so far from being favourable to the dissenters, it is directly opposed to them; yet there is much valuable and excellent information, which cannot be too often brought forward. In speaking of the Church, Mr. H. says, that her episcopal government is built upon the foundation of Apostles and Prophets, and that "all other forms are mere novelties." This is quite true, and we are glad to find the Vicar of Stowmarket so distinctly avowing it, and hope that he will be hereafter quite consistent in maintaining it. The point is most important at the present period, and never ought to be compromised or lost sight of.

The Dialect of Craven, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. With a Copious Glossary, illustrated by Authorities from Ancient English and Scottish Writers, and Exemplified by Two Familiar Dialogues. By A NATIVE OF CRAVEN. .In Two Volumes. The Second Edition, much enlarged. London: Crofts, 19, Chancery-lane. 12mo. P. 336, 358. THE dialogues in the Craven dialect are exceedingly amusing, and contain withal a few pointed and judicious remarks upon the intrusions of that officious and meddling sect, the Wesleyans, by whom the reverend author, like almost every other Christian Minister, seems to have been some little annoyed. To the philologist and the antiquarian these volumes are invaluable, and the author has done great service to literature by the publication of so much impor tant and interesting information.

Answer to Mr. Lucas's Reasons for becoming a Roman Catholic. By GUIDO SORELLI, of Florence, the converted Roman Catholic. London: To be had of the Author, at 18, Piccadilly. 1839. 8vo. P. 48.

MOST strongly can we recommend this appropriate and timely pamphlet, as a complete answer to the unscriptural arguments and sophistry of Mr. Lucas, lately a Quaker, but now a Papist.

The Power of the Popes; or, an Historical Essay on their Temporal Dominion, the Abuses of their Scriptural Authority, and the Wars they have declared against Sovereigns. Containing very extraordinary documents of the Roman Court, never before published. London: Wertheim, Paternoster-row. 1838. 12mo. P. 690.

THERE is a great mass of valuable information in this thick, but cheap volume, especially that contained in the documents, which are given in the Appendix in their original Latin. We scarcely know where to find so much matter for a crown. The work is a translation, from the French, of a work which originated in the transactions which took place between Pope Pius the seventh and the

French Emperor, relative to the restoration of popery in France, and to subsequent affairs. An Address delivered at the Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery, at the Third Anniversary Meeting, Aug. 29, 1838. By the Rev. VAUGHAN THOMAS, B.D. London Parker, West Strand. 8vo. P. 58. An Address delivered at the first Anniversary Meeting of the Birmingham School of Medicine, &c. By the Rev. and Worshipful JAMES THOMAS LAW, Chancellor of Lichfield. 8vo. P. 16. Birmingham Davies. Report for 1838 of the Royal School of Medicine and Surgery, Birmingham; with an Appendix, containing the Warneford Trust Deed. Birmingham: Davies. 8vo. P.32. THESE three publications are all of great value, for even the Report contains the trust deed of that truly excellent, pious, and charitable man, the Rev. Dr. Warneford, of Bourton-on-the-Hill, Gloucestershire, whereby that gentleman, whose conduct is worthy of the highest admiration, and his example of the most general imitation, gives a thousand pounds, the interest of which is to provide an annual prize for the best essay

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Medicine and Surgery, combining religion with science, and illustrating it thereby. The addresses, especially the scientific and splendidly eloquent one of Mr. Thomas are worthy of all praise. The liberality of Dr. Warnford has been almost without precedent in modern times, and sincerely do we pray that God would put it into the hearts of many others to go and do likewise.

The Call to Repent. London: Hastings, Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn. 1839. 8vo.

P. 126.

WHETHER a person agrees with all contained in this volume or not, it will well repay an attentive perusal. It abounds in quotations of Scripture, is highly argumentative, and comprises matter which will be new and beneficial to many. Our space will not allow of more than this brief notice, or we would have given extracts to show its peculiar style and manner.

Preparations to a Holy Life; or, Devotions for Families and Private Persons, with Directions suited to Most Particular Cases. By the Author of The New Week's Preparation to the Sacrament. London: Hodson, Fleet-street. 1839. 32mo. P. 80.

A NEAT little pocket companion, full of devotional and excellent matter.

A Pastoral Letter addressed to his Flock. By the Rev. DAVID AITCHINSON, M.A., Incumbent of Christ's Church, Glasgow. London: Burns. 8vo. P. 24.

SURROUNDED by dissent, and by worldlyminded men, in the great city of Glasgow, Mr. A. addressed this pastoral letter to his

flock,and though designed especially for them, it is nevertheless well deserving of general perusal, for unhappily the same evils exist, and are to be opposed by the servant of Christ, in every place. The address is faithful and affectionate, as well as sound and good. Why are you a Christian? A Confirmation Exercise. By the Rev. F. A. GLOVER, M A., Rector of Charlton, in Dover. A Sermon on 1 St. Peter, iii. 15. London: Simpkin and Marshall. 1839. 12mo. P.36. ON pursuing his duties in the parish of Charlton, one of the Clergy met with an

THE CHIMES OF ENGLAND.

THE chimes, the chimes of Motherland-
Of England green and old,
That out from fane and ivied tower
A thousand years have toll'd,
How glorious must their music be
As breaks the hallow'd day,
And calleth with a seraph's voice
A nation up to pray!

Those chimes that tell a thousand tales,
Sweet tales of olden time!

And ring a thousand memories
At vesper and at prime;

At bridal and at burial,

For cottager and king,

Those chimes-those glorious Christian chimes,

How blessedly they ring!

Those chimes, those chimes of Motherland,
Upon a Christmas morn,
Outbreaking, as the angels did,
For a Redeemer born-

How merrily they call afar,
To cot and baron's hall,

With holly deck'd and mistletoe,
To keep the festival!

The chimes of England, how they peal
From tower and gothic pile,
Where hymn and swelling anthem fill
The dim cathedral aisle,
Where windows bathe the holy light
On priestly heads that falls.
And stain the florid tracery
And banner-dighted walls!

And then, those Easter bells, in Spring-
Those glorious Easter chimes!
How loyally they hail thee round,
Old Queen of holy times!
From hill to hill, like sentinels,
Responsively they cry,
And sing the rising of the Lord,
From vale to mountain high.

I love ye-chimes of Motherland,
With all this soul of mine,
And bless the Lord that I am sprung
Of good old English line!
And like a son I sing the lay

That England's glory tells;
For she is blessed of the Lord,
For you, ye Christian bells.

And happy in my father's fame,
And happy in my birth,
Thee too I love, my Forest-land,
Thou joy of all the earth;
For thine thy mother's voice shall be,
And here where God is king,

With English chimes, from Christian spires
The wilderness shall ring.

A. C. C.

THE SABBATH BELL.

HARK! the sabbath bell is ringing,
Sweetly it sounds o'er hill and bell;
My heart, my heart, with joy is springing!
I love to hear the sabbath bell.

It seems to say, whilst gently sounding,

Come ye, and drink from life's pure well; Our hearts reply, with love rebounding,

We come! we come! sweet sabbath bell.

How many towards God's house are bending,

A Saviour's love they come to tell;
Their praises will be heard ascending
When silent is the sabbath bell.

Soon may we be with that blest legion,
Who with Christ for ever dwell;
The sabbath in that happy region
Requires no solemn sabbath bell.

G. H. B.

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CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.-The Rev. Robert Anderson has just published A Manual of Christian Fellowship, in the "hope that many will thus be led to value more highly the quiet safety and the heavenly peace which God has provided for us in his sanctuary, amidst the strife and dissentions which prevail around us." We copy the following admirable passage, and shall only say that the Manual is worthy the high reputation of this able and faithful Minister of Christ:"The Church of England may well be described as steering a middle course. She reveres the Scriptures: she respects tradition. She encourages investigation; but she checks presumption. She bows to the authority of ages; but she owns no living master upon earth. She rejects alike the wild extravagancies of unauthorised opinion, and the tame subjection of compulsory belief. Where Scripture clearly and freely speaks, she receives its dictates as the voice of God. When Scripture is either not clear or explicit, or when it may demand expansion and illustration, she refers her sons to an authoritative standard of interpretation, but a standard which it is their privilege to apply to themselves. And when Scripture is altogether silent, she provides a supplemental guidance; but a guidance neither fluctuating nor arbitrary; the same in all times, and under all circumstances; which no private interest can warp, and no temporary prejudice can lead astray. Thus, her appeal is made to past ages, against every possible error of the present. Thus, though the great mass of Christendom, and even though the vast majority of our own national church, were to depart from the purity of the Christian faith and practice, yet no welltaught member of that church needs hesitate or tremble. His path is plain. It is not merely his own independent unassisted judgment; it is not, by any means, the dictatorial mandate of an ecclesiastical director, which is to silence his scruples, and dissolve his doubts. But his resort is that concurrent, universal, and undeviating sense of pious antiquity which he has been instructed, and should be encouraged, to embrace, to follow, and revere."

ROMANIST TOLERATION. In Austria it is unlawful to build Protestant churches with towers, bells, or an entrance from the street; in fact, with any appearance of a church. Protestants are obliged to pay the Roman priests not only the tithes but the dues for baptism, marriage, and burial, and it is the Roman priest who keeps the official register of births, deaths, and marriages. The Roman Clergy have the right of intruding into the chamber of the sick Protestant, but

Protestants are not allowed to converse with their Popish fellow-subjects upon religious subjects. Unless there be one hundred Protestant families, or five hundred souls, the erection of a congregation is unlawful. Such is the Austrian law, but even this niggardly measure of religious liberty was most unjustly withholden from the Protestants of Zillerdale. The known and written and public law of Austria was basely violated, not by a tumultuous mob or a fanatic priesthood only, but by the hereditary and official guardians of the law.-Quarterly Review.

BLESSINGS OF THE BIBLE.-At a meeting at Northampton, the Rev. Mr. Broad thus concluded an excellent speech :-" To that book (the Bible) and the Christianity which it contains, we owe our national happiness and glory. Had we never enjoyed, through the goodness of Britain's God, that boon, we might have been even now as our pagan forefathers. Civilisation soon visited Britain when Christianity had opened a way on our shores. A new era began to dawn on our country after it had become obedient to the faith of Christ. And had not the cupidity and credulity of man corrupted the faith, and brought on again a long period of darkness and degradation, he had arrived at prosperity and glory at a much earlier period than he did. We cannot be too thankful for a return to the good old ways of Bible Christianity-we are every day reaping the fruits of it; we are a daily living proof of the policy-to use no higher term-of having a national Christianity,-may we never be an example of the impolicy and sin of rejecting it! Our arts and arms which are the admiration of the world-our manufactures and commerce which wing their flight into all lands our national experience and wisdom which everywhere command the respect of men-our social institutions which are so many fountains of happiness-our hospitals and educational establishments which are so many places of benevolence-in one word, the many public and private advantages which we so richly possess-all these are the fruits of Christianity! You will not meet with them in pagan lands; you will not secure them in all their fulness and glory apart from Christianty. If you ask, why we differ so widely from our Druidical ancestors, the answer is obvious-we are a Christian people-we are indebted for all to Christianity-this is the secret of national prosperity and national happiness! May we never betray our trust, and deny our God, lest the Sun of Britain set forever in darkness!"

EPISCOPACY.-The Most High God oame down to Mount Sinai and consecrated Moses;

Moses laid his hands on Aaron; Aaron upon his sons; his sons successively upon those that followed them, until John the Baptist. John the Baptist laid his hands upon our Saviour; our Saviour upon his Apostles; his Apostles upon the Bishops that succeeded them; and they ever since on those who are admitted into holy orders.Morinus.

ORIGIN OF TITHES.-It is well to bear in remembrance the origin of our parochial establishments. In the first volume of Blackstone's Commentaries we have this account of the matter:-"The lords, as Christianity spread itself, began to build churches upon their own demesnes, or wastes, to accommodate their tenants in one or two adjoining lordships; and in order to have Divine Service regularly performed therein, obliged all their tenants to appropriate their tithes to the maintenance of the one officiating Minister, instead of leaving them at liberty to distribute them among the Clergy of the Diocese in general; and this tract of land, the tithes whereof were so appropriated, formed a distinct parish; which well enough accounts for the intermixture of parishes one with another. For, if a lord had a parcel of land detached from the main of his estate, but not sufficient to form a parish of itself, it was natural for him to endow his newly-erected church with the tithes of those disjointed lands; especially if no church was then built in any lordship adjoining to those out-laying parcels. Thus parishes were gradually formed, and parish churches endowed with the tithes that arose within the circuit assigned." Here we have voluntary liberality leading to permanent and territorial endowment. It may, indeed, appear at first reading, that as the tenants were obliged to pay tithes, it was not, and cannot fairly be called, a voluntary movement. But if the tenants paid so much to the parish church and parish minister, they had so much the less to pay to the landlord. If the rent of one of them amounted to £1000 per annum, and he was obliged to give £100 to the church, the obligation was imposed upon him by a landlord who might have demanded the whole thousand for himself, but who, in consideration of the Church, with all her blessings and benefits to the people, was content with £900. It is utterly preposterous to suppose that he first bargained for all the rent that he could obtain, independent of any other demand upon the tenant, and then afterwards compelled the tenant to pay a tenth to the Church. Such a proceeding would have been as impracticable in operation as it would have been iniquitous in principle. No; the endowment of the parish church was a voluntary abatement in the rent of the parish landlord. Instead of taking it himself from the tenant, and making the Clergyman a

stipendiary upon him, which would have been precisely the same thing in point of money, he elevated the Clergyman into a joint landlord with himself, which was essentially a different thing in point of respectabilityand, let me add, in point of security; for by thus legalising the claim of the Clergyman, as distinct from his own, he did not leave him at the mercy, or to the contingency of hereditary voluntaryism, but did, in fact, entail on the Christian Church, throughout all generations, one-tenth of his income. I would take the liberty of holding up this example of our ancient landlords for the Christian imitation of our modern cotton lords, and iron lords, and all denominations of our commercial and manufacturing lords. -The Rev. H. M'Neile.

CHRIST'S AMBASSADORS.-Any man may read the Scriptures or make an oration to the people, but it is not that which the Scriptures shall call preaching the Word of God, unless he be sent by God to do it. For how can they preach except they be sent. (Rom. x. 15.) A butcher may kill an ox or a lamb, as well as the high-priest; but it was no sacrifice to God, unless one of his priests did it. And no man taketh this honour to himself but he that is called of God, as was Aaron. (Heb. v. 4.) Any man may treat of public affairs as well as an ambassador; but he cannot do it to any purpose, without a commission from his prince. As suppose a foreign nation should set up one among themselves to make a league with England, what would that signify when he is not authorised by the king to do it? And yet this is the case of many among us, who, as the Apostle foretold, cannot endure sound doctrine, but after their own lusts heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears. (2 Tim. iv. 3.) But such teachers as men thus heap to themselves, howsoever they may tickle their itching ears, they can never touch their hearts for that can be done only by the power of God accompanying and assisting his own institution and commission. Insomuch that if I did not think, or rather was not fully assured, that I had such a commission to be an ambassador for Christ, and to act in his name, I should never think it worth the while to preach or execute any ministerial office; for I am sure that all I did would be null and void of itself, according to God's ordinary way of working; and we have no ground to expect miracles. But, blessed be God, we in our Church, by a successive imposition of hands, continued all along from the Apostles themselves, receive the same spirit that was conferred upon them for the administration of the Word and Sacraments ordained by our Lord and Master, and therefore may do it as effectually to the salvation of mankind as they did. For as they were, so are we, ambassadors for Christ. Bishop Beveridge.

SELF-EXAMINATION.

From Lady Blessington's New Work, “ Desul

tory Thoughts and Reflections." Let us call back our long-departed years, And ask if we employed them as we ought? Will they not tell a most reproachful tale, Of wasted hours, of blessings never prized, Till lost, and then ungratefully resigned, With murmurs, and not thanks, that they were lent? RESIGNATION. Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambray, author of "Telemachus," when his illustrious pupil, the Duke of Burgundy, lay dead in his coffin, on coming into the room where the nobles of his court stood weeping around the corpse-fixing his eyes upon it, broke out at length in terms to this effect: There lies my beloved prince, for whom my affection was equal to the tenderest parent. Nor was any affection lost; he loved me in return with the ardour of a son. There he lies, and all my worldly happiness lies dead with him. But if the turning of a straw would call him back to life, I would not for ten thousand worlds be the turner of that straw, in opposition to the will of God."

THE TREE OF LIFE.-To whom, blessed Lord Jesus, should we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. Thou art the true tree of life, in the midst of the paradise of God. For us men, and for our salvation, thou didst condescend to be planted, in a lowly form, upon the earth. But thy head soon reached to heaven, and thy branches to the ends of the earth. Thy head is covered with glory, and thy branches are the branches of honour and grace. Medicinal are thy leaves to heal every malady, and thy fruits are all the blessings of immortality. It is our hope, our support, our comfort, and all our joy, to reflect, that, wearied with the labours, and worn out with the cares and sorrows of a fallen world, we shall sit down under thy shadow with great delight, and thy fruit shall be sweet to our taste.Bishop Horne.

THE SPANISH INQUISITION. There is nothing the literature of Spain is more proud of than the inquisition. Cities have contended in hot rivalry for the glorious distinction of having been the first seat of that holy tribunal. The great claim for the beatification of San Fernando, put forth by Philip III., 1627, was, that he had carried, like a second Abraham, fire and faggots himself. All travellers report that the auto de fe was considered by far the most magnificent spectacle of Spain. The presence of Majesty, elsewhere the harbinger of pardon, was there the signal of greater bloodshed.Quarterly Review.

REVERENCE FOR THE GRAVE IN THE EAST.There are a few things connected with my journeying in the Holy Land which I look upon with a more quiet satisfaction than my often-repeated and almost daily walk round

the walls of Jerusalem. It was a walk of betwen three and four miles; and I always contrived, about half an hour before the gates were closed, to be sitting on a favourite tombstone near St. Stephen's gate. The great Turkish burying ground is outside the wall near this gate; and regularly, on a fine afternoon, towards sunset, the whole Turkish population, in all their gay and striking costumes, might be seen wandering among the tombs. Few things strike a traveller in the east more than this, and few are to us more inexplicable. We seldom go into a grave. yard except to pay the last offices to a departed friend, and for years afterwards we never find ourselves in the same place again without a shade of melancholy coming over

us.

Not so in the east; to-day they bury a friend, to-morrow they plant flowers over his grave, and the next day and the next they tend and water them, and once a week, regularly, they sit by the grave. On every holyday it is a religious duty to go there, and as often as they walk out for health or pleasure, they habitually turn their footsteps to the burial ground. To them the grave is not clothed with the same terrors. It is not so dark and gloomy as to us. They are firmer believers than we are, though, as we think, in a false and fatal creed; and to them there is a light beyond the grave which we of a better faith can seldom see.-Stephen's Incidents of Travels in the Holy Land, &c.

EDUCATION FOUNDED ON THE BIBLE." I will suggest that we should express our wish that what is now done may be the same that has been done--that education may continue to be grafted on the doctrines of our Church, and that we use our best endeavours to prevent all such schools as are connected with the Church being separated from such connexion. Consider well, my brethren, before you sacrifice the best provision that was ever made for the security and welfare of a people, and suffer this nation, now so prosperous and happy, to decline, as others have done which have forgotten the Lord their God. If we allow the Bible to be considered a questionable book in which some passages may be altered, and others expunged, according to the will and caprice of different sects, and of different teachers in the school, do reflect, I entreat you, on what must be the effect produced on the minds of children? Must not such a proceeding gradually lead to a contempt of the Bible, and ere long, to infidelity? If we can remain at ease, when so dangerous a measure is in contemplation, not only will the usefulness of our order be deteriorated, but the days of our Church will be numbered. He that hath built, will pull down; he that hath planted, will pluck up, even this whole land.' --Chancellor Fletcher's Charge to the Clergy of Carlisle.