spired. These teachings are They are intelligible to all. ■n depends on our hearing and the word of Christ; and we 11 efforts to divert us from and his truth, and to bend us formity with human opinions, - and standards.

ve thus glanced at one or two n which it is a source of pain at we differ from those we love nor. And now, having stated nets, I appeal to you, if they - the doctrines of the Reformad of the Word of God?

early date, while traversing this continent, and (to use Whitfield's expression), 'ranging' through this new field.

The principles of the Baptists have triumphed over men's minds (as they have vanquished the prejudices of the candidate now before you) by the mere, sheer, down-right force of truth. Before our glorious revolution these great principles won comparatively few trophies. Men's minds and consciences felt the blight of tyranny, foreign and domestic. But no sooner was that sublime emancipation achiev

ow we are, in this State, a feebleed, than the doctrines for which we

and have to conterd against odds. But no opposition can me when I feel the rocky ch of the foundation on which I In Europe, where the human s crushed and its free thoughts error may triumph; but in -untry our principles need only own, require only to be vindicaom misapprehension and misentation, and they must prevail. ish I had time to speak of the of our principles in these d States. It is a most instruchapter in history, and is yet to itten. The diffusion of other hes in this country is not sur- Yes, unknown and feeble are we g. Most of these bodies were here, but unknown and feeble we shall ished by colonization. New not long remain. I discover tokens and was settled by Congrega- of another and a better day. Lord ists, New York and New Jersey Bacon says that if we would anticiPresbyterians, Pennsylvania by pate the character of a nation twenty ers, Maryland by the Roman years to come, we must examine the olics, Virginia by the Episco- character of young men from sixteen ns. All the other churches owe to twenty years of age.' I apply to emigration. The Baptists this truth to religion, and I bless God co this source of increase almost for the prophecy and promise with ng at all. which it cheers me. I see around me now a multitude of young men of that prophetic age. Sabbath after Sabbath my ministry is honored by hundreds of such young men. And in them do I behold Sabbath after Sabbath, what I read in their countenances now a determination to think for themselves, a noble resolution to be no longer merged in others,

and from that hour the triumphs of contend awoke echoes in every quarter, truth and Bible Christianity have been most wonderful. Nor will those triumphs ever cease. Opposition and hostility will only kindle this inquiry; and free inquiry must insure us success. I am to-day standing here, the humble representative of a small body in your midst, and I am telling you who we are. Go into many parts of this Republic, and some of you would have to explain to the Baptists who you are. All over this vast Empire, Maryland excepted, the Baptists are numbered by tens and hundreds of thousands.

or have they, like our Methodist aren, thriven and multiplied by missionary campaigns, extending the whole of this land while these es were yet colonies. I bless that he has given me a heart h delights to honour all that is e in every Christian people. And Le were the efforts and sacrifices

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no more he swent away by the torrent

but to assert their own dignity, to rise
above the thraldom of hereditary
sanctities, and heroically to act from
an inward spring, listening only to
the voice of truth and conscience.
I see this to-day, I see it every day
in many noble-souled young men in
our city. I see them resolved to be
free free to search the Bible, to
think, to act for themselves, and with
jealousy to protect themselves in the
enjoyment of the only liberty deserving
the name.

'A liberty unsung

By poets, and by senators unpraised,
But liberty of soul, derived from Him,
Bought with His blood, who gave it to mankind,
And sealed with the same tokens.'

All this I see, and and take courage. I My soul stands erect, ward to the period fa when my voice per hushed, and my body in the grave, but wh emerge from the obsc obloquy and persecutio depressed her, and sha own might and majes fallen world with tor never be hushed, wh deep into men's hearts, with quenchless love Jesus and his glorious

TENT-PREACHING IN SCOTLAND.

MUCH of the Covenanting spirit of devout earnestness is gone from the Scottish character; but it is not yet too late to behold at least the skirts of its departing glory. The practice of tent-preaching which till lately prevailed, was one of the most striking of these remains. That this was sometimes abused we know from Burns' Holy Fair, as well as from other sources, to be an unquestionable fact; but the abuse was almost entirely confined to the neighbourhood of great cities. At all events, amid the peaceful solitudes of Perthshire we never witnessed aught but what was reverent, interesting, and even imposing. The use of the tent was latterly confined to the summer sacra

ment.

It is a bright sabbath morning in the end of June, or the beginning of July-a little before eleven; crowds are seen approaching from all directions to a tent made of wood, painted blue, and set in a field hard by the murmuring Earn, which a little below is joined by another mountain-stream. The scene around is magnificent. To the west, stand up a chain of bold precipitous mountains, black in winter, but now in this summer-day clothed with the freshest green which ferns

the south, beyond the plain expands till bo distance of two miles by of hills, which close t confine the prospect. river pursues its course low wooded fells, thro finds a narrow passa broader strath which e Tay. On the north i and behind it a glorious with woods and surm monumental pillar, whic bare rock above them. warm, but a tree or under which some of find a shelter, and a cool the stream passes ev across their countenance them with delicious refre crowd is scarcely less int the scenery. It is con of the villagers and partl and country-folks. You keen, hard-featured face and shoemakers, and th and ruddy countenances men. Not a few aged m wearing broad blue bonn silvery hairs. Some shep are to be seen; and, her you see a mountaineer kilt of his fathers. Old

ets.

Blooming virgins, too, with modesty and beauty together under the shadow of imple head-gear. Children the outskirts of the assembly, a the dyke dividing the field e river; and lo! there is one o is sitting apart from all the nd is musing with half-shut eye with the shadow of a tree screening him from the r-heat. Many of the multitude me from distant parts of the 7, over "muirs and mosses to join in the solemnities of ; that little company of men men have risen early from the of Loch-Earn, have been first tent, and shall remain till the appear trembling over the hill Hills. The service at last The preacher mounts the He is a man apparently of nd upwards—his hair is a sable, silvered-his brow is lofty, his as once been almost handsome, still manly and bold; in stature proaches six feet, and age has et prevailed to bend his erect - His eye is quick, eager, and ss; earnest simplicity pervades hole aspect. He gives out the in a clear strong voice, which afar "like a trumpet with a sound." The voice of the multhen arises, swells, sinks, dies ; but how melodiously has it ed the solitude and awakened choes of the hills! He prays, is prayer is fervid and powerful. announces as his text, "They Long ere summer has revolved, his of the decease that he was to ac-manly form is to be consigned to lish at Jerusalem;" and straight- yonder grave-yard on the west, which the minds of the large throng are surrounds the parish-church with its ported to the top of Tabor-a spire. The sunshine of October is to Er hill than any in sight-and look in upon his death-bed-his dying hearts begin to burn within them eye is to rest upon the autumn stubble ey see their Lord talking to the stial Messengers on that memortransfiguration morn, and talking of heaven's splendours but of ary's death! The preacher is not ginative in thought, or refined in uage; but he is in earnest: he is

possessed, moreover, of true natural eloquence; and as his voice rises with his subject, and his eye kindles, every heart in the audience is hushed, and not a few tears are seen stealing down the cheeks of both young and old. Now he quotes a few lines of poetry; and now he tells some interesting or plaintive anecdote, and their attention is still faster rivetted. Byand-bye his earnestness becomes overwhelming in its intensity, he has seized the two-edged sword of appeal, and is wielding it with a giant's arm. He alludes to their privileges: he contrasts that peaceful field-meeting with those of their forefathers in the days of the Covenant. "You have no arms in your hands- there are no watchmen posted on these silent hills. How great should be your gratitude!" Ere finishing, as if from an irresistible impulse, he takes occasion to enumerate the years of his own ministry; to allude to the tent-preachings of the past on that same spot; to speak of those who once worshipped there, but who were now in a better world; and to talk of death as impending over his auditors and himself. He closes, and a thousand loosened breasts return him the truest applause. His word has been prophetic. Never more shall he preach at that tent. Never more shall he there see the June sun, hear the murmur of that silver Earn, on the sacramental sabbath-day, or behold the thick daisies of that green sward where

"You scarce can see the grass for flowers."

-the fallen leaves are to play upon his grave-and that dreamy-eyed boy under the tree, is to awake one awful morning, and to encounter almost the bitterness of death as he feels himself Fatherless! Gilfillan.