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close, and the present constitution of things will terminate. On that day, the reason of the dark clouds which have surrounded some of the scenes of earth will show that the Lord doeth all things well, and that his tender mercies are over all his works. On that great day the Gospel will have accomplished its mission, and Christ shall then shine forth in all his glory, and all the assembled multitudes shall give homage to Him who is the King of kings. At his advent He came not arrayed in majesty, but as a servant, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross; then he will come forth in all his glory, the wheels of time shall cease to roll, time shall be no longer; redemption will then have perfected its work, and eternity succeed the work of time.

It is a great day, because we shall then take our trial for eternity. Before him shall be gathered all the nations, the Judge, seated on his great white throne will then be seen, to him all must render an account. Nothing will pass that ordeal unless it bear the impress of Christ's image; the plea of the redeemed will be that Christ for them has died, and God, through him, has freely justified them from all things. But how will the trial pass on those who have neglected the Saviour? The likeness of sin they bear, for the deeds they have done they must give account, and those who have done evil will then arise to the resurrection of condemnation.

It is a great day because of its eternal issues. When the Son of Man shall come in his glory, with all his holy angels, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory; before him shall be gathered all nations, and he shall then separate the righteous from the ungodly. On his left hand, shall be placed the ungodly, to them will he say, "Depart from me, ye cursed," while on his right hand, the righteous, the redeemed, shall appear, and they shall be welcomed with the sound of the loving Saviour's voice, "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you." What a bright day will it be to the redeemed; joy and glory their eternal portion, but dark indeed will it prove to the wicked, when the sun shall go down on them no more to rise. Fixed, irrevocably fixed, will be the eternal destiny of all. To those who are in a state of condemnation, let us say, the Saviour will now receive you, if you come to Him. The angelic hosts are now ready to conduct you to the river of life, that you may partake of everlasting blessedness. If you feel your condemned state, to draw you to the Saviour is our desire, and instrumentally unfold to your vision the joys of heaven.

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The last great day shall be remembered for ever. To Christians this day will be a joyful one, and till it dawns, they cannot fully enter into the blessedness of which they shall hereafter partake. day of the Saviour's appearing they love, and all ought to be ever watchful, having their lamps trimmed, ready to go forth to meet the Bridegroom; then they shall receive a crown of immortality, and be introduced into the blest assembly of the redeemed. Behold, I come quickly," are the solemn words, then let your souls be in such a state of fitness that every heart may be able to respond-" Even so, come, Lord Jesus." Some, perhaps, now present, cannot look with joy on

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the coming of that day: they will then be filled with dismay, and for ever deplore their lost condition. Life is but a vapour; soon it vanishes away. Death is near; eternity is at hand. As death leaves you, so will the day of judgment find you; as the tree falls, so it lies; and throughout eternity will this day be remembered. Sinner, delay not to a more convenient season before seeking forgiveness; say not, At some future day I'll seek the Saviour's face. Oh, say you, No?-when I tell you of the joys of heaven. My prayer for you is, that the Spirit of the Lord would breathe upon your dry bones, and cause your lifeless souls to live. The door of mercy is open; the Saviour stands ready to receive you. Delay not; soon it may prove too late ; for it is now

"While the lamp holds out to burn,

The vilest sinner may return."

See that you refuse not Him that speaketh; for if they escaped not who refused Him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape if we turn away from Him that speaketh from heaven. On his throne He sits, and his voice of love addressed to you is, "Come unto me." Hear now his gracious invitation, and at the last great day may you be received to his right hand, and join the blest assembly of the redeemed around the throne. BETTS.

MR. EDITOR,

POPERY IN THE METROPOLIS.

Having in my last communication, directed the attention of your readers to what appeared to me an act of gross Idolatry performed in a Roman Catholic Chapel near London, I beg leave to lay before you now, a few specimens of the teaching of the living ministry of Popery, that your Protestant readers may have some additional light in regard to that system, the agents of which are denouncing them all as heretics, doomed by the anathema of their Church to everlasting perdition.

Some months ago, I and a friend entered the Jesuit Church in our neighbourhood, the priest advised the congregation never to leave their bedrooms in the morning without reverently saying their little office, by which was meant a short form of prayer addressed to the Virgin Mary, and still further to urge the performance of the act, he said he would from the records of the Church, illustrate the vast importance of our fulfilling this duty. Two Catholic boys having a holiday, decided upon spending it in the country, they came to a river, on the side of which they found a boat, one proposed as an addition to their pleasure that they should have a ride on the water, the other objected, as he had not that morning said his little office, he then knelt down and said the prayers, after enjoying their ride an hour or two as they were returning, the boat was upset and they were both struggling for life in the stream, when in answer to their cries the blessed Mother of God, appeared on the banks and stretching out her hand she rescued the boy who had said the little office, and placed him in safety by her side, his drowning companion cried more fervently for help, but she frowning upon him said, you despised me this morning and must now perish without me, and he sank to rise no more alive. The preacher then exclaimed, "Thus my brethren, you see the immense advantage of performing the duty I am urging upon you." On another occasion, the priest told the congregation, if they wanted a happy new year, they must

devote themselves with more energy and constancy to the service of the blessed Mary, for whoever trusted in her would never be confounded; that if we made her our friend, we were sure of salvation, for her Son could never refuse the prayer of His mother, and that whatever she requested she was sure to obtain. He then observed, she was worthy of our devotion and our unceasing gratitude, for to her we owed our salvation, for, when our race were lying in their primitive ruin, the Son of God by virtue of his omniscience, saw the piety, the zeal, and the immaculate purity of Mary, and at once turned to the almighty Father, and exclaimed, "I have found a ransom, Lo! I come to do thy will, O God." For His love to Mary he became bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh, that he might redeem the world.

In order to urge his hearers to pray more fervently and constantly to the Virgin, the priest in another discourse, related the following story. "Two young men who had given way to mortal sin, finished a day of wickedness in a bad house, leaving it together at midnight, they parted, each going to his home, when one of them arrived there in his guilt and misery, he cast himself before an Image of Mary, and implored her mercy, and repeated many Ave Marias, and then retired to rest; but ere sleep had closed his eyes, he was terrified at the appearance of his friend standing before him, enveloped in the flames of hell, who told him that God for his sins had struck him dead, and that his corpse was lying in the street near his home, and that his soul was eternally lost, and that the like punishment would have befallen him had he not prayed to the Virgin, whose intercession alone had saved him from destruction. This awful story was then applied to draw us all to the blessed Lady for protection and salvation. Animated by such devotion to Mary, she is made more prominent than her Son in the services of the Catholic Church. Ave Marias are in constant repetition, sometimes they are said thirty or forty times during the hours of worship, and forms of prayers to her are used extensively. Relative to transubstantiation, the priests boldly declare, that the wafer, in the mass, is the real body, soul, and divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ, the very Son that was born of the Virgin Mary, the very God that made the Universe. In a sermon on the subject, a priest stated in the language of the Council of Trent "That Christ entire, is contained in the venerable sacrament of the Eucharist, under each species, and under every part of each species when they are separated, and that though he broke the consecrated wafer into ten or twenty pieces, every part was a perfect Christ, Body, Soul, and Divinity, and all not so believing were anathema, and to prove the truth of this wondrous doctrine, he used the following illustration: "In looking into a large mirror, you see an exact image of yourself, you then cut or break the glass into ten more pieces, each piece will give you, though smaller, a perfect representation of yourself, so is it in breaking the wafer in the Eucharist." With this argument, he and his hearers seemed perfectly satisfied; they could not of course dare to think in opposition to the teaching of the priest, let his reasoning be ever so absurd.

Purgatory, and deliverance from its punishments, are frequent types of the Roman ministry; after telling us that its torments are little inferior to those of hell, except that to one there would be an end, but to the other all was eternal; that we are frequently exhorted to sympathize with, and help those of our friends who are now in the purgatorial fire, this, he said, we can and ought to do to the utmost of our powers, the means are in our hands, and we may help the miserable ones with our prayers, our alms, and more especially by causing masses to be offered on their behalf. On one occasion, when urging us to engage the priests to offer masses for the souls of our dead relatives, the priest told us of two young priests, who when

separated to go to their respective cures, pledged themselves to each other that when parted by death, the survivor would never rest till he had done his utmost to liberate his deceased friend from the torments of purgatory, one of them met with an early grave, his friend for a short time remembered his promise, but soon gave over his efforts for the deliverance of the sufferer; but one night when alone, to his horror and dread, the deceased priest appeared clothed in garments of flame, with his breast opened and his heart exposed, which was burning with the fires of purgatory. After condemning the cruelty and neglect of his late friend the spirit left him, repenting of his misconduct, and resolving to do his utmost to rescue his friend. He lost no opportunity to say masses, he engaged all the priests in the neighbourhood to help him, and soon to his great joy, the departed again appeared, but now clothed in garments of light and glory, thanking him for his efforts, and ascribing his speedy deliverance to the masses said in his behalf. Then followed an energetic appeal to all present, to engage the ministers of the sanctury to offer masses on behalf of their dead relatives and friends. In another sermon on the same subject, after showing the people the power they possessed for the deliverance of their friends, the priest said he would relate from the annals of the Church, a story that showed how Almighty God regarded their efforts on behalf of their friends who are still in purgatory. "A certain Saint, whose life had been devoted to charity and remarkable efforts for the deliverance of souls from the penal fire, was during a dearth of water, perishing from thirst in her distress; she went to the house of God, the priest in his respect to her, gave her the last cup of water he had, but urged her to pour it out before the Lord, and unite with him in prayer on behalf of the wretched in purgatory, she did so, and soon afterwards died. When in eternity she found she was doomed to twenty years torments in the purifying flame, but she had not been there three days, before an angel appeared to her, and told her that her zeal and love to the souls in purgatory, and especially the last act of her life, had so affected God towards her, that her sentence had been mercifully commuted to three days suffering, and that he was sent to take her to heaven, and having done so, he appeared to the good priest, and told him that which I now tell you." He closed his sermon by a stirring exhortation on behalf of the miserable ones still remaining in the purgatory of the Church of Rome.

Methinks, Mr. Editor, something more than pity must move every beieving reader of God's word, at such teaching as this by Roman Priests, when it is well known that for the saying of masses for the dead, they are well paid by their deluded followers.

I could multiply similar illustrations of Roman Catholic teaching in London, but surely these are sufficient to mark the apostate Church whose coming is after the working of Satan, with power, and signs, and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness, and whose members are under strong delusion that they might believe a lie. What must be the condemnation of the priests of Rome, when judged by the apostle's declaration, Galations, i. 7. "There are some that trouble you, and would pervert the Gospel of Christ, but though we or an angel from heaven preach any other Gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed."

I am sure none of your pious readers can peruse this account of Roman Catholic doctrine and teaching, without great sorrow of heart, that millions of immortal spirits should be placed under the influence of such doctrines, for if men are to be saved by the belief of the truth, and of the truth alone, what must result from the inculcation and belief of such errors as are unceasingly propagated by the priests of Rome. I trust this account of a few of the errors of the Papacy, will lead the thousands of our

Israel to pray for the outpouring of the Spirit of God on the teachers and people of Romanism, that they may be turned from the darkness of error to the light and liberty of the Gospel of eternal truth.

I am, yours sincerely,

J. C.

A DARK SCENE.

In the following striking passage, the murderous usages of the Highland clans and the motives of the Master of Stair are well contrasted. The implacable course of his dark policy comes out from the canvass like a portrait of Titian. His ferocious joy when he learns that Mac Ian has not taken the oaths by the appointed time, his preparations, and his accomplices are made the most of. The sojourn of the soldiers of Glenlyon among the Macdonalds, while awaiting the concerted signal, awakens, as we learn, the suspicions of the latter:

"The night was rough. Hamilton and his troops made slow progress, and were long over their time. While they were contending with the wind and snow, Glenlyon was supping and playing at cards with those whom he meant to butcher before daybreak. He and Lieutenant Lindsay had engaged themselves to dine with the old chief on the morrow.

"Late in the evening a vague suspicion that some evil was intended crossed the mind of the Chief's eldest son. The soldiers were evidently in a restless state; and some of them uttered strange cries. Two men, it is said, were overheard whispering. 'I do not like this job,' one of them muttered, 'I should be glad to fight the Macdonalds. But to kill men in their beds

'We must do as we are bid,' answered another voice. If there is anything wrong, our officers must answer for it.' John Macdonald was so uneasy that soon after midnight he went to Glenlyon's quarters. Glenlyon and his men were all up, and seemed to be getting their arms ready for action. John, much alarmed, asked what these preparations meant. Glenlyon was profuse of friendly assurances. 'Some of Glengarry's people have been harrying the country. We are getting ready to march against them. You are quite safe. Do you think that if you were in any danger I should not have given a hint to your brother Sandy and his wife?' John's suspicions were quieted. He returned to his house and lay down to rest.

"It was five in the morning. Hamilton and his men were still some miles off; and the avenues which they were to have secured were open. But the orders which Glenlyon had received were precise; and he began to execute them at the little village where he was himself quartered. His host Inverrigen and nine other Macdonalds were dragged out of their beds, bound hand and foot, and murdered. A boy twelve years old clung round the captain's legs, and begged hard for life. He would do anything: he would go anywhere: he would follow Glenlyon round the world. Even Glenlyon, it is said, showed signs of relenting; but a ruffian named Drummond shot the child dead.

"At Auchnaion the tacksman Auchintriater was up early that morning, and was sitting with eight of his family round the fire, when a volley of musketry laid him and seven of his companions dead or dying on the floor. His brother, who alone had escaped unhurt, called to sergeant Barbour, who commanded the slayers, and asked as a favour to be allowed to die in the open air. Well,' said the sergeant, 'I will do you that favour for the sake of your meat which I have eaten.' The mountaineer, bold, athletic, and favoured by the darkness, came forth, rushed on the soldiers who were

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