lected for each class of certificates (the first, English Grammar and Composition. School Committee, will be happy to furnish THE MISSION TO CORFU. if the New Testament was continued as a class book. On the other hand, to abandon it, and thus invite the return of the scholars, seemed a questionable compromise ;—a step backwards, which they were not prepared to take. Troubled on every side, yet not distressed; perplexed, but not in despair,' with FOR the sake of those friends already in- prayerful submission they waited for the Lord, terested in the Mission to Corfu, and still and they waited not in vain. Letters lately more for the sake of those whom they wish received bring the cheering_tidings that the to interest, a statement has been published by school is again at work. Several Jewesses the Committee of the "Ladies' Association in have returned, and others are promised from aid of the Missions of the Presbyterian the most influential families of the Jewish Church in England," from which the follow-community. They return without stipulation. ing is extracted:The New Testament holds its proper place; and thus, by the blessing of God on the patient, long-suffering of our missionary and teacher, a greater triumph has been effected, than if the thirty scholars, or any number, had been retained, and the New Testament abandoned. This is a triumph in the cause of Christ, and to his name be all the glory. A disinterested friend of another communion writes that these difficulties have been so far advantageous to the good cause as to have excited inquiry, and brought Mr. Charteris into notice where he was before unknown; and his aptitude to teach, together with his pains-taking, gentle way of administering his instructions, have impressed the Jews strongly in his favour, as well as induced a great inclination for Bible knowledge. It was a real sorrow to us to find the sudden loss of pupils, particularly among the Jewesses. Mr. Charteris' mild, patient spirit bore the trial, and waited in submission to God's will, until it should please Him once more to turn the hearts of the Jews. The prospect brightens at last, and we must pray for its continuance. We can bear testimony to the excellence, wisdom, and prudence of his (Mr. C.'s) conduct here.' All these trials have only tended to make missionary and teacher more sympathized with and appreciated. "Assured by a minister, who had visited the island, of its spiritual destitution, and encouraged by the munificent offer of a Christian lady, to subscribe 100l. per annum for three years, the Ladies' Association resolved, in the strength of the Lord, to undertake this Mission; accordingly, the Rev. William Charteris, after ordination by the Presbytery of London, in the autumn of 1845, proceeded to Corfu, and there commenced his interesting labours. These he has since prosecuted with a zeal and judgment which prove him eminently fitted for the great and holy work. He at once found a wide field of usefulness, not only as a missionary to the Jewish population, amounting to 3,000, but also amongst the soldiers of a Scottish regiment, garrisoned in the island, to whom Decimal Arithmetic and the higher rules his pastoral labours have been most acceptable, of mental Arithmetic. Book-keeping. The elements of Mechanics. Elements of Land Surveying and Levelling. The Committee of Council have issued many minute regulations with regard to the terms and conditions on which they will make allowances to masters and mistresses for the training of pupil-teachers, and to stipendiary monitors. But it is unnecessary to analyze and recount these at present, for no master can receive the charge of training pupilteachers until he has first obtained a certificate for himself; and no monitors can receive stipends except in schools fulfilling all the conditions formerly specified under Head II. The first care of our present teachers must be to qualify themselves to acquire the Committee's certificates of merit. And the first care of our School Managers must be to put their schools upon such a footing as will entitle them to share in the benefits proffered by the Committee. It will suffice for the present, therefore, to have shown, which it is hoped has been done distinctly and fully enough-what must be attended to by both teachers and managers, in order that these first objects may be secured. Professor Lorimer, as Convener of the and to some of whom, there is good reason to "While thus faithfully discharging the for the education of Jewish youths, and another "In a letter, of date the 8th June, Mr. Charteris states that the number of scholars had increased to seventeen, and expresses a hope that the school will, in a short time, equal, if not exceed, the number at its commencement. "The Mission field being now fairly entered-a_missionary and teacher having commenced their labours-the Ladies' Committee would beseech all interested to make a heart-engagement, that they will follow them with earnest supplications at a throne of grace that the great head of the Church would prosper the work, and grant that many of Abraham's race may confess that Jesus of Nazareth is their Lord and David's King. "The Committee would also take this opportunity of thanking the few subscribers whose generous contributions have aided them in meeting the engagements of the last year; and, in conclusion, they would earnestly commend this Mission, which they have so much at heart, not only to the sympathy and "In August last (1846), Mr. Charteris was to the prayers, but to the benevolence of those joined by Miss Greig, appointed by the Com-who love the cause of Christ. Hitherto, they mittee to take charge of a school for Jewish girls. It was opened on November 12, and the New Testament at once placed in the hands of the scholars. The number increased to thirty, and all went on for a time with good promise of success. But soon the Rabbi induced the parents to withdraw their children from a school where they were taught that Jesus, the lowly and despised Nazarene, was none other than their longpromised Messiah, the Holy One of Israel. The hearts of missionary and teacher sank within them; and for awhile they doubted whether the school could ever be established have endeavoured to meet the expenses without much aid, beyond their own Association, assisted by an Auxiliary in Liverpool; but, although conducted with the greatest economy, the outlay is considerable, and will increase if the work prospers. "In order to carry it on efficiently, they feel now compelled to solicit, more widely, the contributions of those friends who delight to consecrate their substance to the glory of Christ." WHAT the precept constitutes our duty, love makes both a privilege and a pleasure. Poetry. FOR THE SABBATH. HAIL, peaceful morn! thy dawn I hail ! How shall I best improve thy hours? And when in Zion I appear, "The life, the truth, the way : May every sermon, like the dew, And consolate the mind; Receiv'd with meekness, truth, and love, Then to my chamber I'll repair, Thus may my Sabbath pass away, But yet a rest for saints remains, Pimlico. R. H. SHEPHERD. EPITAPH IN ST. ANDREW'S, HOLBORN, ON disobedience to the law of God constituting 6 her head and figure; and her little boy, a beautiful child of about two years old, clung to her. You will understand the interest with which we looked on Mahendra's wife and child. I took her hand, but, like all native women, she was too shy to speak before strangers. She was brought up at Mrs. Wilson's school. Rose is very well educated, clever, very useful in the school, and they have every reason to think a truly converted person. Dr. Duff pointed out one little girl in the class whose father and mother were slain by robbers, and who was found in the road, where the jackals had already begun to eat her! She looked up in my face with such a pretty smile, and such beautiful merry black eyes, it was impossible not to pet her. The eldest class then read John ii. Dr. Duff questioned them upon it, and cross-questioned them most strictly. They answered perfectly. He examined them on many different parts of Scripture, all of which they were well acquainted with. He explained to them the nature of the union between the Lord Jesus and his people, and illustrated it by the fate of a branch broken off from a tree. He then said, 'What would become of a branch broken off? What is that like?' When they fully understood the illustration, he asked for some text wherein our Lord was spoken of as a vine. They immediately quoted, 'I am the vine, ye are the branches.' He then illustrated it by the dependance of an infant on its mother for food and support, and questioned them again on what he had said. He then asked what our Lord said of children coming to Him? They quoted, 'Suffer little children to come unto me,' &c.; and He took them up in his arms and blessed them.' After this exami nation they sang Glory, glory, glory,' and then the 58th Paraphrase. Dr. Duff then examined them in geography. Miss Laing showed me the house; it is very airy, clean, and simple. Everything is done by the girls, who learn to wash, cook, and do all kinds of "Dec. 17, 1846.-According to appoint- household work. They have no communicament we drove to Dr. Duff's house, and he tion with any native servants, and only one accompanied us to the Female Orphan School bearer is kept to clean the walls and the in connexion with the Free Church. Mrs. lights. The children are brought up exactly Wilson, the founder of it, gave it up on like natives, and sleep on bare wooden bedjoining the Plymouth Brethren. At the time steads with no mattress or pillow. The very of the disruption the orphans were all taken little ones have a small pillow. In the cold by the establishment, with the exception of a season each has a blanket, and in the hot few older girls who followed Miss Laing. weather a sheet, to wrap herself in. They Almost all the present pupils, therefore, have live on curry and rice twice a-day. The only only been under her care since that period. thing that can be done for them when they She has just moved into a new house, with a grow up is to marry them to Christians, as it under the missionaries of the Free Church :nice garden, and room enough for 100 pupils. is impossible to send them to service in any "Dec. 14, 1846.-We went to see the As yet she has only thirty, besides one day- family, on account of the heathen servants school for Jewish and Armenian girls, scholar, and a little Bengali child of three years' they would be obliged to mingle with. Some under the care of Mrs. Ewart, wife of old, who comes of her own free will. The have been baptized in infancy; of course one of the missionaries. Mrs. Ewart had majority of the orphans are of Portuguese none of the others are till they give evidence been longing and praying to be made useful origin; they are dressed according to the of conversion. One girl has lately been to the native women, when an excellent old costume of their respective nations. Miss received into the Church of Christ. I had Armenian Protestant missionary came and Laing is a very ladylike, attractive person, remarked her extreme interest when Dr. said he wished she would open a school for who has devoted herself to this good work Duff was speaking. Miss Laing conducts his countrywomen. She agreed, on condition from love to Him who said, 'Feed my lambs.' morning and evening worship daily, and one of his finding a place. He took a very nice The children were all assembled in three of the missionaries comes to preach to them room in a native house. She went there, classes in a spacious apartment on the ground on the Sabbath. They are taught Bengali but no pupils came. For three days she and floor, open on two sides to the outer air. and English simultaneously, as at the Colthe aged missionary met and united in Their copybooks were laid out for inspec lege. Miss Laing told me that the average prayer. On the 4th two little girls came; tion, and, like those at the Jewish school, expense of each child, exclusive of house-rent and she has now about seventy, not quite were remarkable for their neatness. There (which is very high in Calcutta), and of the half of whom are Jewesses, The elder were no blots, no letters left out, &c. The teachers' salaries, is three rupees, or six shilclass read very nicely a chapter in the New first thing that attracted our attention was lings a month! How many could subscribe Testament, with a perfectly pure English the youngest class, under the charge of this sum, and thus rescue an orphan from the accent. They learn geography; they write Mahendra's widow, Rose, the sweetest look- wild beasts, or from men who are even worse. and mark very neatly; and they have a good ing young Bengali I had ever seen. Her A little girl died about a fortnight ago with acquaintance with the main doctrines of face is quite lovely, not only from feature, all the confidence, joy, and faith, of an expeScripture. The Jewish parents make no ob- but from the sweet, modest, pathetic expres-rienced saint. She longed to depart and be jection to their daughters reading the Newsion. She was dressed like all her country-with Jesus; and spoke to all her companions Testament. They were addressed on women, with a white sheet wrapped round with the greatest earnestness, exhorting them Good night, good night, sweet spirit! thou hast cast FEMALE SCHOOLS IN INDIA. THE following are extracts from a letter regarding the female schools in Calcutta, to flee to Christ for salvation. This very child had been brought to Miss Laing by an old woman, who said it would die if it were not taken in. From some reason Miss Laing hesitated to do so; but some time after, finding the woman still sitting on the steps, she took the child, the woman disappeared, and the little child entered into the kingdom of God. Miss Laing says it is quite useless to send fancy articles for sale here; the only things that sell are good baby and children's clothes, such as the rich would buy. Calico prints are very useful for clothing the orphans, or any old clothes of a simple kind that could be adapted for their use. Ready-made things should be fashioned like night-gowns, with a band round the waist. We are to have a little orphan of our own at the school." DR. CANDLISH'S TRANSLATION SPEECH. WE took the liberty in last "Messenger" of criticising the usual style of speeches on the occasion of the translation of a minister from one charge to another; such speeches being long and oracular, darkening counsel by words without meaning, and affording little help to the brethren who desire to have the mind of the minister as an element in enabling them to come to a judgment. In contrast to the instances then referred to, we here present the speech of Dr. Candlish, on the occasion of his being translated from the pastoral charge of Free St. George's Church to the Chair of Theology in the New College, Edinburgh. It is a manly and straight-forward expression of his opinion, and a model of what a translation speech ought to be: The Moderator having asked Dr. Candlish if he wished to make any statement to the Commission, Dr. Candlish said, "I did not intend to speak at this stage of the proceedings; however, I have no objection to take upon me the responsibility of answering your call; and, addressing a few words to the Commission, as to what I think is right, I shall frankly repeat what I stated to the Committee last night. My judgment is this, that on general grounds, and this is not an opinion formed of yesterday, but it is an opinion which I have entertained during my whole professional life, there cannot be a shadow of doubt as to the pre-eminent importance of a theological chair over any charge in the Church. (Hear.) I cannot entertain a doubt as to the right of the Church to call for the service of any man to fill a theological chair. This is not an opinion which I have formed in consequence of any conversation in regard to this particular vacancy; and the members of my own congregation will do me the justice to remember that I have publicly expressed that conviction on a former occasion. (Hear, hear.) I feel as strongly as any man can do the responsibility involved in severing the pastoral tie in the circumstances in which I am placed. I may say that if I had anything like the apology which Dr. Gordon had, arising from gray hairs, it would have been the greatest possible relief to put a stop to this proposal; but while I will gain nothing in the way of personal comfort in the proposed change, while I will perhaps lose the attachment of a congregation which no man ever enjoyed to a greater extent for a long period, I have not the apology of gray hairs, and I am therefore willing to spend and be spent in any office to which the hurch may call me. With all my leanings favour of my congregation, I cannot, for a moment, on general grounds, hesitate, if it is the mind of the Church that I ought to take the chair. (Applause.) I take leave further to say, that I cannot answer for the fate of the congregation; the issue of events are in the hands of the great Head of the Church, but I give them the assurance of my utmost aid and assistance; and I do not believe that they will scatter. If I thought so, I would leave them to-morrow. (Applause.) If I thought my congregation would be actuated by any such feelings, it would materially lighten the pain of separation; but I will not believe this of a congregation that has enjoyed so many tokens of God's favour, and received so much credit from this Church." PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL IN 1687. THE following is an extract from a work entitled, "The Elevation of the People, Moral, Instructional, and Social," by the Rev. Thomas Milner, M.A., published last year | by Mr. Snow: of the poor. 6 BISHOPS AND PRESBYTERS. DR. BANCROFT, Chaplain to Archbishop Whitgift, and his successor in the See of Canterbury, was the first who asserted in England the divine right of Prelacy, and the superiority of the order of Bishops over Presbyters. It was in a sermon preached at Paul's Cross, January 12, 1588. Hitherto, even among highest Churchmen, the difference had been ascribed solely to human appointment. Sir Francis Knollys told the Archbishop that Dr. Bancroft's opinion was contrary to the command of Christ, who prohibited all superiority among the apostles. He requested Dr. Reynolds, of Oxford, to give his opinion of this new doctrine; in his letter, Dr. Reynolds observes, "that all who have laboured in reforming the Church for five hundred years, have taught that all pastors, whether they are entitled Bishops or Priests, have equal authority and power by God's Word: as the Waldenses, next Marsilius Patavinus, then Wycliffe and his followers, afterwards Huss and the Hussites; and Luther, Calvin, Brentius, Bullinger, and Musculus. Among ourselves, we Bishops, the Queen's Professors of Divinity, and other learned men, as Bradford, Lambert, Jewel, Pilkington, Humphrey, Fulke, and others. But why do I speak of particular persons? It is the opinion of the Reformed Churches of Helvetia, Savoy, France, Scotland, Germany, Hungary, Poland, the Low Countries, and our own. I hope Dr. Bancroft will not say, that all these have approved that for sound doctrine, which was condemned by the general consent of the whole Church as heresy, in the most flourishing time. I hope he will acknowledge he was overseen when he avouched the superiority of Bishops over the rest of the clergy, to be God's own ordinance.' "The year preceding the landing of William III. witnessed the first special effort made in modern times to improve the mental and moral condition of the poorer classes. The Committee of the National Society, in an Appendix to their Report for the year 1832, give an account of the rise and progress of schools for the education of the children The first English charity school,' they remark, 'was opened in Westminster in 1698, as an antidote to the Jesuits' charity grammar schools.' This is a mistake of several years. The effort commenced in 1687, under the auspices of members of the Non-conforming body. In that year, Poulton, a Jesuit, taking the benefit of James's indulgence, gave public notice that he would instruct the children of the poor gratis, and opened a school in Gravel-lane, Southwark, for that purpose. This stimulated the zeal-Strype's Whitgift. of the Protestant party to a corresponding scheme; and, accordingly, three lay gentlemen, connected with the Presbyterian congregation in St. Thomas's, Southwark, immediately commenced a school. They started with forty scholars, but the number was soon increased to a hundred and thirty, who were taught reading, writing, and arithmetic, and the principles of religion according to the Assembly's Catechism. The school was supported by voluntary subscriptions, bequests, and two annual collections: one of its annual sermons, preached on New-year's days, was printed for more than a century; and the liberal foundation on which it was based appears from the fact, that the children were simply required to attend a place of worship under the direction of their parents. This effort, anticipating that made by the Establishment by eleven years, deserves a record, as the first of the kind in England."Pp. 26. In a foot-note the Author adds:-" The founders of this school were Mr. Ferdinando Holland, Arthur Shallet, and Samuel Warburton. Matthew Henry observes, in his private MS.:-'I went early, Jan. 1, 1712-13, to Gravel-lane, in Southwark, Mr. Marriott's meeting-place, where there has been a charityschool for twenty-five years. There I preached an anniversary sermon from Prov. iii. 9. A collection was made, amounting to 357.' The National Society's account was reprinted by the compilers of the educational abstract of the Parliamentary returns in 1833, in their report. The substance of it also appeared in the Christian Observer,' 1834. This journal has given great prominence to the Church origin of modern movements for general education. (See Sept. number, 1841.) The truth is as stated above." CHINA. have WHERE can talents the most brilliant, and piety the most fervent, find a nobler field for their exercise than on these "fields white unto the harvest?" If the vastness of the work, the amount of difficulty, the mighty results to be expected, and the encouragements which mingle in the prospect, can stamp on any work the impress of true glory, then that undertaking is the attempt to diffuse the Gospel among the three hundred and sixty millions of China. The attempt itself knows nothing to equal it in past undertakings. The great wall of China-the pyramids of Egypt the discovery of a new hemispheresink into insignificance in the comparison with the attempt to demolish the speculative atheism and debasing idolatry of China, and to build up in their stead, lively and spiritual stones into the temple of the true God. Such an object, so vast in conception, and so stupendous in results, must not be taken in hand sparingly or hesitatingly. Numerous labourers must enter on this work. Far better that China had never been opened to Christianity, than that with an imperial edict of universal toleration beckoning us forward, Protestants should decline entering the breach with an adequate force. Popery is already sending its agents with redoubled activity. The impostor of Mecca also, for 600 years, has had his numerous followers scattered over the neighbouring islands, and on the forbidden soil of China itself; where Islam, triumphing, not by the usual methods of fire and sword, but by the milder arts of proselytism, has shamed the puny efforts of Christians in a holier cause. The moral evils of our past intercourse lend an additional power to the voice of China, crying to British Christians, by the depth of her moral degradation, though not | essentially and permanently and perpetually by her consciousness of it, "Come over and help us."-Narrative of visit to China, 18441846, by Rev. George Smith, M.A., Oxon. THE POWER, PERMANENCE, AND PERPETUITY OF HABIT. THE following is an extract of a Sermon, by the Rev. D. Munro, North Sunderland, Northumberland, on Rev. xxii. 11,-" He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still :" "Eternity, so far from being an entirely new or original state of moral existence, is, in fact, only an advanced stage of our moral existence, in which the principles which are implanted in the soul on earth arrive at maturity, and proceed unto perfection. He who now soweth to the flesh, shall there of the flesh reap corruption; while he who now soweth to the Spirit, shall there of the Spirit reap life everlasting. In the world to come, we merely make progress in the very same kind of life which is commenced on earth, for they are only the principles which are engendered here which can bring forth fruit hereafter. Eternity may be a new state of existence in respect of locality and condition, which are but outward circumstances; but, in respect of predominant habits and propensities and affections-in respect either of love to God, or enmity against Him, as the reigning and ascendant principle in the soul-in respect of the pursuit of holiness, or a desire after sinful and sensual indulgence, in short, in respect of all that is essential to the moral character of every individual, it is but the extended duration of the very same generic existence which was begun on earth. The moral constitution is the same in kind, though assuredly heightened in degree, whilst the physical condition may be widely different. Death is merely a change of condition not of character, and it simply transmits the spirit to its everlasting abode without effecting any moral alteration-and, therefore, when this great event occurs, he who has been unjust, must be unjust still and he who has been filthy, must be filthy still: but, on the other hand, he who is then found to be holy, shall be hloy still: and he who is righteous, shall be righteous still. The embryo of our future heaven or of our future hell is not fully developed in a present life; nevertheless, it is the very same embryo, whether of moral excellence or of moral worthlessness, which is now concealed within us, that shall rise up from the slumbers of the sepulchre on the last day in the form of a re-animated body, and be either advancing throughout endless ages to the highest degree of glory in the paradise of God, or sinking deeper and deeper in the dark and unfathomable pit of condemnation. The elementary principles of everlasting life are implanted in the soul on earth, and it is not an extirpation of these principles, but continuation of them that will follow the change we call death. The very same principles which are now at work within us, will take up their eternal residence in the disembodied spirit at the hour of death; and in the embodied spirit on the morning of the resurrection, and throughout all immortality, will produce either the fruits of holiness or the fruits of corruption. Though the circumstances in which these principles may hereafter operate may be widely different from the circumstances in which they operate at present, the principles themselves will be FREE CHURCH PUBLICATIONS. WE would remind our readers of the series of cheap books at present issuing under the direction of the Free Church of Scotland. For four shillings a-year, four volumes of most valuable matter are furnished; and it is only by a most extensive sale that so cheap and valuable a series can be supplied. The last volume of the present year, containing a history of revivals, specially that of Cambusslang, with original sermons of Whitefield, is alone worth more than the money given for four such volumes. Advertisements. Just published, in 12mo., cloth, price 5s., REDEMPTION DRAWING NIGH: & Defence of the Premillennial Advent. By the Rev. ANDREW A. BONAR, of Collace. James Nisbet and Co. AMES NISBET and CO. have recently published New Editions of the following I. The NIGHT of WEEPING. Fifteenth Thousand. 2s. cloth. the same. Though death makes a material change, it makes no moral change on the state of man. It separates the soul from the body; but, except this, we know not of any other change which death of itself is calculated to produce. It can neither originate nor consummate any moral or spiritual alteration. The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness; but it is not death which makes them perfect in holiness. It is a solemn and most momentous truth, that the character of the heart and the affections is unchangeable by any physical cause-and therefore death can only be the means of introducing wickedness into the abodes of desperation, or purity into the abodes of angelic sacredness. And oh! how fearfully are multitudes deceived who trust to a deathbed repentance, and who fondly imagine that when flesh and heart faint and fail, a rapid revolution of their affections may take place from the things that are seen and temporal to the things that are unseen and eternal. This JA may be most thoroughly impracticable, for death will in all probability find them pre-approved works :cisely in the same state in which they have habitually and inveterately lived. This decisive event in our moral history cannot create or call into being in the soul a single principle which did not previously exist there. It may, indeed, produce terror and alarm and awful apprehension at the prospect of im- The RETROSPECT. By the late Rev. R. pending punishment, but it cannot produce MARKS. Twenty-first Edition. 5s. cloth. preparation for heaven. It may even excite a desire for holiness as the means of escaping from eternal torment, but it cannot make the sinner holy. It is not death that can turn the current of the affections from the world and the things that are in the world. The truth is, that the prevalence of a particular moral tendency in the soul on earth, prompting either to the pursuit of holiness or to the indulgence of corruption, is as certain and infallible a criterion of character, and consequently of our future condition, as is the sentence that will be given when the great white throne shall be erected in the air, and the multitudes of all generations shall be assembled around it. If the love of God be not now shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, assuredly it is not death which can slay the enmity of the carnal mind, or so transform us that we shall be qualified to enter into heaven. The habits which are acquired on earth will be the habits of the man throughout all eternity. The desires and affections which are here ascendant in the soul, will be its ascendant desires and affections for ever. There is a continuity in the habits of our moral existence which is indissoluble and everlasting; and if we are not now as anxious to be freed from sin as from the torments of the second death, we are still far from the strait and narrow way which leadeth unto life. The imagination may luxuriate in a scene of ideal happiness which lies beyond the grave; but, unless the heart be attuned to the service of the upper sanctuary, by a delight in the exercises of religion here below-that heaven in which the servants of God shall serve Him in all the beauty of immaculate holiness, is a heaven which we will never enter, a pure and lofty region into which we can never be admitted." GUILT upon the conscience will make a feather-bed hard; peace of mind will make a straw bed soft and easy. DOING God's will is food to a healthy soul. THE root of contentment is humility. BETTER suffer wrong than do wrong. II. The LISTENER. By CAROLINE FRY. Tenth Edition. Two vols. foolscap, cloth, gilt, 10s. IV. DERRY. By CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH. Ninth Edition. Foolscap, 5s. cloth. V. LIFE in EARNEST. Thirty-fifth Thousand. 1s. 6d. cloth. VI. WILDERNESS RECORDS. Second Edition. 2s. cloth. VII. CIOCCI'S NARRATIVE. 2s. 6d. cloth. VIII. Eighth Edition. A COMMENTARY on LEVITICUS. By Rev. A. A. BONAR. Second Edition. 8s. 6d., post 8vo., cloth. Just published, 12mo., cloth, price 4s. 6d., EMAINS of REV. JAMES STEWART, R Free South Church, Aberdeen. With a Memoir of the Author. By Rev. ROBERT CRAIG, Rothsay. Also, in 8vo., stitched, price 6d., A SERMON, preached in the Territorial Church, West Port, Edinburgh, on occasion of the ordins tion of the Rev. W. Tasker as the Pastor of that Church. By the Rev. J. J. WOOD, M.A. J. D. Lowe, Edinburgh; William Collins, London; THE great thing in the Church is Christ, the eternal deity of Christ, the blood of Christ, the Spirit of Christ, the presence of Christ among us, The great thing is Christ, but there is also advantage in a certain government of the Church. I am a Presbyterian, not only of situation, but of conviction and choice. Our Presbyterian way is the good middle way between Episcopacy on the one side, and Congregationalism on the other. We combine the two great principles that must be maintained in the Church-Order and Liberty: the order of government, and the liberty of the people.--MERLE D'AUBIGNE. COMMISSION OF SYNOD. WE beg to call the attention of the members of the Commission of Synod, to the advertisement on the last page, relative to the meeting to be held at Liverpool, on Wednesday, the 6th of the present month. It is of great importance that there should be a full attendance of members. THE COLLEGE. HISTORY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN (Continued from page 483.) obtained. authority of their official sanction to the most illegal and unconstitutional acts of the Crown. England was governed at this time more by Royal proclamations than by laws, and The King governs without Parliament-Arch-orders of council took the place of Acts of Parliament. For the raising of money, in bishop Laud's Primacy-Persecution of the Puritans-Trial of John Hampden for granted by the Commons, every variety of room of the ordinary ways of supplies being Ship-money-Attempts to enforce Prelacy in Scotland-The Renewal of the Covenant device was had recourse to. By taxes and -General Assembly at Glasgow, 1638--imposts, by the sale of rights and monopolies, by fines and compositions, the necessary funds IN The Bishops' War-The English Army of the disappointment again consequence sustained this summer in obtaining a perunder the King, and the Covenanters und er were procured. Writs were also issued to manent professor of Systematic Theology for Leslie, meet at Dunse Lave-Negotiation the magistrates of towns and sheriffs of the College, recourse has been had to temfor Peace-A New Parliament summon ed counties to assess and levy rates on all subat Westminster-Second Scottish War jects able to contribute. These rates had porary arrangements for the conduct of that department during the ensuing session; and Treaty at Ripon―The Long Parliament different names, according to the uses for the Rev. Patrick Fairbairn, of Salton, and the meets November, 1640which they were raised; that for the navy, Character and Rev. W. Wilson, of Carmylie, have underProceedings of the House---Influence of the for instance, being called "Ship money." In this way for a time sufficient supplies were taken to render a similar service to the Presbyterians in the Cause of Liberty and institution, next winter, to that which Dr. Reformation-The Et Cetera Oath--ImHenderson and Dr. Hanna performed on a peachment of Strafford and Laud-The former occasion with so much acceptance to Absolute Power of the Croven broken by the its students and supporters. Mr. Fairbairn Firm Resistance of the Parliament-The will deliver a two-months' course of lectures King's Visit to Scotland in 1641-The Irish during the earlier half of the session; and Massacre-The King's Attempt to seize Mr. Wilson will commence a course of the the Five Members of the Commons--Comsame extent at the re-opening of the classes mencement of the Civil War-The Calling after the Christmas holidays. The tried and of the Westminster Assembly of Divines. known ability of these gentlemen as divines, CHARLES having thus got rid of the restraints and the generous cordiality with which they of Parliament, determined to govern hencehave entered into the present arrangement, forth with the aid of his Council only. Since afford to the friends of the institution the the death of Buckingham, I aud and Wentbest guarantee that the important work which worth possessed the chief influence at the they have undertaken will be done with the Court. Wentworth had been bought off from greatest efficiency and success. We are con- the popular side during the last Parliament, fident that under the superintendence of these and was now an active pro moter of every gentlemen, along with the able and assiduous oppressive measure. Finch, the Lord Keeper, instructions of the present professors, Camp-Noy, Attorney-General, and the other officers bell and Lorimer, our students will have of State, were all submissive and obsequious every advantage that under existing circum-tools of Royalty. The majority of the Judges stances can be obtained.-(See Adv.) were corrupt and venal me: a, and gave the The same syster of oppression and tyranny was carried into the government of the Church. Not only was strict conformity required, beyond all that former times of persecution had witnessed., but new enactments were introduced by a rbitrary command. As in the State, proclamations and orders in council were issued bey on d and often opposed to the laws of the la id, so in the Church instructions were issued, reaching in the direction of Popery far beyond the most objectionable of the existing canons. when the clergy refused to comply they were liable to be brought before the Court of High Commission, and punished with unrelenting severity. And Laud had knowledge enough and honesty enough not to be a downr ight Papist while at the head of a Reformed Church, yet his hatred of everything truly Protestant made him far nearer to the F 'apists than to the Puritans. "I would I k new" (says Bishop |