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again, and, as if conscious that the time of his departure was at hand, and that he had already entered 'the dark valley of the shadow of death,' rallied his remaining powers for a last effort in the cause of the blessed Saviour, and for the promotion of his glory upon earth. Lifting his finger with great solemnity, (as he often did in the pulpit when about to utter anything emphatically important,) he said, with a feeble and quivering, but yet distinct and articulate enunciation,

brethren in the ministry?' He replied, 'Yes, it is this; Be faithful, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord!""

COLERIDGE'S PERSONAL

APPEARANCE.

His person was of a good height, but as sluggish and solid as Lamb's was light and fragile. He had, perhaps, suffered it to look old before its time, for want of exercise. His hair was white at fifty, and as he generally dressed in black, and had a very tranquil demeanour, his ap

'Hear me! I acknowledge myself to have been a most unprofitable servant;-unprofitable, not hypo-pearance was gentlemanly, and for

critical. I find myself to have been full of sin, ignorance, weakness, unfaithfulness and guilt. But JESUS IS MY HOPE-washed in his blood, justified by his righteousness, sanctified by his grace, I have peace with God. Jesus is very precious to my soul: my all in all; and I expect to be saved by free grace through his atoning blood. This is my testimony;' with emphasis, 6 THIS IS MY TESTIMONY!'

"Not long after this precious and remarkable testimony of our dying brother had been given, so anxious was his nearest friend that while he had the power of speech, he should be encouraged to employ it for the honour of his Lord, that I said to him, 'My dear friend and brother, now that you are upon the border of eternity, do you in this trying hour still feel the supports and consolations of that faith and hope which you have preached to others?' He answered, 'Yes, I do,-they are very precious to me.' I asked, 'Have you any message to leave for your

several years before his death, was reverend. Nevertheless, there was something inconceivably young in the look of his face. It was round and fresh coloured, with agreeable natured mouth. His boy-like exfeatures, and an open, indolent, goodpression was very becoming in one who dreamed and speculated as he did when he was really a boy, and who passed his life apart from the rest of the world with a book and his flowers. His forehead was promarble; and his fine eyes, in which digious-a great piece of placid

all the activity of his mind seemed to concentrate, moved under it with a sprightly ease, as if it were pastime to them to carry all that thought.Leigh Hunt.

DR. GIUSTINIANI. HE was born in the city of Rome, Italy, in the year 1797, and died in the fifty-ninth year of his age. He was educated in the University of Rome, where he graduated in 1826, and was promoted to Sacred Orders

in the Papal church, in the Basilic church of St. John, in Lateran, in Rome. He left the Church of Rome in 1828. The circumstance which led to his change is full of interest. In passing the Piazza Novona, he bought for four cents, of a second-hand book-pedlar, an old volume entitled "Father Clement," which he supposed to be the life of a saint, but which proved to be a discussion between a Jesuit and a Protestant, and this book led to his conversion.

He was, after abandoning the errors of Rome, for a time in the Lutheran connection, and for several years before his death, in the Presbyterian. He preached in Paris for a short time, nearly five years in London, over two years in Australia, then in Germany, and closed his ministry in America. December 1, 1835, he married Miss Mary Zinn, in London, a native of Hofgeismar, in Germany, who survives him. He was a learned and good

man.

Popery.

FACTS IN ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

PIUS IV., in 1560, in the reign of learning." This eulogy was equally Queen Elizabeth, offered to confirm honourable to the Pope himself.the English Book of Common Hale's Annals of Chronology. Prayer, containing the thirty-nine articles and the Litany, if the British Sovereign would acknowledge the Pontifical supremacy, and the British nation join the Romish Communion.

The highest eulogy ever pronounced upon this great champion of Protestantism, (Hooker) and pillar of the Church of England, was by Pope Clement VIII., on hearing the first book of his Ecclesiastical Polity read to him in Latin by Dr. Stapleton : "There is no learning that this man has not searched into; nothing too hard for his understanding. This man, indeed, deserves the name of an author; his books will get reverence by age, for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be like this, they will last till the last fire shall consume all

On the night of the 24th of August, 1572, St. Bartholomew's day, above five thousand Protestants were butchered at Paris, and within five days after it, in six towns of France, five and twenty thousand more were slain; and as soon as he heard of this dreadful massacre, Pope Gregory XIII. went in procession to the Church of St. Louis, at Rome, to give God thanks; and to commemorate this event, he ordered a medal to be struck, which represents this savage work as performed by an angel of heaven, with a sword in one hand, and a cross in the other, and which bears the inscription, VGONOTTORVM STRAGES," the Massacre of the Huguenots.

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On the 1st of August, 1589, the friar Jacques Clement, "having

learnt from theologians, whom he Elizabeth was attempted—as, in

had consulted, that a tyrant might lawfully be put to death," assassinated his own sovereign, King Henry' III., of France; and on hearing the intelligence of the King's death, Pope Sixtus V. summoned a consistory of his cardinals, and in a set speech, ascribed the murder of the king "to the providence of God," and spoke of it as a pledge that "the Almighty would still protect France."

1572, by Story; again in 1583 by Somerville; again in 1585 by Parry, stimulated by the Pope's Nuncio; and in 1586 by Savage, having plenary indulgence from the Pope, as appears from the letter of a Cardinal di Como, dated Rome, 30th January, 1584; again by Moody, in 1587; again by Patrick in 1594; by Lopez and York in the same year; again by Squire in 1598; by Winter in 1602: from all which traitorous designs, set on foot by the arts and arms of Rome, she was delivered by the merciful interference of Divine Providence. So also in 1605, a conspiracy was made to destroy the King, Royal Family, Lords and Commons of England, and when bulls from Rome were ready, to give complete effect to what was then Several times after the publication decreed.-Wordsworth's Letters on of the Papal bull against her in the Church of Rome. 1567, the life of our Gracious Queen

On the 14th May, 1610, Ravaillac, the Jesuit, effected what in 1594 Jean Chastel, the Jesuit, had attempted, and murdered his sovereign, Henry IV., and after the deed was done, freely confessed that it was the book of Mariana, the Jesuit, which encouraged him to that design.

The Letter Bor.

CLAIMS OF YOUNG WOMEN.

TO PARENTS AND OTHERS.

MUCH has been done of late years on behalf of young men, and this is matter of rejoicing. But are young women of less consequence than young men? Whose influence is the more powerful in forming character? The young women of the present, are to be the mothers of the next generation. They are to determine what that generation shall be. They are to form the characters of the Preceptors of the young, the Ministers of the Gospel, the Officers

of Justice, and the framers of the Laws. A great work is before them, for which they ought to be prepared. They need to be thoroughly edu cated and trained for the service of Christ. Parents should remember that Christ needs the services of their daughters as well as of their sons. They should do all that lies in their power to render the one as effective as the other. They should give their daughters a thorough Christian education.

The means and appliances of such an education are not so readily accessible as in the case of young men. Colleges with their professors and various advantages for scientific culture, are not for young women. But this is a matter of comparatively little moment. Marble halls, costly apparatus, extensive cabinets, and magnificent libraries, do not constitute the college. It is the Men, not the material adjuncts which make the college. A corps of instructors, men of powerful intellects and warm hearts, intensely desiring the intellectual and moral improvement of the pupils, and feeling that they live when their pupils stand fast in the Lord, and do valiantly for Christ, will constitute a most valuable college, though no imposing structures rear their columns, and no libraries spread out before the pupils the learning of other days. Mind is the great educator of mind. All other things that wealth can furnish are mere accessories.

Minds can be employed in the education of young women-minds of the highest order, if parents are able and willing to be at a reasonable expense. A tithe of what is expended in securing accomplishments, falsely so called, would secure for their daughters the services of pious and gifted minds, who would aid in preparing them for the great work

which the Redeemer requires at their hands.

Woman has already done much for the salvation of the world. Many a wanderer has been reclaimed by her gentle influence. Many a pastor's hands have been supported by her sympathy, prayers, and labours Some of the most cheering successes in the missionary field have been the results of her self-sacrificing toils. Her deeds of mercy may, on the pages of human history, have given place to deeds of blood; but they are all recorded in the book of God's remembrance.

It will be a bright day for the world when the church shall feel her obligation to educate her daughters for Christ; when clear and discriminating habits of thought, pure and generous affections, love for the beautiful and lofty, sympathy for the suffering, and supreme love to Christ shall be regarded as the accomplishments which render woman of more value than rubies.

But while parents and others are deeply concerned in this affair, Young Women themselves are principally so. In the absence of almost every advantage-by the help of God, and with the aid of books-they may achieve great things. No limits can be set to the results of judicious application and devout perseverance. A FATHER,

The Counsel Chamber.

USEFUL HINTS FOR THE FIRESIDE.

THE happiest hours of our lives are we esteem, or have not met for perhaps spent at table. The humblest years, becomes the nucleus of a fare, with the society of a few friends | world of enjoyment—even the very

badness of the food is sometimes, on such an occasion, the source of contented mirth and drollery; but bad manners can never please. The heart dislikes them more than the palate dislikes sour bread or stale meat. Good manners will freshen the meat and sweeten the bread. Moreover, good manners are of far more importance at home than they are abroad. It is usual for people to put on their best manners to strangers. This is wrong. Our best manners should be worn every day at our own firesides. Let strangers be contented with something less refined.

What is it that alienates wife from husband, husband from wife, parent from child, child from parent, and makes brother and sister quarrel, and ultimately dislike one another? If you trace these evils to their real source, you will probably find it some apparent trifle, which is first disapproved of, then disliked, then hated, and hated the more, because, in attempting to correct it, it is the more persisted in. Wherever there is a want of will to please, an indifference to the feelings of our comates, and satisfaction in doing that which we have found to annoy them, there is the beginning of the domestic strife; brother parts with brother and finds another companionsister becomes alien from sisterwife sets up an interest of her own, and plots against her husband-and re-union becomes impossible by the train of offences which follow in

succession.

We do not affirm that such evils are to be prevented merely by the correction of the bad habits to which

we have alluded, for they are merely a peculiar class of bad habits, and form only a part of the whole system of rudeness which is too prevalent amongst all classes. But they are by far too important to be overlooked in the question of good manners, and even of good morals, which are nothing more nor less than good manners which we enjoy. Love and friendship can only last while good manners last. The lover and mistress show their best to one another. They do not put on their common attire when they meet, but array themselves in all their charms; and what charms are more beautiful, or more bewitching than those of good behaviour? When they begin to cool, they begin to neglect the rules of etiquette. The lover divests himself of his chivalry, and therefore, of his dignity and beauty-the spell is broken. The mistress finds it give way, and frets and loses her regard for him. She now cares not what he thinks of her. She will beautify herself before him. She does so. He makes another discovery-he sees a deformity; another breakage takes place, the illusion vanishes, and the two parties, once so devoted, so polite, are now rude, vulgar, and even coarse, to each other.

DR. CUMMING ON NOVEL

READING.

Or all mischievous habits this is the If I may refer to personal experience, worst. Many minds cannot do it. I may add, I tried long ago to read a novel, but could not finish it for the simple reason that in the most unexceptionable ofall, I mean Scott's, I felt at every sentence haunted with a sense of unreality: "This is

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