royal preacher (Eccle. xii. 9, 10.) to teach the people knowledge. “Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom. Blessed be the Lord thy God which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for the Lord thy God: Because thy God loved Israel to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice." But from the Mount, Peter descended to enter on scenes of strife and suffering. David lived on in exile, unsolaced by the joy of those who were "glad" when it was said "let us go into the house of the Lord." And so the Queen of Sheba "turned and went into her own land." The engagements of life must be resumed, though they be antagonists of the animating pursuit of knowledge and of the short lived joys of devotion. Duties are the discipline of the soul, and the service required of us here. But the pursuit of knowledge and the enjoyments of devotion, fettered and restrained now, shall awake to vigour in the morning of immortality. Then shall we know even as we are known. There can be no thirst unappeased, where are "living fountains of waters;" no sense of languor in that temple where the worshippers serve God day and night; and where they go no more out" from that Presence, where is fulness of joy and pleasures for evermore. LYDIA. HO! TO THE LAND. Written originally in aid of the Hospital Fund at Jerusalem; after reading Dr. M'Caul's beautiful Sermon, " on the duty and method of bearing "Good Tidings " to Zion," from Isaiah xl. 9. Ho! to the Land *-the honoured Land! Say England! Is it thine? And hast thou grace to understand, 66 And bless the call divine? Trembling, I seek it "-she replies, "Line upon line,' these prophecies, 66 Fulfilling there in me. "My spreading sail, like Shadowing wings,† * According to many of our best Commentators. the Land." † Isaiah xviii. 1. Particularly before America was discovered. Not "Woe to Ibid. 2. Isaiah lxii. 11. "End of the World' to Judah's coasts, "I send to her blest Land, 66 My present' to 'The LORD of Hosts," "In yonder little Band. "Go, my Swift Messenger! I cried, "Her Priest, to Zion bear: "And spread thy Devastation wide, "Round all would crush him there. "While bere the Watchman + from the hill "Still calls us to rejoice— "NOLO EPISCOPARI!!-Still 666 "We hear thy FAITHFUL voice. 'England!'-he cries-The task is THINE! Go, spread the joyful sound! And call the noble wand'rers in, "From earth's remotest bound. "Be it a fearless, joyous call,§ "One rich, harmonious chord ! Ease, pride, and self! Renounce them all, "For Zion and her LORD!' "Hear him!—each generous bosom cries, ""Tis his, THAT part to teach! “Think of his own great sacrifice ; "And feel his right to preach. *Isaiah xviii. 7. Isaiah xl. 9. +Ezekiel iii. 17. Ibid. xviii. 7. 66 Think of that Mitre at his feet "Earth's Primacy! !—Ņo more!— "Oh! when was precept ever set "With such a gem, before? "Or when, 'neath such credential bright, "Did gifts and graces shine? "The gifts that gain'd yon proffer'd-height, "The grace that COULD decline!!" S. M. FROM "GENEVA AND OXFORD." (By M. Merle D'Aubigne.) THE Reformation was no middle system, it went all the length, and with that resistless power which God alone gives, regained at one bound the evangelical Christianity of the apostles. Now there is at present, gentlemen, a numerous and powerful party in England, supported even by some bishops, whose charges have filled us with astonishment and with pain, who would (according to their opponents) quit the ground of evangelical Christianity, again to occupy that of ecclesiastical catholicity, with a marked tendency towards popery; or, who (according to their own pretensions) would faithfully maintain a ground hierarchical, or semiroman, which is, according to them, the true nature and legitimate ground of the English Church. This is the movement called, from one of its principal chiefs, Puseyism. The task of the true children of the Catholic Church, says the British Critic, (the journal which is the organ of the Oxford party,) is to "unprotestantize the national Church."-" It is necessary," says one of these teachers, (Mr. Palmer,) "entirely to reject and anathematise the principle of Protestantism, as being that of a heresy, with all its forms, its sects, and its denominations."-"I hate," said another, in some writings published after his death, "the Reformation and the Reformers more and more." (Froude's Remains.) In detaching the |
