hears with eager solicitude the voice and invitation of mercy, that it may live ; it is the appetite which "hungers and thirsts after Christ," and "feeds on his flesh, and drinks his blood, that it may have eternal life." Faith, like Noah, prepares the ark, and enters it for rescue. Faith builds on Christ, the sure foundation. Faith puts on Christ, as the robe of righteousness and the garment of salvation. Accordingly its effects correspond with its Divine origin and the matchless benefits it receives. It works by love, it overcomes the world, it sees him who is invisible, it glories in tribulation, it purifies the heart, it anticipates heaven, it quenches the fiery darts of the wicked one, it produces uniform, spiritual, cheerful, willing obedience. Let any one read what the Scriptures assert of faith, what they ascribe to it, and the earnestness with which they enforce its necessity, and he will be convinced that it is totally different from that dead speculative assent to the Christian scheme, which is often confounded with it. Faith includes, besides the general reception of Christianity, a particular conviction of our own sins, a particular apprehension of our own lost estate, a personal application for ourselves of the offered blessings of the Gospel, and a distinct and spiritual reliance for our own salvation on the death and merits of our Saviour Christ.

THE WALDENSE MARTYR TO HER CHILD.

(For the Protestant Magazine.)

I WILL not mourn that over thee, the winter tempests blow,—
For who amongst us recketh it as carelessly as thou?
Unconscious of the rage that marks the elemental war,
Thou sleepest mindless of the storm, that breweth from afar.
Thou never knew'st a summer house with all its many ties,
To endear its visions of the past to memory's aching eyes—
Thou never haild'st its morning calm-its evenings' social cheer,
And the footfall of domestic peace, ne'er fell upon thine ear.

The voice of persecution deals anathemas around,

And beggared men with trembling wives are scattered at the sound;
And children, that once gamboll'd 'neath the same green forest boughs,
Are lost amid the dark ravines, or stifled in the snows.

And yet the wrath of cruel man, shall praise the Living God,
While the hunted and assailed ones, seek a refuge in His word;
For Alpine cold shall never freeze the hope that dwells above,
Nor blast of beating hurricane, destroy the light of love.

My babe, the mountain avalanche, spreads woe and death around,
And thousand hearts of metal true, lie 'neath its frozen mound-
This throbbing heart of mine, by grief and chill and hunger torn,
Shall be calm and still and motionless before to-morrow's dawn.
And thou art going too, my babe :--my own, my cherub child!
Yet sighless, tearless, dost thou pass thy Christmas bleak and wild:
I will not mourn that over thee the winter tempests blow,
For who amongst us recketh it, as little as dost thou?

The shackles of revengeful wrath that bind the poor and meek
Press down in vain the soaring soul; they bruise, but cannot break.
When sinks the body to the ground, a weak and stricken thing,
The soul can speed her lofty flight, and triumph's numbers sing.

If hope's bright inspirations, which disarm the fang of woe,
Were tabernacled only in this passing scene below,
The martyr's tears would surely be the saddest ever shed,
And the cypress wreath but blossom forth the misʼry of the dead.

But Christ upon the Cross doth preach a better faith than thatA faith which 'mid these icy graves their terrors will forget; And martyr babes, when coffined in the snow-beds of the hills, Die not more tranquilly than those that bend to manhood's ills. Wake not, my child :-I'll sing no more;-and one shall be our tomb, Nor separate in death, we'll share one tempest-haunted homeClasp'd in thy embrace, belov'd one, I'll not call my fate forlorn, And softly, sweetly sleep we, till the Resurrection Morn. Cambridge, Christmas, 1844.

F. J.

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A Letter to the Right Hon. Sir R. Peel, Bart., on the Endowment of the Papacy. By the Rev. WILLIAM K. TATAM, B.D., Minister of Oswaldtwisle, Lancashire. London, Seeley, Burnside, and Seeley.

In reviewing this little pamphlet we can hardly refrain from expressing a wish that all our clergy were like-minded with Mr. Tatam. We might add, also, we could wish that our statesmen were like-minded.

After important observations upon the two Churches of England and Rome, and some proceedings which have tended to advance or retard the progress of either, Mr. Tatam thus proceeds :

Surely, then, it must be the duty of the rulers of a state, which establishes a Protestant Church-if they value, if they love that Church, to say to Romewe believe your worship to be false; we are bound by the creeds, and confessions, and Articles of our Church to believe it so, and pernicious both to the civil and religious liberties of a free and enlightened people. We will not force your convictions, we will allow you the unmolested exercise of that worship, but we cannot, we dare not encourage it; we cannot in any way help to disseminate it among the people. We cannot do so honestly, or consistently with our love to the Church of the State, which, we believe to be the religion of the Bible, and which we profess to be the religion of our convictions and our affections, and which by the laws and constitution is the religion of the nation. Sir, what multitudes who admire your matchless talents would rejoice to see you take this decided stand for truth and give a tone of resolution to the thousands who are wavering under the almost uncontrollable influence of your example. Boldness and faithfulness like this would raise up for you a host of the best of friends and supporters, and give you a position as the chief minister of this great Protestant empire, that could never be shaken; and you would have the solace and satisfaction to your conscience in the view of a coming eternity, and that judgment at which you must account for your immense responsibilites, that you did not use the opportunities and influence you possessed to the advancement of a system, opposed to the temporal and spiritual welfare of your country.

On the subject of the Repeal agitation he briefly observes:The true meaning of the present outcry in Ireland, is not the Repeal of the Union, but the repeal of the Reformation; then we may tremble for the ark of God, then indeed will her enemies have triumphed over her. But I fervently hope, if you have taken such a resolve, it may yet be shaken.

The writer, then, thus concludes,

It is as clear as a revelation from heaven, that Britain was raised up as a Protestant power, for Protestant purposes, and you may be as certain that she could not long survive the decadence of her Protestant Church. It is England's safety, her beacon and her bulwark, a light-ship and a guard-ship, anchored

fast to the State, to illumine and protect; but if she goes down scuttled by her own pilots and her crew, she will draw all after her into a gulf of ruin.

The Curate of Linwood; or, the Real Strength of the Christian Ministry. By C. J. H. 8vo. London, Seeley, Burnside, and Seeley.

The object of this little work is to counteract, in some degree, the poison so insidiously and secretly conveyed throughout the productions of Tractarian writers, and we think is calculated to produce that effect.

The Author introduces a young curate, rigid and exact in all rubrical observances, yet unable thereby to satisfy the consciences of the dying members of his flock, when awakened to their sense of danger.

At length his own conscience becomes awakened, and thenceforward, from personal experience, and the teaching of the Holy Spirit, he learns no more to point their alarmed souls to their mere baptismal privileges, or the observance of external rites, by which he feels he had let some go into eternity resting on a foundation of sand, but points them to the cleansing blood of Christ, and the sanctifying influences of the Holy Spirit, as alone rendering them meet for the inheritance of the saints in light.

MISCELLANEOUS.

And

THE IMPRESSION MADE ON FOREIGN CHURCHES BY THE PRESENT STATE OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH.-Bystanders can frequently discern better what is going on, and its effect, than those actually engaged in the conflict. whilst many at home are engaged in unmeaning contests about unmeaning ceremonies, let us turn, and exhort them to turn and listen to the voice of despondency and reproach addressed to us by those in whose way we are throwing stumbling-blocks, instead of responding to their urgent call, "Come over and help us.' The celebrated D'Aubigné thus writes :-" Dear Brother, -The state of the English Church becomes ever more alarming to Christians on the Continent. The evil appears to us to have reached the highest degree, and we do not see that the Church does anything to remedy it. We ask if the Episcopal system is then inefficacious to govern the Church. The Church of Scotland has repressed the reveries of Irving, and nevertheless those reveries were less dangerous than those of Pusey, Newman, and Maitland. We love the Church of England on account of the Word of God on which it rests; of its Articles, the faith of which is so pure; of all the works, and of all the men of God that it has given birth to. But one of your colleagues, a zealous Episcopalian, who boasted to us recently of the excellences of this system, can tell you that we have been unanimous in opposing to him the actual state of your Church. If nothing is done against the Popery of Oxford, the cause of Épiscopacy is lost on the Continent; it is lost in the Church of God. If the Bishops continue to sleep, remember that the Church is the judge of controversies, and that the Church, according to your Articles, is the assembly of faithful men. Let faithful men then rise and speak. Dear Brother, I pray for your Church, that he who is continually with us, even to the end of the world, may himself, fight against the servants of human tradition, and that the victory may abide with the word and the blood of the Lamb.-Your devoted friend, "MERLE D'AUBIGNE, D.D."

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INTELLIGENCE.

STATISTICS OF POPERY.-There are now, throughout the world, 147 Popish Archbishops, 548 Bishops, 71 Vicars Apostolic, 9 Prefects, and 3 Apostolicals. The number of faithful may amount to 200,000,000. In the course of the present century (from 1800 to 1842) 40 new episcopal sees had been created.

CITY OF LONDON ASSOCIATION.—A Tea and Public Meeting of the members and friends of this Association was held in the Royal British Institution, Cowper-street, City-road, on Thursday evening, Dec. 26. Mr. Callow presided at the public meeting. The speakers were, the Revs. A. S. Thelwall, J. R. Barber, and Messrs. Sibley, Binden, and A. V. Allen.

The members of the Metropolitan Association held their United Quarterly Prayer Meeting at 11, Exeter Hall, on Wednesday evening, January 1. The meeting was well attended. The members take an increasing interest in these meetings for prayer.

A meeting was held on Thursday evening, January 9th, at the Educational Institute, Blackfriars-road, to expose the proceedings of meetings held in a Temperance-hall and Catholic School-room in the vicinity, by a Mr. Daniel French, who has for some time been advocating the claims of Popery in that neighbourhood, and who, after challenging discussion of the various topics he adverted to in his several addresses, employed and directed an infuriated audience to expel by force from his meetings every Protestant who dared to stand forward to offer any reply to his vile and abusive attacks of the clergy of the neighbourhood, and the misrepresentations he so often made of the faith of Protestants, although he had secured for himself money from them on their admittance at those meetings. The persons who had thus been maltreated immediately called a meeting of Protestants, to counteract such principles and practices of the Popish advocates, and to shew the public this spirit of Popery at work even in the heart of the metropolis. This meeting was very numerously and respectably attended. Mr. R. H. Binden presided, and Messrs. W. Allen, Ballard, and A. V. Allen, were the speakers. One universal feeling of indignation was expressed by the audience, with a determination to maintain a more than ever decided protest against the claims of Popery to what she calls equal privileges, which, in reality, means only liberty to do with the faith and persons of Protestants whatsoever may best answer her ends. It appeared from the statements made at this meeting, that this Popish advocate was not recognised by any party in his Church to lecture on Popery. Dr. Doyle, in a letter to the Chairman, disowned him, and the Roman "Catholic Institute" have rejected him from its body since 1842. He has upon more than one occasion violently conducted himself at Westminster ;-he created an uproar, even to preventing the continuance of service in a chapel during a lecture by a clergyman, by demanding to be heard in reply to the Rev. Gentleman's address. At Woolwich, at a Protestant meeting, because he was refused admittance with his band of disturbers, brickbats were thrown through the windows into the meeting, but providentially without injuring any one, but the object nevertheless was the same. Thus, in this land of freedom, as in America, Popery begins to manifest her dogma of persecution. The proceedings did not close until after eleven o'clock.

HACKNEY.-The " temporary (Popish) chapel" in this neighbourhood is said to be too small for the congregation. The Society of St. Ann and St. Mary, Bethnal-green, has been dissolved, and the funds and property made over to the priest of this chapel.

BIRMINGHAM.-A Popish priest of this town, named Ivers, during the month of November last, applied at the workhouse for permission to attend some children alleged to be Papists, for the purpose of affording them instruction, and for permission for them to attend the mass-house. The Committee declined granting the request.

CLIFFORD. On Sunday, Nov. 10, Dr. Briggs, Popish Vicar Apostolic, confirmed forty converts to Popery in this village; after which, preceded by

the thurifer, cross-bearer, &c., he proceeded to bless the stone cross which has been erected in the centre of the village. A correspondent of the "Tablet" is " sorry to learn that the edifying zeal of the Church of England clergyman here, in erecting a wooden cross in his burial-ground, in imitation of the above-named, has been met by his parishioners and others with the most decided opposition."

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PRESTON.-A correspondent of the "Tablet" writes:-"In the town of Preston and the neighbourhood there are some score of Catholic chapels ; and I seldom take up a Preston newspaper that does not contain one or more announcements of charity sermons about to take place." The Popish priests, who have for some time past been allowed to visit members of their communion in the workhouse of this town, have lately been making strenuous efforts to obtain the privilege of collective worship for the Popish paupers within the workhouse; or, in other words, to have mass performed in an English workhouse. The worthy Vicar and the Guardians have for the present successfully resisted this fresh attempt of Popery in its onward march to England's conversion." A correspondent of the "Preston Guardian says:-" In the Report of the Protestant District Visiting Society held lately, the Rev. Cousins, referring to his district, said, 'It was true, they had not in his district a Socialist hall, but still they had indefatigable Sisters of Charity, who went about with much appearance of kindness, inculcating the dangerous doctrines of Rome. The Order of the Brotherhood of St. Vincent of Paul has lately been established in this town. Their duty is to visit and relieve the poor sick and distressed; in fact, a Popish District Visiting Society, the main object of which is, no doubt, to proselyte the poor of the town to Popery. At a Tea Meeting, held on Wednesday, January 15, the number of persons was 800. Popery is rapidly spreading in Preston and its vicinity.''

THE NORTH.-Rosary Societies are very generally being established in the North of England.

IRELAND. PERSECUTION AT DINGLEY.-A fiery persecution is going on here. For seven Sundays the priests have cautioned their congregation against buying or selling with the converts, and the country people are beginning to carry out the priests' orders-so that our poor people find it difficult to get milk or potatoes or turf in the market; indeed, last Saturday, some of them had to go home without either, as regarded the market. I have got two cows (new milch) which give a drop of milk to those who most require it, and Mr. is sending me in turf to-morrow to give out again, of course for money. Potatoes, we have four fields' produce of, so they cannot starve our poor people, who are all firm to a man. I think the persecution will only serve to strengthen them, and open the eyes of some more of the Roman Catholics. I never felt happier than in the midst of this warfare.

CONVERSIONS. -The Rev. J. B. Murphy, late Superior of the Youghall Monastery, has written a letter to the Editor of the "Record," giving an account of his conversion, and stating that, since that event, the whole community have been brought into contact with pious clergymen, and have recently conformed to the Protestant faith.

HEALTH OF THE POPE.-MUNICH, JAN. 17.-Letters recently arrived here from Rome, state that the Pope is in a most alarming state. His Holiness is upwards of 79 years of age.-Frankfort Postal Gazette.

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