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As new waked from soundest sleep,

Soft on the flow'ry herb 1 found me laid
In balmy sweat, which with his beams the sun
Soon dried, and on the reeking moisture fed.
Straight toward heaven my wand'ring eyes I turn'd,
And gazed awhile the ample sky, till roused
By quick instinctive motion up I sprung,
As thitherward endeavouring, and upright
Stood on my feet. About me round I saw
Hill, dale, and shady wood, and sunny plains,
And liquid lapse of murmuring streams; by these,
Creatures that liv'd and moved and walk'd or flew,
Birds on the branches warbling, all things smil'd
With fragrance, and with joy my heart o'erflowed.
Myself I then perused, and limb by limb
Survey'd, and sometimes went and sometimes ran
With lively joints as lively vigour led.
But who I was, or where, or from what cause
Knew not. To speak I tried, and forthwith spake:
My tongue obey'd, and readily could name
Whate'er I saw. Thou sun, said I, fair light!
And thou, unenlightened earth, so fresh and gay!
Ye hills and dales! ye rivers, woods and plains!
And ye that live and move! fair creatures, tell,
Tell, if ye saw, how I came thus; how here?
Not of myself; by some great Maker then,
In goodness and in power pre-eminent.
Tell me how I may know Him, how adore;
From whom I have, that thus I move and live
And feel that I am happier than I know?

Such is the impression the universe would make on our mind, if, when we be held it for the first time, our bodies and minds were alike mature.

The evidence of design is further strengthened, if we conceive of the sun, not merely as it is related to the earth, but to the solar system; dispensing light and heat not only to the earth but to the planetary orbs. How wonderful is the thought! how amazingly great the argument! how efficacious its suggestions! Is there no end in view, no design coutemplated, when we behold the sun giving light and heat, not only to the earth but to the planetary bodies? Can it be without design, that the universe is so immense, as to render our system of stars, planets, and the sun, with all their phenomena, but as a speck? Do we behold all moving harmoniously and majestically through their prescribed spaces? do we realise, that we and all the earth, as seen from Jupiter, appear but as a glimmering point? then do we realise, that we are invisible to the planets revolving round the fixed stars ? and can we not realise the existence of our Creator, our God, whose glory is here so majestically displayed?

Note. It is supposed that eight millions of fixed stars have been observed. How many more, cannot be determined. These stars are with reason concluded to be suns; each the centre of a system of revolving planets. And the idea of the universe must be enlarged in proportion to the number of fixed stars, their attendant planets and the apparently wandering comets. All being in motion at the same time and proceeding with the utmost harmony-guided by the same simple principles of gravitation and repulse. How irresistibly do we become impressed with the power and wisdom of that uncreated excellency, which governs and supports the whole! "To the King, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, our Saviour, be all the glory for ever and ever!"

LECTURE V.

(SUBJECT CONCluded.)

In my last, as I applied the course of argument that had been pursued, we found an irresistible de nonstration of a Creator of all things. We have alluded to the large and the distant in the vast creation. The sun and the starry sky have re

ceived attention; and they, with the minutest insect, have been found to set forth the praise of God. Indeed we shall find that the moving of a leaf and the wing of a bird are not destitute of design. It is pleasing to have the wisdom of God in every part of creation, and to know that extended scientific discovery is not necessary to faith in His existence; for so abundant is the evidence for the being of God, that no sound mind can reject the acknowledgment of so great a truth. To the structure of our frame, allusion has been already made; it is not, however, necessary to examine the whole body for conviction. Who can look at the eye and not perceive design? Its position; had it been lower down, it had not been so useful; had it been on the top of the head, it would have been greatly exposed to danger and less useful. Its wonderful powers of receiving and condensing the view of a landscape, so as to form an image or picture on the back of the eye. Its situation for defence, as reposing on its soft cushion; the eyes are embedded in fat, guarded by a strong, deep, and bony socket, sheltered by the eyebrows, which, like a thatched pent-house, prevent the sweat and moisture of the forehead from running down into it; and, further protected by its lid, which wipes, shields, and closes it in sleep. Its capabilities for preservation and ornament by a wash, which is constantly supplied for the purpose of keeping the eye moist and clean, and a perforation, as large as a goose quill, through which superfluous brine is conveyed to the nose; which when once the fluid has entered, it spreads itself upon the inside of the nostril, and is evaporated by the current of warm air passing over it. Can any pipe or outlet, for carrying off the waste liquor from a dye-house or distillery, be more mechanical than this? It is easily perceived, that the eye must want moisture; but could the want of the eye generate the gland which produces the tear, or bore the hole by which it is discharged-a hole through a bone?

The eyes of birds are so fitted, as to see objects very near and very distant-suited to their manner of life. They see food at a distance, and procure it by means of their beak.

The eyes of fish adapted to their element; eyes of eels defended by a bony ransparent substance.-[See Paley's Natural Theology, chapter 3.]

Some animals, who want some instruments of motion, are compensated by another construction. The elephant, which either has no neck or one that is very short and stiff, has a proboscis. The crane again, cannot swim, but she has long legs, and so she can go into the water, and with her bill, which is six inches long, is capable of obtaining her food. The spider has no wings to pursue, but he is able to construct a snare to entangle his prey. Spiders are useful; they destroy the moth which destroys the cloth.

The adaptation of animals, vegetables, &c. for the propagation and multiplying of their different kinds, far exceeds every work of art. The acorn which falls from the oak is trodden down--germinates, and produces another oak. But the best constructed ship that ever sailed upon the ocean never threw of one while pursuing her voyage. Thus the works of God far excel the utmost efforts of the greatest genius that inhabiteth the earth.

There is another department of our constitution which affords considerable evidence-i. e. the immortal and the immaterial spirit endowed with the powar of reflecting, comparing and revolving; we from the consideration of these attributes are lost in our admiration of its first origin. The power of judging our own conduct, or the operation of conscience, is universal. Its power nothing in this world can hush into silence. The wicked are alarmed when they have no thing to fear from man; terror takes hold of them as the east wind, and fear causes them to tremble. Is it not the anticipation of future punishment for sin ? Does it not arise from that perception of God which seems to be interwoven so mysteriously in the structure of man? Is it not a proof of the reality of God's moral government? does it not not bear witness to His universal dominion?

The invisibility of God, although it conduces to indifference, yet does not invalidate the evidence of His existence. Our minds exist; we see them not-we know they do exist by their actions. God is known by His Almighty productions. Again, there are qualities in nature invisible to man, as magnetism, attraction, repulsion, &c. There is, therefore, one God, and His works shall praise Him.

Works on the subject-Paley, Samuel Clarke, Durham's Astro Theolgy, and Physico-Theology; Ray's Wisdom of God in the works of creation; Cudworth's Intellectual System, &c. &c.

THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF have excited so much interest, that this CHRIST, from the Diet of Augsburg, volume will make its way by its very 1530, to the Eighteenth Century. In title. Nor will it disappoint the reader. Continuation of Milner's History of It comprises the author's voyages and the Church of Christ. By Henry journeys from 1818 to 1821, and furStebbing, D.D. In Three Volumes. nishes a very pleasant and interesting Volume 2. pp. 504, bds. narrative in the form of a Diary. The account of the voyage occupies a large space, though not more than we are Mr. Campbell disposed to look for.

Cadell, Strand.

crossed the line in safety; whether he
went through the ceremony of "shaving
and ducking" the first time of passing,
we are not told, but probably (like the
new passengers on
this occasion) he es-
caped by paying a fine to the sailors.
As to the details of the journey inland,
we will supply one extract :—

"Did you hear of my travelling down
the great Orange River, about six years
"Yes," replied Africaner.
ago?"

"Where did you reside then?" On the north side of the Great River, about seventy miles higher up than opposite to Pella."

"Did you receive a letter from me, that I sent you from Pella?" "Yes."

"Who brought it to you?" "Abraham, a man from the Griqua country, a friend of mine, who came down the Great River with you; he brought it to me."

We noticed the first volume of this work in our Number for April last. The second has now appeared, and fully sustains the expectation we then formed. Dr. Stebbing (for he has since acquired this honourable designation) brings to his task a mind fitted for it by a spirit of candour and fairness. He does not draw the picture of men all good or all evil; and where he blames, he endeavours to suggest the probable motives which led to the blameworthy conduct. To censure a man for his acts, without imagining oneself placed in the circumstances to which he yielded, is a harsh step, very common in ordinary life, and too frequent with historians, who (being little affected by the results of the past events they narrate) ought to be free from this fault. In this respect we like the book before us. It abounds with interesting biographical notices of eminent men, and they appear fair and accurate, and very carefully compiled. The present volume has advanced to the stirring days of Zuingle, the great Swiss Reformer. We have also a history of the Institution of the order of the Jesuits; men, who assumed to themselves a name after "Did you get an answer written to the Him in whose mouth "no guile was letter?" Yes; my brother Yagher found," and have made that very desig-wrote an answer, and we sent it by a man nation a bye-word for treachery and de- to the Griqua country, and from there it ceit. The volume closes with a full his- was sent to the colony, to go to you at the tory of the memorable Council of Trent; Cape." a record of the principles of the Church of Rome, from which no art can extricate her. To those abhorred decrees her children are bound, or they cease to be her children. Of the results of that Council in determining the character of the Reformation, we may expect to read more fully in the next and closing

Volume.

VOYAGES TO AND FROM THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE; With an Account of a Journey into the Interior of South Africa. By the Rev. JOHN CAMPBELL. Intended for the Young. pp. 248. cl. bds.

Religious Tract Society.

Yagh"Who read my letter to you?" " er, my brother, now called David, who could read, read it to me.”

"How did you receive what the letter offered to you?" I was glad of the offer of a missionary. I had long, in my heart, wished for a teacher."

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I told him I had never received that letter.

"What did you write?" "I desired a missionary to be sent, and that he might be an Englishman.

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"Did you hear that a wild Bushman had murdered one of my Hottentots ???

Yes, I heard of it some time after, and that it was to get your cattle that he did it."

"What did you think of the action, when you heard of it ?" "I thought it was abominable."

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Why did you think it was abomi"Because I knew your object nable?" was good in coming into that country, and I wished to see you.'

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"Do you know the Bushman's name "Yes; that murdered my Hottentot ?"

Mr. Campbell's Journeys into Africa his name is Dovey Ghap."

"Where does he live?" "Near the waterfall on the Great River."

I then asked April Job, the Damara convert, when and how he first heard of God. He said it was long ago, when Berns, a Griqua chief, and some of his people, came into the Damara country to shoot elephants, They often read to him, and some others, out of the Testament, explaining from the book to them, in their own language, about God, and Jesus Christ His Son. He had always thought that some greater Being than he knew of, must have raised or made the great mountains; and he never could think how the sun was kept up; he often felt afraid lest it should fall down upon him.

“Did you ever think how a tree grew from a small seed, or how you yourself grew, and how your arms were both alike, and the same number of fingers at the end of each, as proofs of the existence of some mighty Agent?" "No," said he, "I never thought of such things; they were too deep for a Damara; they confuse his mind and make him stupid."

Mr. Moffat explained to him, through Africaner, that England, from whence the missionaries came to teach them the Gospel of Jesus Christ, was at a great distance; that it was seventeen times farther than Namaqualand was from the Cape. Africaner began by pointing to his fingers, one after another saying, "Once to Namaqualand and back to the Cape," till he pointed to his fingers the seventeenth time. Immediately the Damara leaned backward, turning up his eyes and hands towards heaven, saying," All too deep for me; I cannot understand it!" When we told him that Mrs. Philip had left two children behind her in that distant country, for the sake of the poor Africans, the tears started into his eyes and he wept silently for some time. This may be reckoned as one of the singular occurences of this singular age of the world, to meet a Christian from a country, the very name of which was unknown to our forefathers.

TRANSPLANTED FLOWERS; or Memoir of Mrs. Rumpff, and of the Duchess de Broglie, Daughter of Madame de Stael. pp. 102, cloth boards.

American merchant, John Jacob Astro, minister at the French Court; and being became the wife of the Hanseatic led to an experimental acquaintance with religion, she occupied her "talent" of wealth and influence with unremitting diligence in the service of Christ. She died in 1838, in the prime of life, but ready for her great change and full of peace. The Duchess de Broglie was a similar (and perhaps better known) example of devotedness to the Saviour among the great ones of the earth. This Memoir of them is calculated to do much good among the rich. We are dearth of works of that class; and we right glad to see it, for there is some hope these "dead" will "speak" effectually by this little volume, and stir up some to efforts after usefulness, such as are here detailed.

PRACTICAL REFLECTIONS on the Sufferings and Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. By the Rev. F. A. A. GoNTHIER, Minister of the Gospel at Nismes and in Switzerland. pp. 116. cl. bds.

Religious Tract Society.

several scenes in the life and death of AN interesting commentary on the went forth over the brook Cedron" into our Lord, from the moment when He the garden of Gethsemane. It is written in a very simple, unpretending style, but shows much tenderness of Christian affection in regard to the agony of Him, "with whose stripes we are healed.”

SCRIPTURE EMBLEMS. pp. 128.

Religious Tract Society.
THIS is one of those little gems, which
this Society from time to time issues for
the pocket or the closet. Above a hun-
dred metaphors are alphabetically ar-
ranged, the Scripture application of
each shown by a text, and its practical
use illustrated by a verse or two of a
hymn. It is an admirable companion
for those, who want in small compass

Religious Tract Society.
Mrs. Rumpff, the daughter of the great materials for profitable meditation.

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CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

NEW CHURCHES.-WE Continue our List of new churches opened :Brinsley (Lincoln Diocese), Oct. 3. Tonge (Chester Diocese), Oct. 6. Stockcross, Speen, (Oxford Diocese) Oct. 10.

Yearsley, Coxwold (York Diocese),
Oct. 13.

Horsley, (Gloucester Diocese), Oct. 16.
Snenton, (Lincoln Diocese).
Stanmer, Sussex.

Bradshaw, (Ripon Diocese).
Scisset, (Ripon Diocese).
Herrington (Durham Diocese).

St. Peter's, New Park Street, South-
wark, (Winchester Diocese), Nov. 7.
All Saints, Spicer Street, Mile End
New Town (London Diocese),
Nov. 25.

St. Philip's, Tredegar Square, Mile End (London Diocese), Nov. 27.

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REV. HUGH M'NEILE. In a recent speech of Mr. M'Neile at Whitchurch the following passage occurred, according to a pretty full newspaper report :

"But, my lord, it is said that ministers of the Gospel should not intermeddle with things of this kind; that they should be ministers of peace, promoters of peace. We hear this on every side. All who are anxious to get rid of our advocacy, because they feel they cannot answer our arguments-endeavour to put us down by professing vast concern about our spirituality. Ministers of peace! Where is this found,

Over Darwen, Dec. 1. Seats 500. I would ask? Where are we called minisSchool for 400 children.

By the Primitive MethodistsBingham, near Nottingham, Oct. 27.

ters of peace? Not in the Scriptures. What a strange delusion is abroad! There is no such thing in the Bible. We are

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