CarropOsittf. REV. E. P. HAMMOND'S LETTER FROM GLASGOW, SCOTLAND. GLascow, August 21, 1866 MY DEAR MR. MEAns have spent several days very pleasantly among the. Highlands of Scotland. The scenery of Loch Long is in some re spects finer than that of Loch Lomond. Ben Lomond we found the same mon arch of the mountains as when I sailed along its base five years ago. We then ascended to the top of one of the islands in the lake, where so many have rejoiced at the charming landscape before them, and I thought of what Dr. Chalmers said as he stood on that very spot : " Can there be anything in heaven more beautiful than this ?" As we were passing the fine residen ces on the borders of Loch Long, oar attention was called to a large unfinish ed stone house. We were told that it had belonged to a Mr. Harvey. He had largely helped to supply Glasgow with milk, but the cattle plague came and swept off hundreds of his cows and left him a poor man, unable to finish his house. Last Stl,hbath we spent in Glasgow. It was a day long to be remembered. In the morning we went to hear Andrew Bonar, the author of the Life of Mc- Cheyne, but he was out of town. Still, we heard% good sermon. I never bear of Scotch churches in the city closing their doors in the . summer , as many do in New York. In the afternoon I found myself in the pulpit of Free St. Mark's Church. It is one of the large churches of Glasgow. It was crowded fall.. The sight of that great audience reminded me of the wonderful scenes I had wit nessed in that church during the time of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit so abundantly in 1861. I. was delighted to find that many who then were by the Spirit led to Christ, are to-day giving the most satisfactory evidence of a genu ine change of heart. Some who were then led to Jesus are now studying for the ministry. In the early part of the evening, we visited the circus, filled with a large gathering to hear the Gospel. The sing ing of the hymns was far more animat ing than the Scotch Psalms which are sung in the churches. Sabbath after Sabbath not fax from 2000 people, many of whom, I sappose, seldom enter the house of. God, there hear the simple Gos pel. Among the speakers last Sabbath was Harry Morehouse, formerly a Lon don pickpocket. But now he is an humble follower of the Saviour. From this circus meeting we went to an open-air meeting, conducted by the Rev. A. N. Somerville in front of his church. Sabbath after Sabbath he goes out into the highways, and seeks to com pel sinners to attend the Gospel fest. There is nbt a minister in Scotland in e respected. than Dr. Somerville. One of his elders stood holding his hat and overcoat, while he stood preaching with a tight velvet cap on his head, such as the old reformers are often represented as wearing. I could but respect and love this venerable man, as he stood with his silver locks, telling to the passers-bk the story of reedeming love. He had kindly invited me to preach for him in the morning in his beautiful church, and though I had refused, I could not resist the temptation to speak a word for the Master at this open-air meeting. At eight o'clock I was again in the pulpit of Dr. Patterson at Free St. Mark's. After the short sermon Dr. P. thought it best to have an inquiry meeting. Several hundred—part of them Christians—remained, and not a few we found under deep conviction of sin. I think some burdened ones went home rejoicing in Christ. Before the meeting closed, a visiting card was sent to me, inscribed as fol lows : BENNET •G. BURLEY, C. S. A At the door I found Capt. Burley, whom I had several times met in the prison at Detroit, whose eventful history most of your readers will remember. At the time that he was at Detroit, nearly all believed that he would surely be hung for his crimes upon the lakes. Almost his first words to me were, " I escaped from prison in the States, and here I am at home." "But," said I, 4 , are you out of the prison -house of sin ?" This question he could not answer. His countenance at once changed. He seemed to feel that he was in danger of having the penalty of. God's law, if not of man's, visited upon him. Monday morning we drove about the city, and paid a long visit to the Glas gow Cathedral, founded in 1181. Since the Reformation, till within the last ten years, it,has been sadly neglected. The rubbish of 300 years has now been cleared away. The extensive renova tions have been made at an expense of, more than £12,000. Its windows are richly painted, depicting many beautiful Bible scenes, adorned with appropriate texts of Scripture. Before the Reforma tion, when this cathedral was in the hands of the Roman Catholics, no such passages were seen on the windows as, "iGod so .loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believ eth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." But now, where the monks once repeated , their mummeries, the Gospel RI read and plainly preached. I thinkrthis is the dilly cathedral in Scotland which remained intact at the time when so many noble edifices were demolished. While the Reformation created a certain hallowed enthusiasm, tion of papacy, could never have been accomplished, it at the same time evoked a spirit of destructiveness which, no doubt, the leaders earnestly lamented, but could not control. The Government commanded the destruction of " monu ments of iddlatry," but did not count nance the ruin of the grand old cathe drals. I find the following mandate with, regard to this . and other church. buildings :- 1 " To the Magistrates of the Burghs : " Our traist friendis, after waist hearty commendacion, we pray ye faill not to pass incontinent to the kirk [of Glasgow, or such Other edifice as might require purification], and tak down the hail images thereof,. and bring forth to the kirk-zyard, and burn thaym openly. And sicklyke cast down the alteris, and purge the kirk of all kynd of monuments of idolatrye. And this ze fail not to do, as ze will do us singular emplesur ,• and so com mittis you to the protection of God. (Signed) " An. ARGLYE, " JAMES STUART, RIITHVEN. " From Edinburgh, the xii. of Aug., 1560. " Fail not, bot ze tak grid heyd that neither the dasks, windoeks, ner durris, be ony ways hurt or broken, either glassin work oriron work." This partial destruction'9f these stately structures, dedicated to the ancient faith, did not satisfy many, whose hearts were fired with hatred to papacy. They had resolved that all traces of the. Roman ritual should be swept away, even at the expense of the architectural triumphs, etc., of the work of centuries. " There upon," says Spottiswoode, " ensued a pitiful devastation of churches and church buildings throughout all the parts of the realm ; for every one made bold to put to their hands ; the meaner sort imitating the example of the greater and those who were in authority. No dif ference was made, but all the churches either defaced or pulled to the ground. The holy vessels, and whatsoever else men could make gain of, as:timber, lead, and bells, were put to sale. " The very sepulehres of the dead were not spared. The registers of the church, and biblio theques cast into the fire. In a word, all was ruined ; and what had escaped in the time of the first 'tumult, did now undergo the common calamity; which was so Much the worse, that the violen ces committed at this time were colored Ninth the warrant of publick authority. Some ill-advised preachers did likewise animate people to these their barbarous proceedings, crying out, That the places where idols had been worshipped, ought, by the law of God, to be destroyed, and that the sparing of them was the re serving of things execrable.' " When this cathedral in Glasgow was thus in danger, the craftsmen turned out and arrested this threatened deed, of van dalism. Time and space would fail me to give you a full description of this work of art. Neither can . 1 speak of the acropolis where are to be seen the monu ments of. so many eminent men, like John. Knox, Dr. Macfarlan, Principal of Glasgow University, Dr. Ralph Ward law, and others. We start for London to-morrow. As we are to spend but a day or two there, we shall not likely get time to write you again till we reach the Continent. Your affectionate brother in Jesus, E. P. HAMMOND. DON'T HIDE THE MATCHES. " I have to hide the matches away from Charlie, for Pm afraid be will set the house on fire. So I find one and another hiding-place, but in spite of my care, he sometimes finds them." So I heard a mother say, the other evening, when, after a prolonged search for matches, a light had been obtained. Somebody else heard her, too. Some body with about four years experience of life, with a cloud of curly hair on his head, and a pair of : bright eyes; some body who was taking lessons. By-and-by there will come a day when it shall be needful that mother's experi ence, mother's inkence, mother's coun sel shall be supreme, but Charlie will not have forgotten the early days when he was master of the situation, and the older people hid the matches. The will, never trained to a wise submission, will flourish like a poisonous weed, and all 'the little flowers of obedience, courtesy, and filial fondness will hang their heads and droop in the sun of self-conceit. Poor little Charlie ! I feel sorry for you. The world's paths are steep and stony, and many a time shall you faint by the way !' The prize shall glitter be fore your eyes, only to cheat you, as the mirage in the desert, the panting trav eler. ~The joys and the sorrows' of life are before you, and I know by that bold brow, and those eager eyes, and that firm mouth, that you will fight your battles well. But now, you might walk on roses and be pillowed on down. Now, you might be so happy, might learn truth and patience and self-control so easily if mother would but take the time and. trouble. Mother ! She might teach you all these ; but, instead, she hides the matches. Dear mother, believe me, there is a more excellent way. All this hiding *business is far beneath womanly dignity —far beneath infantile dignity. Leave the matches on the mantel, and say " must not" to Charlie. • You are the world to him now. From yohr judg meat seat there is no appeal. Be gentle, be permissive, be firm now, and you lay the foundation for years of peace here after. A word now will spare temper and trouble and many a humiliating scene hereafter. If mothers would' but will it, and make their word supreme at first, no blows need ever be struck in any Christian home. A little time, a without which its great end, the destine little decision - in the early years, and THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 27, 1866. that degrading thing, the rod, m\tht be thrown into the fire, alike in schods and homes. Never stoop to deceive a open and above board in everytig. Let the highost love guide you in ev‘ry action of your lives to the precious cites who cling and cluster about you. Lci , e them as Christ has loved you—lavish}, utterly, devotedly, with a love that shfil require obedience and instil veneratim. M. E. M.: ul i [Our correspondent's advice is, in be main, excellent, but we must declare r belief in the orthodox and Script 1 doctrine of the necessity of corporal pin ishment, as an ultimatum in family gtv , ernment.—En. tilitrifis ALEXANDER STRAKAN'S BOORS. MACLEOD. Eastward. By Norman Maeleo D.D., one of Her Majesty's Chaplain With Seventy Illustrations from Phot graphs. Bvo. a _pp. 304. A. Strahan, Long don and New York. $7.50. Dr. Macleod, the editor of Good' Words, famous as the author of " Wee Davie," and other truly exquisite pro ductions, undertook a voyage' to gales , tine, not for his health, nor with any literary purposes, but simply for per sonal gratification. Yet most naturally for a man of his great gifts as a writer, he was led to make a record of his feel ings and experiences on the journey, and to communicate them for publication, first, in Good Words. They are here gathered in a positively luxurious vol ume, printed 'on tinted paper, in large, double-leaded type, and beund in fine cloth, the sides and edges being heavily gilt. And they are well worthy of such a dress. Full of life, with not a line, perhaps, which could be called prosy between the two covers, sparkling with bright and pleasant.thoughts, they carry the reader irresistibly along upon the current ,of the narrative. Almost every page has a picturesquely drawn situa tion, or a humorous hit at Aotae_speci- 1 men of humanity, or a touching and luminous reference to Scripture history, as suggested by the locality. To use his own language, Dr.. Macleod did not write as one who traveled_ through Pal T estine " in ,gown and bands," but to give 1 pleasure as by telling " at the firesi e what he saw and enjoyed to the inval d or the weary man, who may be unab e to digest sterner stuff." Much valuable information is, indeed, given, but none in any formal, systematic way. It is such as would be gained from conversa tion with a shrewd and constant o 6 server, a skilful narrator and a genial bottled man, such as Dr. 'Macleod is known to be. The engravings are numerous, and in troduce us, for the most part, into a new world—of-- orlon-frit—and— dernir; (*Lay. Some of them do not exactly harmonize in delicacy of execution with the. Other features of this elegant volume. They lack softness of finish. Yet, as copies of photographs, they may be relied on as almost no other illustrations of scenes in Palestine can be. Some of them are truly fine specimens of the Art. The immense frontispiece, giving a complete view of modern Jerusalem is really a marvel in design and execution. Chris tian readers must thank Dr. Macleod for not witholding, as he originally intended, his views of the Promised Land, and of the approaches thereto. For sale by Smith, English & Co. DE GUERIN. Letters of Eugenie de Guerin. Edited by G. S. Trebutien. 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Few are the fallacies or shams that could stand before his glance. A sincere lover and seeker in his own way of inward purity and uprightness, he most heartily despised the Mere ex pediency, the selfishness and want of principle which he beheld in parties and men. One grieves that a nature show ing so many evidences of genuine noble ness and that,might have swayed such influence should, to all appearances, have missed the true light, and have stumbled through life with no better light than that of a vague transcenden talism, quite fashionablesin Boston and Concord. " The Yankee in Canada" is all alive with his peculiar, keen wit, his sharp observation of nature and of men, and his fresh, crisp, racy mode of describing what he saw. The other papers are quite miscellaneous in character and un equal in value. That on Thomas Car lyle, originally published in Graham's Magazine in this city, is, perhaps, of the moat importa7nce. "Life without. 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The poems are of a good degree of merit ; they show fire and passion ; the versification is smooth and agreeable; the choice of . subjects shows Skill and ver satility, and there is an absence of morbid sentiment and obscurity, which, at pre sent, is not po common as is to be wished. The volume conclu.des with thirty-two poetical charades, ingeniously and beau tifully constructed. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. AMERICAN ANNOUNCEMENTS.—The• Rev. O. Adams, rector of St. Mary's Chianti, Manhattanville, has in preparation a new work, "The Journal of the Life and Labors of John J. Audubon." Mr. Audubon left six large, bound, folio manuscript volumes, and six unbound folios of his life. But these relate more particularly to the time when and after he devoted himself exclu sively to scientific and artistic studies. But with these and the help of the reten tive memory of Mrs. Audubon, in furnish ingivanting li_nks and details erhaps_xto - Man who ever live left be richer -f, `materials for his own biography, and but few men have ever lived whose life and labors were more worthy of being written ; for as a man and as a naturalist, the race has furnished few who have surpassed him. His life is the romance of struggles and triumphs of genius J such struggles as but few have endured and such triumphs as but few have won. They show him to have been one of the most remarkable men that not only America, but our world, has pro duced, and one-whose name his country men should cherish forever as one of its most valuable inheritances. Many persons know nothing of Mr. Audubon except as an Ornithologist, but he was equally emi nent as a painter, a . writer, and a man. And it is not a little to the reproach of his native land that his five splendid volumes on the Biography of the Birds of Amer ica," and his magnificent folio volume of drawings were published in a foreign land. But his life and labors are identified with his native country, and this volume will show that they are extraordinary, and ac complished under thrilling difficulties, and that America has cause to be proud of the memory of such a sou.—Childs' Lit. Ga .zette. Hurd & Houghton have in press the second volume of the Miscellaneous Wri tings of Washington Irving, hitherto either not given to the public at all, or else not collected with his • other published works. They also announce Beethoven's Letters, translated by Lady Wallace, 2 volumes $3.50 ; Essays on Art, by Francis Turn er Palgrave, late fellow of Exeter College, Oxford ; The Authorship of Shakspeare, by Nathaniel Holmes, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Missouri.— C. 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Claxton, Phil adelphia; announces, The State of the Church and, the World at the Final Out break of Evil, and Revelation of christ, His Destruction at the Second Com ing of Christ, and the Ushering in of the Millennium, by Rev. J. G. Gregory, MA. with an Appendix by Mrs. A. P. Joliffe---j: P. Skelly & Co., of Philadelphia, continue to issue their "well-selected books for chil dren —A'. B. Butler & Co. announce new editions of Coppee's Gallery of Famous Poets; and Songs of Praise and Poems of Devotion of the Christian Centuries.— Roberts Brothers, Boston, announce Bar ry Cornwall's Memoir of Chas. Lamb.— The Presbyterian Board has just issued The College Days of Calvin, and Young Calvin in Paris, by Rev. William M. Black. burn, 75 cents each. .Murphy & Co., Roman • Catholic publishers, Baltimore, have issued a fourth edition of a partisan work, entitled, " History of the Protestant Reformation in Germany, Switzerland, England, Ireland, Scotland, the Nether lands, France, and Northern Europe. In a series of Essays, reviewing D'Aubigne, Menzel, Hallam, Short, Prescott, Ranke, Fryxell, and others, by the Most Rev. M. J. Spaulding, D.D., Archbishop of Balti more."— Orange Judd has just publish ed " Peat and Its Uses, by Prof. S. W. Johrison, of Yale College. Part I. Origin, Varieties, and Chemical Characters of Peat. Part 11. On the Agricultural Uses of Peat and Swamp Muck. Part 111. On Peat and Fuel." A WEEKLY' PAPER in Dutch has been started in New York City, called De .Areder- Zander. FOREIGN.—An Ennobled Author.—Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton has been called to the House of Lords, as Baron Lytton of Knebworth, in the county of Herts, and has therefore become " the Last of the Barons, This This is the third instance of a man ()netters being elevated to the British peerage; the others being Lord Macaulay and. Lord Houghton--the latter previously R. Menckton Mikes. In each instance the ; person thus ennobled was wealthy, and had distinguished himself in the Rouse of Com mons.—The subject of the next prize poem of' the Paris Academy of Sciences is "The'Death of Abraham Lincoln."— Theological and' Philosophical Books—" The Firat.Age of Christianity and the Church," by the veteran and enlightened Roman Catholic professor in Munich, Dr. Doellin ger, has been translated and published in London. It is meant as introductory to a great ecclesiastical history.—Dr. Rowland Williams, one of the Essayiats and Review ers has published a new version of the Hebrew Prophets with notes, in the spirit of the negative criticism, which gives us prophets without any "more sure word of prophecy." Ewald, after twenty-six years, issues a second edition of the first half of the first part of his Poets of the Old Testament: "Die Dichter des Alten Bundes." —Principal Candlish has, published 'his Exposition of the First Epistle of John. —Professor Fischer of Jena's " Commen tary on Kant's Critic of the Pure Reason," has been translated and 'published in Lon don.—Gustave Masspn has translated from the French of Paul Janet, " The Ma terialism of the Present Day, a Critique of Dr. Bnekner's System." Books on the United States.—Auguste Laugel, a contributor to the Revue des Deux Mondes during the war, of an admirable I series of descriptive and reflective essays upon the struggle, has since published them in a volume both in French and English, to which the highest praise is given by critics. —The articles on President Lincoln, pub lished in Good Words have also been issued under the title " resident Lincoln Self-portrayed-" Commenting. on_the...eon-- tents of this volume, The Westminster Review says :--" His oration at the conse oration of the Parial ground at Gettys burg has but one equal, in that pronounc ed upon those who fell during the first year of the Peloponnesian war, and in one respect it is superior to that great speech. It is not only more natural, fuller of feel . - ing, more touching and pathetic, but we know with absolute certainty that it was really delivered Nature here fairly takes precedence of Art, even though it be the Art of Thuoydides."—Sir Morton Peto's " Resources and Prospects of America" is also highly commended. But we have our enemies, too, high up in the ranks of the literati. Ruskin, in "The Crown of Wild Olive," has the following fling at the " North Americans," as he calls us "Such was the war of the greatest sol diers who prayed to heathen gods. What Christian war is, preached by Christian ministers, let any one tell you who saw the sacred crowning, and heard the sacred flute-playing, and was inspired and sancti fied by the divinely-measured and musical language of any North American regiment preparing for its charge. And what is the relative cost of life in pagan and Christian war, let this one fact tell you : the Spar tans won the decisive battle of Corinth with the loss of eight men ; the victors at inde cisive Gettysburg confess to the loss .of 30,000 !" To which the Westminster Re view thus vigorously retorts :—" Does Mr. Ruskin mean to convey to a lot of imma ture boys, that the Spartans fought for a nobler cause at Corinth than the North Americans did at Gettysburg ? Is the defence of the system .yf' law under which we live less noble than the desire of domi nation ? And as for the comparative car nage, the illustration is simply falsified ; for if but eight Spartans died at Corinth on the day referred to, it was fatal to at least 4000 other Greeks—a greater per centage of all engaged than fell at Gettys burg, if we are not mistaken; and what did the battle of Corinth decide that can be compared to the effects which flowed from the decisive repulse at Gettysburg, the turning-point of a conflict waged, by its victors at least, in a cause higher and nobler, because willingly and of set pur pose entered on for other than immediately selfish ends, than Marathon itself, unless it be more heroic to defend yourself from slavery than to expose your life to deliver others from it. But judgment, discretion, moderation, modesty, are not the qualities to be looked for in the recent works of Mr. Ruskin ; they are full of vague pur poses, illuminated by the golden exhale lations of imagination and sentiment, but of practical ends and immediately attaina ble means to them, no word." Prof Owen has published the second vol ume of his great work on the anatomy of the vetebral animals.— Mrs. Augusta Webster is becoming famous in England as a suc cessful translator into English verse of' the Greek classical poetry. Her most famous . effort is a version of Prometheus Bound. She has also • issued a volume of original poetry. Miss Christina Rosetti is also acquiring fame as a true poet., Rebel Literature in England.—Thomas Hughes writes to the Tribune as follows:-- Mr. John R Thompson is on dit the " He r o s von Borcke" of Blackwood's .111agazine, whose adventures, while in the Confederate service, are soon to appear in book form. T. was whilom editor of The Southern Literary Messenger; but this will be his first appearance in a work of fiction. For though some people really believe that the papers in Blackwood, record somebody's adventures in the South, those who are as familiar with J. R. T.'s physiognomy as your correspondent, will remember that the said little gentleman has confined his adventures to London since a little after the war begin. However, I have not read Borcke, and it may be that he is the translator only. of somebody else's work. John M. Daniel of The Examiner (Rich mond) used to call The Messenger, when under J. R. T. " The Southern Literary Milliner." It is a bad omen for poor T. that every literary effort in behalf of the Confederacy, or by any member of it, from Spence to Belle Boyd, has been a failure. Literature and the Confederacy were uncon genial. Present a London publisher with a pistol to his breast, and he will tremble less than at a roll of Confederate manuscript. Chipman & Hall drop daily tears over the piles of Dabney's " Stonewall Jackson" on their back shelves. MR. HUGHES also communicates the fol lowing in regard to another literary cele brity of England :—"There is not a sad der case of lapse in England than that of the author of Alton Locke. Among men of letters he has long since lost all posi tion, on account of the horrible literary blunders which he makes, some of which any school-boy could correct. He is now dubbed among them the 'loose thinker.' But Kingsley's sciolism might be excused, were it not for faults of character. lie is forever prating of pluck, whereas he writes 'heresy anonymously and preaches it eva sively. There is not, as a preacher, such a consummate coward in England. But, worse than this, he has now sunk to the depths of flunkyism. Wherever there is a live lord, there Kingsley's knees spon taneously bend. 'r In private conversation he nauseates everybody by his constant re ferences to my Lord This,' and to some consultation he has had with an earl or a duke. Fortunately, this man has long since lost all influence on the minds of the English people. His absurd . and mean speech in admiration of his latest hero— Gov. Eyre—at the Southampton banquet (which' was enough to make one crave a black skin) has raised a sneer on every lip. I must do the people here the justice to say that the banquet to Eyre and Kingsley's speech thereat have been dealt with in a way which must make all that set blush, if they can. Nevertheless, the fact remains that The Daily Telegraph singles out Louis Napoleon, Gov. Eyre and Andrew Johnson as the three great his toric and noble characters of this epoch ! This is not meant 4 sarkastikle.' " BIBLE INSPIRATION. The pulpit and the religious press teem, more and more, with statements and publi cations of the' most incoherent and contra .dietory character. Religious freedom is carried to the extent of being transformed into the freedom of being irreligious, and the flat denial of truths unquestionably taught in the Bible ; for instance, the es sential importance of the doctrine of the resurrection of Christ (1 Cor. xv. 13--18) is passed over as a legitimate application of independent interpretation. Now, what ever may be the discrepancies of opinion, we are not entitled to suppose that men who profess to make the Bible the rule of their faith and the fountain of their salvation, are in reality so little conversant with its contents as unknowingly to stumble against its most elementary principles. But then, if all possess a similar knowledge of the same documents, the cause of the wide dif ferences ern interpretation must exist in some external circumstance. This is found, first, in the different views taken of the Bible itself, and second, in the principles adopted in reference to its interpretation. On the first of these points -I submit, that for myself and my colleac ° mes,.the Bible is a book inspired by the Holy Spirit, and not only, as many weak doctors would have it, a book containing the revelation of God, but mixed up with an alloy,of many things which come not from God, but from the infirmity, ignorance and prejudices of men. I insist upon the necessity of taking the words of the Bible in connection with the ideas expressed, as proceeding equally from God, who has not left it for any mor tal man to state Divine truths according to his 'human conception of them, but who first prepared his * 44 holy men" for their work, and then " moved" them. by the " Holy Ghost," that they might speak and write. With regard to the understanding and expounding of Scripture, I remark, that many undertake to expound who are not aware that they do not themselves un derstand„becanse -they are not endowed with the Spirit promised to those who belong to God's redeemed family. The same Spirit whose indwelling, in a measure, was necessary for the prophets and apostles to write the holy books of Scripture, is ne cessary, in another measure, for every Christian to understand those "deep things of God." He who has not received that Spirit may understand all matters of human reasoning or science, but he cannot, by any possibility, understand the heavenly wisdom of Christ. It is, then, only natu ral to find them flying off into all kinds of unchristian errors, when the Spirit of Christ is not their teacher; and far from being shaken in our faith by their unfound. ed assertions, we should feel the more strongly our privilege, as being " children of God," to be "led by the Spirit of God." Far from being carried away, we should be strengthened iu our profession, to re main steadfast unto the end.—Professor De La Ifarpe,, Geneva. Horton to the man or woman who fights temptation, hatred, revenge, envy, selfish ness, back to its last covert in the heart, and then expels it forever. Although no outward show of honor accrues to the vie tors of these good fights, they have their reward—a higher one than fame can b,estow. They come out of the conflict self.ennobled.
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