poses, we really cannot respond to them all. But is it the preachers that call, or is it God? For my own part, I really do not wish to make a call on any of you. If you are not persuaded that it is God who calls, I suppose you may as well keep your money. But do you believe the Scriptures? I know you believe. What then saith God!" "To do good and communicate forget not, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased."

It is certain that christianity introduced some new demands on the pockets of men. The first collection for the poor of which we have any account was that which Paul made in the churches of Macedo. nia and Achaia. Julian, who had learnt something of the manners of the christians from his having been one of them before he became an apostate, remarked it as one of their peculiarities that they made provision for the poor. It was this new spirit which the Gospel of Christ introduced into society which gave rise to hospitals, almshouses, and orphan asylums. But does it tend to poverty? No; nor ever will while it remains true that he that watereth, shall also himself be watered. "God is able to make all grace abound unto you, that ye always, having all sufficiency in all things, may abound in every good work."

If you put down your name among the friends of the Bible, you will in one important respect, be a follower of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises---of the wise and good in every age. Under a deep sense of the value of the Bible to man's highest interests, christians in all ages have been desirous that it should have a general circulation. It was early translated into the principal lan. guages which were spoken among mankind. All christians, with the exception of those who were in the policy of Rome, used their ut-most endeavors that it might be generally possessed and read. Luther translated it into the language of his country; and the Reformers all, did what their situation permitted to place it within the reach of all the people. No sooner had the light of the Reformation dawned on England, than it was ordered that a copy of the Bible should be set up in every church; and the historian remarks, that men put their children to school, that they might take them to the church to read the Bible for them. Here was the germ of our modern systems of popular education. Individuals freely expended their substance to give the Bible to the destitute. To name only one instance, an Englishman of wealth by a deed bearing date July 12 1692 appropriated certain lands in the county of York as a perpetual legacy for purchasing & distributing annually 1060 Bibles.---But it was not till the year 1804 that.

a systematical plan was adopted to promote the general diffusion of the Scriptures, which will never have its complete consummation, till the Bible is possessed by every family on the face of the globe. This was the formation of the British and Foreign Bible Society, to supply the destitute at home, and translate the Bible into Foreign languages for foreign distribution. In the year 1816 the American Bible Society was formed, by delegates from the different local societies which had been previously organized throughout our country. They met in the city of New York, adopted a constitution and published an address to the people of the United States. From that day to the present, the American Bible Society has continued its operations with ever increasing strength. It has distributed three millions of copies of the Scriptures in 15 different languages, and has aided in circulating them in 50 different languages. By the various Bible Societies in the world, more than 20 millions of copies have been circulated within the last 36 years in about 170 languages, including most or all of those which are extensively spoken.

About the year 1822 the first Bible Society was formed in this place. The plan was thought to be defective, and it had not existed long, till an agent of the Parent Society came round with a new form of constitution. This was tried, but succeeded no better. The machinery was too complex---it was never fully put in motion. At length the present constitution was adopted. But our Society has always been comparatively feeble. It has never done as well as it should have done, or as some county societies, but still it has effected much. First. these towns were explored and the destitute supplied, though some who were destitute did not wait for the Society but supplied themselves. Next, the county was explored, and said to be supplied, though perhaps some parts but partially. This is now a good while since. In the mean time many foreigners have come among us; and it is feared that many young families have commenced the world without the Bible. The work should be done over again..

Every parent who has a family to supply with Bibles, owes a debt to the Bible Society which thousands have forgotten to calculate. Let any one whose memory reaches thirty or forty years back compare the price of the Bible then, with what it is now. Whence this difference? It is chiefly owing to the Bible Society which has multiplied copies of the Bible at a cheap rate. If every parent would but pay into the treasury of the Society this annual saving, it would greatly swell the funds of the society, and increase its ability to do good.

It is supposed that you have all read more or less of the gratitude

with which the destitute at home and abroad, have often received a Bible from the hands of a distributor---of those who have found such a Bible to be their comfort in a fiction---of those who have thus been converted from sin to God. That such cases will increase in number with the increased diffusion of the Scriptures, no one can doubt, for hath not God said, my word shall not return to me void, but shall prosper in that which I please? God has committed this treasure to us for distribution. He will not come down from heaven to circulate the Scriptures, nor will he send angels to do it. It must be done Chrisby those on earth who love him and love their fellow-men. tians are his almoners. And will any of you keep back your hands from so blessed a work? Would you desire that the blessing of him who is ready to perish should come upon you? Then come one, come all and join in the noblest of all enterprizes, which will never be abandoned till the earth is full of the knowledge of the glory of God.

CENSURING AND being censured.---“ With what judgement ye judge ye shall be judged." Who has not heard neighbors complaining of each other, until each proved the other unkind and himself uncharitthe able? Who does not know that "two of a trade" often expose unskilfulness, the indolence, or dishonesty of each other? How often do political parties clearly prove each other corrupt?

Again, how often is the censurer treated with similar severity, by a third party? He is often censured, not merely as he deserves, but much beyond his desert. It is to be regretted that this foul spirit has not always been kept out of the Church. How often has bigotry gone on denying the piety of others, until it has brought its own piety into serious doubt? "Judge not, that ye be not judged." The retributions which follow this sin, even in this life, are often striking; and yet these are only earnests of a more fearful retribution in a future world.

DR. JUNKIN---HIS OPPONENTS.

I have received through the Post-Office, the Cincinnati Chronicle Extra, containing an article entitled "Miami University---its President and the Alumni," signed Thornton A. Mills and Thomas E. Thomas, It was my wish to avoid, if possible, taking any part in the controversy (embittered as I foresaw it was likely to be) which has recently been excited by some extra efforts to reform Miami University. But as these gentlemen strike all around them, at some citizens of Oxford, the Board of Trustees or some of its members, a certain Mr B., and Dr. Junkin; I have concluded to notice some things they have said.

In reference to a paper signed by several gentleman of standing in Oxford bearing witness to the promising condition of Miami University, they say: "this is the first instance within our knowledge in which the President of a College, has resorted to the same means of establishing his reputation which the empirics of the day adopt to vend their nostrums." It may be so: extraordinary times require extraordinary remedies. A statement to the same effect from the Board, would have weighed but little with some persons. They make war on the Board as well as on Dr. J. If other proof of this were wanting, their conduct bears the evidence on its front. It is idle to pretend otherwise.---We are farther told that when it is considered "how easily under neighborhood influences, such a paper may be obtained, it certainly loses much of its value." This method of depreciating its value draws deep. If such men as the signers of this paper, would, under the influence of good feeling, impose on the public by certifying what they do not conscientiously believe to be true, strong suspicion may exist that, possibly, the witnesses by whom these gentlemen would prove the facts which make up their "cumulative evidence," might be led to violate their consciences, by a less amiable kind of feeling. The hint is given us to listen with a good deal of caution, to any statements which may be made, by those who are known, or suspected, to cherish towards Dr. Junkin, what is vulgarly called ill-will.

They next take up and "dispose of" a paper which was published with the names of the present writer and two other members of the Board of Trustees, in order that the public might judge what credit should be given to two of the stories which were circulated to Dr. Junkin's prejudice. In preparing this paper the utmost care was taken, not to say a word which could possibly give offence to any man or class of men. We wished to do an act of justice to Dr. Junkin VOL. II-SIG. 17.

and to the Institution; but to do it in such a way, if possible, as not to wake up the spirit of controversy. But it seeins we have been unfortunate. In language evidently intended to convey a little deli-cate satire, these gentlemen say: "we know not to what stories they allude." Don't know, gentlemen! Then you shall be informed.

1. You know that you or one of you in concert with the other, charged, as one of the facts on which the Board were to adjudge Dr. Junktn "not qualified to preside over Miami University," that he had rendered himself so unpopular at Easton that he had to leave. This is certainly the substance of your charge. Now we thought that the letters, resolutions &c., which we published, shewed, that this, like many other things which have been used to his injury, was "a false fact." And from other reliable sources, I know it to be false.. Not that I accuse you of a wilful departure from the truth. You were mistaken.

2. You know that Dr. Junkin has been accused of making unwarrantable attacks on the faith of other denominations. Now we thought that Mr. Erlougher, could not consistently have made the statement, that "students of the M. E. Church, are treated with the same respect and courtesy as those of any other denomination;" if Dr. J. had, in his hearing, indulged in improper attacks on the doctrines and usages of the Methodists. And though we knew that the letter of Rev.. Mr. Wolff does not throw much light on Dr. J's "Presidential qualifications," we thought that the hope which he expressed that the Doctor's influence while supplying a pulpit belonging to another denomination, "would lead to a better understanding and a more cordial cooperation among christians of the different persuasions;"-would go far to show, that, when he was among christians who possessed the mild and gentle spirit of the Gospel, he was not accused of being "strongly sectarian in his feelings." And from this, we thought the inference pretty direct, that, possibly, his accusers in the West, might need a larger infusion of that blessed spirit, as much as the Miami University needs reform.

Here we meet with a statement which claims attention on account of its singularity. "We have charged that Dr. J. in lecturing on Philosophical necessity (a subject which belongs rather to a Theological than a literary course) has made statements derogatory to the views of the Methodist Church on that subject." It must, certainly, be ranked among the profound discoveries of the age, that a “ "philosophical" subject belongs rather to the department of Theology than of philosophy. And it must appear equally strange that because the