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standard to which he referred, and to the test of which he brought all those efforts which he made for the promotion of the cause of Christ throughout the earth. Fearless and uncompromising in exposing error, he was the faithful and affectionate expositor of the doctrines of free grace, whilst the general benevolence of his character endeared him to all those who met with him in the discharge of public duty, and in the habits of private intercourse.”

Different judgments may be formed as to particular passages in his conduct, and in "contending for the faith once delivered to the saints," he never feared the displeasure of man; but the candid will acknowledge, not merely his great abilities and force of character, but also the disinterestedness of his life, the grandeur of his aim, and the dignity of his career.

In all his undertakings for the promotion of religion at home, Mr. Haldane, and his surviving brother, Mr. James Haldane, proceeded hand in hand. Between them both there was a remarkable harmony of design and oneness of spirit, and never, during their long and honourable course of mutual co-operation, was there one jarring feeling, to damp their zeal for the common object which they steadily pursued.

In the matter of personal sacrifice, the one abandoned a beautiful estate, with the usual appendages of worldly distinction; the other relinquished an honourable and then lucrative post, with the certain prospect of large fortune : both were content for a time to be sneered at by the world, and accounted madmen in their zeal for Christ. Each dedicated intellectual talents of no common order to the same cause. The one by his writings, the other by his preaching, taught and vindicated the same grand truths. While the one was expending thousands and tens of thousands of pounds, in the education of missionaries and preachers, in the erection of chapels, and in the circulation of the Scriptures, the other was, at his own cost, travelling through the des

titute parts of Scotland, and the north of Ireland, preaching the gospel to listening multitudes; or afterwards as a stated minister for nearly forty-five years, "unwearied in well-doing," discharging, as he still does, without emolument or the shadow of worldly recompense, and with all the fervour of his early years, the sacred functions of a laborious pastor, blessed in his work, and singularly recognised of God.

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To superficial observers, it will doubtless appear that the earlier period of Mr. R. Haldane's Christian course was the most useful, as doubtless it was the most brilliant and exciting. he himself entertained a far different opinion; and in the solemn retrospect of his whole career, in the immediate prospect of giving in his last account, he declared that his best services, and those which the Lord had most signally blessed, were only beginning, at that period when some would deem them eclipsed.

It cannot be denied that the impress of both these brothers is stamped on their age and country. Of him who is now numbered with "the mighty dead," it is no common praise to say, that while many scoffed at his designs, and others looked coldly on his zeal, there was something about him which of necessity riveted attention, and rendered his proceedings the object even of involuntary respect and admiration. There was an apostolic dignity also in his style of speaking which never failed to arrest the listener; and those who have witnessed his commanding presence, and heard his forcible diction, always departed with regret, that one so capable of arousing and enchaining an audience, did not oftener exert his undoubted powers as an orator. It was long ago the remark of the celebrated Sir Ralph Abercromby, his neighbour in the country, and the uncle of the late Mrs. James Haldane, that he always felt great pleasure in the society of Mr. Robert Haldane, as "he never conversed with him without hearing something worth remembering; while he admired his inge

nuity as a reasoner, and his singular command of temper."

Had he devoted himself to worldly politics, and obtained, as was once expected, a seat in parliament, he might have attained a more brilliant reputation, and left to his country a more resplendent name. But his choice was deliberately made; and in casting the world behind his back, with all its lau

rels of triumph and rewards of ambition, he had respect to a more glorious recompense in that day when he shall put on the crown of righteousness reserved for those who have followed in the footsteps of the Great Author and Finisher of Faith; and when those who have turned many to righteousness shall in the resurrection shine as the stars for ever and ever.

PRESENT STATE OF THE TIMES.

[THE following striking passages are extracted from a pamphlet lately published by the pious and devoted Vicar of Great Missenden, the Rev. Richard Marks, entitled, "Danger and Duty; or, a Few Words on the Present State of the Times, and in behalf of Truth, Righteousness, and Peace." Of all the Tracts published in these times on the sad heresies now spreading in the Established Church, it appears to us to be the most effective. We do hope that it will tell on the Evangelical clergy, who, by their high church notions, have too much aided the rising Popery of the age. We think, too, that it is fitted to do good service among the laity of the Church of England.]

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As I said with reference to Popery proper, all things seem and have seemed to further its progress. And so says Dr. Pusey, in reference to their Popery modified. Every thing, good or evil, has contributed to it; poetry, arts, architecture, morals, Christian or heathen, novels, music, painting, have either prepared for it, or, being subsequently absorbed into it, have swelled its progress; our renewed intercourse with foreign churches, and still more, the evils aimed at our own, the suppression of our bishoprics, the assault of dissent, the coldness of adherents, the anger of enemies, the lukewarmness or hostility of the state, strength or weakness, loss or gain, every thing deep, every thing real, every thing holy, deeds of charity, kindness, severity, every temperament and

habit of mind, even the most unlikely, the most remote, or the most adverse liberalism, or sceptical tendencies, have alike ministered to it." And then, the Doctor, in the height of his wonder and admiration, tells us, "that He alone can have set it in motion, who alone has all things at his command, and maketh every thing work together to accomplish his will." Thus is the great apostle of this foolish and wicked system so besotted with the progress of his own work, as to mistake the assistance and agency of the devil for the work of the God of all grace!! Yes, Doctor Pusey, you are speaking truth when you say, that almost all things have wrought for the furtherance of your unhallowed object; but so far from the Lord of heaven and earth being the director of the movement for good, the sins and willing ignorance of the nation have caused this evil to fall upon us; and the righteous Lord hath permitted the "father of lies" to aid and abet your party, and to use and combine second causes to the furtherance of this judgment; and hence, as a proof of the divine anger, Popery proper, and Puseyism, and Ultra high-church principles are becoming rampant at home and abroad.

At home, the contagion has spread through the length and breadth of the land, and by far the greater part of the clergy of the Established Church are more or less contaminated with the plague! Many of them beyond all reasonable hope of recovery, and many

others to a degree that, at best, admits of only a trembling hope. Already do many of our churches in populous districts exhibit such a mass of tawdry, foolish, popish mummery, that a stranger entering them would immediately conclude he was in a popish place of worship. In direct defiance of the laws of our church, the communion table is by name and construction transformed into an altar, where you may behold large wax candles blazing at noon-day, and crosses, and saints, and childish, Jewish, popish toys in abundance, towards which the minister bows with all the superstitious reverence of a shaven monk or friar. But this is not the worst. Let the stranger, who comes to worship God according to the rites and doctrines of the Reformed Protestant Church of England, tarry a little while, and he beholds the professed minister of the gospel mount the steps to the altar, and there, according to his own declared belief, "he makes the body and blood of Christ," and in a real popish belief of the doctrine of transubstantiation, which our church utterly condemns, he pretends to feed the souls of the people with a portion of the Redeemer's person! From the communion table, let the astonished stranger follow this popish Puseyite to the sermon, or evening lecture, and what will he hear? Will it be the allpervading and all-prevailing theme of the apostle Paul, "Christ Jesus, and Him crucified ?" No, for that glorious subject is to be purposely kept in the back ground, to be preached with reserve; and the sacraments, and the outward visible signs, and the services of the church, and the performances of the priest, are to be substituted for the Saviour, and what He has done, and suffered, and merited for sinners! So again, in the sacrament of baptism, these men assume to themselves the most astonishing powers and privileges; and by taking the most unfair advantage of two or three undefined expressions, torn from their context, and construed without regard to the more explanatory and general declarations of

our services, they teach the most absurd and unscriptural tenets of Puseyism and semi-popery for the doctrines of the church. All these "wandering stars" do not, indeed, run into the same excess of folly and error; but the leaven has extended so far and so widely, that its blighting, darkening, corrupting effects have quite extinguished the pure light of the gospel in many of our parish church pulpit ministrations, and so obscured the light, the truth, and the way, in hundreds and thousands of others, that those who go to learn what they must do to be saved, are in the utmost danger of being led most fatally astray. Such things have we already lived to see; and should this downward movement go on but a few years longer, as it has progressed through the last seven, then Ichabod will be written on our church doors; for she will not only fail to answer her intended purpose of enlightening and evangelizing the nation, but she will bring popish abominations over it, and a darkness, a spiritual darkness, that may be felt. O England, England! already may it be said with truth, They which lead thee, cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.” Isa. iii. 12.

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In speaking of Puseyism and of hyper high-church principles, it is often difficult to keep up a line of distinction; yet there is a distinction. The Puseyites run the full length of the most outrageous hyper high-churchmen; but it ought, in fairness, to be stated, that the old and leading hyper high-churchmen held many of the doctrines of the Puseyites in abhorrence, especially those that plead for a union with Rome. Let me then make myself understood, when I use the term "hyper high-churchmen," by giving a few quotations from two or three divines whose writings are considered standard works on this subject. And first, Bishop Taylor, who wrote by royal command, in defence of the divine right of the doctrine of apostolical succession. After saying and supposing many things in defence of his order, he roundly declares, " Epis

nuity as a reasoner, and his singular command of temper."

Had he devoted himself to worldly politics, and obtained, as was once expected, a seat in parliament, he might have attained a more brilliant reputation, and left to his country a more resplendent name. But his choice was deliberately made; and in casting the world behind his back, with all its lau

rels of triumph and rewards of ambition, he had respect to a more glorious recompense in that day when he shall put on the crown of righteousness reserved for those who have followed in the footsteps of the Great Author and Finisher of Faith; and when those who have turned many to righteousness shall in the resurrection shine as the stars for ever and ever.

PRESENT STATE OF THE TIMES.

[THE following striking passages are extracted from a pamphlet lately published by the pious and devoted Vicar of Great Missenden, the Rev. Richard Marks, entitled, "Danger and Duty; or, a Few Words on the Present State of the Times, and in behalf of Truth, Righteousness, and Peace." Of all the Tracts published in these times on the sad heresies now spreading in the Established Church, it appears to us to be the most effective. We do hope that it will tell on the Evangelical clergy, who, by their high church notions, have too much aided the rising Popery of the age. We think, too, that it is fitted to do good service among the laity of the Church of England.]

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As I said with reference to Popery proper, all things seem and have seemed to further its progress. And so says Dr. Pusey, in reference to their Popery modified. Every thing, good or evil, has contributed to it; poetry, arts, architecture, morals, Christian or heathen, novels, music, painting, have either prepared for it, or, being subsequently absorbed into it, have swelled its progress; our renewed intercourse with foreign churches, and still more, the evils aimed at our own, the suppression of our bishoprics, the assault of dissent, the coldness of adherents, the anger of enemies, the lukewarmness or hostility of the state, strength or weakness, loss or gain, every thing deep, every thing real, every thing holy, deeds of charity, kindness, severity, every temperament and

habit of mind, even the most unlikely, the most remote, or the most adverse liberalism, or sceptical tendencies, have alike ministered to it." And then, the Doctor, in the height of his wonder and admiration, tells us, "that He alone can have set it in motion, who alone has all things at his command, and maketh every thing work together to accomplish his will." Thus is the great apostle of this foolish and wicked system so besotted with the progress of his own work, as to mistake the assistance and agency of the devil for the work of the God of all grace!! Yes, Doctor Pusey, you are speaking truth when you say, that almost all things have wrought for the furtherance of your unhallowed object; but so far from the Lord of heaven and earth being the director of the movement for good, the sins and willing ignorance of the nation have caused this evil to fall upon us; and the righteous Lord hath permitted the "father of lies" to aid and abet your party, and to use and combine second causes to the furtherance of this judgment; and hence, as a proof of the divine anger, Popery proper, and Puseyism, and Ultra high-church principles are becoming rampant at home and abroad.

At home, the contagion has spread through the length and breadth of the land, and by far the greater part of the clergy of the Established Church are more or less contaminated with the plague! Many of them beyond all reasonable hope of recovery, and many

others to a degree that, at best, admits of only a trembling hope. Already do many of our churches in populous districts exhibit such a mass of tawdry, foolish, popish mummery, that a stranger entering them would immediately conclude he was in a popish place of worship. In direct defiance of the laws of our church, the communion table is by name and construction transformed into an altar, where you may bebold large wax candles blazing at noon-day, and crosses, and saints, and childish, Jewish, popish toys in abundance, towards which the minister bows with all the superstitious reverence of a shaven monk or friar. But this is not the worst. Let the stranger, who comes to worship God according to the rites and doctrines of the Reformed Protestant Church of England, tarry a little while, and he beholds the professed minister of the gospel mount the steps to the altar, and there, according to his own declared belief, "he makes the body and blood of Christ," and in a real popish belief of the doctrine of transubstantiation, which our church utterly condemns, he pretends to feed the souls of the people with a portion of the Redeemer's person! From the communion table, let the astonished stranger follow this popish Puseyite to the sermon, or evening lecture, and what will he hear? Will it be the allpervading and all-prevailing theme of the apostle Paul, "Christ Jesus, and Him crucified ?" No, for that glorious subject is to be purposely kept in the back ground, to be preached with reserve; and the sacraments, and the outward visible signs, and the services of the church, and the performances of the priest, are to be substituted for the Saviour, and what He has done, and suffered, and merited for sinners! So again, in the sacrament of baptism, these men assume to themselves the most astonishing powers and privileges; and by taking the most unfair advantage of two or three undefined expressions, torn from their context, and construed without regard to the more explanatory and general declarations of

our services, they teach the most absurd and unscriptural tenets of Puseyism and semi-popery for the doctrines of the church. All these "wandering stars" do not, indeed, run into the same excess of folly and error; but the leaven has extended so far and so widely, that its blighting, darkening, corrupting effects have quite extinguished the pure light of the gospel in many of our parish church pulpit ministrations, and so obscured the light, the truth, and the way, in hundreds and thousands of others, that those who go to learn what they must do to be saved, are in the utmost danger of being led most fatally astray. Such things have we already lived to see; and should this downward movement go on but a few years longer, as it has progressed through the last seven, then Ichabod I will be written on our church doors; for she will not only fail to answer her intended purpose of enlightening and evangelizing the nation, but she will bring popish abominations over it, and a darkness, a spiritual darkness, that may be felt. O England, England! already may it be said with truth, "They which lead thee, cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths." Isa. iii. 12.

In speaking of Puseyism and of hyper high-church principles, it is often difficult to keep up a line of distinction; yet there is a distinction. The Puseyites run the full length of the most outrageous hyper high-churchmen; but it ought, in fairness, to be stated, that the old and leading hyper high-churchmen held many of the doctrines of the Puseyites in abhorrence, especially those that plead for a union with Rome. Let me then make myself understood, when I use the term "hyper high-churchmen," by giving a few quotations from two or three divines whose writings are considered standard works on this subject. And first, Bishop Taylor, who wrote by royal command, in defence of the divine right of the doctrine of apostolical succession. After saying and supposing many things in defence of his order, he roundly declares, Epis

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