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IN MEMORIAM.

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I often saw him for a few minutes during his protracted illness, and always found him rejoicing in hope of the glory of God. One day I said to him, his wife propping up his pillow," Mr. P., if a man live a hundred years, and rejoice in them all, let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many."

He turned upon me his still bright eye, and replied, "Darkness! I don't know how about that; I am sore troubled. But as for darkness, there has been nothing here but light since the day I was first laid up. Yes, light and peace, such as I never felt in the world. And let me tell you, I would not exchange conditions with one of you, or any one upon earth."

Telling him one day not to speak, for it was painful to witness how it distressed him, "Speak!" said he; "while there is life in me, I will never cease to speak of the goodness of God to me a sinner."

Mr. Pike was an elder in the English Presbyterian Church, Tweedmouth. The deceased was a hard-working man at his business, as a mason, and a hearty worker in the affairs of the Church. He was of quaint manners and fine athletic form, and he carried his religious and total abstinence principles along with him into the world, and among his fellow-workmen, where he cheerfully faced the foul and scornful epithets that were freely discharged at him. One of the most abusive of his companions came to see him on his death-bed, where, taking out his handkerchief, he hid his face and sobbed like a child, while his old mate, tossing with pain, kindly reasoned with him on temperance, righteousness, and judg-"Yes, ment to come."

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"In the midst of life we are in death." The subject of these remarks was cut down in his strength and usefulness. He had been

engaged on a building at a little distance from his home, where, being taken suddenly ill, he left work and with difficulty staggered

Asking him whether he remembered the spot in the new cemetery which I had marked out to lay my bones in, and where I soon expected to be laid under the turf, and remarking on the dispensation which had summoned him away first, he said,

recollect distinctly how I thought

at that time. But no cemetery can hold this spirit." And stretching out his once brawny, but now shrivelled arm, at its full length, and pointing his forefinger to the hills from whence came his aid, " Meet me," he said, "meet me yonder."

"Satan," he said at another time, "has never been permitted to buffet me with any distrust in the mercy, the word, and the promise of God.

"I know that safe with Him remains, Protected by His power," " &c., repeating the verses from beginning to end, laying particular emphasis on the two last lines of the fine paraphrase. "I am on the After a few days I went to see him, and brink of eternity, and perfectly satisfied that found him, though suffering greatly, trust-I cannot be deceiving myself with a false ing with unshaken confidence in the mercy of God.

home.

"Oh," said he, one day, "you know not how much I suffer. Talk of a death-bed repentance, what would have been my condition now, distracted with pain and restlessness? But I know whom I have believed, and this is the rock on which I build"-clenching a Bible which he had in his hand. "He has gone to prepare a place for me, and will take me to Himself, where I shall see Him as He is, and be like Him

hope, and that Satan cannot be deceiving
me by causing me to believe a lie."
The crisis came at last, when-

"Oh, change, stupendous change;
There lay the soulless clod!"
But its late tenant-where ? Gone, we
may well believe, to a city that hath founda-
tions, where there shall in no wise enter any-
thing that defileth, and where the inhabitant
shall not say, "I am sick," for the people
who dwell there are forgiven, and freed from
their iniquity.

DEATH AND FUNERAL OF MATAMOROS.

It is our painful duty to announce the death at Lausanne, on the 31st of July, of Don Manuel Matamoros, in the 31st year of his age. The following letter from M. Dupraz, pastor at Lausanne, gives some details of this sad event :

"A procession of great length and variety yesterday traversed the streets of Lausanne. Following the coffin came the young people and children, who wept as they would have wept over the loss of a father. Amongst the crowd itself many hearts were sad. Nevertheless, it was a foreigner whose mortal remains were being attended to the grave; but a noble foreigner, who had just died in the flower of his age, an exile from his country, and a martyr to his faithManuel Matamoros.

"At the brink of the grave, Pastor Bridel, in a touching address, related the events of the latter part of the life of the deceased-a life so short, and yet so replete with incident. Converted in 1859, as the result of a sermon which he heard at Gibraltar, Matamoros was thrown into prison the next year. He had, as we know, to suffer in every possible way, in the dungeons of that unhappy country, which, in the middle of the nineteenth century, would revive the mediæval age and its intolerance. His deliverance was due, under God, to the efforts of the Evangelical Alliance and of the noble deputation presided over by M. Adrien Naville. But the prison doors opened only to banish Matamoros to a foreign land, far from that Spanish country which he loved so tenderly, and was never to behold again.

Broken in his constitution by his trials and privations, our brother, nevertheless,

After

relaxed nothing of his zeal. It seemed that, in proportion as his powers declined, his craving for activity increased. several visits to the South, necessitated by his state of ill-health, Matamoros returned, in the early spring, to Switzerland. He had at Lausanne several devoted friends. Hundreds of persons heard him, at the end of May, with lively interest, address the Synod of Morges, on the evangelization of Spain. On the 3rd July he also engaged in prayer in a numerous assembly of his friends; but already, at this moment, the marks of death were visible upon his worn features. For a fortnight his end was daily expected. Our friend knew it. He bade an affecting farewell to that little group of Spaniards, to whom he was as a father, and who constantly surrounded him. If he did not desire to depart with that ardour which is sometimes witnessed, neither did he fear to bid adieu to earth. "What sentence will you engrave upon my tomb?" said he one day to those who surrounded him. "Choose one for yourself," was the reply. After some moments' reflection, he replied, "For me to live is Christ, and But he could not finish; his strength failed him. "To die is gain," added his nearest friend. "That is it, that is it," replied the dying man.

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Yes, death to him was gain. Persecuted for his faith, misjudged, on many occasions, even by Christians, always a sufferer, he experienced many trials calculated to rend a sensitive heart. But now he has entered into the rest of the people of God, and it is no longer in the power of men to close upon the exile the gates of his own true country. Evangelical Christendom.

THT LATE REV. DR. EDGAR.

THE death of the Rev. Dr. Edgar has created a deep sensation through the length and breadth of the Presbyterian Church. He had almost reached his seventieth year, with vital and intellectual force unimpaired. His plain, homely countenance, his goodhumoured brusquerie of manner, and his disregard of petty conventionalities, are all familiar to the large world of his acquaintance. He was born near Ballinahuich, in County Down-the scene of one of the rebel battles of 1798-in the year before the battle, and succeeded his father, an old Secession minister, in the Professorship of Theology in connection with the Secession Synod. At the union of the Secession Synod and Synod of Ulster in 1840, he became joint Professor with Dr. Hanna (father of the

Rev. Dr. Hanna, of Edinburgh), and after his colleague's death he performed all the duties of the chair alone till the last winter of his life. He was a very respectable Professor, but the great work of his life lay altogether outside his class-rooms. His reputation is not at all professorial, and he wrote no book upon theology, nor, indeed, upon any other subject, though he published hundreds of pamphlets, tracts, and letters. His students have a very clear recollection of his astonishing memory. peat, word for word, on Monday morning, whole passages of a student's discourse that he had heard on Saturday previous. He had, besides, whole volumes of the best popular poetry in his head. Driving on a dreary day through the dreary bogs of Con

He could re

naught, in an Irish jaunting car, he would while away the hours by repeating the "Lady of the Lake" from end to end, or some other of Scott's poems. His criticisms on students' discourses were often very severe. A very ambitious, but unequal, performance was set down with-" He soared like an eagle and drooped like a goose." He used to remind such of his students as were likely to make too much of a text, and "bolt it to the very brim," of the minister who, in preaching on "Behold the Lamb of God," took care to show, in the sixth place, "that lamb's wool was good for making stockings." He was not, however, so incisive or laconic as good old Archibald Alexander, of Princeton, who disposed of a grandiloquent discourse on the creation with the words-" It don't beat Moses."

The name of the Rev. Henry Wallace, of Derry, appears in a published list, but, I am quite sure, without sufficient grounds. It is well known that, but for a slight defect of hearing, Mr. Wallace would be the object of the all but unanimous choice of the Assembly; for he is possessed of a most metaphysical mind, which has been rarely disciplined by years of study, and displays a most complete mastery of all the great questions at present in discussion between the evangelical and broad schools of theological thought. But Mr. Wallace is not a candidate. The most promising candidate is the Rev. Dr. Robert Watts, of Dublin, a comparatively young minister, who was trained in Princeton, and was the foremost theological student of his time in the class of Dr. Hodge. He has contributed several Dr. Edgar was connected with every great very able articles to the Princeton Review, and important religious and philanthropic one of which, on Barnes' Treatise on the movement in Ulster for the last forty years Atonement, was published in the British -which represents, indeed, the period of the and Foreign Evangelical Review for revived evangelism. He was the apostle of January, 1860. He is the "R. W." who temperance in Ireland before Father writes the article on "Bushnell's Vicarious Mathew. He was the founder of the Sacrifice" in the last number of the same Belfast Penitentiary for Fallen Women, and Review. He has many qualifications for one of the most active promoters of the the chair-his youth, his academic habits, Deaf and Dumb Institution. His labours his rare grounding in Hebrew and Greek in Connaught-religious, missionary, educa- literature. The other candidates, whose tional, and industrial-why should I speak names have been published, though without of them? His latest work was the raising their authority, are the Rev. James Killen, of £20,000 for churches, manses, and of Comber, the author of "Our Friends in schools. He worked on to the last. As Heaven," who is the brother of Professor Andrew Fuller said of himself, so we may Killen, of the Church History Chair; the say of Dr. Edgar-"He had a large portion Rev. John Rogers, of Comber, ex-Moderaof being." He professed his strong assur-tor; and the Rev. D. Wilson, of Limerick, ance of God's mercy before his death, and the present Moderator. A few weeks will his last words were-" The Rock that is decide the question. higher than I." He was a man of great sensibility and affectionateness, rich in all the elements of human feeling and moral aspiration, and with an overflowing geniality and humour that ministered to his own strength and usefulness.

It has been resolved to hold a special meeting of the Assembly on the 3rd of October to elect a Professor in the Doctor's room. Some complaints have been made of the alleged precipitancy of this measure, as it might be better to defer the appointment till June, the regular time of meeting. There are several candidates in the field.

Since I wrote the above, I observe by the Derry Standard that in many quarters a strong desire has been expressed that the Rev. Henry Wallace should allow his name to be placed in the list of candidates, and at a meeting of ministers from numerous districts, on Monday last, resolutions to this effect, we understand, were unanimously agreed to. It is my belief that, if Mr. Wallace should consent to offer himself, his election is almost certain. However, I see his named signed to a requisition, asking Dr. Watts to allow himself to be put in nomination of the office.—Edinburgh Daily Review.

RELIGIOUS REVIVAL AT CUMBERNAULD AND KILSYTH. A CORRESPONDENT of the Watchman ness manifested itself among the people. writes as follows:-"At a small village After preaching in the open air, they ad(Cumbernauld) about four miles distant from Kilsyth, a few laymen began to conduct religious services in the open air; and, after preaching a few nights, great numbers flocked to hear them, and a spirit of earnest

journed the meetings to a large scholroom, where they preached and prayed; and, under the blessing of God, their efforts proved instrumental in the conversion of many souls. The congregations continued

to increase, and it was found necessary to gregation divided into two bodies, one open the largest church in the place. For of which went to each chapel, where nine weeks past a great work has been numbers were truly converted to God. It is going on, and that village, long destitute of gratifying to be enabled to state that the evangelical religion, is completely changed. Methodists at once put themselves at the Almost every house is a house of prayer, and head of the movement, and have worked the people manifest the deepest earnestness well during the whole time. Our chapel regarding spiritual things. In order to has been open every evening for more than assist in the good work, some of the Metho- three weeks, and on several occasions it has dists here went over for several nights, and, been crowded to excess, and hundreds have being anxious that the awakening should ex- been obliged to stand outside. The work tend to Kilsyth, they invited the laymen to continues so to increase, that there are now come here and preach. A lay gentleman services held every evening in five churches, came about four weeks ago, and preached to which are all well attended. Another grati a very large congregation in the Market fying feature of the work is, that it is not Place. A spirit of hearing at once was confined to Kilsyth and Cumbernauld alone, manifest, and they adjourned to the Congre- but has spread all over the country for gational chapel, where the Spirit of God about eight miles round. In the coalpits, rested upon them, and numbers were instead of fighting and swearing, the aroused, and anxiously inquired the way of miners are reading the Bible and praying. salvation. Meetings were held in the All over the country there is a visible same place every evening following, and change, and hundreds who never entered a great good was done. The work gradually church before are now walking miles in progressed, the congregations grew larger, order to worship God with the public conthe people became earnest, and they were gregation. Altogether, it is a marvellous obliged to open the Wesleyan chapel. Re- work, and the most sceptical have been conligious services were conducted in the open strained to acknowledge that it is truly the air every evening, after which the con- work of the Lord."

POPISH DEVELOPMENT IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. THE Association for Promoting the Unity | fume of the incense, with the smoke of of Christendom have had a field-day in some which the edifice was filled, produced on the of the London churches. The object of this uninitiated visitors a suffocating sensation, association, as stated in a prospectus issued but which gradually abated as they became by its executive, is "to unite in a bond of inured to it. The altar was richly decointercessory prayer members of both the rated with white and crimson and other clergy and laity of the Roman Catholic, coloured drapery, and two tall wax candles Greek, and Anglican communions," and its were burning, one on either side. A large promoters selected the Roman Catholie gilt crucifix formed the centre object, and Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary for there was a species of canopy in front, under their demonstration. If the services of St. which was what appeared to be the usual Ethelburga, Bishopsgate Street-a rectory representation of the "Host," as seen in in the gift of the Bishop of London-may Roman Catholic chapels and churches. be accepted as representative in their cha- There were also on the table a chalice and racter, Ritualism has now reached its highest certain missals used in the administration of development. The rectory is of the value the Eucharist. In front of the altar, with of £1,050 per annum, and is held by the their backs to the congregation, knelt three Rev. J. M. Rodwell. No Protestant (writes- priests, the one in the centre, a remarkably a correspondent) who entered this sacred large man with bald head, wearing a robe of edifice to witness and to hear the "special white lined with crimson, on the back and service" and sermon on the occasion could front of which were emblasoned in gold have been otherwise impressed than with the large crosses. The priests on either side conviction that he had made a grand mis- wore white surplices. The prayers were take, and had entered a Roman Catholic intoned by the centre priest, who was, it chapel instead of a parochial edifice dedi- appears, the "Protestant" rector of St. cated to the worship of God in accordance Ethelburga, the Rev. J. M. Rodwell, and with the ritual of the service of the Reformed during the progress the censers were swung Church of England. The congregation about vigorously, and handed from acolyte consisted of some thirty people, chiefly to acolyte, and at one time to the rev. rector females, who were distributed loosely about himself, who distributed it over the church. in open seats in the nave of the church. At the conclusion of this portion of the serThe chancel was, however, filled with sur- vice, the priest who had knelt on the right pliced choristers and acolytes, and the per- of the altar having made genuflexion, moved

down the chancel, preceded by an acolyte holding aloft a gilt cross, which he fixed in front of the pulpit as it was ascended by the priest, the Rev. F. G. Lee. A chant by the choir accompanied these proceedings, which having concluded, the Rev. Mr. Lee took his text from the 37th chapter of the Book of Ezekiel, 24th verse, "And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes and do them."

The preacher drew conclusions from this text favourable to the views of the association he represents, and he appealed to all who lamented divisions among Christians to look forward for their healing, mainly to a corporate reunion of those three great bodies, the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican Churches, which claimed for themselves the inheritance of the priesthood and the name of Catholic.

The rest of the proceedings were conducted on the model of the Roman Catholic Church; and an old woman tolled a bell to heighten the effect. The chief priest at one time held up something over his head in the manner of elevating the "Host," as in Roman Catholic places of worship, at which the regular attendants bowed their heads. After the benediction had been intoned, the organ played, and a procession was formed, the acolytes, choristers, and priests chanting, the last being the rector of St. Ethelburga, carrying aloft a square box-looking thing with a satin cover, and as he passed down the chancel to the vestry the initiated bowed, and the special service terminated. With regard to the congregation, meagre as

it was, there were amongst them one or two Roman Catholic priests, and most of the people as they entered the door crossed themselves in the Roman Catholic style, the only feature absent being the fonts, or receptacles for "holy" water. There were some few persons present who gave unmistakeable evidence of their repugnance to the proceedings, and who, in their whisperings of astonishment, were called to order by the woman who tolled the bell. One young man at the conclusion loudly denounced the whole proceeding as disgraceful in a Protestant Church of England, and was told by one of the ancolytes that he had no business there. On making inquiries of the churchwardens, it was ascertained that the proceedings at this church are utterly at variance with the feelings of the parishioners, and that when Mr. Rodwell was nominated to the incumbency at the instance of the parish, it was on the ground that he was a thorough evangelical member of the Church of England. The parishioners have entirely deserted the church, and go to other places of worship, while the congregation are chiefly Roman Catholics connected with Moorfields Catholic Chapel. One of the churchwardens says it often happens that when compelled by his duty to be present, he was the only parishioner in the church. Appeals have been from time to time made to the Bishop of London to stop the proceedings, but it is supposed he has no power. On a recent occasion of high festival it is stated that a large number of the banners and emblems used in the church were borrowed from a neighbouring Roman Catholic chapel.-Weekly Review.

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