proposed work, for we believe it will have a very different effect from that which Leo XIII. desires, and that by it the Church of Rome will wield a weapon to her own conviction and condemnation as an apostate and persecuting Church.

One paper* says, "While Leo XIII. seems disposed to enlist truth on his side, we would say, by all means carry out the benevolent design. Let nothing be held back to mar the effect. So far as decency will permit, let us know all about the public and private life of the Popes themselves; and let the doings of the Inquisition itself be dragged into the light of day, to be stamped with eternal infamy. Let the bestial Alexander VI., and the savagely intolerant Paul IV., be painted as they really lived, acted, and died. If this were done, who could possibly be the gainers save ourselves? It cannot be, however; for truth, simple and unadulterated, is the one thing of which the Papacy stands in dread. The truth, according to Popery, is truth suppressed; and the fabric, grand as it may appear to human eyes, is founded in a lie.

"Does the Pope really believe that the world, at this time of day, would really accept history written under the conditions he prescribes, and which, before publication, must be submitted to a censorship of cardinals, with Leo himself in the chair?

"The hostility of the Papacy to historical investigation, and even to liberal studies in general, has frequently been exemplified before the whole world; and, judging of the future by the past, one cannot possibly believe that the Vatican censorship will ever encourage impartial inquiry or fair criticism. We just mentioned Paul IV., and it may be feared that that Pope's fierce intolerance was very representative of the system he professed to govern. Such was this man's hatred of the printing-press, which had then been working for the enlightenment of mankind for more than a century, that, in 1559, he issued his 'Index Expurgatorius,' which, according to M'Crie, was an engine devised to extinguish letters in Europe, and to reduce it to the barbarism from which it had lately emerged.' His agents traversed the country in all directions, and rigorously carried out the Papal decrees without mercy. A contemporary writer in Italy says, 'The number of books committed to the flames was immense, so that, had they all been collected into one place, it would have equalled the burning of Troy. There was not a library, private or public, which escaped the disaster, or which was not nearly annihilated.' It is very easy to object to this that Leo XIII. is a much more respectable and enlightened man than Paul IV., but that does not infer that the Papacy itself is changed. In a sense, the system is

*The Baptist.

unchangeable in spirit; and, were proof of this wanted, things which have happened within the last decade in Spain, Portugal, or Ireland, might be cited. It sounds very fine to hear of an invitation going forth for writers who dare not lie' to hasten to the Vatican for the purpose of prosecuting historical studies; but the fact remains that their patrons are really more afraid of the truth they profess to love than of any other spectre which the historian's wand could raise."

SATAN'S DEVICES.

THE Lord's dear people cannot be too much upon their guard against the devices of Satan. He is an arch, cunning fiend, always upon the look-out to deceive, and drag the unwary into bondage. As to outward, flagrant sin, he cares not one straw about dragging them that is, the living children of God-into that, for he knows well that such temptations will meet with a most determined resistance from the new-creature life in God's children. His arts are, therefore, more generally brought to bear upon those points in the natural character of the Lord's people which Satan finds to be the most susceptible of his deep-laid plots. Pride, covetousness, worldly fame, devotion to the arts or the sciences, devotion to those who bind themselves about the heart, and entwine themselves in the affections-all these Satan uses most successfully to bring those who are feeling after the Lord, if haply they may find Him, into terrible bondage.-G. D. Doudney. A common device of Satan is to present the poverty and affliction of those who walk in the ways of God. Though they are outwardly poor, they are inwardly rich. Though saints have little in hand, they have much in hope. In all ages God has had some who have been great, rich, wise, and honourable; though not many wise men, yet some wise men. The spiritual riches of the poorest saints infinitely transcend the temporal riches of all the wicked men in the world. It will be but as a day before these poor despised saints, who are God's jewels, will shine brighter than the sun in his glory; and in that day, oh, how will the great and the rich, the learned and the noble, wish that they had lived and spent their days, with these few poor contemptible creatures, in the service of the Lord!—Anon.

WE are too apt, on the one hand, to look for an exemption from trouble, and, on the other hand, to overlook the promised presence and support of Jesus in trouble.-Wakeling.

LETTERS FOR THE YOUNG.-No. XLII.

TO A YOUNG BOY ANXIOUS ABOUT HIS SOUL.

MY DEAR BOY,-I was very glad to receive your kind note, and am glad to send you a short line in return, although my time is much taken up. You are very dear to me, because your soul is precious; and if you are ever brought to Jesus, washed and justified by Him, you will praise Him more sweetly than an angel of light.

I was riding among the snow to-day, where no foot had trodden, and it was pure, pure white; and I thought again and again of that verse, "Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. is a sweet prayer--may you make it your own. Often go alone, and look up to Jesus, and say, "Wash me!"

This

Amelia Geddie was one day dressed in a new white frock, and some one said to her, "No doubt you will think yourself very trim and clean?" 66 Oh, no," she said; "I will never think that until I have the fine white robe of my Redeemer's righteousness put upon me."

I am glad, my dear boy, you think that God is afflicting you to bring you to Himself. It is for this, I trust, that He smites you. His heart, His hand, and His rod, are all inscribed with love. But we want to see that your affliction does bring you to Himself. The lake of fire and brimstone stretches beneath every soul that lives in sin. "There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked." If the Lord Jesus would but draw the curtain, and let you see His fair face and His wounded side, and how there is room for the guiltiest sinner in Him, you would be drawn to Jesus with the cords of love.

I was preaching in Perth last Sabbath. When I came out, a little girl came up to me, and her mother said she had been crying the whole night before about her soul, and would take no comfort till she should find Jesus. Oh, pray that the same Spirit may thus work in you! Remember, Johnnie, you once wept for your soul, too, and prayed, and professedly sought Jesus. Have you found Him ? Or have you looked back, like Lot's wife, and become a hard, cold pillar of salt? May the Holy Spirit awaken you to call upon the name of the Lord. Your time may be short; God only knows. They are the happiest who are brought soonest to the bosom of Jesus.

Give my kindest remembrances to your mother, and to Awhen you write. May you all meet at the table of Jesus above, and may I be there too, a sinner saved by grace. Ever yours, &c.,

Collace, January 27th, 1842.

R. M. M'CHEYNE.

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