tolerant, its principle is toleration, and Popery is directly the reverse. Yes, Sir, this matter involves, indeed, the highest interests-it involves the application of sound instruction to the infant mind in the schools established through the country; for Christianity begins with the Bible, and Popery begins and ends against the Bible. See what has been done already by Infidelity—a party of men in the country, who neither fear God nor regard man, tell you that there is no evidence which can prove that miracles have been, and who call especial providence a humbug. A humbug!-I should not use the quotation in any assembly-I should be ashamed to do so-but as the characteristic of the people I describe. There is another party in the country, whose doctrines are akin to those of Infidelity—men who profess to reverence their own version of the Scriptures, the advocates of rational religion, who call upon you to believe as little as possible. The two parties I have named harmonize together admirably, and with them is associated another party-still how fallen from their forefathers!-who felt themselves compelled, on account of their opinions in reference to its discipline, to separate from the Reformed Church! The descendants of these men should in principle still adhere to the Church, for it was not its details, but its principle, which their nonconforming fathers defended; but their descendants see in its principle something so vilely false, something so much more iniquitous than Popery and Infidelity, that when the choice is given them between falsehood and that principle, they throw themselves into the hands of combined Infidelity and falsehood, in order to make common cause against the principle of truth. I do not wish, in making these observations, to offend any individual, or any body of men; if there be any offence conveyed in the expressions I have used, I at once recal any which, whilst needless, may possibly be calculated to convey offence; and I entreat of any who may be present, to whom this may be applicable, to consider, if it be right, because their brother may have obtained for himself the casual preference of the Government of the country, that they should, therefore, throw themselves into the hands of the enemies of their family; and I say to them, My Christian brethren, the opportunity is afforded you for Christian forbearance. Think again; if the casual preference of an earthly monarch, in the performance of his duty, should alienate you from your duty which you owe to your family, and throw you in conjunction with his enemies, and with our enemies-men, who deny the glory of Jesus, and the sufficiency of his atonement for sin;—are those, I say, small matters, or are they of such import as to be put in comparison with the smile of an earthly monarch? No, Sir, I do not-I cannotbelieve that our non-conforming brethren will suffer themselves to lie under the opprobrium of such an alliance; but that they will come forth, and although they may see abuses in the details of the Established Church, yet, when they see on the other side the black legion of the beast, the harlequin troops of Rome, they will again make their choice between Popery and the truth. If, then, there be men who are Independents in the room, who would die to maintain the doctrines

for which your fathers bled-if there be Baptists here who love the truth as dearly as we do-think, oh think; what you are doing when you go with the blasphemers of that God whom you love as we love, and against those principles for which we would die as readily and as willingly as you, although you may not accord in the manner in which we present the worship of God to our fellow-countrymen. These, Sir, are the bodies who are banded in union against the Church; but the bond is but a temporary one, it cannot continue to exist-for suppose the mound were to give way against which their assaults are directed, think you that these forces could still remain united when the common supposed enemy has been removed? No, Sir, it is an unnatural union, like that of the heterogeneous materials combined by the chilling influence of the frost; it is not the genial effusion of warmth which would throw from it the froth and scum away. It is like the union resulting from the materials of a great iceberg, which has been broken from an island, and drifts blindly forward on the wave, but yet to the sacred vessel of the British Constitution a contact with its mass is not the less dangerous because of its blindness and the uncongenial materials of which it is formed. This, Sir, is the nature of this union, and see what they have done. They have gained a position in one House of Parliament from which it will require a gigantic effort of Protestantism to dislodge them. They have laid their grasp upon the King's Cabinet, and it has yielded to them. They have driven Christianity from both by the infidelity of the principle that religion has no connexion with politics. And from these high places they have assailed the youth of the land in withdrawing the Word of God from what they term the national schools of Ireland. They made the same attempt on England. They tried to import the plague into Lancashire, but we put the ship which contained the pestilence into quarantine. But, Sir, in what has been done in Ireland, and what has been attempted in Liverpool, you see the principle they desire to spread over all England-and are the clergy to be quiet at this crisis? ("No, no," and loud applause.) I am glad to hear you say "No," for if you said Yes, I should be obliged to disagree with you, for I cannot be quiet. And I say of those who are quiet, who have been set as watchmen on Zion, and who are not bold enough to tell what they see, and if the extent of the mischief which is to be dreaded shall befal our countrymen, the nation will rise up against you, and declare that the fault is yours. You may say, that this was a political question, which you thought was unconnected with religion, that you saw not the coming danger. But they will cry out against you-Oh you dumb dogs, ye idle parsons, yours is the fault; rather should you have cut off your right hands, if you knew of the coming mischief, and warned us not that we went and helped on the affliction, and carried on the work of the enemy under the veil of Christian charity. Now Protestantism is gone, and the Bible is gone, the faithful are dying at the stake; it is all your fault, you warned us not, you told us not of the approaching danger, or we would have rallied against the enemy, and they could never have carried the fortress. The Rev. Gentleman

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THERE is a system widely spread throughout Christendom at the present day, which, for its skilful contrivance and ramified machinery, is well deserving of general notice.

It is peculiarly distinguished by four characteristics; idolatry,— treason, vice, and absurdity: for it is idolatry in religion,-treason in politics-vice in morals, and absurdity in general.

It is not wise to state unproved facts, neither is it just to bring unsupported accusations; to the proof then, and let us see to the truth of the description.

The system is idolatry in religion; inasmuch as it inculcates the payment of divine honours to other beings than God. Sundry angels, men and women, and one woman in particular, are the objects of its adoration. It, moreover, prays before pictures of these men and women, and before dirty pieces of rubbish, said to be parts of their bones and garments, and beseeches them to procure pardon and to bestow holiness. Now if this be not idolatry, what is?

The system is also treason in politics; inasmuch as it teaches that kings have no dominion over their subjects, if a certain priest, the head of the system, is pleased to declare the said kings deposed or excommunicate; and also that the oath of allegiance to any sovereign, not thus deposed, is not binding, if the cause and interests of the system can be served by breaking it. If this be not treason, what is ?

The system is also vice in morals; inasmuch as it teaches that it is not murder to kill men who oppose the system; that it is not perjury to break any promise or oath, if, when you made it, you did not intend to abide by it; that it is no sin at all to commit certain crimes called venial; that it is not much of a sin to commit other monstrous crimes