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as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might save some.' "Give none offence, neither to the Jews nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved" (1 Cor. ix. 2; x. 32). In this spirit we shall feel obliged to proceed to a region of conduct more delicate and difficult than such as we have already traversed; for thus, we may often consider it our duty to mix with persons whose society we should not voluntarily choose, and for a time it may be to bear with practices which we cannot approve, in the hope of ultimately improving the one and removing the other. In all this how much wisdom and faith will be requisite ! What need will there be for watchfulness against the intrusions of self! And how anxiously careful should we be that we indulge no prejudices of our own, but simply endeavour to promote the real welfare of those whom the Lord has committed to our guidance; and that hereby we may exhibit some faint resemblance of the "mind which was in Christ Jesus."

a special charge; and our peculiar sphere of duty has been defined and prescribed. But, surely, this wise provision fails, if it render us indifferent to the general welfare of the body of which we are individual members. The parish or the district is constituted to secure a cultivated enclosure, that, by the division of labour, a more extensive harvest may be ultimately in-gathered.

But, as the principle of the gospel is expansive, our feelings and our efforts will necessarily burst this narrow boundary, and we shall be moved, not only to go forward into a wider field of usefulness ourselves, but we must also take our congregations with us. We shall therefore feel obliged, at proper intervals and on suitable occasions, to bring before our people the various charitable institutions which render their efficient aid to individual benevolence. We must often continue to draw attention to subjects, respecting which there may be a chilling indifference, and try to move compassion on behalf of those whose remoteness has hitherto excluded them from sympathy.

We must urge the equitable claims of the degraded and destitute, both children and adults, Again: our self-devotion will often be seriously citizens of our most wealthy country. We must exercised while we are acting as teachers of reli- ask consideration for the inhabitants of our popu gion and pastors of the parish. We shall conti- lous and distant colonies. We must plead the cause nually be called upon, if faithful, to utter very of the unconverted heathen. And especially we unwelcome truths both in public and in private; must remind the disciples of Christ, that their elder often be required to rebuke, when our natural brethren, the children of Israel, are yet banished temper would prompt us to be silent; and be from their home, and outcasts from the divine obliged to remove the false foundation of a base- favour. And, urging for our argument the highest less hope, when our heart's desire is, that it were interests of the whole family of man, we may indeed substantial, scriptural, enduring. We may make this irresistible appeal: "If the casting away be commanded to act towards our parishioners, or of them be the reconciling of the world, what even our relations, in a manner which they may shall the receiving of them be but life from the think too scrupulous or even severe; and this im- dead?" (Rom. xi. 15). Thus may we prove the putation we must bear, though all the while our simplicity of our faith, and sincerity of our affecown inward struggle is to stand firm to our prin- tion to the Lord, rendering succour to those who ciple; and our temptation is not to do harsh can give nothing in return, and whom we may things, but rather to yield for the sake of peace, never see until we meet them and our "recomand to save our feelings by a compromise of duty. pense at the resurrection of the just.” And thus we may often be obliged to urge upon others truths which at the time are neither appreciated nor understood; and we shall be constrained to pursue our fixed course of duty, though we are conscious that our motives are misapprehended or belied. And more: we must persevere in the very difficult attempt to do good to others while they know not what we mean, and sometimes continue to confer benefits, which are even rejected and despised. We must not remit our labour, though there may be little or no prospect of return; but must work, often in the dark, and when we seem casting away both time and effort. Much patience and much faith may be called into exercise and severely tried. But we are acting in a spirit of self-devotion. It is all right: it is what we should have expected, when counting the cost of the Christian ministry. And thus there may be discerned in us some feeble traces of that "mind which was in Christ Jesus."

Again: we must beware lest the very sentiment of devotion to those with whose welfare we are so closely connected should degenerate into a species of refined selfishness. We must be careful that we do not so identify our own comfort and success with the condition of our own parishes, as to render us comparatively indifferent to the more extended interests of the diocese, or of the church at large. It is true we have, as pastors, received

GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS SOCIETY FOR THE
ASSISTANCE OF POOR PROTESTANT COX-
GREGATIONS*.

AT a time when the agents of popery are making
such mighty efforts, at home and abroad, to re-
is particularly gratifying to know that the pro-
store the doctrines and the dominion of Rome, it
testant churches of Germany are exhibiting the
symptoms of returning life, not only in the rejec
tion of the deadening system of rationalism, but
in their love of the brethren. The ages of op-
pression and persecution are not yet over. Wher-
ever the Roman church has the supreme power,
religious liberty is unknown.
papal states-Sardinia, Bavaria, Austria, Bo-
And hence, in the
hemia, Moravia, Hungary, the Tyrol, &c.—pro-
testants have to endure either open hostility or
and power inflict.
every species of vexation that malice cax devise
The case of the Zille-thaler
the ways and means of suppressing gospel trath
exiles gave the British public some insight into
in the nineteenth century. But that is far from
being a single instance. Falsehood, force, and
fraud are still the prominent characteristics of tha

We are greatly obliged to the rev. friend who has supplied us with this paper; to which and to succeeding ones we invit our reader's special attention.-ED.

church to which men, some demented and others given over to a reprobate mind, both incapable of discerning between truth and falsehood, would now persuade us to return. Modern lovers of antiquity seem to forget the history of the past. The events of the present, however, still convey the same warning. A petition of the protestants of Hungary, presented to the late emperor of Austria, in 1819, contains a fearful account of wrongs which, it is still more fearful to think, have never yet been redressed. The emperor, in the year 1793, had granted to the inhabitants of the valley of Puchow free exercise of their religion. But the Roman church knew how to contravene the kind intentions of the civil governor; and, therefore, the petitioners, twenty-four years afterwards, still complain in these words: "Nevertheless, many, from fear of persecution, hide themselves in woods, deprived of all the consolations of religion; and, in this enlightened century, in the midst of their own native country, and under the mild paternal government of your majesty, are, through the intolerance of their fellow-citizens, compelled to live as exiles. To this it is to be ascribed, that the children of Stephen Vrabek, in the village of Laaz, have both fallen a prey to death. The one, to escape from the hands of the heiduk, who attempted to carry it off from the bosom of its parents, ran away and hid in the woods; and there, from extreme terror, fell into convulsions, and expired. The other, torn away by force from 'its unhappy parents, and delivered over to the diocesan, died of grief at being compelled to violate its conscience. Thus, also, Daniel Ziram weeps over the grave of his son, who, torn half-naked from his father's arms, soon sank under terror and privation, and in the bosom of the earth alone was able to find a secure resting-place. Hence it is that Eva Stulko was seized during her pregnancy by the corporal of heiduks, severely tied, and so ill-used that she miscarried. Hence it is that John Skrmann, lately in the year 1817, who from his earliest childhood had grown up in the protestant doctrine, and is now forty years of age, was, on his own farm, where he was quietly ploughing, beaten by the county heiduk until the stick broke; but was sentenced again, by the deputation before which he was cited, to twenty-four blows of a stick: That several persons, who did not choose to consent to have the marriage ceremony performed a second time, a thing unknown to our laws, and introduced only for the purpose of undermining the legitimacy of children, were driven into the church with blows to be married over again: That, as soon as the county deputation had dispersed, an official of the county authorities caused John Dandulik and John Strbann to be tied, deprived of all food for two days, and then to be beaten, the first with twenty-four blows of a stick, his wife with thirty-three blows, and Andrew Shutreik with thirty lashes of a whip: That, when this county official himself had left the place, the parish priest thought fit, by means of his schoolmaster, to continue this tragic scene, becoming only an age of the rudest barbarism, and for this purpose had the bolted doors forcibly broken open by night, and filled the quiet streets with terror and wild uproar: That, in the year 1818, in the month of April, the county-jurat, Baros, with two heiduks, and the schoolmaster of

the place at the head, suddenly fell upon the sleeping inhabitants of Laaz, at midnight, tore the poor weeping children from the beds and arms of their parents, and by this inhuman conduct, filled the place with groans and cries and riot: That the above-named schoolmaster forcibly broke into the house of John Pakholik; and, when the daughter, fearing to be separated from her mother, had thrown her arms around her neck, he tore the mother out of bed by the hair, dragged her about on the floor, and trod upon her head, which he fractured in three places.""

The petition proceeds with other cases of similar persecution; but these are sufficient to give the reader an idea of the present dealings of the Roman church in Hungary and some other portions of the Austrian dominions. This is not, however, the only species of vexation to which these poor people are subject. If there be not 500 protestants in one place, in the German and Bohemian provinces of Austria, they are not allowed to form a congregation, nor to build school or chapel. Where they do amount to 500, their house of prayer must have neither tower nor bell, nor porch towards the street; and the surplice fees must be paid to the Roman priest. Before 1829 the protestant clergy were not allowed to keep registers of marriages, baptisms, and deaths: they were kept by the priests: even now their church books are not acknowledged as legal evidence unless attested by the priest; and, finally, protestant congregations are subject to the jurisdiction of the Roman catholic bishops*.

And yet, happy they who, even under such conditions, can find the means to build a church, and provide for a minister and schoolmaster. But, alas! in many places the persecution of more than two centuries has frightened the rich into the Roman church, and left only the poor-tradespeople, journeymen, labourers-as the faithful conservators of the truth once delivered to the saints; and thus some who had churches, unable to maintain them, have seen them fall to ruin from want of means. Others have been deprived of pastors and schools; and the wonder is that they have preserved the truth and that love to it which has overcome so many vexations and difficulties. The protestant clergy themselves have, of course, suffered with their flocks, and present a noble instance of self-sacrifice for the spiritual welfare of those committed to their charge. In some cases the salaries have not exceeded 100 florins (about 97. 1s. 8d.) a-year; and in others, the pastors have received nothing but the few gifts of produce which the poor people could give them; and, where the potato harvest has failed, have with their families almost perished from hunger. To relieve such heart-rending cases of destitution, and thus preserve the truth amidst those who have held it fast under such trials, the Gustavus Adolphus Society has been formed, of which an account shall be given in a following number.

"Sketches in Austria" (Leipsic, 1844), p. 186.

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