trymen who are placed in important total depravity of man, the completeness parts of India? What would be thought of the work of Christ, and the nature of regeneration. The good Dean Milman, who reads the lessons with such excellent articulation, was too philosophical and learned for the kind of audience he had to address, although his discourse possessed merits which many would not fail to appreciate. The Bishop of Ripon preached in a style suited to the dense mass that sat before him, and in a clear voice, like a silver trumpet, that sent the message of mercy to the most distant part of the building. The most intense interest was shown by the vast congregation, as he expounded his great and comprehensive_text"God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” How sad it is, that the work built up in one day should be knocked down in another. This evangelical discourse is to be followed next Sunday, by another from the notorious Dr. Hook, of Leeds, whose discourse will have come under the public notice before this letter appears; and, if consistent with his "Hear the Church" sermon before the Queen, will be filled with "another gospel." At a meeting of the Moravian Mission, on the 15th of December, the following illustration was given of the subtle arts employed by the Jesuits for destroying the work of Protestant Missionaries. Since our last monthly notice, St. Paul's Cathedral has been opened-as it never was before for public worship. We cannot allow this remarkable event to pass without some record in these pages. Time was when a prediction of such an occurrence would have been received with incredulity. This proud has edifice been admired for the perfection and magnificence of its architecture; but no one ever looked upon it as a place in which the words of eternal life were to be proclaimed with energy to listening multitudes crowding within its portals. Nothing can exceed the earnestness with which the committee have discharged their work, in having the edifice prepared for the purpose to which it is devoted, and the excellence of the preparations made for the hearers, whose The Rev. Mr. Eberle gave some numbers fall not very far short of four account of the Greenland Mission, where thousand. With regard to the services, there were many truly pious and conit is much to be regretted that the verted natives who conducted religious devotional parts are not read in a clear services at the out-stations, from which and noble voice, instead of being intoned, the people came in to the settlements as sanction is thus given to a practice twice or thrice a year, for the purpose derived from Rome, and which ought of partaking of the Holy Communion. not to be maintained in a Protestant In Lichtenfels, their mission was now a Church; while, in addition, a very small century old. There was nothing strikproportion of the people really hear and ing in the reports of the past year, so understand these intonations. Reports far as Greenland was concerned. Many of the three sermons have already of the natives, in a starving condition, appeared, and our friends will form their own judgment of their character, without our assistance. Nothing could exceed the earnestness of the Bishop of London; but we should have been glad to hear from his lips less of the Church and more of Christ-more, also, of the grand peculiarities of the gospel, the were driven into the settlements for food and shelter. They were taught Christianity, and thus they returned into the interior again, to proclaim to others those great truths they had learned of the missionaries; and thus the name of Jesus had been proclaimed all over the country. Most of the adult Green landers were now able to read, and the fact with respect to this industrious Scriptures were translated into their mineralogist? Why, he was no minelanguage. One of the assistant pastors ralogist at all, but a Jesuit priest, who had proceeded to Denmark, and, while had resorted to this stratagem in order there, he was waited upon by a gentle- to qualify himself to propagate the perman who described himself as a mine- nicious principles of Popery amongst ralogist, anxious to learn the language the poor Greenlanders. The moment of the Greenlanders, for the purpose of the discovery was made, he disappeared; proceeding there to prosecute his re- but he was, no doubt, now labouring in searches. He was an apt pupil, and got some part of Greenland. on remarkably well. But what was the Reviews. The Bible Remembrancer. By the late | Noon-day Meditations for Every Day in Rev. I. COBBIN. London: Partridge MR. COBBIN had a peculiar gift in con- the "Bible Remembrancer" is most justly entitled. the Year. By the late ELIZABETH SEARLE. London: W. H. Collingridge. ON a former occasion we noticed this admirable work from the pen of our ever-to-be-revered friend and correspondent, the late ELIZABETH SEARLE. mind, is clear from her writings; but to That she was a woman of no ordinary a brightness of intellect and largeness of heart, was added the deepest possible Chastisement: its Design and Cause; or, spirituality. Of her it might be most the Fallacy Detected. A Letter to his emphatically said, "She dwelt on high." Young Parishioners, from WILLIAM As a means, in the hand of God, her PARKS, B.A., Openshaw, Manchester." Noon day Meditations are eminently London: W. H. Collingridge. calculated to promote spirituality of A TRACT from the able pen of the Rev. mind, and to lead the reader into a W. Parks. The subject is one of great contemplation of those things which are importance, and is most forcibly treated "not seen and are eternal.' in the pamphlet before us. We earnestly recommend it to the perusal of our readers. The City Press. Weekly. Collingridge. THIS is a local journal, and ostensibly confines itself to the proceedings of the City of London; but it almost invariably contains much that is of importance and interest far beyond the precincts of the City or the metropolis generally. As the reporter of parish proceedings, it is most suggestive to persons connected with parish business; and hence becomes a valuable authority. Our Indestructible Scrap-book. Darton and Co. A PICTURE-BOOK, richly coloured, and mounted on linen, most suitable for the little ones. Tracts for the Garret and the Cellar. a work, especially at a time when the Dublin: G. Herbert. VALUABLE tracts, containing the very marrow of the gospel, but hardly simple enough in style for the garret and the cellar. "Great plainness of speech" is required for such localities. As the series proceeds, perhaps the respected writer will keep this idea in view. The Commentary wholly Biblical. Three vols., small quarto. London: Bagster and Co. NONE seem to know the wants of Ministers, as far as Bibles are concerned, better than Messrs. Bagster and Co. Their Fac-simile Bible was a great boon to preachers who had previously adopted their Polyglott edition, for they met the failure of sight by a uniform page in larger type. This, to local memories, is invaluable. The present work is to meet another want, namely, the presentation to the reader of the marginal references in full; so that considerable time is saved, as well as the train of thought preserved. Old Jonathan; or, the District and OUR penny pictorial broad-sheet is now approaching the third year of its existence. Although it does not as yet meet the outlay, it is most gratifying to hear of its progress. If we may judge from the testimonies that are constantly reaching us, it is much valued by the poor and the young, and, on their account, by the Sunday-school teacher and district visitor. The press also has spoken of it in the most gratifying terms. Considering it has met a want with respect to the publications of our day, it would be most grateful to us did our readers make additional efforts to increase its circulation. Could they have been placed in similar circumstances to ourselves, whilst travelling, on a very recent occasion, they would at once have admitted the value of such cheap press is pandering to the very worst passions of our fallen nature. We wish there were less apathy, on the part of believers, with regard to the character of our periodical literature. We do believe it a paramount duty to further the circulation among the masses of such a work as "Old Jonathan." رو "OLD TRY. A Book for Boys. By JONATHAN.' London: W. H. Collingridge. THE simple aim of this book is to encourage youth. They have plenty to discourage-abundance to disheartenhence OLD JONATHAN thought that a simple record of facts, in the plain but truthful history of two boys, was calculated to rouse, and cheer, and stimulate to application and exertion. We are persuaded that, under God, there is nothing so beneficial to youth as to set before them an object. Without this, they waver and vacilate, and too often bring destruction upon themselves and discredit upon others; but with a plain,. definite object in view, they are, in the good providence of God, diverted from the accumulated and diversified evil by which they are surrounded, and encouraged to pursue a laudable, straight-forward course towards the attainment of the Success in these object in question. respects prompted the writer of "TRY" Now. By NEWMAN HALL, LL.D. The Last Supper. London: Virtue and A LARGE print, most beautifully executed in wood. A Christian cannot say, I have an estate in the world, and I shall have it for ever; but every Christian may say, I have God for my portion, and I shall have Him for ever.-Anon. It is but a small thing to see Christ in a book, as men see the world in a map: but to come near unto Christ, to love him and embrace him, is quite another thing.-Rutherford. THE GOSPEL MAGAZINE. "Comfort ye, comfort ye, my People, saith your God." "Endeavouring to Keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace." 'Jesus Christ, the same Yesterday, and To-day, and for Ever. Whom to know is Life No. 26, NEW SERIES. Eternal." FEBRUARY 1, 1859. { No. 154, OLD SERIES. SPIRITUAL SATISFACTION. "Satisfied in drought."-Isaiah lviii. 11. BELOVED, before we proceed with our next point, there is a further word or two we would say upon the satisfaction touched on in our last. Now, strange as it may appear, and doubtful as at first sight it may seem, we believe that the less the child of God has of this world, the better satisfied he is with Jesus. We do not make this remark in a careless, inconsiderate way. It is the result of observation and experience. The more a man has of the trumpery of this world, the more, almost of necessity, will it occupy his thoughts, and engross his affections; but, if he is stripped of this, or if the Lord never entrusted him with it (well knowing how likely he was to abuse such a trust), he has the more room in his heart for Jesus. The less he has to care for in the world, and of the world, the more time and opportunity he has for thinking about his Lord. We shall never forget the remark of one whom we had reason to know in other respects feared God; and by that remark we saw how clear it is that nothing of earth can satisfy the mind of man; that the more he has, the more he wants. The person in question had accumulated many, many thousands-perhaps not less than fifty or sixty. He had added house to house, if not field to field. "I have been looking at a map of the world,” said he," and thinking what a very small portion I have of it." Poor man! we trembled as he gave utterance to the thought. Again, on another occasion, the same person said, whilst speaking of his property," My motto is, Make it sure.' "Oh," thought we, "what folly! True it is, you may invest it in the funds, or you may lock it up in houses; but is the Lord at a loss for means to divest you of all? Can your property be more secure than Job's appeared to be? and yet how soon was he deprived of all." Moreover, if there be a stormy night, that self-same individual can scarcely sleep, from the apprehension of injury to his houses, and the fear of the claims of tenants on the following day for repairs of damages by the storm. وو But withal, supposing there be a continuance of prosperity, or a retention of property, how soon must all be left! as well as the poorest pauper in the land. an one be with the fact, "Naked came naked must I return thither." How soon must the rich man die, Was it not Luther rejoiced, in the prospect of leaving this world, that he had no need to trouble about making a will? Was he not sorely concerned at another time lest the Lord was going to give him a larger portion for the life that now is, and thus damp his ardour and stifle his energies in conmexion with the world to come? Could we place before our readers even what we have heard from persons' own lips, of the utter want of satisfaction which property or position affords, they would probably be surprised. Sure we are that nothing of this world can satisfy in our day any more than in Solomon's day. Men would as verily seek in vain for pleasure and satisfaction from any human source now as then. Moreover, so far from men of large means being at ease, or because they have much imagine they shall want nothing, it is just the contrary. They with their means have much more dread of want than those who have merely their hand-basket, the which their kind and gracious Father supplies according to their necessities day by day. Now, in proof of this, we know an individual who had passed his sixtieth year, and who by marriage had added to his own personal fortune twenty thousand pounds. He was-and for aught we know, still is-constantly harassed with the fear and apprehension that he should come to want. Hence he would dole out his pence as others with only a tithe of his wealth would deal out their pounds. Again, we know another instance of a man of eighty-five years of age, without heir, and in possession of between two and three hundred thousand pounds, yet most miserable withal. Hoarding up still; measuring his outgoing with the utmost possible tenacity; turning a deaf ear to the remonstrance as to whom his wealth shall fall at his decease. Ah, reader! what speaking lessons are these to us. Why should a child whose Father is in heaven be concerned? Why should he take anxious, unbelieving "thought for the morrow?" Why ask "What shall I eat, or what shall I drink, or wherewithal shall I be clothed?" when a moment's consideration will remind him that all is in a Father's hand, whose are the cattle upon a thousand hills; His the gold and the silver; the beasts of the forest His, who "knoweth all the fowls upon the mountains;" who "counteth the stars, and calleth them all by their names." Beloved, how blessed to have this God-the God of the whole earth-for a Father; and in His hands to leave all and everything that concerns us, either for soul or body-for time or eternity. How blessed to partake of that sweet spirit of the apostle," Having food and raiment therewith to be content;" to feel in very deed, that " godliness with contentment is great gain." Το have no stock in hand; to be so brought down as to live merely by the day, and yet to see each day the table spread-the manna given-the Father's tender, gracious, ceaseless, loving, and timely remembrances of His children's wants. How blessed to realize the fulfilment of that sweet word, Before they call, I will answer; and whilst they are yet speaking, I will hear." Have you not, dear reader, oftentimes experienced this literally—that before you were really aware of the want, there was the supply? That the Lord had foreseen the want, and provided against it, ere you were aware of the fact that you should be the subject of that want? What greater proof |