MISSION TO THE CAPE.

THE Rev. Mr. Miller, of the English Presbyterian Church, Rotterdam, who addressed the Synod at its last meeting in Manchester, was appointed by the Assembly of the Free Church in June, to proceed in company with Mr. Gorrie on a mission to the Cape. They sailed in the Canton, a new Dutch ship, from Rotterdam in July; and after knocking about in the Channel for some days, on the night of the 15th July, the ship was struck off Bridport by the Platína, bound for London from South Australia. The details are given elsewhere in a deeply interesting extract

from one of their letters. The vessel was

taken in by a steamer to Cowes to be repaired,

and again set sail last month.

The hand of a loving God was over his servants in the hour of their imminent danger; and we hope, as he has graciously preserved them, there is much work in store for them which shall be to his glory. Let our people not forget them in their prayers, that the same loving-kindness may be shewn to them as has been to Mr. Waddell and his fellow-labourers. Letters lately received from the Cape, state that "an extensive sphere of missionary labour is before them," and many are looking forward with joy to the return of Mr. Gorrie, after having been ordained to the work, and to his being accompanied by another Missionary.

OLD CALABAR.

Our congregations in Liverpool and Manchester, who were visited by Mr. Waddell prior to his leaving this country, will rejoice to learn that the Mission has reached its destination without accident, without disease, and without a death. The Missionaries had had very satisfactory interviews with Eyamba and his chiefs. Mr. Waddell had preached his first sermon in the state-room of Eyamba's iron palace, and they were beginning to erect a Mission-house. We hope to give further intelligence in our next number.

FERNANDO PO.

A Spanish corvette arrived lately with a government commissioner, and a bishop and priest of the Church of Rome on board. The commissioner ordered the Baptist missionaries immediately to leave the island, as the bishop and priest would take charge of the spiritual interests of the people. He assigned no cause, as far as I have been informed, but that such were his orders, as the Spanish Government admitted of no toleration in matters of religion, either in the mother country or in her colonies. The severity of this order was, however, relaxed after a few conferences; and they were allowed a year to remove with all that belonged to them, during which time the Rev. Mr. Sturgeon is allowed to officiate both in church and school. They are breaking up and removing to Bimbia, on the opposite coast, where they encourage themselves the Lord has work for them to do, and a blessing to bestow greater than here.

LEGHORN.

THE Rev. Robert W. Stewart, in a letter addressed to the Editor of the Witness, dated the 9th July last, states that there “are never fewer than twenty, and often as many as fifty, British ships here at one time; and though from thirteen to fourteen is the general number of the crew of each vessel, yet, taking it at ten for each, we have thus all the year round an average of from two hundred to five hundred British sailors in this port. Dr. Duncan first began to preach on board ship to the sailors here. Mr. Wood, on his return from Malta, followed his example;

and since the beginning of February last, | departure, it appears some of the congrega-
there has been constant service every Sabbath tion, holding Free Kirk principles, invited
afternoon; and so encouraging has been the Mr. Wilson, from Cape Briton, to come and
attendance, and such an effect has it had in supply. He arrived last Saturday, and being
drawing out the poor fellows to our church a Free Kirk minister, the trustees of the
in the forenoon, that the Episcopalians have Church, who adhere to the Established Church
at last taken alarm, and after a total and of Scotland, were displeased thereat, and
studied neglect of the Mole, which reaches from what they stated, it was expected they
back as far as the memory of the oldest would prevent his officiating. However, the
British resident here, the Episcopalian mini- opposite party had the keys of the kirk; and
ster has at last seen fit to imitate our example, the trustees contented themselves with posting
and for the last month has also had a service
in the Mole on Sabbath evenings. There is
certainly room enough for the labours of
both of us;
and I hope that this simple
this station, as a colonial one alone, is very
statement of facts will show your readers that
important, and that by giving a contribution
towards the erection of the first Presbyterian
church in Italy, they are doing a good work."

JERUSALEM.

IT is said that M. Gobat, the new Bishop of Jerusalem, proposes to direct his exertions more towards the Mussulman population than to the Jews, as almost all former missionaries have hitherto done; and this task will be the more easy for him, as he has in his former travels acquired considerable knowledge of the manners and language of the Arabians.

PERSECUTION IN MADEIRA.

It is very sad to think that grievous perse-
cution should be at this moment perpetrated
by the Romish Church within a few days' sail
of England, in a place continually resorted
to by Englishmen ; and that our boasted love
of freedom should be so weak, and our hatred
of idolatrous superstition and death-like per-
secution so cold, that the nation and Govern-
ment do nothing effectual for the relief of the
sufferers. We allude to the continued per-
secution in Madeira, of those who refuse to
acknowledge the unscriptural dogmas of
Rome; and the determined efforts made by
the unrighteous judges to bring them in guilty,
even when they have committed no crime in
the eye of the law. On the 6th June, the
son-in-law of Maria Joaquim was tried before
a judge who proved himself to be a worthy
successor of Dr. Negras. He was found guilty
of having denied that in the consecrated wafer
there is the body of God; and of having
lightly esteemed the Divine office of the mass.
The judge repeatedly asked him what he
then (at the bar) thought of the host. The
prisoner, after twenty months' confinement,
eagerly desired liberty. His wife and chil-
dren needed his aid; but though assured that
where he to profess belief in what he regards
as an absurd falsehood, he would be set at
liberty, he did not dare to purchase liberty
at such a price, and replied," that he most
deeply respected the sacrament as left to us
by our Lord Jesus Christ, but could not be-
lieve that in the consecrated wafer his body
exists as perfectly and truly as in heaven.'"
The jury found him guilty, and the judge
condemned him to five years' banishment to
Angola, which is nearly equivalent to death.
Several other prisoners were tried about the
same time, but it being impossible to lay
anything specific to their charge, they were
liberated after a tedious imprisonment-not,
however, without being mulcted in costs.

NEWFOUNDLAND.

THE following is an extract from a letter, to a friend in London, dated St. John's, Newfoundland, 25th May, 1846:-

"I have been twice to the Presbyterian Church; the first Sunday Mr. M'Lennon, from Prince Edward Island, officiated, and during the week returned to his home; he belonged to the Establishment. After his

an interdict on the kirk door. I was standing there reading it when a zealous Free Kirk partisan arrived, and seeing the document, indignantly pulled it down, and threw and put it in his pocket, and now sends it it away. Your humble servant picked it up, to you. Mr. Wilson officiated without any interruption, further than one respectable (?) individual contemptuously walking out the moment he entered the pulpit.

"It is said that legal proceedings are to be instituted by the trustees. It is a thousand pities that feelings, having no basis whatever on religion, should be so rife in a church without a pastor.

"It is but right to state, that the Free Kirk party comprise about 250 in number, and the others, trustees and all, only about 9!! And it does seem hard that the latter should seek to intrude a minister on the congregation."

The following is a copy of the interdict referred to in the above letter:

"We, the undersigned, trustees of the Established Church of Scotland, in St. John's, Newfoundland, in order to prevent any unseemly interruption of divine worship on Sunday next, the 24th instant, or on any succeeding Sabbath, do hereby give notice, that no minister has at present any licence or authority from us to pray or preach in the said church, as minister thereof; and should any person disturb the congregation of the said church, by attempting to pray or preach therein, without our sanction and licence, he will be deemed a trespasser, and prosecuted in due form of law.

In

JOHN STEUART,
JOHN M WILLIAM,

(Signed) WILLIAM GRIEVE,

Attorney for
WALTER GRIEVE.

presence of us,
HARCOURT MOONEY, Counsel,
THOMAS H. CHANNELL, Attorney,
For the Trustees.

St. John's, 23d May, 1846."

hate could not be betwixt man and man, THE POWER OF CHRISTIANITY.-A deadlier than was of the Jew towards the Gentile;--and both the Jew and the Gentile, the hate is yet when true religion cometh in, and seizeth forgotten, the feud is gone, and the deadly enemies are the nearest friends. Much like that if the plague rage never so much overas it is reported concerning Cairo, in Egypt, river Nilus come flowing in the next day, night, that they die by thousands, yet, if the the mortality ceaseth, and their dieth not one. Even so it is with religion: be there never so much bitterness and heart-burning betwixt men and men, never so much contention between neighbour and neighbour, if the power of religion do but once flow in and seize them both, the plague is ceased, the malignity is gone.-Lightfoot.

THE Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, said they, the name of God may be on it. Apply it to mentrample not on any: there may be some work of grace that thou knowest not of. The name of God may be written on that soul thou treadest on.-Leighton.

Poetry.

THE LAMENT OF A BLIND GIRL.

BY JAMES P. BROWN.

I HEAR thee speak of spring, when flowers are growing
Lovely and lonely by the river's side,-
The stream that through the pine wood softly flowing,
Seeks out the waters of old ocean's tide.

I hear thee speak of summer sunlight, glancing
On the lone bosom of the restless sea;
And of the glad day-living insects dancing
In the deep shadow of our linden tree.

Ye speak of clouds, and of the moonlight streaming
Through the clear lattice of our joyous home;
And of the holy stars at midnight gleaming

On the blue front of earth's resplendent dome.
Mountains, ye tell me, from the earth ascending,
Rise till their summits, crowned with ice and snow,
With the bleak storm clouds of the sky are blending,
Viewless to those who love the vales below.
Thousands of things, ye say, of gloom and splendour,
Are found upon the gorgeous face of earth;-
I see them not, yet love-stirred feelings render
Homage to Him who called these wonders forth.

I see not those I love, whose hearts of kindness
First won the fond affections of my breast;
They, the beloved, who love me for my blindness,
And teach my spirit where to find its rest.

I see not tears from fond eyes softly stealing,
When death has called some sister-soul away;
But know the deep excess of human feeling,
By the heart beat of those who live to pray.

My childhood was a time of desolation-
Darkness hung deeply o'er my mind and eyes;
But the sweet thoughts of holy meditation,

Have taught my heart above its griefs to rise.
Blind to the things of earth, my soul is keeping
Watch o'er the truths that lead to joys above;
For earthly joyance ends in mournful weeping
O'er the crushed bloom of things we fondly love.
Kneeling in darkness!-oh, how blest when pouring
My humble thoughts to heaven's Eternal One;
Whilst my wrapt soul, o'er life's dread sorrows soaring,
Bends with the blest before His sacred throne!

And He hath said—the glorious Mediator-
That every eye shall see him throned on high;
And I-oh, changeless, merciful Creator-
I, too, shall look on Him with beaming eye!

THE IDOL.

WHATEVER passes as a cloud between
The mental eye of faith, and things unseen,
Causing that brighter world to disappear,
Or seem less lovely, and its hopes less dear:
This is our god, our idol, though it bear
Affections impress, or devotion's air.

THE BIBLE.

THIS volume contains fourteen Discourses and
three Essays on most interesting subjects. Those
who know Dr. Merle D'Aubigné by his great
work cannot but feel a desire to see the views of
such a man on the subjects handled in these
treatises. Whether in treating of great eccle-
siastical topics, as in the essays "On Lutheranism
and Calvinism,” or “Geneva and Oxford;" or in
the details of Christian duty and spiritual reli-
gion, as in the discourses "On the Confession of
the Name of Christ," and " On Family Worship,"
everywhere there is the impress of the master-
mind of the History of the Reformation. We
have found in some of these Essays passages of
a nobler strain than anything we have yet seen
in Merle D'Aubigné's writings. Such passages
we have marked in "The Voice from Antiquity
to the Men of the Nineteenth Century, or Read
the Book;" but must reserve quotations for
future numbers.

Lectures on the Pilgrim's Progress, and on the Life
and Times of John Bunyan. By Dr. Cheever,
of New York. William Collins, Glasgow
and London. 1846.

arranged according to the dates, in as far as these
could be ascertained, at which they were written,
and are given without omission, abridgement,
ford, and the Prefaces originally introductory
suppression, or mutilation. A Life of Ruther-
to the first and second editions, have been ap-
pended, that the reader might be made acquainted
with the personal history of the Author, which
throws much light upon many passages in his
Letters, and likewise with the sentiments with
which The Letters' themselves were regarded
at the time when they first were published. The
testimony to the Covenanted Work of Reforma-
tion, from 1638 to 1649, emitted with great peace
and joy, by that venerable servant of God on his
death-bed, and when he knew that he was 'very
shortly to appear before his dreadful Sovereign,'
has also been added, as his last contending for
that holy cause, which he proclaimed in his
sermons, vindicated in his writings, promoted by
his exertions, and exemplified in his life."

The Scottish Temperance Review: under the
auspices of the Scottish Temperance League.
Houlston and Stoneman, London. 1846.
Six Sermons on Intemperance, by Dr. Lyman
Beecher, of Boston, U. S. Ibid.

THESE publications are likely to be of much use. The Review contains well written and well selected articles, and the temperance cause is WE have great pleasure in announcing another advocated in a calm and Christian, and, therecheap edition of Dr. Cheever's lectures on Bun-fore, in an effective, manner. yan. We rejoice in the popularity of this work, which is one of the few great books of the time, and worthy of taking rank along with the writings of Merle D'Aubigné. The low price, good type, and convenient form of Mr. Collins' edition will secure for it a great sale.

The Letters and Life of Samuel Rutherford.
Second Edition. Two Vols. 8vo. Francis
Baisler, 124, Oxford-street, London.

IF we thought that any of our readers were
ignorant of the name and fame of Rutherford,
we should have much to say in noticing this
work. But believing that any reference to such
a man and to such writings would be superfluous,
our present object is merely to recommend the
above edition of the most precious of all his
works. Let this much be said of Rutherford's
letters-that we know of no book that so com-
bines sound doctrine, spiritual experience, and

Verses and Prayer inserted in the Bibles in the time of practical advice, set forth in language full of

Queen Elizabeth.

HERE is the spring where waters flow,
To quench our heate of sinne :
Here is the Tree where trueth doeth grow,
To leade our liues therein.

Here is the ludge that stints the strife,
When men's deuises faile:

Here is the Bread that feedes the life,
That death cannot assaile.

The Tidings of Saluation deare,
Comes to our eares from hence:
The Fortresse of our Faith is here,
And Shield of our defence.
Then be not like the hogge that hath
A Pearle at his desire,
And takes more pleasure of the trough
And wallowing in the mire.

Reade not this Booke in any case,
But with a single eye:
Reade not but first desire God's grace,
To vnderstand thereby.

Pray still in faith with this respect,
To fructifie therein,
That knowledge may bring this effect,
To mortifie thy sinne.

Things New and Old.

YORK MINSTER-A HOLY BUILDING.

HERE is a noble pile, consecrated many centuries ago, and regarded ever since as holy. I am no contemner of holy things, and am at one with the Church of England in all her more important doctrines; but I have been taught that no holiness can attach to edifices of any kind, ecclesiastical or secular. I have been taught that the world, since it began, saw but two truly holy edifices-the tabernacle and the temple; and that these were as direct revelations from God as the Scripture, and embodiments of his will, though they spoke in the obscure language of type and symbol. Our houses of worship now are not houses of God, save in a figurative unreal true poetry and heart-stirring power, while every sense; they are merely houses of men assempage is rich in Divine unction, and redolent of bled to worship God. I have been taught the sweet savour of the name of Christ. When that there can be no intrinsic holiness in dead we read them we feel as if breathing the heavenly matter or mere forms,-none in bread, none air of the mountains of myrrh and hills of frank-in wine, none in stained glass nor hewn incense on the heights of which Rutherford's stone, none in linen or in serge, none in imsoul was privileged so much to walk. No book posing ceremonies dissociated from the devois more imbued with the spirit of the "song of tional spirit, none in clerical orders apart songs," and of the epistles of the disciple whom from sanctity of personal character,-that world, save converted men, the Word of God, there is, in short, nothing holy in all this and the Spirit from above, which constitutes the living soul of what in themselves are but dead ordinances. We believe that since "the decease accomplished at Jerusalem," there is nothing holy that is not immortal,-nothing holy that will not be present at the judgment of the final day. God's law will be there, God's Spirit, and God's people; but York Minster will not.-Hugh Miller.

Jesus loved.

To us the beauty of the present edition is, that it is a faithful reprint from the oldest copies, with all the author's homely phrases and vernacular expressions; foot notes being given where obsolete words or local usages render explanation desirable. We trust that the good taste and good sense of our readers will prefer this to any tame abridgement, or to any of the enervated, emasculated, modernized editions of the work. Let this be explained by the editor, the Rev. Mr. Thompson (now of the Free Church of Scotland, at Wick), in his Preface:" In this edition of "The Letters,' the text,-which, in later editions, had, through carelessness of printing, unacquaintance with the Scottish dialect, and attempts to substitute English words and phrases for Scotch ones, become very corrupt,—has, by a careful collation of the earliest editions, been corrected and restored; while the Scottish words, allusions, and idiomatic phrases are explained in notes at the bottoms of the pages; and the Letters, which, in some of the former editions, had been very much mutitifying and increasing in vs all heauenly vertues. Graunt lated, and had, in all of them, been printed without any regard to arrangement, have been

Then happie thou in all thy life,
What so to thee befalles:
Yea, doubly happy shalt thou bee,
When God by death thee calles.
PRAYER.

O Gracious God and most mercifull Father, which hast

vouchsafed vs the rich and precious lewel of thy holy

Word, assist vs with thy Spirit, that it may be written in

our hearts to our euerlasting comfort, to reforme vs, to renew vs according to thine owne Image, to build vs vp, and edifie vs into the perfect building of thy Christ, sane

this, O heauenly Father, for Iesus Christes sake. Amen.

LONDON DURING THE PLAGUE. AND now we will turn to another scene during the same period, in the city of London. It is in the midst of the plague. The grass is growing in the streets. The red cross is marked upon the houses, the dead-cart is moving from street to street, with its melancholy bell, and the hoarse-wailing cry of the grave's-man reverberates through the deserted passages,-Bring out your dead! The pulpits have been forsaken of the Established clergy, but holy men of God, persecuted of

the Church and State, and forbidden to preach because of their non-conformity, have entered the vacant churches, and "are holding forth the word of life," in the face of death, to trembling multitudes, in pulpits from which they had been driven, with penal inflictions, in a season of health! They preach as dying unto dying men; hearers one day, sick the next, and dead the next. They preach and listen as though never to preach or listen again. But while God is consuming the people by these judgments, and the Nonconformists, fearless of death, are labouring to save men's souls, King Charles is revelling with his dissolute Court at Oxford, and contriving with his parliament and clergy, removed thither from London from fear of the plague, an additional act of persecution, to drive these fearless ministers, whom death itself cannot stop from preaching, beyond the very limits of cities, towns, and villages! The impiety of such proceedings could not have been much greater had they passed a law enacting, that if any man attempted to be saved out of the Established Church, he should forthwith be consigned to eternal perdition. "Too little," says Baxter, "did the sense of God's terrible judgments, or of the necessities of many hundred thousands ignorant souls, or the groans of the poor people for the teaching which they had lost, or the fear of the great and final reckoning, affect the hearts of the prelatists, or stop them in their way."-Cheever's Lectures on the Life and Times of Bunyan.

BLAKE AT MALAGA.

BLAKE, with the fleet, happened to be at Malaga before he made war upon Spain; and some of his seamen went aзhore and met the host carried about, and not only paid no respect to it, but laughed at those who did; so one of the priests put the people on resenting this indignity, and they fell upon them and beat them severely. When they returned to the ship they complained of this usage; and upon that Blake sent a trumpet to the Viceroy to demand the priest, who was the chief instrument in that ill usage. The Viceroy answered he had no authority over the priests, and so could not dispose of him. Blake upon that sent him word that he would not inquire who had the power to send the priest to him, but if he were not sent within three hours he would burn their town; and they being in no condition to resist him, sent the priest to him, who justified himself upon the petulant behaviour of the seamen. Blake answered that if he had sent a complaint to him of it, he would have punished them severely, since he would not suffer his men to affront the established religion of any place at which he touched; but he took it ill that he set on the Spaniards to do it; for he would have all the world to know, that an Englishman was only to be punished by an Englishman; and so he treated the priest civilly, and sent him back, being satisfied that he had him at his mercy. Cromwell was much delighted with this, and read the letters in council with great satisfaction, and said, he hoped he should make the name of an Englishman as great as ever that of a Roman had been.-Bishop Burnet's Memoirs.

SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES.

DR. THOMAS GOODWIN, such time as he was president of Magdalen College, Oxford, told me, that in the time of his youth, being then a student at Cambridge, and having heard much of Mr. Rogers, of Dedham, in Essex, purposely he took a journey to hear him preach on his lecture-day, a lecture, then so strangely thronged and frequented, that, to

TERIAN CHURCH IN ENGLAND.

THE Third Session of the College will be opened on Monday the 12th of October next, when a Public Introductory LECTURE will be delivered by Professor LORIMER, at 16, Exeter Hall.

The attention of Presbyteries and Students is

called to the following regulations adopted at last

meeting of Synod:

"That as it is of the last importance, so every effort shall be used to secure, that all parties who are enrolled in the Album of the Theological College, as students for the ministerial office in this Church, shall have previously passed through an undergraduate course at some chartered univer

sity.

"That all such as have passed through such a course shall, before they are enrolled, pass an examination before the Presbytery within the bounds of which they reside; but where any party resides beyond the bounds of any of the Presbynation before the Presbytery of London; that a teries of the Church, that he pass such an examicertificate of having passed through such examination must be produced before he be enrolled; and that it be an instruction to Presbyteries, further to examine such students upon the doctrinal

those who came not early, there was no pos- THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE OF THE PRESBY-
sibility of getting room in that very spacious
church. Mr. Rogers was, as he told me at
that time he heard him, on the subject of the
Scriptures. And in that sermon he falls into
an expostulation with the people about their
neglect of the Bible. He personates God to
the people, and tells them, 'Well, I have
trusted you so long with my Bible; you have
slighted it, it lies in such and such houses, all
covered with dust and cobwebs; you care not
to look into it. Do you use my Bible thus?
Well, you shall have my Bible no longer.'
And he takes up the Bible from his cushion,
and seemed as if he were going away with it,
and carrying it from them; but immediately
turns again, and personates the people to God,
falls down on his knees, cries, and pleads
most earnestly, 'Lord, whatever thou doest
to us, take not thy Bible from us: kill our
children, burn our houses, destroy our goods,
only spare us thy Bible, only take not away
thy Bible.' And then he personates God
again to the people. Say you so? well, I
will try you awhile longer; and here is my
Bible for you, I will see how you will use it,
whether you will love it more, whether you
will observe it more, whether you will value
it more, practise it more, and live more ac-
cording to it.' But by these actions, and this
discourse (as the Doctor told me) he put all
the congregation into so strange a posture,
that he never saw any congregation in his life
the place was a mere Bochim-the people,
generally, as it were, deluged with their own
tears, and he told me that he himself, when
he got out, and was to take horse again to be
gone, he was fain to hang a quarter of an
hour upon the neck of his horse weeping,
before he had power to mount; so strange an
impression was there upon him, and generally
upon the people, upon having been thus ex-
postulated with for the neglect of the Bible.

-Rev. John Howe.

DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.

THE annual sermons, in aid of the funds of the church, were preached on Sabbath, 19th July ult., by the Rev. J. R. Welsh, of Liverpool, and the Rev. John Connon, Wesleyan minister, Peel. Mr. Welsh delivered two admirable discourses. In the morning he preached from Song iii. 10, last clause ;and in the evening, from Hebrews iv. 16. "Grace to help in time of need." Collection, 227. 28.

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"That as erudition without personal piety can never qualify for the ministry, each student must, as an attestation of his personal religion, before he is enrolled, produce to the Senatus a certificate of Church membership, and a Presbyterial letter,

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ib. Foreign Evangelical Society

THE ancient city of Edinburgh has this past summer witnessed two memorable scenes,the laying the foundation-stone of the monument to John Knox, and the inauguration of the monument to Sir Walter Scott. Both these ceremonies were imposing, after their kind-both were expressive of marked features in Scottish history and character: both were also events of more than local interest, signs of the spirit of the times, and illustrating great and eternal truths.

The memorial of Scott, as most of our readers are aware, is a fine Gothic tower, ornamented with turrets and pinnacles, with niches, containing figures of the most celebrated characters in his writings. The tower is supported by four arches, beneath which is a fine marble statue of Scott, the uncovering of which was the principal ceremonial at the inauguration.

cocked hats and red gowns, and insignia of | Scotland said-"It is better to obey God
office;
the magistrates of Easter Portsburgh than man." On the third anniversary of
were there, with their constables and suite; the disruption, the leading men of the Free
and the magistrates of Wester Portsburgh, Church, already a strong and national insti-
with their constables and suite; and the tution, inheriting the spirit and principles of
grand masters, and deputy grand masters, Knox, met to honour the name and memory
and grand treasurers, and grand chaplains, of the Reformer. There was no civic pomp,
with all the lesser officials of Free Masonry; no military parade, nor masonic folly; no
and there were the mysterious trinkets borne waving of banners and sounding of trumpets,
by the brethren of masonic lodges the but there was an assembly of noble-minded
usual mockery of an open Bible among the and warm-hearted men; and earnest prayer,
rest; and the Committees and Auxiliary Com- with the voice of praise and thanksgiving,
mittees, with policemen and constables and rose from patriotic and Christian hearts. On
military, completed the line of procession. that time-honoured and prayer-hallowed
The windows were filled with spectators, and spot the foundation-stone was laid, the people
dense masses occupied the streets. On reach- singing the Hundredth Psalm, to Luther's
ing the monument a masonic chaplain offered old melody; making a joyful noise to God,
up a prayer, and short speeches were de- for the Lord is good; His mercy is ever-
livered. The screens were suddenly removed lasting; and His truth endureth to all
from the statue at a given signal-the band generations.
of the Royals played the National Anthem
-while at the sound of the guns and sack-
buts and trumpets the people shouted aloud,
and the inauguration was completed.

The memorial of Knox is to be a tower, with two churches, one for the Englishspeaking and the other for the Gaelic-speaking population of the district. The site is in the Old Town of Edinburgh, in that part of Canongate known by the name of John Knox's Corner, on the spot where the Reformer long lived, and where, after all his toils and dangers, he entered into his rest. Surely there is something in the monuments themselves significant and symbolical;-this beautiful cenotaph, to be gazed at and admired by man-worshippers, and these churches to be used for the service and glory of God. of the inauguration was truly a brilliant and stirring scene. The day August 15th, the anniversary of Scott's birth-day. There was a grand procession, with music and flags and banners. The Lord there, and the bailies, with their

The ceremony

was

Provost was

What a contrast this from the other ceremony! As on some clear night we have witnessed a grand display of fireworks; the eye has been dazzled and pleased by the successive forms and colours of light, the vault of heaven meanwhile darkened and hid by the excess of artificial brightness;-but after all the noise and brilliancy are over, we see the stars shining down from the eternal heavens in their unchanging glory: not more different were the scenes we have described,—not more different the spirit and work of the men whom they commemorated!

The foundation-stone of John Knox's monument was laid on the 18th of May, the anniversary of a day memorable in Scotland's history, when the faithful ministers and elders and people of Scotland's Church separated from a degraded Establishment, and sacrificed the wealth and advantages of State support, rather than surrender the affairs of the Church of Christ to State control. It was the old controversy between If we were to draw any comparison of the men of the world and men of God-the old greatness of Knox and Scott, our estimate accusation against the disciples of Christ, would doubtless be put down as the result of that they say there is another king than Presbyterian bigotry. But the parallel has Cæsar, one Jesus. "Render unto Cæsar the fortunately been already drawn by one things that are Cæsar's, and unto God the capable of measuring such men, and who has things that are God's." Where it is impos-recorded his judgment concerning them. sible to serve two masters, the Apostles said, Thomas Carlyle has studied and described and John Knox said, and the Free Church of them both, and his conclusion is, that in