the bonds of ignorance and error, | those heavenly lessons which as a therefore he appeared as a teacher prophet he teacheth. sent from God; and that this was one part of the expected Messiah's character appears from John iv. 25. Now the principal things taught by this heavenly prophet are, 1. The spirituality of the law. Matt. v. 21-29. 2. Human inability. John xv. 5. 3. His own character and the design of his incarnation. John xvi. 30; Luke ix. 10; John iii. 16. 4. The necessity of regeneration. John iii. 3. 5. The reality and nature of a judgment. Matt. xxv. 40. 2. Faith receives him as a Saviour-thus have you received him, renouncing your own righteousness, duties, or graces, you have as poor perishing sinners ventured on his blood and righteousness, you have welcomed him as the sinner's friend and sinner's saviour, saying, All hail incarnate God, welcome to our longing hearts. 3. Obedience acknowledges him the Lord, for his servants we are whom we obey. Thus my dear friends you have put on Christ, Gal. iii. 27. You have, I trust, 2. Immanuel is not only called yielded obedience to him in prithe Christ, but Jesus or a Saviour. vate, in searching the Scriptures, Matt. i. 25. Oh precious name to calling on his name; you have acpoor lost sinners! An Almighty Sa- knowledged him your Lord pubviour, a free, willing, suitable, and licly also, by submitting to his complete Redeemer. institutions. Hail, ye highly fa3. The Son of God is here call-voured of the Lord, who have ed the Lord also, or the only law- received strength to yield that giver of his church, the great Head obedience which is better than saof his Church, and the Lord the crifice; you have followed the only legislator, one is your mas- Redeemer in his watery tomb, you ter, &c. Hence he saith all power have been buried with him by bapis his, &c. he enacts what laws he tism into death; you have also pleases, and enjoins it on all his united yourselves to the church of followers to obey his divine in- Christ, and partook of the memojunctions, he is the head of all things rials of the Saviour's death: thus to his Church. have you received Christ Jesus the Lord. Now each of these characters Christ sustains; a Teacher, a Saviour, and a Lawgiver: and we must remark, 2. that Christians, all true Christians do receive Christ in each and all of those characters thus you, my dear friends, I trust, have also received him. II. Enforce upon you the exhortation of my text, 66 as ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk," &c. By walking understand the general path of life, and therefore, I. As with humility you have received Christ as a Teacher, so go on to walk humbly with thy God; ever cultivate this ornamental There are three distinct graces and exercises of the Christian which correspond with these characters in the Redeemer. 1. Humility receives him as a Teacher; ye have thus humbly received him reject-be clothed with humility, think ing human wisdom and carnal rea- little of yourselves, your knowson, you have humbly sat at Jesus' ledge, graces, &c. but think the feet, and there you have learnt best of Christ; ever keep lowly at grace, his footstool, study his word with prayer for information; the rush in the valley stands the storm better than the oak on the hill; become fools that ye may be wise. 2. As you have received Jesus by faith as your Saviour, so walk ye in him; ever keep in view his fulness, come thither daily, you'll have much need of faith in your Christian warfare, you'll want constant supplies of grace. Don't go to broken cisterns; do as Paul did, he lived a life of faith on the Son of God. Be coming to him as a living stone; trust your bodies with him as well as your souls, your temporals as well as your spirituals, &c. 3. As you have received him as your Lord, so walk in him. You have not yet done all your work, you have much to do with God in your closets, families, the church, and the world. Oh walk worthy of your high vocation, follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth; leave no duty undone, search his word, and act agreeably to its dictates, and so walk, so go on till you receive Christ, not only by faith, but by sight and rejoicing. To urge you thus to do, let me entreat you to consider, 1. That your obligations to God are greater, than before the vows of the Lord are upon you, Rom. vi. 4. 2. That the eyes of men will be now more fixed upon you; both wicked and good. Church and ministers. 3. That it is necessary for your own comfort; a proud, unbelieving, disobedient heart can never be at ease. 4. That it will most conduce to the glory of God and the honor of religion; adorn the doctrine of God your Saviour, therefore, in all things. Let me conclude with the words of Paul, Rom. xii. 1, 2. "I beseech you," &c. THE LONDON BAPTIST BUILDING To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine. A THE London Baptist Building At the public meeting held at Salters' Hall, June 15, I was much pleased with the remarks made from the Chair respecting the necessity of combined efforts and general co-operation. It is supposed that many persons formerly in the habit of relieving country cases do not contribute to this Society, and that others are not giving above half the amount of their former contributions. There was one resolution having a direct bearing upon this point, moved by Mr. Belcher of Folkestone, and seconded by Mr. Mann of Maze Pond, that occasioned some debate. I have not seen a report of the meeting in any of our periodicals, and therefore cannot transcribe the resolution, but it was to this effect:-That the Committee, if they find it expedient from the multiplication of cases beyond what they can in due time relieve, shall have a discre tionary power to invite some of resolution, therefore, was in perfect their most needyapplicants-whose accordance with the rules of the cases shall have been approved Institution, and with all the princiand their deeds specified to be ples of reason and propriety; and correct-to come to London and its practical operation, in a mode make personal application, giving less eligible and satisfactory, is a pledge not to apply to any who inevitable, if support is not more are members of this Society. This, extensively granted. This will not however, was opposed. arise from any defect in the InstiThe objection, so far as I recol- tution, which is so framed that if lect, was, "that it would be a only fifty, or twenty, or ten indivireturn to the exploded plan, and a duals agree, they can relieve cases direct contradiction to the princi- to the extent of their ability, and ple on which the Society was leave the rest to resort to such founded, which was, to prevent means as they may deem proper. the expenditure of public money, This is its excellency. Fifty, or and the necessity of ministers leav-twenty, or ten persons might, howing home." ever, be deemed guilty of arro Mr. Editor, allow me to state gance and presumption, should that the plan of personal applica- they lay restrictions upon others tion is as much exploded and de- whom they could not relieve; and precated now as ever. The So- will not the same charge apply ciety designed if possible to re- to 180, if they act on the same move it altogether, and the reso-principle-nay, if they do not give lution, strange as it may seem to every facility to the bearers of those its opponents, was framed on the cases which they cannot aid? same principle. It was deemed a Surely the opponents of the relikely means to increase the num- solution were too precipitate to neber of subscribers, and thereby gative a proposition submitted to prevent the necessity of recurring their attention but a few minutes to the expedient proposed. If that before, which had been turned upon is not effected by one means or all sides, and viewed in every posanother, the old plan must be re-sible relation by the united wisdom sorted to, or the poor churches will of a Committee. be without that help which they Let the Society steadily and received in former years. The cheerfully proceed, and liberally Society never contemplated a re-assist all the cases they can, and medy, or a relief from the opera- whom they cannot help with motions of the former system, for any ney, help with advice; and by but themselves. Is it fair, equit- furnishing such with as extensive able, or reasonable, that the whole a list as possible of all the names of London should be shielded from who do not belong to the Society, personal application by 180 indi-these-if they be real friends to the vidual subscribers? Those who Redeemer's cause, and desire the receive help from the Society are prosperity of Zion, - will thank debarred by their rules from mak- the Society for affording them ing application in London or its an opportunity of contributing to vicinity, but it was never imagined cases, where there is no fear of the that the prohibition should extend misapplication of their benevoto others, and exonerate from per-lence, or alienation of the property sonal application those who were un- from the end proposed. willing to increase their funds. The J. HARGREAVES. "DIVINE" TO MINISTERS. ON THE APPLICATION OF THE TERM doubt many of your readers will not only be gratified thereby, but SIR, I trust guided as to their conscienOBSERVING in your Magazine for tious use or rejection of the terms this month, Two Queries in regard in future. As for myself, I feel no to the Introduction and Use of the decided objection to revere those title REVEREND, I would beg to whose office and character deserve associate with it that also of DI-it; but cannot bring my mind to VINE, which appears to me the consent to adore them, or in any most objectionable (though at pre-way pay them divine honours. The sent not so much used as the for- insertion of this in your Magazine mer) requesting some of your will oblige learned correspondents to answer these Queries in regard to both Yours, &c. REVEREND and DIVINE? as no Bath, Sept. 11, 1829. ELIHU. POETRY. THE ORPHANS' PLEA. A Hymn for Children who have lost their pious parents. "He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer."-Ps. cii. 17. "We are orphans and fatherless."-Lam. v. 3. REVIEW. Polynesian Researches, during a Residence | heavenly charity of heart, men have of nearly Six Years in the South Sea gone forth to distant lands, encountered Islands; including descriptions of the peculiar dangers, and suffered unwontNatural History and Scenery of the Is-ed privations, and evidently without any lands: with Remarks on the History, Mythology, Traditions, Government, Arts, Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants. By W. ELLIS, Missionary to the Society and Sandwich Islands, and Author of the "Tour of Hawaii." 2 vols. 8vo. London 1829. solicitude respecting their own interest or glory. The awakening of a spirit of Christian philanthropy which appears to have been slumbering for ages, has produced the formation of societies among different denominations of Christians, for the express purpose of sending their agents into all the earth, to convey to deluded souls the tidings of salvation. This happy combination of persons and means, has called into the field of action several eminently qualified men, who in conformity with the taste of the religious world, have united the traveller and the missionary into one. Ardent in the pursuit of general knowledge, they have subordinated it to the love of God, and at once enlarged the boundaries of THE general thirst for knowledge, which is characteristic of the present times, has so stimulated the enterprising spirit of numerous individuals, that within a few years almost every region of the earth has been explored, and every library replenished with books of Travels and Researches. Curiosity, cupidity, or the love of fame, has laid open to view the geographical position and internal character of islands and sections of our globe, till recently unknown or unvisited; and without any personal adven-science, and extended the sphere of ture we have been enabled by a slight effort of the imagination, to traverse tempestuous oceans, to rove over distant countries, and to complete the most perilous undertakings in all the snug security of domestic retirement. We are thankful to those who have thus expatriated themselves for years to pro-curately adduce against it; and the book mote our comfort and instruction, even though a little selfishness of motive should have intermingled with their public exertions. But another feeling, we rejoice to observe, has of late been superadded to the mere thirst for knowledge, and has both refined and expanded it; it is the desire of doing good. In not a few minds this has predominated over every other sentiment, and given birth to some of the most splendid achievements of benevolence in modern times. For the single and sublime purpose of advancing the moral and spiritual interests of mankind, and under the influence of considerations which bespeak at once a comprehensive range of intellect, and a pious activity. While they have ministered to our entertainment, and promoted our mental cultivation, they have chiefly consulted our religious predilections, and at once redeemed the book of travels from the charge of impiety, which the Christian world but too ac of missionary records from the charge of ignorance or dulness, which the literary and scientific world in its turn, too plausibly urged in extenuation of a cold or proud disregard of their claims. Amongst individuals of this class must be reckoned Mr. Ellis: and we hail the appearance of his volumes, as well on account of the general knowledge they contain, as of their large infusions of religious sentiment and missionary information. The distant situation of the numerous islands to which they refer, the beautiful natural scenery and delightful climate they describe, the curious habits, and manners, and idolatry now passing into desuetude, which are brought into review, the wonderful |