes of hii mediatorial oon-
sSitntioo ; and in all those great aoiaM * (or
Mssnfial truths) of the everlasting go^el

* Im 'Borrey TnhemMle Palpit,' No SI, Ur,
Wolle Miye :—

Than to ao kingdom like it for etrengtb. * la
that daj ihall thto to^g be long in the land of
Jvdah ; «e hare a strony eiiy ; Mlvation will
God appoint for walto and balvarka.* NineTeh*a
w«l3a» and Babylonia walla, and Jcrnaatenk'iwaUa,
vitn teokea down; bat the walto of aalvation,
who akall break down f What then to to be
dMoT * Open ye the fatea, (the gatea of truth,)
ttet tka rifhtoona nation whtoh keepcth the
tniU, may eater in ;' Ulerally tranatoted, it
wonld be. 'Open ye the gatae, that the righteooi
natioa whieh kcepeth the amem may enter in ;
■md I ahoold prefer that rendering, and I will
have it too. Why, aay yon, yon ean't. Bat I
wat hnve it. It's not im Engltoh. Then I will
have tt la Hebrew. I Uke it, bceanae aU thr

Vou XT.-No. 171.

wliioh roTeal and make known to us, the
way of life: the ancient ladder, whereby
Christ comes down to redeem, and redeemed
ones ascend to dwell with the Bedeemer in
glory. And as I thought of these two
branches— the words fell from my lips—
* AND WHICH AM I ?*

This led me to think of a imall mece of
paper which brother Meekins, the Waddes-
don Hill pastor, gsTe me the other day at
Cnddington, in Buckinghamshire, and which
reads as follows :

W.MsKKiHS, Pastob ot Wasdisdov Hill.
BsHDBTH GanBTivo TO C. W. Banks.

BsAB 8n— There to a piece in your Ybssei.,
for the year 1848, commencing at page 24ti,
closing at page 247, which I Uiink from what
I have seen and heard, has wounded some of
the Lord's people. I speak for one, it has
wounded me ; for if what he states on page
246 be true, I know not where to find the
people of Qod. For that writerj on page 246,
says that the mere bond children are wroueht
upon, and make a profession ; he says, they
have marks and eridences. He says, on page
246, that the bastard has had his strong con-
Tictions, hto legal terrors, his fierce tempta-
tions, his deliverances, his hopes, hto pros-
pects, and his assurance. Tet after all, the
foregoing being felt and experienced, he is no-
thing but a natural man.

Dear Sir, I want either you, or that man of
God, * A Little One,' to insert a piece in the
Ybbsbl, clearly pointing out tne difference
between mere natural conrictions, and those
true, spiritual convictions which none but the
eleot of Qod ever have. God help one of vou
to comply with miy request, and aign myself —
A Poor, Tbibd,Tbmptbd, Cast Dowv Soul
AT Waddbsdom.

I believe there are many thousands of the
Lord's dear children who are sorely tried on
thu point : they do not dearly see their calling
to be of God ; and the minis^ they sit under,
it may be, is a confused, weak, powerless,'
unsavoury, and uncertain one ; consequently
many of them are exercised deeply. In mix-
ing with the churches in the Provinces this
spring, I have been spoken to by many who
are in low places, ana cannot see their signs.
I shall be thankful, therefore, to give the
people a dear discovery of the manner, and

tmtha of the goepel are atnen*, * I have loved
thee ; I have choeea thee ;' aettled the matter ;
*I will nerer leave thee, nor forsake thee.*
These are the people that shall enter into glory ;
them that keep the amm$. And there is no
prospeel like the proepeet of thit kingdom.
Trnat ye in the Lord for ever; for in the Lord
Jehovah, to everlaating strength^jOOQlC

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tJvMltlSlt.

the method, of ' A Ortmoui Gail from Satan* »
kingdom into ihs kingdom of God's dear Son,*
If *A Little Ooe' — (sad every body knows
now that he ie Job's next-door nei^hbonr) or,
even a less than he, can fnmish it out of God*8
Holjr Word, as that word has been to them
Uhe engrafted %cord convening ealvatum to
their own eouit^* I shall ifladlj insert it.

There certainly are two deep things to be
aroided here : — the first is, not to baild np
dead professors nor mere mental and momen-
tary moomers *foith unUmpered mortar*
Master Boulton deals sharply with saoh per-
sons. He says : —

GoHOiRHXvo a right and oomfortable man*
a$ing of our spiritual estate, a point of deep-
est oonaideration, and highest eonsequence.
take notice of two extremes— two dangerous
rocks. ui>on which the soul may run, and split
itself, spiritually.

I. Tht one ii a proud, or^-pnaing ef our
own graces, with a oonoeited, over-weaning
self-admiration.

II. The other, a dcjeeCed, dietrosifnl, un-
dervaluing of God's mercies, the promises of
life, and those graoes which we poassis in trutit
and holy desire; though not in that degree
we desire.

I. Before I can seasonably and preparedly
fall upon the first, to instmot punotnaUy, and
arm the Christian against it, with whom I
principally deal in thu whole disoourei^ give
me leave to discover a mystery of spiritual
self-deceit, by which Satan siu presnmptu-
oualy in the darkened minds, and deluded
i m a g in ations of those, whom, with hit eonning
and malice, he hoodwinks, and hardens to
their endless confusion.

Many thousands, even nnder the means,
and n this glorious mid-day of the Gospel,
are groundJessly coofceited, that they are
right ; when, as in truth ud trial, they are
rotten at the heart root; that they are sure
of heaven, when they are, as yet, most cer-
tainly of the family of hell. Neither is this
any strange thing ; so deluded weie the fool-
ish Virgins, (Matt xxv. 11 1^ and so are
all such outside Christians. Those (Luke
xiii. 26, 27) and to are all, who stand only on
the works wrought, and bare tasks of reli-
gious duties, without the power of inward
Holiness. The young man in the gospel,
(MaU. xix. 20,) with that generation, Prov.
XXX. 12. And so are all such civil Joatida-
ries. The proud Pharisee^ (Luke xviii. 11,
12J who was so confident that he gave
thanks for hii blessed condition, when be
was, as yet. a cursed, unjustified wretch ; and
so are all of his formal strain. Those (John
viii. 9.) who held themselves to be Abraham's
children ; whereas, Christ tells them, the devil
was their father, verse 44. And so are all
thoee, who build only upon the outward privi-
leges of Christianity, without spiritual purity.
Paul, in the state of Pharisaism, and so are
all thoee, who, wandering ont of the patib
which 18 called holy, swell with a prond
opinionaliveness and Airious seal, above the
banks of God's blessed book, and bounds of
sll holy disotvtioB, and will needs soar aloft

on waxen wings of self-eoneeitedness, and
Buperfidalness, to strange and uneooth heights
of excellent fancies, wioiout having ever laid
sound foundation in true humiliation for sin,
and in self-denial: the church of Ttaodicea,
(Aev. iii. 17,) and all such luke-warm profes-
sors. Hence we hare a taste, whst a world
of people are wofully bUnded by the prinoMf
thu world ; and through the iasiauatiiig tm*^
posture, and unexamined delusion of smritnal
self-deceit, are put into a fbors jMirsflise, of
being already safe and secure s>r heaven;
whereas as vet, they are strangers to the
mystery of Christ, and the New Clreatioo, and
sliall certainly be damned, if they so continue ;
* For that wnich is highly esteemed amongst
men, is an abomination in the sight of Qtoa*
saith Christ to the self-justifying Phariseee.*
Luke zvi. 16.

Who bat a long-established baUever U
(yhrist, (or, a hardened speculator) would not
trembUngly cry ont~* Lwd^ keep back iky
e^rvantfrom preettmptuout einsV Beader,
look earefully over the above searching worda
of sn old saint; turn to the Scriptures hequotes,
and, if then art enabled, do try and examine
thy spiilrnal condition as before a holy and
righteous (ted,

I do not here attempt to answer Mr. Meek-
ins's query ; that I hope will come more in
order. One word by which I was relieved,
edified, and helped. I was led to the following
refleotMma, lovehing the coming np ef the an-
oieBt 7ewi fram captivity ; as typical of aa
eleet venal of many oonnig^—throngh gnee,
up from the grave of the ftdl; from death,
and from the eorse. I was led to Zeehariah.

Tan prophetfs name is significant ; * The
Lord remsmbe n * It implies promisee made,
a time of suspenae^ and the eertainity of
ftilfllment; let us take Zeehariah with as,
and sing, * The Lerd remembeire* na : remem-
bers hia ooyaaant ; the Person and work of
hia dear Son ; remembers our sonl-travail, oar
prayers, cries, sorrows, and seekinga ; and
remembers all the promises he hss spoken to,
and for OS. He came up from the Babyloaialt
captivity with Zer%maM, There were
three famons leaders who came no- from
Babylon in the restoration of the Jewa to
their own land. Now, look at that realoim-
i tion as typical of the elect of God coming up
from a fallen world, the Btkbylon of thu
sinful state : then take the three leaders as
typifying the grace of God in the soul, and
yon nave three beantifal evidencea of aon-
ship,

1. There UZerMabel^ that is a oom*
ponna of two words, a stranger ^ aad eonfit^
sion, one repugnant to eo^fnei&n* Sin ;sataga*a
service; bondaga vnder the law; and all
worldlv embaraasinent% briageaafosioa : the
wioked nma sa regmda sphritoal things, is all
ooaAisioB: look at him when death -eomea^
when judgment oomes. 'Gh! let me flee
away, says he.' Now grace if opposed to
oonnisioni opposed to ui, to sataoi to all

»•!

THS lA^Brttm TlBBlIu

cdk the Ml awajr « Z«nbbdbal dUL

t&rd^ ^En oouMs to help poor Zeniblmbel
wlio Is ■Crosgliiig to gel awaj from oonfa-
mrm « TIm Lofd roiiiemben' to Mp hit

poor rtreggling Zerabbabels.

Thou com«B ITehmmaA : * The r^ of ik$
Lord* GnoeeoniM from oM/vmoii— grvee
hidpt OS on omr way— graoe leads lu to reet
in tke Lord, and to prore Hix to be our
only rest. 2Senibbahel is a hmU^ ; Em is
a 9er%he ; Kehemiah a rtfvrmtr, Gnee
ViiiklB « 19 in Ghriat ; instmots ns in the
truth, and makes ns new ereatnres in Jesos,
as the word declares. This prophot Zee-
hariah — * Tht Z&rd rememben^' had Tery
special riowi of the God-man Mediator.

1. Bj this prophet, JehoTah speaks,
'Awake, O sword; against my Shepherd,
against the numy* ftc.

2. This prophet saw the regenerated
onea looking on him and weeping; <They
shall look on him and monm.'

8. He sees Christ in the bottom among
the myrtle trees. *

4. He beholds him as the builder with
tile meavnring line in his hand.

6. He beholds him riding on an ass Into
Jcnsmlsm.

6. Ue Tiews him as the heautifal BaAKCfH
of the Lord.

7. He beholds him in the completeness of
hii work, * Grace, grace nnto it"

This seren-fold Tiew of Christ is reyealed
nato a living faith^ I do belicTe. Faith sees
the Father soiite his darling Son. Faith looks
on the Smitten Man, Jehorah's fellow.
Faith beholds him in a Talley with his people.
Faith reeogniaes Christ as the Great Baler,
the Aztfaiteet, and Bailder of the chnrch.
Faith sees him on the strong gospel ass riding
into Jerasalem. Faith acknowledges him
as the anlhor of all frnitfalness and strength.
Faith is eonfident he will complete the work,

' shall be broagnt home with

Readera of this EAUTHBir VissiL, one
ig I solemnly declare mto you. My aim
(aa the Lord's eenrant;} to nnfbld the
trwth ; to arouse the lukewarm and the care-
less ; to eomlbrt and eneonrage those who
OMon after paidon and peace in Jesus ; and
ineieasinglyto know the Lord for myself ; to
lore bia p iec ions name more and more ; and
that he may be still the lifter np of my head,
ia aometiaaes tiie Tiolent prayer of

C. W. Banks.
la tlM «RiiQli« nnarks, somt feeble light it
Ikrovm apon Um iUff«r«aM betwoen ■th« two
bff»uea««.* Tbe first is « sure presanptooiis speo-
Q'ation, wltlu>nt utj tpiritaal daliveranee of lool
witboMt any beMt-mdiag oonflioU betWM* th »
flaaa Mid caesptiit. Tte •Cher Juows w«U wtaa®
1& Uu> cone oat Iroaitetaa'Sfloaftuaioa; kaoir
vb»l it ia to be helped br the L^ao; and ume
dmfli to oweeCly reet In Um; but I hope this vU
be mote faDf eliewB y«t«

EPISTLES TO THB0PHILU8.

LVITSB LTI.
THX SBVBN BBALS : THX TAIS HQB8B.

Mt good THBOPHiLUB^Let ns now go
on a little farther with the seven mystic
seals. We have next the jHi&AorM, and his
name that sat on him is death; what death
is this? Not that death that iscommon to all
men ; I think it cannot mean this, but some
4M0m; kind of death; and bendes, this pale
horse, you observe, has power over only a
fouth part of the earth, or as it may bexen-
deredy a fourth part of the land. This pris
hone has a rider whose name is death, fio
this pale hone is an ecdesiastically living

power, and carries a rider, which I sappov
the fbllowen of this pale hone wonld not
call death, but Uft; ibrsnrely they would not
volnntarily follow what they believe and know
to be dmUh, This pale hone then must be
sooM rdiffimu power ; the rider most be the
image of the tyttem called death, bat which
men no donbt aUl life ; for ia etornal matten
it is not at all nncommon for men to pat
death for life, darkness for lirht, bitter for
sweet, falsehood for truth, ana delusion for
real divinity. And the foUowen of this pide
hone are called hades, or hell; that is, they
are children of hell, (Matt. xziiL 16) sous of
perdition, ordained by the law of God to con-
demnation. What then is this jpa& horse i Not
the gospel, for that is symboliaed by a white
horse ; not Mahometanism, for that is de»
noted \fj a red hone; not Catholicism, far
that is distinguished by a hkuik horse. Wheie
then shall we look for this ^dU horse ? This
pede horse may, to the eyes of moles and bate,
and owls, evppear to be a white horee ; none
oomesso near in appearance to the white
horse as does this pale horse. Now then, put
free-willism and duty-frithism together, and
you will have at once presented to you this
pale horse ; and the rider will mean the mia»
istry that goes forth by this system of dead
doctrine ; and this system, and this ministry,
the children of wrath follow. Hell followed
with him, but all among such, whose names
are in the book of lifift, who are so deceived
for a time, shall in due time be undeceived,
and shall see that they have been follewiag
not the white hone of the gospel of the true
grace of God, but have been following a pale
hone, and a ministry of death, and not of
life. However expert a rider this false ministry
may be, still it is but death at the best;
mere and more killing souls to New Testa-
ment, new covenant truth, this rider, this
ministry by the pale horse wrests the Scrip-
tnses to the destruction of many ; and woald,
if it were possible, deceive the very elect
The unlearned in the echool of true gospel
ezperienee are unstable in the truth, dealiog
jnst CMnrii in the tnith to carry on the de*
oeption, themselves being deceived; and so

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it is written, * I will send them ttromt dela-
rion, and they thaUbdieve a lU. So you
see, they do believe what they preach ; and
are as sme^rtf in error, as good men are in
the truth ; and many of them no doubt wouldi
such is their sincerity, that many of them
would, from the force of a misguided ooU'
science, give their body to be burned rather
than apostatize from their pale horse system.

There are, by the followers of this pale
horse, there are especially in the Epistles of
Paul, some things hard to be understood, and
what my good Theophilus, are these hard
things ? Ton cannot be at a loss to know
what they are ; you cannot fail to see from the
9th chapter to the Romans, and from the
Epistle to Hebrews, what these hard things
are— they are the sOTcreignty of Gtod. The
eternal perfection of the priesthood of Christ,
and the new covenant with all its settled and
eternal certainties. I pray that many a free-
wilier and duty-faith follower may read this
letter, and turn away from the pale horse and
his rider, (a dead ministry,) and follow the
white horse of certain and eternal triumph.

When I say a dwd ministry, I mean it is
dead to Ood, and to those who know their
need of a better gospeL Alas ! so far from
this rider (death) being dead, in other respects
he possesses immense power — he is a kind of
living-death ; this rider is a miniitry which
takes a mighty hold of the fleshly senses; its
passion and pathos are tremendous; its
workings upon the natural conscience is irre-
sistable to those who know not the secret of
the whole affair ; this rider, this dead-living
ministry, is a wonderful moralisti at least in
theory ; its own works, in its own eyes, are
wonderful; and hell follows with him, not
heaven follows with him, but hell follows
with him. The Lord goes before his people,
but Satan follows after his ; he drives them
before him, just as he drove the herd of swine,
so he drives men until they are drowned in
perdition.

Thus, here is in the eyes of the carnal mind,
a white horse, but in reality apaU horse to
attract. Then here is the rider, riding off to
his own place, and his followers dancmg de-
lightfully along after him.

But, let us now look at his weapons; be
kills with the sword, with hunger, and with
death, and with the beasts of the earth.

What, then, is this sword ? Is it not the
twrd of God itself f and, which word is called
the sword of the Spirit ? Did they not turn
this very sword against Christ himself, and
so handed him over to the secular power
under the statute of blasphemy f And ao not
free-willerSf duty -faith men, and mere moral-
ists, so pervert the word of God, as to turn
it against God himself, against his sovereign-
ty, against the sovereignty of the Holy
Ghost, against the real liberty that if in
Christ } while a fourth part of those of

whom we hoped better things, suffer then-
selves thus to be killed to that gospel which
they professed to love, and to be saved by.
How cleverly does this rider of the pale
horse, this false ministry, brandish its sword :
can take the Holy Scriptures by wholesale to
defend their position ; false as that position
is, and thus making use (though at the same
time turning it the wrong way) of the sword
of the Spirit ; their followers dare not resist
them ; and so this rider goes on killing his
followers to God's truth, making use of God's
own word to achieve their ends ; and by such a
sword as this, the people are very naturally
awed, not perceiving that the nder is not
fi^htin^ Jehovah's battles, but siding with
him (ignorantlv, of course,) who deceiveth
the whole world. Bat we have the happiness
of now and then seeing the eyes of one and
another opened, so that they see that the
pale horse, though much like the white horse,
yet it is not the white horse and the rider,
though he have ^ reat power ; still it is not
the power of electing, reideeming, and saving
grace, but rather a power to kill to these.
Try, then, my good Theophilus,' to distinguish
between Solomon's valiantmen, and theswords-
men of the deoeiyer : Solomon's valiant men
defend the bed, the rest which is Solomon's ;
that is the rest which is established by the
Saviour, by the peace he hath made; but
Satan's swordsmen would spoil this our reat^
ing place; one telling ns that there are some
in hell, for whom Christ died ; another tell-
ing us, that Jesus Christ wishes to save the
non-elect, but does not put forth any power to
save them, but will put forth power to damn
them, /or not putting forth for their own sal-
vation, powers which they did not possess, Sueh
swordsmen, are not the defenders, but the
troublers, the disturbers^ of the rest, the
reprose, the safety, which is Solomon's— that
is the King of Peace. Solomon, as you know,
means peace or peaceable, and so is Jesot
King 01 Peace.

But this pale horse rider kills, also, with
hunger : he starves his followers to death.
What a solemn riew does this give of this
pale horse and his rider I — ^here is a sinner
with some partial convictions of sin ; desir-
iuff to be fed right; he falls in with the
pale horse ; and if the truth be given at all,
It is for the most jiart given unscriptnrally.
False evidences are laid down ; a mere eonsdmee
change of reformation, passes off for re-
generation; true tokens, true eridenoes are
not given ; the hearer, with his mere natural
convictions, settles down upon these false
evidences ; the real food of liring souls is not
given ; the soul becomes satisfied without it ;
and is thus starved down into a dead profenion
but does not know it ; and even if it had any
enquiries after real goapel truth, is kindly told
that it has nothing to ao with election, or any
of those mysterious thmm it mU^ do

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iii dutf 9 and all will b« well ; and so they
wrap It apy and to he falli to deep, at least ;
he uUfl aaUep to the troth, and so dreams
that ha eata and drinks.

But thia rider of the pale horse, kills also
with iCmUA, Yon will he ready to say, why
death is death, how ean he kill with death t
New, my good Theophitns, yon most here he
earefhl to notice the tind of death, hy which
this rider on the pale horse kills ; the kind of
death that thisnder makes use of; and the
kind of death, with which he kills, you will
•ndentaad in a moment, when I just put a
fery simple question to tou : it is tbis. Sup-
pose joa eoEdd reoicTe the doctrine of duty-
faith, or firaewU], would not that at once ktil
you to the troth as it is in Jesus ? So theu,
this rider on the palehorse, kills, souls, to the
truth, hy dead doctrine. 'I has hy dead doctrine
he hardena men against the truth, and so he
kills with death. * And straight is the gate, and
nanrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and
few there be thatjlnd it:

Bat thk rider on the pale horse, has, in his
eaqptoymaot beaets of the earth. An order of
beings not very likely to spare the sheep ; an
order of ereatorss not recr domeetieated, they
an beaata of the earth (Theerion) wild beasts,
essentiaUy different from the Zoon, the liring

creatures. Do we not then read of wohes in
sheep's clothing ? Do we not read of grievous
wolves gettiog among sheep ? and the wolf
Cometh not but for to steal, to kill, and to
destroy.

Thus does if, my good Theopbilus, appear
to me, that this pale horse is a gospel, ap-
proaching in appearance to the truth, and
i even has troth enough about it, to give it
I almost a white appearance. Its rider is a dead
I hiinistry, that is dead to the real vital power
' of the truth ; this rider kills to the truth, by
the word of truth itself, by starvation, by
I dead doctrine, and by beasts of the earth
who6e range is the world, and whose real
home is first an earthly religion, and then a
I lower destiny.

Many solemn and not unprofitable reflee-
, tions arise from contemplating this pale
. horse, his weapons, his work, and his agents ;
hut space forbids my writing them.

Thu pale horse stalks about among the
Uring. but as his power is over, only over
' a fourth part of the land, so that some
' will apostatize and leave the white horse for
the pale horse ; bnt for myself, I can be con-
tent only with him who rideth on the white
horse, seeing I am but

A LiTTLB One.

^fy Pwi^sirttti tortif§wrttt,

No. I.

THB SPIRIT EXPRKSSLY SPEA.KING ON ANTI-CHRIST, AND THE GOOD

MINISTER OF JESUS CHRIST.

Rome, and by any others as far as thoy imbibe
Romanism.

The second thing in this express speaking
of the Spirit is, that, such only of Ood*s ser-
vants spiritually qualified as notice these
things, so as to put the brethren in remem-
brance of them shall bo esteemed. * Goon
MIHI8TEKS OT Jbsus Christ, nourished up in
the faith and eound doctrine,

II. Because it ie Apostolical practice to do
so, 2 Tfaess. ii. 5, &c.

Who, honoring Ood the Spirit, dare blame
the minister of God who does this ? Who can
but praise that people who require their teach-
ers to do the same ? Not to bore them with
invective, not to over ride by it the fulness,
frecness, and blessedness of other gospel re-
velations, nor by any means to withhold these
matters of ' the beastj* but wisely, faithfully,
and lovingly, speak the whole truth, so that
the hearers may be forewarned, being really
and truly put into remembrance of these things.
In fact, that everj minister of Christ may,
with apostles, be able to say of this terrible foe
of Gk>a and man, ' Remember ye nott that, when
I was with ffou I told you of these thinqs 7*

IIL Because of the necessity of boldly and
fully doing so by the emergeneiee of our own
Umes. Yet I would here remark, as the
Spirit commands it so expressly, it is enough

Good ministees of the Lord Jesus Christ must
he fisithful Protestants. Though some say
— ^Why should God's servants contrast the
glorioiia tmths of the gospel with Popery ?
The glorionc liberty of the children of God.
with Boaian CathoUeism ? And why should
they aim to r uuse the peoples of our beloved
eoantry against the evils and dangers of the
great master-work of satan ? The reasons
are many, and facts enforcing them are apalU
ing. Soine of them in this paper shall be laid
Mam the tho usa nd s who read the Eaxthbv
And may God the Holy Spirit, I
ion it Is, solemnly impresss them on
alL And,

I. JBeeamss He express speaking of the
Spirit requires it.

Read earefolly I pray you, 1 Tim. iv. 1 to 6
venea. Note two tniius now only— Brst, that
amidst the' special speaking of the Holy Ghost
to reveal the areat matters of salvation and
glory, he waa pleased Expbs88ly to speak of
and to have it recorded for the glory of Gtod in
the Gfaorch in all generations, that a horrid
system of religion snonld spring up as widely
aa Chriatianityy characterised by presump-
, deluaioo, seduction, devihsm, hypocrisy,
a, anti-marriage, &o., ml
1 fbUy hy the imposture of

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for UB, eTen if there were no crying emergency
"by the gueoera and power of papists to urge to
i%. And as apoetles rendered soeh particolar
obedienoe to this dn^ tbemaelTes, and as
aas^ned teadiers of all cominft mimetan aad
teachers, commanded, as in the charges toTimo-
thy, to Titus, the angels of the Se¥«B Churolies
in the fioTelations, &o., who are we, that we
should consult the likings of fellow worms on
this, or on any other express words of God ?

While this is so, yet, how much should we
gire the more ferrent heed as we see the day
Mproaching which oar own champions Dr.
Oill, Dr. Owen, with Huntington, and others,
their noble compeers, all saw approximating,
Aamely the predicted darkness, oppressbn,
and awful cruelties and distress when England
Mag inTolred— ' Th§ wkoU world womdtrtd
after the beatt* having Ins mark eilher in
tMr forehead, or in their i.-mda. Serring the
monster, either by judgments led astray, u>
apathetic in his taTour, or by open actual
service. It was the bold defiimt manner by
which the popish hierarchy was set up, in our
hnd, in spite of the nation and its parliament
and court, that first impressed our minds with
the delusions respecting our being so far from
all danger arising flram sveh a degraded,
blod, erael superstitioa. How we see in the
datermined progress of pqpery in the oonvcKts
set up, in the monasteries siase then ertablisii*
ed Sot dirty deluded iaxy old monks, the num-
ber of priests &c. &c, that they cannot be j^ut
down, butare increasing every year and reeeiT*
ing the thousands of our money by which each
partv of our rulers are glad to 5ny permiBsion
of them to hold their places. But more of
this in the particular facts.

lY. BeeautB it it the <hUy of OotTg ter-

nanto to detect every false doctrine in the

balance of the Setnetnary ; and to wettd the

eword of the Spirit aaainst eoerjf fbe cf Okrisi

and Hie Chnreh, However the * man of sin'

may posper for a time, he will be destroyed

bv * the sharp two-edged sword coming oat of

tbe month of the Son of 6od,' which is the

sword of the Spirit, the word of God, and is

the weapon which God's servants are to use

against the anti-christian doctrines of the

devil, as set forth by Boman Catholicism.

flow wisely then is the charge— to put the

brethren in remembrance of theee things by

their tmthfttlly, faithfuHv, and holily, preach-

ing the whole counsel of Ood. How sorrowfUt

was it, when, at the Paps! Aggression, in

1850-1, the Editor of The Gospel Standard was

induced to lay aside this sword because those

truly excellent articles he wrote month bv

month were not so received as they deserved.

I with he would renew them, and that the

many thousands pubtished monthly would

insiBt upon the many readers receiving them

with prayer, and laying them in their minds,

or else openlv disoani that word so expressly

spoken by the Spirit, seeing there is now

evidently a needs be for it And alfowing

fot each magazine the average number of

itve readersj and as the dreuution of Tbi

Eaxthbv vmsKL reaches towards 8,000, then

let its 40,000 friends receive etery month abo

0dM useful, certain, and imperative sound f

If0t me git a fhot or two shewing the impor-

tance of all of ni being earnest and zealoua in
thsi good work.

Eaete the first would eh«w kow Bumevow
mt% oonverta from ov Unifwsities of men.
sent there to become miaiBten ef the Pro*
teotant Chureh of Enoland. Admit that the
meat of such are worUly ; yet even then how
powerful must be the seducing sptfits that
shall lead the worWjf minieter away to tho
superstitions of popery, when livings, comforts*
honours, parents, and wives, all, all depend
upon their Protestant standing, and, in face of
all, hundreds leave aU and become perverts to
the • whore of Babvlon,* and a living curse to
to every parish tney sre fbrced on, and a
national woe to the oommunil^ at large.

A nd add to these, the fiseta of tbeuMads of
beneftoed ^rgymm^ all becoming papsU ia
diaguise, eating Protestant bread, and receiv-
ing Protestant pay, while they preach and
practice such things as seduce many of all
dsases, h^h and low, into the Church of Borne.
And are not these solemn judgments
throughout our whole land, calling upon the
people of God faithfully to stir up one another
to equal diligence, seal and fkith^lness to God
and Truth, that these deluded servaots of satan
and darkness shew in their works of error and
slavery?

EaoCs tko seosB^ wovdd show how injwiens
tho want of faithfalaan ia lo our youngs both
poor «Mi rich. K. B. is the only son of nay

friends, Mr. and Mrs. . His father is a

master of a boarding school, and a deacon of the

Baptist Church at . He never liked oon-

I troventy^and I never hoard of their pastor ever
making God'stestimony against an ti-Chrbt his
special study. Well, this dear youth with a high
premium, is apprenticed to a chemist, and
'when out of jus time' don't like it; andn
sitnatMtt turns up as derk to a builder in tho
town of T—*— ; this builder attends at tho

Tabernacle, and my friend liev. Mr. who

tells me there is no danger and so forth, he
of course neglects to pot his people in mind
of what the Bpirit so expressly speaks of, and
his hearer, the builder, openly boasts of hia
preference for Boman Cathohcs, to the high
pleasure of his young derk, and even in the
presence of his parents. E. B. leaves him,
and gets a situation at a wholesale house in

Street, of a Foreigner. It is a good

situation, but he is led to SonUiwark Bomiah
Cathedral, where he faBs into the snare, and^
about six weeks ago to morrow, he ' was con-
firmed* by Cardinal Wiseman.

A. D. leaves the Sunday-School in the

village of , and gets a situation near nry

sister's, at the * West End' of liondon. It
beeama evident, symptoms of consumption
are sufibred by her. 8he enters the Hospital
for that dreatful malady at Brompton. The
bed next to her is need by a Boman Catholic
to whom ' Sisters of Mercy/ so called, came.
Her fellow-patient and h«r visitors see her
with the Bible given her by her Sunday-
School Superintendent, with many pravera
and good wishes, but they see she is troubled
and away from home, and they asked to be
permitted to rive her consolation. The j^est
too came, ana did the girl serrioe in making-
ther atCendaatd store ki^d* ftnd the girl became

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aa mg7 pnr. She got bettor, and ealled to
thank for all fiivoun, and to inform them she
•hoolii not want anj mora, for aha waa happy
to aayahe waa going into the Nunnery at
Norwood, Ac She waa aakad what ahehad
done with her Bible, she replied, 0, 1 do not
want one now, for Father D— is my director,
and he has demanded it, and placed it up
al— f withao many others, whose owners he
has led into the * troe ehureh.'

Ys^ yva buy Bibles for yoor ehildren, but
da jtnf tonmra and minittars, usa God's
appointed leaehings to keep them from the
Bopiah Prinat^ upper sheWea M trophys of
Aeirjeal}

A. E. is the eldest davghter of Squire •^— «-,

al B . Uj Inends, Mrs. and Hiss C, know

sash of the jfiunily intimately, and they tell me
A. B. was reekoned the most beautiftil female
iathiaaocnllsd 'Fairdtyof the West.' At
a aaerad ooncert, a fascinating lady paid her
marked attention, and before the evening was
ever, had strongly ingratiated herself in A. E's

fiiTor ! She left her card : it was Lady , of

Clifton, bat it was not known she was one of '
t deluded females who ean pour Into nasty
' * ean all the frailties of a woman's
This lady found her in her favourite
walk! ia the beantiftil park at -*-— } and from '
one step to another A. B. was foond at a
■Mir party in CHfton. Sooiaijr suitable to
plaaaa iier were there. A speeious Tolume '
waa lent ; aad at last, Papa was as thunder- ;
striekao, when his beautiful, and till lately !
obedient child aaked permiaaion to attend the
Boinlsh chapel. Her parents attended the evan- '

gdieal Mr. at church, and the whole j

family were highly esteemed for their Chris-
tian pnfieaBifai&. He refused. A. E. boldly tells ,
hin aha ia a eonTort to the Boman ehureh, <
and while under age will obey him. I need I
Ml Mjbaw they tried to win her baek. She
eana of afe, and at onoa, her grandma having
left her a maintenance before her fall, she -
goaa over to her naw friends. It was but a
very few months after, when she called to say |
abe ahould not see them again for some time, !
mi aha was going to be an inmate, not a nun. of ,
a GcNivent, near Manchester Square, London, '
Now don't you fear for me, said she, I am
aaly giaiaf to rende with the sisterhood for
tw jmn, to know all about them, l^m my
own eyes and ears, and then eenelnde either
to alagr ar not aa I ahaU ehooae fbr myself.

Ab, poor dear, as with the lamb and wolf,
it ia ha lot, af course. She had only been
away lliree montha, when a letter came down
Co aak the ' la$t favimr* as she called it. It
was to send up her bridal dress which she had
p rep ar e d , and to buy her a wreath of flowers as
Aa eoold not refrain longer tnm the idner life
of tka dear nnns, &c. No doubt the deadly
deae i ya d hei. Her relations, over-
aa they wain, aetvally did buy
aanl of mv fHead Mf «^—- , a Jewellar,
aft _«., 8he innled bar aietara to witness
' her nMrriasa ta her Lord Jcaua Obrilty' aa
sha wna dalttded enough tu call it.

Her broken -hearth aunt waa the enlf one
wha conld witness this practical elucidation
of the devil's doctrine, forbidding to marry,

Ao., that lovely maidens might be chained in
prisons, called nunneries, away from their
dearest relatives, except, like as In other jails,
they see each other torough iron bars, while
thev h|ive unlimited intercourse with priestg
ana entirely at their mercy, or rather com •
pletely controlled bv them. And what is dia-
tressing, jinother dear young lady of A. £'s
acQuaintanee has been seduced by her.

dince the above, the whole of A. E's circle
sea the importance of 1 Tim. iv. 1 to 6, &c.
But I forbear other fheta of this same nature
I have, and notice,--*

Facts the third : which shall speak of mem-
bers and oi&eers of Dissenting churches being

perverted Arom the faith. At F the deacon

and his wife, a fellow-member with him, of
the first Baptist ohuroh there, have both be-
come aetive members of the Popish Mr. ,

and say they never enjoyed true religion until
they become what they now are, LDie Judas,
they enjoy the sop amazingly.

Mr. ■, a member of the Baptist churcli

at D., with his two sons, have all entered the
Popish establishment. One of the sons is now
at Borne, training for a priest. His Uncle,
who is now a member of the church they left
at B., related to me that his Nephew came
over firom the City of Bome and endeavoured
with amaxing plausibility and poirer to con-
vert him to ^pery. But he was preserved,
and pitied his poot relatives. These might,
and others may bo given over to that strong
delusion, to behove a lie, a82 These, ii. 4—11,
but God's commands should be obeyed both by
ministers, teachers, and people. And all of
us lay it deeply to heart.

One more case, and I have done for now.

Mra. , waa the wife of one of John Vinall's

members, at Brighton. They were for years
staunch supporters of, and as impregnable for
truth, as feheir old pastor himself. But one
day aha met with the Brighton * Sisters of
Mercy/ and, judging by the si^ht of her old
eyeo, as the foregoing had of theur young ones,
she admired the ' dear creatures' zeal, piety,
and devotion- They, being cleverly educated
'as sfidueing tpirita,* and the old lady, * giving
hMd* to tnem, step by step, too long to
relate in this paper, so deluded her that she
attended the Puseyite church in West St.

But old Mrs. was brought thoroughly up

to their point, she saw if all her new notions
ware really true, then the Pope was the one
father of the earthly church, and being too
honest to rest in a aham pojMry, sha went
boldly on until she waa reoeivM into the

Bomish Church at Square. She much

pressed my esteemed friend. Miss •— t her.
niece to spend af<»tnightwitn her in London,
but seeing her staunch old aunt perverted,
she refbsed to trust herself.

But adieu forjbe present If allowed other
piaees, facta ahall be given on the spreading
zeal of the aristocracy, Br. Pusey's establish-
ment of my own town of Sisters of Meroy,
the altered tone of whole populations in favor
of ' The Beast,' their blasphemous teachiogs,
treason, ftc, sc.

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JUSTIFICATION AND SANCTIFICATION.

Bt Mr. Samukl Cozsm, op Warbots.

< Without holiness/ it is said * no man
sball see the Lord.' There is a two-fold
holiness without whioh no nun shall see the
Lord : tIz, the holiness of jutiificatum^ and
the holiness of tanctifleation. And this two-
fold holiness will comprehend the work of
Christ/or us, and the work of the Spirit in
us. The holiness of justiflcation being
founded in the meritorious work of Christ
without us, and the holiness of sanctifieation
in the mighty work of the Spirit within us.
Hence, we learn the necessity of preaching
the work of the Spirit, as well as the work of
the SaTiour. The work of Christ without, is
only aTailable for those who haTc, or shall
haTo, the work of the Spirit within them.
How few there are who preach the work of
the Spirit ; how few there are whose ministry
seems to be attended with sanctiQring results ;
thcT may preach Christ till doom's-day, but
if there be no tettijlir of Christ, there wUl be
no Christ known. We must begin minister-
ally where God begins with the sinner, riz,
with the work of the Spirit. We must never
forget that the work of Christ is only known,
savingly known, by the work of the Spirit.
Let us then honour the Spirit, as we honour
the Sun, that our consreffations may not have
at any time to say, * We haye not so much as
heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.'
Acts xix. 2. If we alwaya kept this fact
before us, that justification is only realized
sanctiflcatioD, and that sanctifieation is

le only eridence of a justified atate we should
have much more of the Spirit in our miniatry.
Obserye :

1. Justification is of Christ Sanctifieation
is of the Spirit

2. Juatmcation acquits the sinner at the
bar. Sanctifieation separates him ftrom his
sine.

3. Justification answers the law as a coye-
nant Sanctifieation responds to it ss a rule.

4. Justification makes a man accepted.
Sanctifieation makes him acceptable.

5. Jnstiflcation is < the beauty of the Lord
upon us.' Sanctifieation is * the beauty of
iMliness' within us.

6. Justification la the 'clean linen of
saints.' Sanctifieation is the < clean heart ' of
saints.

7. Justification disarms the law of its mal-
ediction. Sanctifieation dethrones sin and
destroys its dominion.

8. Justification declares a man righteous.
Sanctifieation makes him righteous.

&. Justification is < eyerlasting righteous-
ness.' Sanctifieation is < eyerlasting life.'

!?<

10. Justification frees Hi from heU. Sane
tifieation fits us for heayen.

1 1. Justification gaye Joshua a change of
raiment Sanctifieation plucked him out of
the fire, and brought him to the Lord.

12. Justification is the golden dross of the
princess royal. Sanctifieation makes her all
glorious within. FSalm xly,

13. Justification gaye the prodigal the best
robe. Sanctifieation brought him into his
father's house.

14. Justification giyes us a titie to heayen.
Sanctifieation giyes us a meetness for beayen.

15. Justification is by righteousness im-
puted. Sanctifieation is Dy the principle of
righteousneu imparted.

16. Justification is the habilimenta of ths
betrothed. Sanctifieation is the habit of the
bride.

1 7. Justification is the Christiaa psnoply.
Santifieation is his power.

18. Justification is through the *Bed
Sea ' of redemption. Sanctifieation is throogh
the regenerating sea of life. Bom. y. 9.
Titiii.5.

19. Justification is in the resatreotioa of
Christ Sanctifieation is in the resurrection
of our dead souls.

20. Justification is but one act Baneti-
cation is a continual aotion^a progressiye
work.

21. Justification is perfeet Sanctifiea^
tion will not be perfect till Christ oomes.
PhU. i. 6.

22. Justification is alike in all belieyen--
all are equally justified. Sanctifieation ii
not alike in sll Christians; some have
greater gifts, and a laige measure of the
Spirit than others.

23. Justification is by 'The Lord our
righteousness.' Sanctifieation is bj 'the
Spirit of holiness.'

24. Justification works all our woiks for
us. Sanctifieation works all our works in us.

One jusUy obsenres * In justification we are
pattivef and do nothins : but in sanctifieation
we are active; for bwig moved we move:
in justification I have Christ for the Lord my
rignteoasness ; in sanctifieation I luve Him
for the Lord my strength ;— in justification,
faith is a receiving * * -

it is a working hand:— in justifica ti on, wa
have a legal holiness, a righteousness by the
(Redeemet's) deeds of the law. Bom. v. In
sanctifieation we have a rairitnal hoUness by
the Spirit of hoUnees,' and therefore we * shall
see the Loid.'

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•'BAXTEK'S BAPTISM" EXAMINED,

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AVD TMriI> BT THS RAVDABD OF TBVTH.

JfiMb, Dm^ and SnhjeeU.

Baxtsb, Minister of the GkMpel,

London : CoUingridge ; Not-

Bmvo&v fleeing this book, we hsd heerd it
spoken of bj serenl of oar Baptist firiends as
being ao dererly and acately written ; and its
atguBMOta eharaeteiised as Deing lo new and
eogent, tlusifc we sat down to its perusal with a
Mrtain amount of ^^mrehension, that when
we had read it^ we snould be compelled to
eschew water Baptism heneeforth ana for erer-
nore. Hie result was ezaetly contrary to our
expeetatiooS| for in finishing its perusal, we
f^i, if po«ble, more than erer eonrinced of the
Seiiptaral aathoritr forBelicTers' Baptism bj
ianandiOB, and uie Baptism of BelieTers'
only.

JkM it will be im|XMsible for us in the present
to give a fair and impartial analysis of

the entire book, and to answer its rarions
sophiflBifl» we shall extend our notice of it,
'i two or three numbers of the VaasBL ;
sa leaTO onr readers to form their own
eooelosiopi of this redoubtable antagonist of
ifapt^f ; who, notwithstanding the flourish of
Oreek and Hebrew, with which he introduces
the attack, has not produoed one Mew argu-
asent thiOTighoat his whole book, but merely
aUMra vp azgnmeats which are now worn
threadbare, somI which hare been answered a
thoQsand times ; and witii an audacity worthy
of a better eause, lerels them at the ordinance
of Bdierer^ Baptism ; once more
' Be aleeas the bhmted shafts whish have recoiled,
Aad ala« ttam at tlie sUeld of truth again.'

In proceeding to the examination of the
book, we would prefix this one general remark,
the tnhrit in which it i

J is written, is in

mwmry way kind and oonrteous to those whose
doetnae aad pcmetiee in relation to Baptism,
the author oppoees ; save, aad exeept where he
aceaflsanapm Baptisti of eomiaitting a * wm-
fiU trrpi^ ereiy tuie we Baptize, and being
TJmti^ by mjmMk and ta^olenia^ spirit, in
earryiM out ' otriet Oommnnion ;'ana arain,
where Ee aareaetically asks ns if Kebuohad-
aeasar .wae ' dipped in dew ?' of which pass-
age, mora hereafter. Putting aside these
ehanas and sareaam, the book does credit to
the fiad-beartednces of its author.

la our remw of the book, we shall /bZIow
the aoBrsa adopted by its author; ana treat

firal, of tfaa ftograpkieai argument ; secondly,
sf tlw eerifflf argnment,— tluil is the argument

the Chreek prepoflitton «», or the
QtmSk visrb UfHto. We shall then notice
the 8ertf€mrdl argnment, or the teaching and
praetiee of Christ and his apostles, on the
safcgaet of Bapsisra ; and in tEe hwt place we
shad eoaaider the fow mdati om and prifitie§ of
iafrnd mpHMUmg^ mUk Mr. BtufUr^B ayth
■mfs f&r Oe torn*; and in dceinr, we shall
giva a eondensed summary of m whole,

contradictions

pointing out ^e errors and
with which the book abounds.

To begin then, with the OBOGa^pHicAL
A&GUMBVT, which IB the only one to which
we shall be able to reply in the present article.

Mr. Baxter, in the first section of his book,
states the argument thus :

*The Tery fket of Bapttran being sdministerad ia
the open sir, in saoh pobUe places of resort, (Enon,
Betbabara, fte.,) goes fur more to oo&denm than
sanotioa the prsctloe of immersion, and that for
sereral reasons.'

We do not wiih to waste words over this
sentence, as our object is rather to examine^
and refute the ' reasons' themselves; but we
cannot help remarking, that we hare read the
sentence several times, but are utterly unable
to comprehend it ; how thefaei of haptitmf
can condenm the pnuMee ofhapii$m, we cer-
tainlv cannot understand. For what is the
fad out the piraeUe^ / or the praeiiee but the
fadl How then, can the/ae< condemn iko
fad 7 But passing by this, and leaving our
examination of the jlrvt reason to the close
of the present artide, we proceed to his first
^graphical argument against baptism by
immersion. Speaking of John the Baptist
('John the diaper* as Martin Luthsr calls
him,) and his immersing his disciples in th^
river Jordan, he says,

* The great dbptb or watsb at JObdas^ near
the edge of the shore^ varjiDg fh>m six to twelve
feet, and flowing as It msabs tbb Dx4d Ska, almos^
like the predpitoos fhry of a rapid, vynxLx

OOHDBMHSTHB XDIIA OV JOHV BBXHO ABLB TO BTAim

in such a river to plonge weak or strong persons
in, in such numbers.*

And again, he says,

< Bethabara where John at first baptised iSMXAa
TO THS Dbao Ssa, where the cuaamrxs most row*

Now there are Mres statements in the nbove
extracts to which we wish to call the reader't
attention: the dtptk of the Jordan; the m-
pidiiy of its ourronts and the pooUiUm of
BHkahofra in reUtion to the Dead iSsa.

1st. The *pyW dopik* of the Jordan^
would not permit John to immerse in ii, says
"iii, B* Now we admit, that in the lower part
of its course, as the river ' nears the Bead Sea,'
it increases in depth, and sweepe along in a
rapid turbid current ; its depth has never been
clearly ascertained ; though one thing is
known, that any persona enterlnr it, in the
vicinity of the Dead Sea, are speedily carried
out of their depth by the rapidity of the current*
But this dtnik and rapidUg; ve confined to
one part of^its course, and UMt, the lowor oi;
aoaMjra part. And here certainly it would
have been impoadble for John to immerse his
disciples. That part of the Jordan which ja
the most interesnag, firom its scriptunj asso*
Ciations, and the best known because most fre-
quently visited by modem travellers, is that
which extends from its exit f^om the sea, or

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lake of Tiberiaa, to its iunotion with the
Bead Sea. Lientenant Mdjrmeux, of H.M.8.
Svarttm^ attempted, in the year 1847, to make
his way down the Jordan in a vmall boat, from
the one aea to the other, but the water *P€U
too low to permit him, being; in so many
plaoee not above tJirM fiet d^, (a niea tUnth
ihi9,frUitdBcufter^forimm»nUm,) In 1848,
the year after Lieutenant Molymeaux's vain
attempt to row down the stream, Lientenant
Xynoh, of the American Navy, suoceeded in
doing what Kolymeux failed in, bnt oonfeeses
that if he had attempted it a few weeks ear-
Uar or laierf he shonld have failed for the
aame reason, namely, the ehallowneee of the
water. What now becomes of Mr. B's argu-
ment against John's baptising in Jordan
because of its ffreat depth? That *peat
depth' being about three or foar feet, which is
▼ery little beyond what we have in our bap-
tistries for purooses of immersion now.

But here Mr. B. would doubtless urge his
liezt argument in support of his first, — that
John is said to have Baptized at Bethabara ;
and Bethabara, says Mr. 6. * is near to the
Dead Sea where the curreHt is the strongest^
and the river deepeet.* Is it } Then it must
have made a long Journey eouthward, einee
the time of Christ, Let our readers refer to
any Scripture atlas, and they will see in a
moment t^t while the Dead Sea lies thirtjf
milee east by somM from Jerusalem, Beth^ibara
lies twenty f^r nUlee east by n&rth eaat; so
that they vt^fftp-fonr milee distant from
isaoh other. If this is being near together,
London Bridge and Brighton, must be next
door neighbours : and to judge of the depth
and current of the Jordan at Bethabara, by
examining it in the vicinity of the Bead Sea,
would b e like a man deciding upon th e depth of
the Thames at Richmondt by fathoming it at
Ora^eeend, It is true that John baptised at
Bethabara, in the river Jordan, and it is equally
true, that there the river is not more than
three or four feet deep at the utmost, and the
current almost imperceptable. ' It was here,'
says Br. Kitto, * that John baptised our Lord,
and it is soppoiod by many to be the identi-
cal spot where the Ark reaied^ while the
l9raeUt4epa$$ed aoer Jordan ;' thdt airk which
tras BO striking a tvpe of that Saviour who
was ages afterwards fo be baptized at the
tame ppot id the same river. * in memory of
the BAptism of our Lord at thk place, sAys Dr.
XHto, ' a number of pilgrims annually set out
from Jeruaaiem at Baster to bathe in the
Jordan^ at the spot where they believe he was
baptiaed.* Very few of these pilgrims would
ev«r return, if the * depth' ana the * current,'
were what Mr. Baxter represents them to be.

flow then, will it be asked, has Mr. Baxter
made this huge mistake f Bees he purposely
mislead his unltemed readers, in order to
iupport his theory, and to show his dislike tb
immersbn } We do not suppose this for one
moment* We believe that Mr. B. has been
misled himself; hiegeocraphv ie utterly at
fault ; and this, though a sm of ignorance^

• These Pilgrims of Born ssxas bathe indiserimi.
Hately together.

is almost an unpardonable one, considering
that the object and tendency of the arvument
is to otferthrcno a scriptural 'ortUnanee,
Should any one, take Mr. Baxter's statement
for truthf he must of necessity arrive at Mr.
Baxter's conelusion, that it was utterly impos-
sible for John to baptixe in Jordim. and eon^
sequently the Scriptural statement must be
incorrect. The tact is, Mr. B. has oonfonnded
Bethabara^ with Betharabahi which Ges
seventeen miles south of Jerusalem, and only
thirteen miles distant from the Bead Sea, and
may therefore, be said comparatively to be
' near to it' How he could have made this
blunder is a marvel, considering the great
differences between the two places.

Bethabara was a town oelonging to the
tribe of Beuben, 24 miles north of Jerusalem ;
while Betharabah, was a boundarv town
between the tribes of Benjamin ana Judah,
but belonging to Benjamin, and lying 17 miles
south of Jerusalem. Kow, considering that
Mr. B. gives to this geographical argument,
the most prominent place in his book, we
naturally ask if such be the rottenness of the
foundation, what must the superstructure be
worth P At, least it will make our reader re-
ceive with extreme caution, or even suspicion,
whatever other argument Mr. B. may Imve to
advance against Baptism.

Mr. B's next rererence is to John iii. 23.
' John was baptising in ^non, near to Salim,
because there was much,' or as Mr. B. rightly
renders the Gh-eek polla 'many waters there.'
He says, *why did John leave the mighty
Jordan, for the much, or many waters at
^non r The * mighty Jordan,* as it flowed
past Bethabara we have already described:
the probability is, that the many waters of
£non were quite as mighty; fbrthe purposes of
immersion as Jordan itself was near l^thabara.
Mr. B. by his own translation of the word
polla confesses that there were ^many* waters
at ^non. and then with a logic peculiar to
hiikiself, labours to prove thai there was but
&ne small solitary well there. Kow how ' one
small well' can be called 'many wmters* we
mudt leave BCr. B. to explain; jMtttieularly
as he admits that the site of .£non is Vmknown,
and that Its * supposed looaUt^ can only be
guessed at. If it be all guess work in rela-
tion to the village or town itself, what most
be tbeoase with hu ' one small well.* We prefer
believing with the Bvangelist that there were
many waters * at iEnon,' whether lf>. B. can
find them or not, i6 believe with him in his-
< one small well.' AH we kno# of JSnon, is
that it was near to Balim, and Salim, was
about 40 miles north of Jerusalem. But
what reason do our readers think Mr. B.
assigns for the Baptist leaving Jordan to go
to iKitton*s ' one small wellP* 'That he might
find a sufficient supply to assuage the ^nrst
of his foudwers^ and the multitudes who
assembled te hear him!!* What was Mr.
Baxter thinking about when he penned this
preposterous sentence f What, the Baptist
lead hit muttifudie of thirsty followers from
the * abundance of the Joraan,' with its
* sweet clear transparent' waters, where tens of
thousands might nave assuaged their thirst

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with erne, to Maon'M'WBntaHw^}* Why,
it wcmid bm ma act qf po9Ui94 imamUjf, and
dbwluie flrueUy. But so atterlj unMrupiilouB
mn mmn ia the stetementa they nake, when
ilileiminful et ell heaenU to ivpport e ion*
9oa« eaudasioB.

Mr. B. then etrnpotee that the people ftood
e» Oe enMi» m tks hamiB vf tte Jer«tei»,
while John beptised, or ' eprinUed them.*. Jd
John end hit foUoveci efoeiTeii Me «mmI, at
the beink of the Jordea, they stood were no
eae «ver eteed ft^^bn^ ner ttnee / for we bef
toewe lo iaform Mr. B. that the ecMda on the
\ — tVi of thfl Joedan, auat no- where, save in
hie own iariagination ; thoerh he layi ha feela
■awufctiKwl, John and liii foUowere atood upon
Ihea : for the * banki of the Jordan ttom the
Bea of Xiboriaa to the Dead Sea^aieeiiMi, ei«r{,
eley ^"^ T""^- lieutenant Lynoh,
eribiiiff ftfaon, layiy
* Ita beaka wwre friaffed with perpatoal Tardnre,
Iff in a thoonnd graeaCiil mtaeB.'* CUy pre-
Btee towaids the fiver, on approMBlnff

wUehv one to eoon involtred ia a Jiuitle of laxBr<

Bot wby does Mr. fi. want *ecMid * on the
baakeof the Jordan at all? Beeanae John ia
■dd to ' baptiM in the wildemeea ;' (Mark i.
14,) and M, io quote Mr. Va own worda, the
wiUeraeae ia a ^land of drought;' and he
eonid aot <a»e tte Jbwiaa<w<e Oeiatfif maf a ,
Mr. B. moat aeeda biiag the«i<d#raeff down
<oMe Jordsm^ aadjdaeeita.^aand' upon the
baaka. Tot, dii«etty after thii amuaing blun-
dcr, Mr. B. aa gae e t a the raoi ^apUmdtum of
the difieoliyy by aayingv *tfae Jordan waa
tfw««tfB«fi# leiWanieia, which ia the fast.
Thereat gilt of thiaaeetion of Mr. B*a. book
k te pcovo that baptiani by immersion waa
i m poe ribi ^. beoaaae of the ' acarflftjr of^oaUr*
iatiie Holy i^aad. 'SaaaoilTof water ! in
the Holy Land 11 A land of hula and moua.
tataa, with a aeere% <^ waiw, iaeortainly a
•Mr/aa<ia physical geogxaphjr. Let ua hear
faov the iaaplred wntsr deeenbea thia land.
* A lead of brooks of water, ef foontaina and
deptha Mat apraff oat of the Tall^TB and hiUa.*
TUa, than, waa ue moat proaainent oharac-
tertotie in Moaea' deaaription of it \\ indepen*
daatof thoaboadaaeaof ita aoterwi water-
ooaraee ; there waa an ahaeat iaihute number
of artiioal watera, balha, aqueduota, oiatema ;
theie waa aeareriy a town in it, that had not
a nomber of hatha attashed to it; daily bath*
iag, beaag almoat a aeoassary thina in auefa a
eiiiaate; and aarof theae would haTO serred
- - •• ' WhatshaUwe

many
' that

for the poxpoee of immersioo. What shs
«y of Solomoa'a Vpoola of water :' or the ' i
dateraa* that Duiah. 'digged,' or of
pooltiiathad *' ^ -^ - > ^^

pook of Hebron
ahe Sihor-libn
•KishoB,'tbe «
the'Bobin/ tib

*K« <flimt.* til

pool tiiathad ' fire porehaaY or of 4he fiah*
poola of Hebron P Tho< Leontea,' the * Beloa,'
~" nah, of Joshua ziz. 26.) the
«Arm^' the 'Beliaa,' St. Peter,
the *Ibn Amir,' the 'Bewar,'
the 'Boat,' the 'Simain,' the 'Seba,' the
' Axi^' and a number of smaller ooaat rivera
iowing Borthward from the floly Xand, empty
tbesaedree into the great, or Meditemuiean
goaf Soalhward, a number of small rireia
empty tbemaelvee into the Jordan, between
\Jab Hakk and lake Tiberias ; after leaving I both good and bad,
lake Ttbenas^ the JotdaBreea&Tea the watera Craft.^

of the * Kidron,' the < Bireh/ and the < Bisaa,'
independent of the waters of Samaria, or the
small rivers, 'Meleh,' *JameV and 'Faria,'
and the still more miportant ' Kelt,' which
is the Afreet eaatem outlet of all the waters,
ten miles north of Jerusalem. But time
would fail us to enumerate all the 'rivera
and brooks ' of the holy land ; some of which
indeed are merely winter streams, being like
the Brook Chenth, * dried up in summer,'
while others are perennial, ana have water all
the year round. And this is the land which
3fr. B. says, haa such a scarcity of water, that
it waa imvoluibU for baptism by immersion,
tobenerformed in it! If Mr. B. had sidq
that there was a scarcity of large rivers in it,
we must ha?e admitted it; but who requires
* a lam river ' to immerse in f One other
remark on this section of Mr. B'a' bode, and
for the preaent we have done.
^ He argues against the nractioe of immer*
aion by tke apoatlea, and toe Baptist^ becanse
of the supposed indel^oaoy of . the thing, and
the sealous seclusion ' with whioh onentala
guarded their women, especially the Ghreeka.
We confess that we do not think thia arga«
ment worth much, beoauae, suppoong this to
hare been an obstacle in the way of immersion,
it lies more strongly still agamat sprinkling
the head and £sce ; unless Mr. B. supposes
they were sprinkled with their osiZa aown;
for the exposure of ike fae0 to the public gaaa
ia reckoned by the Eaatems, aa iinmodeat or
wrong, as the exposure of any other part of
the body. But let him read the hiatonr of
Athenian, and Ck>rinthian Society, at, and af-
ter the age of Fericlea. down to the time of
Christ, and he will find that thia obstacle,
like tbuB ' Band' on the banka of the Jordan,
ia onl^ to be foimd in Us own imagination,
and his hatred to Believer'a Baptism. Besides
supposing this obiection held good, will Mr.
Baxter contend toat the divine power which
aooompanied the first promulgation of the goa*
pel, could not have surmountod this obstacle
aa it surmounted others of far greater
magnitude f If he think ao, we at least
have not so learned Christ

• Namaiva, p. 933. f Deut. viiL7.
IT flee previons note on baptUagia the lordaa*

Mr. B. SamuePs new edition <^ Memmr— »
teicely printed and revised) is now poblhdied
for one shilling ^e copy. His new work
* The Triumph of the Hofy Spirit over Sin ia
the Sinner,' is also now ready,— it ia a work
of great labour, and of immense value. His
next we hope will be < 2%e Trimiiph of Me
Word:

' Deaeom Oraft: Tke Bans efihe Chwrehss!
London: Q. f* Stevenson, 64, Patemoater
How.

This pamphlet ia calling the serious atten*
tion of many thinking people, to one^of those
pervertionSf which has aone, and is doing
much injury. We are satisfied there are a
great many most excellent Christian men,
now filling the offiee of Beacon in our
churches; Dut^ there are many others. AU,
" * ... ahould read * Deacon

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THE W0NBBB7DL DSALINGB OF QOD

A YOUNG MAN.

(Oontiniied from pag* 101.)
A vBiim nUing upon me and my brother
from a distant town, whom I had known
When we were both fltrangera to peaoe—asked
me to go with htm in the erentnj^, and hold
nn ont-door prayer-meeting; which we were
rather reloetant to do. as we had not yet made
am open profearion. We wavered, but Satan
was conquered ; and we went down to a mea*
dpw by the rirer's nde. Here I was fint led to
offer prayer to Qod in the presenoe of others:
the meetmg was a holy one, the power of the
spirit was fel^ and the praters for increased
ttoringa of the Spirit were answered, in other

Joung men coming with us at the next meet-
ig, which we continued to hold every night;
bur numbers sometimea reaching 'rixteen or
ieventeen. Thia led to the formation of ft
Young Men's Chriatian Aasooiation; which I
lun happy tosayisfleurishiog ; its first annual
ineetiog, I was privileged to attend, a few
Greeks since, when a most pleasing account
was given of the past year's success, under the
divine blessing. Who, after this, shall des-
pair of prayers unheard, or * despise the day
of small things P One of our first rules was,
that the society use its efforts for the diffusion
of Ghristaanity, among the masses of the peo-
ple : rather a large word for a few young men
id adopt ; but however, Ood aocepted it in
tiie spirit it was offered. Feeling a great de-
sire to commence a more useful career, I prayed
that some thin^ might be opened for me. I
sought out a village which was in the dark
in spiritual matters, and pressing another in-
to the work, with much xear andtrembling we
started on our mission, not knowing what we
should meet with ; but cheering eacE other up
by the way, one resolving to take up the
inatter if the other broke down. After com-
ipaittiDg ourselves into the guiding power of
lehovim, we commenced by offering tracts at
the houses, and inviting to a certain place,
where* we should speak a few words ; after
waiting some time, a few stragglers came
near,and wegaveoutahymiifWhioh we had
to sine ourselves; the villagers seeming
amused at the idea of two young men singing.
^nyer was offered, and a portion of the Scrip-
tures read, when we each spoke as long as we
eould. Kever shall I forget the feeling of a
fint trial of speaking : my head swam, and I
trembled ; had there been a trap door under
me, I would gladly have disappeared; but I
waa impelled on by . the importance of my
work, and gained courage as I advanoeo.
When the service was concluded, w6 were
pressed t04»me again, for said they, nobody
fakes any interest in us. We went again for
ieveral weeks, and gained a goodandience ; uU
timately taking a room, and opening it, aa
a station of the village-preaching association.
This, I trust, when the day shall declare it,
will not be without its firuits. Soon after this,
I was led through the instrumentality of Mr.
i. Rowland— whose counsels I shall ever have
oauaa to ramamber with thankftilness^to join

myself to the Indepsadant' conhenon al Hen*
1^. On the occaMi of my admittance into
the diuroh wiih others. Mr. ft. took £x his
text, 2 Cor. viiL 6. This I felt peeoUarly
adapted to my case, and felt the blessedness of
being able, thus to devote myself to the cause
ofOhrist

From this time, I ccntinaed to spsak openly ;
and,

" Tell to sinners round,
What a dear Saviour Ihadfiouad ;
And my greatest pleasure is. when speak-
ing to others of the grace of God, tfaroogfa
Ofarisi Jesus; although I am but a poor
tool, I hope my master will not allow me
to be an uupmAtable servant; Iknowbyex''
perienee that all must come ftom him. what
God hasftirtliar in store for mo I Isave in his

< Only thou my leader be,
And I stin win foQow thee.'
' Guide me with thy counsel, and afterward
receive me to glory.'

Thus I have traced, in apoor way, the deal-
ings of Qod; and trust it mayi under the
divine blessing, be the means of raising the
hopes of some who are sorely tried, for

* Jesus sought me. when a stranger,
Wandenng from the fold of dod ;
He^ to save mv soul from daimr, >

Interposed ms preoions Uood.
- -^^ ^^b

Hare^ I raise my .

Hither by thy help, Fm oome ;
And I hope by thy good pleasure
Safely to arrive at home.*

I may just mention, that the morning
before 1 was bom, n^ Father heard a
sermon from Mr. Sherman, then of Beading,
from the words, < Take this child and nurse
it for me. and I will give thee thy wages.'
This has Men the star of their hope, ehesring
their daric way, when all outward appearaaoe
was gone. Demdr not then. Christian parent,
but still pray for the out-pouring of i£e Spi-
rit, that your chaige may be brought uu
One thing I never could overoome, when un-.
der the influence of infidel training, nnd that
was, if there was nothmg in reOgion, how,
was it that my mother was so happy under ita.
influence P Hear Bfo was my greatset nindarance
to unbelief.

' Him that Cometh unto me, I will in no
wise east out.' Is not this

A BbAND PLrOKlD VBOIC THS BUBVIMO f

(Zb be com Umm e d .)

A FBW QUESTIONS TOUOBUrG
THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST.

DiAB 8im,^I have never troubled you
with any thing of mine. In reading the
article, * is Christ Sing,' Ac., in theBAsranr
Ybssbl for this month by one who caUs him-
self <A Sufikling;* I think you will allow
that the wiMst amongst us are only babes in
Scriptural knowledge, and if we were to live
another life making our time on earth double,
sti]], wo shall not get ankle deep in the mys-
tteiotts ocean of divine truth. The minister
who stated Christ waa not a kiqg, rafomd, I

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thiak, to tii« oomplez bhanoterof Chriai,
which Mem» to be batlitik undentood bv
Chiutiaiia* (aad IaiM aoi^Sbm that until
latflly, I did not Me tha God-Mao lo olearly
aa I do now.

Doea not J«aqa» aa God, apply to oart of hii
wocfaL and Jeaaa, aa man, to the oUier part ^
See hiaa aaflar aa nan, heal aa God the suffer-
lag, laiae the dead, te. Aa man he died, aa
Gedhe vaaiaiaed fipom the dead, aa mam he
«aa boCB kJagof tha Jewi of the aeed of
navid'a hauae; aadeamaed man he waa re-
jaeleH by tha Jen oe; and ia there any
naaon why he ahoaU not aa man be alorifted
aahia^ofarthe Jewaf Am GudhBU Kim^
immcriml, iamiMls, the eafif wist Ood ; aa
man ha » aa yat known onW to the' nation of
tha Jewa aa the deipiaad luaarene. I hope
ha will aa man feign ofer them on or over
this earth, hot when? I beliere, when his
bsida is ^athecad out of this world, and then
ha and his bride will reign toaether over thoee
paopla who now reject Mth him and them.

JlUow ma to call Your attention to the
ritin Scripture: there

are aerenl ways it is spoken of m them, and
attof IhemiiaTea different sigmiieation

my Bsittd. In Matt. iu. S, it ia called the
kingdom of heaven ; STim. iv. 18, the heafenly
kaagdom. Baal, I eonaider. waa in the first,
when he aaid, the Lord ahail deliTer me from
evwy evil work, fte. In Lake viii. 4, it is
eaOed the kingdom of God; fa& Matt. ziiL 43,
the kingdom of the Father, from which the
Boa of Man ahall gather out all thmgs that
offioid, fto ; verse 44^apeaka of the kingdom of

likea field, Ac Is the pearl
tks Brids, tit el«0«/aaM^, andthemanJean
Chnst? In this chapter, (Matt, ziu.) the
kingdom commenced by John the Baptiat,
ana canried on ky Jesus at John's deau, is

to maav thingsi until we see the
aJl a s s s of the kinadom we shall not

L the parable of the nobleman going
into a far conntey, Ac., to receive a kingdom,
l4dbs six. 2 : or (the man leaving his house),
MarkziiLM; or what Jesus meant b^ drink-
ing the wiae new in Ait Fathm^t KiMfdom.
In iiphas. v.it is called the kingdom of Christ
and Off God; in GoL i. 13, the kingdom of his
dear von, and the aaints of Oolosse are said to
be dciivcfcd from the powers of darkness.
It ia ealled the kingdom of the Son <tf Man in
Jfatt. jdiL 41 ; the kingdom of our Lord and
.Bavioar Jesua Christ in 2 Pet. i. 11. And to
eondnda, wa leam there is a time coming
when tha Son shall deliver up the kingdom
unto faia Father. lCor.zv.2^Ac

Oan we imagine that Bomanism, Puseyism,
ke^ ScCf are part of all these kingdoms, no ;
no: doeanot the parable of the mustard seed
and laaveo shew these priests and hirelings to
be the fowla of the air that lodge in the
b r s nc h ea of the kingdom of heaven r

If joa wfll pardon me calling vour readen*
Bttenricm to these things, and if any one will
tioow a Hght upon the matter, I ahall be
uaah obliged, who am only a learner.
Tours, in Jesus,

FmnxAV Bob.

. B; Chursh Tenaee. Migh Street, .
WaaAwtnth, l&yT&i.

A NOTE TO MB. CLABKE.

Mt Dbab BnoTmnt.-*In your last, you said
you never saw my name in the YxasBi., and
you felt desirous of knowing my state aa a
poor helpless sinner. I reply I would just say
that I have still the same love ibr you, as
wh^ I first saw the marks of inquiry after
God's gospel, and feel thankful to God the
spirit of all grace that he made use of me in
his providence and grace in bringing you
from selfwillisim to understand in part the
110th Psalm, where you have Jehovah's nn-
eonditionality, * They be wilUng in the day of
my salvation power, and as the I<ord has biBcn
kind to you in providence and in ^race; I
hope you will conti^iue under the mmistry of
the Dpirit, the true ministrv will be discov*
ered in a two-fold manner, first, in dimribing
the helplessness of the new creature; and
secondly, in proclaiming the gracious ability
of its maker m sustaining the same. Now
one word relative to mysell^ 7ou know I have
my trials^ and one reason iiL that I may enjoy
the gospel when the God of heaven is pleased
to send it home with melting power ; some of
our Suffolk Churehea are so full of dutv, that
Tou cannot tie up the neck ; but 1 feel eo
helpless that I oan neither empty nor fill my*
self, nor does my happiness depend on my good
doings, but on the goodness of the Lord. My
heart was greatly blest when reading Exodqa
xxdv, where it says, ' keepiaa merevfor <Aa«-
tandt : if he keeps it for tnem. they are as
safe as his mercy. One word relative to the
ministry. The Lord is so good in calling bis
elect by the word, I cannot express my feelr
ings. I convey theee few thoughts through
the Ybsbbl because I have lost your address,
Tour's in new covenant grace. B. Bajlsb.
Chehnondiston, May 11, 1859.

ON THE DEATH OF MBS. WAERBN,
Aa (Hd Mmihtr ai Hadhw, KmU,

Dbab sister; she's gone; we bless tlise,0 Lord;
The battle is dooe, ss shewn by thy word.
'With Christ, sfl the objcet of hope, it is sweet
To die with the prospect in glory to meeC

O welcome the thooght. of hsaven oor home 1
Tbers toon to be brooght and never to roam;
Bat rest there for ctct in sight of Us faoe ;
And nothing to acTer from Ohrist, or from grace.

The righteous hath hope— yea, hope that is good;
And this raised her up, being well understood :
With Christ as ber treasure^ bow eonld she be poor I
And now shaU ber pleasure for ever endare.

BIcH the Lord, O, my Boal P ho w sweetly she cried ;

O, my son
whole thi

:h Jesns who died ;*
toher bUsB.
finish like this.

* A sinner msde whole through J
No sin to disturb her, no end to
We hope soca to IbUow and finh

Spirit, prapare a sinner like me^

To enter and share wfthLoTsPs fSunlly ;

Made meet for the kingdom, and my mtevsst clear,

1 ahali long then to come and for ever dwell there.

Then glory and pndse for covenant lovcb
To comfort oor days and raise ns above.

oor days ai
Then sing HallelMah! tat ever on high.
To Triune Jehovaii, and never to die.

W. BOUSB.

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Airo THEOUGHOITT THIS FAVOURBD LAND.

Thbbb are many expnaaed lamentatioiia
of the aappoaed deaikittttioii, deolennon, and
divided condidon of thejnofeaaed gospel
ehnrobes in thia our day. We hare thongnt,
a few papers shewing what London was,
and what progress the gospel has made, even
during the laist century ; together with ui
imparaal review of the character and condi-
tion of the churches holding thb Gobpbl in
these days, might tend, a'Uttle, to enoourage
brethren. It is very true,

ODLDTMa— sterling fffftpel stead-
and a practieal deouion for the
great principles of truth, are not so abundant,
nor so popular, as are the forms and free-
niUa of men; still, there is an amazing
amount of good gospel now preached, in our
beautifol little Island.

We commence with the following, from
the Countess of Huntingdon's Memoirs :—

Towards the close of 1770, the attention of
Lady Huntingdon was directed to the spirit-
uid destitution of Clerkenwell. The present
crowded neighbourhood of Spafields was at
this period quite rural, and formed a dangerous
locahiy for travellers to pass through after
dark. The naths were very bad, especially in
winter, and were infested with thieves ; the
haunts of vice, and the abodes of robbers were
elose by ; and many a dark and deadly deed
was peroetrated in the silence of night. Those
who walked in the evening, from the city to
the hamlet of Islington, were acoostomod to
wait at the end of Perdval Street, untU a
considerable party had ooUected, when they
were escorted through Spa-fields by an armed
patrols, i^olnted fbr the parpose ; and it was
customary for travellers approaching London,
to remidn all night at the Angel Inn, near
Islington, rather than venture across this
dangerous spot after dark. This locality was
noted for the fashionable sport of duck-nunt-
ing, and contained asotitaiy tavern, ealled the
Doff and Duck, which passed into the hands
of Hr. Bosbmond, who converted the grounds
into extensive pleasure gardens. The whole
of tiie property came into the possession of
the Marquis ofliorthampton, who let a portion
of these nrdens to Mr. Craven, lor the
purpose of ereetlng a large circular building,
in imitation of the celebrated Pantheon at
Borne. This spacious edifice was opened in
May, 1770, as a place of amusement, and
speedily acquired notoriety as a public resort
for all ranks and both sexes on the Lord's day.
Though patronised by the Prince of Wales,
and many of the nobility, aftor the first year
it was unsnceessfol as a place of amusement ;
and, in three years, Mr. Craven became a
bankrupt. The lease was then disposed of to
the proprietor of Sadlers- Wells' Tbiatre, who
dreaded a rival establishment; and after

being used for a short time as a mart for the
saleofoarriges, the building beoame vacaBt.
A ouiious inoident eonneetea with its ereotioB
deserves notiee. Mm. Graven could not be
to visit the building until near its
oompletion.

the building until 1
She then inmcted it with a
friend, who aslcsd her what sne thought of it P

When, fuU ofappiehensioB for her fanaband
and her family, she buxst into tears, and ex-
claimed, ' It IS very pretty ; but I foresee it
will be the ruin of us, ana, one day or otheot.
will be turned into a Methodist meettng-hoase/

Lady Huntingdon grtetly desired to obtain
possession of -this noble ediflc^ whieh had two
tiers of galleries surrounding it, suppozted \fjf
numerous elegant columns, that she might
oonvert it into a chapel, and bring the goq>el
into the benighted neighboorhood. She kn«
structed Messrs. Bhirly, Parker, and Crole, te
consult each other on the pioject, and to aaeer*
tain the terms .on which the proprietor would
be willing to dispose of the building. It
appears that there were two parties already
treating for it ; and her friends so discouraged
her by their adviee, that she reluotamtly
declined to purchase the Pantheon. She
says:—

*< My heart seems strongly set upon having
this temple of folly dedicated to Jehovah Jeans',
the great head of his church and people.
i>ear Mr. Berridge does not disoonrage the
undertaking, but says I may count upon a fit
ofsidmess, if I engage in this a&ir. I feel
so deeply for the perishing thousands in that
part of London, that I am almost tempted to
run every risk ; and though, at this moment,
I have not a penny to command, yet I am so
firmly persuaded of the goodness of the
Master, whoee I am, and whom T desire to
serve, that I shall not want gold or silrer Ihr
the work. It is his cause; he baa the hearts
of all at his disposal ; and 1 shall have help,
when he sees fit to employ me in his service.
Nevertheless, with some regret, I give up the
matter at this time. Tou are on the spot, and
your opinion, in circumstances of this nature,
may be better than mine ; but faith tells me
to ffofortaordf ftsthinff fearing, notMmff dotAU
ing.

As soon as the determination of Lady
Huntingdon was made known to the proprie-
tors, the Pantheon was let to a committee of
gentlemen, who converted it into a place of
worship. A considerable expense was mcurred
in fittmg it up ; the figure of Fame, which
surmounted the dome, was exchanged for a
lantern cupola; and a pulpit and reading
desks were erected. It was opened on SatuZ'
day, July 5th, 1777, by the Bev. John Bylan^
and was called Nortnampton chapel^ in hon*
our of the nobleman on whose ground it stands.
The Bevs. Hubert Jones, and w illiam Taylor,
two episcopal clergjrmen, were engaaed aa
preaohersy wheee ministrations speeduy at*

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tnwied m hr^ (Mngreg^tion. They stood
ftlone in the church, in thia part of London,
far prodaimjng the erftngelioal dootrinee of
retilpoo. Theirpreachin^ (are great offence
to the Ber. W. dellon, Incumbent of Olerken-
WfJl, w ho waa annoyed andjealeui at their
•urcuM^ and reeolrM to remore them from
ih«tr mhere of uaeftihieM. He claimed the
rii;ht of preaching in the chapel wheneyer he
pleased, and of nominating the ministers who
•hoald offieiate; and made other demands,
vhieh the ministers and committee resisted.
Aa eedeaiafltical hiw-Bttit was instituted ; the
facaaabent triumphed; the two clergymen
were fortridden to preach there ; the chapel
waa eloaed, the large congregation scattered.

While these eyenta were transpiring, Mr.
Taplady drew the attention of the Countess to
Riehmmid , then aplaee of fashionable resort,
and 4kr cuety. The theatre had been hired
by Bowkmd EiU, Mr. Joss, and Mr. West, a
popnlav clergyman, wlio freqaentlj made ez-
ouraknia to fiiohmond, and preached there
■aid mneh opposition. The proprietor was
iazioiiB to dispoae of the theatre to her Lady-
ship, mad oommiasioned Mr. Hough to wait on
Mr. Toplady with a yiew of negotiating the
Matter. The Countess, howeyer, did not ap-
prm of the step; for, in a letter to Mr.
Wrley, she aays^ •! haye prayed for light,
bet the doud doQS not moTe towards Bichmond.
The oppoeitioa wMeh Mr. Hill and others
lerieneed is yerj discouraging. Con-
I dear Mr. Toplady, and look earnestly
Btiena from aboTC. May your great
r cuide you in this matter ! My mind
it, but I im content to submit to
yeer baiter jodgment ; persuaded that, if it is
hia win <«^o goyems all things, we shall be
tent to Richmond, with full authority to pro-
alaim hia grace, and make hia name more
aengst that people."
(To b* ocmtimmed.)

LEnnSRS FROM BRITISH ZION,

To HVa CSILDBBK HT THB AxBAlOiLN,

AuvrmixjAir Ain> Coloioal Settlb-

GOOD PaiDAY MORKIVO,

Apbil 22, 1859.

ArrBB some hard attempts yesterday to
complete the Vbssbl for May, and to get to
Whittleeea laat eTening, and failing in all of
them, I am, this mornings permitted to set
off, although I fear, not in time for the morn-
ing ierrice. My Master knoweth, however,
that an immoreable necessity laid upon me
to finiah my monthly mission, through the
preea; therefore, I hope brother Aahby, and
the friends at Whittlesca, will forgive me,
if 1 cannot |i:et in time to preach to them thu
morning.

This 1^ so to speak, the commencement of
the Anmvenarf Season. Buring the whole
of the winter and spring, I haye been oon-
Btantly employed among the churches in and
•round London. I have been very happy in
my work; and desire to feel thankful that the
Lord is still opening many doors of labour to

me — in fact, I am engaged fully, almost
every day; and have had many requests to
labour, which I could not accept. All I need
is strength of body— the sacred teaching of
the Holy Spirit— the precious unfolding of
Divine truth, experimentally in my own soul,
a heart burning with love to the iJord and his
dear people, whether called or uncalled— a
door of utterance in speakinfr, and safety
by the way. If the Lord will indulge me
with these mercies, I shall give you Australian
friends, all the good tidinrs touching the con-
dition of our churches, which I may consider
interesting to you. We have both a com-
mission and a permission, to * Walk about
Zion, to count her towers, to mark her bul-
warks, to consider her palaces ;' and all this
is to be done with a view to communication,
' That ye may tell it unto the generation fol-
lowing ;* for you and your children, I lorn
to write of Zion. The little sneers of the
brainless boys, and the hyper-critical cramped
sehoolmen, I am not moved by now : if by any
means I can be useful, I must expect dis*
appointed, and disaffected people will be dis-
pleased.

I would be thankful this morning, that I
am not setting out without the soft whisper
of the word in my Boul ; this has been my help
for years. The particular word which I am
setting out with, came most gently into my
soul yesterday, as I was hard at work in
answering letters, correcting proofs, Ac, It
waa this — * Who gave himseu for us,' &o.

Ely, Saturday. Apbil 23, 1850.
Preserving mercy carried me safely, yester^
day morning, from London to Peterborough
by rail, and thence to Whittlesca by fly : ao
that I crept into Zion just as Mr. Ed. Forman
of March, waa in his sermon on the text^* So
shall the King greatly desire thy beauty.'
The long chapel was full of anxious and at-
tentive listeners; and the preacher was evi-
dently at home in his work. I was enabled
to preach in afternoon and evening ; the place
was literally crammed, and I hope gooa waa
done. Trulv did I feel the word and work of
the Lord to he most solemn ; yet affording such
holy pleasure, as made me know again, * Hia
ways are pleasantness; his paths are peace.'
Mr. Ashby, the WhitUesea pastor, stands
there in a field of growing usefulness. He
has a mind to work; he has a delight in the
work; by him, as an instrument, brands are
plucked from the burning ; and the church ia
preserved in peace, and increased in pros-

Kritv. Mr. Samuel Coaens of Warboys, Mr»
Male of Quvhim, Mr. John Ewen of
Peterborough, Mr. Irish of Kamaey, were
among the ministers present.

BuxY St. BDMUirna.
Having to wait here some time for the
Ipawich train, I walked into Bury, and called
upon our friend Mr. Saiiith, the deacon of
the Partioular Baptist Chapel in this town,
and was sorry to find they have no paator;
nor any minister to preach on Lofd'a-days to
them. How is this, that so many of our
churches are quite destitute of pastors P Thia

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m a pAioftil fMt. Mr. Bpurgeon otoM liere,
and Dj preaohing in Mr. SWen's chapel, he
eottld nfcher between fortj and fifty poondi
for hifl rTew Tabemade, hut the ehurohes who
with to abide by the Kew Teitame&t order
of church Mnrice, cannot pouibly find a man
to break up to them the Word of life. A
f^reat change is paaiing orer ui ; we are
eliding off into a more aeoommodating lyitem,
of whiflh now I am tilent,

Afier reading and looking for some mee*
sage or other, my mind ia fixed on thie text,
(Romans i. 4, 6,) * And declared to be the
Son of Qod with power, accordinij; to the
spirit of holinesss, by the resurrection from
tne dead ; hv whom we have reoeired grace
and apostlesnip, for obedience to the fiuth
among all nations.' These words would seem
to fumiah a complete and blessed representa-
tion of the gospel kin^om, or diq>ensation
of grace. Sirs^ there is the base or founda-
tion of it: the resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the dead, is the foundation of this king-
dom. Secondly, the nature of this dispensation:
it IB a declaration of the Bon of Qod with power
— the jpreaching of the Person and power of
Jesus Christ, is the great feature of this dispen-
sation. I see this everywhere, if I look back upon
past ages, if I look around now, I see wherever
theLordnasfliTena faithful, and a fruitful
minister of Cnrist's Person, work and ^;raoe,
there the kingdom has flourished. Thirdly,
the efficacy, vitality, and heavenly breath
whereby lire is given, and maintained in, the
hearts oi the people, who make up the popu-
lation of the km^dom. is also stated — it is,
aecording to the spirit ofholiness. Lastly, the
great ends to be answered by the existence of
&e kingdom; they are three— that the elect
of God might receivegraoe and apostleship . —
be brought to the obedience or the £uth;
and lastly, that his name might be de-
dared, worshipped, and extolled.

Ipswich.— Eastor Monday morning, April
26. My back aches in setting off early, after
so many successive days of incessant toil. It
took me all dav on Saturday to round-about
on straight rails from WhitUesea to Ipswich.
Brotiier Poock received me, as he always has
done, with good old Bullish kindness, Chris-
tian sympathv, and mimsterial fellowship.
Our wortny rriend Alston gave me bed and
board ; and I was permittea three times yes-
terday to speak of tnose things which I increas-
inly know are bound up as so many title-deeds
ofouretemsl home. The morning (yester-
day) was wet, there were a great many peo-
ple in the oha^el, but it was not erowded — ^in
the afternoon it was full every nook— and I
was favoured to feel the weight and the wealth
of the theme, ' By whom we have received
grace and apostleship for obedience to the
nith.' It took me some time to get through
*'f'6eeMHff araoe,' The grace or provision:
providing Christ for the Church; Boas for
Buth ; and so on. The mce of tusfrwMMii-
talUjf. In the purposes of the New Covenant,
it was determined that Buth should be the

ouse of Boas ; but she was a Moabitiah
el; she was in an idolatrous country.

How was she to be brought Into BsthWheair
Naomi is the instrument Bo the gospel is
the blessed agency •where^ the ransomed of
the Lord return, and oome to Zion. To re-
ceive the truth of the gospel in the love and
powor of i^ is to receive graoe indeed. Then
there is the graee of prtparatiom, Paul Mys,
* It is God whieh workath in yon« to will smd
to do of his good pleasure ; and surely, it
must have been graoe working in Both that
'positive prinoiple,' which caused her to
cleave unto Naomi ; whereby ihe left Moab,
came to Bethlehem, went to glean in the fields
of Boas; and to find favour in his sight.
There was the grace of mtcowragmatrn t . Bone
handfuls of purpose " were dropped for her;
and so, as last the union was completed. [I am
writing these fow lines in an jSastem Car;
full of young gentlemen, smoking and talking
of other things, but th^ do not disturb me.]

I think Bethesda Chapel, Ipswich one of
the most substantial, commodious, and best
arranged places in our denomination. With.
iU new, long, deep, side, and front galleriee^
it wiU hold a thousand persons; and I think
there was all that number yesterdajr. Mr.
PoodL is now in the fifteenth year of his pas-
torate there. The Lord has merdfnlly, and
extensively honoured him :— nearly two thou-
sand pounds have been paid upon this plaee ;
and with ite new Testry, it ,is replete and
beoutifuL I was glad to see the same sub-
stantial staff of ofltews, Messrs. William Clark,
James Andrews, William Manning, and the
other aood brethren ; in the midst of whom
vou wul see Jabu Wuoht, a lon|[ afflietedt
out a trulv kind-hearted brother in Chrirt^
and withall, an active agent for the Bartsbs
VsBsicL. It was a noble sight to stand yeater-
day in that chapel, and behold such a erowded
armv of veteran and juvenilepilgrims, gathered
up from the town and connti^ all roiuid :—
and to hear them sing the praises of our Hea-
venly Sling, was delightful indeed. At the
close of tto Service, uie Treasurer, William
Clark announced the total of the oolleetion to
be £18. The Pastor, brother Poock, emressed
their increasing obligations to the Jjordtor his
goodness; |>ronounMd the doxologj, whieh
was sung with so much evident feeling and
devotion, that my heart melted until 1 wept
tears of inward love, to find myself among
such a highly favoured band. Ipswioh has
now two champions for gospel truth. Our
brother William Felton, at Zoar, is higli' '
esteemed as a faithful minister, and his naefi
ness is increasinly manifested.

[For the information of the thousands of
you are now scattered abroad in the colonies,
1 shall continue these notes as tame and qiace
permit. Nearly every day I am yi some jtart
or other of the gospel vineyard; and the inci^
dento oonnected with, and arising out of tbMe
annual gatherings are sometimea encouragiiig,
edifying, and fiUl of interest to thbse dear
friends who are now dwelling in the utmost
comers of the earth.' I will not forget you.
It is a grief to us all in this kingdom that
wars, and rumours of terrible eonvulaioDS are
now rifo. Clouds are gathering. But Qod
is our refuge still. C. W« B.]

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OBDIVAXIOV OF XB. eBOTITHS,
AT HATB8, MIDDLESEX.

On MondAj. May 16^ 1859, a goodly com-
of the loren of gospel trath Arom the
refaos of Colnlvook, HarlingCon, Drayton,
Uzfaridgo, HarefieUf Brentford^ fte., waa ga-
thered mi S^eg^ to witnen the oidination of
brolher Qtifittha to the paatoiml office over tbe
Baptisi Chmeh wonhipping in that Tillage.
Hie day waa iine> and ue programme of Uie
day*! pvooeedingi, promieed a treat to thoee
who had eome from Tanooi distaneeg^ to tea-
Hij their lore for brother Oiiffitha and his
beloved flock. Brother Bnint, of Colnbrook,
opened the meeting at half-past 2, by reining
a short Fsnlm, and offered prayer ; after which,
brather Wyard proeeeded to state tho nature
of a goepel Chureh. After a retr appropriate
iatrodoetiotty referring to the Cnnich of God
ia her varieus aspects, conditions, and mani-
fcstation, he aeleeted tbe figure of a building,
by wUeh to fflnstrate a Qospel Chorah. The
iala ef this Chureh, are first, qoiekened
; and ao apiritual life beeomes the grand
lor Chnrsh membership ; secondly.
ueee maffrisis, (or persons} forming a jrospei
Ovrefa, nsust be snlfaAf saed, they are belieTers
—Ihcj ftirm a brotnerhood— they are called
with a hi^ and holy callings— are spiritual,—
and are nuide obedient to the hearenly calling.
After entering into each of these particulars,
he doeed by remarking that the Chureh has no

to uaatitate, or to alter ordinances;

she make or repeal laws— her

90 beinff not to form, but to obey.
Oor Teneraole brother Box, of Woolwich,
rtain auestions customary on such
by wnidi were elicited the follow*
Ing items of information. That tbe Church
at Hayea, was firat formed in 1843. by the late
John SlsTsna : its number being 16, and its
place of wonfaip a cottage. In August of Uie
same year, the j^resent building was erected
through the munifieence of one of its deacons ;
and on the opening thereof,— when brethren
Stevens, Wyaid, and Kilner issisted,— a Mr.
FSsh waa ordained pastor. In process of time.
brother Fish left, and the Church was adrised
br their old friend Mr. Box, to hear a Mx,
Cmfilths whom he strongly recommended.
Having heard Mr. G. with great profit during
three years, they entreated him to settle
amflQgsi them, the result was tho present
service, for whioh the Chureh desired to be
thankfol, to that God who had heard and
aaawered their many prayers. You are aware
that on such oocasivns the minister elect,
wh i t es his eall by grace; his call to the
ministrj ; he also relates how (in the pro-
vidence of God) he has been brought to his
pr es en t poaitSon. All thii occurred on the pre.
sent occaaion; and if I mia-ht have trespossed
nnoB yovr pa«s, I could AaTe relate^ as it
fen froB brother G.'e lips, a very savory ao-
const of the Lonfi dealings with nim ; suffice

It to say— that the testimony made many
hearts warm, and many eyes moist. Brother
Milner having given the right hand of fellow-
ship to the pastor, in recognition of the
Churoh's accei)tance of him, and the pastor
having recognised his people by holding up
the right hand, the ordination prayer was
offered.

Mr. Bloomfield being announced to give
the charge, ascended the pulpit, and delivered
a solid, truthful, and affectionate address.
He should direct his brother's attention to the
matter of his preaching. Preach, said he,
the word ; let the Bible be your book for study,
and for texts; preach God's word in all its
variety, and in all its harmony. Be a Trini-
tarian ; fear not to preach the Father's love
in all the extent of it ; the Saviour's blood in
in all the preciousness of it ; and the Holy
Ghost in all that need of him, which is evi-
denced by God's truth and man's condition.
If (said heWou omit the Father's love, your
ministry will be lacking in strength ; if you
omit the atonement, you leave out the life-
blood of the gospel ; and should you leave tiie
Holy Ghost at home, instead of taking Him at
all times with you, the people will say ' we
have not so much as heard if there be any
Holy Ghost' Again, be very clear on the
Person of Christ— this being the great central
truth of the gospel. In manner be simple ;
in Unguage and in illustration, choose for
models, the preachers of the 17th century.
* Be affectionate, don't be abuiive ; be not a
despot in the nulpit, for such aro the greatest
of cowards when out of their own castie ;
don't be too loud — thunder never kills, 'tis the
lightening, and not the noise that produces
great effecU;Ustly, be faithful.' After the
very able discourse of brother Bloomfield, (of
which I do not presume to give even an out-
line) brother Milner gave the right hand of
fellowship to the new pastor, and then offered
the ordination prayer. The friends wero now
inrited to a plain tea, to be served in the
Chanel; after which, the pastor of Soho, Mr.
Pells, preached to the church. Just an outline
of his discourse, perhaps it will benefit some,
and I close. Philippians ii. 29. He came there,
(your oastor) as an spiritual guide— as a able
counsellor— as an efficient nurser-as a skilful
phyndan. In the text (said the preacher) are
two ideas . 1, of reception : receive him on the
ground of what he u in the Lord; of qualifi-
cation, that is, of what the Lord has made
him to be ; receive him gUdly, saying how
great a boon a God-sent minister is. 2, Ben-
tention— hold him by your prayers, by your
sympathies, by your support, and by your
constant love ; hold him to be above suspicion,
and let his character, personal and ministerial,
be very dear to you.

IPSWICH.

*Let the Lord t>o miupiified. which h^^
;>leasare in the prosperity of his servants.'

['salm xzzv. 27

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in ages pist, and suoh is the feelinj^ produced
in the soul oi every one taught of the Bpirit of
the llTing Qod; for sore they are, tnat all
prosperity in the ehurch at large, or in the
soul of the tempest- tossed believer in particular,
is wholly of, and from the Lord alone ; and
while no small joy is felt, in seeing the good
Ijord increasing his cause with men and wo-
men lUe a flock, in answer to the united
rayers of his riants, founded on his love,
lood, and promise ; (Esek. xxxvi. 37,) yet
there is beyond this, an important admoni-
tion, we feel a wish prayerfully to attend un«
to, yiz, * But rather rejoice, because your
names are written in heaven/ Luke x. 20.

May the Lord keep us alive to the interest
of truth among the children of men. But, oh I
above this, may he be pleased to keep our
souls prosperously alive, in holy communion
with nimself, that our growth in spiritual
knowledge, joy, and peace, may abound to his
glory, our benefit, increased love, and useful-
ness in our appointed callings, and approving
things thus excellent, — ' Hav we be filled with
the fruits of righteousness, which are bv Jesus
Christ, unto the glory and praise of God. (Phil.
i. 11.) Amen, so be it. On Lord's-day, 1st
May, 1859, ten persons were baptised in Be-
thesda Chapel, Ipswich. A sermon was
preached from Luke iii. 21, 22 ; nearly, or
quite a thousand persons attended ; the order
was truly solemn, the candidates mercifully
helped, and in spirit greatly blessed. Others
were wrought upon, and more are coming.

Thirteen were proposed ; one was taken ill :
* Shibboleth ' could not be clearly pronounoea
as yet by the others,

' A debtor to mercv alone.'

Thomas Poock.
Ipswich, May 12th.

DauiSia^Iaeikd yoo these lines, prayiaff tbe
Lord to bless yoar labourt to boadreds more, if it
iahUheavsnIy will, and that yoar own loul may
feel the prosperity of the Spiriu J. Sbbimuxi,

Tbe king of glory relfns abovsb

In bis most holy place ;
And condescends to show hia love.

In visits of his grace.
Borprlslng is tbe Spirit's power.

On hearts as bard as stesl j
We wbo wera dead in sin belors^

By gzsoe are made Ut feeL
These witnesses for God to day.

Who now psss through the flood ;
Have testified b7 faith, and hope.

They're washed In Jess's UoiDd.
Thia is the path that be hath trod,

Who died oor soala to save ;
This is an emblem of his deaUt,

And rising from the g rsve.
The resurrection of our Lord,

Qilds tbe whole seeae with love,
Aad ail wbo follow him by faith.

Shall sorely rest above.
Should Sataa now beset our way.

With trials fierce and hot ;
When we arrive where Jesus la.

Tbey all will be forgot.
This Is the path his saints have trod,

With Jo7, aad soBsetisses pate ;
But they all left their sorrows hers.

And now with Christ they reipiL
And we now follow ia their steps,

As fast as time can ron :
We ho^ to nieet Mount lion's King,

With glory tai oor soul.

" AGBD PIL0BIX8* fBOH]) 800IXTY."

The 52nd annual meeting was held on Mon-
day evening, May 2, at tbe London Tavern,
and was very numerotuly attended. The Lord
Mayor occupied the chair, who was compelled
to leave during the proceedings. J^in
Thwaites, Esq., afterwards preaidin|[ in the
absence of his lordship. After singmg, and
prayer by Kev. B. Mannering,theL«rd Mayor
called upon Mr. W. Jackson to read the an-
nual report, which stated there were 464
pensioners on the books, amongst whom have
been distributed during the past year £8,288.
Forty-two Pilgrims were in tbe Asylum at
Camberwell, which proved a great blesnng to
the inmates. The * Kew Asylum Fund ' was
steadily progressing; about £800 realiaed.
And it is hoped this J ubileo Memorial will 'ere
long be raised in another part of London, for
a larger number of the Lords*s aged people.
Is there a generous heart for Zion's Pilgrtaia,
whom the Lord has blessed with a plot of
ground, who is ready to offer it thereon to boild
a home for the weary, on their way to the
* many mansions ?* Speoial notice waa taken
in the report of the Bev. James Bisect, the
Founder of the Society, in 1807, who died
at Hitchin, April 2, in his 88th year ; whose
long ooatinued valnable, and gratuitona ear-
vices as one of the seoretariee, will ever be
remembered with affectionate Toneratioa.
The Lord Mayor gave a few very appropriate
and stirring remarks ; and the several reso-
lutions were spoken to by Revs. B. Magnire,
J. Wells, WsB. Lincoln, P. J. Turqnand, Br.
Hewlett, J. Jay, 8. K. BUud. B. Kenneth, Eeq.,
Treasurer, Qeorge Marshall, Esq., and Joaeph
Payne, Beq., IIj. Box read the cash aeeonns,
which showed a balance in hand of £843. 17a,
Hd. The Chairman returned thanks for the
Lord Mayor, and the honour of soeeeding him
aspreaident The meeting whkh was Tory
oheering and enoouragiag, closed with the
Dozology.

BVAmBLB.

It will, doubtless, be gratifying to the
lovers of truth, to hear that the Lord is still
blessing the labours of our brother Carpenter
at the old Baptist chapel, Dunstable.

On Lord's-day, Februarv 27, 1869, he ad-
ministered oroinanoe of Befiever*s Baptism to
three persons who profess to have been blest
under his ministry. God grant they may
prove bis crown of rejoicing in that day when
the Lord shall make up the people. It was a
happy, profitable season to many precious
souls. The writer can testify, that to him it
was none other than the house of God and
the very gate ot heaven, so that they could
not forfeiear mentally exclaiming :

< My soul shall pray lor Zion still.
While Hfe or oroath remains ;
• There my best friends, my kindred dwell,
There God my Saviour reigns.'

Tbe text chosen for the occasion, was fro«
Luke xviL 26, 29 ; aad waa divided as'foUowa;
1, Described the character of ^oah. 2, Notice
the ark in a three-fold view,— (1) As a type of
the Bedeemer; (2) The. ehuioh} \») Aa a

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fifonor type of Baptism. 8, G^eralhead
our ^hitar nm psnoel, and sftewed ta m the
days tf oIdl» to aball it be in the end of the
vwUr Ae. It wae m, sokma m wtU m • ze-
freafeiiiy opportunity ; and was bo blest, that
the Minnas freeh tsar moim peneas ware
constrained to oome forward, and declare
what dod had done for Iheir souls; one in
partiealBr, testiffins though she had long
hsfted between two opinions, she oould now
a» liBgiis lafrais inm feUowiag im the loet-
i^Sifs sf the Aeek; the other three were
hM^ seals t» ear paatoi^s ministrT, who toM
m MTpet and simple tale of the Lord's deafings
with their souls-. The Lord crant they may
eadaia hat dnesa like food soldiers of Jesus
GkrisI, OnLofd'a^ay,Apr^24ti^theordi.
saasa ef BtHmenf Baptism was admiBistered
to fhsai; mod on the IbQowing Lord's-day,
oar pastor care them the right hand of fellow-
I hare several more hovering round,
likaLydia'a of old, the Lord
Sorely t^ asa things are the
Lscd'B doings, and marv^ons in enr e^es.
God grant that the eaose here mav erer have
a frmtfol wemb^ and a plentiful supply of
milk taMwrish new bora seals; that of her
it ma^ be said, *Ihia nan and that man was
born m her.'

aTPT.w BSSOMQEAMf £fi8SZ»

Thanks mviag meeting arms hold In
Baptist ChBMl» 8iUe Hedjngham^

AThanks

Old

the
on
Tuesday, May 3nl« ta oosMMBSonrte the res.
toratian of that V^^ee to its right and lawful
owners. Mr. B. vVHson, of Cnre, deHrered a
liTely snd Christ-exaltiag disoourse in the
afternooa, in which he eahorted the ehureb to
unity snd lore; he aaid, dorinc their lata se-
Taretndhehadtho««ht saaehef them, had
pmtd the Lord earnestlr on their braalf,
andhenowreloiced that he was again p«r-
mitted. (nndistttrbed) to oecupy that pulpit,'
and teU of Jea«'a wmidMoa love. Altar the
eenoaa, sheat 16^ irisads took tea teeether,
which was wtO and kindly SBperintended by
Mrs. Boxer, the good partner of the preaent
flunister there. After tea, a publio Heeting
was hoWsa, whieh was preaided over by Mr.
Boxer; who ie i ie wed his eoaamg aaMBs thM:i,
the heavy and leogtheiMd trial they had pasaed
throagh, and how the^ had been supported in
it, and their xightflJ deliverance from the
suae : law and eaoity had restored to them
their righta. Ma asherted thsm te love,
pcaee^ and fotVeanmee towarcb those i»ho
were without, believing there were many of
the Lord's redeemed ones amon^ them.
He moat men tion one thin^, which was a
good sign, their pffayar-meetmga were now
well attended, and a spirit of earnest deVo-
tioo waa aaaifsBt amenr tiia people. Mr.
Wilaon noke well on Cl iriatian onion; and
tineted there would not be any tale- bearing
^ther to Minister or deaeoos; or idle gossip.
ug aamaw ssambeSB. A good brother, one of
brother Wilson's daiee n e» spoke from a por-
tion of the Word, and gave aome good whole-
Mae advise. Mr, flamoM Jones trusted they
▼oold look wsQ to thaif peasant minister, bro-

ther Boxer; and he would then be able to
feed them with the finest of the wheat. Bro.
ther Boxer, made some further remarks, and a
good and Qod-glorifying meeting was closed
by prayer. S. JombSi London.

1. OB>U CHAVOB JLT

SHALOM GKAFBL, HAGKHST BOAD.

DaAa Baonuta Baiiks.-<-I have not written to
any ef aiy koooorad brethren in the ndalatry who
have alwaya taken aaoeh intereat in ear weifare^*
bat BOW, aa it is * Shslom, Hackaey Rosd,' (no
longer Sqnlrriea-atreet) allow me a little space to
apprise theaa of oar doioga ; te leooont the
woaderooa sets of the Lord : for verily the * lama
take the prey.' We hope, shortly, to have »
meetfaig to welooaie oar dear frlenda in onr new
ohapel. Three years afo I went to Sqairriee.
street : there were then 14 namea oaTy upon their
ohureh book, aa membera ; aboat 50 were added to
their aombar; about IS were removed froa ua.
Yet aU aloag, the eongregatioaa were good ;
fraqaaatty thronged.

Gheomalaaeaa unlooked for, nnaooght, seemed
to asy the coast may be enlarged ; this plaoe is
too atraight ; aome aaid * Shalom 1 — that's a cold
plaeob nobody haa done there. What we yoa
going for V gaffloa it to say, the ebapel is done
up beaatlMly; we opeaeil it the let of May ;
the plaee lIHed with hearers, and worshippers,
and fined every LordVday sinee. What hath.
Qod wrought t We rejoice with trembling, ao
niemhara faom fliaiariea ataeet haw given then.
seHee afraah to the Lord, and to eaeh other ; since
then I havebsea honanred toreeeive 1 1 brethren
and alaters to their number, snd besides we have
a Sot bapliam. Others are saying, we will go
with yoa ; baekattdere are being restored ; those
who aat la darkaaas are being made light tn the
Lord ; aoaM who have carried their bordene a
long time are brought into liberty, and God's
atandiag miraele in Hit Church ia with na : sinner*
aonwinced </ sit^fiUiuu and souU concerted to
ChrkL, Sovereignty la manileated I la the way
he woaada, aad ia the way he heala 1
' Upon eueb poUnted worma.
He makea His graces shine,'

Without aeeing my qnalifloatioaa for the oa-
speahaUe heoonr of pointing te hla atoning blood,
aod aaying hahoU the way to Ood ; aad feeitag
ny dtpeodaaceapoa the Meaeed Spirit tone every
tt good f^sme, aa well aa for needed energy. I am.
years, W. Q. Haslot,

AX AjryBCTivo sienr at

BLVVMAM, UDFOEDSBIBS.
I have been hdd aside froas my daily calling for
eighteen montha by affliction; a friend kindly
lent ma aome volnaaea of Ej^avnaa Vaaasi. to read.
I hope they have been a Ueaaiag la the hands cl
the Bptelt ta my soal ; so mash ao that I have
bean eoaatra lB ed to rceommead them to my
frlenda In our little cause at Blunham ; and some
wlah to take them. We have a nioe Uttle oaose
here ; aad auay dear lovera of truth amongst aa ;
there aaaai a qalte a revival ; of whkh yoa will
reJoCoa to hear. Mr. Bobert Frataer Is the paa.
tor. On the first LordVday la April, he bap.
tised by Immarafon four; two mates and two
fomalaa ; aad two where aa aged mother aad aoa ;

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an •flSMtlug light to tee. I tratt it waa a good
d«7 to nuuiy. On the third of May our aanU'
Tonary wm held, Mr, Foramaa of Loadoa, .
preaohed« morning and aTening. Mr. MarrelU of ,
8t; Noet's, ia afternoon. We were bleesed wllh ;
three good eonnd gospel aermoBs ; and the rich |
bedewing! of the Holy Ghoit in many of oar j
hearts. The famale frienda anppHed oa with a '
good tea, gratia ; to whioh aboat 150 aat down, ■
with eheerfnl faeea, and I believe loving hearta. |
Oh 1 how good it ia to aee brotbera and sistora •
dwell together in unity 1 Johx Normam. i

and that here hia honour may be maintflmwl, his
gospel preaehed, and hia name abundantly gioirl-
fled. And to Father, Son, and Spirit, larael'B
triune Qod, will we aaeribe all the praiae for ever
and ever. B. K.

Spring Yale, near Wolverhampton, May 9, IW^

WOBTHT. HILVT8— VILLAGE PREACH.
ING. It may be gratifying for the the Mmim of
truth, to hear that our brother Taylor, whohaa
for aomo yeara been mlniatering the Word of Life
at Bopler, Mt impreaaed with the imnortaitoe of
opening his own house, in the above plaee for the

A BEVIYAL AT WOLVERHAUPOIT.- j

Mr. Editor, knowing you feel an intorest in the
eauae of Christ at John Street, Wolverhampton, it I
ia with pleasure I inform you that on Sunday, May
1st, aeven peraons, one male, and aix females, were
constrained to oome out from the world, and pub-
Uely acknowledge themselves to be on Uie Lord's
side, by attendio^ to the ordinanoe of Baptism. It
ia ao many yeara ainoe auoh a eireumstance trans-
pired, that we had almost despaired of being fav-
oured to witaeaa what we were priviledged to
witneaa on that ooeaaion. The minister who offlei-
oiated waa our highly cateemed friend and brother,
Mr. Thomas Jones, who has recently aupplied the
place on two or three oooaaions, and whose labours
among na we h&ve reaaon to believe have been
greatly bleeaed to the aoula of the people. On
Sunday morning, he preached an impreaaive and
appropriate aermon from John ▼. ll.~* He that
made me whole, the aame aaid unto me, take up
thy bed and wallL.' He gave on the text, 1st, the
history, 2nd the instruction.' After serviee, the or*
dinanee of Baptism waa admtnlatored, and I can-
not omit to mention, that three out of aeven, were
the three eldeat daughtera of our eateemed flriend,
Mr. Fleeming, a cireumatunoea which contributed
materially to the interest of the oceuion ; and muat,
I am aureu be highly gratifying to him and hia
betoved wife. lu the evening, the ordinance of
the Lord'a Supper waa attended to, and inatead of
preaching, the minister gave a suitoble address to
the candidates, and fumiahed each with a portion
of Scripture on a slip of paper, giving a brief ex-
position of the same. The following were the por-
tionst Bom. viil. 1. • There is therefore now no
condemnation to them who are in Christ Jeans. I
who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit,^ i
Isaiah Uv. 9. ' For this ia aa the watera of Noah,
unto me, for aa I have awom that the watera of
Noah ahonld no more cover the earth ; so have I !
sworn that I would not be wrath with thee, nor
rebuke thee.* Sol. Song i. 7. * Tell me, O thou |
whom my soul leveth, where thou feedest, where '
thou makest thy flock rest at noon, for why should I
I be aa one that turneth aaide by the floclc of thy
oompanioDB.* This we oonsidered remarkably
adapted ; the person being a desolate young widow,
left aa we nnderatand, with four fhtherleaa children.
John zvi. 4. * Abide in me, and I in you ; aa the
branch cannot bear f^uit except it abide in the
vine, no more can ye except ye abide In me.' 2
Peter i. 10. ' Give diligence to make your calling
and election aure ; for if ye do these things ye
shall never fall.' And the laat given «o the young-
eat (16 yeara of age) Prov. viiL 17. * I love them
that love me, and thoae that aeek me early ahall
find me-' The whole of the aervlcea were attended
with unction and aavour ; aothat we found it good,
pleasant, and profitable, to be there. May the
Great Head of the Church amile upon thia eauae.
which baa been very low for a long period, and
doubte enterteined whether it would be cloeed or
kepi open. But lately, the plaee has been bettor
aupplied, and eooaeqnently better attended. May
he, I aay, make bare hia arm, manifeat his power
in the oonveraion of ainnera, and in the comforting
and eatebliahment of hia own people, that they
may have flrequent oooaaiona of aimiliar rejoidng,

worahtp of God ; and Invited the writer to pravn i
and on Wedneadav evening, April 28, 1853, a large
room was opened, and a goodlv number waa pr»>
aent. on which occasion I preached fhmi Aete nil.
26, < To yon is the word of this salvation aent.* I

oontinaed to labour there everr fortnight for the
flrat six months, when I prevailed npon o«r good
brother, to toke the alternate Wednesday even,
bigs, thus keeping it open every week. We have
a goodly attendance, and aome pleasing reenlte
have attended the aame ; and on the 27th of April,
1859. we had an anniversary of the opening, w hen
our brother kindly gave a public tea, (f^) nbont
60 partook of bis hospitality, after whieh. 1

rcbed to a crowded audience^ firom Paalm exilx.
Let the children of Zton be Jovfnl in their
King.' Many found it a truly refreehing opportu-
nity. The following lines oompoeed for thtoecnaion,
I read at the close of the service, and part were
aung. Your*a in Goapel bonda.
Wineheator. W. dumu.

THE SOYBREIONTY OF 0HRI8T.
Come, Chriatian Mends, unite and aing
The praiaea of your Lord and King;
Who left his saered throne on high
And came to earth to Meed and die.
He laid aaide hia gtory then,
And meeklv bowed to ainfhl men ;
Who raiaed their clamoroua voices high«
This glorious King to erucify.
He cheerHiUy reaign'd his breath,
And yielded to the shaft of death ;
But rose again, and Uvea to plead
For thoae who through hia grace believe.
And now upon a throne of grace.
He sweetly shews a smiling face.
To such that do eapouae hia eauae,
And yield obedience to his laws.
Great honoura he conlbra on thoae.
Who have through graoe anbdoed their foea;
Since he haa made them Kinga and Prieeto,
And calls to banquet at his feast.
He finds for them a glorioua dreaa.
The robe of hia own righteooaneea ;
That when before the Lord'a right hand.
Completely Jnatifled they ataad.
Then ahall they walk with him in white.
And be tranaported with the eight
Of Christ, their glortoua Lord and King,
Whilst heaven's eternal anthems aing f
With ahonte of glory and of praiae.
In which the sainte ahall Join the laya»
To him who aite upon the thraae^
The glorioua undivided One.
Then about, ye firienda of Zion'a King,
Tana now your voioe, and loudly aing
Of saving, f^ and matehlees grace,
nil yon behold him Ikee to Ikee I
Yes. shout again thy Jeana reigna.
And binda the moaater down u ehaiaa.
Shout! about again I the work ia done I
The battles fought the victory*a won I
Bin ia aubdned, and sainte seeure ;
Death is destroyed with Satan's power ;
Hell's doora ara barr'd, whilat eherube wait
To welcome in the pearly gate.
Then, in moch more exalted atraina.
Well ahont aloud that Jeaua reigne.
While all the ranaom'd throng ahall aing
Sternal praiae to Chrlat their king.

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BRUUnOV* — I>Mr SIr-I havt noticed th«
( yoQ have gtven to oar young min-
m, and the unooat of eervke 70a
to the ehureh of Christ. I thank yon
as a hnmhie member of the Mme elaai. Our
egad hrethien are Ihst going home ; that others
are takiav their plaece la a eonsolation. 1 have
heaid tarelhna Felk, CraeknoU, end Oooghtrey,
vilh wr grant pleasarea. I wentto Brighton, on
Good Fk'iday : waa pfeeent at the meeting at Bond
Stroci Campol; brother laaaee iepaetor: it was
for tfto CBooaragement of the yonng brethren be-
tonglag to the Chvreh, that go to speak in the name
oCaeLord. ThiaGhnrehhaafoororflTeatations,
r plaeeain Tarione parti of Soeeez, and
1 go and preMh the goepel to the

eoottrr people. I heard eome aeeonnt giTen that
night, hov the Lord had hleesed their htbonrs. I

tluak Item one eution there was seven or eight
Lforvnrd, and waa baptlaed in the name of
1. Oneof theyonngbrothera(thenameor
OOto^) spake of another etatkm as very
' » OBO eireomatance he mentioned of a
I Lord who was peneouted by his part-
ner very aore. Lately she was constrained to go and
hmz tkia prcMhing herself: the Lord bleesed the
ward, and now she is a hnmble seeker. Other
thivga of a aheering nature wera spoken dnring
the oreBlng. Mneh good (by the power and bless-
lag of tlM UolT Sp&it) might be done if all oar
cfannhea woald bring many out who know and
love tbo truth, to be eerrants to Christ, to carry
that tfwth to ochOTs. J. Battboit.

eOOB VBIDAT AT WHIlTLEflEA.-
AiBBgl tha many happy meetings whieh uo
doobt task plnee on that day, it waa oor happinees
to partis^ata in one of those refreshing seasons,
whieh ara ao weleooke to the saints of God Many
sen preeented to the merey-throne
"/ and we were cheered in the mom-

prayara had hei
Bra* good day;'

big, as we ntmd the place where the gcMspel had
fof Qod

i unto oor sonls to find
tt waO filled. And tmly the gospel that morning
we haliava waa felt to be very welcome ; while Mr.
Fsrmaa, of March, was helped to set forth the dig-
nity of 'ZSan's King/ the relaUve beanty of the
ehavA of the Lord Jcene ; and the worship JnsUy
repaired, and joyfhlly rendered to Him, to whom
H alaae bdoDga. In the afternoon, we were fav-

oared to hear Mr. C. W. Banks, of London, who so
earnestly and affectionately proclaimed the word of
life, the love of Christ in the gift of himself, and
the cleansing power of his precious blood. A pab.
lie tea was provided, to which upwards of 200 sat
down. The erening service was felt to be one of
special interest and delight. Mr. Banks again
preached upon ' Christian Meditotion;' while he
seemed really to possess the life and power of the
things he uttered. A few verses of

' All hail the power of Jesu's name,*
were sung, and the servioes of the day were con-
dnded, and we left the 'house of the Lord' with
souls warmed and encouraged by the present, and
gratitude in our hearU for the past, seeing the
hand of the Lord is In our midst; as on the first
Lord's-day in the month, four persons who had
previously borne testimony to what God had done'
for their souls, were received into communion,
after following in the footstepe of their Redeemer.
I believe it waaone of the largest, and best meeU
Ings, spiritual as well as in a pecuniary sense, the
fnends of Zion hare known. May the Lord still
prosper Zlon, is the sincere deeire of one who is
stiU A LnAmrna.

YABMOUTH.— We are expecting much com-
pany from various parts of the kinsdom, visiting
our town ; and amongst them will be some true
believers in Christ. Therefore, beg you to publish
that on the first of May, we re-opened 8alem Par-
Ucular Baptist Chapel, Easthill Boad ; Mr. James
Tann (our late minister) is opr present minister :
the Lord, In his boundless mercy, is restoring his
health ; the Lord is blessing his labours ; we hare a
good revival, with a llrely hope. Being the only
Strict Communion people in this town, we beg the

Erayers of our Churches for the prosperity of the
iws of Christ amongst us. May the God of Israel
be on our side. We are poor, but stedfast in Strict
Communion. Wx. Oproan.

Veal's Buildings, South End, Yarmouth.

[Brother Tann, is a worthy, and truly devoted
minister of Christ. He Is a safe, sound, deep,
thinkine, and extenslrely read man of God. We
hope allwho love tbs Taoni will hear him, sup-
port him; and earnestly plead for him; for, in
Christ, and through the Spirit, he is worthy— Eo.]

THEODOSU ERNEST'S EXAMINATION OF THE
NEW TESTAMENT-

SoMB d0f«r people hare preramed to
apnm aa opUm, that the narratiTe we
hafie eoBUMiieed, of the 'Gonvenion and
I o# Miea Theodoeia Ernest,' is not a
We beg to stete, that the Yolnmes
died in Nashfille, Tenn, at the

1 Weatem Pablishinf House, of Graves,

Maria, and Go. : also, by Sheldon, Blake-
■aa and Go., in New York. Beside this,
wo shall, before we ha?e done, we hope,
— — ^ our readen with self-evident testi-
of the perfiMt gennineness, distinct
', and fisithftil charaeter of this

. Tmtj, and Theodoeia resolTed to ex-

__j the Now Testament, to ascertain iU
raal dinglioB, toaching the ordinance T»f bap«
Umu We shall continue to record tne
nnlta of these searching and intelligent
nrwwa of New Testament texts; and we

hope, thereby, to be useful to many, whose
minds are far from decision.

Mr. Percy opens the first eyening's sitting
as follows :

'Now, Miss Theodoaia,' said he, 'let us
begin bj examining the witnesses. When we
have collected all the testimony, we shall be
able to sum up on the case, and you shall
bring in the verdict.'

' That is rights' said she, with a smile, the
first that had illumined her face since she
stood by the water, * to the law and to the
testimony : if they speak not according to this
loord, it 18 because there is no light in them.'
Here, (may it please the court) is the record,'
handing him a well-worn copy of the New
Testament.

* Well, how are we to set at the point about
which we are at issue ? It is agreed. I believe,
that Jesus Ghrist commanded ms disciples, in

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tHE BAHTEBK YI88XL.'

[Jnne 1, 18».

' Yet, or, I n m^irrtanil H.'

* Then it would ■eem that our qneitloii it a
▼err nmple one. It is, whether you. and I.
and others who, like u«, hare been iprinkleo
in their infanoy, hare eT»r been baptiaed ?
Li othar words, Xv thetprmklit^ ^igfrnmU,
im ike mtume ojf tks Fathw, Som, mmd Hoigf
Ghott, ths bapHtm wki^ i§ rmin d in Act
bookf

*Tfaat U the qaartioa/ ^e wpUad. 'I
merely went to now if I was erer baptised.
I waa tprinkM in the ehnrdi. That InAj,
to-daj, waa itnmgrad into the riyer. If ana
was baptiaed, J «Ma not. That it the point.
There ia but one baptiaat. WJuok it ii> the
aprinklinr or the dtoping P* ,

' Oh, if that is all, we can aoon aettle the
question. Sprinklixie and poiirinff,and dipping,
are all baptism. Baptism is tne applioation
of water aa a reUgious eidinance. It don't
matter aa to the' mode of application. It mi^
be done one way or another, so that it is done
with the right detign. I see from what jour
diffic ult J has arisen. Tou bare miaapprahend-
ed the nature of the word baptise, x ou have
eonaidered it a speeifie, rather than a gOBane
term.'

' I don't know, Bf r. Percf, whether I qwte
uom[)rehend you. Ky difficulty arose from a
conviction that the baptism whioh we witmss
ed to*day, was jnat ameh a one aa is deseiibed
in the Soriptures, where they wsat down into
the water and eame up out of the water —
whereas m^ baptism had nothing about it that
at all reaembled the scriptural pattern. Please
don't try to myatifv the aobjeet, but let na tee
whioh was the real baptism.'

* I did not design to mystify the lubject, hut
to bring it into a dearer lighU The "?w«'"g
expressed by some words, -is rather a reault
than an aet If I say to my servant, go down
to the office, he may run there, or walk there,
or ride there, and he obeys me, equally, which
ever he does— so that he gets there, it is all
I require of him. Ga,-then, is a j sasrteor
general word, including a possible varieW of
acts. If I say to him, run down to the offloe,
he does not obey unless he goes in this specified
manner. So we call run a epeeifie term.
That is veiT plain, is it not ?'

' Certainly, Mr. Peroy, I eomprahend that.'

* Wall, then, I say that baptise it a genorie
term, Jesus Christ said, baptise all nationa.
He does not say whether you shall do it by
sprinkling, or pouring, or dipping ; so that
jou attain the end proposed, you may do it as
you please. If He had said, sprinkle all
nations; that is specific, and his ministers
must have sprinkled. If he had aaid |M>tf r
upon them with water, that is a specific act,
and they must all have poured. If he had
said, dip them in water, then tliey must idl
have dipped. The word would have required
it. But ^e used the general term baptise,
which signifies any applioation qf water as a
reHqioua ordinance ; and of course it does not
matter as to the mode. You may take your
choice.'

* But I should, even in that case,' sud abe,
' feel inclined to choose the earns mode that
Hb didyhud which the eart^ diteiplee did.
There must hare been tome reason for hit

the wwd baptiae it a g a utfiw teBm, aa yam aal
it - -having thxae or ftnir diAsraut noaniiipf^

' Simply by reference to tihe diotiaiiaiT.
IrfMk at Webatar. Ha ia ytod airthotiiy ; it
he not P Ha4afiaaabi^ti8iaieba.«haa|M^nP
tion <€tpatar aa a fdUgioaa««iiii«M». What
more do tou wast r'

< Bttt» lb Pan^/ Baldwin, wholiad liaen
a ailsnti hot vary attentiva liaterar, *the
Baptist ptaaehartaUllfr. Annaua, tfaa aihtf
day, that haptiaa and bapliw mmm aat
SngliA warda at 4 but the^reek aroHt
haptito and taptimnoi, tnnaferrad into the
Eogtiah Bible, and jiot tnoalatad. Sa aiSd
that King Jamet smuUi aat permit tha tiiit
lattaa totraulata 4M^k» worda, lor iav af
diatttibinf the fistth aaid praotiee of I4ia OhiMh

fisMi SBid praotiee <
of England, and so they just knt the Oreek
word— hot ifthe^ had tuanalated ita««IZ,it
mnat have read dtp or saMisrasiiiataad «f ha»-
tiae.'

< Very wan, Sdwin, hot It ia net likely tfagt
the Baptist preacher it much wiaer than
Preabyterian preachera, or Xethodiat pxcadi-
ers, or Bpiseopal preaaheia. If dip lud been
the Bseestary, or even the 4wnniin ■waninr
of the word, it is vary improbable that it
woald hafaianainad for thia wikMaaiil aad
obsooreaeottohavediaaoivaMdit Auchaiafta^
maota may do vary wall to dahida thair ain^
follower!, but tbey eannot be eo^ectad lo
impose upon the educated worid.*

' But^ Mr. Paimr, I have looked up fta
words m my Graek Lexiaon, and I fin2 Uds
Jm^mekomid ^Baptiao dees mean to isasaasaa.
Baptismos doee mean immeiaion.'

*Oh, as to that, I toppose you got hold of a
Baptist Lexicon.*

• Wall, hareitis; BonaMm's
You-aaa look for yonnelr.'

Mr. Perey, (who, if he was not a th oiuugh
Greek scholar, yet knew enough of the lan<

-lanced at the word
'tt,aiid«mUaeye

guage to read it readily,) git
whare Sdsiwihad markaitt
along the cognate words.

'Saptkso^-To immerse repeatedly into a
liquid, to submerge, to soak thoroughly^ to
saturate.

BaptUie or S apHem M, knmaraxon ; JKap-
MfSNi, an objaat iraaaartsd; Bapfhtm, «Ba
who immaraes; Be^ptae, imaaanad, ^dwad;
BaptQ, to dip, to pliiiji uAo water, ahsT

fle waa aslooishad. Tha thoq^
never ocourred to him before, that
waa not an EngKah. bat a Greek wanl^ aaA
that he should look in the Oroek Jjotaoimt
rather than Webster's Dictionary, to ascertain
its real meaning, as it oeeurria in tko Jtmo
Tettamtnt. He tamed to the title paga and
prefbce fbr some avidenee that this was a JIm.
ii$t Lexieo&,'bttt he learned that it was pob-
liabed under tha auaervision af sobm «f iha
Faculty of the Presbyterian ThaelagiaBl
- ~ li.J.;thaii;^rlaad

quartan of orthodaa Paartiytnwiirisw,

Sb99 was a now phaaa of tha natjaat.
ooold only promise to look into tfeaa
more particularly the nea^t dur: wbeo, ha
said, he would pfoeure sevaral raerent IiIbilI-
oons, by diflbrent aixthori, and eompare them
with each other.

Jbm 1, 1859.

THB XASTHBK VESSEL.

147

A BEVIBW 0¥

SERMONS ON THE COMING OF CHRIST,
BY THE BBV. W. LINCOLN.

'i GMin» of Vour StrmoHB <m Subjects eon-
n*eUi with the Second Adnewt oftmr Lord
/mm OhrUt. By the B«r. W. LiirooLir.'
LoodoB : Partridge and Go. Bobert Banks
ind Co., 182, Dorer Boad 8.B.

Wi haro gone carefnllj throngh the abore
sermons, and fbr earnestneas and industry,
they do Mr. Lincoln much credit ; and the
profit of tiie present edition beixig devoted to
the Aged Christian Pilgrims* Friend Society,
does kmoar (o Kr. Lincoln's benerolenoe. And
asfiirai h0 adTaoeet^the £ree-moe truths of
the goipel, w« go with him. But in the main
o^fct of these sermonB we do not go with him.
We do not beliere that Christ wul personally
rdi^a on earth ; and we do not beliere that
tbrn will be a rehearsal of the sins of the |
people of Ood in glory ; we do not believe in
ii>^^rees in glory ; nor that the day of judgment
"nil last a thousand years ; nor, that the leaven- \
ins of the three measures of meal, means the {
«ndiisl eormption of the Church ; nor, that i
this earth ia to be purified by fire ; nor thai \
the aaiats will be looated up in a cloud, while \
the earth is being purified ; nor, that there ,
vill be an eoormona ladder from the earth to '
this doud, for the saints to tug up and down '
upon* nor, that Christ will reign at the
earthly JemaaLem, issuing his oommands from
his ' heav«nly-«azthly throne* (as 3ir. Linooln
calif it) ; all of which it appears Mr. Linooln
does believe ; and which, as we have said, we
do not beliere. We believe this doctrine of an
^irthly millennium to be a witre huhhU; and
iriii not bear the teat of plainly revealed goo-
peUnith.

Mr. laneoln has entirely failed to prove the
pcrscmal rrign of Christ on earth ; indeed, the
plainly revealed order of things destroys en-
tirely mdi. a doctrine. The order of things
pUialy revealed, is that there are but two per-
sonal eomings of Christ : the one has been
f olfiBed ; the other is yet to come ; and when
ht; shall come, it wUl be * without sin unto
salTstum;' to raise the just and the unjust:
his own being raised in a nM>nient, and shall
b« raised first, and meet him in the air, and
-^re at once to enter an everlasting kingdom ;
he will stazid between the lost and the saved —
the one en his right hand, the other on his
isft^aad when the soul of the believer leaves
the body, it ia at onoe preeent with the Lord ;
ad there it remains, as the Spirit of a just
Qsa made perfijct ; and there it awaits, until
the body b raised from the dead, and made as
mfit for earth as is the mortal body unfit for
heaven. Tea, even Mr. Linooln Imms the
«erth to a cinder for us; e^en then, when
thas purified, it would be as unfit for the
tiody as it is now ; for if the earth being burnt
to a cinder, be purified, and made fit for res-
uzrectioa bodies^ why not the mortal body also
he put into the fire and bomt ant* the ngfat

state and shape ? But we dispense with Mr.
Lincoln's purined earth, and content ourselves
with the fact, that as the saints have already

?retty clearly borne the image of the earthly,
hey will now bear the image of the heavenly,
and will certainly sit down, not in Mr, Lin-
oi)ln*s earthly kingdom, but in God's own
heavenly kingdom ; and this heavenly kingdom
is what the^ are made to desire and to seek.
Now let this plain, straightforward, order of
things remain, and let ambiguous Scriptures
be subserrient to the plain ; not let the plain
be mistified by the ambiguous, just test the
difficult parts bv that which is spiritual, and
all comes straignt, plain, and easy.

There was the $pirUual coming of Obrist on
the day of Pentecost, and there is his spiritual
coming now always, even unto the end of
the world. The new heavens and new earth
were created long ago } in counsel, from tha
foundation of the world ; in mediation, when
Christ died; he opened *a new and Uviag
way,' and brings us into the antitypical rest.
This is the new earth, and it remains for ever ;
and herein, in this new earth, Christ is the
Bright and Morning Star, the Sun, and the
Lord Gh>d here is everlasting light; a sun
that will never go down ; a moon that wUl
never withdraw itself. The first resurrection
is regeneration. So much in the milleanary
age, shall the saints of God have of the spirit
ot the andent martyrs, that it will look as
though they were risen from the dead. Yea,
it will be the resurrection of the mighty sfnrit
of the martyrs, and therefore their souls, not
bodies or persons, but their souls, their heroic
spirits, are spoken of as the souls of them that
were beheaded for the Word of God. And for
one thousand years shall this state of thinga
continue ; so that the enemy cannot live again
a life of tyranny over the saints, until the
thousand years are finished. We, in our day^
so far from having the souls of them that
were beheaded for the word of God and for
the testimony of Jesus, hardly know half wa
time whether we have any souls at all or not :
such dwarfs, such babes, and weaklings are
we.

We must not forget that there is a Jerusa*
lem whioh, as the city of the Great King, il
gone and gone for ever. The true Jerusalem is
the Jerusalem above, and which is free, and by
the gospel it cometh down unto men, and taketll
them up into citiaenship ; so that * they aM
no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow
oitisens of the saints, and of the household
of God.' Let na then keep to this new Jerusa-
lem, and we shall do well : this will be dwell-
ing by Auth in the new heavens, and in the
new earth; and here we may build boascs,
asquize dwellings, and inhabit them; here we
may plant yineyards, and drink the wine of
tten^ (aod thia toa if the bcit wiw) ; mi

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here we can nuike gardens, and eat the frut
of them ; and here our labours will not be in
Tain, for in this spiritual labour we shall prore
o^nel▼e8 to be of the seed of the blessed of the
Lord, and our (spiritual) oflTsprin^ with us.
But then Mr. Lincoln does not like parting
with his old mother earth, yet be consents for
her to be burnt, to make her look young again.
But not only does Bir. Lincoln give us an
earthly, millennium ; but he will hare the sins
of the people of God told out in glory. Yes,
he (Hr. Lincoln) would rewrite the hand wri-
ting which Christ blotted out; he would raise
our sins again from the bottom of the sea ; he
would hare the Lord remember that which the
Lorii himself says he has forgotten \ and he
(Mr. Lincoln) would find that which the Lord
says shall not bo found. Mr. Lineoln is not a
Puseyite, yet he sets up oven in glory a iremen-
dout eonfMtumal, The banner over the church
is love, and all her sin covered, yet she (as
soon as she is taken home to the house of the
bridegroom) and to be, (as Mr. Lincoln does
himself confess) to be * presented without spot,*

Srt, alas ! there to be twitted of all gone by
ults! And Mr. Lincoln says, that when-
ever he meeU David, he shall always know
thai David was an •gregio— sinner. Well
^en, if we wore David, we should try, even in
heayen, to avoid Mr. Lincoln, and seek the
oompany of those who had been such sinners
themselyes, that they would be glad to haye
something better to think about.

But for this terrible confessional in glory
Mr. Lincoln, gives us his Scriptures, and the^
are these and we mast face them : £co. xii.

truth in the love of it» and abiding by it, and
walking in love to God, and to his people, and
to his ways, are good—and such win be judged
friends, and treated as such. But what has
this to do with Mr. Lincoln's dream of the
endless catalogue of sins being paraded in
_i — p 2^^^ Lmooln may mean w^— and we

glory?
would

14,2 0or. y. 10; Eev.xx. 13. ,

* For God will bring eveiy work mto judg-
ment, with every secret thing, whether it be
good, or whether it be evil.' Well does
Mr. Lincoln, in reading such a Scripture as
this, forget that there is a righteousness
which Ju$^^e» from aU ikiiut? Were
not the sins of the belieyer brought into
indgement at Galvery? and did not the
Bayionr then '/nttA transgression, make ui
tndot sin, and make reeoMeiliation for ini-
quity P' But perhaps Mr Lincoln, when he
brought this last yerse of £cclesiastes,/or;^«
Jesus Christ : a thing not at all uncommon

would be the last to say one unkind or disre-
spectful wOTd'of him, for we believe he has
wrote conscientiously, but not aoripturally —
but we leave the remainder of thereyiew
until next month — and hope Mr. Lineoln wUl
take as kindly as he can what we haye written,
although we are A DieaBHTBE.

To ths Fnendt fjf Hu Barthen Vtt$a Redemption
Fmtd.
Tbrouf h tbe kiadneM and liberalltv of Snbserl-
bexs to tbe above fund, the som of £151 Si. Md. has
been forwarded to the committee, of vhkh mm,
£1SI 16s. have been paid towards the object, leay-
ins ahout £30 to meet ihe future demands T WUl the
friendB who intend to aid In the entire psTment of
the amount required, have the goodness to help
the committee at their earlieat posaible eonycii-
ience t The friends are thanked for the past proofs
of their interest, and at the same time, will be
trutited in for supplying tbe remainder for the
Aieans to liberate the vkbskl from debt

Help us well, and help ns quiekty. Your*B in the
gospel. r, W. WiLUAMSoii,

14, CUrcndon-rd., Notting.hill. Finance Treasurer.
[It should be stated that in some few eaaea
travelling ezpensea and printing expenses have
been ineurred; but the Editor has made no
charge. The Treasurer now pnrehases the paper
and pays all expenses connected with the pro-
duction of the Eabtush TnstL every month :
so that no other liability lays afalnst the Bam.
rnsv Ybsssl bat the remaining £100 of ito final
' redemption. It may bo observed that as nearly
' 2000 copies are sent out every month by the
EditOT*B assistants to different ports of England,
I Ireland, America, Australia, India, fta, (besides
upward of SOW whleh go through the publishtng
t houses in the trade.) there is always a considerable
' sum owing for these packages sent in all directions ;
I beside the expense of sending them. It would be
a great relief if all parties could obtain Turn
Babthbit Yxsshl through their booksellers or
News-agcnU— where such a course cannot be

But again-^2 Cor. y. 10--' That eyery one
may receive the things done in his hody,
whether it be good or bad.' Well, if it be by
that faith that worketh by loye of the truth,
the doing of such faith is good, and the bad is
taken away by tbe one sacrifice ; and if it be
not the doing of the faith of God's elect, but
the doing of some other faith, or of infidelity,
then the doing is bad, and the judgment ac-
oording thereto. But as it is not good and
bad in the same person, but good or bad; so
that it is reckoned all good or all bad, and
with the true believer his faith is counted for
good— all good— counted for righteousness.
Well then, there is nothing here to authorise
Mr. Linooin's tremendous confessionaL

But again— Bey. xx. 18—' And Uiey were
judged every man according to their works.'
Well, of oourae they were: according to the
Mtore of their works— whether thej were
good OT bad; and the worict of reoeiying the

adopted we are glad to appoint, and to snmply
agents. C. W^Bavxs, S, Bldon Plaoe, 6.B.

A Young Man at Woobum Qreen

Mrs. Frost, Hooks Furm, Marlow

Mrs. Oockram, Marlow,

collected after two Sermons at Enon Cha-
pel, Chatham, by C. W. Banks

Mr. Usury Howell

HoUoway. by a Friend by C. W. Banks ...

Dlttoby Mr.Batson

Yately, Zoar Chapel, collected
byMissF.Oray 14 7

Mrs. Ives 6

Mr.Perrett 10 4

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AFriendatWaddesdenHill

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Mr. C. Paek.Egerton ... ...

A Lady by Mrs. Horton through Mr. J.
Wells, ...

Walter Baffety per Mr. OoUlns Wycombe

H. O. given at Mayford

Friend Hiokmott, of Frittenden, (since at
Smarden, to C. W. Banks)

Collection at Baptist Chapel, Crudwell,
after two sermons by C Banks

Collected bv Mr. A Ashby, an^ hisfdei^
atZion Chapel, WhitUese^QQg [q

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149

^( Cif?> Ulinbirg, Mn($^, lEkai^, Immt, k.,

or THB LATB

MR. THOMAS WILLIAM GITTENS,

OF IBXSXZBB OBAPBL, C1.XSIN TOWIT.

As BXGAEDA the faithful Ministers of
Cbrntk ve ha?e sometimes realized a
feeret And a saered pleasure in taking a
three^fold riew. We have looked back-
Mrt/upon the noble armj — upon the long
Qobroken line — the living stream of gos-
pel witnesses, who have been called to
Iibour for Christ in their dajr and gene-
laibn, mnd then have been gathered unto
their fathers. In this kingdom especially,
vbit hoatd of holj and earnest men have
been given to the church for her comfort,
and to the world for its warning, and for
the imrpose of gathering therefrom the
chosen heira of eternal bliss ! We have
often wished we could gather out the
lilt of them, their conversion to God,
tbeir eonversaitofi about Christ, and their
devoted eonduet to their Master's service.
But this 18 impossible. We have, there-
fore, seeondlj, looked upwards, and
thought of the glorious assembly of them
in the kingdoms above. The scriptures
are not silent on this point — " They that
be wise (or, are teachers,) shine as the
brightness of the firmament; and they
&at turn many to righteousness, as the
Stan (or ever and ever." Is there not
a dUiimetia» here ? Is it not a marked
distinction which we do well to observe F
Those that afe 'wiseP Men who are
favoured to unfold the holy mysteries of
the new and everlasting covenant: and
those who ' turn many to righteousness.'
Of the former, we see such men as Char-
nock, (Joodwin, Owen, and thousands
■on. Of the latter, we see fiunyan,
Whiteftdd, and an innumerable company
beside. And there, in Glory, now they
dwell Oh! it is delightful; there, bv
faith, to view them clothed and crowned,
and blest for ever ! But oontemplations
of this kind cannot be put into words.
Stilly it is cheering to anticipate the asso-
eiation one day to be enjoyed by all the
Csitfafnl Lutly, we \Mk forward to the
period when all who now on Zion's walls
do stand, shall be passing home ; and the
sight of here and there one and another
spEiDging np to fill their places, proves

▼ot. XV.— No. 172.

that the promise has not been broken—
the God of the promise lives.

The uprising, the ouward progress, the
happy end, the ultimate reward, of all the
faithful stewards in the Gospel House-
hold, are subjects of immense interest to
us. We are prone to be curious about
ministers. Good men we hold in reveren-
tial affection. Bad men, and mere pr^
tenders, we greatly pity.

If, therefore, in recording the depar-
ture of ministers, we occupy too much
space, we hope to be forgiven.

The followmg has been prepared by our
own reporter.

Thb late Mr. Qittens was a faithful and affec-
tionate preacher of the Gospel of Chriflt,— a
man of Uud, a devoted eervant. a lovinfl^ pas.
tor, a benevolent and eympathuing friend,
and a fiuthful expounder of the true and dis-
tinguishing doctrines of the eferlasting gos-
pel. As such, we feel it our privilege and
duty to record a few incidents touching his
life and some particulars of the happy depar-
ture of his soul to that blissful shore, where
now his immortal spirit bows before the throne
of God, with joy unspeakable, and full of
glory.

In furnishing a few particulars of this ser-
vant of Jesus, we will just divide the samS
into four departments. 1st. His early life and
entranee into the ministry, noticing the bless-
ing the Lord vouchsafed to him in hii work.
2oQ, furnish some particulars of his last illness
and death ; 8rdnotice the funeral sermon deliv*
ered by Hr. Luekin. And 4thly, add some
acoouBt of the^funeral, and the address deliv*
ered on ^e oeeasion. We would here remark,
that Hr. Gittens was one of the most intimate
friends and fellow- labourers of the late Joseph
Irons, (of Camberwell ) Our readers ffenerally
are aware of the high Christian love and
esteem in which we held that noble champiun
of the gospel : whose voiee often fell like the
voice of a ' mighty man of Qod,' when with
a fulness of oonfldenoe, he was wont to
sound forth the blessed truths of the everlast-
ittff pfospel. With no less Christian love and'
ministerial regard would wa speak of Mr.
Qitteus.

HIS EABLT LIFE, AHD ENTSAKC8
IHTO THE MIHIBT&T.

He was born in Portsea, in the year 1791/
of parents who were connected with the
Church of England, but in early life he became '

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A diaaenter lima Che Stoto Chnroh ; and under
the minUtntioiie of Mr. John Grifin, (then
of Portaea,) he beenme muoh atteehed to the
tiiatba of tbe goapel.io faithfiallj. delivered by
that eminent serrant; here alto ne became an
aotive teacher in the Sabbath School, and thia
waa (as ia often the oaae) the ateppin^ atone to
hia future career, for here he often waa found
engaged in addreaaing the children at the close
of the aohool; and cTentually he became a
member of that ehuroh. Early in the year
1618, he left his native aoil, and bent hia ateps
to thia ' City of the world' He was then
married, and the parent of three children.
His journey to London was a prondential one :
he had no situation in view, or any very bright
nroapecta before him. But he found the
Lord waa hia Jehovah-Jireh atill, and he waa
provided for. Time rolla on, and in after
years we find him commencing busineaa for
nimaelf in the vicinity of Camden Town; and
here he firat felt a desire to tell to others
the boundleaa love of a preciona Ghriat to hia
immortal aouL

About this time, an Itinerant Society of
Preachers was formed in London, and Mr.
Gittens became one of that body, and laboured
with some oonsiderable sucoeaain the Tillages,
Ac., surrounding his own locality. Near thia
period, Mr. Gittena waa introduced to a few
young people, (Sunday School Teachera,)
who were active for the apread of the gospel,
and who occupied a carpenter's thopin Rayham
Terraee, Camden Townt a pressing invite was
given by these aealous ehristiana to Mr. Git-
tena, begging him to come and preach to them
the word of life ; their wiah waa granted ; and
they again repeated the requeat ; and ao
largely waa the word bleaaed, and the congre-
gation ao much increaaed, that eventually a
ehuroh waa formed, (conaiating of twelve mem-
bera) of which Mr. Gittena, hi the year 1832,
became the pastor.

Tlu hhnimg iks Lord poured i$pon
kit mimUtraiiotu were very apparent He
had not long ministered atatedlv to hia ehuroh
before ' the Oarpenter'a ahop' became * too
■trait,' and one warm-hearted Chriatian lady,
(Mra. Butcher, to whoae memory a Ublet ia
erected in Sbeneser Chapel) came nobly for-
ward and offered £100 towaraa the ereetion of
a chapel ; her example waa fioUewed by three
othen; and the peraevering energy of hia
other firlenda were ao praotieally maoifeat that
they felt the hand of the Lord authorised them
in providing a more suitable plaoe of meeting,
▲oeordingly, the ground waa obtained, and the
preaent chapel waa built in the year 1836, and
waa calculated to hold about 860. It is
named * Ebeneaer,' and ia aituated near High
Street, Camden Town. The firat coat of er^
eetion waa £1,900; but n aonaiderable amomit
beyond that aum haa been apent upon it. Since
iti ereetion, it haa been twice enlarged ; aehool

veatrtea| and other aooommodationa
haTing been added, and it will now aeat 800
peraons. It ia a plan, but substantial looking
building out dde ; tne interior ia well fitted,
with galleriee round ; and it haa a amall, but
not too lend, organ in the gallery at the rear
of the pulpit. Apparently, the congregation

eonaiata of a reapeotable elaaa of peraona ; and
up to the laat Mr. Gittena waa fkvoured to
have large audienoea liatening to hia faithfol
ezpoaitvma of the ITord of God. The chureh
waa in peace, and the Lord continued to amile
upon hia laboura down to hit dying day. A
happy position for an aged pastor to be found
in at the dose of hia lire !

JOB LAST nUTESS, AJTB DSATH.

Four yearaainee, Mr.6ittena had a very aharp
attack of erysipelas, which left his frame in a
very shattered condition, firom which he never
thoroughly reeovered. The apparent moving
cause of hia laat illneaa aroee from a eold,
caught while returning home from aaerviee
at which he had been engaged. He waa de-
aired to reat from preaching for a time, but
hia teal to proclaim the gloriea of redee m ing
love out-balanoed the eare for hia body, and
he waa agun found on Sunday mormng, Jan.
30th, in hia aocuatomed p»aition. It waa
noticed then by aeveral of hia attaehed frienda
that hia avstem had been aubject to a aharp
attack ; atill he apoke with considermble energy,
and very aolemniv from the worda, ' My hope
ia in thee.' In tne evening of the aame day
he could only administer the ordinance of the
Lord's Supper, and his weakness waa much
more apparent than it had been before. We
believe thia waa the laat aervioe he attended.
After he had been laid by fbr aome time^ hopes
were again entertained of hia reoovery, and it
waa propoaed for him to have apent a few
weeka at Portaea, in the hope oi recruiting his
ahattered health. The day ne waa to have left
town, a rdapae eame on, which prored to be
the meaaenger aent to wing hia ranaomed aool
to the regiona of the justified : which oce nr ied
on Sunday evening, May 16th, at 10 minutes
paate.

THE VmrBBAI 8BEK0H
waa preached at hia own chapel, in Camden
Town, on Sunday evening, May 22nd by hia
beloved brother w the miniatry, Mr. Biduurd
Luckin, of Clerkenwell.

We arrived at the chapel before half-past 6,
and at that early hour found a laige eoneoorae
of people gathered round the entranoe. At
the time for conunencement of the aervice, not
only waa every pew more than occupied, but
every inch of the ground where a atanding
could at all he got, waa closely packed with
anxious listenera. The pulpit^ organ-gallery,
and clerk'a deak were hung with black, and a
large number of the congregation were ftttired
in mourning. [We would here aay, thanka
were doe to thoae in office for the exertions
and kindneaa diaplayed in Mide«Toiuing to ac-
commodate the mass of friends then eoueeted.]

The aervice commenced with aiaging the
faTourite hymn of Watts',

* There ia a land of pure delight ;'

Mr. Luckin then tmd the 6th chapter of the
2nd of Corinthians; and engaged in anloDn
prayer — thanking the Lord for the verrjeft,
peaeefnl and happy departure he had mated
ma aervant. After again singing, Mr. Xockin
announced for hia toxtHlhe worda of Paul

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M,) '* But none of tbese things move

Mr eoani I mv life dear uato mj-

\ 99 ihsft I mi|^ht fitibli YAj eoone with
}oj, «Bd the adniftty, whbh I have reoeivevi
01 the Lord Jems, to toetifj the gospel of the
gnmoiQodJ In oommenoing, lir. Luckin
snd,— >De«r Friondi, it is at the particular re-
qaeatof my doar departed brother, Mr. Git-
teoii thtti I aa eaUisd upon to apeak to you
this eweomg. He who hath so often spoken
to joa from this palpit the truth of God fully,
fsithfidlj and afleetioiiateljr, will speak to you

does all things well.' As his weakneist becaoke
gradually greater, he often exclaimed, *My
flesh and my heart faileth. but God is the
strength of my heart, and my portion for
erer, repeating the last words several times,
* for erer, for ever, my portion for ever.* On
one occasion, after many hours of sn£fering,
he said to his medical attendant^ ' Do I mur-
mur, doctor — if I do, it is quite foreign to
my inward state of peace and joy, so much
am I supported by the Lord's constant |^.
cious presence.' His medical man asked him,

flight, and is _

of God and the Lamb. In speaking trom the
t«xt, the Preaeher noticed, 1st, The Sub;set of
PtfiiTs Mimigtrvi 2nd, Tlu Mammsr in which
dttfd / Srd, '

Is immortal spirit hath taken its J ' Have you never experienced the Lord's
now in the immediate presence presence so fully before P' ' Oh, yes,' he re-
plied, * but not so continuously. Me has ever
been tx> me a faithful God.' ' Oh ! my precious
Saviour, my precious Saviour.' On being
asked if he feared death, he ezultingly replied,
*Ohno, oh no,' adding, *in this 1 rest— in
hope of eternal life, which he promised in
Christ Jesus before the world began. I have
seen,' he said, ' my Saviour in ul his glor?,
in all his immutability, in all his faithfulneea,
in all his covenant love, I have seen Him aa
my crucified Bedeemer, I have seen Him as
my risen Saviour, I have seen Him as my
Intercessor, and I see Him now standing at
the throne of God above, and stretching out
his hands to receive mo.' On a friend quoting
to him the lines, —

' I'll speak the honours of thy name
With my last lab'ring breath,'

he rejoined, with great emphasis, lifting his
eyes and hands upwards, —

' And dying clasp thee in my arms—
The antidote of death.'

' For the last week or two preceding his

is Frmeikwd : Sid, Htt Undauntsd Couraae
aisd, iasOj, Hit BgpeeUd Bmd. In various
partaof thm dieeoursa. Mr Luekin drew a par-
alki batsTMsi the labours of the Apostle Faul
and thodepvtBd— abewing that Paul preached
the laniff g oa p el, prodained the same glorious
Sarionr— tlM aama redeeoiing blood utd love
— tho aam0 preooua, God-glorifyinc doctrines,
as did tiboir late partor. ' Ah, my friends, the
lata Ifr. Qittena, with whom I stood oonneot-
ed thnr^-fbar years, was raised up by the

r to proidi the same glorious uospel

krist preached, that the Prophets
, and that the Apostles preached, and
) it ia the same gospel— the gospel of
the «€• of Qod,' • • The Apostle preaeh-
ad tLe foapal exparimentaliy*— in itaezperi-
nuntal praeioosDOss. He loved the gospel,
and valnad the gospel, and felt the force and
power of the trutns of the gospel in his own
aooL 8o did our dented brotner. Ah ! he

tho gospel In all its practical faith. ■ ^ f^^ *"• wv^* ^' iwo preceamg nis

• •™ No one can read the rela. ' ^^^^ although then comparativel; free fn>m

tkmB of Paul's travels, WiSoutdiscoverin^ ?*• "°" painful rrmptoms of hi disorder,

thai IM WM a <»nrist«t cS«D «dal^r. ' ^ f" """^^^ «**»? ^ -l®®? ^' H ^9V'
!a^ riJ?T>r!7!rr?l!yT^"Sr . i!3i L ; He had no real rest for many days and nights

^ ^S^tZ^Ldt^ : t«i?!?"- Sti^ ^-ir^ *« m\st calmlnd

I«eS h?«sSiM t^ 1 ^^i** «»?I»«>"- .The interests of his church

sSTa S^nS^h^yoS^ pMt^ ?>^ KP^ ^^ evidently near his heart The

r^J^tnylto^^

m the Lord ; you loved him for his work's

^_^ ' the Kimgin hi» beauty,' 'Do tell all vou

Ua Bfadatrr to your aonls. And, dear Mends, ' ^^ ^ ^^^^A ^^x} o'^l^J^*^ ^ "^^ ?°*
I ^S% to^, look to thi AlmightylS ' ^^ZS^ni^l atd ^' A^2btt£"S^*
* Mm a MthAd oMtor, one after his own I 7«»T '•^l«« n>gn*. and on the Sabbath morn -
^^JiMMt^liS^^^i^.T!^ «^ I w« iiia P»l«e ^^a» evidently feebler. Seeing
^is«l ymi with knowledge and under- 1 ^^^ hi,^cal attendant observed, * I fear,

"•• , ^ .^ , . , I Mr. Qittens, your bodily strength is very

I low.' * Oh, yea,' he replied, ' but mv spiritnal

tha aloaa of the sermon, which was

daSvvadwith avidoit feehngs of affection, | gtwngth wUl hold out to the enj.' Once,
^- i«f*» ^ V*t*?Tu ^ *5* '^u^'Jf ! on bang aaked how he ftelt, he said, pohiting
«f th« daeaaasd, which had been funushad by upwards, * «owo hom/ During the mora-

••~.55^jfu^ ^*l^- /fi^ f ™*^ ^» "»^»««» *>• ^"^ attaaked idth spasms,
n pobbahad, with the whole of the statement ', ^hich became ahinning. He rallied, however,
th«D read, wis shall only give a few short ; ^id asked for a hran-book to be given to hit

• that she mint select a hymn. The one

. which became i
^ ^ ive a few short 1 j^d i

whieh will snffloe to show the calm j ^iff |

of mind the departed was the subject j .elected waathelbUowing :— "^

frt

of ao UM laaa. I

Hia fait aazioaa to know the will of the ;
Lord eaneamiitf him; and his desire was
yaai lDy granted, for hla fjniptoms soon ren-
dmd n aridciU that his ease waaa highlv
rriti— I 9m99 * I faal/ ha said, * that niy work
IS ia«ia,aadthatmy heavvaly rMhar mlaada
tAkii^f ma to him^piC Wall, be it so. Ha

' On Jordan's stormv banks I stand,

And cast a wishrnl eye
To Canaan's fair and happy land,
Where my possessions lie.'

Onee or twice during this he sobbed with
emotioay and at the eonclosion raised hb
haads and said, 'Amen/ BetwcMi four and

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five the tpasmodio ftttiiski returiMd. He.
nuide serend exelamationB of * Jeans, Jetos,'
whicb led one of his soni to mention to him
the beautiful hymn,

* JesuB, it my God and Saviour,^
Guide, and Couniellor. and Friend,'
and on the last line of the vene being re-
peated,

< Kind and loving to thb xnd.'

'J k$kfw it, I know it,* he said, and <0h!
that He would cut short these bands.' After
this he said two or three times to hii medical
attendant, * Cut the bands, doctor/ obviously
alluding to his desire to be liberated from his
suiFeringi. About six o'clock his pulse be-
came further enfeebled, and he appeared to
be sinking; nevertheless he had power to
raise his Mnds once or twice and sav, * My
Wather,' Other words were uttered indis-
tinotlv, but all that was afterwards audible
was tne faint but fervent crj * Jesus, Jesus,
Jesus.' At that time he was in a sitting
posture, propped up by oillows, his head in-
clined forward, his bands clasped, and bis
eyes closed, as if he were sleeping. His
breath was suddenly observed to get shorter —
his head was gently raised and supported on
the shoulder of one of his sons. The medical
attendant and members of the family in the
adjoining room were instantlv called, but
almost Mfore they had reached him, he had
breathed his last. He sank like a setting
suu, gbriously and peacefullv, without an
ap{Mirent struggle. Me literally * fell asleep
in Jesus,'— the name of the Saviour in whom
he trusted still lingering on his lipa«'

THE FUNSBAL,

The remains of this honoured man of God
wore interred at Highgate Cemetery, on Sa-
turday afternoon. May 21 st, near tbe spot
where the remains of the late Bev. J. Bvans,
are deposited. The hearse was followed by ten
mourning coaches and about twenty cabs,
containing the bereaved family and a number
of the members and friends of the church.
The corpse was first taken into the chapel,
where a large number of friends had gathered*
The Bev. Andrew Read gave out a hymn ;
and the Bev. James Flemmg offered praver.
An address was then given by the Bev. /. C.
Harrison, of Camden Town, in which he
spoke rery highly of the Christian zeal, tender-
heartedness andloving-affection of the depart-
ed. Another hymn was sung, and Mr. Nunn
concluded the service In the Chapel by prayer.

now walking upon the crystal paveaMot in the
mansions of bliss ! Crowned with an immor-
tal crown ! Swaying the palm-braneh of vic-
tory, exclaiming, victorvl victory! through
the blood of the Lamb !* '

Mr Tiddv, of Camberwell, concluded the
service at the grave with prayer. B.

The corpse was then re-placed in the nearse,
and the mournful procession moved on to
Highgate Cemetery, where Mr. Luckin gave
a uort address, from which we make one
extract as a suitable eonclosion to our artiole
in memory of this honoured servant of the
Lord. Mr Luckin said :

' Our departed brother was a man of God ;
a kind and affectionate husband. I would say
to the mourning fomlly, you have lost an
affectionate father. To the mourning church
and oongrcigation I would say, ^ou have lost
a faithful pi^tor^but your kiss is his gain—
hi% work was done*'-he }§ gone home. Ho is

EPISTLES TO THEOPHILUS.

LBTTBR LYII.

THB SBYBIY BEAU : THB FUTH AXD tlXTH
•BAU.

Mt good Thbophilub, — I now, in all sim-
plicity and earnestness, will ^to you a few
words upon the fifth and sixth bmIi, as

S'ven in Bevelation, (chapttr 6th.) The
at of these two seals, you will see, is a
martyr's seal, or the seal of martyrdom ;
shewing that all the sufferings of the people
of God are under the seal of heaven, that all
is goTemed and over-ruled in aeeordanee
with what is written in heaven ooneeming
them. Their sotili are said to be under the
altar, this is to shew, first, their nearness to
God, it is by the true altar, Christ Jesv, that
God is their exceeding joy ; this joy reced-
ing in intensity, in extent, and in duratioB
all they have ever suffered. Their being
under the altar, shews also that the Great
High Priest of our profession was their way
of aooess to God ; that by him, they had
boldness to enter into the holy of holies.
Their being under the altar, shews also that
they were sacrifices acceptable unto God;
not acceptable aa atonements : no ! there is
but one, and there needed nothing but that
one atonement, Christ Jesus ; bat they are
acceptable as witnesses for God, and in the
service they rendered to the cause of God,
in giving up their lives, rather than give op
the truth. While the Lord's own account of
the cause of their death, and the account the
enemy would give of the cause of their death,
very widely differ. Their enemies would
8ay,4hey were not put to death for the word
of God, nor for standing tut against error
and idolatry; no, (say the enemies) for a
good work we stone thee not, but for blas-
phemy, reckoning them of coarse, eneoiica to
tood works. Hence, the Poseyites, and
Papiits tell us that the less we say about the
Protestant Martyrs, the better; meauin||[, of
course, that as the martyrs, when linng,
were blackened unto the last degree by the
slanders, and revilings, the enemies east
upon them ; that the Poseyites, and Papists,
would not be wauling again in rolling a dark
river from the serpents mouth, over the
memory of ^tHe martyrs. The martyrs^ no
doubt had, as .'alLmezi have^ their infirmitiea
and faults; but. not for these were t^iey put
to death, ^ny farther than the enemy could
m»ke use of their faulta to excuse thaaaelvea
for putting. them to death ; the rMifromtd

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9f ndi trntnenl from tbeir enemies, wm,
thej rejected the oommaBdmento of men,
ind ftbode bj the word of Ood, and refuaed
to takd anythine else aa their guide in eter-
nal thioga; and they held also a certain tee-
tiBoaj ooneeming that word, that Ghriit
waa the end of the law for righteoosneM to
ererj one that beUereth, and that faith is
the gift not of man, bnt of God, and that the
election hnth obtained it, and the rest blinded,
and that a SaTionr^s blood without any hn-
maa worka, or merit whaterer, triumphantly
and eterndlj availed for them, and that
Christ remained a Priest for ever ; and that
they could no more come short of eternal life
and glory, than Christ himself could come
shorL And thns, notwithstanding all the
PhaiiaBie pretenaiona of their enemies, they
were in reality, dain for the Word of Ood, and
fsr the CestimonT which ther held. Kay we,
mj good Theophilns, partake more than ever
of the ntartyr'a spirit, and suffer all things for
the truth sake.

StOlt they did not wish others to suffer as
they had sufftsred ; but cried to Ood to stop
the enemy ; at least, thia is I think, one part
of the meaning of their cry. Their crying
with a knid roice, shews toe inUM$ and im-
mmm power there ia in their suffering, to
dnw down the teogeance of Ood upon their
coesMes ; their enemies cannot escape, and
these who hare apparently escaped, have yet
(where graoe preTcnts not) a most fearful
and ft*ry judgment awaiting them. And,
notice next that though they are uuder the
altar in aa apparently prostrate state as sacri-
fices, yet they do not continue in that state,
lor white robea were given unto §9try one of
them. There ia, jon see no difference made :
•chile robea are given to erery one of them ;
they were not offered to them, but given, unto
every one of them ; you can hardly think of
a gospel bleaiing, that is not implied in this
white robe, as it will mean, purity, sanctifi-
catioii, justification, victory, festivity, wel-
come, armour put off, the conflict overi the
prixe obtained. It is also a robe of honour,
of gtory, of immorality, and they were to
resf. Kow among common words, a word of
larger import thiui the word rett can scarcely
be thoQ^nt of; think it over which way you
wiS, it is all but infinite in variety of mean^
ing : sweet repoee, entire satisfaction, internal
aw eternal, reflective and prospective, be-
neath and above, and in all the possible rela-
tioBs in which their existence stands. ' They
are to rest, yet for a little eeasoUf a thousand
ytmre in eternity is but a little season, and
daring thia little aeaaon, more of i\ieisfeUow
etrwami»f mark that,^#^^ aervante^ and their
hfethien ahoald be killed as they were. Yea,
ay good Theophilns, if we serve Ood in th9
aime spirit, and in the same tmth that they
dU^ we shaU (if not killed) he hated ot all
■M; daa, for thia uifgodli'i?, mgodlj
vorld I nor can aught but grace make us to

differ, but through it all the Lord God Om-
nipotent reignetb.

Having made these few remarks upon the
fifth seal, I will occupy the remainder of thb
letter with the sixth seal. This sixth seal
you observe is a revelation seal, creating tre-
mendous alarm ; but there does not appear to
be any bodv kiUed, but onlv alarmed^ and the
the next chapter shews the good effects of
this alarm: in the hundred and forty and
four thousand sealed, and in the number
which no man can number. We must therefore
just run through the several parts of this
sixth seal, and see if we can, what this alarm
is. Here is, first, a great earthquake. Just
so it is when Ood begins to work mightily
with a sinner, his standing slips from under
him, his soul sinks as into a pit, and the
prayer of such will be, 'Let not the pit shut
her mouth upon me.' He is hapless, and may
well be alarmed, for he sees tnat if hia sins
roll down upon him, he must be as it were,
ground to powder, and be driven to eternal
perdition ; and now all his former sunney
prospects, are become black aa sackcloth of
hair ; he is no longer clothed with creature
brightness, but b cbthed in the sackcloth of
sou trouble. Ijamentation, moumiog and
woe, and the moon (his nightlv pleasures)
are turned into blood, they are aead, and he
the sinner fears he shall die with them, and
the stars of heaven fell unto the earth,
even as a fig tree casteth her untimely
figs, when she is shaken of a migh-
tier wind. The stars are a figure of rulers and
teachers ; and when the sinner is thus awak-
ened, down falls fieahly rulers, and false
teachers : here is a mighty wind : down goes
the Pope, down goes Popery, down goes
free-will, down goes duty-faith, down goes
Lucifer, even as lightening from heaven.
Here ia the sinner, the convinced sinner, in
the pit, without sun or moon or stars ; this
will make him in eameet for mercy, thourh
as yet he sees not that mtrej. The heaven de-
parted as a Bcrowl when it is rolled together.
I es, the eonvinced sinnner^s heaven is gone»
and he can see nothing but hell before him.
Once he thought he had, or should have a
heaven, bnt it is departed, and the sinner
left apparently to make his bed in hell.
You, my good Theophilns, are not altogether
a stranger to theee soul solemnities ; these are
the so&mnities which make us tremble at
God's Holy Word, that teach us to pray,
sever us from the world, and constrain us to .
listen to the gloriousgospel of the blessed Ood.
But every mountain and vAwad were
moved out of their places. Yes, there is to be
no place of refuge left ; all must be moved out
of the way ; refuge must fail you ; there is
no place where the workers of iniquity may
hide themselves. Jesus only can be a refuge
or sinneot and workers of iniquity, as every
man after the flesh is. It matters not, yonseei
whether kings, er great men, or rich men,

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or chief eaptaini, or mi^btj men, or bonda-
moD, or frM men, the royalty of the king
cannot save his lonl ; the greatneas of the
great man cannot dellTer his sonl ; the richea
of the rich man cannot redeem his sonl, or
gif e to God a ransom for it. The miffht of
the mighty man cannot conquer death and
bell ; the labonrs of the bondman cannot
work oat salvation ; the freedom of the free
man cannot free his seal from going down
into the pit ; and yet all of them, from the
peasant to the prince, from the highest
to the lowest, fly to the many places
for refage, to the dens and rocks of
th« monatains. Are not these monn-
tains and rocks, dens^ fahe eht$rehe8 i and
do not sinners, when first awakened, often
Hy to these dena, and rocks, and under moun-
tains, instead of going direct to Mount Zion ?
Hence, the true church, is almost perpetually
receiving awakened sinners out of false
oburobea. So, that like doves, they do find
.their way to Uieir own windows at last, and
are well received, well housed, well treated,
and it is well with them for ever ; but before
they get to Mount Zion, they seek (that is
many of them do) the protection of thepe
Islse churches, * saying to the mountains and
rocks, fall on as, not to hurt us, bat to hide
us from the face of him that sitteth upon
the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb ;
for the great day of his wrath is come, and
who shall be able to stand ? Such is the legal
bias of the newly awakened mind, and each
are the false notions they have of Ood
and the Lamb, they see him not in his
auerifidai character; but only in what
they suppose to be his wrathful character
as a sin-avenging Judge; presently, they
begin to ^see him in his sm^bearin^ char-
acter; then wrath begins to subside, and
mercy begins to appear, and these he-
brews come out of their holes, and rocks,
and dens, and mountains ; and begin to shew
themselves decided for Ood; having first
/ought against him, then when convinced of
sin, tried to fly from him, bnt are now com-
ing to him, and shall be decided for him, and
be forever with him ; and that which they
thought was a day of wrath, was after all a
dap of mercff. And so you see yoa take
the next chanter as a continuation of this
sixth seal. Lo, these things worketh Ood
often times, with man to bring back his soul
from the pit, to be enlightened with the light
of the living ; they win not now want to be
hid from the face of Uim, that sitteth on the
throne, they will not now look at the wrath
of the Lamb ; but be happy in the love of
Christy so believeth, and so knoweth

A LzTTLB Omb.

•Ssnv Dbgrbss of CnsiniAv Faith/
—By Mr. John Foreman, of London. This
excellent twopenny pamphlet is reprinted;
and may be had of Mr. Holmes, 3, New Street,
Dersei Square.

JgBtittf Bf Sm Wah'

* Strict CommutUon, Being Ho. 25 of Ths
Surrog TdBemaeU J^utpiL containing an
Address delivered at the administration of the
Ordinance of the Lord's Sapper, on Sunday
afternoon. June 4th, 1850. J3y Mr. James
Wells. London : Partridge ft Co. ; and Bob-
ert Banks & Co.

Beventv-two persons hare this soanBer beam
b^tized by the pastor of thecbarch meetiagva
the Surrey Tabemaele, and added to tLst
Christian bodv of adherents to the Primitive
faith and order of New Testament worship.
On Lords* -day, Jane 6th, previous to tnie
Lord's Supper. Mr. Wells delivered an
address on ^ Steict CoxMirvjoir/ which
address has been printed; is published; and
may be had either at our ofBee ; of Mr. James
Cox, in the Vestry of the Surrey Tabemade ;
or of any bookaeller, from Uie wholesBla
house of Partridire and Co. We havo read
this address through carefully; beeaoM w*
have lonff been convinced that some elsar,
Scriptaral, plain, and undeniable testimony,
elucidating the righteousness of our praetiee,
was wanted. It is a most remarkable fact
that almost every section of the visible ohurdti
carries out the practice of what is termed

* Strict Comwnmum* — (except the Open and
Mixed Communion Baptists) and jei we^the

* JParticular Baptitio; as we are oalled, are
reproached, condemned, and scoffed at, by
nearly all who profess the gospel ; but who mo
not, cannot, or will not, SSB that the great kw
bjr which we are governed is that commission
with which our Lord and Master sent forth
his disciples, after he bad suffered, and just
before he ascended to His Father, to cany on
the great vrork of intercession until all the
ransomed are gathered in ; the terms of that
commission can never be honestly disputed.
Look at them. In the first plaoe remembar
the Divine appointment. (We quote the
words from Matthew xxviii. 16.) ' Hie
eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into
a mountain whero Jsaus had iLFPozvTBP
them.' Mark you, here was a very speeial
purpose. What was that purpose f first.
It was that Jesus might reveal himself anto
his disciples as their living Head ; as their
risen Lord ; as their reigning and ruling Kino.
(Oh ! what a delightful day was that to our
precious Jesus! He looked haeh aj>on the
cross; then into the garden and mto the
grave ; backward to the wilderness and to the
world, and he said, *Mg oorrowo hmoo hoom
hoavg, hut thojf arc paaood awam for ooor f
and now, in the eleven discipHM gathered
around him, he saw a sample of his redeemed
church— some of whom even now doubted —
and doubting ones there will be to the end of
the church's earthly pilgrimsge: then, the
Saviour looked upwvd to his Father's throne ;
and saw the millions of anj^^ls and spirits of
ihe just, waiting to receive him ; and, then he
looked forward, and saw the onpOBitioB,jpevia-
cution, and aflBiction, by wnieh bia uaapel
Ghureh would be aasailed; whtfoCsre,) jM-
ondly, he deckres unto t|b«m His faH and ws-

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lioiited aathority— ^ Imvt came, and tiwke
unto them rnkjing. All pow§riMgiV0nunto tits,
4» A«a«M and in earth?* Then, thirdly, comee
the eommiasioa, • Go jr«, a^r^/br^. and Uaeh
M nation; hapttMiny them rwhoheliere) in
tlie name of the Father, and of the Son, and
ef the Holy Qhost : teachini; them to observe

AIX THIVGI "WBATSOBVBR I HAVE COM MAN-

PgP TOIT : — and, lot I am with tou alwray
•reii mto the end of the world.' Amen.*
Jiow iaithfuliy thia comroiaaion waa worked
oat; yon may aee by reading 'the Aete of
tha ApaetUe.' The auhaequent hiatory of the
Chnreh'a progreea, the floods and flamea of per-
aeevtian which have aurtounded and aeyerely
ailicted her, clearly prorea thb Btbrval
BavmmmiomTr of JsHovAH'a csotCB on the
«M hand ; aad tha btb&val vviiitt of the
wpnhnlB aeed an tha other : hebee we may
BoifluMli tmrrel at the graat fact wbieh
awaiywhere meata and grievea «t~that al-
tfacagh aonia kind of Bible nrofeaaion incMaaea,
yat enmity to Ood'a Tkulh, aad eppoaition to
Chriat'a laws, prevail to an amasug extent
IW everr onfliDchiag and faithful aerrant of
(^riat, therefore, we are thankful. But we
nuat return to notice Mr. Welk'a addreaa.

In thia diacoarae we have Strict Commun-
iao proved in the Old Teatament— and Striot
Cemmunioa in the New : — Strict Communion
in tha aouU of all the regenerated : Striet
Communion in the Church below; and Strict
Commnni4m in heaven. We do not feel oom-
&rtable inalwaya apeaking well of our frienda,
becauae it makea our foea ao naughty, and we
rcaolved to pull thia Strict Communion dia-
eanrse all to pieoea, if we could have done ao
aooatatently ; hut we cannot ; no ; indeed.
We may be termed partial : or act down for
being influenced by aome impure motive ; but
it afaall not, it muat not hinder ua from apeak-
ing our mind: Thia Addreaa on Strict-Corn-
munioQ ia plain, truthful, and oonduaive.
It produced m ua moat aolemn feara for thoae
great men who are ever aiming to caat public
contempt upon na, and upon the Ordinances
of Christ We could moat sincerely wish that
all opponenta to the Bight Order of things,
mrghl read thia diaeourae as we have done.
For yean we have holden faat by the asaocia-
tiona tfr. Wella here illustrates; and his
tcatxmoniea have both confirmed our faith,
aad gladdened our heart. We ask our bre-
thren in the mioiatry to read this address
theraaelvea ; and then we hope they will dr.
culate it where deameaa of viaion reapeoting
gcapal ordinaneea ia not enjoyed. We hope
tha benefit reaulting from the addreaa will oe
encouraging. When it waa delivered, about
seven hundred membera of the church aat
down; and hetween five and six hundred
spectators were in the galleriea. It must
nave been a aolemn aeene. We reserve
cxtimcta and further oommenta for a future
anrnber. We do not wiah thia aulject hastily
to paaa away.

" Cems and Wel^me to Jeeue Ohriet, By
Jahn Buajan. liondon : Robert Banks k Co.,
ttid G. J, Blafvaaiom £4, Patemoatef Bow.
VkiB ia a graaioiaa and praoioua diserlalioB on
the hearty nuloove a poor iipner raeeivaa at

the'handa of Jeaua C'arist, when by the draw-
ings of the Spirit— in failh«-and with a lov-
ing, prajring neart, that sinner cornea uuto
him : it is one of John Bunyan'a best books*
It haa been of immense use to tens of thou-
snnds. We are sorrj to find it has been out
of print for some yeara. Ita weighty argu-
ments; its spiritual tone; its plain, famihar,
and faithful, illustrations of the exercises of
both the repenting sinner and the believing
saint, have rendered it unpalatable in these
times of fashionable, flimsy, and false pre-
tensions to Gospel life. Some few years amo^
the stereo-plates of this volume were sold to
ua by Mr. Billing. We have, at length, com-

Eleted Bunyan'a ' Come and Weloome: Wo
ope our friends will aid us iti givina this
Standard Work on Experimental Beligion,
a ataading once more in the churches— fAit
«o{«me onght to he laid on every man*9 par-
lour table in all Chrietendom. It ahall ba
found (if we are permitted to carry out our
plan^on everr book-atall in the kingdom, lb
our Ood— and hia people we look for auoeefli.

' Ooepel Ordinanoee ; Striet Baptiet PHn*
oiplee Explained and I>efended, A sermon
preached on Sunday evening, April 10th, 1869,
At the Baptist Chapel, Dacre Park, Black-
heath. By the Bev. J. B. Cracknell, formerly
a member of a Metropolitan Independent
Church. Ijondon : Bobert fianka and Co., G.
J. Stevenson, 64, Paternoster Bow.

In that aristocratic and faat growing district
Blackheath, it was, doubtless, quite needful
that Mr. Cracknell, should clearly enunciate
his faith and practice in the gospel of Christ,
and in the administration of ordinances, &o.,
aa the proposed pastor of the recently estab-
lished church in Dacre Park. This has been
done with decision, good temper, kind feeling,
and some ability. We certainly admire the
spirit displayed : we are thankful for the talent
given, and truat thia printed diaeourae, and tha
thousanda which our young brother, may
vet be favoured to deliver, (in the oourae of a
long ministry which we hope the Lord haa
designed for him) will be rendered exot^ed-
ingiy useful in the coversion and edification of
very many precious aoula. All our ' beada of
houaea' ahould persuade their young people to
read this sermon by a young and earneat dia«
oiple, and devoted aervant of Jeaua Cbriai.

* Bible Kietorjfy in eonneeiion with fke
General Hietoryofthe World, with NoUeee of
Beriptnre Loealitiee and STceichee of Soeiai
and religious Life, By the Bev. William 0,
Blaike, A.M. Author cf * Pavid, King of la-
racL' London : J. Nelson and aona. Pater-
noater Bow. In about 500 pagea of Crown
Octavo, Mr. Blaike has furnished a most in-
telligent and admirable work on the History,
the Localities, the Bio^aphiea, and the timea
referred to, and compriaed, in the Word of
Ood. Toung Students, I'eachers, and Minia-
tera will highly priae thia volume. It will
aerve aa an every day book of referenee — W#
hope to analyae it ftuly ere long.

< Cammmionwtth OodtheFuther, the Bern,
and the Bolg QhoH: By John^iran, D.,D.

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With a preface by the late Bev. Daal. Bargees.
Beprinted for John Saunders, Wanstead,
Eeaez : and published hi W. H. CoUingridge.
We only wish we oould give all our readers
this most blessed treasure in pieces from time
to time, and that the Lord might bless it to
their souls, as it has been to us at different
times, but we fear we cannot do that; and
therefore, we thank Mr. Collingridge for this
neat duodecimo edition ; and without the least
hesitation, we saj, side by side with the Bible,
this book of John Owen's on * Communion with
&od,* should be found in ever^f Christian's
closet and study; and be read again and again.
In thus commendin|^ this work we ha?e no
motive but the spiritual advantage of those
who fear God.

' Tk§ Famiijf Treamry of Sahhath Road-
ing.^* London : Thomas Nelson and Sons.
Part V. of this exoellent Monthly, for June,
furnishes first rate papers, and reading -for
families, of an interesting and instmotive
eharaeter. Mr. Cameron, the Editor, is
evidently more favourable to the real Gospel
of Christ— the work of the Holy Spirit— and
the Christian's happy experience of Divine
truth, than most of the present Scotch editors
and preachers are. \^ e are thankful to see a
mseazine so rich in beautiful variety, so
weighty in Gh»pcl verities, and * got up* in a
manner so substantial and thoroughly good,
prospering BO abundantly. We ha^ly think
Its equal in many respects can be found.

' Smooth Ston&t takonfrom Jneiont Brooks,
Bv the Bev. C. H. Spurgeon. London: W.
£1. Collingridge, Alders^^te-street. lliii little
volume has, for a frontispiece, the most j^rave
and expressive likeness oi Mr. Spurseon in the
nulpit we have yet seen. It furaisbes a brief
Memoir of the good Puritan, Thomas Brooks,
and a collection of paragraphs gathered out
from the works of that exoellent preacher.
To persons who have neither time nor mind to
read large volumes, little morsels carefully
prepared as these have been, may be accep-
table and good.

< Tho EnglUh BibU, History of the Trano-
latum of the Holg Seripturoi into the Bng-
Ueh Tongue, &o. By Mrs. Conant. Edited
and introduced bv Bev. C. H. Spurgeon. Lon-
don : Arthur Hall A Co. Beat lovers of our
Bible, especially Scriptural Autiquarians. will
eat up this book with much avidity and delight
Mrs. Conant, an American Authoress— has

S'ven us a valuable key to the life, the labors,
e pains, the perils, the persecutions, and
the all but fatal storms through which the
English Bible hris had to pass. We wish to
furnish a consecutive series of papers drawn
from this, and Mr. Blaike's Bible History.

'J Voice from the Pulpit,' Part II. By
John Bloomfield. London : G. J. Stevenson,
64, Paternoster Bow. 8d. In this part we
have ' The Call of Abrahawi.* * The Prager
MeetieigJ * The Mgetie Laddor.* ^ FauVe
Convereion* And an essay on ' J^ai^A.' Any
review, or recommendatory notice, we con-
sider unnecessary : but some choice selections
we hope to make for the benefit of 'those who
cannot obtain the work. From these two
parts of <A Voice from the Pulpit,' a

faithful portrait of Mr. Bloonflald's miaiatiy
may be drawn.

''The Three Unolea» Spiriie if the Bi^th
Vial; or, the Signe of the Timee, and Oe
Warning Voice of our Lord Jeeue Chriat to
the Churehee.' By Charles Lawder, minister
of the Gospel London : G. J. Stevenson, 54,
Paternoster Bow. Works of this kind lead
careful readers to much close examination.
Mr. Lawder has bestowed Immense labour on
this six-penny pamphlet.

THB TRIUMPH OF THB HOLY SPIRIT
OYER SIN IS THB SINNER.

Such is the leading title of a new Tolnne
written by Mr. Edward Samuel, the minister
of Fore-street chapel, Salford, and now ex-
tensively known as the author of thai ezoelo
lent book, *The Triumph of Chriai osi the
Cross.' This second, thu oompanion volume^
'The Triumph of the Spirit,' hns been revised
in the manusori^by the Incumbent of Open-
shaw, the Bev. WiUiam Parks, (a mimaier of
Christ's gospel, a sound theologian, and an
excellent scnolar.) In bis ' Becommendatory
PrefiMe,' Mr Parks says t—

I am happy to bear tssttoMDy that I have dis*
eovsred no tbeoloflesi errors in the work ; bat,
on the eontrary, saeb a elear, sound and deep
knowledge of the work of God's Spirit la the soal
thtt ft is refrsshing to bsvs read it.

In these days of blasphemy and reproseb,
when the Holy Spirit is spceislly dlsbonoorcd,
when ttBtnre i« eoafoanded with grace, and aMre
animtl eseftement ft pelned off ss the faterasl
wfrnessfnr of God to the redeemed stnaer, It Is
a esnse for gratftode that a asa like the aathor
who hm hImMlf heard, seen, looked upon, end
handled, the Word of Life, ahould boldly tertiff
to Ood the Spirit's operations in the soul sad •
bli mode of asttng. I pray the Ood of all grass
10 esQae the work a wide eirealation, and to
bteiis the perassl of It to his dear fkmlly. It
aims at His g lorifleatlon from begfaning to end.

The volume contains 45 chapters ; each one
upon distinct branches either of the character
, or the work of the Holy Sj>irit We are our-
; selves preparing an analysis of each chapter;
and hope soon to announce it as n7«dy. Then
we shall refer to this work again. In the mean
time we may observe that a good demand has
been made for it; and as far as it has been
read by experimental Christians, it has been
well received. This work may be had of any
bookseller, by informinfr them that the whole-
sale London publisher is G. J. StcTcnson, M,
Paternoster Bow.

*The Aged TUgrima' Frimd Sociotf
Travelling as we do in several parts of the
country, we are constantly receiving applica-
tions to obtain admittance into tlus floeietr,
for persons moat needy and deserving. We
have now sereral Tcnr urgent casea. Two
godly mothers in Israel, 80 years of age, and
some not quite so advanced, but in every way
qualified for the benefits of this noble institu-
Uon. We much wish to establish an ** Bak-
tubv Vs^vl Auxiliary to tiie Aged Pilgrims'
Sodety." If we can' obtain an lionoarable
Treasurer^ and Committee^ we shaU proeeed.
Who will encourage usfVjiOOQic

Jaly 1, IV9']

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®5e (EFitUttrttt'$ Ilebm^3il0tt, OJttibitttrt, Avd^ ^A^Mnim,

BY JOHN BLOOMFIELD,
HiviBXSs ov Mzasd'8 Couxt, J)»±jt Stkebt, Soho.

*<Thoa in thj merey hast lad forth the people which thoa haet redeemed : thou hast gaided them in
Ihj BtreaKth unto thy holy hahiUiion.>' Exodus xx. IS.

In this chspter we have the magnificent ness. And I ask, was it not in mercj the
mmg which was enng by tiie Iiraelites, in ^ srace of God reached ns ? Destroying the

oarkneBS and enmity of our hearts, and
brinnngus to follow the Lord, and to aerre
him r Was it not in mercy God brought ui
out of the darkness of sin, and shone into
our hearts rays of the magnificient glory of
the mediation of Jesus Christ ? Is it not a
mercy that he made our eyes orer-flow with
Godly Borrow ? Is it not a mercy our hard
hearts were broken before God ? Is it not
a mercy that our hearts are disposed to seek
and Ber? e Jesus ? Tes, it is in mercy God
hath supplied our necessities : it is in mercy
if in the dealings of God, he hath giren ub
the wine of astonishment to drink ; it is in
mercy he teaches us terrible things in righ-
teousness, therefore, though we may think
these things severe, it is the severity of love.

Let us first notice in our text the redemp"
iion apoken of ; secondly, the guidance j and
thirdly, the habitation,

I. We propose to notice the sxdbmption
OF THB pisoPLx. Redemption means deliver-
anoe ; there is a redemption by power, and
there is a redemption by price. There was a
redemption wrought for the ancient Is-
raelites, and there is also a redemption
wrought by Christ; redemption through
blood, **But by his own blood he enter-
ed into the holy place, having obtained
eternal redemption for us." Redemption
originated not with man, not with an-
gels, but with God^God saw all the reasons
of lus own actions in himself. He never
created the world at the bidding of any
spirit, he never afflicted people with plagues,
or wrought deliverances tor nations, but for
his own reasons. The deliverances he
wrought for the Israelites were types of a
noblw and better deliverance that was to ba
effected by Jesus Christ.

I want to show that the redemption of the
people originated with God ; andfthis shows
it was effected by God's own method, and aL
so that thia redeniption is unto God himw^.

Who saw the iBraelitea in captivity ^and
had oompaanon on them? Whose eacVas
open to their err ? Who came dowa to de-
liver them ? Wnose heart yearned ov<ir their
sorrows ? In whose arm was the po^sr to ret-
deem?

We say this redemption originiited with
God, ana was planned before the people
went into captivity. Joseph prophesied of
this redemption, saying* '' le shall carry u^

eooaeqiienoe of the wonderful deliverance
that was aoocwiplished by God for them, in
the land of their eaptiviW. It was sung in
idation to that splendid redemption which
waa by God effected, and that was a deliver-
aaee wocthr of sneh a song. It is a sublime
eoiup, and the people song it with gratitude,
fio^Bg God was on their side — that he tri-
umphM glocioosly, working wonders, that
they mighi serve hinL It is the oldest song
we have on xoeord, its style is magnificent !
its imagery is impressive, and it is worthy of
the eeeasioii on which it was sung ! This
ssag Is also the type of a song vet to be sung
in lelatioa to the triumphs of the gospel ; for
the gospel k yet to work triumphs whieh
it has sot yet attained. The victories and
historr or the Israelites furnish n» with
many Icssona, whieh are both interesting and
tastmetlve, selating to the ways of man and
the mind of God. We see a great deal here
devdoped of the mind and heart of the long-
safoiiw and ftdthfulness of onr oovenant
Ged^^The bondage of the people of the
Isradites, was a type of the darker bondage ;
and BisBrT of sin, ont of which all the ran-
semed of ttie Lord will eventoallv be brooght,
and the pathway in which the IsraeUtes
walked — the seorpions and serpents which
they met with in uie wilderness— were also
10 sot forth the dangers to which the chil-
drsaef God are ezpoeed from the enemy;
and the deli veranee of the Israelites teaches
«s oar own inability to battle with the
enemy of oar sonls.

Baft there is a great deal more to learn
from the dealinffs of God with his people,
though these deuin^ may be characterised
by aerecity ; bat, stdl it was the severity of
love. The £itker may be severe, but it often
ia beeaose he lorca his child. So with the
dealinss of God with his andent people,
aosae ttdnk God was severe, but it was the
eeveritj of fhtthfolneas, the severit]|r of ever-
lasttng lovo. He led them forth in mercy :
it wss in meiey he raised up Moses to leiad
Aen forth ; it waa in merey, while there were
in the hooses of the Egytians terror and
desth, there vere in the hooses of the Is-

M joy and peoee ; It was in mercy God
braoght them through the Bed Sea ; it was
ia SMTsy tlM water flowed from the rock ; and
it vas in maicT the Lord supplied, with a
fihenl handy their Dccesnties in the wilder-

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mj bonef from henee." And not one wai
left, for hii boDes were taken from the strange
land, indioating aUo his brethren shoold not
be left there, oorrespondinff with the follow-
ing passage, " There shall not an hoof be
left behind." With whom then did redemp-
tion originate? It was too good to come
from man, it was too majestic for the mind
of an angel. It originated with Ood, with
the end and aim to deliTer men from the
condition of shiTery and death, into which
they had fkllen, under the cnrse of a broken
law, that men may be deliTered from i>nn-
ishment hereafter, and at last, admitted into
the presence of the Most Hirh. All the
schemes of philosophy have failed to deliver
men from toe witnerin^ corse of God's law.
It is tme, edacation will do much to raise
man, the study of arts and sciences and giT-
Ing a religions training ; bat these will nerer
touch the heart, that is like a nether mill-
stone for hardness and as unimpressible ;
these nefer scattered the dark clouds of en-
mity sgainst Ood, or gave one spark of
Smtuaf light to the sin-darkened soul,
ut salvation did not originate with angels ;
they admired the scheme as it is displayed
in wisdom's glorious plan. The scheme of
salvation by the blood of Christ, by the death
incarnation, and humiliation of the Saviour,
is Ood-likein its power ; it was contrived by
infinite wisdom, and is the derelopement of
the heart of infinite lore. If that could fail,
it would be the fsOure of God, it would
bring darkness in heaven, and weepini^
among the ransomed there ; and there would
be joj in hell for ever and ever.

It IS a redemption effected bv God's own
method. How did he deliver tne Israelites }
by brining a plague, by dividing the Red Sea,
by making a road for toem to pass through in
perfect safety. When God created the world,
it was created majesticallj ; when God creat-
ed man out of the dust of the earth, he did
it like a God ; and when the body of man
was formed, God breathed into it by his
power, and it became a living soul. This
was like a God, there was a terrible majesty
in this sublimity ; but it all ftiils to con-
trast for a moment with the work of redemp-
tion, effected by the Mediator at the price of
his moat precious blood. It was a redemp-
tion effected by God's own method, and the
people were rsdeemed unto God's service.
Moses said, * Let my people go, that they
may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.'
They were redeemed unto God's service, to
God^s provirion, to (Tod's presence, and to
God's glory. And is it not so with all that
are redeemed by the precious blood of Christ ?
are they not reaeemM from the servioe of
sin ? Aram the lust of the flesh ? from the
powers and service of the devil ? We are
received, through mighty moe, to the ser-
vice of God, to a newness of life, to live a
livoofftuth; in hope, that by and bye, we

shall serve the Lord perfectly for ever and
ever. Satan may suggest that we may never
serre God ; sin may and will disturb our
peace; and our doubts and fears may say, we
shall never serve the Lord ; but Jesus sa]r<t
ye shall serve me here, ye shall serve me in
love, ye shall serve, though imperfectly now,
but yonder ye shall serve the Lord in the
Mediator's presence with fulness of heart.
We shall be redeemed unto the prt>visions
of God : God gave his people provision in the
wilderness, no people were ever supplied like
the Israelites, they were fed with bnad from
heaven, by the special interposition of divine
power ; they were refreshed with water from
the rook; they were clad in clothes that
should not wax old, nor their shoes wearoqt.
Ah, believer, thou hast a better Kock the * Boek
Christ Jesus !' Better bread, ' the bread of
eternal life !' A better garment, dothed in the
garment of salvation ; Better shoes, ' shod
with thepreparation of the gospel of peaoe.'

n. we will now dwell for a moment er
two, upon the guidakcs ; * Thou hast ^ded
them in thy strength.' We might think we
could have guidM them a nearer way, but
perhaps we should have lost them all in the
sands of the barren desert Even in our own
cases, we often think this is wrong, and the
other wrong: if in the land of prosperity*
that is, we think, the right way ; but God
suffers his people to be tried, that he may
test to their minds (not to hia) fiie reality of
their religion, and the purity of their love.
<« He suided them by his strength :" by the
strength of his love, by the strength of hia
fsithnilness and wisdom. Love will bear
much for its object : had not God loved them
I am sure he woula have been tired of them
before he brought them out of the wilderness.

And, my hearers, had not God loved us, bad
not hii love been like himseir, without varia-
tion, he would most assuredly have forsaken
us long ago. And where God loves, he
throws worth into the object of his love ; in
the face of all our follies, he loves us with a
love that many waters cannot quench. Ah,
says some trembling child of God, if God
would but wisper into my soul, * I have loved
thee vrith an everlasting love;' my donbls
would at once give up Sie ghost, 1 should
then believe my soul would share in the
blessedness beyond the grave. God, my
friends, loved us before we were sinaeisy
loved us in the Ml, and brought us out :
though we are poor, this love inisketh rich ;
though ragged, love vMaves a robe ; though
homeless, love provides an everlasting dwc&-
ing vrith the eternal God.

III. Lastly, THB BJLBrrATioxr. God dwells
in three ways vrith his people : first, through
the priesthood of his Sin ; hence, it is said,
< It pleased the father that in him should dwell
all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.' Christ
was the visible display of the inrisible God ;
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Uie DiTiiM Msjcrtjr. Thto Qod dwells in hU
chureh on earth, m he dwelt with his people
at Jenualeoiy— ' Here will I dwell with that
maa that hambleth himself and trembleth at
my word." Then God gnideth them ' unto
his holy hibitation.' Qod fint brings them
to Chriat, to seek for merer at the cross ; he
thea briogs them to his ohoroh, (not to his
eharch first, as many would now do) bat
first, they are brought to Christ, and tiien
thev gi?€ themaelTes to Christ's ehoroh below.
And Christ will bring aU his ]^ple to him-
felf ; do Ton think he will gi?e toq to sip
^^haaTenly pleasures, and not taae yon to
enjoT the Aul fruition of glory } Do von
think he would giro light and love, and then
damp these riaiiig hopes? that is tu from him.
if onoa fiwea to know the name of Jesus,
to tnut in hia blood and ri^hteoueness, you
Bhall ahare with the angels in glory for ever
sad ibr «Ter. And wut then, my hearen ?
Why yon shall be in the glorious'prstfenoe of
the Lamb ! What (hen } You shall sing
unto him, ' Who hath washed us, and made
li kings and priests unto God ?* What then ?
* Xot a ware of trouble roll,
Acroea thy peaceful breast.'
What then, beliefer? Not a oloud shall
then intertene between thee and Ay Lord !
What then? Not one doubt,,not one fear,
not one trouble then I Oh I that this hea? en
■uy be our home, that we may be meetened
for this hi^py state I that the Lord may keep
as near hun, and at last take us to be with
him, for ever and erer. Amen. K.

THE DtFPEBBNCB BBTWBEir

NATURAL CONVICriONS FOB SIN,

▲VD ▲

SPIRITUAL CHANGS OF HEART.

Bt Joseph Pauceb,
Mfwi^^ of Boaney-slreet-Chapel, Westminster.

Tkutkiko, Kr. Editor, that the present is
a sabjeet in which all the liTing family of
God are much interested, I presume to add
a mite to whatever < A Little Oae,' or yourself,
may offer upon it The dear people of God
know, that there are seasons in the experience
of belief ers. even after they have been Drought
into gom^ liberty, when« through the fiery
darts and temptationa of the great adversary.
they are ready to call all into qaestion ; and
are thankful to recognise, by the light of God's
Spmt, the smallest, if conclurife, marks of a
dirine change in their tempest-tossed souls.
With Etthu they cry out, *If there be a
mesienger with him, an interpreter, one
aoioitg a thousand, to shew unto man his
uprightness : then he is gracious unto him,
and asitb, dellTer him from going down into
the j^t: I have found a ransom.' Job
xnin. 23, 24. To be one with Jesus is such
aioUmn, eternal, infinite mercy, that it is

no wonder it often piodaces deep heart-affect-
ing cogitations in the mind whether we
ourselves are really united to him or not

When the eye of faith rests upon the
unutterable blessings which belong to the
soul that is i» Cu&ist, the very extent of the
free-graoe portion will sometimes raise in our
unbelieving hearts a host of doubters, with
their hateful whispers, and sutmisings, and
reasonings, that shake at times the stoutest
confidence. If the assurance of faith wera
an abiding grace, it might be otherwise ; but
from the word of God and my own experienoe
I find it to be a frame of mind, which lives
only so lon^ as the j^werfnl witness of the
blessed Spirit nrevails in the soul. Our
judgments mav be confirmed, and the faith
within the sou is indestructible, but its voice
is sometimes weak and faint, when that of
unbeUef is clamorous.

I proceed to notice some distinguishing
marlu of natural canvietions,

1. Natural convictions for lin cause distress
from the dread of punishment We have
instances of this in the cases of King Saul,
Judas, and Simon Magos. Their convictiona
arose from the light which diMovered the
dreadful consequences of transgression.

2. Natural conviction is the effect of slav-
ish fear. Balaam is an awftil instance. All
amendment arising from such oonriction is
scant and sparing, and of a legal nature.
Such men would not obey God, but that they
fear his wrath.

3. Natural convictions are produced by the
ministration of the law and not of the gospel.
Like the man with the one talent, he would
be even with God, because he fears his hard
dealing.

4. Natural conrictions consist with a blind
and spiritually dead conscience. And thus
the man is prompted to rounds of dead works,
carnal observances, fleshlv works, and religi-
ous duties, which the blind and^ deceived
conscience receives ss so many bribea with
which to repair its disturbed peace and self-
complacency.

5. Natural convictions are temporary and
passing. Springing up, as they frequently do.
m times of affliction or worldly trial, and
producing many fleshly resolutions; the
whole gradually decline as the disturbing
crisis is removed.

6. Natural convictionf spring from moral
and intellectual light alone. Thus moral
influences regulate their continuanoe. And
as merely moral light is total darkness spirit-
ually, so the mind is fairly led to wrong
riews of God, and to the adoption of natunu
courses in order to propitiate nim.

7. Natural convictions are attended with
enmity, self-pity, bitterness, hard thoughta ot
God, and a sullen admission of the majesty
and power of God, but no love to his person,
or his law, or lua holiness.

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renaniefttton of nn ; bat simply ft duuie of it,
through fear mnd dread.

9. With natural eonnotions the heart and
disposition remain rinfiil and unchanged.
Its entire sympathy is with sin. Bat like an
insabordinate menial^ it assames the lirery of
reformation, oat of fear of the great God, his
Master. See this in Gain, Esaa, and all such
awfal eharaeters.

I now turn to the more pleasant task of
describing ipiritudl eonvietions. And I mast
obserre here, that perhaps the dear child of
God mar be harassed becanse he finds some
of the feeling[s which belong to natural con-
tiotions working in his mind. This is Terr
likely. The Mliever has a carnal mind.
And the feelings of his carnal mind will
resemble those we have described. Bat then,
he will also possess those other marks which
characterize a divine change of heart, which
BO merely natural man cTer experiences.
And BO may God help us to thank and bless
him for the operations of his Spirit. While
there is much within us to mourn over, much
sin, much lo?e of sin, much hardness of heart,
much enmity, much self-pity, hard thoughts,
and so on ; yet still, through rich mercy,
these are also attended at times with such
totally opposite feelings, that we cannot but
belieye, with God's word before us, that we
are the < Shulamite, with her company of two
armies.'

1. spiritual connctions for sin erer attend
a gracious change of heart In God's word,
we read of the jLord girin|^ King Saul, and
others, another heart, or gifts and qualifica-
tions for certain offices ; but that is very
different to a new or gracious heart, whicn
is a new corenant blessing, and which is

Surified br faith. Now this new heart of
esh or reeling, is susceptible of spiritual
impressions. Thus the claims of God's righ-
teous law are felt : its fires and its thunders
sink it in dreadful fears before God ; and
sin, thus seen in its tremendous nature, sits
like a heavy burden upon this new, this
feeling heart. God has prepared the heart,
and now cuts deep furrows in the fallow
ground of human nature with the unerring
plough of his law in the hand of the Spirit.
Oh, how deep are these spiritual convictions!

2. Spiritual conrictions are attended with
a discovery of the spirituality and extent of
God's law. And this knowledge deepens and
deepens under the teachings of God's Spirit,
BO as to destroy the soul's refuges of lies, cast
down his false hopes, bum up his fleshly
religion, and redace him to a state of hope-
lessness and helplessness in himself before
God. Isa. xxviii. 17.

3. Spiritual convictions are implanted in
ft conscience made honest through God's fear.
And this fear is the beginning of evangelical
wiidom. The Spirit of God thus entering
the soal enlightens the mind to see the nature

of salvation, that it is not by the law, bat by
grace. Thus, while the legality of hia heart
pulls him one way, the blessed Spirit draws
him the opposite. His fleshly mind resolves
and resolves, works and works, fails and fails
again. And amidst the destraction of this
creature exertion, the blessed Spirit brings the
soul after each failure to a throne of grace,
crying out in his oonfosion and his misery,
' God be mereifol to me a sinner.' He baa
no settled hope in God, and yet he has too
much liffht in his conscience to trust in his
own works, which he now sees to be fhll of
imperfectiona. He does not wonder that God
rejects his works, for he feels that they an
indeed polluted.

4. Spiritual oonviotions are attended with
the * eyes within,' which are unmistakeable
marks of a divine work. Thus he judges of
sin not only by outward observation, but l^
inward feeling. The Lord, with theee < eyes
within,' shows him the plague of the heart,
and he oonfenea that he is vile. This is a
mark of the blessed Spirit's operations ; for
no man sighs and cries because of the plague
of the heart, but heaven-taught souls.

1 Kings viiL 38.

6, Spiritual convictions are attended with
contrition, brokenness of heart, and godly
sorrow for sin. This is produced by a sight
of the mercy of God in Christ Jesus. «

' Law and terrors do but harden
All the while they work alone ;

But a sense of blood-bought pardon
Soon dissolves a heart of stone.'

This is a scripturally declared land-mark
in the king's highway of holineea. The
apostle Paul forcibly sets it forth in his epiatle
to the Corinthians—^ For behold thia self-*
same thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly
sort, what carefulness it wrought in yon, yea,
what clearing of yourselves, yea," what indig-
nation, yea, what fear, yea what vehement
desire, yea, what seal, yea, what revenge T

2 Cor. vii. 11. And this godly sorrow for
sin the devil cannot counterfeit. Thus * m
look upon him whom we have pierced, and
mourn for him.' And how the soal longa
and prays for an assurance of its intereatm
the wounds and sacrifloe of Christ. Thus the
soul has been drawn away from Sinai, and
he pants after and prays for a * name and
memorial amongst the living in Jerusalem.'
He that thus ' goes forth weeping bearing
precious seed, shall doubtless come again
rejoicing bringing his sheaves with Um.'
* They shall return and oome again to Zion
with songs and everlaating joy upon their
heads."

6. Spiritual convictions are evangelical^
and are accompanied with the love of God
shed abroad in the heart. This brings th«
soul to hate sin as sin, independent of ita
punishment, as an offence against a righteooa
and merciftil God in Chr^t. And ST then

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were no hell, the toiil feels it would than sin
beesQse of its sinfalnes*. Itiinow repag-
Bsnt to its new and heavenly affections.

7. Spirittial oonrictioos, in the hand of God
the Spirit, lead to Christ. If yon, my reader,
can get peaee of mind anrwhere hat at the
foontain opened for sin and nncleanness, yonr
eonnctioQs are only natnral ; hit if yon feel
deeply that nothing hat an interest in Christ
will aeeore thy pardon and justification; and
if yon feel that yon cannot he satisfied withont

With permission of the Sditor, I will next month conclude this paper, with a short Sorip-
toial Azkatomy of a gracious heart.

the personal and powerfal application of his
preoioas blood to thy conscience, and his
glorious righteonsnefs revealed to thy faith,
as the ground of thy justification before a
holy Ood; these are infallible marks of a
dinne chaoge of heart : such conrictions are
wrooght by the Spirit in the heart, and the
whole body of God's truth is on thy side, to
seenre thy growth in ^aoe, and e? entaally
thine eTerlasting sal?ation.

"BAXTER'S BAPTISM" EXAMINED,

AVD TB8TBD BT THB STANDARD OF TBUTH.
[▲ BBYISW.— SnOOVD VOTICB.]

StnHsm: its Mods^ Dstign, and SuhjBcU*
Br A. J. Baxtbr, Minister of the Gospel,
Nottingham. London : Collihgridge : Not-
tingham : Wilkinson.

As in oar former notice, we disposed of Mr.
B.'f geogra;^k%cal argument agamst Baptism
by Immersion, as practiced by John the
* dipper/ bjr shewing that his statements, or
premisas being false, his conclusions were
worthless, we now proceed to analyse his
▼srbal or gramatical argument, based upon
the words #«, sir, st«, hapUzo^ ^e.

And in the first place, it is manifest that
Mr. B. can find no support in the scriptures
Cor his theory of infant sprinkling, unless we
grant him a new translation of the New Tes-
tament. As we hare it now, it is a sad stum-
bling bloek in his wnj ; it won't square with
his theory at alL (Though we beg leare to
remind Mr. B. that it was not tromslatsd l^
Boftitttj hot by Infant Sprinklers, who had
quite as much learning as himself). There is
sessesly a passage Mr. B. quotes, some portion
of wUeh be does not find it necessary to re-
trssdate. Now we confess at starting, that
we always reffard with the utmost suspicion,
any theory which requires for its support a
new traaalation of the Iteripture. The IComan-
iiSs themselTce hare no objection to our use
of the Bible, if we will bnt take their trans-
lation. A nd we haTe not forgotten that with-
in the last three or four Years, the Socinians
hare saiaed a loud hue ana cry for a new trans-
Ution« in order to get rid of the doctrines of
the Trinity, the Atonement, the Godhead of
Chrisft ; and now the Infant Sprinklers want
anocher!

Oar present translation is universally oon-
fc e s ed to be the best that could be made ; and
some of the strongest ailments in favour of
BapCusm by immersion is to be found in the
M, that the BaptUU take the book as they
fnd U tram»lat§d ly tksir opp<mentt. ' Our
roek is not as their roek, our enemies them-
selren being judges.'

Bni we proceed at once to the examination
of Mr. B.'s ▼erbal argument. He commences
with the Greek preposition ' en^* which our
tnauUtors hare rendered mi. *They were
haptiasd of him i» (en) Jordan.* (Matt. iii. 6)

* Jesus was baptised of John in (m) Jordan.'
(Mwk i. 9.) Now, sajs Mr. B., this word
ought to have been translated * at/ and then
it would have been correct. Indeed ! why so ?
Because Mr. B.'s theorj^ require it But how
does he prove that it ought to be translated

* at/ do our readers thinkP By shewing that
it means upwards of thirty other different
things ! So that * m' ought to be translated ' af
because it meane something else! A more
suicidal argument it would be difficult to con-
ceive. Mr. B. then gives a number of texts
to shew how absurd it would be always to
render the Greek preposition ' en* by the Kn-
glish preposition * in :' t.e. swear not at all,
neither {bg) {en) heaven, nor {by) (en) thy
head.' ' He came not (*»,) by water only, but
(m) by water and blood.' Such arendexing of
the word {en) Mr. B. contends, and contends
justly, would make the passage absurd. Grant-
ed : and therein is illustrated the wisdom of
our transUtors, in rendering it differently in
order to agree with the scope and meaning of
the passage, Mr. B. then refers to the Greek
preposition (eis,) which we have translated

* into :(< PhiUp and the Jbiunuch, went down
[eie] into the water;) and contends that
it ought to be translated tuUo, because it has
thirty Jive other meanings. He quotes the fol-
lowing passages : * I am not sent, but ieie)unto
the lost sheep of the house of IsraeL' ' His
servant fell down {eie) at his feet,' Ac., to show
how absurd and meanmgless it would be always
to translate ' eie* or *en* in,OT into. And by this
argument, Mr. B. thinks to overthrow baptism
bv immersion. Would it not be equally absurd
always to translate * en' and * eis by Mr. B.'8
favourite rendering of ' at* and * unto,* * And
they entered unto {eis) a ship immediately,
and with (sn) that night they cauglit
nothing.' (John xxi. 3.) * Simon Peter did cast
himsell' {eie) at the Sea. Verse 7. < This same
Jesus which is taken from you {eie) at heaven,
shall so come in like manner as ye have seen
him go at {eis) heaven.' ' And they went at
{eis) an upper room.' And with {en) those days
Peter stood up at {en) the midst. (Acts i. II 13,
15.) *Then came Simen Peter, following,
and went at {eis) the sepulchre.' (John zx. 6.)
And the sea gave up the dead wnich were at
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which vere a< («i») them; and the dead were
judged out of those things which were written
(en) at the books ; and death and hell were cast
at (eis) the lake of fire, and whosoever was not
found written with (m) the book was cast at
{Hs) the lake of fire*. (Rev. zz. 12—15) .* And
a mighty angel took up a stone like a great
mill stone, and east it at (ei$) the sea.' (fiey.
18. 21.)

These illustrations are sufBdent to shew oar
readers what a correet and elegant translation
we should have, if the Baxterian principle
were adopted. The facts are these. We
admit with Mr. B. that always to translate
0i8 and m. by m and into, would make many
passages oiMOure, absurd, and meaningless. But
what does lir. B. Jgain by this admission P
Nothing ! What Mr. B. ou^ht to haye done,
to have made his argument of any value, was
to prove that the worde eis and en whenth^
qconrred in connection with the word haptizo,
made thejpaseage aheurd and meaninglese, (as
they do m the texts quoted above,) thenne
would have shown the neeeseity for another
rendering of the words. But thit he hoe not
done. Why } Simnly because he cannot.
We challenge Mr. B. to produce a text re-
Ibrring to water baptism, in which the words
^ or an is translated in or into, which is
rendered ridiculous or meaningless by such a
translation. Till he shews this, he has proved
nothing but his own bad logic. What does
Mr. B. wish us to believe ? That the Greek
language has no word to express golnf itUo,
or coming out of, a place or river r If it have
and it, is not eit or en, what is it ? Or is it
only forbidden to be used in connection with
Baptism?

Mr. B. next refers to Philip and the Eunuch.

* Thev went down both into the water, and
thev both came up out of the water,* (Acts viii.
88.) One would think this language were
elear and explicit enough ; but Mr. B. will
have it translated thus ; * They both went down
to the water and eame up from the water.'
Now here we join issue with Mr. B. and we
contend that if the words used in this
passage do not mean to oo down into the water,
and to come up out of it, there are no words
in the Greek language to express going into
and coming out of; and we presume that Mr.
B. would not have hardihood enough to affirm
this. The words in the Greek are * Kai hate-
heean amphoteroi eie to hudor, * Andtbev both
went down (descended^ into the water ;' *otede
aneheean ek tou Huaatoe ; 'And when they
ascended out of the water.' Now we proceed to
prove from other passages where the verbs
'hatebeean,* (to go down into) and aneheean
(to ascend out of) occur in connection with the
vrepositions eie and «ft that those words
literatlv mean, (not to go near to as Mr. B.
would have us believe) hut to go into, and to
come out of.

Our first iUustration is from John iii. 18.

* And no man hath ascended to heaven,
but he that came down from heaven, even the
•on of man who is {en) in heaven.' The original
is KM oudeie anabeheken eie (ascended into)
ton ouranon ei me o ekton ouranou katabae
who out of heayen descended.

Now, if In the case of PloUpandtfaeSiuuich
the words mean only that they went near to
the water, and cameaiM(y/rom the neiehbour-
hood of the water, it follows that the Redeem-
er only came down from the neighbourhood of
heaven, and has eone up somewhere near to
heaven, but that he neither eame out of, nor
has ascended into heaven. Again, Bev. zi. 12.
' And they ascended (an^eean eie) into heaven
in (jm) a cloud }

Bev. xiii. 1. * I saw a beast riae np out of
(anabainon) the sea.' (WiU Mr. B. say that
John only saw the beast oome from somewhere
near the sea ?) [verse 11] * I saw another
beast ascending out o£ (anahainon eh) the
earth.'

£ph.iv.9. < He descended intdrte<eWeto)
the lower parts of the earth.' AHuding to the
burial of Christ.

Acts i. 13. **ThBj went up into (anebeeem
eiej an upper room.' Mjr. B. would render
this we suppose, they went up soinewhere
near the door..

Key. ix. 2. < There arose (one^O ^ moke
out of {ek) the pit.

These illustrations are sufficient to prove
that the verbes katabainh and anabainb, used
in connection with the prepositions, en, eie,
ek, mean literally to ^o down into, and to
come up out of. And if the insmred writer,
in recording tha baptism of the jBunuch, had
wished to have said, that he and Philip went
down into the water, and came up out of it,
he could have founa no more appropriate,
forcible, and explicit terms in the wnole range
of the Greek language. If there be more
appropriate words in the Greek language to
express these actions, it behoves "ib. S. to
produce them. Will he undertake to do this ?

We dose this part of the subject, with
simply remarking tiiat if Philip only sprinkl*
ed, and poured a few drops of water on the
Eunuch's head, it was qmte unnecessary tor
them to get out of the onariot, and go down to
the water for that purpose, as he might have
taken that out of the skins or water-bottles,
which an ttavellers passing through eastern
deserts invariably carry with them.

We turn now to the word baptize, though
here we shall not detain our readezv long, aa
Mr. B. confesses, (p. 19) that it 'means aipp«
ing, plunging or immersing ;** though he con-
tends that it sometimes means to sprinkle, or
to pour, but holds that while it means to dip,
I it never means to raise again ; so that a per-
son being baptised ought to be left in the wa-
ter. One Scriptural illustration will prove to
our readers that there is as much truth as eenee
in this remark. In Mark xiv. 20, we read, * It
is one of the twelve that dim>eth {emhatrto^
menoe eit) with me in the disn. So in Matt,
xxvi. 23, we have the same sentence slightlr
varied, * He that dippeth his hand, (emhapeae)
with me in the dish.'^ So John xiii. 26. *Me it
is to whom I shall give the sop when I have
dipped {bapeae) it; and when he had dipped
(embapeae) it.' Now our readers know, (if
Mr. B. does not) that it was, and still is, the
custom in the east, to use the fingers instead
of knives and forks, and to ' dip the morsel ' in
a common dish, placed upon a table or rather

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& iloolf not ttbens fifteftii inchet high; the mM-
%tr dip* firrt, and the ^eitc follow his exam-
ple, each penon beiag farsiibed with a piece
of bread, whieh beinf dipped becomee a sop,
and they then eat it, wmch we presume they
eould Dot Terj well dc^ unleaa they raU^d it
after dipping or haptiiing it, * After he had
dipped (jtmhipmut) the sop, he gave it to Ju-
dae laeariot.' Hera the word baptiee meane
dearly to dip and toraJee. So in Luke. Send
hkmrvA that he may dip (&apie) the tip of hifl
finger.' Did the rieh man mean that Lasaros
having dipped orbaptiied hie finger in water
waa to keep it there ? But it ie a waate of
time to reply ai length toeueh noneense aa this.

At the bottom of the page on which these
remarka ooear, (p. 19.) Mr B. triumphantlv
quotee a paenge from the Uebrewe xti;24,
' The blood of aprmkUwg (he eaye) not the
blood of dippmaf Leaving his unlearned
r e ade r s to infer that the Greek word rendered
in thie plaee ' sprinkling/ is bapti9wum ; where-
sifr it ie r mmiif mom^ whieh is the ueual Greek
word for sprinkling.

So again in 9th cnapter, 13th Terse, sprink-
ling iramiigaum) the uaelean. So verse 19,
* sprinkied (errmmtiBs) the book and all the
people.' So Terse 21, * sprinkle (emm^Me)
the tabemaele.'

▲nd here we rearet to haTO to eomplain of
a method adopted oy Mr. B., in the beginning
of man^ paiagraphs of his book, calculated,
(intratwnally, or unintentionally, we cannot
say) to r«H^«^ hia unlearned readers. Page
S3 affisrda seTeral iUustrationa of this, they are
printed thoas

'JNllimg,' (baptiaing). < They were aUjS^M
with the fioly Ghost.' (Acts it 4.)

• rmrfmmAmg ' (baptisiag) < ^mokiHmf ' pour-
ing oil on the head like aweet perfume.

We placed Mr. a'a book in the handa of a
penon who knew nothing 9t Greek and point-
ing to these paragrapba, aaked him what idea
they eonveyed to hia mind. He replied, ' that
the worda tranaUted JUlin^^ foerfmrning and
amomtimg: were in the original baptiao.'
That ia predaely the opinion weahould hare
formed omaalrea, had we not known the eon-
tran- ; by plaeing (baptiaing) in orocheta, im-
BMuately after toe worda JS^Um^p and per/aai-
4mf in italica, Kr. B. learea hia readera to in-
isr that the latter ia a tranahition of the for-
mer. Aadagainat this unfiiimeaa we enter
oar a tfo age a t pioteet. To remore thia im-
prfmion from the mind of any of our readera,
who may hare been mialed by it, we give the
teats qnoted by MJr. B. and add the origimal

« They vera all]^M (iplaaf Aeaaa) not bap-
tiaed) with the Holy Ghost* AiTta u. 4 ; it.
8. (pfMMetf). So Terae 81 ; ehapter ix. Terae
17 : ebwtcr aiii. Terae 9, 52.

• Be not iSUed^ (plertMWtte, not Uptizo) with
wise.* Bph. T. 18.

• She brake the box, and 9owred {kmtahMm)
itenhbhead.' ynfal-awi being the paat par-
tadpaloftheTerblMO, topour. (HarkziT.3.)
To mmoiaU («grr*aat) my body, fte.

Bvtia the Septoagmt (Greek) version of
tha Old Teatament, there ia one pasaage whidi
aettlea the aueation to every unprejudiced
mimL LeviUeoa xiT. 16, 16, ^ And the priest

ahall take some of the log of oil. and pour
(KeOi) it into the palm of his hand ; and
shall di^ ijbapto) hia right finger in the oil
that is in his left han<( and ahall tprinkU
(raino) of the oil.'

farther iUustrationa would be useless ; the
Greeks muat Jcnow their own language better
than Mr. B. We challenge Mr. B. to pro-
duoe any other word from the Greek Testa-^
ment, to expreaa dipping but Baptieo.

Mr. B. tnen refera to the Hebrew tabal,
which is rendered into the Greek by baptiao,
and English 'dip.' We have proved that
bapiigo means to dip, from the numeroua
instances we have given, where it could not
possibly mean angfthin^ else; and therefore,
we content ouraelvea with saving, that in the
case of Naamaa who went down and dipped
in Jordan, the Hebrew word ia UAal^ and
this is rendered in the Septuagint, (Greek,)
Ebaptieaio, which our tranuators have rightly
translated, dipped.

Mr. B. (as we have said,) contends, that
baptuio means to * sprinkle' or to ' pour,' and
in hia preface he aaya, ' Let us keep close to
Bible laudato the law and to the testimony ;
all the while we keep together, we will keep
if possible, in the sacred Scripture hind/
(p. 4.) Well, after thia, we certainly expected
Mr. B. to mean what he aaid, and to ad mm
it. But what ia the fact ? That Mr. B. doea
not give one text from the Greek Testament,
to ahow that 5apMao, uaed in connection with
the administration of water baptism, ever
means to pour or sprinkle, or anything else
but to immerse; ail his attempts to prove
that haptiMo has any other meaning, are
drawn from profisne writers, from whom,
profeeeedl^f he seeka no support.

The fact of the matter is thia : whenever the
New Teatament writera wiah to express the
action of eprinklinff, they use the word rAa»-
tieo, Heb. ix. 18, 19, 21. When they wish to
express pouriHg, they use the word keo. Acta
ii. 17, 19 ; John x. 46 ; Bev. xvi. 1, 2, 8, 4, 8,
10, 12, 17. When they wish to express dipping
they use hapUzo, And we challenge Mr. B. to
diaprove theae poations. As to the tpiritwal
distortions of scripture with which Mr. B.
fiUa half his book, tMued as they are upon the
grammatical distortions which we have already
exposed and answered, we need waste no time
on them ; the foundation being worthless, the
super-structure falls of itself.

In ooooluding our second notice of the book
we give the following authorities, aoae of
ihem haptitte, in support of baptism by immer-
sion.

Frofeuor 8iuaH» *Bapto and Baptise,
both mean to dip, plunge, or immerse. Ail lex-
icographers and cntics of any note, are agreed
in thu.' (Biblical Bepoeitory, April 1838,
p. 298). The Profeaaor than quotea pasaages
from Homer, Pindar, JUrietctle, Xenopkon,
Plwtareh, lAusiam, Strahc, Herttelidee, Plato,
Herodote, JBpieUtue and Joeephau; all of
whom use the words to enreaa immersion; he
confesses that As eawnat find one eaee in any
elaeeie Greek writer, in the Septuagint, Apo-
crypha, or New Testament, where they
mean any thing inconsistent with immersion.

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College, Aberdeen. The word Bo^teo. both
in ucred authors and in oUiiieal, signifies to
* dip,' ' nlunge/ ' immerse.' And he adds a re-
mark which we would specially recommend to
Mr. B*s notice. He says, * It is to be re-
*» gretted that good and learned men allow their
Judgments to be warped bythe euMtomt of ike
Met which they prefer. The trus partisan,
of whatever denomination, always inelines to
correct the dieUunqfths Smritt by that of the
party or sect (Ed«of the Four Gospels. Note
on liatt. 3 oh. 2 Y. voL 4. p. 24)

Dn. Campbell^ MaehtUght and Doddridge,
in their translation of the New Testament,
they uniTcrsally tianslate hapiizo, by the
Engli^ immtree,

CaMn, * The very word baptise, signifies
toiaMMTse, and it is csrtoM that immenion
was the practice of the ancient church (L. 4.
0.15.)

:Profe9$or CampheU, (an American Infant
Sprinkler) ' I have heard a disputant, (listen
Mr. Baxter) in defiance of etymology, and use,
maintain that the word renaered m the New
Testament baptise, means more properly to
sprinkle than to plunge ; and in defianee of all
auikorits^ maintain that the former was the
earliest and most general piaotice in baptism.
One who argues in this manner nerer fails,
wiUi persons of knowledge to betray the cause
he would defend : and uiough, with respect
to the vulgar, hold assertion genemly
succeeds as well as argument, yet a candid
mind will always disdain to take the help of
falsehood, even in the cause of truth, (Leo-
tures on Pulpit Eloquence. Lect. 10. p. 304.

Dr. WaU, a learned Inftmt Sprinkler, in
his defence of that rite, sa^rs, ' Immersion is
so clear and plain by an infinite number of
passages, that one cannot but pity the weak
mtdeaoonrs of sneh fpado-baptists as wmld
maintain the nsgatioe of it ; for certain^ it
was the ordinary way by which the andent
Christians did receive their baptism.'

Luthsr, after speaking of baptism as a sym-
bol of death and resurrection, says '* on this
account I could wish that such as were to be
baptised could be completely tmaMrsei, accord-
ing to the meaning of the noord, and the signi-
cation of the ordinance, so as it was instituted
by Christ." (Works, vol 2. p. 70. Sd. 1661.)

Cardinal Wissman, — ' We retain the name
of baptism, which means immsrsion, though
the rite is no longer performed by it.' (Lec-
tures on the Doctrines and Praotioes of the
Bomish Church.)

Serman Witsins, U Dutch Professor.) —
* It is certain that John, and the disciples of
Christ ordinarily used dipping, as Yossius
and Hoombeek have shewn, f^m numer-
ous testimonies.' (Witsiua on the Cove-
nants. Lee. 4, ch. 16.)

Bresmsr, (a Romanist,) as (quoted by Pro-
fessor Btuwt, says, * For thurteen-hundred
years. Baptism was ordinarily performed by
immersion, and only on extraordinary ocea-
sions, was pouring, or sprinkling permitted,
and these tatter modes were always ealled in
question, and evenprohibited.' (Stuart p. 361.)
Zanehius, — * The proper Signification of

-p^tiso, is to immerse.'

(Bomamst)^' Baptiao, signifies

to plunge, as is granted by the whole world/
Sosays B«ra, VUringa, and numerous others.

The Greek Chnreh, in Bussia, and the
East, has performed baptism by immersion,
from the days of the Apostles, up to the pro*
sent time.

The Chnrch of Bngland baptised by im*
mersbn, up till within the last three-hundred
years, and ought to do so now, according to
her Prayer Book, for in her Service for the
Baptism of Infants, we read, ' and the Priest
when he dipe the child,' &o.

To these testimonies might be added those
of John Wesleg, Dr, Adam Clarke, and
the late Dr. Chalmers, and countless otben.

The Jlrst case of sprinkling^ is recorded by
JSusebius, (Eodes. Hist L. 6 ch. 48 ) he saya—
*Novatian, a Presbyter of the Church of
Bome. being likely to die, was sprinkled over
in bed, if that might be termed baptism: Bat
Novatian recovered, and became a candidate
for the Bishopric of Borne. Cornelius, a rival
candidate, wrote to Fabius. Bishop of Antiocb,
describing the case of Novatian, and says,
'that all the clergy and many of the laity
were against his oeing chosen Bishop, be-
cause it was not lawful for him having been
ponred over in his bed, to be admitted to
any clerical office.' It appears from this faet,
that at the year of our l^rd, 260, sprinkling
was an innovation. Cyprian, who lived in
the same age, in reply to one Magnus, who
asked if thev oould be esteemed Christians,
who had only oeen sprinkled, repliea, ' that sodi
baptism was to be esteemed good, if necessity
compelled it.' From this time, sprinkling
was occasionally permitted, espedally if per-
sons were near death. It now came to ba
generally believed, that baptism was essential
to salvation : thus the first general departure
from the scriptural mode of administering thia
ordinance was accompanied by a falling awajr
from the truth and spirit of the fl^oapeL About
this period, new and fantastic oeremoniea
were joined with the celebration of baptiam.
The evil spirit was solemnly exorcised out of
the candidate, by the vehement shouts and
declamations of the priest— the oonverta were
adorned with crowns and white robes, and
returned home with the sound of music, See,

With one other remark, we olcse thia
article. Mr. B. after labouring to prove that
baptise means to sprinkle, teUs us in p. 34^
that the sols meaning of baptiso, is to dsdi^
cats, cotffirm, or establish, while at p. 126,
he says, it describes no act at aU, but merely
the effset of an action, which is not dete^
mined by the word I It is vecy clear that the
word baptiso, in Mr. B*8. hands, means any-
thing that Mr. B. wishes. The following
texts will shew how the word baptiso, trana-
kted to dsdieaU, confirm, sstablishj would
read : ' He to whom I shall give a sop, when
I have dsdieatsd it : and when he had com-
firwwd it, he gave it to Judas Iscariot' John
xiiL S6. The word in both cases is baptise.
Again, ' Send Lasarus that be may sataHisk
the tip (baptise) of his finger,' Luke zvi. 24.
' And he wore a vesture oonjifmsd (baptised)
in blood.' Bev. xix. 18. * Here is wat«T
what doth hinder me to be establishsd 1 Acta
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LETTERS EROM THE LINE.

▲PDKltSID TO OUft VRIUSB IV TSB COLOVIBt, AlTD ACROn THI 8SA8.

Baitkbv Couvttbs Statxov,
BatonUy, May 88. 1859.
DsAm Bbothbs McCubi, of Geelong;
kntlim Allen, Ward, Hooper, and all kind
liriaBda in Ohrisi— 1 hare this efening loeated
Bjaelf in a eomer of an Eastern Counties—
tba vhtatle has annpunoed onr departure —

is np'-''the Express*' is off— and
nov my pnym u that the Lord mmj hold me
in safeiT nntil Isee the aneient city of Nonrioh
where, if all be well, I hope to-morroir to stand
in brother John Corbitt's palpit three times,
aetirerinf any nessafs the Lord may, in
y, cive unto nie» Last Monday the
arersary olold Prondenoe, in Ohelsea, was
_ len. Mr. Odling, of Chqpham, presided,
and eshibitod an ezeellent spirit; Mr. Hall,
istor of Gamer, gare ns a noble speeeh
1 Oospri minister : it was original, mter-
g, and worthy of extensire publication,
has now four settled pastors, lonnd

the pastor <
MtheOosi

tn the faith, and nseftil assong^their people.
Mr. PWisferd, Mr. Bolaad, Mr. Bird, and Mr.
HalL The good people at Cranmer Court, with
brother Bird, are building a new ohapel ; I

trast it may be the birth«|^aoe of man^f souU.
Tnesda;

■esday I was at Upper Basildon, in

We bad a lai^e oompany ; they also

want to bold a new chapel ; their old one is
too saall; brother Smith, of Oxfnrd, shared
the work with me. He is an excellent brother :
and is becoming quite an ' annirersary man.^
How fftf^gwlai' u his position! His earthly
eaUiiig requires htm to sweep the black dust
away from the Oxford Uniyersity ; of which, 1
expect be findi an immense quantity, especially
in these Trsetarian times. 1 heartily wish he
the UniToreity clean of all its

Pnseritish and semi-popish oust and rubbish ;
bat I fear it is too deep-rooted for him. Some
of yoo hare heard of our aged brother Shepherd,
of Aabampatead, near Basildon ; he has been
in deep oonl trouble few years ; but the Lord
has smiled npon him. Ue now rejoices in
Chriai. I reached home from Basildon, late
00 Tamday night ; and on Wednesday mominr
went to Orpington, where brother Wyard

I in the morning a comfortable sermon
en Csith; in the aftemooo, Paul's words--
' even so bath the Lord ordained, that they who
preach the gospel should lire of the gospel,'—
wae my text ; and in the erening, I was helped
to speak from Psalm xxr. * Ml the paths of
the Iford are mercy and truth to such as keep
hk eoveoant, and his testimonies.' 1 felt my
own soul comforted while speaking~(l,) of
the Pisth of Parental Discipline ; the heavenly
taitioii of Ood's regenerated children, as it is
written, ' Whom the Lord loveth be chasteaeth.
awl eeonrgeih erery son whom he receireth /
(9.) the pathway of Gospel training, of unfold*
Mg to the sanctified eye of faith the great and
gmnons mysteries of the Kew Corinant. ' I

well remember how silently, how sweetly, how
certainly, the beautiful plan of salvation was
opened up in my soul, and how fast by the
truths then revealed, I hare been helped to
abide; I hare deeply and daily proved that
many waters cannot quench my love to them,
nettber can the floods drown it^although my
love to the truth is not half so hot as 1 could
desire ' it should be. Then (3, J there is the
Pathway of Bereavements— of Providential
Direction— of Usefulness in Zion^and of
Meetness for Glory ; all these are in mercy :-*
and through them prophecies are accomplished,
promises are realised. I left Orpington with
a large number of friends, and the next day,
attended a public meeting on behalf of Poor
Baptist Churches in the Country. Brother
John Pells preached the sermon; tea was pro-
vided ; at the evening meeting I was called to
£ reside ; the brethren Bird, Bayment, Kevan,
[eys; Seacock, Webb, New, and others plead-
ed. The Society's hopes of usefulness are not
without encouragement Yesterday and to-
day, 1 hare been driving the pen, and proof-
reading—completing June YBSBBL—up to thb

last moment nearly and now our engine is

broken down; ana when I shall reach Nor.
wich I know not— but I hope the strength of
the Lord will be on my side. [This accident
of engine-breaking occurred at a place oUIed
* Burnt Mill,' we were all a little frightened :
but the Lord was our helper, and carried us
safely through.]

That ffood, old-fashioned scripture came to
my mind to-day before 1 kft— * We know that
all thinffs work together for good to them that
love G<^, and who are the called according to
his purpose.' My mind went to the bottom
of the text first— I thourht within myself: 1,
the eternal purposes or a Holy God in the
covenant of grace, is the secret womb from
whence every • saving mercy flows, and by
whieh the salvation of the whole election of
grace is secured. 2, Here is an answer to
that question whieh thousands do so anxiously
Ask at the mercy-seat, and under a gospel
ministry, *Lord, how may I be assured 1 am
chosen to life eternal?* — An effectual call— a
mcious bringing of the sinner from Egypt's
dark iron furnace into gospel knowledge, mto
spiritual light, and into fellowship with the
saints ; this eall proves our election—* Know-
ing, brethren beloved, your election of God.'
3, But seeing that there is an outward call to
a nominal profession merely, and an effectual
call into the blessed kingdom of Christ— see-
ing so many are ealled, and comparatively so
few chosen,— how may I oeme to the happy
conclusion, that my call is indeed of God unto
eternal glory P This text declares that reel,
heart-felt love to God proves three things :. ),
onr election in the covenant ; 2, our voM^on
in the gospel ; 3, our'glorification in the better

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kingdom. And> ImUj, theM parta of truth
welloonndcrtd, wiU most eimmj domonttrBte

th^ fMt ^Mkred. *sll thionwork UigHk4r
TOR GOOD to them that tove God.' The
elimax of all good ia to be om teitk CJkrittj in
the goepel and in glory, aeeing that the people
of God are predestinated unto life eternal—
aeeing Christ hath redeemed them from all
evil, and promised them that the/ shall never
perish—it is quite certain that for them * all
tkimffti* must struggle, agonize, cooperate, and
lead on to the conveyanoe of their ransomed
spirits into the blessed paradise of God. It
must be so, because the covenant of grace is
ordered in all things and sure. It must be
■0, because Christ and his people are om; and
he said, ' I will come again and receive you
unto myself.* It must be so, because the Spirit
who qmckens their souls into life, and reveals
Christ unto them, is promised to abide wiUi
ihem for ever.

[It is getting towards night, we are
now runnin* from Cambridge to Jxorwieh. I
hope to add; a few lines to this on Tuesday,
if the Lord permit me to return.]

ViOTOBXA BtATIOV, WoBWIOH,

Tuesday morning. May 81, 1869.
It is six o'clock— Brother Corbitt has just j
bid me farewell ; and now I am once more :
seeking to be safely conve^'ed to London, with j
m desire to speak for my Lord and Master this
evening in Unicom Yard Chapel ; and to sail |
to-morrow morning towards Newiok,in Sussex, i
It was late on Saturday night before our train '
reaehed If orwich ; there brother Corhitt's ex- 1
flellent desAon, Mr. Barber, met me: took'
me to his beautiful Villa in the Thorpe Hamlet,
and both him and his lady treated me with
the utmost kindness; for which may God'
Almighty bless them both in this life, and in
that which is to oome. The cause on Orford
Hill, in the ancient City of Norwich, haa most
amaringly increased under Mr. Corbitt's min-
istry — the chapel has been enlarged and
paid Ibr— the church has been eonsiderably
ucraaeed, and the congregation is multiplied
4o the crowding of that (now) commodious
jdaoe from one end to the other. If there is
«ny position on this earth in which a man
can possiUy be happ)^, John Coibitt enjoys it :
in a spiritual, in a ministerial, in a domestic,
and in ft preapective sense, he is filled and
snrrounded with every comfort, and the Lord
«ften grants him his henrt's desire, a thankful
Jieart, a tongue to hless Jehovah's name, and
n Ufe of earnest useftilness in the Gospel field.
He has latel^made a tour through several oonn-
ties, preaching and enjoying peace through
Jesus Christ. Next spnng, n raared, he con-
templates crossing the Atlantic for a few
mondis. I have no doubt but the Lord will
booour him in America ; the British settlers
there will bo glad to see him— the truth-loving
Yankees will rejoioe to hear his original and
powerful miniatration of the Gospel ; and I
nave no doubt but that they will arrange for
4iim, so that a multitude of doors will be open
4o him, when it shall please the Lord to carry
•him thither. The venerable and greatly be-
lieved John Gowen still preaches in Norwich.

The Lord iqiholds him; and before many
years his happy spirit will spffsad her winga,
and fly to that bright wnrid where deeaytog
nature, a dying world, changing scenes will no
more distress the ransomed of the Lord. I do
not believe there ib mush Goepel in Norwich
beside the ministration of the two John*a —
Gowen, and Corbitt. Mr. Kempster has been
many years at the Tabernacle ; he has preach-
ed the Gospel as soundly aa the best of the
Countess of Huntin^on's ministers do ; bat
even Mr. Kempster is diseoutaged ; and pnr-
poses to resign bis pastorate mere. For an
old Cathedral city, nowever. Norwich has a
large number who love and live tki GoaPBb
or Chbmt; and I hope thernambsrwill bo
multiplied, and incrassed aa time rolls
on. 1 will say one word about Yamonth,
and then dose thbnote. Yesterday noming,
my dear brother in Christ, James Linooln-^
(an extensive Boot Maaufoeturar in Norwich)
took me to Yarmouth ;^it is a pratty ran
beside the river from Norwich to YansootlL)
We first found Balmm CAafMl— and then wa
found Providence Flaoe,— where the fialnm
pastor, brother Tann, rssides. We spent an
nour or two happily together. I was glad to
find that my brother Tann^s prospeeU in tba
ministrv ne much more cheering. Yanaontk
is an uiterestiDg watering alaee. Manvof
the Lord's peopto will, no doubt, drink a
little sea air Aere this Summer. I hope tbev
will find Salem chapel— (it ia a little ana,)
and there may the Lord make hiahep Utann n
living mouth to many. C. W. B.

I Moeived the foUowUig fimn Norwich ainen
Heft:

OBFOBB WTTiL, NORWICH.— Ma. BaiToa,
—Tea will rejoioe to hear (when you eensUer diat
we were disappotated of your p r ssa n s e at our aaat-
veriary teameetfaig, which took plaee on the even-
ing of If ay Slst,) that the Lord so over-^nled it that
all oar fneods were of o»e heart and one mir ^ ~~ ^
ezpreeeed their graUtode to Ood for the
manner of displayiiifr hia kindness and merey
them. Yoorex«ei)ent,aoaUtlrrlag,diseoan
the 8eaday, aad Monday eveuiaa, made a .. .
imprsislon oa many who heard them. May tba
Lord follow yon with his bksslng wherever yon
may be oallcd upon to speak. Our respected mtai.
later, Ur John Corbett, returned to as after a vteH
of three weeks in Osmbridgesbife, HuntAagdonBhtin
Bodfordshixtt, and London, maeh refreshod and
impsoved in health; aad met his ehnrah aad eon-
grenaUon, who weleomsd his return wUh glsdncaa
of heart. After tea. of which more than 150 par-
took bountlfolly, Mr George Barber, one of enr

deseons, was called to the chair. Mr. / '

BalUS, a lay friend,

and aifootkmate prayer ; and a few verasa bctaig
snag, Mr. Barber aaade a fsw rcmarlLa on tha
inereased prosperity of the ehoroh, which he said
was too manifest to require any detailed sutcBiaiift
fVom him. Since we met last year the Lotd has
been at work, calling flrat one aad then another to
eoase ameagst us and to dcdaie what he has dona
for Iheir ooids. Alter a lew /ndUbla remariu, Mr.
Corbitt gave us a good panoiamio view of what ha
had seen in his Journey, the abundant erops ttt
eom, fto., fto., and then most sweetly showed bow
the Lord had blessed him in meeting wKhMa

f I lends, some of whoai gave him i
testineBiaiof Gotf s fhithfolaessaad honour, i _
talaedla seme of the first aeals of hia ministry, aX
Cotte«W» Oamliaf bay, Foiton. and Bigglii«a«a.
^r:er this^ Mr. Oowing, of rroridence fXSpiA, gaiPw

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1 place, BothlDg eould lutTO been better tloK
» fonadatloii stnmf m the Ahnlghty, the expefi-
» deep end MerehlDffud the preetiee Jaet wMe
■fb to ewboMe all the deet. After this Mr,
Abb, «r TennoDth, eddreeeed the meeting eoB-
gntaUUnj on the odnieler'e mernlaeee, the
ehareh'i heppliicas» the eonstent iDcreue and the
preratling onion. Mr Dlott, a lay friend, then
gave na an eloqiient pieee of oratory, muoh abovo
tha nmmtm Mylaof Bpeaking, Ibonded on the
aBallaeae of hamaa knowledge, shewing that Ihe
higheel aar man eaa attain In this world waa hnt a
gl1r*|-^ of a Tanishiag eometbing. If the wieeet
of men attempt to get a right riew of themMlree

S> tlie light of revelation, they get only a giimpce
thdr Ineompreheaelble oelf, the phUo«>pher with
an hie vceearehea into natnre is Jaat the same, he
goto only a gUmpsa of the ineompreheasihle worlu
of an iBoomprehenaible Ood that is to Jndge ns at
' the laat. Benee he Inferred how bumble, thankfal,
and watehfttl, we ought to be, seeing our oompre-
henaloA is so small that nothing more than a
^impae ean be aUained in this UCs. Mr. SeoCt, an
aged misister, from Priory Taid, said be rsmem-
harad the first opening of Qrford Hill Chapel, and
nosarked how altered was the scene and bow few
Ihara he eoold reoognise that were here then, and
coBclwdcd his address with a few eongiatulatory
nsaarlca. Mr. Philip Broee, deacon of Providenee
Chapel, eonelnded in prayer, and the eoagregation
hroka «p a Uttto balhce tan e*elock, baying enjoyed
ene of the happiest meetinn or the kind ever
wiCneased. Many thanks are due to the two deaooos
who provided for the ooeaslon and to the friends
who prMsred and serred tacm up, for surely nerer
were things done more decently and in oraer for
whlsh we thank Ood and Uke courage.

Oaa WHO i^vjuTBD thb marXMO,

THE SUFFOLK ASSOCIATION.

AMMVAJL OATHSKIVe.

PxAK Brotbvr Banks.— I embrace the
preeeat opportanity of eezidiiig you an acooont
of ib4B aDDoal moetinn of toe SuiFoUc and
Korfdlk Aaaoriatiwi, bald at Fresiingfield,
SaffsDt, ca TumUj and Wedneoday Jhe 7th
nod 8th dnys of Jne, 18fi9. On Tusiday
■Bonung at half past 10, the serncaa com-
BMBced by singtng an appzopriate hymn, than
JCr. Lenger, mamMr at trmndiabargh, preeon-
tad sadMUi prayer to God, which I thought
MiMit jifoee tnuy refreshing to the aoul of
•very wnasel of mercy present. Mr. Bird, of
BaftUMden, being moderator, gave a very a^-
propcinte opening address, and read thd arti-
eiei vhich eompriaea all the fundamantal
■vinciplaa of our moot holy religiion. The
Htlem from the &▼• and twenty obTtrches
were read in due order, acme of which were
and encouraging; others la-

nting tha low state of some of the hills of
flo^eral pastors haro been remored by
Frowidenee, and eevemi T«iy exoeUent denoone
by th« hand of death. Manifbld were the
feninrea of the letters read, two of the most
pfWBiastnt I will fpve you, Tia.

The eheedrfui letters recognised the agency
at ihB Holy Spirit as the efficient cause of
naoeaa ; and tfte defp|onding letters rceogni-
»d the neeeanty of it, without which tlie
ehni«hca would vealiio no real And sulMtantial
levivaL One oi tha diorohes h|iTC eommen<

Isis.tnmble, and no dff«ae#; (whit n aapltml
tiio.) On Sttndi^ Morning 3wa» 6th, Mr.
Collms of Oroadisburgh, preadied the won!
of eternal life to 9,600 people, after which,
he beptiaed efosen bdiersn in the name of
the erer adorable trinity.

To the Trinity in Unity be all the pmiat.
The Tenerable pastor (Mr. Totman) at Lax-
field, has resigned his offlee, in oonsemienoe ef
infirmity and old age. In enawer to- tbe many
prayers of the ehoreh, the Loni has sent them
e minister, Mr. Bobert Bears, Jun., r21 years
of age) member at Mar. Foronan's, London,
(his -father ia en honourable deacon sit Mount

^on). Tfaaa Tonng servant of Jesus' Christ is
nreaehing I belicTe to congregations ▼anring
from 80O, to 1100 people; and with evident

M» system of weekly oAsringe de-
rlsriaig the reenlt to be three-fold more money,

tokens of the divine presenee and blcssiug.
I pray God may raise up many more- such,
and that he may oless every cdunty with pure
gospel truth, even as Simolk. My nAiive
oounty (Suilblk) is blest indeed, and f rejoice,
and defy contradiction. Most of the churches
are blest with a Sabbath School, some of them
in a very flourishing condition.

During the past year, several teachers and
diildren have been added to the church ; there
are 214 children in the Sunday School, at
I^azfield, (this is a highly favoured spot, on
Thursday eveninff, June 9th, 1 heard nrothor
BloomfiAd preaoi a soul-stirring sermon in
the chapel to (I should think,) not less than
600 people.)

A new chapel is to be opened at Earl So-
ham, on Wedneaday July 6lh, Mr. Boe, is
preaching hese with evident tokens of Pivine
success. The cause at Freosiogfiekl is prot-
periog under the pastosato ef Mr. A. BftmOf
Uto of Norwich. Great credit is due to ew
brother Brown, and his ezeellent mte, hg
their strenuous exertions to edd to theeomfofft
and happiness of the friends genenmy on this

AiUmoon, Mr. Vdaecomhe, of Lendoq,
read the hymns ; Mr. Themley, of Steermav-
ket, read a portion of Scripture and snjaged
in prayer ; after which, Mr. Jsaae, of Brighten
gave us an eloquent discoorae ftom John xc«
11th and 12th veises. Evening, Mr. Seas^
of LaxAeld, read the hymns s Mr. Pelisy of
London, nmd and engaged in pimyer. Mr.
Bloomfield preached a soul-atirripg «ad heart
eomlbrting semson, from Hebrews vi. 20^
< The multitude heard the word g^ly/ H»Tp
ing some milee to tievel, I eould not bejpra^
sent at the morning prayerrmeetinga on Wed*
nesdav, but was mformed thejF were weU
attended, a great number of ministeas, end
laymen engaged in solemn heartCslt pm>er,
I oelieve eur prayer-meetinspsirBiHaally v«ak|
be more wmtstble. and better ettended« ii
instead of two or three, some five or sU bre«
thren ensaged, and that within the yaae
space of time.

When at a throne of grace, we shoal^^pn^
and not preach. *A word to the wise is
enough.' At half-pea^ 10 o'elofk the spadoua
tent waa crowded to excess, and hupdr^
were etanding outside^-it was thought there
oould not be less than 9^600 persons present.
On whadi oceariop, a very solepin and appro*
priate sermon was preached by that honoured

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THB KARTUBK TESSVL.

(July 1, IBM.

Ittnd Tai«rabl6 Mrraai of Jems OhrifL Mr.
Qeorge Wright, of BoccIm, from InUh liv.
port of lit TorM» * Sing borran !'

In the afternoon o Torr ■olemn, thongfatfnl,
and faithfal disoourte, from Romanii Tiii. 32,
WEB delirered bj that faithful minister of the
gospel, Mr. John Oooper, of Wattiaham, at the
close of which Mr. Bird, offered a few remarks
' and Mr. Oollint, of Onindisbargfa, delivered
a yerr animatingaddreas, inwhioh he stated
the churohes at ttoxne, GHemsford, and Clare,
had become united with the Association, and
, the annual meeting in 1860, will be held at
Ckre. (Qod willing,) I hojM to be present, as
there are many in that neighbourhood whom
I love in the I'Ord. and not a few to whom the
Lord blessed my feeble labours. The parting
hymn being sung.

' Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love/ fte.

Mr. Wright oonduded the happy meeting
' b^ prayer. I wish we had just such an Asso-
ciation in London, founded on the precise
same principles, vis., all the cardinal doctrines
and ordinances of the Scripture. I pray God
the time may soon come, when the ebunhes
fenerallv shall realise the blessedness descri-
bed in the 133rd Psalm, even as the churches
constituting the Norfolk and Suffolk Associa-
tion. JoHH Pblls.

17, College Place, Camden Town, V. W.

FAJRNHAM.

TvBSDAT MoRiriMO, June 14th, 1869.—
Testerdaythe Bethel anniversary, on Hungary
Hill, was one of the beat days to many.
Cricket Hill being on the same day [where
Mr. Bloomfield, of London, and Mr. Spencer,
of Hartley Kow, were preaching,] it was
thought our company would be divided ; but
we were happy to see the chapel more than
crowded full : and truly thankful to find the
Lord God of our salvation present to bless.
We had soldiers from the Camp, — Boyal
servants from the Queen's Pavilion, — and
seekers for truth from all quarters. Brother
Brake, the pastor, and his dear people are
anxious to build a baptistry, and to repair and
enlarge the chapel ; lor this purpose collections
were made; collecting cards are issued ; and
donations would thankfully be received by
the deacons, brethren George Wells, William
Prickett, and others. Beyond all exception,
Hungary Hill is one of the finest elevations
in this part of the country. The air is soft
and bracing ; the water is excellent ; the
views are cheering and delightful. Take your
ticket at Waterloo Station lor Famham, walk
through the Bishop of Winchester's park, it
will bring yon on to Hungary Hill ; vou may
there walk and behold the beauties of nature;
and if yon turn into Bethel you may hear one
of the most original, earnest, and deeply ex-
ercised ministers of the present day.

BLACKHSATH.
, Cv Lord's-day, June 12th, the Anniversary
sermons of Daere Park Baptiat Chapel were

fre.iohed. In the Morning. Mr. Palmer, of
lomerton, delivered a sound gospel diecoune

from the 68rd Psalm, 1st verse, *OGod,thon
art my God.' In the Evening Mr. J. B.
Crackaell preached a stirring sermon from 1
Thes. 5th chapter, 6th verse. * Therefore let
us not sleep as do others ; but let ua watch
and be sober.* On Tuesdaj, June 14th, a
goodly number assembled in the Afternoon to
bear Mr. James Wells, who preached with
liberty and savour from Zechariah ii. IS;
Christ was exalted in his person and work.
The amngemcnts for the tea were excellent ;
the friends appreciated and enjoyed it.

The Public Meeting commenced at half-past
6. Mr. Cracknell presided. Brother William-
son, opened with orayer. Our highly esteemed
brother Wale, of Beading, gave a maaterlv
address upon the first clause of 6th verse, 9th
chapter of Isaiah, * For unto ns a child is
bom, unto us a son is given.' Brother Banks
spoke upon * His name shall be called Won-
derful.' Many say they never heard him
better : he was very happv. Brother Caont, of
Gheenwich, with much decision upon ' Coun-
sellor.' And brotiier Whittle upon < The
Everlasting Father.' The doxology was sung,
and prayer closed one of the best anniversary
meetmgs that can be remembered at Daere
Puk. So msny told

On WHO WAS Thvxv.

KSPPEL VOLZET^VBBZLL SQITABK-
An imporUnt meeting was holden. May SUt, in
referenoe to the Norwich St. Mary's Chapel csas.
Mr. Mllner, in the ohslr, who made a good opening
speeeh. He said U was not the valoe of the Rt.
Mary's Chapel, bat the rlghtaoaaacss or rather
unrighteouaneas of diverting the Chapel from the
use of those for whom It was intended. We
ahoold consider it eqaally nnjaat to endeavour to
obuln a veated open eommanlon Chapel tram.
those of Bueh sentlmenu : bnt the fact was, It was
'on*j a trial cast,* and if they soooeded to wrest
the chapel at St. If ary*a from the Strict brethren,
then withOQt donbt many other chapels throaghoat
the land woald be wrong from them also. Mr«
Norton, one of the tmatccs, gave a good definition
of the ease, and ftrom the known piinciplea of MV.
Kinghorn (early paator of 6t. Mary's,) and the well
known advocate and defender of Strict CommunUm
principles agalnat Mr. Robert Hall, it was evident
that when the trust de<>d read ae follows : * That
thin boilding was for the use of the *Partiea)ar
Baptiat Chareh and eongregatioD,* there eonU be
no doubt that it was intended for their use only,
and he waa glad to Inform them that eminent
conncil, Romiiey, Berthel, and Evans, had ao given
their opinion. They were forced into the defence;
arbitration had been refOsed, only upon such
groands as he could not accept, and he traated the
Cburohea of Chrlat of Strict Gommunioa prinoiplea
eontendina for the doctrines of graocL would help
him and hia fellow.truateea to repel thia unjuat
attack on property ; and they all knew how lament-
ably the ehurchcs had generally gone down tn
sentiment, in eonoeetlon with lax diaelpline. It
was no CacUoaa opposition, a» 132 signed the dec-
laration not to have the order of the Church
disturbed out of a total of about 800 membera. Mr.
I*almer, of Homerton, Williamaon, Pells, and
Haaelton, anpported resolutions, pledging thenk-
" • their 1

selves, and the body generally, to do t
in every way to oppeee this and every attempt to
alieniata the property, and croah the prineipka of
Strict Baptists i believing them to be ideatieal with
the honour and glory of him whom they profess to
serve. Brethren present : Box, Meeres, Bonner,
C. Woollaoott, Flory, Alldls, Green, Ac., with a
large number of deacons ftrom several ehurehes.

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CBITDWXLL ASB WHSIT.-Bome of the
food ptopto UBongti ashav« been A little excited
bj evvportUiat Mr. B. B. Wele, of Reading, wm
r into thew puts to preach Certain parties
PB»j in tpeaking nnkindlj of the expected
^rvaeber. H« la not ideatiflcd with the * BzoloaiTe
Partj,* and waa ooodemncd unheard. However, to
Crodwell be eame. The people eoon saw he was a
little own ; and to look at him nme ooold dare to
think he waa maeh to be fcarei. Our chapel was
crowded ; and the Iford helped him to preach thb
6<urci. Tory aweetl j and eolemnly loo. we thanked
God, ae we retired to oar labours, that eueh an able
minieter of truth waa raised up. Us Crndwell people
sra gobag on In peaee. Our brethren Lamb and
Taylor apeak to oa in the Lord's name ; and we lore
then In the coapel very mneh. Since our annirer-
sary, Mr. Wale hma been to Minety. Would you
belierc it that Old Prejadiee would not let him into
the pulpit! Well, what waa to be donel The
Pope sud he abould not preaoh. But there were
bundreda of people oome to hear Mr. Wale; so
tb«y ofcaod a larfe barn, into it they went, and
a slorioae dnj we had. Charles Brown, our father
•ad friend in Cliriat, heard Mr. Wale moat Joyfully
- ind so did hundreds more ; and there are many
chapela open for him now in these parts. I am.
A raxAcnaa.
[If tt pleased the Lord to give as a few more
XBteUlgent and deroced men like Mr. Wale, and
otkefv now im the goepel field, these hard hearts
aa4 empty benda will lose much of their power.--

BknKOHD. HERTS,— The anniversary of the
Baptist Cbapel on Tuesday, May 24th. Mr . Mllner
praobcd two ezeeilcnt sermons ; afternoon, from
Iniah 0rd Slat Ciiapter; evening Acts 2Srd and
Utt venee - eome that eame to hear brother Milner
had been told his preaehing waa not sdapted to the
weak heUerar, and litUe faith; they laid thcr were
agreeahly dleappoLnted ; they heard the blessed
gospel fully, ahly, and suitably sdapted: they
trjeieed greatly : altogether we eojmed the pre-
senes of the Lord in our midst The Babhath
aehool anaiveraarj waa held on whit-sunday, Mr.
H. Hatekinsoa the paator, preaehed three edifying
iliseonrsw ; and on Monday the ehiklren had their
aeaaal tree! and rewarda. It was plessant to see the
little enes enjoy their bolidaT. Mr. U. preaehed
in the evening from Jeremtsh SSrdcl^pter Ilth
vcree. ' Preiae the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is
good» and hla mecej endueth for ever.'

▲ VaiXKD.

BIACXHBATH - DaCRB PARK CHAPEL.
We aanooaee with much pleaanre, that our brother
J. £. CracfcneU haa received a nnanitnous invitation
to the paatorate here. This is an interesting fee.
tore in tlM hialory of tlie cause at Blackheath :
these la a moet desirable adaptation between the
paster and the people in this case. Our strong
sympathiee in tne welfare ef some young men
have gained us man/ heavy blows ; but we enjoy
a ^ilBl eenfldeoce that our hrother Cracknell, in
thehaadeof the Lofd, wUl prove a faitlifiil, and a
■sefnl man. in the gB««l kingdom.

w ywyiy f WtyA^ir , 8in?F0LX>- Oor anniver
lary aetmons were preaehed onWhit Monday, b;
the hrcthien Thomas Poock, of Ipswich, and
wAgmttm,t,f^ of London. The ministers preaehed
ma na the gloriooe goepel of Christ: and the
paiVle rejoiead. We hope the Lord Is still with us
sithoegh heavy triala have befallen OS. Iliketheee
' ' i people ; they are as determined for

the rreth, vita! experience, and righteousness, as
waiFlnlhlaaelf. God bless them. Bo prays,

AFsak

ly.— • A fHend to the yact»L firem
_ J' ie ii^lMwed ihat arrangenenti are
kiif to given series of articles hiatortaal, ecitical
antf cz^^rmicntal — ^fllnetratlve of the present con-
Aitioa of the efaunbce in Brighton whose PasiorK

hold the grand leading doctrines of New Covenant.
ReTelatlon. We are quite aware of the declensions
and Jealoosies^the departorea and divipions. exist-
ing. These wQl oome fairly before our Tribunal.

BTO8TABLE— On Whit Wednesday June 15tU,
1859. the anniversary of the Oid Baptint Chapel,
Dunsuble, was holden.«-Mr Milner of Kepp^l St.
preaehed m the morning from Job zsviU. 11. * He
bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing ■
that U bid, briziffeth he forth to the light.' It waa .
an excellent, weighty, experimental discourse ; and
was greatly blest, it was a rich cordial to the souls
of the people. Had he known the path of sorrow
and iloods thro* which they had been called to pase
he could not more accurately have described them ;
but though he knew it not, the Binder of the flood •
did, and graciously directed his servant to speak
a word in season to the ttied ones, and a word in
season how good it is! I am no enthoiastle, but»
oh how beaoiifhl were the feet of him that brought
sueh good tidings I Our Father bindeth the flooda :
precious truth, tar heart almost preeumes, I shall
not lose the relish all my daya. Our esteemed
brother Milner does not make much noise in preach-
ing, his calm, pithy, weighty manner, cannot fail .
to arrest and interest hit hearers ; but, best of all,
the rich, unctions, experimental acouaintsnoe of
the truths he preaches, enjoyed In bis own soul,
comes warm from his heart, to the hearts of hie
heftrers. In the afternoon, Mr. Smith, of Oxfbid.
preached. The good man preached in his usual ,
earnest, argumentative^ lively manner. A good
company then took tea. Brother Bioomfleld (with
his sunny countenance and smile,) lo<dclng the
Tory picture of good temper, was present, and
preached in the evening to a crowded and attentive
congregation. The attendance was very good all
day. Mr B. took for his text, Romans, v. 2. * by
whom also we have aoeess by faith into this
grace, wherein we stand and rejoice in hope of
the Glory of God.' Ue preached an eloquent
discourse. Grace ! free grace, was the Alpha and •
Omega of his theme. It did the hearts of Mr.
Carpenter's friends real good to hear Mr. Bloom*
fleld testify his affectionate regard for onr pastor. ,
and his pleasure in witnessing the peaee and
prosperity in our midst, and to hear him say,
that that day was one of the haopiest he CTcr
remembered spending at Dunatable. The ooUee-
tions were good. We, as a people, may well say,
what hath God wrought ! To his name be all the
glory. A LiTTLB Omk.

ABHFOSDi Kin T.— This town Las grown
amasiugiy nnce it became a Junction on the South "*
Eastern line : it is now a very populous ndghbour*
hood ; one good feature in the preemt phase of its
history is an effort to plant a goepel church on New
Testament principles. We have heard good old
Mr. Tappenden ; but he, with many others have
pasNd away. On Thursday, June 16, Mr. Jsmes
VffllM preached three sermons in the Corn £x-
ehange Rooms. Some hundreds came round to
beer this bold expounder of the goepel of Ohriat.
Mr. Bradshaw, of Canterbury, preaches every
Sabbath ; and we can say, the Lord is with him.

FOTTOV, BEDS.-^ Thursday, May 86th,
we held our anniversary. Mr. John Oorbitt
preached morning, afternoon; and Mr. John ■
Bioomfleld in the evening. Both these brethren
preached well ; we were thankful for the merdea
of the gospel ; but, some said— 'teeing your ven-
erable paator, Mr. Tite, is a thorough Braji &Aai>
UAV I and is even now supplying at head-quarters,
how is it your annlTcraary f etmona are preached
by brethren not exactly of that honourable dis-
tinction t' Our answer Is, * we love all who love, .
live, and preach the gospel of Christ.' Amen.
.— ... Jottjr.

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ior joor ii«zt No. of the * Sabtssv VMsaA*
foB ma MtauoHmm Ber. W. linoola't Semon
Berieved in jov iMtP The Baviewer aeyi,
*lCr. liaedla ie not a Ptuerite, yet he aeia up
even in glory a ir»immti&u» eoitfetfiomal.*
I and many othere who heavd the Sennone
pfeaehed, and hare eiaee read them, were
mueh ttastled at the statement^ not teeing how
noh an opinion ooukl hare been formed. In
thepumgo reviewed in Sermon 3, Pp. 64» 66,
Mr. Linooln had been arffuein|^ that there
would be a reooenition of toe Munte in glory.
Be then sayt, * But the leinte are not only to
be aU gathend together into the preaenee of
Jesoe, made eternally happy in the taW en-
joyment of hia lore, and in their oonacious
jrto r a t ien to one another, but we are further
taoirht that then theyihall all be judged.
Afm have they any eaaie to tremble beeauae
eniy doed they have done, whether good or
bad, muet aU be brovht to the light of day P
Am they not with nim ? Can any thing
oeour wmeh.iball not be for the glory of him
w|iom they love, and for their own ^ood?
U it not a wondfoualy graeioue proriston of
our God, that he who lofed us is to 'be our
Judge } If even their ill deeds are recounted
before an assembled universe, will they not
then rejoice, if their mention extols hie graoe i
Will not eaeh ransomed soul, with holy rivalry,
deolare himself to be the thief of sinners, and
eaoh adduce what proofs he ean of the freeness
of God*s grace, as extended to him? But
here it is well for us to remember, that when
the Iiord*s people are judged, not a single spot
of sin, not a single stain of guilt, wiU ever,
can ever, be found upon any one of them.
When 6t. Jude states that Christ is • Able
topreaeiil us faaltress before his presence,'
he says nothing of his willingness to do so, as
if that were so very obrious a truth (Jude
x^it). But if any one needs, for the strength*
ening of his Csith. the essuranee of this, then
we hare 8t Paure testimony that it was for
this very end that Christ gave himself for the
ehoroh ; namely, in order * That he might
present it to himself a glorious ehnreh, not
having spot or wrinkte^ or any such thing.'
(Bpbe. V. 97) Our sins, if indeed we are
Christ's, are drowned in the depths of the sea.
So that when we are judged, otir guilt, how-
ever great it was. has disappeared for ever,
vea inore, the guilt, if it could be found, would
be an impeachment of the work of Jesus.
Haoee St John, in Bev. i. 6—7 savs, ' He
that loved us, and that washed us iSmn oar
slot in his own blood,' is oominc to be our
ittdge. If, then, our Judge could find any
bl^m^ in US| do vou not now perceive he
would befindmg uudt with his own work,
an^ with the completeness of that washing r
Bat still all this does not oontradtct the truth
that every deed we have done must be de-
elarsd. any more than the full forgiveness of
I>avid*s sin involves its hushing up* No taeh
thhig. To all eternity, wherever 1 m«et David,.

guiltv
saved a

I shaU kmnr ftai weU, hav&if beea
Qod Umedi; thai David was an _ ^
■inner, as well aa an exemnlaiy emnk " Hia
sina, Uie sins of every worttiy meatioaed in
the Bible, arc known wherever that Bible la
read. It eannot be otherwias. For then
would the great set-off to Qod's ^raes^ the
baek-grouna of the pieture be withdrawn.
WiU not angels know we are sinnera P And ia
not thia more than half the truth we areoon*
tending forP For ia not the fact of being a
aa solemn a one as that we have been
of acts of transeression P Will not
saved souls know this of one another, sinoOp
in the days of their unregeneracy* they often
sinned in company P But after all, the plain
dedarationa of Scripture, such asBccL xu. H ;
or 8 Cor. v. 10; or Bev. xx. 13, ooght to
settle the matter.** Thus far, dear Mr. Editor,
Mr. Lincoln*s sermon speaks, but I eannot
see it implisa a ' Terrible Oonfeasionsl,' cer-
tainly it implies a Tribunal, and so also doee
Acts X. 42. * It is he which waa ordained to
be the Judge of quick and deed.' 2 Timothy
iv. 1. * I onarge thee therefore before Qod,
and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge
the qaiek and the dead at his appearing and
his kmgdom.' Bomana- stv. 10 ; ' We ahaU
all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.*
V. 18. * So then every one of us shaU give
aeoount of himself to God.* AUhou^ there
will be no * Terrible ConfessioDal,' yet there
will be a God and Christ glorifying eonfoa-
aion oome from all the redeemed sdnts that
they were once sinners. Bev. L 5. *Unto
him that loved us, and washed us ftom oar
sins in his own blood.' And best of ail there
will be a glorious confeasMm by the Lord
Jesns ; himself the Judge. Bev. iiL 6. ■ I
will cottfoss his name l^fore my Father and
before his angels.' Matt x. 38.^ ^^ Ulm wiU
I confess also before my Father which is in
heaven.' also Luke xU. 8. ' Him shall the
Son of man also confess before the annela of
God.' ^^

Should any of your readers wbh to judge
Bir. Lincoln s doctrine farther than this ex-
tract; by sending 18 Postage stamps with their
address to Mr. Hubbard, Chemist, Post Ofllee,
London Boed, Southwark, the 4 ssrmoaa wiB
be sent by return of Poat. I am, dear Mr.
Editor, year's in the bonds of the Gospel,

A HSASn OT IfR. LlHCOLS'6.

THE CHRISTUN BUND BELIEF SOCIETT.
Oar readers are, by this tiaM^ well seqaaJnt-
edwith the nature and meriu of this aioat
valaable Institation ; or, we tklak, they ought
to be, seeing we have so ofleo referred lo It ;
and its olainu have been so freqaeaUy laid btk
fore then. We wish bow to inform them that
"The Fifteenth AnaualBeport" is ready, and
maj he had of the flsereCary, Mr. James Cos, 100,
Borough Boad, London. 8. B. We entreat aU
the real frien^a te a movement so abeolataly
neeeesary; so praiseworthy; and so erideatly
owned of God, to obtaia eopiea of thia Beport ;
and to ea^aavour to esUbUsh bcaaeh aoaktiaa la
cf^alry diattieca. TheBeportIs eheeetag to a
degree^ aad will be notlaed by us la a fhtare
number.

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]>SAm Bsoms Bauks,— I baTe collected
a Ibw pariietilart that manifeft tin moe of
Q94 ia tkt asporienoe of mj dear wife. Sarah
Jed. She was born at iTingboe In the
99antf of Bucks, ia the jear 1799^ The
prioeijrfes of the Chareh of Sogland were
•ar^ laeoloated, (her parents being strict ad-
heraate to the same) until the light of the
Qoapcl ahone into her seal, thron^h the minis-
try of Mr. Clark, who at that time came into
Ifiagfaoe and preached the glad tidings of
salvadoo; and a few who were farorea to
reeeiYa them, were baptized and formed into
aehnreh. She was baptised at New Mill, near
Ifiiijthoa, at the age of foorteen, and joined
the little deapised choroh at Ivinghoe. which
■Mde h«r parents verj unhappy, the^ con-
Mknd sIm had disgraced them by going to
chapel, and told her if she pernsted in so
dotaf, ahe must leave home, for they would
hare ao chapel goers live with them. She
left hooM^ aad gained a knowledge of Dress-
aakiag* and commenced business with a
yeangniend, and the Lord was pleased to
them abundantly, so that she soon
iadmadent of her parents. She
ly nsited home, and at leitfth pre-
poB her parents to go with her to
haar Kr. Clark, and through his instru-
MMtelity, thcT were led to worship with
har, ^id both died honourable members of a
Baptist ehoreh. She wished to raise a Sunday
School, and mentioned her deeire to some of
tba firieada, but waa stroagly opposed. She
fsli thara waa a great neceanty for one, and
joined by bar companion, they opened one at
their own hooae, which was sooi^ too strait
tot them, and their other firiends joined, and
tha achcel was taken to the chapeL and has
anea ptored a blessing to many. About ten
'aara ago, mv poor wife waa attacked with a
Jt of paralysu which Tcry miieh afbcted her
right nde, and entirelT preTcnted her using
her right arm, but so for recoTered to enable
bar to attend the means of grace frequently,
aa^ about aix months before her departure.
8ba waa then taken with scTore spasms at the
hearty her anffoingt were truly distressii^ ;
wa woogbt she could nerer snrriTe, but at
IsBgth reeorered a little, and then said, ' It
kau ia &or«.' On the Monday night, nre-
▼10^ to bar death, she said, ' don't cqr when
I am gone, rejoiee that another ohild la gone
te haaron. 1 eaid, * which way do you expect
to go to haaren?' berrepWwaa, 'l^irough
J«sv Christ, he is the only way, he is the
only firiag way ; there ia no other, all other
wt^andmiihi than aha bipke oat aingjag^
« Jaaaa ia tha only living way,"

*« Bode of Agaa ahelier ma,
I^ me Ude myietf in thee."

Tha apaama returned, and were Tenr seyere

tor a ttBe^ but when a little abated, she sang,

• Bind my wandaiiag heart to thee,'

She said, 'CVawqdnggimBa;' aadlfftadher

voice stin higher, cried, ' O, amasing gmeo !'
I thea meotioaed part of a sermoa Mr. Par«
sons had been preaching; he dwelt opoa.
the stonea that c ompose the dear Bedeepier's
crown; she looked earaestly and said, ' I am •
one.' I said, 'Mr. Farsona compared thoee
stones to precious Jewells; I said, 'Do you
think you are oner She said, with grwi^
mptpAotif, ' I am one, I am sure I am one.'
For a long time past, she spent a great portioa
of her time in reading the Bibl^ sometimes
four or fire hours in the day \ I said, ' y9u<
have read the Bible a great deal,' she said,
' I have been blest whilst Heading, it is the
best of books, there is no book like the Bible.'
On the Tueeday before her departure, I went
to her bed side and said, * Do yot| know vour
old friend f she said emphatieaUy, ' Yes,^but
'X have an everlasting friend.' An honr
before her dei^th, I said, <8haU I pray Y aha
said, 'Yea;' it was tha hut word. Just
before her death, a friend asked her if she
was happy? She gave a nod, as though she
said yes ; soon after that she fell asleep with-
out a struggle or a groan,, only a few minutea
after her birthday, aged 07 years. She waa
buried bv Mr. Robinson in the ground ad-
joining the Independent chapel, Mounslow,
January 21st, 1869.

Hounslow, March 3Q, 1869.

DEATH OF MB. JOHN VINA^L^ JUinOR,
OF LEWE8, SVaSBX.

We have the painful task to announce tha
sudden and distressing death of Mr. John
Vinall, Junior. He hid been for some time
ill, and compelled to desist from preaching.
But it was hoped that he was gradually recov-
ering. However it pleased his heavenly Father
to rMcase him fh>m all his earthlv pains and
anxieties on the morning of Tuesoay the 14th
of June.

Mr. John Ylnall was the eldest son of
the well known and greatly esteemed John
Yinall, many years the pastor of Jireh chapel '
Lewes. He was personally very much like
his father, and in his ministry maintained the
same soul supporting truths. He had long
rendered himself greatly beloved in his father's
church and congregation by his kind christian
solicitude, and especially in visiting the sick.
He had a remarkable gift in prayer, and was
ipade a great blessing Ui his private christian
labours. To the young people of the con-
nection he was rendered a beloved guide —
Oraoe seasoned his conversation at all tipiee.
Experimentally acquainted with the chrutian
life and vital godliness, he was oualified to
point out the way of salvation to others. The
long affliction of his father opened a wide
door of usefulness to the son in connection
with Jireh. *

It is only of late years that Mr. V. has
entered into the work of the public ministry ;
first at Bfidffe Chapel, LeweSi^ and quite
recently at Jireh Cnapel, the pulpit teincp
vacatea by his aged fkther through inoreasea .
inflndties. We hope to furnish fhUer jwrtl-
ciilars next month. ^>P*

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CONCLUDING NOTICES.
JORDAN AND TEE BEAD BEA.

VO THB EdITOB OV THI EARtHBIT VkSSEL.

D&ift BI1I.--I have referred to a Scripture
atiao, as jou request in your renew of Mr.
Baxter's book on Baptism, and find tiiat
instead of the Dead Sea being 30 miles east
by south from Jerusalem ; tl^t part of the
Dead Sea, where Jordan empties itself, lies east
by north.

For the truth's sake allow me to beg of you
to tell the truth, for I am still a

LoTVB ov Tbittu.

6, Commerce Place, Brixton Boad.

▲BBWBB TO ABOYB.

' The Lover of Truth/ (who evidently writes
in a net, j has oonfoonded things that differ,
and nas mistaken the lingua^ tongue, or
mouth of the Jordan, for part of the Dead
Sea ; which is as though a man should eon*
found the Thames at Southend with the Ger-
man Ocean. Dr. Sitto, the latest and best
authority on the subject, on the 26th page of
his * Bibucal Index to Scripture Lands,' gives
the relative position of the Dead Sea and
Jerusalem, as follows :

Latitude

Jerusalem . . 31" - 4,T

Dead Sea . . 31 - 30" distant from Je
rusalem 30 miles B. by S., as stated by us in
our article : the difference in the iMtitude be-
ing seventeen mUes.

OBAVESEND-lir James Jobm, the long aad
maeh hoaoored pastor of the Baptist Chureh, of
Wadhartt, Soaaex, has favoared as with a reply
to a something ealled a *6peeial NoUoe' which
was pobUsbed in Jane, reflecting severely upon
the four deacons, and fifty seven members who
having accepted the realgnatiou (sent in by car
brother Thomas Stringer,) removed from Zoar
Chapel to worship in another place in the town
of GraTeeend. We thank brother Jones for the
excellent sUUment he has given ; but we think
a. few words will be suflieient to prevent any
iajory being sustained by either party. We
have been made thoroughly aoqoaiated with both
sides ; and we declare withont partiality— there
is.ao Jost cause why either party should have
from the eharohes anything but sympathy, kind-
ness, and prayer. I«ok at the fkcu of the case
JQBt as they are — Here is an honourable, faithful
and useful minieter of Christ with, his deacons
and friends who have laboured on in the gospel
together — happily and saocessfnUy for many
years I How often have they sent us reports of
their peace and prosperity I At length, the
minister's joy abated; under the influence of a
dark cloud he resolved to tender his resignstion
as pastor, but to continue preaching in the
GbapeL This was an affliction to the deacons
aad the ehnroh. Perhaps they moved hastily.
Be that as it may— thsy did remove ; there are
now two causes for truth in Gravesead. And is
there act plentf of room ! Are there not thou-
saads of souls there ! Certainly there arr. And
Thomas 8tringcr does not wish people to be com.
peiled to hesr him. Neither do the deacons or
the menibers at the lastttution wish to afflict
their late aad mach honoured pastor. Who can

tell, but that two good canaes.may yet be found
in Graveeend where the whole gospel of Christ
shall be preached t Let us watch and pray thai
our Lord nuiy smile upon them both. If Charity^
Faith, Patience, Close 8clf-examlnatioa« and seal
for the divine glory, be by these things drawn
forth, great good will yet arise.

VOTTIKG HILL— Johnson Street Chapel, nesr
Kotting.hill gate, Bayswater, having been consi.
derably improved, and the interior newly ar-
ranged, was reopened on Whit-Sunday and Mon-
day. Sermonp were preached by Mr. John Fore-
man, Mr James Wells, Mr. Williamson, (the
pastor), a W. Banks, and Mr. Parsons, of
Brentford. The new arrangement of Mr. Wil-
liamson's Chapel is a great impiovemenr. It
has been our privilege to labor with Mr. W. in
the gospel now for more than ten years. We
have silently and thankfully watched the steady
progress and growing prosperity with vhleh the
Lord has been pleased to favour our brother in
the gospel : a very special insUnce of the Spirit
of God working with him in conversion has Just
occurred. We should furnish the encoorsglcg
particulars, bat for Mr. Williamson's aversion
to any publieity being given. It is however,
a great pleasure to know that the kingdom of
Christ is glowing. Living stones are carrying up
the temple.

BSPTPOBB-A MoDSL MxsTXKo— On Mon-
day, June 20. 1859, the anniversary servictscon.
neoted with Zioa Chapel, Florence Place, New
Cross. Deptford, were continued. On the pre-
vionsSaaday, two sermons were preschcd hf
Mr. G. Wyard, the pastor, and Mr. John Fore-
man. On Monday afternoon, Mr. Samuel Milner
delivered a valaable diacoure, After tea, Mr,
Wyard opened the public meeting. He had ia. '
vited sU of his mialsterial brethren to speak '
upon Paul's words* Of Him are ye in <aitiat
Jesus, who of God, is made unto us wisdom,
righteousness, sanctiflcatioa, and redemption."
PrinUd programmes were issued ; so that th«
audience knew who were to speak : how long
ti^ey were speak, (15 miautes being allotted to
each) and the particular theme upon which they
were to dwell. Mr. Dickerson spoke first on
The Saimfg Oriffin^Ut. W. Palmer on TA«
Saint'9 Portiim—MT, Moyle on •Ckritiaur
Wi9dom? Mr. Attwood, *0n Christ our
B ghteousaesfl.' These four grave divines de-
livered their addresses remarkably well : kept
to their time : and having done so departed,
leaving the fag-end of the meeting to two little
«»••— Mr. Mceres and C. W. Banks ; whose sub.
Jects were Redemption and Sanetiflcatioa : Mr.
Wyard, and his friends appeared cxeeediagly
happy. Their peace and proeperity, unity and
usefulness, we sincerely hope wiU increase and
continue.

HA0XIHO8/ 8V8SEZ.- Our ministeriag bro.

Uicr, Thoi&as WaU, of Bye, Ssasex, writesus aa
excellent report of the formation of a Strict Ba^ ,
tiat Church ia Hastings, on the eveniag of Jane S.
Messrs. Wttrterc), of Brighton, Wall» of Bye,
and other friends assisted in the solemn servicca,
on which the bleesiiig of heaven did rest. Wa
shall next month give the report, meanwhile, w« •
trust the visiiors to Hastings wiU find in BanU*a
rooms the gospel of Christ,

CONTENTS.

lugnittiie, Conflicts of St

Arnold, Edwsrd, to T. Edwards ..

Adoption of Children

AfedPQgrimB'

Ansirerstties, Onr, By J. Brunt...

Anhnr Wilecckson

ADtuomiAnism ; What is It?

Adian in ti&e Cimp

AOnatHerey

57
97
106
149
171
198
202
211
212
218
Andrev Fuller ; What was He? ... 227

AWellofWftter 243

Addreases at Mr. Groirhurst*s Annirer*

taiy 255

Abraham Howard 268

Bowles, Mr. R., a Letter to^ 283

Bow in the Clond. By J. £. Cracknell 36

Befl's, Dr. T. O., sermon 65

Bodu of the Bible 63

Babelof Chnrehof Engrland 68

Bj whose Anthority l>o Yon l^each

the Gospel 103

BlooBlleki, J., attho ditrrey Theatre... 125

Br^hton and Summer Season 126

Beeman's, Thomas, Letter 184

Beale, G. W., of Farersham 189

Bell, Dr., and Plymouth Brethren ... 202

BesettniffSin 212

Birmingham, Battle to be Fought in... 242

BradboiT, Thomas 243

Bishop of Bodidale 244

Baptist Snndny School Union 248

ComMBkna of the Cross, 17, 37, 57, 86
118, 168, 182, 206, 238, 288

Catei^s "PfeMfa in the Pulpit" 09

ConftdeiieeinQod 132

Ghrise More than Creeds 178

CoaeBs,BeT.8.,on"Hope" 48

Craduell, Rot. J. £., on " The Ilhs-
tzioas Bride and Bridsffroom" ... 79

Colcaw on the Pentateuch 93

Ciison, the late Dr., Defended by his
cKm ••• ••« •«• ... ••« ... ... ^4v

C hrist's Lamentation on the Cross ... 253
CHUBCHJSB .---Opemng at Stowmarfcet,
2): Mr. Gwinnell's new chapel at Oreen-
widb : Mr. WaU*s Beeognition at Gravesend:
BqwifTies street chapeL 26: BM>ti2ing
in the MOlHrtream at Glemsford: Tootms
0ove, 49 : Swineahead. by R Arnold : C. W.
BaakirB meeting at Little George street^ 60 :
Ber. W. Kil|^ at Birchington, 60: W.
Cfaaaberlain's late chapeJ, 61 : Bezley Heath,
Birmingham, Banbridge, and Walworth, 61 :
Mr. James Nnnn's meeting, 62: James
CkaA at Stowmaitet, 62: Homy HaU*8
Chmge to John Fkyer, 61 : Mr. Bloomfield's
eleiranth anniTeraaiT , 74: Mr. Fhtck*s sixth
aaaiTenafy, 74: Notting-hiU, 76: Mr. Bar-
tibobnew at Mendlesham,76 : The Old Church
at Hiaosid Knollys, 76: J. Khigsfoxd,
BrJriwie, 77: Austmlia, 78: Mr. PooVs
Bisthday meethig, 100: Opening of Mr.
GwittMirs Hew Chapel, 101: C. Z. Tumei^s
fa^liiag at Bipley, 101 : Zion chapel, High
WyoBoSet 102 : Good Friday at Dane HiU,

and Bermondsey New road, 126: H. Hall's
Meetiog, 127; New chapel at Stowmarlrot,
127 : Care Adullam Anniversary, 128 ;
Keppel street, 128 : i€r. Haxleton's eleventh
year, 129 : Stone-laying of Mr. Moyle*s new
chapel, 148: Beeognition of Mr. Dunn at
Yarmouth, Lew Down, 162: Mr. Inwaxd'a
Ordination, 178: Keddington, Old Ford, and
Plymouth, 174 : LodsweU, Lee, and Glems-
ford, 176: Southampton, 176: Bridgenorth,
194 : Be-opening of Mr. Bloomfield's chapeL
196 : Laying Memorial Stone of Mr. Moyie*8
chapel, 196 : Ware, Herts, 196 : Jireh chapeL
197 : East Wickham, 197 : AnniveiBsry of
Oiford hill, 199 : Leicester, Bath, and Erith,
260 : Walworth, 201 : North Bow, 228 : Wel-
lingborough New Chapel, 224 : Balem Sunday
schools, 225: Long Marston, Graveaend, and
Chatteris, 225 : Botherhithe, 246 : Birchington,
246: Mr. Butterfield's fourth anniversary,
269: Bye kne, Peckham, 270: Mr. ColUns,
fifth anniversary at Howe street, Plymouth :
271 : Ooleraine, 272 : New Cause at leldham,
378: Little Garden at Enfield, 272: New
Church at Plaistow, 278 : Dr. Yaughan, 274.

Distress in the North 53

David Denham, Letter to 89

Desideratum, Churches' Great 110

Denham Smith 120

Do You Preach the Word ? ... 131, 180
Death and Bnrial of Mr. J. Nunn ... 139

Divine Foreknowledge. 179

Dr. CKirs Baptizing Hymn 197

Death of Jesus 203

Every Man. By J. Brown, M. A. ... 16

Eternity, Marriage Union of 106

Epitaph on S. Luie*s Stone 110

Evans, Christmas, Beview of 157, 186, 214

' 230, 258, 285

Final Settlement, the, by Sam. Cozens. 282

Fighting Against God 6

Futore Happiness of Saints ... 15, 72
Glasgow One Hundred Years Ago .., 24

Great Distress in the North 27

God's Love : its fiesidence. Properties,
Subjects, and Power. By George

Murrell 275

Gems from Puritans 64

Glorious Intelligence 191

Garrard's, W., New Chapel 200

Goodridge's, A. S., Beview, Heb. ii« 9. 96

Giants in our Churches 218

God's Anti-Slavery War 226

Grav.Bev. Mr. 236

Gathering in the Harvest 246

Ghreat Masting at Surrey Tabernacle... 264
Hope our Hehuet. By S. Cozens ... 48
Hiffhways, the, of our Metropolis ... 138
H<My anid Happy Baptist Meeting ... 155

Hidden Ones 178

Hint to Mr. Wells 226

Hath God Forgotten to be Gracious ? 233
Heavenly State of the Highteous ... 237

Helped with a Little Help 244

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48 : Weep Not for Me, 48 : Colenso's Pen-
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Hosea, 78: Goodwin^ Mediator, 78: Bev.
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TmB question cumot be considered imper-
tin«qit, ill-timed, or out of place, because by
the highest authorities, on all hands, it is
admitted ; yea, it is lamented, there is a
gradoal depaitnre fieom the simj^ieity of tiie
Gospel or Christ A deHcate philosophy
on the one hand, and a coarse recital of
tales and old wires' fiibles on the other,
leaTes bat little room for full and powerful
opening up of the word of God, which is the
rerelation of the Fathkb's mind, the exhi-
bition of the Satioub's Person and work,
the chUdren's bread, and the great rule by
which rebellious, impenitent, and unbe-
lieving men are to be judged at the last great
day. It was, indeed, a grand epoch for
EnJ^and, when John Widdiffe furst oon-
eeired the idea of giring to his countiymen
THE WBOLB BiBiB in their own tongue.
The Apostate Church has always closed,
held bftiek, and refused the Wobd of God.
The world, sunken in iniquity, has ever
been careless, and has recklessly slighted
the Bible; but as the time for gathering
in the ransomed shee^ has come on, the
Loan has in mercy devised means whereby
His blessed word' should be given to man
that they may read, uid through grace
drrine, beHeve and know the truth as it is in
Jsscs His Sov. And since the Bible has
been given to us, what a wicked war has
Satan carried on — openly and secretiy —
against the blessed Book of Heaven. To
burn it, to blind men's eyes against its

florioos light, to cover it over with the
ost of natural reason, and carnal condu-
sioBs; or to raise im a set of pretenders and
impostofi, who, while th^ would contend
for its letter with their ups, would prac-
tically cast down its spirit in their lives, or
leavv them to misrepresent and deny some of
its most essential teachings : yea, in ten
thousand ways has opposition been hurled
aounst the revelation God has ^ven ; and
which is the only safe and saving word —
the only heaven-ordained beacon on the
&ce of this dark and dreadfully dangerous
worid.

The language of Evan Lewis, in his re-
cently-published ** Criti<}ue," should be the
hcarCccho and the pulpit-echo of every true
servmt of Jesus Chnst He says : ** We
beliwe in neither Mr. James nor Mr.
Wesley ; we believe in neither minutes nor
men: we btHeve onfy in our Bible/** Oh!
that the happy day were come, when mi-
nisters and seeking men could appeal sim-
' ' to the Bible, look to, learn o£ lean on,

7ot. XIX.— Wo. 217.

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and be guided only by the Bible. Then
shall Truth, in all her beautiful simplicity,
in all her royal niagnificence, in all her
essential harmony ,'in all her rich and inex-
haustible fulness, be discovered, delighted
in, embraced, and magnified, as yet, exten-
sively, it never has been.

But when I ask, ''Do tou prbach thr
Wobd?** I do not mean a mere quotation
of Scripture. I do not mean that a man
should take a leaf out of his concordance,
and merely tell the people that in such and
such chapters, and in such and such verses
they may find such and such words. Many
years since I went very anxiously to hear
that good man, Mr. Newbome ; he took for his .
text, " Is this thy kindness to thy friend ?"
and having read his text, he seemed to me
just to travel through the Bible, stopping
at almost every verse where the word
" Fbxekd** was to be found, and then he
would recite that text, and pass on to
another. That kind of preaching (or rs-
hearsing rather) may be very safe ; but to
me it is not the hot living bread of heaven's
sending. That # excellent man of God,
William Bidder, was a great Scriptarian ;
and poor dear Fenlon would give you text
enough in one discourse to last yon a Ions
while ; but that is not the preaching whicn
has ever been very successful, either in
winning souls to Christ, or in feeding the
souls of God's people. I do not reflect upon
the ^ood men I have referred to. Nay,
William Bidder was an honoarable, most
worthy, and much-beloved brother. God's
Christ was really the gloiy of his ministry,
the ioy of his heart, and the foundation of
all his hopes of future bliss. And he is
gone home to his reward ; as is also that
eccentric, but sincere disciple, FeDlon ; and
as regards Mr. Newbome, he still lives and
labours soundly in the word and doctrine ;
and beneath the shadow of old £tv*s
cathedral gathers a few good sheep to fold.
Still I say the people want more tnan quo-
tations of Scripture: — expounding, or hav-
ing the word melted in the heart, and
poured out through the doors of the lips,
richly anointed by the Holt Spirit: — ^tne
Word being in you, as a well of water
springing up into life eternal : this is some-
thing of the mystery I would desire to im-
press upon the mind.

If you will consider God's own teaching
upon this point, you have it plain enough
in Esekiel (chapters ii. and ii i . ) Fi rst , the
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saw visions of God. Then the word of the
Lord came expressly unto him ; and after
the masteries of g^ce had been opened unto
him m secret, the Lord said unto him,
"Stand upon thy feet, and I will speak
unto thee." And the prophet says, " The
Spirit entered into me when he spake
unto me, and set me upon my feet ;
and he said unto me, Son of Man, I
send thee to the children of Israel. Be not
afraid of them ; thou shalt speak my words
imto them : open thy mouth ; and eat that
I give thee." Then Ezekiel looked: his
soul was drawn out in expectation, as every
man's soul is when the Lord is about to fill
him with heavenly treasure ; and he says,
'* Behold, an hand was sent unto me ; and
lo, a roll of a book was therein : and he
Bjffead it before me; and it was written
within and without : and he said. Son of
Han, eat that thou findest ; eat this roQ, and

f> and speak unto the house of Israel. So
opened mv mouth; and he caused me to
«at that roIL" If a man, then, does rightly
preach the word, that sweet exhortation of
Paul's must be realized: "Let the TVobd
or Christ dwell in tou bichlt in all
wisdom :" so shall the teaching and admon-
ishing be unto the gdory of G(^ and to the
benefit of saved soms.

I could single out a minister in our own
di^, whose sermons, I feel persuaded, tes-
tify to the rich indwelling ^of the Word of
life and truth in his souT; and I think it a
great pity these brim-fhil Scripture ex-
poundings are not more widely spread
abroad. This is an honour great indeed;
and " no man taketh this honour noon him-
self but he that is called of Goa» as was
Aaron.** There are many good men who
can read the word, and prav to God for the
people ; and who can maxe sermons, and
give out their experiences, and their exer-
cises, their joys and their sorrows; and
thus are sometimes " helps" by the way ;
but no sanctified intelligent Christian wUl
be angry when I say, comparatively speak-
ing, were are bat few of whom, habitually,
it can be said, that they psbacu the

WOKD.

This subject might "be illustrated; and
this question might be enforced by many
things ; but I am now only anxious to call
serious attention to the qaestiom. Our
CSiurches, as a whole, are not advancing,
or ^thsring strong^ as we could desire.
Sooeties may be formed ; committees may
be appointed ; moneys may be given ; strin-
gent laws and rules may be carried and
adopted ; but all this will not meet the 'ne-
cessity. ]Ut. Lewis says: "I fully believe
the true minister needs no OfncuLL aa-
thority. If he is qualified for his work, he
will have inftuenee; and that will generally
be in proportion to his worth*" Human or

mere official authority is nothing. Men
may call themselves ministers ; and they
may get other men to ordain them ; but,
firequently, this only turns «ut a burden to
the people over whom they are settled. But
if a man have the Spirit of God in him —
the living Word in him : — if the word cr
HIS JUB^RT be like the pome^anaU, richly
opening, filling that heart with its deejjy-
hidden seeds, and satiating his soul with
the refreshing juices thereof; and if the
living Word be in his mouth and on his
tongue, as the beautiful golden heU; if^ as
Aaron had, he have the beU and the pome-
gpranate, he will never fitil to be useful and
helpful to that people among whom his lot
may be cast The operations of the Splut
are different or various, I know ; but there
is one method the Spirit sometimes adopts
which is illustrative of the harmony of uie
word, 'and of the completeness of Christ's
salvation. I iUustrate the method referred
to this way.

I was one evening searching the Scrm-
turea. The word •♦ SALVATION", afl m
one moment, appeared to me to contain the
whole of the jBible. I saw it to be the
greatest thing ever planned in heaven;
ever executed upon the earUi; ever revealed
in a sinner's heart ; ever realised in heaven.

Something said, "It is the work of a
seven-fold personaiity." L It is the work
of God the Father. II. It is the wodc of
God the Son. IIL It is the work ofthe eter-
nal and ever blessed Jehovah the Spirit XV.
It is the work of angels. V. It is the wozlc
of prophets. VL It is the work of Apostles.
Vll. It is the work of all faiUifuI ministees ;
and to every Divine Person in the Godhead ;
and to every agency employed by the
Eternal Three, there came suchblessed worda
of truth unfolding as to fill me to over-
flowing; and to make salvation and the
Saviour most exceedingly dear to my soul,
of which, if I can, I wiU give some ac-
count, as I further kindly urge the question,
" Do TOU PaxAcn the Word ?"

CONFIDENCE IN GOD,

' Surely goodness and meroy shall follow me all
the days of my life."— jPialm xxiil. 8.

Hese is strong confidence in God. It is
^uite possible to have too much ooofidenoe
in ourselves, or in mankind in geneni;
but we cannot have too much con&noe in
Jehovah. We have God*8 promise and oar
own experience of God's faithftilneaa to
strengthen this confidence. See what God
has done for us in times jpast ; how maoy
times He has appeared for us whea we
were in distress in mind or ia bodv ; how
often He has helped us in diffieuLf^ and
danger, and learn from the past just sea-
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•* la (Urkoi watohoB of the niglit,
111 ooant Thy mercies o'er ;
rtl prai» Thv nftme for merciM patt,
Mynof

The Psalmist, is the exercise of this
^th, says, "Surely goodness and mercy
•kail foliow me." It does not admit of a
doubt Blessed be God, He is fiiithfol and
vnefaanging. So the apostle likewise says,
" Xj God sAail snppljr aUyonr need accord-
^f to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus."
These blessings are aasnred to ns by God
br rirtne of oar relationship irith Him, and
^erefore He trill not &il to confer them.
" Gxaee and glory" shall be giyen ; things
tamoofal and spintnal shall be granted;
pflBrooning mercy, sustaining mercy, pro-
tecting mercy, sapplying meiey, shall all
be mzrs if we are Cmrist's ; for, " Sorely
goodsesa and merey shall follow me." lAke
the water from the smitten rock, which fol-
lowed the Israelites through all their
joameyings in the wilderness, so tlds
"gooviess and meroy shall follow*' ns
wfiererer we go. We cannot get beyond
ita reach ; we may be east down and almost
destroyed ; we may be in doabt and dark-
nen ; we may be in poTeirty or affliction ;

we may be in a workhouse or a palace ; we
maybe "alike unknowing and uukiiow'n"
by every one except Grod ; n&j, we may be
rotting in a dungeon, thrown into a seren-
fold heated furnace, or fastened to a mar-
tyr's stake, stiH "goodness and mercy shall
follow me'* wherever I am ; and that not
for a year or two, or for a few years at
most, but for "all the days of my life."
All the day and everyday. This "good-
ness and mercy" is "new every morning,"
and continued all the journey tnrough. He
says, " Fear thou not, for I am mm thee."
And although we do not always realize
this blessed truth, vet we jnay take it as an
assured fact. He has said it, and He can-
not lie. What a source of comfort is here
for the tried believer. Though your way
may now be hedged up ; though Providence
may frown ; though all may be dark around
ana within; though sin and Satan may
assail; though the law may threaten, yet
take comfort, for "Surely goodness and
mercy shall follow me all the days of my
life."

" Did Jesus onoe upon me shine,
Then Jesus is tor ever mine."
Scarborough. S. C.

WOBK IK THE HIGH-WAYS AND HEDGES OF OUR METROPOLIS;

0*.

"THE POWER OF GOD.'*

Som is tha leading title of a book for re-
Tiaw,— ''The P«wer of God; or, the Re-
tmiU of Tluatre Preaching." By WUliam
Cutis. Ptica one ahiUiog. Pabliahed by
Ifayin and Chase, Amm Coiner.

Wa had been reading a part of one of
Jolui Back's aermoBB. xhe following
maUmm pa n t a n e n , descriptiye of a falae and
a Crae mndiifmikm, we felt weighty in-
da«L HaaWva^-.*' 1. What this sancti-
icatinn ia not. It ia not what some affirm,
that whan araan ia eonverted to God, he
««w affcsr k f M f s the oenunandiiDents and
liraa a holy life. The Jewish scribes and
Fhameea wera «f this aort^ and yezy hard
thsj laboured to make conyert& They
enqnaasdaea and land. Snch are Ml of
mU, aa ptond as Satan. They trust in
thanMntwa Ihat they are righteous, and de-
^iMothaa. One criaa ant, * Stand by thy-
iilf 2 eoma not near onto me ; yoa are a
aanar, but I aa rightaons; I am holier
tkan than.' Anoth« aaya, «I thank God
dmi 1 am not aa other nun, no extortioner,
nar eiynat, nor even aa this pnblioan. I
fMi twice ia the weak, and giye alma of all
thai X possicfc' Now I leaUy belieye that
hadidwIiBtheaaid; bntaelf-righteoaaneas
nowr ma be tmtfiMn to Gad, beeanae it

ia diredJj opposite to Jesos Christ; and
such either ignorantly or knowingly con-
front him. Gk>d may and does incline
natural men to do many good outward
things to their fellow-creatures ; and it is a
blessing among men when it is so. But,
reader, this is not oonyersion to God. Sudi
wholly trust in what they do and hsAe
Chnst in heart.

" Again. There is another sort. They
take jMirt of Christ in pretension and part
themaelyes, and such are the Arminiaqs,
or John Wesley^s tribe. These talk about
the blood of Christ and reject His righteous-
ness ; and thus Christ is dirided. They
will tell you that they haye power to come
to Chriat if they will; and so they say
eyazy one has; and some of them haye
boasted of their sinless perfection, that they
haye Uyed without sin twenty and thirty
years together ; but it is a damnable de-
lusion and derogatozy to God's word.
Hence John saj^s, ' If we say that we haye
no sin, we deceiye ouxselyes, and the truth
is not in us.'

" Now, none of these chaxactess eyer
ware oonyerted to Go^ nor is any of this
aanctiilcation ; for it ia at best on\y a £iir
show in the ileth.

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" But there is * third lort Such have a
dear understandiiiff of the troth. Thej
were converted unaer Hr. Whitetield, or
Hr. Bomaine. ' It was/ say they, ' a still,
small voice, nothing alarming. I was drawn
by love ;* and snch slide on for forty years
together, holding &8t their oonfldenoe that
all is ri^t They belong to churches, and
have perhaps been baptism : bnt they never
had tnat teaching which God teaches those
poor ones whom ne taketh out of the dnst
Kothing of all this is real sanctification.
No, it is not Say yon, • Prove it ?* Then
as to the first, God says they are a smoke
in His nose, and Christ said to them, * How
can ye escape the damnation of hell V The
second John tells ns deceive themselves and
are destitute of the troth. But it is those
that have the troth that are called the
righteous nation, which are to enter glory
above. The third class hold the troth in
unrighteousness, and the wrath of God is in
an especial manner revealed asainst such."

John Rusk miffht have added another
sort Men who have had, or think they
have had, a most extraordinary dreadful
work in coming to Jesus; but, this deep
work in them has left a narrowness, a bit-
terness, and a prejudice against all others,
who see not, stand not, ron not, sp^Jc not
exactly as they do ; or, rather, who are not
sanctioned by their bishop, or included in
his list. Among these John Rusk might
find some as iar off from the troe orace of
Christ as those whom he so decidedly con-
demns above.

Self-righteous, or half self-righteous peo-
ple, self-deceived, and creature-deluded
souls must certainly be in a dangerous
"ght But, as John Rusk's sermon and
iliam Carter's theatre preaching book
lay on our study table together, while we
were looking seriously at them both, these
Scriptures came to us with some feeling : —
'Go ye into all the toorldt and ^^each the
Gospel to every creature." Those two
words, " every creature," opened themselves
widely to us — to men of every kind, of
every class, in every place. Then came
that other Scripture, — "Gho ye therefore
into the high-ways, and as many as ye shall

find BID TO THE MASBIAGB." Lukc BSyS,

" The Lord said unto the servant Go out
into the high-ways and hedges, and compel
them to come in, that my house may be
f^." That new song also came to my
mind. In heaven they sing, — "Thou art
worthy to take the book, and to open the
•sals thereof; for Thou wast slain, and
hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood, out
of everjr kindred, and tongue, and people,
and nation.'*

These Scriptures led to the conclusion
that God would em^oy men and means
suited to the ends He designed to accom-
plish, and that to throw contempt on any

part of the Lord's work, to attempt to limit
the Almighty by our own judgment or to
make ouraelves a standard by ^dueh to test
any part of heaven's great plan, is mere
dangerous than we can describe.

In the high-ways and hedges of this
fftllen world, there are millions of immortal
souls. In such places as the New Cut,
Shadwell, Ratdiffe, St GUes's, Somer^a
Town, and other like ^arts, what masses of
the monsters of iniqmfy are to be found.
Does the Bishop of London come down
among them ? He would say he has othee
work to do. Does Dr. Cumming, or any of
the great divines, enter into these fields of
labour? Nay; they will tell you that they
send the city missionaries to such work:
but how muw of it do they do? Some of
our leading men are always talking about a
more refined, a more extensively educated
ministrr. Well ; let them set them : but,
^fter all, the deep dregs of humanity seem
to demand a class of men taken out of their
own ranks, and, if we are not beside our-
selves, tlus kind of work has now the
peculiar reg»rd of the Eternal Spirit Let
any one who can go through our dtr
churches on a Suncby moroing; he will
find them almost empty. Prayers are read
to the Dews ; and the pulpit aisoourses are
listened to by precious few indeed.

Is this because there are no people?
No, indeed ; but because there is cold keep-
ing to ceremonies, which are become al-
most if not quite, lifeless.

William Carter says, — "For years my
heart has yearaed over the masses of this
great metropolis; and in secret I often
prayed that God would open a door for me
to preach the Gospel to the thousands of
the working classes who never go to churdi
or chapel." This book reveals an answer
to Carter's prayers f and as we have read
its details, we have hoped that like the
navvies and pioneers in othw fields, he has
a work to do in instromentally plucking
men as brands from the burning, over
whom Zion will rejoice in days to come.
In " C&EXBIKG WoBDs" foT Jutts, we give
" The Man-of-war's Man Saved in tJk
Theatre." Read it: indeed, we will sa^,
read the book, and remember tiiat if
William Carter holds ten meetinsa Ibr
"rogues, thieves, and vagabonds,'* that
these men have souls as well as the prim
and pious people ; and if he is instrumental
in gathering multitudes of these wretched
men together, and if he preaches Jesoa
Christ unto them, and if the Lord (through
Carter's preaching) really saves some, a
glorious end is answered. We never hear
a man preaching in the streete, we never
see announcements of theatre preaching,
but we rejoice in the hope that God, of Bm
infinite mercy, will thereby call in not a
few of His own redeemed ones. Amen.

Jmtl^im,

THX lABTHIN YI8SSL.

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JEHOVAH, THE SALVATION OF HIS PEOPLE.

Bt F. Shaw, Baiti0t HiKismt, Oocold, Suffolk.
(Condoded from page 82.)

•• Behold 1 Ood ii my alTation.*'— Isaiam xii. 9.

IL Now to the soeond part of our subject,
riz., if God be our salystioii (as He most
certainly isX now cajob it about?

1, I abaU reply in the negatiye, and,
ftnt, it is not because we deserved Him.
Who dare saj we had deserved Grod to be
oar salvation ? We deserved not sal^tion
from any quarter, inasmuch as we wilfully
sinned, and ran ourselves into great dis-
tress and danger. It is Ood that we have
sinned against, and justly merited destruc-
tion from Him, and never salvation.
Secondly, God is not our salvaUon because
we desired Him; for it may be said of us'
as it was of some of old, — " brael would
MOM of sie," and if left to ourselves at
present, might we not soon be justly re-
proached thus: — ** Mypeppiekave/orffotUn
mef Tes, if left to ourselves even now,
we should not only cease to desire God,
but should aetaally forget Him, even after
having received so many benefits from
Him: so, dien, "it is not of kim that
wilktk, nor of him that runneth ;'* neither
oar wiUs nor our striving are the cause of
God*s being our salvation, but,—

2. In tliS aifirmative I answer, God is
oar salvation of His own sovxsbxgn will
and good PLKAsuas, which makes it far
more sweet and precious. As He made us,
so also He saved us. Very expressive is
the lan