tore christianity, then, to its | efficiency and glory, let the ty of Christ's kingdom be gnized. Let the composition, ent, and action of christian show that his kingdom is not world. As to civil patronage e interference, let lords and s neither bless them nor curse t let them alone. Let the the Lord have free course. sters of Christ be content to the lot, and do the work hrist assigned them. Let ase to teach for doctrines the dments of men. Let them the great truth that man, porn of a saint, is a child of ven as others, and must be born again: that Christ is a Saviour from sin, not in it; and that without holiness no man shall see the Lord. Let the ordinances be kept to their true expression, as signs of grace received and salvation secured by the believer; not the means of conferring it. Let the churches demand of every applicant for admission, evidence of decided consecration to Christ; and sever from their connection all who dishonour the christian name. Then, and not till then, shall christianity "look forth as the morning; then shall her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burneth." Elgin, Scotland. Spiritual Cabinet. DLIKE FAITH.- I learned | myself in the doctrine of election. just take the scriptures with When the apostles exhort me to relicity of a little child, and be pentance and obedience, and indicate to receive on God's testimony my freedom of choice and action, I has revealed, whether I can give myself up to that side of the all the difficulties that may question. For this disposition of mind c or not. I feel that I cannot I have unbounded reason to be thankplain how it is that I move a ful to God, for I have not only avoided nd therefore I am content to many perplexities by means of it, but rant of innumerable things actually learned much which I should exceed not only my wisdom, otherwise not have learned. I was not wisdom of the most learned then aware that this simple exercise of the universe. I call myself faith is the only way of attaining divine a predestinarian nor an anti- knowledge, but I now see it is so. marian, but I commit myself Charles Simeon. aching of the inspired writing, CHILDLIKE DOCILITY. Surely r complexion it may assume. on every principle of philosophy, there beginning of my enquiries, I cannot be named a territory of thought myself I am a fool; of that I where the humble diffidence and doe certain. One thing I know cility of little children are more impely, that in religion, of myself riously called for. When we think of nothing. I do not, therefore, the eternity before, and the still more to the perusal of the scriptures baffling mystery of the eternity behind r to impose a sense on the in-us; when we think of the wondrous writers, but to receive one as God who unites both, and compreve it me. I pretend not to hends both; when we think of the hem, I wish like a child to be universe on which He sits enthroned, hu thom When I come to stretching for hovond the ken of human of the law, are contra religion, aud inimical ment in the soul. christian will avoid al of temptation; and w soon become vain and him who delights in s THE DAY OF CHR rejoiced to see Chris saw it through the di tance of two thousan prophets were doubtl believing, and magnif cerning, "the glory to but they saw not as separate ray merged centre; every type and fulfilled in "the Lamb single and scattered li in the person of Chris they had, but not like sun shining in its stre complete in every link fect in every part. It that steady light, whi rays backward, illumine Revelation to Genesis, man to read the mind of out the past, and there the future. They had forth crucified before th mystery which explains MODERATE DESIR beast that has two or th to graze on better fed tha that sips on dew and ma upon what falls every the storehouses of heaven quench his thirst better tain when it is nicely pave than when it swells ov turf? He that propoun things greater than hi needs, and is discontented when he fails to secure not to abuse Providence, fortune, but his folly. G made no more needs tha to satisfy; and he that w must look for satisfasti can. Having food and us learn therewith to be Jeren Buetry. ADAM DESCRIBING PARADISE TO ABEL. onder valley in the distance, of dest from out the ground his Maker; lifeless until his nostrils the breath of life, ell thee, child, what first we felt of existence? All around, -eneath, seem'd full of God. sun, and stars, and flowers; uts; in birds, and beasis, and fish; gs, and light-winged insect tribes; hat moved, and in those things we beheld, as in a lake Hed, the fall face of God. made not our happiness: igh heaven, oft sent down as our visitants; close of day, we sawnk behind the mountain tops y fleecy cloud with goldards us a fair troop of them, the distance, to our eye, se golden-tinged clouds convey us on a journey Up to the courts of heaven. On they came, And as they near approach'd, their outspread wings, But this to us was not so wonderful, As when the Lord himself came down to hold When we were conscious of his awful presence; 'T was in the cool of day that he would come, Than I can bear to thee, much as I love thee. Against temptation. And when he left off talking Reviews. Explained and Exposed. By | to hear that any foolery could find folBurns, baptist minister, Sal- lowers in America, where that " curse ndon: Houlston and Stoneman. of the civilized world,” slavery, can find here, we would express our abettors; for foolishness and wickedness meeting with the name of are generally found in company. But friend in print, though it we never expected to hear, we confess a humble form, and on no it with sorrow and shame, that in four bject. We hope to meet with years as many as 50,000 converts were s to come on a broader and made in England alone to this contempng platform, where his dialec- tible imposture; and that 17,000 of ay appear to greater and more these had emigrated to Western America. antage. How are we to account for this strange ism, we have always regarded infatuation? We believe that to a great extent it may be traced to physical causes to our overcrowded population, and the want of employment with adequate remuneration. To such the tempting offers of the Mormonite preachers for them to go and settle down where onster of such frightful mien, be hated needs but to be seen," ore we have scarcely ever ret in our pages, under the imat our sober-thinking country I never love be fascineted buz there was abundance of land and food almost irresistible. Be this as it may, 1. Glimpses of the Christian Life-a THE first of these discourses was delivered on occasion of the sudden departure of Mr. John Rogers, of Foots' Cray, Kent, deacon of the baptist church there, superintendent of the sabbath school, and a zealous advocate of education and temperance. The text chosen (Rom. xiv. 7-9) was appropriate, and the remarks which follow are of a useful and impressive character. The second is a warm-hearted appeal from the wellknown invitation, which though uttered by an ancient seer, (Isaiah lv. 1) is peculiarly adapted to the gospel system with all its fulness of rich spiritual blessings. The Rose Bud; a Christian Gift to the THIS is a literary Rose-bud, and we How to make Money. By a Tradesman. YOUNG persons setting out in life, need Wellington and Uncle of this world contras in Jesus Christ. first, and the first Simpkin, Marshall, WHEN we opened the taining the copy of the now before us, and gla we could not but smil ciation-" Wellington However, when we ca so it was, that during past year, "Wellington were in every one's th these two heroes, ludicr seem on the face of i public attention. It i fact might lead the wri two eminent characters this as it may he has d to the advantage of patient negro, as the titl Those, however, who w what propriety the grea poor slave may be place tion, may do so by only smallest current silver c The dedication to Mrs. S ing with the title :-"To Stowe, a woman belov who has fulfilled towar trodden humanity, the angel, these pages are lo by the author." Adonibezek: or the An Whittaker; and 169, THE writer of this book tells us that "a feeble made to call the attentio ful community to the scr many of the ways of providence, and grace, a of our sight; hence to unreasonable to expect state of existence) eithe word, or so to systemati that they shall in every I festly coincide with that A Catechism of English Lady. London: Houls THIS Grammar Catechis upon a very simple plan in words easy to be under of families who are disp or question their own o elements of grammar, wo useful assistant; and it duced with propriotu. in Correspondence. itor of the Baptist Reporter. aring a sojourn at Hathers county, a copy of the Bapr for this month was handed my attention was called to headed, "The Baptist"-his ntiquity, which was evidently ickle the ears of your general not to be discussed by any s studied the history of the Owever, should you be so o publish the following rewill thereby give the writer le an opportunity of attemptfication of his assertions by them. He has so perverted onnected with the history of and of the sect to which he ongs, that a mere tyro in al and civil history might I only intended to reply to ent respecting the foundation nch of the Apostolic Church s in this country, but I may il myself of the opportunity few remarks on some other e above-named article. ng the true mode and time of ng baptism, I shall say but subject having been so ably the doctrine and practice of of England so ably defended ess works of the present and enerations. I would just menhe Church of England authoeven commands immersion, ccording to her prayer-book, is only the exception and not tself; but in the absence of riptural direction, the church e matter open to choice. Inadmitted into the christian baptism, upon the same conon which God himself required church by circumcision; for, if our infants are not to partake of the privileges of the church, then are they, under the new dispensation, worse off than those under the Jewish. Moreover, Christ, in his institution of the sacrament, said not "Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing" the adults "in the name," &c. but "teach (make disciples of) all nations, baptizing them," &c. Do not infants and young children constitute a part, even the major part of all nations ? The writer states, too, that it was "about the beginning of the third century that the primitive practice of baptizing believers was corrupted, and infants were admitted to that ordinance." But that infant baptism was known and practiced in the church in the second century may be seen in the writings of Ireneus; and Tertullian, who flourished about A. D. 200, saying that baptism might as well be delayed in some particular instances, shews plainly that infant baptism was carried out by the church in his days. And Augustine argues against the Pelagians on the ground of its immemorial use. In A. D. 253, only the middle of the third century, a council of sixty-six bishops assembled at Carthage to consider, not whether infants should be baptized at all, but whether or not they ought to be received into the church, by baptism, before the eighth day after their birth. Thus infant baptism was not now begun to be instituted, but had spread itself over at least sixty-six African dioceses, and was certainly recognized in Gaul, and that within about 150 years after the death of St. John. It is impossible to imagine how, in those days, when persons and news travelled not as now, with railroad and lightning speed, a practice not received from the apostles and by them planted in the different countries, should have thus extensively spread itself. The writer argues that his sect ought not to be called Anabaptists, "because," says he, "we hold that such persons (those who have been baptized by the Church of England for instance) have never been baptized at all;" but then we, members of the Church of England, be |