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Green, "I shall be very sorry to send you to Milford on Sundays, instead of having you with me at Church as usual."

"I know how to manage that," said Jessie," when Jane Smith went to school there, our clergyman gave her a ticket to say that she attended regularly at the Sunday School and Church at Woodside, and if he will give us the same, we shall not be obliged to go to Milford on Sundays, but can go to our own parish Church and School as we do now."

"That will be very nice," said Green, "so if your mother is well enough to take you for admittance, you shall go on Monday." (To be Continued.) L. R. P.

A LECTURE on the Proportion of Faith, as shewn in "the Principles of our Union with Christ,

the Head of the Church.”

Continued from page 262,-No. 11.

To give an example of the foregoing, which will bring us to the subject immediately in hand, if in examining a child about the Apostles' Creed, I ask the question, What is the meaning of the Name Jesus? I am most likely told, "a Saviour," and the answer is quite right, for it was given Him because He should save His people from their sins. I next ask what is the meaning of the word Christ, and I am told the Anointed One, and perhaps if I ask further, one more intelligent than the rest will tell me that the word Messiah is a Hebrew word, meaning the same thing that Christ does in the Greek, viz. the Anointed One.

I next proceed to the question-To what offices was Christ

anointed? and I am probably told to the offices of Prophet, Priest, and King, but if I wish to go anything further than this, anything more deep into the well of doctrine which is therein contained, anything further in short than the mere rim, the outside, to taste of those spiritual waters which are within, those hidden truths which are contained in the assertion that Christ is Prophet, Priest, and King-I at once find that I am entering on ground upon which they have never trod before, not one the nature of which they cannot understand or remember when once it is explained to them, but one upon which it is evident, they have hardly cast a passing thought. An example of this may be seen if the question is asked,In what direct act did Christ most prominently exercise His office as our High Priest, and how does He now continue to exercise that office? We shall find hardly one who will answer that question in any form. Or again, if we speak of His kingly office, the manner of its exercise and the end in view, we find that nearly the same amount of ignorance prevails as in the other case: or above all, if we speak of the union which there is between the two in the same person, and the manner in which a perfect harmony is maintained between those two offices of Priest and King, by the one of which Christ made a perfect atonement for the sins of the whole world, and yet by the other, requires our willing obedience to those laws which He has given for our guidance, considerations which must ever be of the most important practical moment that "the counsel of peace," as the Prophet Zechariah expresses it, when speaking of Joshua the son of Josedech, as the type of Christ, in holding both these offices of High Priest and King, should be "between them both,"

it is at once felt that we are taking them quite out of a line of thought to which they have ever been accustomed, though they contain some of the very first foundations of the Christian religion, and are fraught with the most earnest practical instruction to every individual amongst us.

I shall then endeavour by God's grace to shew how you may be enabled to instil into the minds of the young a knowledge not merely intellectual but practical of these all important truths, adhering closely to that proportion of the faith of which the Apostle speaks, so raising up a spiritual building which cannot be shaken upon a secure foundation. Now the leading idea of the Priest is, that of one who offers up a sacrifice for sin, and when that point is thoroughly understood, we can easily teach the truth that Christ, when He offered up Himself once for all upon the cross, at the same time bearing the punishment of sin, forasmuch as St. Paul says, "He was made sin for us Who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him," was exercising at that moment His office as High Priest, and that was in fact the great groundwork by which He enters upon that office which He ever discharges as our High Priest before the throne of grace, His all prevailing intercession, which consists in the pleading of the merits of that One Sacrifice before the heavenly mercy seat, whilst the word of the oath of which St. Paul speaks, which confirms Him in that supreme mediatorial office, the Priest after the order of Melchisedec, is con. tained in the words, "Thou art My son, to-day have I begotten Thee, (Heb. v. 6,) words which the same Apostle says in Acts xiii., at Antioch in Pisidia, were fulfilled, in that God raised up Jesus again, or in other words the acceptance of the

sacrifice betokened in Christ's resurrection, was the ground of His entrance upon that constant office which, as an allprevailing Intercessor He would discharge before the throne (To be Continued.) A. D. N.

of grace.

THE CROSS ON CALVARY.

THUS every where we find our suffering God,
And where He trod

May set our steps: the Cross on Calvary,
Uplifted high,

Beams on the martyr host, a beacon light
In open fight.

To the still restlings of the lonely heart,
He doth impart

The virtue of his midnight agony.
When none was nigh,

Save God and one good angel, to assuage
The tempest's rage.

Mortal! if life smile on thee, and thou find
All to thy mind;

Think who did once from heaven to hell descend,
Thee to befriend:

So shalt thou dare forego, at His dear call,
Thy best, thine all.

"O Father! not my will, but Thine be done:"
So spake the Son.

Be this our charm, mellowing earth's ruder noise
Of griefs and joys;

That we may cling for ever to thy breast,

In perfect rest!

KEBLE.

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THE following anecdote of our good King George III., was told some years ago, by Sir Henry Halford, and found its way into several publications then. We found it by chance the other day, and thought it would be acceptable and interesting to our many readers. Sir Henry Halford says in his feeling account. "His majesty had always looked upon his previous visitation, (loss of reason) as trials of his faith and obedience. And one of his very latest hours of rational life was employed in dictating a letter to the Princess Amelia, which he directed in my presence and committed to my charge, to express his satisfaction that she had received the Holy Sacrament that morning and had sought for comfort under her sufferings, where only it could be found, in religion. The princess died two days afterwards, and the king was bereft of his reason, but he is in peace. King George III, died January 29th, 1820.

HOW THEY BUILD A SNOW-HOUSE IN THE

ARCTIC

REGIONS.

We take the following passage from an interesting work, entitled "Arctic Searching Expedition," by Sir John Richardson, and in these times of intense interest, with respect to the fate of Sir John Franklin and his gallant crews; it deserves and will repay an attentive perusal as we propose shortly to call the attention of our readers to the whole subject in these pages; we forbear at the present further re

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