will say unto him, and what he shall answer when he is reproved by conscience, the Word and his adversaries. He wants to view from his tower the way the Lord has led him in the wilderness, and to behold the land of far distances. He wants to know more and more of Christ; to possess more of His riches, grace, and promises; and to enjoy more of His love, presence, and communion. He is, therefore, always looking to Christ, and looking for Christ-He is his all in all. man could open the heart to receive, en- | his watch tower to see what the Lord lighten the eyes to see, and fix the mind on Jesus-only God can do these things-for, do I persuade men or God? "Since the world began, was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind" (John ix. 32). All life is in Christ; he is the path of life, the word of life, the well of life, and the tree of life. Life is attended with light-for in Him was life, and the life was the light of men. The path of the just, which is Christ, is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. Hear instruction, saith wisdom, and be wise, and refuse it not. "Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors; for whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord." Here you see how the Lord keeps the hearing, watching, waiting soul at his gates. The poor sinner wants to see Jesus, and to find him, that he may find or lay hold of eternal life, and obtain favour of the Lord. The prophet Isaiah saith, "Therefore will the Lord wait that he may be gracious unto you; and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you; for the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for Him" (Isa. xxx. 18). You learn that the Lord Jesus keeps you waiting at his gates; and also, therefore, will the Lord wait-not as many who corrupt the word say, that God is waiting for you if you will come to him; but therefore will the Lord wait that he may be gracious unto you-he defers your hope-he keeps you waiting, and he himself waits, until the set time to favour Zion be come, and then the Holy Spirit shows us the path of life-we hear his word behind, or which has been spoken, saying, "This is the way, walk ye in it." The first thing in a real change of heart is life"For you hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins." Religion is a hidden thing it is the work of God-it is life within, and it is a constant revelation both of ourselves and of God, in His attributes of Christ, in His person, work, and redemption; and of the Holy Ghost in His Word, His operations, and renewings; and the believer is set upon Now, whatever God is pleased to show the soul, has life in it, light in it, and love in it, and, I may say, power in it; for our Lord promised his disciples that they should not taste of death until they saw the kingdom of God come with power. And the saved sinner finds "there is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen: the lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it; " that all God's children are taught these things by God the Holy Ghost, and every one that hath heard and learned of the Father comes to Christ. Again, "thou wilt shew me the path of life this was through death. Had not Jesus died there would have been no life; but when, as we confess, "he had endured the sharpness of death, he opened the kingdom of heaven to all believers." His death is our life, and the path is his cross; for it is through much tribulation we enter the kingdom of God. Has the Lord the Spirit ever. showed you this path? that you must be crucified with Christ-be planted together with all His saints in the likeness of His death, before you can be planted in the likeness of his resurrection before you can see life? knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Christ, that the body of sin might be destroyed; that henceforth we should not serve sin. As the Spirit shows us life in Christ, life through Christ, and life with Christ; so, when we pass through the valley of the shadow of death, he will show us the path of life hereafter; and when the morning of the first resurrection, or the resurrection of the saints, takes place, God the Holy Ghost will reveal to us fully the path of lives-for so it is in the Hebrew: "If the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you." Thou wilt show me-even me, a poor, weak, vile sinner, utterly unworthy and undone the precious path of everlasting life, through Christ my Saviour's precious death. 2nd. "In Thy presence is fulness of joy." Here again, we see Jesus-He is the presence of Jehovah-as the Lord said to Moses, My presence shall be with thee, and I will give thee rest." And Moses said unto the Lord, "If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence" (Exod. xxxiii. 14, 15), or as we might say, go before, for the angel of the Lord went before them. However, Jesus is the angel of God's presence; he is the image of the invisible God. "He that hath seen me," saith He, "hath seen the Father." There are three very wonderful verses in Paul's Epistle to the Colossians concerning the Lord Jesus Christ which I cannot comprehend, but, blessed be God, which I enjoy and rejoice in. After the apostle had declared him to be the image, the first-born, the creator, the pre-existent, the head, the beginning, he saith, "For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fulness dwell." And again, chap. ii. 3. "In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom (of God the Holy Ghost), and knowledge (of God the Father);" and the third time, verse ninth, "For in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." "In thy presence is fulness of joy." Mind that word joy-the joy of faith-the joy of thy salvation-the joy and Weeping endureth for this night-joy cometh in that morning." "Thy sun shall no more go down." When we receive the fulness, when that which is perfect is come-"neither shall thy moon withdraw itself, for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the day of thy mourning shall be ended." But time would fail to recount the joy and rejoicing of the righteous (Isa. xxxv. 10). Have you received out of his fulness, grace, joy, peace life, light, comfort, strength, wisdom, riches, glory? for we shall receive in his presence the fulness, the whole, the perfection nothing diminished, nothing dimmed, nothing destroyed; "for in Thy presence is fulness of joy." In short, you cannot be in His presence but you feel joy. Then were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord-they had wept, but He said, "Let not your heart be troubled, you believe in God, believe in me." He will wipe away every tear, and satiate the sorrowful soul; He comforted Mary, Martha, and Peter, yea, all His apostles; for how could they be sad when He talked with them, and walked with them, and their hearts burned with love to Him. "These things," said He,-Ah! how many precious things He had said"these things have I spoken unto you that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.” دو Lastly. "At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.' I believe this is Jesus again. This is the third time He manifests Himself; for who is the right hand save our God? "The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacle of the righteous: the right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly; the right hand peace in believing the joy in God of the Lord is exalted; the right hand the joy of the bridegroom and the bride—of the Lord doeth valiantly" (Psa. cxviii. the righteousness, joy, and peace of the kingdom. "I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for He hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness." We shall at last enter into the joy of our Lord, for ye shall go out of this body and this world with joy, and be led forth from all your sins and sorrows, foes and fears here with peace. "The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands" (Isa. lv. 12). 15, 16). The right hand shows His exaltation, His strength and power, His dominion and might, His victory and triumph. Our Lord sitteth on the right hand until He has made His enemies His footstool. He saves with His right hand, and His right hand is full of righte ousness (Psa. xlviii. 10). Jesus is the path of life as our prophet; He is the presence of Jehovah as our priest; and He is the right hand as our king; with Him, and in Him, are pleasures for evermore. Oh what short-lived pleasures are the delights of the sons of men! their laughter, merrriment, pleasures, riches, honours, joys, are so transitory that they are not worthy our regard. Their pleasures are all sinful, which makes them bitter, and they are all short-only for a season; for the world passeth away, and the lusts and pleasures thereof, but our pleasures are without sin, pain, and end-pleasures for evermore: Oh, the pleasure of seeing Jesus as He is, and to be made like Him, to see the face of God, and live for ever beholding; to see the glory of the Lord; to drink of the living fountains, and the river of life; to eat of the tree of life; to behold the holy city having the glory of God, its gates of pearl and walls of jasper; to see the holy angels; see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, apostles, and saints; to see one another there; to see our names written in the book of life. Oh the pleasure to walk with Jesus clothed in white linen, which is the righteousness of the saints! Oh the pleasure to sing, "Unto PAPAL PROGRESS ILLUSTRATED. "WHY so alarmed about Popery? Why keep thundering against a system that is fairly prostrate, and can never rise again in these islands? What is Popery now, but the slender shadow of a potent substance ? Once it ruled the nations with a rod of iron, making kings tremble; but now it is only a bugbear to frighten children! There is nothing whatever to be apprehended from it. In such a land as ours, with a free constitution, a free press, a land thickly studded with Protestant pulpits, overspread with Sunday-schools, and covered with Bibles, it is, and ever will be, utterly impotent to lift its head again. It is a mere relic of former times, illustrating and confirming the statements of history." The stronghold of Protestantism; a Papist was quite a curiosity. But now, the entire face of things is changed! facts are patent to all. About the middle of last month, the new Romish schools, lately erected, were formally opened by a soirée. Bishop Gillis, of Edinburgh, was in the chair, supported by Drs. Marshall, late of Oxford, and Macpherson, as also by Dr. Keenan, of Dundee, to whom was presented by the Dundee Romanists an address, along with a purse of 150 sovereigns, as a tribute of their regard for him as their pastor for the last twenty years. Dr. Keenan replied in terms which demonstrated pretty plainly to what source the great success of the Catholic body in that Well, be it so; this self-satisfied style town is to be attributed. It was quite of talk may seem to bespeak manly clear that they were of the workingspirit and superior sagacity, but it is classes, and that, as they stuck fast by only the effect of ignorance, frivolity, their clergy in the bond of union, their and apathy. Let us take a single small mites had been the means of raisexample of progress, which is of more ing them, in a pecuniary point of view, value than a flood of declamation. from small things, to a position most Dundee, thirty years ago, was one of honourable in the town. The Catholics, the most intelligent, moral, and Church-he said, were, within his own recollecgoing towns in Scotland, the very tion, possessed of only £700 worth of church property in Dundee, and now they were worth £18,000. They had only one small chapel, which barely contained 300 persons; now they had two magnificent churches, capable of containing 5,000. They had no school; now they had five schools, capable of containing 1,800 scholars. They had only one resident clergyman; now they had six. They had not 200 Easter communicants; now they had 9,000. As is usual in Roman Catholic meetngs, the health of the Pope, as Head of the Church, was given, and received with great enthusiasm. That also of the Queen was received in a manner equally enthusiastic and loyal-both sentiments coming from the chair. Dr. Keenan, after receiving the address and testimonial, retained the former, and disposed of the latter:-1st, to the Royal Infirmary, £10; to the destitute poor, in case of want this winter, £10; to the soup kitchen (if any), £10; and the remaining £120 to be devoted to the completion of the schools. In all this there is something peculiarly characteristic. This apportioning of the money is a master stroke. The ignorant multitude can only be reached through the medium of their senses; fill their mouths, and hosannas will at once break forth. Spiritual good is beyond their comprehension, but they are keenly alive to bread and meat. The gift to the Infirmary is fixed and gone: not so the rest. The poor are to receive the money only "in case of want," of which his "Reverence" is, of course, to be the judge-an event which, from the New Scottish Poor Law, is not of likely Occurrence. The other donation is only to go to the "Soup Kitchen," if such there be. It is enough; here is all that t was wanted, a demonstration of the marvellously philanthropic spirit of Popery, and the response of the multitude will be a shout of victory and glory. If Dundee may be taken as a fair average display of the progress of Popery, we put it to every man of common-sense, whether the state of the country be not in a high degree alarming. Many towns, we know, are in advance of Dundee,-those especially in the middle, and on the western shores of Scotland. Dundee is very unfavourably situated as the home of Irish emigrants, and hence Popery must recruit her forces very mainly by appropriating to herself the refuse of the population, stealing by degrees on those in better circumstances. We are, nevertheless, told to take it easy, and comfort ourselves by the assurance that Popery is making no progress. Would that it were so! The impious and pestilent system is assuredly spreading, and everywhere fast covering the land, and rising into favour. It is acting on the two extremes of society, and skilfully adapting itself to both. It is actually subjugating to itself the ruling mind of the nation, which seems awed by its arrogance, and dazzled by its dignity. Our great men may not enter its pale, but they do it homage, and show it kindness. We call not on the Legislature for pains and penalties; but we do call on them henceforth to abstain from direct patronage both at home and abroad; and we do also call on the Protestant Churches to arise from their sloth, to anoint the shield, furbish the spear, and prepare themselves for battle.-British Ensign. TRAIN SCENES.-THE PARTING WORD. TAKE care of yourself," said one friend | enough, nor wise enough to take care of to another, as the latter took his seat in yourself. It is only God, He who the train. 66 My dear sir," was the neither slumbers nor sleeps, that can reply, "I am quite old enough to take take care of you. You have as much care of myself." Are you?" thought reason as the great king of Israel to JONATHAN. "You are very greatly mis- exclaim, Hold thou me up, and I shall taken. If you knew where you are- be safe;' for when we are least suswhat you are and the enemies and the picious of danger, or think we are freest dangers to which you are every moment from temptation, then are we most exexposed, you would think otherwise. posed. Let him that thinketh he You are not old enough, nor strong standeth, take heed lest he fall.”” "THE SCRIPTURE DOCTRINE OF UNION WITH CHRIST," A VINDICATION OF THE ARTICLE IN THE NOVEMBER NUMBER FROM THE STRICTURES OF "T. B. L." To the Editor of the Gospel Magazine. 3. That it being thus proved that the words are used both in a personal and in an impersonal sense, and it being a occur in some instances with the article and in some without it, it is a most reasonable conclusion that it was intended, generally at least, to indicate in which sense they are used. DEAR BROTHER IN THE LORD,-It 2. That, for example, it is so used in is with unfeigned reluctance that I John vii. 39. again buckle on my controversial armour. I know that you, as well as the large majority of your readers, would far rather have your pages otherwise occu-fact which cannot be gainsaid that they pied than with controversy; especially controversy on such "hard questions as the present. I know also, alas! too much of theological disputation, not to have learnt its general proximate uselessness. Rarely, indeed, has it any 4. That to talk of a personal indwellother effect, so far as the parties engaging of the Holy Spirit in believers is ing in it are themselves concerned, than simply to " 'darken counsel by words to confirm each in his own opinion: and without knowledge." it is a happy thing if it does not at the Should I succeed in doing this, it same time produce coldness, irritation, will, I think, be the conclusion of every and harsh judgment of one another, even candid and unprejudiced mind that I between Christian brethren. Oh, for have proved that T. B. L.'s strictures more of what has been beautifully called". are not founded on Scripture." "the controversial intellect without the 1. My first thesis, then, is that the controversial spirit." My own opinion appellation "the Holy Ghost" is frehas long been that the grand use of con- quently used in an IMPERSONAL sense. troversy is not so much the conviction of T. B. L. expresses "his own conviction your opponent as the confirmation of that the words 'Holy Spirit,' with or those who are disposed to agree with without the article, never refer to anyyou, but whose minds may be perplexed thing else than the Divine Person." This and unsettled by the arguments used on is indeed "a hardy saying." He does the other side. And so in the present well to call it his own conviction, for I case, it is, I will candidly confess, not think he will find few who share it. so much in the hope that I shall succeed The thesis expresses not merely my own in changing the opinion of your Brighton conviction, but that of every biblical correspondent (any more than he has critic worthy of the name. I confidently succeeded in changing mine), as to pre- challenge T. B. L. to produce a single vent any who may be disposed to agree modern authority who agrees with him. with my views from being frightened out of them, that I make this reply to his animadversions. T. B. L.'s able letter occupies some nine columns in your current Number, and were I to attempt to enter upon the full discussion of every point he has raised, or the critical examination of every text he has quoted in it, I should have to write not a letter but a treatise. It will, therefore, be my main object in the following remarks, to establish these four propositions: I. That the appellation "the Holy Ghost" is frequently used in the New Testament Scriptures in an impersonal sense. In Dr. KITTO's "Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature," under the article Holy Spirit," I read thus: "The words Spirit and Holy Spirit frequently occur in the New Testament, by metonymy, for the influence or effects of His agency. (a.) As a procreative power,- 'the power of the Highest' (Luke i. 35). (b.) As an influence, with which Jesus was endued (Luke iv. 1). "(c.) As a divine inspiration or afflatus, by which the prophets and holy men wrote and spoke (2 Pet. i. 21; Numb. 11. 26; Neh. ix. 30; Ezek. iii. 12, 14; Rev. i. 10; iv. 2; xvii. 3). "(d.) As miraculous gifts and powers, |