the importance of adhering to the rule which I have laid down for myself in relation to such matters. sees in it much profession and ostentation, covering much surface, but Christianity is deep and substantial. A man is soon enlisted, but he is not soon made a soldier. He is easily put into the ranks, to make a 1. To hear as little as possible whatever is to the prejudice of others. 2. To believe nothing of the kind till show there; but he is not easily brought I am absolutely forced to it. to do the duties of those ranks. We are 3. Never to drink into the spirit of too much like an army of Asiatics: they one who circulates an ill report. 4. Always to moderate, as far as I can, the unkindness which is expressed towards others. 5. Always to believe that, if the other side were heard, a very different account would be given of the matter. BE GENTLE. "I WALKED," says Henry Martyn, "into the village where the boat stopped for the night, and found the worshippers of Cali by the sound of their drums and cymbals. I did not speak to them, on account of their being Bengalees. But being invited to walk in by the Brahmans, I walked within the railing, and asked a few questions about the idol. The Brahman, who spoke bad Hindostani, disputed with great heat, and his tongue ran faster than I could follow, and the people, who were about one hundred, shouted applause. But I continued to ask my questions without making any remarks upon the answers. I asked, among other things, whether what I had heard of Vishnu and Brahma were true, which they confessed. I forbore to press him with the consequences, which he seemed to feel, and so I told him what was my belief. The man grew quite mild, and said it was chula bat, (good words,) and asked me seriously at last, what I thought -was idol worship true or false? I felt it a matter of thankfulness that I could make known the truth of God, though but a stammerer, and that I had declared it in the presence of a devil. And this I also learned, that the power of gentleness is irresistible." THE RELIGIOUS WORLD. THE religious world has many features which are distressing to a holy man. He count well, and make a good figure; but when they come into action, one has no flint, another has no cartridge,—the arms of one are rusty, and another has not learnt to handle them. This was not the complaint equally at all times: it belongs too peculiarly to the present day. The fault lies in the muster. We are like Falstaff, who took the king's money to press good men and true, but got together such a ragged set that he was ashamed to muster them. What is the consequence? people groan under their connections. There are high pretensions to spirituality! warm zeal for certain sentiments! priding themselves in Mr. Such a-one's ministry! But what becomes of their duties? Oh, these are "beggarly elements" indeed. -Such persons are alive to religious talk; but if you speak to them of religious tempers, the subject grows very irksome.-Cecil. ON HUMILITY. HUMILIATION is the spirit of our dispensation-not a creeping, servile, canting humility, but an entire self-renunciation. The mystics often talk admirably on this subject. Pride is the most universal and inveterate of all vices. Every man is a proud man, though all are not equally proud. No sin harasses the Christian so much, nor accompanies him so unweariedly. Its forms of exhibiting itself are infinitely varied, and none are more common than the affectation of humility. The assumption of the garb of humility in all its shades, is generally but an expression of a proud heart. Pride is the master-sin of the spirit, and the grace of God, in the whole tenor of our dispensation, is directed against it.-Ib. CHRISTIAN CHARITY. CHARITY should teach us to exercise hope and love toward all men- hope toward them who are without, and love toward those who are within the walls of the city of our God. Of those without, we are apt to despair too soon, and to say, "there is no hope;" when we should labour to allure them into the church of God, and to impress them with a sense of its glory and its privileges. HYMN. 1 Cor. xi. 9. Toward those within the walls we often fail in the exercise of love: we are too much influenced in our feelings toward them by a difference of education, taste, or disposition; while the great question ought to be, "Are they really fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God?'" and if so, whatever their defects may be, we ought to honour and love them, as "the temples of the Holy Ghost."-Cecil. Poetry. NOR eye had seen, nor ear had heard, Far above sense, and earth, and time, The Saviour, with his glory crown'd, There mansions rise, and thrones appear, Whose service is the fruit of faith- Oh may this faith and love be mine, J. S. Review of Books. WE could have borne all the pungency of Mr. James's "Earnest Ministry," without any such accompaniment as the volume before us. The church must take the type of her ministry; and individual churches are very much what they have been made, for good or evil, by the pastors who have presided over them, and formed their characters and tastes. But we are thankful that our friend has now spoken out to the ehurches with as distinct an oracle as he did to the ministers of the flock of Christ. There is a tendency to look for more from ministers than is just and reasonable; espe eially when church members lose sight, which is often the case, of their own relative obligations. In this bustling age, when money-getting is the universal snare, there is a strong tendency to rely on the pastor for all; and to settle down in the conviction that if the cause declines, it must of necessity be the fault of the hapless preacher. Thousands of professors-thousands of Congregational church members, do literally nothing more to help on the cause which they profess to espouse, than to pay for their pews, and to occupy them twice, or, it may be, only once, on a Lord's day. How such people can wonder that our churches do not prosper, is very remarkable. If all were to follow their example, they would come to utter ruin and desolation. Rich professors, too, in our day, fall sadly into the deplorable habit and taste of acting as if their money contributions bought them off from all other exertion to sustain the cause. We have often had to deplore the effect of this upon the thoughtful and pious poor. It is a moral of most baneful tendency, which produces evils incalculable in many churches. Why, if the rich have the grace of God in them, they ought to be the most active and devoted in the flock; as they are freed from numerous cares, and can command time, which is not at the disposal of those classes who labour with the sweat of their brow. We trust "The Church in Earnest" will be read as generally as "The Earnest Ministry." The two books should go hand in hand; and if Mr. James's appeal to church members produces as thrilling an impression, as did his appeal to his brethren, we may expect great and lasting results. The topics handled in this volume are deeply interesting:-1. The Designs to be accomplished by the Church, as regards the present world. 2. Remarks on the Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia, tending to illustrate the nature of earnestness in religion. 3. Nature of Earnestness viewed with reference to Individual Action, and primarily as regards Personal Religion. 4. Earnestness in the way of individual exertion and direct action for the salvation of Souls. 5. Christian Earnestness in Family Religion. 6. The activity of Churches in their collective capacity: or, the diligence of Christians considered as Church Members. 7. The causes that operate to repress this earnestness of religion. 8. Inducements to Earnestness. 9. Examples of Earnestness. 10. The Means to be used to obtain a higher degree of Earnest Piety in the Churches. 11. Conclusion-The Millennial State of the Church. Never have we read a work that we more earnestly wished to see in the hands of all who have taken upon them the vows and obligations of the Christian profession. opportunity, by long residence in India, of forming accurate conceptions of the country and existing state of society; and from his reflective habits of mind, has turned his advantages to account. Our readers, then, are not to look for a mere compilation in the volume before us; but an original work, in which they will discover ample proof of extensive information, and acute observation of men and things. If we do not greatly mistake, there is no work extant which contains such full and lucid details respecting the state of Hindooism as the "Recollections of Northern India." We make this statement advisedly; not allowing ourselves to forget what ponderous volumes have been written descriptive of Indian manners and customs. Mr. Buyers has not, indeed, overlooked what was on the surface of things; but his main object has been to set forth the extent of moral knowledge possessed by the Hindoos, with a view to throw light on the difficult question of their accountableness in the sight of God. From the study which the author has made of Hindoo books, and from his close habits of intercourse for many years with learned Brahmans in the city of Benares, he has fully qualified himself for instructing his countrymen on the important topic to which, in a season of depressed health, he has devoted his literary labours. Of the twenty-four chapters, which compose the volume before us, there is not one that will not amply repay a careful' perusal. The more solid parts of the work are so relieved by interesting narrative and anecdote, that it is impossible to commence reading it without persevering to the close. The work is written with great spirit, and cannot fail to increase the reputation of the author, already well established by his admirable "Letters on India." The friends of missions generally, and of the London Missionary Society in particu lar, ought forthwith to possess themselves of this seasonable addition to the stores of our missionary information. stantly directed to "Jesus Christ and him crucified," their pastor is not in the habit of dwelling exclusively on a few commonplace topics, which constitute the A B C of Christianity, in order to avoid the charge of not preaching the gospel. His hearers are under no temptation to wander in quest of something new, that being always found at home, in due combination with things old and of indispensable necessity. In the ministry to which they are accustomed, there is a compass and variety, including everything calculated to enlighten the understanding, establish the faith of believers, and "provoke to love and good works;" so that "warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom," the preacher "may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus." No wonder, then, that this Lecture "delivered at a monthly meeting of the Associate Churches of Bristol," should be published in compliance with "the strongly expressed wish of many who heard it." In a very brief preface, we are told that the "sole aim" of the Lecture is "the conveyance of information;" and that it has no merit beyond "that of presenting, in a compendious form, some important matters touching the body of which it treats," so as to "meet a requirement of the present time." Accordingly, it gives a concise, but clear and striking account of the origin, the principles, the organization, the morality, and the proceedings of the Jesuits. Previous to the study and preparation required, in order to fulfil the engagement into which he had entered, Mr. Roper "had a strong impression of the evil character of that mischievous and mighty confederacy" of which he had to speak; “but that impression was taken rather from the part which history told him the Jesuits had, at different periods, acted in the political commotions of Europe, than from an insight into the interior of their policy. "Now," says he, "that that interior has been more fully explored by me, I almost fear lest the revelation I have to make should be deemed overstrained and untruthful. I can, however, affirm that, in the course of reading which I have found it needful to pursue, in order to a more ready acquaintance with Jesuitism, I have been scrupulously anxious to lay aside whatever bore not the clearest stamp of credibility; being far more concerned to present a correct portraiture of Jesuitism than to foster the popular repugnance against it; and to gather its condemnation from its own mouth rather than from the accusations of antagonist parties." In answer to the questions,-"In what relation does Jesuitism stand to the Catholic church? Is that church criminated by, or is it in any way exonerated from, its enormities? Is Jesuitism an integral part of that church, or is it not?" The affirmative is maintained, "with some limitation as to the past, though with none as to the present," the Jesuits being no longer a suppressed order. In supporting this view of the subject, the following language of the Pope's Bull, by which they were reorganized in 1814, is quoted:-"We should deem ourselves guilty of a great crime towards God," (alas! for a church which can thus call evil good, and good evil,) “if, amidst the dangers that threaten the Christian republic, we neglected the aids put at our disposal, and if, placed in the bark of Peter, tossed and assailed by continual storms, we refused to employ those vigorous rowers who volunteer their services in order to break the waves of a sea, which threaten every moment shipwreck and death." In the commencement of the Lecture it is well observed, that "a considerable amount of popular interest has, of late years, been gathering around the Jesuits;" and among the variety of causes which have contributed to awaken that interest, are enumerated:-"The subject of mixed marriages in Germany, agitated a few years since by members of the Jesuit order, headed by the Archbishop of Cologne, and which well nigh led to an open rupture between the throne of Prussia and the Catholic church in the land ;-the question of education in France, in connection with which the Jesuits have long been struggling for the ascendancy over the University of Paris, it ever having been the master policy of Jesuitism to secure the youth of a nation, thus laying the foundations of a character more plastic to its after-workings; -the recent civil commotions in Switzerland, which drew from all quarters an anxious glance towards that region of Alpine grandeur, and terminated in a civil war between the Diet of the Swiss Confederacy and the Sonderbund, the object of which was the expulsion of the Jesuits;the mournful disasters which have well nigh extinguished our once fair and flourishing mission in Tahiti, of which disasters the Jesuits were the principal authors;and the vigilance which, in Australia, in India, and in various parts of the heathen world, is tracking the footsteps of Protestant missions, which vigilance is the fruit of Jesuit zeal; the supposed underground influence of Jesuitism in connection with the disquietudes of Ireland, and with the strange revolt from the Protestant standard, which has recently been going on within the pale of the Established Church of these realms." These things, together with "the intelligence which is almost every day reaching us of the expulsion of the Jesuits from some one or other of the Continental states," have very natur ally "tended to excite in the public mind no small amount of curiosity and inquiry touching this mysterious order." 66 Our readers can hardly fail, we imagine, to form some just idea of the importance of this seasonable, interesting, and valuable Lecture; and as the expense of gratifying their "curiosity" will not exceed the small sum of eightpence, we hope that very few of them will decline the "information" thus offered them, or the pleasure and benefit of an attentive perusal. And if anything further be requisite to awaken their attention to these "false prophets," which are gone out into the world," we consider the following passage as sufficient: "Their expulsion from Switzerland is a fresh occurrence, that has been followed, within the past eventful month, by their expulsion from Venice, from Sicilly, from Sardinia, and from parts of Austria; and the papers of this day announce the astounding fact, that the Pope has been compelled to assent to their expulsion from Rome itself! Protestant countries are now almost their only places of refuge. Already, it is said by those best informed, that they are ex tensively in England; and I confess, I anticipate with no small alarm that larger importations of them will speedily take place. I will not enter into the point, how far the question of liberty of conscience has to do with the Jesuits; or whether expulsory laws may or may not be enacted against those whose whole policy is a conspiracy against the civil and social interests of a people. But when it is known that Jesuitism has now in England, where a few years since it was scarcely known, its spacious colleges, in one of which (Stonyhurst, in Lancashire) it is said there are of the theme itself cannot for a moment be disputed; nor will the ability of the Leetures be called in question. The general theory advocated in these pages is, that Evangelical Dissenters, to be consistent with themselves, must educate religiously, and that, therefore, they must educate denominationally, and without the aid of Government grants, raised by general taxation. Those who wish to see these points well handled and argued with power, ought forthwith to possess themselves of the cheap and masterly volume, which we now introduce to our readers. We must confess that we should have liked to see the experiment tried of all evangelical bodies, who repudiate State support for educational purposes, combined in one catholic effort for the instruetion of as many of the people as they might be able to teach. But if this cannot be, in these nervously sensitive times, we must wish well to the plans now in process of adjustment, in connection with the Congregational Union of England and Wales, Our only fear is, that the plan may be found too narrow to awaken a powerful interest, or to call forth a general support. Still, so far as the work of education proceeds, under the auspices of the Union, we believe it will be well done. And if other voluntary bodies will put forth their energies with hearty good will to their fellow-labourers in the same field, we doubt not that our country will realize a far greater benefit than could be derived from the adoption of any Government system of education. five hundred persons of various descrip- DIVINE BLESSING essential to HUMAN SAL tions, all Jesuits; its converts and monasteries; its powerful helps brought over from the Continent -the Sisters of Mercy and Charity; its missionary priests striving, as they ever do, to gain the ascendancy over the regular clergy of the Romish church; its apologists in the senate, and its writers in the leading journals of the day; surely the religious communities of our land should awake to the consciousness of danger, and adopt every scriptural method of exposing and counteracting the influences of a confederacy so secret in its policy and so mischievous in its workings," pp. 35, 36. CROSBY-HALL LECTURES on EDUCATION. Svo. pp. 264, 2s. 6d. John Snow. WHATEVER variety of opinion may be entertained on the merits of the topic discussed in these Lectures, the vast importance VATION. A Sermon preached on behalf of the Baptist Missionary Society, at Surrey Chapel, on Thursday Evening, April 20, 1848, By the Rev. THOMAS ARCHER, D.D., of Oxendon-street Chapel, 18mo. pp. 50. Benjamin L. Green. THE great principles contended for in this impressive and eloquent Discourse, cannot be too highly prized, or too earnestly contended for, in the prosecution of our missionary undertakings. But it is only by an increase of the power of vital godliness that the church will come to be duly impressed with the necessity of practical and habitual reliance on the power of the Holy Ghost. It is a great thing to be right in doctrine upon this point,-it is a greater thing still to be right in feeling. Dr. Archer has faithfully discharged his conscience upon this momentous theme; and to all engaged in helping forward the cause of missions, we may earnestly recommend |