MAXIMS. CHRIST left the cross and went to glory, that you might take it and follow him. Wait on the Lord, he will supply you; wait for the Lord, he will deliver you. In doing the Lord's work, we may expect the Lord's smile. Charity to the soul, is the soul of charity. Conceit is the high road to shame. A professor who does not fear getting into debt is a very suspicious character, no matter how he may talk. He that is unwilling to serve God in pain and patience, is unworthy so good a master. When God smiles and gives, it is easy to say, "I love the Lord; but to say so when he frowns and smites, is another thing. Christ has enough for you, if all beside turn their back on you. A little fruit proves the nature of a tree; but abundance of fruit, its fruitfulness. If God be your guide, he will be your guard; he always protects whom he leads. I believe our souls would wither, if the rough wind did not arise to blow the dust from off our branches. Be always active in God's cause, and passive to his will. As we exercise faith, it grows. I see the commandment is exceeding broad, and this makes Christ exceeding precious. runs thus:Not a few persons distinguished for piety, have besought us with earnest prayers to grant permission for the solemn festival of a Novena (nine days' service) in the Church of the Jesuits, in order to implore from Almighty God the wide spread and happy increase of the Catholic faith in England. The Holy Father has not only listened favourably to this pious request, but furthermore has promised to all the faithful who take an active part in the ceremony, a partial indulgence of 300 days for every visit, and a plenary indulgence to those who attend the Novena, five times at least, it being understood that at the same time such persons are to approach the confessional and Lord's Supper. This nine days' ceremony is to begin at eleven o'clock, A.M., instant, in the church above-named. on the 17th Whether ye look, my Christian brethren, at the great and noble aim in behalf of which your public prayers are offered to the Almighty, or whether ye calculate the gain of the holy indulgences, by means of which we may shorten the punishment due to our sins-in either case ye must in every way, to the best of your strength, interest yourselves in the matter, and take part in this pious exercise, by praying the Giver of all good, and the Father of all mercy, that he will pour out over that realm and its inhabitants, his light and those gifts of grace, for obtaining which alone our prayers will be effectual.' .'”—Times, Feb. 6. most quiet and placid way, by moving the previous question. The intention was simply to declare that it was a motion which ought not to have been made, and so to put an end to a seemingly interminable discussion. The warmest opponents of Mr. Blunt, however, strongly deprecated this mode of getting rid of the question. They desired to put a direct and positive negative upon Mr. Blunt's proposition, in express terms, and they therefore wished that Mr. Cotton (the Treasurer) had not moved the previous question. These feelings actuated a large proportion of those present, the greater part of whom were by degrees pacified, and brought to vote with the Standing Committee. But about twelve of the most decided opponents repudiated any quiet course, and divided with Mr. Blunt against "the previous question," in order that they might thus go into a discussion on the main subject, and give Mr. Blunt a more direct and positive defeat. The real strength, therefore, of the Tractarian party, after all their trumpeting, was about 50 votes; and the number of those opposed to them was about 190.- Morning Herald. THE POISONOUS LEAVEN OF POPERY. -"The Church of Rome, in the Creed of Pope Pius, adds twelve heathenish, or worse than heathenish, tenets to the ancient faith or creed of the Christian Church. This is exactly as if an equal weight of poison were added to wholesome food or medicine. The whole compound becomes destructive of health or life. These new tenets are very gainful to the priests, but degrade both them and their flocks, keeping them fast bound in the chains of ignorance and superstition. Therefore, to endeavour to promote the peace, and intelligence, and prosperity of a country by encouraging the spread of Romish superstition and idolatry, and of that ignorance of the Scriptures which is the invariable concomitant of Romanism, is arrant, hopeless, political quackery. It would be as philosophic or rational to expect that patients in an hospital could be restored to health by a medical treatment directly opposed to the laws of nature, or the vigour of a population promoted by encouraging them to live on food, the half of which was rank poison. The Babylonish compound of Pope Pius's Creed is essentially POPERY. To call it the Catholic religion is an offence to the God of truth. As to its effects a few facts will suffice. By means of the Inquisition the Church of Rome had Spain to itself, where it might fully test its doctrines.-Has Popery made Spain great, glorious, and free? The more decent kind of heathenism would blush at the deeds of her people, and, also, at the awful spirit in which they were enacted. Are even the Pope's territories distinguished by peace, intelligence, industry, or whatever else adorns a people? Ignorance of God, impostures, robberies, assassinations, idleness, and tumults are far more prevalent there. Has Popery exalted any country under heaven? I could scarcely hope for credit if I related the monstrous state of things which I saw and knew to exist everywhere in the county Tipperary. My eyes often beheld the dwelling of the Sheals, within which a household of eighteen persons were kept in on every side by their deluded, pitiless fellowcreatures, until they were burned to death; and this is but a small portion of what I could relate. Spain exceeded Great Britain in prosperity at the time of the Reformation, and we may be assured that if the same causes be permitted to prevail in England or Scotland, they will, ere long, become as Spain or Tipperary."— Rev. A. Sillitto. SAYINGS OF THE REV. R. CECIL.— Riding one windy day, with a friend, the dust being very troublesome, his companion wished he could ride in the fields, where they could be free from dust; and this wish he more than once repeated. At length they reached the fields, when the flies so teased his friend's horse, that he could scarcely keep his seat on the saddle. "Ah! Sir," said Mr. Cecil, "when you were in the road the dust was your only trouble, and all your anxiety was to get into the fields; you forgot that the fly was there! Now this is a true picture of human life ; and you will find it so in all the changes you make in future. We know the trial of our present situation; but the next will have trials, and perhaps worse, though they may be of a different kind." At another time, the same friend told him he should esteem it a favour, if he would tell him of anything which he might in future see in his conduct which he thought improper. "Well, Sir," he said, many a man has told the watchman to call him early in the morning, and has then appeared very anxious for his coming early; but the watchman has come before he has been ready for him! I have seen many people very desirous of being told their faults, but I have seen very few who were pleased when they had received the information. However, I like to receive an invitation, I have no reason to suppose that you will be displeased till I see it so; I shall therefore remember that you have asked for it." THE EVILS OF PRIDE.As thou desirest the love of God and man, beware of pride; it is a tumour in thy mind that breaks and poisons all thy actions; it is a worm in thy treasure which eats and ruins thy estate. It loves no man-is beloved of no man. It disparages virtue in another by detraction; it disrewards goodness itself by vain glory. The friend of the flatterer, the mother of envy, the nurse of fury, the bond of luxury, the sin of devils, and the devil in mankind, it hates superiors, it scorns inferiors, it owns no equals; in short, till thou hate it, God hates thee. CABINET. THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD.- Let Christians strive to see the hand of God in all events; it will sweeten the bitterness of unkind treatment, it will allay the apprehension of danger, it will check the suggestions of despondency, and animate afresh the failing hope. We are far too prone to look to second causes; we think of the faithlessness of a friend, the bitterness of an enemy, and forget that they are the instruments in the hand of Godthe sword he wields, the means he employs to chasten and rebuke, and try and purify, and then we seize upon the first refuge we can lay hold of instead of trusting in his love and faith fulness. Oh, for that faith which led one of old to say, Though He slay me yet will I trust in Him, and led Habakkuk to sing the song of praise amidst blighted fields and deserted stalls. God can bring to nought the counsel of the wise. He can bring down the strength of the mighty. He is infinite in wisdom, strong in power, and so vigilant that the eye which keeps Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps, and that wisdom and power and might are all engaged on our behalf. Let us, then, trust, and not be afraid. Let us not have recourse to questionable means. Let us tread the path of duty, wait the Lord's time, and submit to his appointment. Let us leave ourselves in the Lord's hand, and leave him to do with us what is best in his sight. Spirits of our martyred dead, The conquest sealed; Raised a flame that ne'er shall die, May our hearts like yours be found With heav'nly might. Rome! thy reign will soon be o'er, HUGO. NOTICES OF BOOKS. The Life of Joseph, considered more especially as a Biographical Type of Christ, in a course of Lectures delivered in the Cathedral of Waterford. By the Rev. E. Dalton, Author of "The Watchful Providence of God;" "The Jesuits, their Principles and Acts," &c. London: Dalton, Cockspur-street. 1846. Dublin Currie and Co. Waterford : Sleater. 8vo., p. 374. THE nature and object of this work are amply set forth in its title, and the name of the author is sufficiently well known to recommend it. Though not professedly a controversial work, yet we cannot fail to observe that the errors of Romanism, as contrasted with Protestantism, have not been absent from the author's mind. We are glad to notice this. It has been too long the custom in works of literature to exclude, as much as possible, all reference to religion; and in works of theology also, till recently, it was deemed needless and irrelevant to inintroduce the subjeets of Popery and Protestantism; to point out the gross errors and falsehoods of the one, or the beautiful scriptural simplicity and truthfulness of the other. Are we asked if we are for incessant hostility? We reply, Yes, till the foe is overcome. Not that we love contest for its own sake; but that the protesting Christian's warfare, like that of the soldier in the battle-field, can end only with victory or death. We rejoice therefore to see the weapons of our warfare used against the antichristian power of Rome, whether it be in putting on the helmet of salvation for individual defence, hurling the torch of truth, or hewing down with the sword of the Spirit, or throwing the shield of protection around our weaker brethren. There are many who will not sit down to the perusal of controversial works; and yet meeting incidentally, in the course of reading, with what may remove a doubt, and fortify them against the wily attacks of Romanism to which they may be exposed, may derive an unsought-for benefit. In Lecture III. the subject of Popery is introduced as follows (p. 38): The Lecture is on Genesis xxxvii. 2-4, of which the following is a syllabus: Joseph feeds his father's flock; Jesus the Good Shepherd; not Peter, but Jesus, the Great Shepherd and Bishop of our souls, appointed by the Father to feed and rule his Church as Chief Pastor. "It is a mistake-a great and awful mistake-to suppose that Christ has given his charge as chief shepherd of his sheep, and head over all things to his Church, into the hands of any other person. No; he, and he alone, has the government upon his shoulders; to him the Father has committed the flock, which he purchased with his agonies and blood; and he loves his flock too tenderly, and too dearly, to commit them to the care of another. He watches over them himself; he feeds them all himself; he knows every pitfall that endangers their safety; he sees every impediment cast in their way. He watches every motion of every foe that prowls around the fold. No mere man could do this. No one but an omnipresent and omniscient Being could do this. And blessed be God, dear brethren, we have an omnipresent and omniscient Shepherd to watch over our souls. Men may be mistaken in judging of what is wholesome and good for our souls, and they may lead us to pastures in unwholesome meadows, feed us on the husks of outward forms instead of the sweet kernel of Gospel truth; and give us to drink of the muddy streams of human tradition, instead of drawing for us the pure waters of life from the well of salvation. But Christ never can make such a mistake as this. He created our souls at first, and he knows what is best for them. The full grown saint and the tender lamb are equally the objects of his tenderest care; and he opens his hand, and supplies them each with the spiritual nourishment they need. The shepherd must be eyes to the sheep to watch over them; wisdom to the sheep to guide them; strength to the sheep to protect them, and deliver them from the paw of the lion and the bear; and he must be able to cleanse and purify them when defiled with their march through a filthy land;-and all this is Jesus to the sheep of his pasture. He is made of God unto us wisdom, and righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. He has opened a fountain from his own precious side, in which to wash away all our pollutions, and the sanctifying grace of his Holy Spirit is ever at work ripening us for heaven, and preparing us for his coming. He knows how to revive us with rich cordials when wounded, or ready to faint by the way; he knows how to give strong drink to him that is ready to perish; he knows how to allure us to the softest and the richest pastures, and to lead us gently to the quiet and peaceful river that makes glad the city of our God. He is the only Joseph who is fit to feed his Father's flock. He is no hireling, but the actual owner of the flock. He laid down his life as the price for his sheep; and if we show our value for things by the amount at which we are willing to purchase them, then Jesus must indeed consider his flock as most precious and dear. He will not lose what cost him so dearly; he will not suffer himself to be robbed of so costly a treasure. Oh! the folly of forgetting this good Shepherd! Oh! the infatuation of looking to any but Jesus as the Chief Shepherd of our souls! If we are not our own, because we are bought with a price, so equally are we not Peter's or Paul's for the very same reason. We are Christ's property. We are the purchase of his blood. The Lord himself is our keeper; the Lord is our defence on our right hand.' Peter did not die for us; Paul was not crucified for us; and therefore we dare not say, as some of the foolish Corinthians in early times, and the members of the Church of Rome in later times, I am of Cephas.' No; for our Great Shepherd and Guide, we can have 'none but Christ; no, none but Christ.' " pp. 49-51. "The Lord our pasture shall prepare, And feed us with a shepherd's care." sented."-By Edward Stillingfleet, D.D., Bishop of Worcester; with a Preface and Notes by William Cunningham, D.D., Professor of Divinity and Church History, New College, Edinburgh. A new edition, revised. Edinburgh: John Johnstone. London R. Groombridge and Sons. 1845. pp. 381. THIS is an excellent book. We are glad to see the warriors of ancient days coming forth one by one to fight again, in behalf of their country and their religion, the battle of the Reformation. It We recommend this volume. will prove, we doubt not, to many a great preservative against the erroneous notions of the day. It will show them that Popery is no harmless plaything; but that beneath her gaudy trappings and pompous ceremonies are hid pernicious and delusive errors, and doctrines subversive of the fundamentals of Christianity. Sentiments and Experience, and other Remains of Lucy Cobham Hennen. Edited by her daughter, SARAH JANE HENNEN. With Introductory Remarks by the Rev. ROBERT MONTGOMERY, M.A., Author of "Luther," "The Messiah," "The Gospel before the Age," &c. &c. London: F. Baisler, 124, Oxford-street. 1846. THIS Work, and the Introductory Remarks, seem alike worthy of attention. In the one we have the learning of the Divine,-in the other the practical experience of the Christian. The work is one which will be perused with great delight and benefit by the humble and devout Christian. INTELLIGENCE. ENGLAND.-Over Darwen.-The mass-house in this township, erected some years since, in which the mummeries of Popery were performed, has lately been converted into a beer-shop. Manchester. The large Popish church which is being built at Salford is in a very advanced state. The Popish Chapel in Rook-street has recently been sold for the purpose of building warehouses on its site. With the proceeds of the sale, that increasing body will, it is said, erect a most |