God claimed the ancient Sabbath as his own. " Ye shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary, I am the Lord." (Lev. iii. 30.) "Ye shall fear every man his father and his mother, and keep my Sabbaths, I am the Lord your God." (v. 3.) In the New Testament he calls the Christian Sabbath his own-it is " The Lord's day." Thus, he who was the Lord of the Jewish Sabbath is Lord also of the Christian Sabbath. And as its Lord he claims it for his service, and requires it to be devoted to his glory. Though the time of holding it is changed, it is the same in its holy spiritual objects, and is impressed with the sanction of the Divine authority-the authority of

its Lord.

5. It is remarkable that as God sanctified and blessed the seventh day on its appointment, so, when his Providence changed it to the first day of the week, he signalised and honoured that day, by causing the most memorable and glorious events to occur upon it. On this day the Saviour rose from the sepulchre, spoiled principalities and powers, and made a show of them, openly triumphing over them in it; thus showing that redemption's work was completed, and giving to his church the pledge of a glorious resurrection, and of an eternal Sabbath in heaven. On this day he often showed himself to his disciples after his resurrection. On this day he poured out the Holy Ghost upon the apostles and disciples. On this day the commission of the apostles was opened, and the first fruits of the gospel harvest were reaped, in the

conversion of three thousand souls. Thus he sanctified, honoured, and blessed the Christian Sabbath, shedding upon it his richest influence, his choicest blessings, and calling it his own day.

6. Time would fail, or we might show that the first day of the week, as the day for the Christian Sabbath, was adumbrated by some of the great annual festivals held by the Jews. During the solemn feast of Pentecost there was one day which God distinguished from all the rest, as a High-day-a Sabbath for holy convocation, and the cessation from all secular employment. That day was expressly required to be always the day after the seventh, or the day subsequently appointed for the Christian Sabbath. The like custom God ordained in connection with the Jewish Passover, when the solemnity of the wave-offering was to be held. This was always on the day after the Sabbath-the day of the Christian Sabbath. (Lev. xxiii.) That the time God so minutely prescribed for these institutions was typical, and designed to adumbrate the Lord's day as the Christian Sabbath, we have reason to believe, and when viewed in connection with the proofs previously adduced it gives strength to the general demonstration.

Query 2. F. C. (Luke iii. 35, 36, and Gen. x. 24; xi. 12.)-The mere omission of a name from a genealogical list is no uncommon occur rence; nor is it of any importance, seeing the object of the inspired writer was merely to indicate the line through which the Saviour

came.

PERHAPS this head to my humble remarks will be considered rather erroneous; as our respected Staly

We have received two receipts for the Sunday school Teacher's malady; but the one inserted is decidely the best, and it is supplied by a lady.-ED.

bridge friend stated, that the persons afflicted with this disorder were not themselves the chief sufferers. However, if I make a few blunders, as I am sure to do, it must be overlooked, on the ground that I am not a professional, but am practising without a diploma. If some qualified surgeon or physician will write a preventive

or cure, I, as an individual, shall be benefited; but whether such prescription be given or not, my simple advice can do no harm.

THE ADVICE WITHOUT FURTHER

PREFACE.

In the first place, persons who wish to avoid an attack of this disgraceful influenza, as I call it, should constantly keep in remembrance the boundless mercy of God, which has ever been manifested in their behalf -the great love wherewith he has loved them! Such considerations will surely cause them to exclaim with the poet:

"What poor returns can mortals make For such immeasurable grace!"

Consider the goodness of God in providing you with teachers when you were young and thoughtless. Your scholars are perhaps sometimes almost ungovernable. Were you never troublesome to your teachers?

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call to mind your early days, and strive to repay the love and kindness of others to you then, by working on with cheerfulness, and stretching your patience to the utmost, and never allowing yourself to suffer from this dishonourable malady.

On feeling symptoms of an attack of this nature, you will do well to read the 9th verse of the 6th chapter of Galatians, "Let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due time we shall reap if we faint not." If the slight feeling of lassitude, which invariably characterizes the first approach of this disorder, does not immediately subside, then ead the 10th verse of the 9th chapter of Ecclesiastes, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no wisdom, nor knowledge, nor device in the grave, whither we are all hastening." If now the patient does not feel instant relief and renewed energy to go to his usual employment, the disease must be gaining ground; and unless something decisive be

Do the Lord's work in the Lord's time-pray while God hears; hear while God speaks; believe while

done, he will fall into a state of wearisome stupor; no part of his nobler nature being awake, but conscience, and this (wide awake) will then prove an extremely troublesome companion. As a strong incentive to returning activity, the patient may read the 47th verse of the 12th chapter of St. Luke, "He that knew his Lord's will, and prepared not himself to do it, shall be beaten with many stripes."

Whenever you feel this disease seize you, whether on Saturday evening, or on Sunday morning, do not give the least way to it, or it will make rapid advances; but shake it off, and be determined to go to your usual duties with double diligence. The moment you arrive at this conclusion (upon your knees) and act upon it, you will find yourself quite convalescent. When it attacks the toes, the best plan is, to set them in movement, and walk briskly to the Sunday school. If the eyes be affected, immersion of the head in cold water will be found beneficial; also great care must be taken not to overload the stomach.

PILL FOR THE SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER'S DISEASE.-Equal quantities of prayer, perseverance, humi lity, charity, self-denial, industry, and an extra quantity of gratitude. The ingredients to be mixed, and one pill taken on Saturday evening, and three on Sunday. If the patient attend punctually to these directions, and does not receive a radical cure, though not a legal practitioner, I will venture to say his case is hopeless. Allow me to sign myself, Mr. Editor,

Your's very respectfully, NOT GUILTY. N.B. The pill is not at all nauseous, though not coated with sugar, if taken in a right spirit; and be sides curing the disorder, will produce a contented mind, which is a continual feast.

God promises; obey while God com mands.-Mrs. A.

THE PRIZE TALE. THE SOLDIER'S PROGRESS: Pourtrayed in the life of George Powell. By SARAH SYMONDS. 18mo. pp. 115. Embellished with six coloured Engravings, from designs by John Gilbert. London: Willoughby and Co., and all Booksellers.

This interesting work has the following origin. In the spring of 1849, the publishers issued a series of prints, designed by John Gilbert, Esq., with a few words on peace and war, by Elihu Burritt; and so rapid was their sale, and so decidedly was public opinion expressed in their favour, that they were induced to render permanent that which otherwise might have been merely transient. With this view they offered a small prize for the best prose tale to illustrate the tableaux. To the present work was the prize awarded. It is a faithful and mournfully interesting picture, which in its leading features has been realized in myriads of instances. A thoughtless youth, half intoxicated, and seduced by the false visions of glory pourtrayed by a recruiting sergeant, enlists, and leaves behind him an aged, widowed, and broken-hearted mother and an intelligent affectionate maiden to whom he was betrothed. He soon finds out the mistake he has made, and bitterly repents his folly when too late.

His high spirit resents the treatment he receives, and he is flogged and incarcerated; but he escapes his prison, and deserts. He is detected, and again flogged until nature faints, and he is carried away insensible to the hospital. This severe discipline teaches him subordination and obedience. He is allowed to marry; the regiment is ordered on foreign service. He is in the bloody carnage at Waterloo. He bravely fights, and falls wounded on the sanguinary field. The prancing cavalry pass over him, and the iron hoof of one tramples on a limb, and shatters it. When the battle ceases his anxious and distracted wife finds him bleeding and unconscious among heaps of prostrate slain; but her arrival is just in time to arrest the stroke of the murderous guerilla, and to staunch the wound where life's current was fast welling out. He is carried in a waggon from the field of slaughter to the crowded hospital, where he but slowly and partially recovers from his wounds. Being no longer fit for

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actual service, he is discharged on a scanty pension. After four years' absence he reaches home, a poor, emaciated, decrepid, worn-out man, just in time to witness the dying hour of his aged mother, who by grief and anxiety is hastened to the tomb. His own shattered constitution bears up only a a few months, ere he also sinks into the tomb, leaving behind his wife, a desolate and broken-hearted widow, of whom the neighbours say, "She'll not be long after him." Here end the young soldier's visions of military glory. The tale is well written; it graphically describes the hidden woes of the soldier's life, and is admirably calculated to strip the nodding plume, the gay epaulette, and the exciting sounds of martial music of their power to fascinate and betray the ardent youth. It is well worthy of an extensive circulation.

THE DOMESTIC WORSHIPPER: Consisting of Prayers, selected Scripture Portions, and Hymns for Morning and Evening; with Prayers for special occasions. Edited by Rev. SAMUEL GREEN. 12mo. pp. 372. London: B. L. Green.

There are 112 prayers adapted to a course of family worship for two months. Each prayer is accompanied with a hymn, and a reference to a portion of Scripture. Where there is confidence and ability to conduct family worship from the spontaneous effusions of the soul, such devotion is of course far preferable to the utterance of a printed form; but where these requisites are absent, a form becomes necessary; and in such cases the work before us will be found very useful. The prayers are simple, comprehensive, and thoroughly evangelical.

THE WAY OF SALVATION: A Reply to the important inquiry, "What must I do to be saved?" By P. J. WRIGHT. 18mo. pp. 72. Second Thousand. Published at our own Book Room, and may be had from any of our Ministers.

We have just received a fresh supply of this excellent little work. It clearly unfolds the plan of salvation, and directs the penitent at once to the Cross of Christ. We presume that as the winter approaches, our ministers and friends will be holding special services to promote the conversion of sinners. Το an awakened, contrite soul earnestly seeking mercy, and to young converts ge

nerally, this cheap little manual of Mr. Wright is an invaluable boon; indeed, we know of no book of the size and price so well adapted to afford the direction and consolation required by those for whose benefit the work was prepared.

THE JORDAN, AND THE DEAD SEA. 18mo. pp. 192. Religious Tract Society.

In this little volume we have much valuable information respecting the topography of a country of unparalleled interest to the Christian. Information which in other times would have swelled to volumes, and cost a considerable sum to obtain, is here condensed and placed within our reach for a few pence. It is distinguished by learning and research.

IONA. By Rev. W. L. ALEXANDER, D.D. 18mo, pp. 192. Religious Tract Society.

Iona is one of the smallest of the British Isles, situated in 56 deg. 59 min., near a rugged and barren part of the Scottish coast, surrounded by dangerous seas, and possessing no sources of internal wealth, yet has obtained an imperishable place in history as the seat of civilization and religion at a time when the darkness of heathenism hung over almost the whole of Northern Europe, and as the source whence these blessings were very widely diffused in countries whose inhabitants have ever since been in the foremost ranks of the human race. The work is erudite and deeply interesting to the antiquarian and the Christian.

CHARLES HAMILTON: or Better Rub than Rust. By GEORGE E. SARGENT. 18mo. pp. 115. London: B. L. Green. All the series of Mr. Green's juvenile books are excellent; but this we think is the best of the series which has yet appeared. The story is so true to

nature, so descriptive of real life, and so fraught with practical illustrations of the best sentiments that it cannot fail both to interest and profit the youthful reader. It is here shown in the most attractive and impressive manner how religion can fortify the mind under disappointment and adversity; how industry, self-reliance, integrity, and perseverance can elevate our character and condition, despite the most discouraging events. We earnestly recommend it to our readers.

PART I. NOTES, EXPLANATORY AND PRACTICAL, ON THE GOSPELS. By Rev. ALBERT BARNES. Carefully revised by Rev. SAMUEL GREEN, author of the "Biblical and Theological Dictionary." London: B. L. Green.

This is the first part of Mr. Green's cheap edition of Barnes's "Notes on the Gospels." Nothing need be said respecting the character of Barnes's Notes: they are extensively known, and their excellence is universally admitted. This edition is amazingly cheap, and well got up. The paper, type, and workmanship are of superior quality, and the work itself, as stated in the preface, has undergone a careful revision, and some important editions by the editor.

SCRIPTURE LESSONS: or the History of the Acts of the Apostles, in Question and Answer. Designed for the use of Bible Classes. By Mrs. HENDERSON. London: B. L. Green.

This work is the sequel to a work, by the same authoress, on the Gospels. The plan is that of question and answer on the leading truths and facts which are consecutively placed before us in “The Acts of the Apostles." It is executed in a manner which displays good sense and considerable ability, and places a large amount of Biblical information at the disposal of the reader. doctrine is decidedly evangelical, but Calvinistic.

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thus terminate their earthly pilgrimage. May all our young friends whose spirits are buoyant and whose prospects are bright remember that ere long they will finish the journey of life and enter the regions of the silent and numberless dead. The middle-aged, too, whose bones are full of marrow, and whose strength is firm, who have risen high in the scale of social existence, and whose physical and mental powers are fully

developed, are taken away in the midst of their days, and compelled to surren

der their bodies to the dominion of the grave. It is our fervent prayer that all the readers of this paper who have reached the meridian of life may "prepare to meet their God," so that at the "expected end" they may secure a dwelling place in the mansions of light and glory. But the aged, with their grey hairs, and tottering limbs, and bending bodies, are destined to pay the debt of nature or of justice; and after a long life of virtue and happiness, or of vice and wretchedness, while their bodies are laid, amid the tears of relatives and friends in the tomb of mortality, their spirits go to God to receive their final and righteous doom. O that all our aged readers were wise, that they would consider their latter end, and thus lay up imperishable treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves cannot break through nor steal.

John Spooner, the subject of this brief and imperfect account, lived in this world of sin and woe till he had arrived at a good old age, and then went down to the grave in sure and certain hope of a resurrection to eternal life. He was born at Cheadle, in Staffordshire, in 1772, and was the second son of William and Mary Spooner of the same place. His parents at this time were not only entirely destitute of true religion-the pure and undefiled religion of the Bible, but lived without God in the world and were exceedingly profligate and wicked. Placed amid circumstances and influences so unfavourable to the cultivation of virtuous habits, we are not surprised to learn that young Spooner imitated the example of his parents, and soon became a champion in the service of the "wicked one," living in the indulgence of vicious dispositions, and walking according to the course of this world.

When about twenty-three years of age he was married to Miss Edith Johnson, of Cheadle, who, like himself, was a stranger to the sublime and satisfying pleasures of true piety.

The means employed by a gracious God to bring guilty and rebellious sinners to a knowledge of the truth as it in Christ are not only efficacious in their influence but varied in their character. The remonstrances of conscience, the advice of friends, the teachings of the Bible, the influences of the Spirit, are designed to subserve the purposes of in

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finite Wisdom, and lead the sinner to Christ. It appears, however, that an afflictive dispensation of Divine providence was the means of arousing Brother Spooner to a sense of his spiritual condition, and convincing him of 'sin, and righteousness, and judgment." In the year 1810 two of his children were taken away from the evil to come; and as he beheld the ravages of death, he was aroused from his guilty slumbers, and felt assured that he was unfit to die and go into an eternal world. In connection with this painful and providential, but sanctified event, he hesitated not to affirm that, whilst walking one day in his garden he heard an audible voice addressing him on subjects of vital importance, and assuring him that if he persisted in living without salvation, he never would see his children again. With these impressions and views he went into the house, informed his wife of the circumstance which had transpired, and most emphatically declared his determination to forsake his evil ways and give his heart to God.

Brother Spooner being now the subject of anxious solicitude in reference to his spiritual interests attended regularly the house of prayer, and observed the ordinances of religion, saying in the language of David, "How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts. My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God." The faithful ministration of the truth proved to him highly instructive and beneficial. A short time after his mind became impressed with the value of religion and the necessity of fleeing from the "wrath to come;" he heard a discourse on the dreadful consequences of sin and the blessed results of saving grace. This discourse was a nail fastened in a sure place. He saw the desirableness of religion, and he felt determined to secure it. At this stage of his religious career our brother was invited by a member of the Wesleyan society to attend the class meeting-a meeting for the relation of Christian experience, the advantages of which eternity alone will unfold. He unhesitatingly accepted the invitation, and thus furnished to "inquirers' and penitents an example worthy of imitation.

We have been informed that at this period of his history he was the subject of great mental anxiety, arising from the insinuations and devices of the wicked one, the revilings of his former