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429 Patrick's, (Bishop) Persuasive to a Cheerful Trust in God.

316 Pattison's Plain Account of the Bible.

426 Poor Anne, penitent.

171 Porteus, (Bishop) on the Evidences. 225 Porteus, (Bishop) on the Observ. ance of Good Friday.

361 Prayer the Universal Remedy. 172 Radstock's Cottage Friend.

150 Romanism and Holy Scripture compared.

175 Scripture the Guide of Life.

102 Scripture Catechism.

498 Selections from the Reformers.

501 Ditto.

510 Ditto.

514 Ditto.

516 Ditto.

158 Ditto.

177 Serious Address to a person recovered from sickness.

495 Short Explanation of the Apostle's Creed.

404 Short Stories of Cottager's Daugh

ters.

417 Soldier's Funeral.

502 Spiritual Worshipper a meet Communicant.

179 Stevens on the Christian Church.

483 Susan Brooker.

184 Taylor's Answer to the Question, 'Why are you a Churchman?' 421 Taylor, (Bishop) Introduction to Holy Life.

422 Ditto, Moral Demonstration. 166 The Young Churchman Armed. 259 Tillotson, (Archbishop) Dissuasion from Popery.

200 Ditto, on Transubstantiation. 162 The Parson.

400 Unfruitful Fig Tree.

54 Unwin's Friendly Reproof.

94 Wall on Infant Baptism.

187 Watson's Apology for the Bible. 508 Way to Peace.

252 White's Preservative against Popery. 424 Wilk's Church Establishment law. ful, &c.

512 Wilk's Abijah.

494 Wilson (Bishop of Calcutta), Apostolical commandment considered. 64 Woodd's, (Rev. B.) Elementary Catechism.

343 Wood's Day of Adversity.

CHEAP REPOSITORY TRACTS.

HOMILIES.

THE FOUR THRONES.

THERE is a throne of glory before which the host of heaven bow with reverential awe, and utter the language of adoring praise. There is the throne of grace to which we are invited to approach for the supply of our spiritual wants and necessities it is the encouraging exhortation of an Apostle, "Let us come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." There is a throne of government on which the Lord Jesus sits in majesty, for the administration of the affairs of his church and people. He is indeed, "the mighty God, the everlasting Father," and the government is emphatically "on his shoulder." Let us implore him as our great spiritual head and king, the leader and commander of his chosen Israel, to fight for us, and to fight in us; to enable us daily to crucify the flesh with the affections and lusts, and to rise

above the world in the power of divine faith. But lastly, there is the throne of judgment. Before that awful throne an assembled universe must stand to hear their final doom. The dread solemnities of a judgment to come should ever be present to our minds. In the midst of all our worldly pleasures, and worldly pursuits, that voice should still be heard, remember there is a judgment to come. Yes, the moment is hastening on when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven, with his mighty angels in flaming fire to execute vengeance on the impenitent, and to be glorified in the complete and everlasting felicity of his redeemed saints. O may that awakening admonition come home with power to each of our hearts under all circumstances, and in all situations of life," Prepare to meet thy God." CHARLES.

MISSIONARY ENCOURAGEMENTS.
'Tis no ignoble prize,

Go forth to distant lands,
Ye messengers of heaven!
Scatter, with holy hands,

The seeds so freely given,
Across the mighty deep,

Around the arctic pole,
Where pillar'd whirlwinds sweep,
And crested billows roll,-
In every clime, 'midst every clan,
Proclaim the Saviour's love to man.
Though clouds obscure the sky,
And tempests howl around,
Though tears bedew the eye,

And disappointments wound,-
Amidst a hopeless race

Unfold Hope's beauteous bow, And bid the Sun of Grace'

In polar regions glow:

The savage shall forego his chains,
And carol forth celestial strains.

Firm as the throne of God,
Bright as the vaulted sky,
Seal'd with atoning blood,

And fraught with ecstacy,-
The promises invite

Your constant toil and care; Make ready for the fight,

The cross with courage bear:
Millennial scenes of radiant hue
Shall soon entrance your raptured
view.

Nerved with the Spirit's might,
'Midst darkness, death, and wo,
Plumed with angelic light,
Onward, still onward go!
All mortal joys despise,
Immortal spirits win;

'A soul released from sin.' For these the Saviour lived and died,

And nought is worth a thought beside.

'Midst idol temples stand,

Pour forth the plaintive cry;
Upon a foreign strand,
Beneath a burning sky,
The blood-stain'd banner rear,
The tear of pity shed,
Bid dying men draw near

When every hope is fled;
The joyous sounds of love shall melt,
And grace shall triumph over guilt.
As white-robed snows descend
From a portentous sky,
And genial showers attend
Spring's vestal infancy,-
As these give life and birth,
'Midst Winter's waning even,
"Renew the face of earth,"

And make it bloom like heaven:
So God's own words shall heal and

save,

The barbarous sire, the abject slave!
On God, "who cannot lie,"
The merciful and just,
For all you need rely

And in his promise trust,
The "Rose of Sharon" plant

In deserts clad with snow,
And, 'midst the sons of want,
Bid living waters flow.
A golden harvest soon shall smile,
And souls redeemed shall crown
your toil.
M. S.

ON CHARITABLE BEQUESTS.

THE British and Foreign Bible Society having been deprived of several valuable legacies, owing to the operation of the Mortmain Act,' attention is especially called to the following extract from a Work just published, entitled, 'Plain Directions for making Wills &c. by J. C. HUDSON, Esq.

"The Statute of 9 Geo. II. c. 36. called the Mortmain Act, is not repealed or altered by the 1 Victoria, c. 26; and therefore legacies to charities out of real estate I will still be void. If a Testator desire to leave legacies to charities, he must take care to make them payable, either expressly, or by ordinary course of law, out

of such personal estate as may be applied for that purpose. A bequest to a charity of a term for years, or leasehold property; or of money produced by the sale of rent or land; or a bequest of money, to be laid out in land; or of money secured by mortgage; or of annuities charged on land, or mortgages on parochial rates, or county rates, or turnpike tolls-is, in each case, void; and even where no particular fund is pointed out in the Will, for the payment of charitable legacies, and they are consequently a charge on the residue, and the residue consists, in part, of property of all or either of the kinds above specified; so much of the legacies will become void as shall bear the same proportion to the entire legacies as the exempted property bears to the entire residue."

Intelligence.

AWFUL STATE OF IRELAND.

THE following extract from an Address delivered at Castlebar Assizes in March last, by BARON RICHARDS, on the conviction of a woman for murder, displays the awful state of Ireland, and clearly evinces the mischief and misery resulting from the conduct of the Maynooth Popish Priests. Alas! there is too much reason to fear that many murders are committed with their connivance, if not at their suggestion:

IT grieves me,' said the Baron, addressing the prisoner-' it grieves me to say, after you had left the place of prayer, and on your way from the house of God, where you had been a few minutes before invoking the blessing and forgiveness of your Maker, and on your way from the house dedicated to him, and after you had appealed on your bended knees to his mercy, you imbrued your hands, under circumstances of much atrocity, in the blood of your fellowcreature. A crowd of you set upon an unfortunate man, and with sticks and stones battered his life out; and this you did on the day you had met to celebrate the birth of him who came into the world, with tidings of peace and good will. As a friend of humanity, and particnlarly as a friend to the people of this country, I must deeply regret such a state of things; I cannot but grieve over the depraved character of a people who can be guilty of the many cases of this description which have come before me this assizes, and several of these homicides have occurred as the parties were returning from the mass house. I must here say, I cannot but think that the minds of the people of this country are as open to instruction as those of any other; and if the proper and due precepts were impressed upon them, they could be restrained from the violence and blood-shed which so greatly disgrace this country. I am certain that the people could be humanized; and without anything like reproach, I do say that a heavy responsibility rests on those who met these people in the house of God. I mean the spiritual

instructors of the people, whose duty it is to keep them from violence and murder, and I think that could be done by proper exertion and persuasion. Many of the Reverend Gentlemen I allude to, are excellent men, and for them I have a high respect; but, in the discharge of my duty, I must say that I conceive the people of this country as susceptible of receiving benefits from the instruction their pastors should bestow as the people of any other. It is by the efforts of their clergymen more than by law, the people can be humanised and rendered amenable to the voice of justice and peace. Feeling that such is the case, it strikes me with amazement that the people should still exhibit such savage conduct. Very many cases of murder that have come before me were committed on the return of those concerned from the house of God, and that murderous habit, I cannot reconcile with the moral and religious instruction that ought to be unceasingly impressed upon the people. I hope if there are not any of the pastors of the peasantry listening to me, that they will hear what I have said, and devote themselves zealously to reform the conduct of those who disgrace the name of Christians. I wished to come this circuit, that I might learn the true state of the country, and I regret to be obliged to say there is but too much violence displayed in the catalogue of crime to be gone through. I had made up my mind to make an example of those people; I had determined to send them out of the country for their offence, and do not yet know but I may do so."

ANNIVERSARIES.

THE Religious Anniversaries have been this year fully attended, and the speeches generally interesting. Most of the Societies exhibit some increase of income, while the calls for additional missionaries, catechists, schoolmasters, and Bibles, Prayer Books, and religious publications are every where urgent. This is a pleasing feature in the times, and may well encourage the Christian to lively gratitude and renewed exertion. Above all, it should stimulate us to abound in prayer to the great Lord of the harvest, both to send forth more labourers into his harvest, and to crown their labours with great success.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.

THE seventh anniversary of this institution was held at Exeter Hall on Friday, April 27, when the chair was successively occupied by the Bishops of Norwich and London. It was stated at this meeting that there were at present 45,738 Beer shops in this country; that 31,402,417 gallons of spirits were produced for home consumption in Great Britain and Ireland during one year, the amount paid for which, was eight millions and a half sterling, and that 2,500,000 quarters of grain were consumed in producing these spirits, which if made into bread would give two hundred quartern loaves to every poor person in the kingdom.

Sir Edward Parry and Sir James Hillyar pointed out the beneficial effects of Temperance Societies in the navy, and stated that the supplying tea and sugar to the sailors instead of grog, though at first ridiculed, had produced a most salutary result; that the sailors could endure cold and hardship much better on tea than on spirits; that half the accidents at sea might be traced to intoxication, and that so convinced were the underwriters of this, that they insured goods in temperance vessels both in this country and America, at a lower rate than in ships where spirits were supplied.

The Hon. and Rev. B. W. Noel concurred with these two gallant officers in believing that the addiction of sailors to intemperate habits was to be traced to the examples set them while on shore; and eloquently contrasted the gorgeous splendor of our modern gin-palaces' with the squalid and wretched appearance of the mass of those who generally resorted to them. He JUNE 1838. 2 G

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next compared the condition of a temperate man spending his evenings at home in the midst of his cheerful and healthy children, instructing and improving them by his word and example, with the wretchedness of the same man when seduced by vicious companions to habits of drunkenness -through which his home is deserted, his health and his substance wasted, his wife and children reduced to rags and filth, altogether abandoned or neglected, or, what was worse, urged by his example to follow in the same wicked course. The bare contemplation of such changes produced by intemperance -and they were in constant occurrence in all parts of the country, ought to urge the friends of the society to strenuous exertions with the view to diffuse minute information as to the effects of drunkenness. It might be very difficult to bring back persons from vicious habits, and particularly from the enslaving one of intemperance. He would for that purpose prefer, if he could, to give them the gospel, but if he could not do that, and that any other means were within his power by which they might be brought within the sound of the gospel, it would be hypocrisy or most culpable neglect in him if he did not avail himself of such means. Some of the means which had been recommended, and to a certain degree adopted, had been the diffusion of tracts contrasting the advantages of temperance, with the dreadful consequences to mind and body which were certain to flow from habits of intoxication.

This observation of Mr. Noel may perhaps be carried farther. Few are sufficiently aware of the de

moralizing effects of certain sottish habits which commonly prevail amongst artificers and mechanics. In many businesses, in addition to their stated meals, the workmen are accustomed to drink their pint of ale or stronger beverage, morning and afternoon: for this they frequently resort to public houses; habits of tippling are thus acquired;

the health is seriously injured; vicious connexions are often formed, and the journeymen and apprentices employed in such businesses, will usually be found at once more shortlived, more destitute of religion and more regardless of domestic and family obligations than those who work far more severely, and for a far scantier remuneration.

NEWFOUNDLAND SCHOOL SOCIETY.

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THE fifteenth anniversary of this institution was recently held at Exeter Hall. On taking the chair Lord Bexley observed, that the events which had unhappily occurred recently in some of our North American colonies shewed -if indeed any thing could be required to shew-the great advantages which would be derived from sound Christian education, and forcibly pointed out the evils which arose from the want of it. Had a system of early scriptural instruction such as this society proposed to give-and had for a considerable time given-been extended years ago in those colonies, the scenes which had been lately witnessed there, and which had deluged their once peaceful fields with blood, would not have taken place. With such scenes fresh in their recollection, the friends of this society would, he trusted, be stimulated to renewed exertion in extending as widely as possible the benefits of scriptural education.'

Of the exceedingly destitute state of Newfoundland, the following extract from the speech of the Hon. the Chief Justice of that Island affords melancholy proof.

Very many of the inhabitants of Newfoundland who are now reaping the advantages of an education based on scriptural principles, would, but for the exertions of this society have remained destitute of this blessing up to the present time. He was sorry that the society did not receive that encouragement to which it had so many good claims.

It was the duty of kings to see that the people were properly instructed, and where, from political or other causes, this duty was neglected, it was incumbent on those who possessed the means to see that instruction should be given. This society

was a School society, and had means of giving instruction, and of disseminating Bible principles, which few others possessed; but it should extend its operations by sending out ministers to preach the gospel. From the want of ministers a vast number of the descendants of the ancient Protestants had become Roman Catholics. In Placentia, the ancient capital of the island, there was still a church, but there was no one to use it. There were not more than one or two Protestant families in that part of the island, because there was no one to instruct them. As an illustration of their destitution in that respect, he might mention, that a service of communion plate, the gift of his late Majesty, when Duke of Clarence, was still in the church, but there was no one to use it. Now, a remedy for this state of things might be found by having respectable and well-instructed men ordained and sent out to preach the gospel in the colony. He did not want men with high academical distinctions and classical attainments. There were no funds from which to give the income that such men would naturally expect; but as these could not be had, he would on the principle that half a loaf was better than no bread, have men well instructed in English, and having a sound knowledge of their religion and of the Holy Scriptures on which it is based. These would mix amongst the poor people who were the most in want of instruction, and would be more fit teachers for them than men of high literary attainments. Many who were now in darkness would be brought to a knowledge of the truth, and that system of proselytism which was now going on in the island would receive a salutary check. For such purpose, however, funds would be necessary, and he

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