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many difficulties, and thus proved his inherent ability and force of character, as well as his devotion to his ministerial work. Such men are needed in the Church-men marked by strong individuality-not mere copyists or imitators, but carving out their own likeness with their own hand, and presenting its salient points to public attention. Such a man was Mr. Maughan, and we behieve (for we did not know him) that Dr. Cooke has done him no more than justice in the favourable portrait he has drawn of him in this volume. From the "Sermons and Lectures" appended to this memoir, as indeed from the memoir itself, we gather that Mr. Maughan's intellect was robust and practical, rather than subtle and refined. His style is strong and lucid, but there is not that swell and fulness, that rhythm and flow, which mark the higher walks of oratory. His scientific and mathematical studies may account for this in part, for he who demonstrates has to do it in the fewest words and curtest sentences; and this, of course, easily becomes habitual. This, however, implies nothing disparaging, for every one has his own talent, one after this manner, another after that. Taken altogether, as this memoir shows him, Mr. Maughan was evidently a good minister of Jesus Christ, of whom the Connexion to which he belonged had good reason to be proud; and we are glad to see that not only the writer, whose work is "a labour of love," but many friends who have subscribed to defray the expense of printing the volume, have testified, in so graceful a form, their appreciation of his character; and we hope the object they had in view will be realised in a wide circulation of the memoir.

LIFE AND LABOURS OF THE REV. W. M'CLURE, for more than forty years a Minister of the Methodist

New Connexion; chiefly an Autobiography. Edited by the Rev. DAVID SAVAGE. 12mo, 334 pp. Toronto: James Campbell and Son.

Here is another record of a worthy man, whom we intimately knew and harmoniously worked with in Canada. Mr. Savage, one of our ministers in Canada, has compiled the work, chiefly from materials furnished by Mr. M'Clure's copious diaries; and the volume is printed and got up in a style which would do no discredit to English workmanship, although it has been produced in Canada. We believe the work is not yet for sale in England, it being the fact that the first edition of 1,500 copies has been required to meet the Canadian demand. It is, however, Mr. Savage's intention to bring out a second edition, either here or in Canada, and thus furnish English readers, and more especially Mr. M'Clure's friends in England and Ireland, an opportunity of seeing what manner of man he was in his goings in and out before the Church and the world. We have perused the volume with great interest, and with a tender sadness; for many many pages have carried us back to scenes and incidents referred to, and with which we were perfectly intimate, on which our heart lingers with now a melancholy sweetness, because we were a sharer in them all with our worthy brother who is gone. Alas! "friend after friend departs," and soon there will be none left whom we can call our contemporaries; with whom we have for so many years taken sweet counsel; and with whom we have so long worked in the vineyard. Mr. M'Clure was one of these, and one whose valuable counsel, friendship, and co-operation we enjoyed for near twenty years of brotherly co-operation in the dominion of Canada. No one knows better than we do what many of the incidents and allusions mentioned in this volume mean; what anxiety,

sorrow, and joy they spring from or were associated with; and no one, not even Mr. Savage himself, can regard them with equal interest and sympathy. The person, the look, the words, the prayers, and sometimes the tears, and not unfrequently the overflowing Irish wit, which, in spite of all decorum, would occasionally mix itself up with the most sacred associations, all come back to

us in this volume, with the vividness of the reality. We hope our friends, when they have a chance of procuring the work, will place it in their libraries as a worthy record of so faithful a labourer in the Saviour's vineyard.

Other works are on hand, but we are obliged to postpone a notice of them till next month for want of room.

Poetry.

TRUST IN GOD, AND LABOUR.

TRUST in God, and labour; strew thy path with flow'rs,
Roses fresh and fragrant, pluck'd from sweetest bow'rs;
These shall soften sorrow, and shall bring relief

To the way-worn suff'rer, burdened with his grief.

Trust in God, and labour; if a work appear,
Fearlessly attempt it-tremble not, nor fear.
To the honest worker, to the trusting one,
All in faith attempted shall be surely done.

Trust in God, and labour; saddened hearts shall bless
E'en thy faint endeavour for their happiness.
Wouldst thou still be idle, with a field so wide,
Whilst mankind are weeping, dying at thy side?

Trust in God, and labour; what hast thou to fear,
With a Friend so mighty, and a cause so dear?
Gird thy sword about thee, boldly meet the foe,
Shrink not in the conflict thou must undergo.

Trust in God, and labour; harvest time is near,
When thou shalt with plenty or with few appear;
Rightly use the seed-time, do thy duty now,
Then that day shall witness laurels on thy brow.

Trust in God, and labour, with a willing hand,
Though an host oppose thee, firm, undaunted stand;
Then how sweet, at evening, when the toil is o'er,
To review life's pathway, thine now never more.

Trust in God, and labour; bless thy fellow-men:
They have erred and fallen;-win them back again!
Oh, there's not a trial or a duty given

But if borne aright will bring thee nearer Heaven.

DARLEY TERRY.

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JULY, 1872.

THIRST AND SUPPLY.

"Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this waters hall thirst again but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw."-John iv. 13-15.

WE have here a beautiful instance both of the character and manner of our Lord's ministry. He spake as never man spake; and the difference between Him and other teachers was not partial but universal, giving Him in all respects a great and unapproachable superiority. One of the characteristic excellencies of His teaching was a spontaneous readiness of adaptation. There was no set time, or formal preparation, or elaborate method, but a simple and easy accommodation of Himself to existing seasons and events. Full of grace and truth, He had instruction for every passing occasion, and He poured it forth like living water from a perennial spring.

Illustrations of this may be had by opening the gospels almost at random. Discoursing on one occasion with the Pharisees, it was told Him that His mother and His brethren stood without, desiring to speak with Him. Others might have been disconcerted by the circumstance, but Jesus saw in it a lesson of deep spiritual significance. "Who is my mother? and who are my brethren ?" He demanded. And stretching forth His hand towards His disciples, as if to give the greater emphasis to His words, He said, "Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother." He was Himself a Son, and the proof of His Sonship was given in the fact of His obedience; and He now teaches that the like obedience becomes to us the ground of a similar relationship, so that every one doing the will of His Father is to Him as brother, and sister, and mother.

Instruction not less important, and equally needed now as then, was grafted on the circumstance of the Scribes and the Pharisees murmuring because He regarded with sympathising and generous attention the publicans and sinners who flocked to hear Him.

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