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will favour us with any remarkable facts connected with science which may come under their notice. As to our◆ selves it is our intention, as soon as all things are ready, and we can obtain sufficient leisure, to keep a regular Meteo. rological Journal in the Observatory of the College, of which we shall give a monthly Synopsis in the Friend of India. Original articles, we shall give as often as we have any thing particular to communicate as falling under our own observation; but our principal care will be to notice and record the progress of Scientific discovery in connection with religion, through. out the world; and for this purpose we shall take care to furnish ourselves with the most approved scientific Journals of Europe.

We beg our readers to pardon us for having detained them so long. In taking this short retrospective view we have been ourselves much encouraged, and we hope it will prove encouraging to them. Blessed be God! his cause is not a sinking one; —it must prevail! Even so; come, Lord Jesus; come quickly

LIFE OF JOHN AMOS COMENIUS.
(Continued from page 362.)

In order to preserve, if possible, the dispersed and afflicted Church of Bohemia and Moravia, Amos Comenius, upon the demise of Martinus Gertichius, a Polish Bishop, in union with John Buettner, who had been his colleague, ordained two new Bishops, Nicolaus Gertichius, Chaplain to the Duke of Liegnitz for the churches of the Bohemian and Moravian Brethren in Poland, and Petrus Figulus Jablonsky; who, as a child had emigrated with him and was now his son-in-law, for the other brethren who were either still in Bohemia and Moravia or who were dispersed in other countries. As Peter Jablonsky died in 1670, his son Daniel Cruest Jablonsky was ordained Bishop in his stead in 1699, from whom on the 20th of May, 1739, the restorer of the Moravian Church, Count Nicholas Lewis of Zinzendorf, received the episcopal orders.

In order to strengthen the brethren who remained in Bohe mia and Moravia, in the faith, Amos Comenius composed for their use a Catechism, which was published in Amsterdam in 1661 and dedicated, "To all the godly sheep of Christ, dispersed here and there, especially to those of Fulrieck, Gersdorf, Glandorf, Klitte, Kunnewalde, Stachewalde, Scitendorf and Zauchtenthat."* And it is remarkable that, when the Moravian brethren found an asylum on the estates of Count Zinzen, dorf, brethren came to Herrnhuth from every one of these places. Comenius published also a Manuale Biblicum, or Marrow of all the Holy Scripture, being an extract of the Bible, which he had composed in the Bohemian language in 1658, to supply the defect of Bibles which were taken away from the brethren. In the 77th year of his life, three years before his death, Amos Comenius wrote a book entitled, De Uno necessario, Of the one thing needful," in which he takes a review of his past life and sums up the results of his experience. The conclu sion of this book is written in a spirit of such sterling piety that no Christian, on reading it, can fail to be greatly edified thereby. We hope therefore to gratify all our readers by communicating herewith an English translation of it:

"I thank my God that he has during the whole course of my pilgrimage kept alive in me a desire after that which is good. Though I have been thereby led into many labyrinths, yet I have been already led again out of most of them, or he himself is now leading me by his hand out of them, and opens to me a prospect of that blissful rest which remaineth for the people of God. A desire after that, which is good, in whatever way it may arise in a human he art, is a rivulet which proceeds from the fountain of all goodness, God, invariably good in itself, and always of a good tendency, if we but know to use it well. It is our fault that we do not know either by following the shores of this rivulet to ascend to the fountain, or with its streams to flow

These names were then expressed only by the initial letters, in order that these towns and villages, which were the principal hiding places of the brethren in Moravia, might not become known to their enemies.

into that sea where the fulness of all which is good and complete satisfaction is to be found. Thanks be to the divine goodness, which, though by various circuitous roads and secret threads, yet knows eventually to draw us again to the fountain and sea of all goodness. This has been also the case with me, and I rejoice to perceive at last, after trying numberless ways to satisfy my desires after that which is good, I am about to obtain the object of all my desires; for I find that my doing has been hitherto merely an unsteady running about of a busy Martha (though out of love to the Lord and his disciples) or an alternate running about and resting. But now I sit down at the feet of the Lord with the firm determination to exclaim always joyfully with David: "This is my joy that I keep close unto God."*

I have said that my busy running about had been that of a Martha, the effect of love to Christ and his disciples; and I cannot say otherwise.

One of my principal endeavours has been to effect a reforma tion of the Schools; I wished fervently to deliver the schools and the youth from the useless and pernicious troubles to which they were subjected. This occupied me for several years. But there came some and said, that such a pursuit was unsuitable for a Divine, as if our Lord Jesus had not commanded his beloved Peter at one and the same time to feed both his sheep and his lambs, (John xxi. 15, &c.) As for me, I thank my ever beloved Lord from the bottom of my heart, and shall thank him to all eternity that he has put into my heart such a love to his lambs, and has crowned my exertions on their behalf with that success which they have met with, (see the 4th part of my Opera Didactica,) I hope, nay I confidently expect it from my God, that my improved system of instruction will be fully adopted and acted upon, when the winter of the Church will be past, when the cold rain will be over and gone, and the flowers appear on the earth, (Solomon's Song ii.) when the vines

The German Translation of Psalm 1xxiii. 28.-Note by the Translator. ·

will have budded and be dressed, and when God will give to his flock pastors according to his own heart who will not feed themselves, but the flock of the Lord, and when at last envy, which usually finds pleasure only in persecuting the living, will leave the dead at rest.*

The second tedious and troublesome labyrinth into which I was drawn, were my irenetical labours, that is, my various endeavours and exertions to put an end, if it should please God, to the various pernicious, nay nearly destructive controversies of Christians about articles of faith, and to unite the different parties. I have not yet published any of these writings, but a time will come when they will appear, and when they will be allowed to appear.†

There is at present such a time, as that when Elijah lodged in a cave in Mount Horeb, not venturing to go out of it (1 Kings xix.); for a tempest roared and shook the mountains and rent the rocks before the Lord; and an earthquake and fire came; but the Lord was neither in the tempest, nor in the earthquake, nor in the fire. But a time will come, when Elijah will hear the still small voice and will be allowed to go forth out of his cave, and hear the word of the Lord, and speak again to him and to his people. At present every one thinks his Babylon to be exceedingly beautiful and imagines that she is without controversy Jerusalem herself, and demands that all others shall yield to her; but she herself is not to yield one hair-breadth to any one.

(To be continued.)

*It seems that by the exertions which are now made in various countries to Introduce an improved system of instruction, God would fulfil the hope which his aged servant here expresses. Those who have some knowledge of Pestalozzi's system of instruction, will be pleased to hear that one section of this part of his didactical works treats expressly of this subject: "How our schools ought to be organized according to the pattern of the first school of God in Paradise, in which God caused Adam to look at and denominate all things?"—Note by the Translator,

+ I am sorry to say, that, as far as I have been able to ascertain, noue of these, doubtless invaluable writings has ever been published.-Note by the Translator.

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STATE OF SOCIETY IN GLASGOW.

From Lumsden's Enumeration of the Inhabitants of Scotland.

From 1500 to 1550.-Prior to this time, the inhabitants of this city and neighbourhood were governed by churchmen, who kept them in such a state of ignorance and superstition, as was truly deplorable. Towards the end of this period the princi ples of the glorious reformation began to be acknowledged, when it pleased God to raise up powerful agents in Edinburgh and Glasgow, in the persons of Knox and Melville.

From 1550 to 1600.-During this period the reformation took place. The great body of the people, however, still retained their fierce and sanguinary disposition, this is strikingly marked in their being constantly armed, even their ministers were accoutered in the pulpit. The number of murders, cases of incest, and other criminal acts which were turned over to the censures of the church, but too plainly point out the depraved character of the people.

From 1600 to 1650.-The distinguishing character of the people during this division of time, is marked by malignity of disposition. Their belief in, and treatment of witches, second sight, &c. afford strong symptoms of superstition, grounded on ignorance; and the profanation of the Sabbath, by working and rioting on that day, display gross profanity.

.. From 1650 to 1700.-During the beginning of this period and the latter end of the former, the people who had become more civilized, and paid more attention to moral and religious duties, were dreadfully harrassed and persecuted by an intolerant government, who seemed determined to enforce a form of religion which was inimical to the people. The abdication of James II. and with him the exclusion of the Stuart family, brought about the happy revolution which put an end to the religious troubles.

From 1700 to 1750.-The union with England, which took place in the beginning of this period, opened up a spirit for trade in this city, formerly unknown. The increase of population

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