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Cod' different rulers of the p re the dames of perse relentlessly against this uj ch, and we would ear- ■£eBT L. tioea. There waa a little church of the Waldense*, Id the mountains of Piedmont, which la still in exlatenoo, and which constantly bore testimony to the truth, although every Individ uni who did to was immediately put to deuth, when it waa possible to do it, by the peraeonting power of Home. And now yon will understand, if your attention has not been directed to the matter, why a reformation was so much needed as that success folly inaugurated by Luther and his associates. Some attempts in this direction had failed because God’s time had not yet come to bring his true church from the wilderness of obscurity 4o which it had retreated, and to expose more folly the iniqui tous pretender who had dispossessed her af Jpr rights. It is not within the scope of this very hasty sketch to give more than a mere glance at things which are deeply interesting ; and it would be altogether a superfluous work, even for the children of the church, to add another account to the already nutu berless ones of Luther’s life, and his mysterious, providential preparation for the great work before, him. Our only object is to direct the attention of yonng persons to these things, that they may feel the deep interest in their own church that even chil dren should feel, and that they may inform themselves from other and better sources, which are abundant, and to which they can hare ready access. It is a shame to grow np in ignorance o&^he history of one’s own chnrcb, and t — the Lord to them to “Boost thou a aud a thousand other such tilings, mnu wise in his own conceit 9 there before they mm prevent him from is more hope of a fool than of tom f ( having the pereemiaeuee, who loved, hot if a man, on the other hand, has bemuse ho loved us, to call himself sooh a sense pf his real deflotoncy, the “Boo of Mao,” that he feele the ueed of education j oeUed him the ‘ Boo of God.”, ia divine things; If be soys, “The work to so great that it oau only be accomplished by the putting forth The Tis# of every endeavor,” then there will be that /her end trembling of which Tbs flrst uicutioa of a vineyard in the text speaks—that natural insight, Bcriptors is counseled with unhappy that alertness, that earnest circuit * otreuinstances, throwing a shallow spection, winch every man has who OT * r character of one who had addressee hilusslf to a Uiiag whkh is “found grace ia the eyes of the valued, and which stands ia distinc tion from that atonement which a man has who thinks he is well enough off. At any rate, bring to this work that earnest nr** which ncu bring to things which they desire and amm to have lu secular life. There to nothing ia this world which requires more spirit, more pur|toee, more ' Lord,” Gen. vi; A aud who stood# by the aids of -Daniel and Job as S‘«*» of spectal approval m Jehovah's fight, Ifeok. xivt 14. There to a perhaps to everything which the Bible has not revealed, and therefore the optuioa of maty that Noah was the hrst who cultivated the vine, and pressed its grapes for wine, should be cautioeely received; for lbs Ixnrd has said uf the antediluvian aiuuvrs, that “they ate and drank,” watching than this work. There is no more various cultare than that which m derived from seeking those MaU. xxiv: 38; nevertheless great ends which are set before ,Lir idea of the anefenta that ignorant every one in n christia/i life. We ,u power. Nosh may. have drunk can uot afford to be indifferent Chris tiana, We eau not make progress In Christian life, if w« live in s state of supine indifference. We are to work out our own salvation as ear cent men work, thinking lielore, thinking after, foil of resource*, foil of desirea, as men are when they are searching for things which their w hole heart is set upon. It is not, then, servile fear ami of the fruit of the viue, to worthy of notuw. l'alewtinr abounded in vineyards. We know from the visit of the spies to Ksbcol what ita grapes were, aud to express the qniei and plenty of Israel in Canaan, it became a proverb that “every man should sit under his vine aud under his fig tree,” Mic. Iv: 5. “Tbe anelent Hebrews proliabh allowed the vine to grow nil barren wood of the vine used to be V Oh J what bitter neas there to in these wild, mlf-im planted grapes, growing by the world’s wgy-side and not in the vine yard of tbe Lord of hosts j perhaps ww have known what it to to have been assailed by their bitterness—to have come under their cutting lash and the strife of tongues as “they shoot their arrow, even bitter words,” while they tauntingly say, “what to tbe vine-tree more than any tree, or than a branch which to among the trees of the forest T Then the vine I of Hudoui; just like say other fruit in color—|ierhaps more beautiful. ' but so hollow that it contains noth who when down here could say, “To me to live to Christ,” Ah, there will be a recompense for works which are the fruit of grace and faith. I'nul knew his aooeptanee to be so perfect that be could look right up with au angel’s eye iuto the light of God’s presence, aud say to all down here, “You have seen me dwelling in the light, and have seen the light shining oat of me; et’Tjvthing in the very bottom of my heart has been made manifest in tbe light.” Jerusalem. How touching the description of a dear friend of ours on coming in sight tng but smoke and ashes, smooth I of aud wa!kiug iu streets enough outwardly—fair and soft to I fur tbe flwt “ W ® rode on. the touch—hanging iu lovely das reached the summit, and could ouly t^rs—yet just handle them sod test i W **P ‘ Strange aud deep are the them, and vou will hod them on | v ' rwotum* that sight creates! ‘O Je puff-balls, fearing nothing behind rUHi4,e,1, * Jerusalem! thou that but runl and shreds. stouest the prophet*, aud killest them that are sottt uutu thee !* O city of the Great King! once so high: uow so low! O scene of the precipitous Vale of Uitinom, and the softer valley of Jehoshaphat, in the rocky summits of the city walls aud towers, and in the varying views of surrounding bills, and glimpses of distant country. But it to on what it might be that one likes to dwell, not what it to, for tbe sweetest spots on and around it are alike marred by ruin and degradation—misery stamped on everything. What a teitkering thing to the /rows of Ood f Till that to removed, till Zion ‘in the blood of her victim shall wash her deep guilt away,’ her desolation— her awful blackness—most remain, and all that [tass by must be aston ished at her!” What a contrast when she shall appear like a bride adorned for her hnsband, aud be as a royal diadein in tbe hands of the Lord! But bow pleasant it to to turn from these wild viue* and vines of W Bodotn to tbe vineyard enclosed by tbe walls of grace, yet rich as it to in im|i*rted mm! imputed richness, to sit under tbe shadow of Christ tbe living viin*—a vine of the wiue (aa vine tree to rendered. Numb, vi: 4>—tbe true vine—the vine of truth as the Hyraie Version reads, and the The Wealth of Age. _ . __ „ —, —- . ..nal shame to he so our vouthtul readers to . ..— „ ^ ,, , . * u- wi • ludifferent as to suppose all churches tiou on this highly in t deeplv mournful sub- . 0 , . . j stand if Ay we are members of a par $re some Buudpy-school* . * trembling, but geusroua, uaul>,«mur trailing on the ground or upon sop ugenus, wltoh bliug, which fear and trem- coum-s fnHu the beet which they can learn sbojitjU, and we think them r>adiDg for our young Me over-wrought stories and impossible little who haVe converted and then l^kl down lives as victims to youthful zeal. Such excite thoughts within they have never yet had, discover what their pres religious security has in the heaveu- sofferiug, agony and equally good. We should under^. feelings, acting iu tbe beat directions, and inspired by the best influences, that we are called upna to be ae porta: this bitter mode of cultivation ap)H‘:trs to be alluded to by Kzekiel (xix: It, 12). The vintage which formerly was a arasou of general titular chnrcb, so long as these differences unfortunately exist, and tuatrd by in working out our test its doctrines by the infallible rule of faith—the Holy Bible. M. B. B. (Ttf be Continued.) Godly age is beautiful, because of its wealth of experience. A chris tian course of forty, fifty, or sixty Saviour, who will yet establish His j years, is a grand volume of history, earthly throne iu thy midst—do our ! adorned with admirable illustrations eyes behold thee f can it be ? to that of divine grace. What joys have Mount Zion, which God loves ? Oh, thrilled, ' what sorrows have sad- how our eyes devoured it! and, I dened, what battles have beeu lost must confess it, how' disappointed and won, in that aged heart! What were our expectations! • • • a testimony he can give of the power Heptuagint wholly true, is indeed ! ^ uo ^ er thing for which I was hardly of grace to sustain, of the truth of drinking of the “wine which maketh ; I’ nf P aret * WiM » lh e ruined state of Je- ’ the promises of God, of the change glad the heart of man.” jNot iutoxi ' 1 uosalom. 1 knew it had been repeat- less lore and tenderness of tbe eating, fermented wine, which Bolo ! ^M.v ruined aud rebuilt, but did uot Brother and Friend Divine! It is toon saya “takes awav the heart,”)— j ex l KVt to fiuU 4t uow bterally a imim all we want to the word of power' 0 / »ocb »t iatoan iudescriba from himsetf, “drink, yea dnnk 1 *** ^gree—ruins of ruins repaired abundantly, Oh, befevtnir But in aud ruined a « 5iiu ’ r 0 ' 0 * with jret a %*er\ little while, atter having ru,n, k ruiued buildings built of the been sustained tbnmgh our wilder o( former buildings, and ou tbe ! teas coarse by this noul sustaining' rain ” of others. ‘Heap* of stoues’ in festivity, commenced in September. | Wr ^ ^ to eve *nd rverjwhere; and nowhere; save i The towns are deserted, and t^e sight of him agate, this! 4 few European structures, anything tion. Ami surely the apostfe teurben pe*q*fe live among the vineyards in us that every man needs to work out lodge# or tents. The grapes were hi* own salvation with tear and trem gathered with shoutings of joy by bltng—that to to aav, with uoceostug the graja* gatherers, Jer. xxv : .HI, vigilance, with untiring watchtalueai i J the swell the Christian religion over obstacle* and adver se Emperor or Constan that it should dis in his portion of the Empire, and by war * aud to was established over of the empire. Depressed, t nd persecuted, it uow be- domiuant religion ; of was also the fashionable “Working Out Our Own Salvation.'' Tbo apostle soya that tee are God's husbandry. Our souls are his farms. And when God begins his work iu your aonl, and seeks for humility, and meekness, ami love, he says to yon, “Work ont these traits. Plow for them. Sow seed for them. Aud when they ooinc up, cultivate them. Bo many are the sen re the mind ; things IHirpose thing* whirli ob m> ntanv are the ' W which tone down a man's ; so many are the diversioan **’ r ^atlbg were which load tbe #*>ul with core, and and put Into boskets, Jer. vi: 9; they were then carried >.n the heatl and shoulder, or slung upon a yoke to the wine press. Those attended put into flat, open baskets of wicker work, as was the again, living. truO| Mhfiriif VonL Knowing Christ ta Hrevon. and Walk* tag Worthy of Him on Earth obstruct a man’s purpose | so tnaay ' l « Egypt. Tbe xincyanl, are the diversions shn-h leo«l a man w hfeh was generally oo a hlH, from the goal toward which he is •orroumfed by a wall of hedge, in aiming, that uo man can sneered iu ‘wder to keep out the wild t<oara, maintaining a religious life except at j****!# * nd few*. W ithin tbe vine one or more towers of in which The vine dressers f live*!. The |>ress and vat, which were dug or hewn out of tbe rocky And when they are ripe, gamer and the price of continual thought, ami >* rd vrtl * harvest them.” Every one of these continual faith, ami continual de- , “done. it* is to be made subject matter termination, ami continual depend carefnl thought, mnch prayer, cnee upon tbe grace of God. much endeavor, much skillful educa tion. And that is the interpretation to a large extent of the divine prove j <fence* which are co-operating with grace, and are giving men op)*ortn- | uity to develop these traits. How shall men learn to be patient, if dverythiug is just as they want f t dare was not taken | Uow Hha11 u,eu ,ear “ l>vnicvevam*e, them thoroughly in the » f the I have everything without the truedaith, aud the ; endeavor ? When men are crossed, ligiofe became a mongrel j when their plans are subverted, | when they find the world beariug zeal to make cou- the ranks of the soil, were |*art of tbe vinevaid fomi The In Ads It Task tore * That the vineyanl is one of the Before infelels cau prevent men strongest metspbors of tbe Ghureb from thinking as they ever have of God, we bare the authority of done of Christ, they must Mot out God*# own word, “for tbe vineyard tbe gentle words with which, fu the of the Lord of boots to the bouse of presence of austere by pocriay, the Israel,” Iaa. v: 7, and in ch. xxvil: 2, Saviour welcomed that timid guilt vineyard may be read wine garden, that could ouly express iu ailent love h was planted by God’s right hand, in au agouy of tears; they must Mot Pt. Ixn : 15—kept by him—watered out tbe words addressed to the dying IHMiitciit, who, softened by tbe tua jcatic |iutience of tbe mighty Sufferer, I every moment, lest any hurt It uigfat and day, la. xxvii: 3, ami there were tbe foxes, tbe tittle foxes that *|M)tl the gra|>es. Nataralista tell us that “the branches of tbe vine are so Paganism ami ebria- »«. the Kut|H-ror. all bo* j heavily ujMjn their eheul.k-m, Owl i. j,, ^ „ u .t Ihe Monen h umler U to pronounce too .log i to them, “Work out p.illen.'e; , he of KVru - <> bout uuythiug, we would " llrk «“t IH-raeveniu™ ; work out KUlra ^ „. ak , hlt tb , v IK ^.| be propiw.) collider a ebriatuw of a very courage. " lien men And tli.it pride by l|U| »|, eu I,e came iuto bia king I hr walla, tree, anil atakra. tbeY are ktheeedaje. dom.nalea iu them,and tbat by ,.nd. , Uum . Tll|1J blot out the >» a**|»nhv fro* *NMO of Ihdr will be inclined to they are led iuto tnliiug, aud Into [jruuce of the As a t'hristian, 1 hive to know tbe Lun) Jesus Christ in heaven, ami to walk worthy of him during tbe uigbt, as a child of tbe day and not of the night. The light of Christ’s rye to coming right dow n njton.me; «- M if there is one corner of my heart covered over, 1 am uncomfortable under it. 1 could not sit in tbe Father's house and have Uis eyes meet om? corner of my heart not brought out. I don’t waut one cor ner in it to be covered by the thiu- nest veil possible. It to a solemn but blessed thing to the soul to hsve the eye of God coming right down into it. It to a very blessed thing that the One who has washed you in his own blood, and has undertaken to conduct you to heaven, has an eye that sees down into oil the recesses of the heart; and it can detect tbe least budding of evil. When you have beeu doing what y ou thought good, be may have seen evil larking, and Satan near you; sod He bos discovered it to you, and enabled you to judge it iu tbe light, so tbat it will uot have to be judged hereafter, If we don't do it now. else but ruins. The seventeen cap tures the city has sustained, of course, account for this. Indeed, we are told tbe present level of the city is far above the original one. It ia raised many feet ou the ruins of its predecessors. You may dig down, do* n, aud ouly get deeper, iu ruins and traces of antiquity. “But oh! how can I describe to j you tbe present state of the city witbiu the walls T My courage fails in attempting it No words can con- { vey an idea of it so well as the blessed Lord’s prophetic expression, I ‘Jerusalem shall be trodden dotes of the Gentiles.' 4 Trodden doie*,’ tram jaded under foot, crushed to the dust, and groveling in it—that is the idea the first walk through its dark, dirty, ruinous, crowded, narrow, ill- paved streets, conveys to one’s mind. Inexjtreasibly sad, sorrowful, aud as- touishiug to it to see with one’s own eyes tbe meaning, the fulfilment of these words. The motley melee of all nations that throng tbe streets, or dark. JUthy lanes as we should call them, especially at this season, when some thousands of Greek and Latin j>ilgrims are in the city for Easter ; the variety of false and foolish forms of worship oelebrated on these God- chosen aud God honored spots; the Turkish soldiery (a most degraded, delightful to sit at the feet of such a patriarch, and draw from him tbe story of a consecrated life. If you visit the far-famed hospital of Greeu wich or Chelsea, you secure the coin panionship of some war-worn, scarred and battered veterans, who can tell you moving stories of flood or field. The hoary hairs of tbe aged chris tian cover the bead of a veteran whose campaigns have taken place ou better and more instructive fi<£ds. As you listen to his record of the doings of the Captain of his salva tion, of victories gained iu moral battle-fields, of valorous deeds done and suffering nobly borne by godly comrades who have fallen by hi* side, you feel that the grace of God invests old age with peculiar inter est, and flings a beauty around hoary hairs. Let the young man listen to the voice of age, aud take heed to the counsels of Venerable piety. “Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wis dom;” and so they will if the days and years have been seasons of lov ing service to their Saviour, times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord. He will talk to his jieopfe about their ill paid, evil-looking set of nonde- ftfnk tbat the promise of Christ to , fault-^uding, and peiliap* into tears which he thin juice,” sod nor has ctosrrihed its , - . _ UJL .shed at the grave of Lazaru*. ih« branches “eo weak from its limber dlion k, that the gates of bell terrogaliug God, saying, \\ by am iurely for blni wbo|Il u<} about l)Htnrr a „ r j ir flapping and falling f prevail against to, was | 1 thus dealt with, O my t-atherFI^^ b|ll ln lllire *,th *11 manner* of way#.” Ye are the sorrow# of humanity, for the braochea, said tbe Lord—poor weak Father 7” but even at this time G°d is saying, “\N ork out humility ; I ^ j , — _ . 4 ii ti man it j, iui mr orsuriit-s, MSH1 isc uiru—is*or wrs* number of Christians Wl,rk gentleness. . Are circumstance# o{ j eMobi t,. mourner*, who things trailing upon tbe earth and rath depressed f Is home acowliug aud i lUhll I<1 (Uif tr i f it Vf upc ill* in Iti*. — iko. L..I.1... truth in its purity, and j depressed f Is home scowling tuted the tteo church; clout, y f H life obstructed t Do you period of apostacy God from da >' to da > flud Jourself kick- his witnesses for the | in « a « ain8t the I ,rkk ” T The l ,rovl * deuce of God is saying, “Work out, could not, with Mary, fly to him aud say, “laird, if thou hadst beeu here, my constantly needing the upholding prop# of divine grace, exposed like mother, brother, sister had not Jacob to the drought by day sod tbe Ml ®4ot to lagainst this little flock >f bell have never pre- visible church was a im[losing organization, nt from the little band orohipped in catacombs by wild beasts, but of iniquity” lying dor- was about to be mam- terror of the little by these helps, your own salvation.” Educate yourself ""in those moral traits which, if you bear up muufui- ly, aud act the part of a Christian, under such circumstances, can liot fail to be dcvelojied aud established in yon. But we are commanded, iu work ing out our owu salvatiou, to develop kafsetoBa whtich hig recognized the seven , in ourselves those traits of character ho had not bowed the j which shall make us like Jesus, and as the n al church,* to make it jxisaible for Christ to be comjianiouable with ns, aud to save nlise applied. 8o t le impure seeds debited fj 1 ® to a aturity in due time, and visible :hurch became more and re eorn >t. This religion, iii its P® etted 1 »rm, was then the religion °* Dea rly a| the r er -so®,. Euro[>eau nations; ion of our ancestors, to tiouality we may belong, state religion, aud the h propagated it was the lolic Church. But even oiids ; of this almost universal $ id error, there were still t| it church, and in every nation, who us throughout all eternity. We are commanded to do this with fear and trembling. . . Is it then that oar God to ca pricious T Is it that we are like cour tiers iu au Eastern desjx>tism, who are liable to be supplanted, and are sus picious of each other all the time I Is our God one tbat inspires fear f No. What is meant by fear and trembling is th# antithesis of couc$it. It is the antithesis of contentment which sjiriugs from over-weening coo fidence or indifference. If rneu think fains 4 '“^' vure not misled by its they are so nearly good that they do vOQtrl$©s and muustrous prac- not need to be anxious, the word of died r They must blot out the scenes of the sepulchre, w here love aud veneration lingered, and saw what was uever seen before, but shall henceforth be seen to the end of time—the tomb itself irradiated with angelic forms, and bright with tbe preseuce of him who “brought life and immortality to light.” They must blot out tbe scene where deep aud grateful love wept so passionate ly, and found him uubiddeu at her aide—tyjie of ten thousand times ten thousand, who have “sought the grave to weep there,” aud found joy aud consolation in him “whom, tho’ unseen, they loved.” They must blot out the yet sublimer words in which he declares himself “tbe Kesurrec tion and the Life”—words which have led so many millions more to breathe ont their spirits with child like trust, aud to believe, as the gate of death closed behind them, they would see hiui who to invested with tbe “keys of tbe invisible world,” “who opens, aud uo man shots; shots, and no! man opens f letting in through the j>ortal which hods to immortality tbe radiauce of tbe skies. They blot out, they must destroy these frost by night. Gen. xxxi: 40—de riving warmth from the jiareut stem —its thin joiee enriched by the life- giving sap, sod resting upon that parent stem for **ip|K>rt- But other vines appear also on the |»age of Scripture; there was the wild vine “which of its own accord grew by tbe wgy-aide, and produced wild grapes hitter as gall.” “Then we have tbe vine of Bodotn,” Deut. xxxii: 32, tbe celebrated apples of which Jose|»hus speaks, which in deed resemble edible fruit in color, but on being {ducked by the hsnd, are dissolved into smoke and ashes. Dr. Robinson says “tbe fruit greatly resembles, externally, a large smooth sp|ile or orange banging in dusters of three or four together, it was now bur and delicious to the eye, aud soft to the touch, but oo being press ed or struck it explodes with a puff like a bladder or jmfl boll, leaving in the baud holy the shred of the thin rind and a few fibers. It to indeed filled chiefly with air.” Are not these spurious vioes representation* of empty, hollow professor*, foil of dust—living by the dead Be*, hating light and life, whose end to to be walk, and tbe effect will be jierfect, blessed confidence between your soul ami the Lord. If I commit any sin now, the discovery of it in tbe light to attended with conflict aud agony; them be will tell me bow he met roe aud probed me, that I might have every thought brought out. It is a aoiemu and blessed thought that God expects you to walk as one in his jiresence. A person'# life may be perfectly blameless, yet that jier sou may have to say, 14 Ah, but I waut more of the jiower of Christ's life.” He to the Head!—It to not the question of a #j>ot or blemish here and there, but I want more of the volume of the life of Christ and of his affections to be disjdayed in me. so that I may be practically witness iug down here for him up there. Nothing should satisfy ns bat tbe jiower and testimony which tells that Christ, our Head, to at God’s right baod. What a difference between the testimony of one who, like Tsui, has Christ in hto heart, and counts everything else but filth and dross, who puts hto foot wherever Christ left s footprint, to follow hard after him, and the testi mony of a man who to living after this world’s course; who to on the foundation, but who is buildiug it on wood, hay, stubble, instead of gold, silver, aud precious stones. 1m tneune difference between Abraham aud Lot, in this life aud in the uext too— though Lot will be perfectly saved. “How beautiful!” 1 shall exclaim, when 1 see one like Paal script#), jiarading the areas of the Temple and Church of the Holy Sejv ulcher, and excluding Jew and Christ ian alike from the large quarter form erly occupied by the house of God, now by the mosque of Omar; all these thiugs sjieak in loud accents, 4 Trodden doten of the Gentiles? One's very heart sinks at the sj>ec- tocle! and at each step is ready to weep at the pitiful sights a Ad sounds on every band. Can this be Jerusa lem T is this Mount Ziou f we said continually to each other, as we as cended the steep street leading to the top of that hill, not more than twenty feet wide. A very roughly j»aved gutter is all the road, aud there are no sidewalks; it is filthy beyond de scription, and the swells so offensive, that twice I was absolutely sick! Oh, how unlike that city that was beautiful for situation, and the joy of the whole earth!—how unlike the Je rusalem that teas, aud the Jerusalem that shall be ! “This is the only thought that re lieves the mind in contemplating her present degradation and misery. It is all foretold by tbe Spririt of proph ecy, aud the unerring Bjiirit ha* also predicted another and a brighter state of things. God will yet create ‘Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her j>eo pie a joy,’ and we who weep over her now will rejoice over her then. It is easy to see what a city might be, easy to see that it is ‘beautiful for situa tion,' aud cajwble of being one of tbe most imjMxung, singular, and roman tic of places. There to great beauty The Lively Oracle#. Would to God that the clergy wonhl at last awake to a jierception of the “heavenly treasure” commit ted to their custody! We are not ex|K>unders of a book (however ven erable) rejilete with j)ecnliarities of human infirmity. We have in our hands the Oracles of God, which have stood tbe test arid survived the hostile ingenuity of centuries of pre- teuded criticism. That “criticism,” upon being brought to the test of real scholarshiji, resolves itself into the individual ojiinion of exj>eri- menters, more or lew qualified for the task which they have uuder taken. Nothing has ever beeu ad duced in moderu times of sufficient authority to reverse tbe testimony of nearly nineteen centuries of fiery trial and j>atieut investigation. The charge of iguorance against the old school of interpretation is singularly unsuitable in the mouths of [ire tended professors of a “higher criti cism.” They are ignorant, not .only of the elementary features of the sacred text of the original Scripture*, but they demonstrate their acquaint ance with the fact that there exists a vast and profoundly learned liters ture in Hebrew, Latin, and Euglish, in which all thfe real aud snpjXMed difficulties which they complacently proclaim as recent discoveries are treated of and calmly discussed with the dignified jirojwiety of a real erudition; that is evermore, distiu gnished by its modesty. manifested in the golden city; one | now in its deep ravines, in the steep, Resignation Stftained by Faith. The habit of resignation is the root of peace. A godly child had a ring given him by his mother, and he greatly prized it, bat on a sodden he uuhappily lost his ring, aud he cried bitterly. Recollecting hjmsell. he stepj)ed aside and j>rayed; after which his sister langhingly said to him, “Brother, what is the good of praying about a ling—will praying briug back yonr riugf” “No, sis ter,” said he, “jierhaps not, but praying has done this for me, it has made me quite willing to do without the ring, if it is God’s will; and is not that almost as good as having it T” Thus faith quiets us by resig nation, as a babe is hushed ip a mothei’s bosom. Faith makes us quite willing to do without the mercy whioh ouce we prised; and wlien the heart is content to be without the outward blessing, it is as happy as it would be with it; for it is at rest r J