a blush of shame: if you can acquit our Christian community, or convince us unto repentance, of such sin as this, we may keep safely our jewels and our gold, till we leave them for the crystal pavement of the eternal city, and pass her gates of pearl.

One other consideration remains-there must be an apparent, as well as a real difference between the people of God and the people of the world. We are commanded to "let our moderation be known unto all men," to let it be seen of man, as well as of God, that we renounce the pomps and vanities of the world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh, Moderation and simplicity in leaving or in using, may equally characterize the Christian walk, and set upon the disciples of Jesus a distinguishable mark. Less splendour, less ornament, less luxury, less ceremony, and less expence than is customary among persons of equal fortune and similar condition, will ever be the manifestation of a mind renewed, and a heart detached from earth, freed from bondage, and afraid of sin. "What have they seen in thy house?" is an inquiry we must be prepared to meet. I cannot further pursue the subject, and I the less desire to do so, in that, notwithstanding the regret I sometimes hear expressed upon this point, as far as my own observation extends, I think such a moderation is more or less perceptible in every religious house.

G. E. M.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHRISTIAN
LADY'S MAGAZINE.

MADAM,

I CAN well imagine the Irish veins of your English heart, hailing with peculiar delight the proposal which has recently appeared in the Dublin Record' newspaper, that a public and substantial proof should be given to the Rev. R. M'Ghee and the Rev. Mortimer O'Sullivan, of the approval of their able advocacy of Protestant principles, and of their faithful exposure of the doctrines and practices of the church of Rome.

The great interest you take in this important cause, and your just admiration of its zealous support by these powerful instruments in the Lord's hands would lead you to respond with sincere pleasure, to this design, both as expressive of individual gratitude to these distinguished champions of our faith, and of public demonstration of acquiescence in the great object of their pursuit.

To bear decided testimony to gratitude, deeply felt, in return for public and private benefit, should indeed be esteemed a high privilege. But then, does not the best mode of effecting this, deserve consideration? Where the glory of God is the end aimed at, would not the additional furtherance of that glory be the most consistent way of acknowledging the good done, as well as the most accept

able manner of expressing to the promoters of that good, the approbation with which their exertions are received?

Instead of the usual mode of proceeding on similar occasions, of presenting a piece of plate, or some other valuable gift, why should not the generous voluntary subscription, expected to be entered into, be appropriated to the erection of a protestant place of worship, in some dark spot in Ireland, where the blessed truths of the glorious gospel might be permanently preached to the deluded votaries of popery, in their own beloved mother tongue? Let but English hearts be appealed to, and they will be found as warm as any that the green isle can boast of; and English and Irish hearts and hands, uniting in the cause, I doubt not that a sufficient sum would be quickly raised for this object. Methinks that these honored advocates of protestantism would be more gratified by such an expression of approbation than in possessing the most costly treasure of mammon, dedicated by the most flattering encomiums. How transcendently delightful would be their feelings at being thus made instruments of producing such continued blessing; and yet with what holy joy would they exclaim, in true humility, "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy Name give glory, for thy mercy and for thy truth's sake."

I am, Madam,

With much esteem, yours, &c.

[We very heartily agree in this view.

E. L.

There is

something in it far more accordant with the feelings excited by such appeals as the English public have

heard from the lips of those faithful witnesses against popish craft and delusion, than in following any of the vain, fleeting fashions of this world. It is well known that the tribute of grateful affection to the memory of a late beloved prelate, takes this form; and Bishop Ryder's Church will form a connecting link between that godly man and another generation, far more suitable, more touching and vivid, than the most costly gifts handed down as heir-looms in his family could do.-ED.]

The sum of £500. was lately raised for the purchase of some tribute of affection and regard, by the parishioners of a clergyman in one of our northern counties. The subscribers then waited on him to know in what way this sum could be laid out, so as best to meet his own views and feelings. They thought of nothing but of some splendid offering of plate to him :-but he directed their minds to the great want of an additional place of worship in their own town; -intreated them to make their gift of £500. the nucleus of a fund for that purpose, and added a sixth £100 to it, from his own moderate means.

Review of Books.

Actes and Monuments of these latter and perilous dayes, touching matters of the Church, wherein are comprehended and described, the great persecutions and horrible troubles that have bene wrought and practised by the Romish Prelates, speciallye in this realme of England and Scotlande, from the yeare of our Lorde a thousande, unto the tyme now present. Gathered and collected according to the true copies and wrytinges certificatorie, as well of the parties themselves that suffered, as also out of the Bishop's Registers, which wer the doers thereof. By JOHN FOXE.

Of all the apparitions that could rise from the shades, to startle the eyes, and grieve the hearts of modern liberalists, what more astounding than the stern martyrologist, old John Foxe himself, clanking the chains of the sixteenth century, which Lord John Russell has just informed us, must not be brought forward to fetter the enlightened minds of the nineteenth! Surely the alleged 'speculation,' of the worthy Mr. Coyne, of Dublin, in republishing