6 Not wishing to trespass upon your columns, I conclude by refer ring to 1 Cor. xi. 10, wherein Paul states that a woman ought to have power on her head, the marginal reading of which is, the woman ought to have a covering in sign that she is under the power of her husband;' which, compared with ver. 3, and the various other portions I have quoted, would seem to have a shew of truth. 'Because of the angels' are words upon which I shall be glad to receive instruction. I have heard it suggested that the angels here referred to were spies sent by the adversaries of the Lord's cause to detect, if possible, christian wives usurping authority over their husbands, that they might have an occasion for reproach.-Very affectionately yours, London, June 1858. THOS. JOHNSON. We know of no reason nor argument deserving the name for the supposition that these Apostolic Exhortations are not part of the counsel of God. It is a most vicious principle for but partially enlightened men to make their seeing, or their sense of propriety the rule of divine revelation or inspiration. If God had commanded only what men deemed right and necessary, what would not the Scriptures have contained? what would not have been excluded? correspondent is right in not leaning to his own understanding-in not trusting to his own sense of fitness and propriety in matters on which God has clearly pronounced. His word, distinctly ascertained, is an end of all controversy. In these exhortations it is most expressly stated. Our Well would it be for many professedly christian households were these exhortations practically accepted. As rules of life they have ever carried proof of their divine origin. In saying this we deprecate the isolation, one from another of the specific duties of the respective relationships named by the apostle. It is worthy of remark, that in his letter to the disciples in Colosse, as in that to those in Ephesus the same relationships and corresponding duties are named, and the same order is observed in the naming of them. It is in this their mutuality that the true wisdom and meaning of the injunctions are discovered, and in recognition of which, they are to be acted out The apostle does not lay injunctions on the wife, without also giving charges to the husband; nor does he command children without ad dressing a word to parents. All duties are relative, and if those prope to a given relationship are despised, all related must suffer. Damag ingly has this great organic principle been ignored in the interpreta tion of Scripture, both in respect to its injunctions relating to th church and the family. The husband has no right to remind th wife of the obedience she owes, without recognising as practically a he would have her do so, that he himself also is one under authority So with the master and the servant, the parent and the child. Thi all-conservative thought borne in mind, there could be no heavy burdens grievous to be borne; every yoke were easy, every burde light, for all the duties enjoined are the commandments of the Lord and his commandments are not grievous. A heavier task is laid on the husband than upon the wife-properly so, if he be the stronge vessel for he is to love his wife, as Christ loved the church, and this done, never could she have reason to complain of the submission enjoined on her. It is in view of his love that Christ expects the return-love and submission of his bride the Church, and this is the example and term on which the christian husband is to look for that of his wife. Place the christian wife under such a rule, and doubtless there would be incomparably fewer sins, sorrows, and complaints. Let the husband, Christ-like, raise and maintain his headship by a manifestation and a reign of love, and no wife deserving the name of woman, and the surname of Christ, will murmur or rebel. No right, aling this, has he to her submission. The covering or veiling of the head betokens humility. So Isaiah represents the seraphic worshippers as covering themselves with their wings, crying, holy, holy, holy, when he beheld the glory of Christ, as that of Jehovah of hosts. As then in the presence and worship of God the angelic worshippers cover themselves, so ought the christian woman to be covered in worshipping in the presence of him who is the image and glory of God. This seems to us the drift f the apostle's argument in the eleventh of first Corinthians. ED. Entelligence. THE JEWS IN GLASGOW.—Everything that concerns the Jewish ople is a matter of interest, and their location in the western capital Scotland not less so. In the year A.D. 750, they are first mentioned in English history as living in England, but at what time they took up their abode in Scotland is unknown. It is not more han thirty years since they had a SYNAGOGUE in Glasgow city, and ven then but a temporary one, as their new and commodious house George Street will be opened and consecrated on their New Year's Day in September coming. They have an appointed Rabbi, named he Rev. Dr Meyer, who, in addition to his official duties, is also the eacher of Hebrew to the male youths among them. By this learned and excellent Rabbi they attend to circumcision and keep the Passver. They meet in their SYNAGOGUE at the first hour of the Jewish Sabbath, six o'clock on Friday evening, Deut. xvi. 6, and read the Law of Moses, repeat their daily prayers, and earnestly cry for the pearance of their expected deliverer. The Sabbath is to them a day of rest; all labour is suspended till the returning hour, six o'clock Saturday evening. There are at present twenty-six families of Jews in Glasgow, who, when assembled, make up a small congregation. Though desolate and forsaken, they observe the forms and ordinances given to their refathers. They worship with their faces towards the east, or toards Jerusalem. Their parchment roll of the Ten Commandments unfolded, and touched in token of submission by every one present. The female part of the congregation never sit with the males; they re in a separate apartment. The males worship with their heads overed, and do so in a bending posture. At the age of thirteen years, every male becomes a member of the congregation, and which is done by fasting and supplication by the whole body of the Jews in the city. There are two burying places belonging to the Jews in Glasgow. The old one is in the Necropolis, and is wholly full. The new one is in the north-west corner of the western Necropolis, a large and neatly laid-out burying ground, The Jews never bury two bodies in one grave; the spot is for ever sacred to the deceased. Th apparently repulsive, and unfeeling practice of carrying the expiring body of a dear friend to an outhouse, in which to breathe his las breath, is in rigid observance of the old law which enjoined not touch a dead body.' This practice is from no want of sympathy o respect, for the Jews as a people are loving, affectionate and faithfu to one another. The question on the Talmud, which has divided the Jews on th Continent and in London, has not disturbed the friends in Glasgow They maintain no human authority can be compared to the divin laws taught in the Pentateuch. A deviation from this principle lead to infidelity even in Judaism. July 9, 1858, is a day worthy to be remembered by the whol Jewish nation, though more especially by those of them in Grea Britain. On that day they were declared freemen, captives no longe The British legislature will now hear their voice and their vote THE OPPRESSED will rule OVER THEIR OPPRESSOR. The Jews' claim to liberty, to law, and to right, are acknowledged by the sanction the Upper House of Parliament in a sweeping majority of 46 in the favour. By this vote the nation of Britain is honoured, and th captive people have their chains broken asunder, and each can no lift up the drooping head and say 'I AM FREE.' The weighty an momentous consequence of this one event time only can unfold. Th mystery of their captivity will stand revealed, and Jew and Genti will yet rejoice in acknowledging the wondrous ways of the Lon The only other synagogue in Scotland is in the city of Edinburg! situated in Richmond Court. To these two synagogues every Je in the kingdom comes once a year to offer his gifts, and to join h brethren in their observances. They keep the feast of Tabernacl on this occasion. Their singular adherence to the law of Mose and their devoted attachment to one another, mark them out # under the same divine oversight that sustained them in the land Promise; and if enlightened from above to see the God of the fathers manifested in flesh, and all the glory of ark and temp fulfilled in that manifestation, how would they exult and sing of th mercy of the Lord in keeping them alive, when every hand was lifte against them. On one side of the iron gate which bars the old burying groun of the Jews in the Glasgow Necropolis, are these pathetic and pressive words, 'Tribes of the wandering foot and weary breast, The Jew and which has been painfully realised in the very letter. as a people have been hated, dispersed, and persecuted. May the revive as the corn, and spread forth their branches as the cedar Lebanon in every city where they dwell, and may those of the in Glasgow and in Edinburgh be honoured to lead the van in poin ing out the end of their sacrifices in ‘the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world.' Glasgow. J. B. THE TRUTH IN THE UNITED STATES.-I mentioned in my last the rapid spread of Baptist principles during this Revival. Many ministers, in order to keep their converts, are compelled to immerse them. Presbyterians do it. The rector of one of the Episcopal churches in Philadelphia immersed two in one of our chapels. Twenty-two were immersed by the minister of the Methodist Episcopal church at Elvinia, New York. It is rapidly spreading among them. Indeed, The Christian Era says that one body of the Methodist ministers practise immersion, and that some in the vicinity of Boston immerse more than they sprinkle. The case of Mr Beecher excites great attention. The accessions to his church are very large-180 at the last ordinance occasion-and the members who ask for baptism so great, that he lately delivered an address on the subject which has excited the attention of most of my editorial brethren. Cor. Freeman. THE TRUTH IN SWEDEN.-Dr Steane, sent to visit the persecuted disciples of the Saviour in Sweden, writes, The Lord is marvellously working among them and by them. The reports of their progress and increase in almost all parts of the country revive the remembrance of apostolic days, when 'the word of the Lord mightily grew and prevailed.' There are at this time 500 or 600 waiting to be baptized. The baptisms have to be stealthily administered on some lone sea-shore, or in a hidden nook of some inland lake, when no hostile eye may see them, and no lurking policeman spring upon them. Some have been baptised since we have been here, but the blessed deed, as though it had been the perpetration of a great crime, was done at midnight, and so secretly, that even we heard nothing of it till afterwards. On the Lord's day, however, we commemorated with them the dying love of the Redeemer, and at the close they examined some candidates. Doctors' Degrees. Some years ago the University of St Andrews, one of the most famous in Scotland, having rather a lean treasury, determined to replenish it by a new branch of commerce, and announced that it would sell its Drs' degrees at £20 a piece. Many took advantage of this liberal offer, and among the rest a certain minister, who thought his services would be more acceptable to his flock were he possessed of a handle to his name, put the required sam in his purse, and went up to St Andrews to purchase the coveted honour. A man-servant accompanied him, and was present when his master, having previously footed the bill, was formally presented with the official document, On his return home the new doctor sent for his servant, and addressed him as follows:-'Noo, Sandy, ye'll aye be sure to ca' me the doctor; and gin ony body spiers at ye aboot me, ye'll be aye sure to say the doctor's in his study, or the doctor's engaged, or the doctor will see ye in a crack, as the case may be.' 'That a' depends,' replied Sandy, ' on whether ye ca' me the doctor tae,' The reverend doctor stared. Aye, but its jist so,' continued the other, for whan I found it cost sae little, I e'en got a diploma mysel. Sae ye'll jist be gude enough to say, "Doctor, put on some or, "Doctor, bring me the whisky." And gin ony body spiers coals," · at ye aboot me, ye'll jist aye be sure to say the doctor's in the pa try, or the doctor's in the stable, or the doctor's diggin potatoes, the case may be.' American Educator. BAPTISMS.-Ford Forge, near Coldstream. Mr Thomas Lovekin, some time engaged as minister of the Independent Church in Kel upon a Lord's Day evening, about three months ago, went to 1 Bonar's Free Church, and heard a sermon preached by Mr Pet Purves, Minister of the Free Church, Morebattle, from Luke xii. 5 'But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straiten till it be accomplished!' The preacher, in illustrating the passag shewed very forcibly, both from the practice of the primitive churcl. and the natural construction of the passage itself, that baptism mu mean immersion. This was the means of leading Mr Lovekin reflect seriously upon the subject, and ultimately to a comple change in his sentiments. On Lord's Day, June 27, he was co strained to make a public profession of the change to the churc upon which they declined any further continuance of his service Having met with Mr Henry Watson, pastor of the Baptized Churc Ford Forge, he was baptized by him on Saturday, July 3rd. Inc pendency, like all human isms, seeks to be independent of the law Christ, insomuch that if any man be so independent as follow t Messiah more fully than it allows, his dependence or independen is gone.-Glasgow. A young woman, daughter of a Christi brother in Kirkcaldy, was added to the church in Brown Street confession and baptism on Lord's Day, 11th July.-Delting, Shetla Considerable excitement has been produced in this far north isla by the immersion into Christ of three persons on Lord's Day mo ing, 20th June, who had been brought to the knowledge of the tru by Brother W. Duncan, who, since his location in Garth a year ago, b invited his neighbours to meet in his house for the study of t Scriptures on first day evenings, while himself and those of his hom hold who know the Lord meet earlier in the day for the breaking the loaf and the other ordinances of Christian worship. The idea a church in a house is very foreign to the notions of those who kn so little of New Testament Christianity as to imagine that a chur is a big stone building, with so many wooden seats, and one wood throne, for a hired dictator's sacred occupancy. We trust that the first fruits of our beloved brother's faithfulness will prove a crown rejoicing to him. Let all disciples of Jesus in similar secluded sp follow our brother's example; let them remember that the word promise is to two or three gathered together in the name of Jest That sweetly hallowed fellowship which is with the Father and wi his Son is not confined to numerous gatherings.-Crossgates. I church here has been gladdened by three additions by baptism; young man on 20th June, and a man and his wife on 27th. M they continue stedfast in the faith which they have confessed till t Lord call them to himself. J. Taylor, Printer, Edinburgh. |