I repeat, only rouses into exercise what is already lodged in the bosom. The time of peace is the time for entering into that life-boat which no storm can sink-for putting on board that cargo which no disaster can dissipate--the knowledge of God in Christ Jesus. Here, my brethren, is the true character of God. In Christ, God is love. In Christ, a God of love is a God of righteousness. In this was manifested his love, that he gave his Son to be a propitiation for our sins. There-there is the character of his love which makes it suitable to our necessities. Conscience takes cognisance of sin; and the only view of God which can bring peace to the conscience is one which provides for the pardon of sin. It must also provide for the righteousness of God. There lurks in man a secret conviction that God is just. I believe that no man can be really at ease in any view of religion which compromises God's justice. However he may try to make himself easy, and endeavour to talk himself into quietness in the hours of peace, there is lodged in the very soul of man, even fallen man, a secret feeling that God is just. Hence the sacrifices of the heathen. Hence all their bloody offerings, endeavouring to appease the justice, every man, of his god. Conscience, again, takes cognisance of our guilt, as well as of God's righteousness; and the only view that can thoroughly satisfy man-that can go to the root of the evil-that can appease his consciousness of God's righteousness and of his own guilt--is the view opened up in the person of Jesus Christ-God, just, and the justifier of the ungodly; perfectly just, and the free justifier of the most ungodly. Here there is no compromise between his attributes at the expense of their perfection: no hesitation as to how far his justice may act without interfering with his mercy, or how far his mercy may extend without interfering with his justice. All this combination of imperfections, which belongs to the Deist's idol, is removed; for in Christ Jesus the true and living God is exhibited to us as inflicting the whole penalty which sin deserved, to the very extent of the most rigorous justice. He made him to be sin for us. He treated him as sin-as an accursed thing; for it is written, "Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.” Jesus Christ was made a curse for us. The curse of God against man's sin fell upon him. He had man's nature-true and perfect human nature, of the substance of a woman, made under the law, so that every fibre of that frame, and every feeling of that mind, were capable of enduring the very species of agony which man's sins deserved. The sufferings of his body, and the sufferings of his soul, were precisely what human sin had incurred; so that he descended indeed into hell. For what is hell, but conscious exposure to God's wrath against sin? And Jesus Christ endured that conscious exposure, when he said, "My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death; when he cried, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" "It pleased the Father to bruise him," saith the prophet: "he hath put him to grief: he made his soul an offering for sin." Then went forth the righteous judgment of God, And it was finished. In Christ Jesus was the nature of God as well as man: so that, while his suffering, in the kind of it, was just what man deserved; in the degree of it, it was just what God's government required. Owing to the union of the divine and human natures, an infinite meritoriousness was communicated to every human pang; so that with one hand he stretched to the height and depth of the divine government, while with the other he applied himself to the tenderest susceptibilities of fallen man's miseries. He stands thus as the daysman, (Job ix. 30-33), to lay his hands on both; his hand of omnipotent atonement, harmonising the character of God, and prolonging the song of angels, "Glory to God in the highest,”— his hand of human sympathy, touching the necessities of man, and waking up that sweetest song on earth," Peace, good-will towards men. This, my brethren, is what men should be taught. This truth, when lodged in the mind, and ready to be roused by the conscience, would bring the trembling mariner to the enjoyment of peace in Christ Jesus. It is to teach the mariners connected with this port this truth; to impress them with this view of God; to accustom them to look to Jesus; to show them, in Him, the infinite wickedness of sin in calling forth such judgment, and the infinite goodness of God in supplying such an atonement :--it is to invite them so to look at Christ that their hearts shall be broken for sin—that they may hate what crucified him, and love the God who gave him to be crucified-that, hating sin, and loving God, they may find in themselves something very different from poetry, or sentiment, or philosophy, which cannot touch the character, but only engage the intellect or play around the imagination—that they may find a spring of sanctifying power, a moral fountain open within them, to keep them from the temptations of the world, and shield them from despair in the hour of imminent danger. It is for this that you are invited to employ your efforts, to instruct your seamen in the Gospel of Christ,-to have this glorious truth preached to them, that, by God's own ordinance of preaching -by what the apostle describes man as reviling and decrying as the foolishness of preaching-God's wisdom may be made known to them, and God's power exercised upon them, that so they may be made wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus. (1 Cor. i. 20-31.) I have no estimate of the number of British sailors engaged in the coasting trade, but it must be enormous. And for all these what supply of Christian instruction has been provided by this great and wealthy town? One little chapel; and even that-alas, how disproportioned to the exigencies of the case!-even that little chapel is in debt. I must say, for the interests of truth require it, and I say it without any reproachful feeling, though the word may sound reproachful, (yet truly I utter it with unfeigned regret, not with unkind reproach,) it is a DISGRACE to the town; and 1 entreat you, my dear friends, this day to do what lieth in you, at least, to wipe off this stain. (To be continued.) VOYAGES AND TRAVELS OF A BIBLE. When we arrived at the end of our journey, Teito (which was the slave's name) took me into his hut, and put me carefully into his little press. The next day he brought me to the middle of his hut, when I whispered to him, "Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards." "Sure I have found it so," said Teito, " from my youth up to the present hour." "But," I added, “the Lord will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble; and they that know his name will put their trust in him." "I wish I knew this Lord," replied Teito, "I would run for refuge to him." I endeavoured to convince him that sin is the cause of all human misery. "But," said he, "what is sin?" I answered, "It is the transgression of * That is, apart from the extensive operations of the Liverpool Seamen's Friend Society.-ED. the law of God;" and, that he might understand this, I explained to him the nature of that law; and mentioned many who in ancient times transgressed that law, and stated the punishments inflicted on them. In order, also, to make him acquainted with the progress of sin and misery in the heathen world, among whom he was born, I repeated what Paul wrote in the first chapter of his letter to the Romans. I told him that God had not left men to perish without a remedy; that he had not left them without a refuge; but had so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. When he had time, I related to him the life and death, &c., of Jesus Christ. God inclined him to listen to my instructions, and taught him to understand them. My information was all new to him, having never heard such things before. Wherever he went, he repeated what I had told him, and often solicited his comrades to come to his hut and hear me themselves. Some, however, said I talked nonsense; others that I made them uneasy, which they did not like; and a third, that I was a rank enthusiast, and had in some other islands created great confusion. "Oh!" said Teito, "you do not understand him, or you would not entertain such notions of him; for he has been travelling for some thousand years in the world, teaching, without any reward, how men may become happy here, and in a world that is to come." "Well," said they, "has he done any good?" "Yes, infinite good: he has comforted thousands in every age, in all their afflictions; delivered them from painful despondency; and made them not only to love each other, but their enemies also; and through his instructions has made them to rejoice even in the solemn hour of dissolution, which, in general, is a terror to the stoutest heart." "It may be so," said one, "shrugging up his shoulders and walking off." Some said, these things might do very well for old and infirm people, who are stepping down into the grave, but they had no occasion for them now. On this Teito held me up, when I took the opportunity to call out-“Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation-Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else." On this they put their fingers in their cars, and ran off. On which I called after them--" Who hath believed our report? to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?” Some of my words spoken at this time made a deep impression on the minds of several; as they afterwards confessed, when they were converted to the faith of Christ. Teito supposed, that as these had treated the word of God so disdainfully, there was no hope of their ever being benefited by that word. But I soon taught him, that God had long patience with men upon this earth, and often knocked for many years at their hearts with the hammer of his word and of his providence, before they opened to receive him. This encouraged Teito to pray for his friends who had left him, that God would bring his word to their remembrance, and cause them to experience it to be his incorruptible seed. I told him, that in the morning we should sow this seed; and in the evening should not withhold our hands from sowing, for we know not which should prosper, this or that. He believed all I said, and did according to my directions. He was no loser by this, for I became the joy and rejoicing of his soul. Teito now began to bless God that he had been brought from his country. "Without this," said he, "I never could have known the true God, and Jesus Christ his Son, whom he sent into the world." Oh! how thankful he was to the God of providence, for leading him to lie down to sleep at the foot of that tree where I lay, who, under God, had conveyed to him such precious and eternal blessings! "O," said he, “had any gentleman made me a present of the best horse in the island, and a purse of gold to carry me home, without sleeping at that tree, what a loser I must have been-but his wisdom is a great deep, and his ways past finding out!" but this The next remarkable circumstance that happened, while I resided with Teito, was to see two of those who had treated Teito and me with contempt, returning and confessing, with apparent sorrow, their improper conduct, and asking permission to hear me again. Teito received them with great affection, and assured them that his God was infinitely more ready to forgive and receive to His favour, than he was. They told us, that some of my sayings had followed them by night and by day; especially God's command to look unto him, that they might be saved. They often dreamed of these words, look unto me; and while busy at work, they said they thought they heard a person from a distance crying with a loud voice, "Look unto me; was owing to the deep impression these words had made on their minds. Teito related to them the wonderful providence that introduced him to my acquaintance, and how unwearied I had been in conveying to his mind the knowledge of his Creator and Redeemer. Before he knew me, he declared he had been as ignorant of himself and his God as the very fowls of heaven. "But now," said he, "I know the grace of the Lord Jesus, that though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that we, through his poverty, might be made rich." They asked him, if he was any happier since he knew these things. "Happier," said Teito, with tears in his eyes, "I never was happy before. I knew nothing that could make me so: but now I know my God to be my Friend, his Son to be the Prince of peace and of life to me. My Friend, the Prince of life, lives in my soul, and teaches me to live a life of dependance on his dear, faithful, precious word, which is sweeter to me than honey from the honeycomb.” "Do you not think, Teito, you should be happier still, if your master would give you your liberty?" "I should in that case," replied Teito, "bless God, and thank my master. But though I am now my master's slave, yet I am God's free man. He allows me to speak to him when I please, to ask from him any favour; and he does it for me as readily as he does for the richest Christian in the world. He tells me that all his family are one in Christ Jesus; and that when I reach the heavenly mansions I shall reign with his Son; in fact, that I am an heir of God, and a joint-heir with Jesus Christ. Is it not wonderful, my friends, that God should be so kind and condescending to a poor slave? Our two visitors sat amazed, at hearing old Teito tell them of the love of the great God to his soul. Indeed, this was the first time that they had ever heard a man speak of the love of the great God to his soul: nor is this surprising in such a country, where the acquisition of wealth is universally considered to be the one thing needful to render men happy. God and his great salvation are entirely neglected. The white people's children are brought up for business, but not for God. Their education is the same as if they had no soul, and as if there was neither a God, nor a heaven, nor a hell. As for the black children, they are reared like beasts, merely for work. Their parents know nothing to teach them, and their masters in general know as little about God; wherefore they are left to grow up, to live and to die in ignorance. The shadows of the evening began to appear in Teito, for his bodily strength was decaying apace. His master, being a humane man, did not exact his usual labour, but allowed him to work or not, as he pleased. This gave him opportunity of conversing with me almost from morning to evening. I desired him to continue steadfast in the faith of my instructions, and persevere in humble and holy walking, and he should certainly possess the crown of life. One day, when his master called to see him, he told him he meant to leave me as a legacy to him, and begged he would treat me with civility and affection. He descanted on my qualifications, such as the variety of useful information which I was able to communicate, of my unchangeable veracity and strict fidelity. He assured his master also, that I would make men wise unto everlasting salvation. He then thanked his master for the kindness he had shown him for many years, and prayed fervently, that the God of Abraham might bless, protect, and reward him, and that both of them might meet at the right hand of Jesus their judge. Then his master took an affectionate farewell. On his arrival at home, he related the interview he had had with old Teito, which excited the rest of the family to visit him frequently, and they always brought with them some cordial to revive the heart of old Teito. In a few weeks, he breathed his spirit into the hands of his heavenly Father, just after he had recommended the Saviour to the notice of one of the young ladies, who ran home in a flood of tears to tell her father that Teito was now no more. "Blessed are the dead," said I, to those who were present, "who die in the Lord, for they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them." (To be continued.) Correspondence. We have much pleasure in inserting the following account of the first hoisting of the beautiful Bethel flag, made by the ladies of our Auxiliary at Uxbridge, and presented by them to our worthy brother, Captain Hasted, of the Barnard Castle, Stockton schooner. This is the second instance of similar liberality with which the Uxbridge ladies have supplied us; their former flag having been taken by Mr. Trotter, for use in his labours upon the coast of Cornwall. It would gratify our friends at Uxbridge, no less than it would oblige us and promote the cause itself, if their noble example should find imitators in other parts of the country. We trust this will be the case. September 20th, 1849. Dear Sir, I have much pleasure in informing you, the Bethel flag given by the Ladies' Auxiliary at Uxbridge to our esteemed friend, Captain H. Hasted, was, for the first time, hoisted at the mast head of the Barnard Castle, on Monday, 3rd of September, the vessel laying at Battle Bridge tier, near London Bridge. It was a fine day, and the new flag looked beautiful as it waved in the breeze. In the evening of the day, I had the happiness of witnessing a goodly number met together for the purpose of worshipping God beneath it. We began by singing a hymn upon deck, and from thence repaired to the cabin, which was soon crowded to excess, while some were obliged to remain upon deck. It was a time of deep interest to many who were present. The circumstance having been made known that the ladies of Uxbridge had furnished the Bethel flag, under which we had then met, was |