Yet all who have lov'd him, redeem'd shall stand In robes of white on their Master's right hand. And darkness shall melt before truth's bright ray And sorrow and sighing flee ever away."

Again, a deep music of solemn tone
In measur'd cadence stole whisperingly on,
It breathed o'er my heart a thrilling spell
And the words re-echoed as they fell:
"Child of mortality! which is for thee
Craven fear, or the crown of victory?

Where in that terrible day shalt thou stand?—

Pause, and think on it now-the time is at hand."

I. B.

SEPARATION OF THE ISRAELITES AS
A PEOPLE.

The

AMID the numerous provisions made for the good of Israel, the choice of their food has indeed received the prominent place due to its importance. They were informed what is most fit to be used, and divinely forbidden to eat what is unclean. heavenly code upon the subject is contained in Lev. xi. and is formed upon principles at once comprehensive and obvious. Among beasts, those which are cloven-footed and which chew the cud; of fish, those that have fins and scales; and of birds, those that feed only on vegetables, (excluding entirely birds of prey,) may be mentioned as a summary. Now, it is beyond a doubt, that the best and most wholesome food is thus intended exclusively to be used; and even those who plead that some of the animals prohibited, may be eaten, do yet confess that they are inferior to those which God in His Law allows. Convinced of the "wisdom" of all these statutes and judgments, we feel assured that there is an inherent unsuitableness for food in all to which the divine prohibition extends, and that it is only because they are more or less unwholesome that any are pronounced "unclean."

The Law in this department, as in others, is an expression of God's goodness to Israel; and although Gentile Christians speak of various of these precepts

as burdensome, and reject them without scruple, our own medical men, often unwittingly indeed, bear testimony to the value of the Law in such cases, by showing that the food it allows is the best, and that which it prohibits is generally indigestible or otherwise injurious. It cannot indeed be questioned that ruminating animals, (those which chew the cud,) by the peculiar structure of their stomachs, concoct their food more perfectly, and combine with it a larger portion of saliva than those which swallow it with little mastication. It is also stated, (Whitlaw's Code of health, pp. 53-55,) that in the act of chewing the cud a large portion of the poisonous properties of noxious plants eaten by them, passes off by the salivary glands. This power of secreting the poisonous effects of vegetables is said to be particularly remarkable in cows and goats, whose mouths are often sore and sometimes bleed in consequence. Their flesh is therefore in a better state for food, as it contains more of the nutritious juices, and is more easily digested in the human stomach, and is consequently more easily assimilated. Animals which do not chew the cud, concoct their food less perfectly; their flesh is therefore more unwholesome, from the gross animal juices with which they abound, and is apt to produce scorbutic and scrofulous disorders. This has been demonstrated by experience, and the ruminating animals are accordingly chiefly used in most countries, but nowhere is the line of abstinence so distinctly drawn as in God's holy Law.

But the clean animals not only chew the cud, but also "divide the hoof." Now this provision also admits of a physiological reason, corresponding with the former. It is an additional means for carrying

off noxious substances from the animal. As in man the perspired matter secreted between the toes is often most foetid, so it is stated by Whitlaw, (Code of Health, p. 54,) that in the case of animals with parted hoofs, when feeding in unfavourable situations, a prodigious amount of discharge is thereby passed off; when animals with undivided hoof, feeding on the same groud, become severely affected in the legs, from the poisonous plants among the pasture. So far, therefore, from these distinctions being merely ceremonial, they are such as are highly conducive to the health of the animals, and, consequently, to the health of those who feed upon them, the reason divinely assigned for the prohibitions being, "Ye shall not make your souls abominable."

(To be continued.)

Review of Books.

JERUSALEM the centre and joy of the whole earth, and the Jew the recipient of the glory of God. By Warder Cresson, United States Consul at Jerusalem. Second Edition.-Nisbet and Co.

By "the glory of God" here referred to, the author understands the Sheckinah, or visible glory, which "pertained" with other privileges to Israel of old, and which he believes (as do many of our best annotators) will form a prominent part of the future dispensation. By this also he interprets "the sign of the Son of Man," to appear in heaven at his second coming. The sustained national distinction of Israel is a grand point with Mr. Cresson, who quotes most abundantly in support of it from all parts of the scriptures. We wish he had omitted the frontispiece, because it is calculated to convey an erroneous impression as to the contents of the book. It