those who deny the Trinity, he says:-" "I am constrained to say that neither my intellectual preference, nor my moral admiration, goes heartily with their heroes, sects, or productions of any age. Ebionites, Arians, Socinians, all seem to me to contrast unfavourably with their opponents, and to exhibit a type of thought and character far less worthy, on the whole, of the true genius of Christianity. I am conscious that my deepest obligations, as a learner from others, are in almost every department to writers not of my own creed. In Philosophy I have had to unlearn most that I had imbibed from my early text-books, and the authors in chief favour with them. In Biblical Interpretation I derive from Calvin and Whitby the help that fails me in Crell and Belsham. In Devotional Literature and religious thought, I find nothing of ours that does not pale before Augustine, Tauler, and Pascal. And in the Poetry of the Church it is the Latin or the German hymns, or the lines of Charles Wesley or of Keble, that fasten on my memory and heart, and make all else seem poor and cold. I cannot help this; I can only say I am sure it is no perversity; and I believe the preference is founded in reason and nature, and is already widely spread among us. A man's Church' must be the home of whatever he most deeply loves, trusts, admires, and reveres— of whatever most divinely expresses the essential meaning of the Christian faith and life; and to be torn away from the great company I have named, and transferred to the ranks which command a far fainter allegiance, is an unnatural, and for me an inadmissible, fate."-Huntington's "Christian Believing and Living."

A PRACTICAL VIEW OF THE PREACHER'S OFFICE.

"Let the Preacher recollect that whilst in the Pulpit he is in communication with the actual facts of life, and not with a merely philosophical dream or theory of them; that he is called upon to confront the cruelty of nature and the scorn of time; the vanity and turbulence of youth and the obduracy of unregenerate years; the half-formed sin and the lukewarm repentance, the sharp pain of regret and the rankling sting of unkindness, the weariness of hope deferred and a joyless life, the sickness of a present sorrow and the bitterness of a new bereavement, the consuming fires of unbridled passion and the too weighty burden of many cares which crush the soul down to the ground, and there is none to help, or to raise it up again. Let him recollect that he talks to the fathers of thankless children, to the struggling artisan or tradesman, to the young man about to enter life, or who has just begun it, to the poor sempstress with her sorely - tried powers, and the young gentlewoman who seeks some clue to her destiny in the best mode of distributing her energies and employing her time, to the widow and the fatherless, to the prosperous and wealthy with their dangers and responsibilities. All these varying circumstances of life, and many others which are found in every Church and in every congregation, should be distinctly recognized and admonished with an earnest, fervent, and loving thoughtfulness."-Quarterly Review.

THE GOSPEL THE TRUE SOURCE OF MORALITY.

EXTRACT from Dr. CHALMERS' Farewell Address to the
Inhabitants of the Parish of Kilmany.

"I cannot but record the effect of an actual, though undesigned, experiment which I prosecuted for upwards of twelve years among you. For the greater part of that time I could expatiate on the meanness of dishonesty, on the villainy of falsehood, on the despicable arts of calumny; in a word, upon all those deformities of character which awaken the natural indignation of the human heart against the pests and the disturbers of society. Now could I, upon the strength of these warm expostulations, have got one thief to give up his stealing, and one evil speaker his censoriousness, and one liar his deviations from truth, I should have felt all the repose of one who had gotten his ultimate object. It never occurred to me that all this might have been done, and yet the soul of every hearer have remained in full alienation from God; and that even could I have established in the bosom of one who stole such a principle of abhorrence at the meanness of dishonesty, that he was prevailed upon to steal no more, he might still have retained a heart as completely unturned to God, and as totally unpossessed by a principle of love to Him, as before. In a word, though I might have made him a more upright and honourable man, I might have left him as destitute of religious principle as ever. But the interesting fact is that during the whole of that period in which I made no attempt against the natural enmity of the mind to God, while I was inattentive to the way in which this enmity is dissolved-even by the free offer, on the one hand, and the believing acceptance on the other, of the gospel-salvation-while Christ, through whose blood

the sinner, who by nature stands far off, is brought near to the Heavenly Lawgiver whom he has offended, was scarcely ever spoken of, or spoken of in such a way as stripped Him of all the importance of His character and His offices; even at this time I certainly did press the reformations of honour and truth and integrity among my people, but I never once heard of any such reformations having been effected among them. If there was anything at all brought about in this way, it was more than I ever got any account of. I am not sensible that the vehemence with which I urged the virtues and proprieties of social life had the weight of a feather upon the moral habits of my parishioners. And it was not till I got impressed by the utter alienation of the heart in all its desires and affections from God; it was not till reconciliation to Him became the distinct and prominent object of my ministerial exhortations; it was not till I took the scriptural way of laying the method of reconciliation before them; it was not till the free offer of forgiveness through the blood of Christ was urged upon their acceptance; and the Holy Spiritgiven through the channel of Christ's mediatorship to all who ask Him-was set before them as the unceasing object of their dependence and their prayers; in one word, it was not till the contemplations of my people were turned to these great and essential elements in the business of a soul providing for its interests with God and the concerns of its eternity, that I ever heard of any of those subordinate reformations which I aforetime made the earnest and the zealous, but I am afraid at the same time the ultimate, object of my earlier ministrations." [Acknowledging his obligations to a very humble class of his hearers, the Doctor adds]—“ You have at least taught me that to preach Christ is the only effective way of preaching morality."-"Life," vol. i. p. 430.

THE SAVIOUR AS VIEWED BY A REJECTER OF
REVELATION.

"I love the Galilean-Lord and Christ!

Such goodness I could own; and though enshrined
In flesh could worship. If emparadised
Beyond the grave, no Eden I could find

Restored, though all the good of human kind
Were there, and not that yearning One, the poor
Who healed, and fed, and blessed! Nay, to my mind
Hell would be heaven with Him. Horror no more
Could fright, if such benignant beauty trod the shore.”
Thomas Cooper, "Purgatory of Suicides."

RÉNAN.

Scarcely less beautiful are the words of another and more popular "Rejecter"—in view of the dread scene of Calvary :

"His head fell upon his breast, and he expired. Rest now in thy glory, noble initiator. Thy work is completed; thy divinity is established. Fear no more to see the edifice of thy efforts crumble through a flaw. Henceforth, beyond the reach of frailty, thou shalt be present, from the height of thy divine peace, in the infinite consequences of thy acts. At the price of a few hours of suffering, which have not even touched thy great soul, thou hast purchased the most complete immortality. For thousands of years the world will extol thee. Banner of our contradictions, thou wilt be the sign around which will be fought the fiercest battles. A thousand times more living, a thousand times more loved since thy death than during the days of thy pilgrimage here below, thou wilt become to such a degree the corner-stone of humanity, that to tear thy