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poral things, a new creation has sprung up under the hands of this man, on which account he lately received the Golden Civil Medal of Merit. In Whitsun-week last year, three peasants from Carlshuld were with me, who astonished me. of this class, with such a clear knowledge of the Gospel, and with such love to the Saviour, I never before met with. And now, Lutz himself! If I were to describe him, I should never have done. I will only say, that love the most ardent, love proceeding from faith, joined with the calm regard of wisdom, and the heartgaining charm of humility and simplicity, are the prominent features of his character. I felt strangely, whilst with him, so that I was tempted, more than once, to bathe his hands with my tears. May the Lord's hand continue stretched out over him to protect him, for he is in great danger! On his road hither, he was obliged to take a circuitous route to Weissenburg, where he took the stage. few days before, he received the most urgent warning to beware of what he ate, unless prepared by some confidential person." Thus far Dr.

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"Another gentleman wrote yesterday from Nuremberg. 'With respect to our friend, Lutz, who intends setting off today for Munich, we have learnt that the Magistrates of Neuburg (not far from Carlshuld) have received order to arrest Lutz, and to bring him prisoner to Augsburg. This would be fine toleration in a constitutional state! But God will complete the work so gloriously begun, and take Lutz into his protection. The new Catholic vicar of Carlshuld is said to take all possible pains to induce the people to return. But he has not been able to show them that they were in the wrong, and now the rage is become so much the greater, because those who have passed over [to the Protestant faith] continue so steadfast'

"As soon as I hear any thing decisive in this important affair, I will inform you of it. The consequences will be very momentous. The hours I spent with the people that visited me from Carlshuld, (a distance of 60 English miles,) were very happy and blissful. The lying rationalists (and especially who always main

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tained that I was in the pay of the and was endeavouring to make Catholics) should now cease that mysticism leads the people lack to the church of Rome. I had still much to write to you, but it will soon be midnight, and the letter must be sent off early to-morrow morning........ I have a request in my heart to make to you.

"I could do much for the cause of

missions in my neighbourhood, especially if I could lay before the people a piece of a translation of the Bible into one of the heathen languages. Is it not possible to procure from England, only a few leaves of several translations of the Bible? You sent me once a Chinese tract, which I showed to several on behalf of the missionary cause, and which was very serviceable in this respect. Our people not only wish to hear and read of the heathen, but also to see something. I think that in a few years much may be done for the missionary cause in Bavaria, if only many of the clergy were in favour of it. We have entered upon a very momentous year. The Lord be with us, and give us to strive against the Philistines of this age, with David's sword and Paul's heroic courage! I recommend myself to your intercessions before God, even as I also pray for you from the bottom of my heart, as well as urge it upon my children, who, I cannot but mention, cause me great joy, and delight themselves in the Lord.

"I conceive I have now inserted in my letter, what I have hitherto neglected, by being hindered through manifold occupations; in future, I will wait upon you more frequently with a letter. Write me also oftener by the post. Your eзteemed letters, as well as those of many dear brethren in Christ, are as oil to my lamp of faith, and a most agreeable refreshment for me after bearing the heat and burden of the day.

"Embracing and saluting you most heartily in the Lord, to whose grace I commend you,

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"Your ever obliged friend and brother."

N. B. Our friend in Germany, to whom the preceding letter was addressed, and who sent it over for insertion in this Magazine, adds as follows.

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"I have communicated to the Committee of the Hamburgh Tract Society, at their last meeting, what Mr. in reference to tract distribution; and I am happy to say that I have prevailed upon them to make a grant to him of ten thousand tracts, which will leave Hamburgh this week. But, as they are in so great want of funds, I only got the grant on condition of sending a statement of Mr. -'s sphere for the distribution of tracts to the Religious Tract Society of LONDON. As to Mr. -'s request to get parts of the Bible in heathen languages, I have just sought out all that I had brought from India, and shall send him as much as possible. I have brought from Calcutta also two idols, one clay (Gunesha) and one wooden idol (Gand

hama, Boodhoo); but as I have no other, I can only send them with the request to have them returned; besides my Gunesha is broken in two pieces. If any small idols could be got from England, they would serve Mr. -'s congregation, and would interest Germans in other places who [feel a regard for] Christian missions. Besides, I shall send Mr. - all I can spare of the Quarterly Papers, Sketches, &c. with wood-cuts, published by the different English societies. Greatly obliged, therefore, should I feel if a Christian friend in England would send a statement of [this] to the Secretaries of the different Missionary Societies. Old papers, both quarterly and monthly, religious magazines and newspapers, [will be acceptable and useful.] I pledge myself that they shall not be sent in vain. My wish is to have [this communication] read by as many friends of Christ's blessed kingdom as possible. I hope there are friends to be easily found in active England, who will send here their kind assistance. I am doing all I can here, but to attempt more must ruin my health."

The Publishers of this Magazine will receive any contributions or presents, as above requested, addressed to the care of the Rev. Dr. Pye Smith. The London Religious Tract Society has made a liberal grant for this interesting object.

EXTINCTION OF THE ST. SIMONIAN

NEWSPAPER.

"The Globe, the newspaper organ of the St. Simonians, in Paris, has ceased to appear. The chiefs of the sect seem to have thought, that, after having preached from the rostrum and by the press, their course now must be to preach by their silence. They have begun a retirement of forty days in the environs of Paris. The star of the St. Simonians had become strangely pallid, particularly since the invasion of the cholera. Not only had their doctrine shown itself too feeble to bear the test of the serious feeling which that alarming scourge has aroused in the minds of men; but, what may be very readily understood, it stands comfortless and dumb in the presence of death. The final number of the Globe made a poor attempt at apology for the silence to which Enfantin and his coadjutors have condemned themselves; but no one can mistake the matter. The silence is the confession of defeat. The retire

ment is not voluntary. May it, however, be a means of benefit to those misguided men, by leading them to self-inquiry and the discovery of their error."

Paris Sémeur, April 25.

CHOLERA AT PARIS.

The April number of the Archives du Christianisme contains a copious and impressive article on the visitation of the Cholera at PARIS. After some appropriate remarks on the insensibility, gaiety, and licentiousness of the larger part of population, the writer proceeds:

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-To this picture of unregenerate man in the midst of public calamity, to this conflict of passion or weakness, disputing for the empire of the human heart, we could wish to exhibit the contrast of the conduct of some Christians in this capital, during these days of mourning and chastisement; not to make a parade of their sentiments and their actions (they know that they have nothing which they have not received, and have nothing whereof to glory), but to show the world what are the fruits of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, a patient mind, kindness, beneficence, faithfulness, meekness, and temperance.' But those who know not what faith in Christ. is would not understand the statement, and would fancy nothing but pride where, in the minds of God's children, is the desire of glorifying him. We shall therefore leave to those who have been witnesses of the active charity of Christians, the task of estimating the difference between that charity and what the world calls by the same name. Yet we cannot refrain from remarking, to the praise of the Holy Spirit, the manner in which this chastisement from a merciful God has been received by Christ's true disciples.

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"At the first appearance of the malady, they turned their eyes to HIM from whom proceedeth evil and good,' (Lam. iii. 38), and they made his word the rule of their proceedings. Private religious meetings were begun in a considerable number of families, and public prayermeetings were set up, and still continue to be held in the chapel of Les Galéries de Fer, to humble ourselves under the rod of the Most High, to implore his mercy, and especially to beseech him to bless, for the advancement of his spiritual kingdom, the solemn warning which he has been pleased to send us. ligious tracts have been dispersed, in great quantities; among others, a placard which comprises, with plain medical directions, a plain and forcible appeal to the word of God. Of this, more than 20,000 copies have been sold or distributed gratuitously. The Ten Commandments, on a broad sheet, have been posted up in all parts of Paris: O may that solemn proclamation from God, unaccompanied by

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"With the permission and encouragement of the government authorities, which granted free access to the hospitals, Christians have hastened to declare the word of life to the patients; and perhaps by the grace of God, have led some to lift their dying eyes to Him who giveth life to the world. A fresh opportunity of proving the nothingness of every system was that of salvation by grace. O ye, who, dissatisfied with the perfect righteousness of Christ, suppose that man can merit what he has a hundred times demerited! Tell us what words, what consolations, you will address to that immortal soul which must, in a few moments, appear before its Judge! Will you tell the dying sinner of his own righteousness? His conscience gives you the lie. Will you urge him to change his course of life? Alas! what kind of change can he manifest? Will you talk to him about God's kind indulgence, and the consideration which he will have for the foibles of our fallen nature? Yes; this is your only resource: but it rests upon nothing.". [Then the author enlarges upon Habak. i. 13, Gal. iii. 10, Luke xix. 10, 1 Cor. xv. 57, John iii. 14, 15.] "The Lord has made his voice to be heard in the midst of us let us not remain deaf to the call: let all the disciples of his Son redouble their zeal and their prayers.-- O let us beseech him that this new warning may serve to promote his kingdom upon earth, and to hasten the time when every tongue shall confess the name of Jesus Christ!"

FRENCH RELIGIOUS PERIODICAL WORKS.

In the course of publishing the Congregational Magazine, we have frequently had occasion to refer to the " Archives du Christianisme," a monthly magazine, conducted at Paris, by Protestant editors and correspondents, with a happy combination of extensive knowledge, solid learning, sound scriptural theology, and ardent piety.

number. Many interesting details might be added to that narrative, which perhaps we shall find an opportunity of doing. We are in possession of the series from the beginning, and we can beár a decided testimony to the wisdom and literary ability, and to the manly integrity and religious fidelity, with which it is conducted. Its design is to extend the most valuable kinds of reading among the inquisitive and active French people; and its specific aim is, to impress upon all parties among them the truth; that they will never find rest from revolutionary agitations, alarms, and distresses, till the spirit of vital Christianity the pure Christianity of the Bible, shall become predominant in their hearts and be the principle of their conduct. The writers bring into view all classes and kinds of motives, in urging their point; reason, feeling, family-affections, patriotism, national quiet within, and safety and prosperity without. They invincibly prove that liberty and security can find a permanent basis only in national virtue; and that national virtue can never exist without pure, disinterested, personal religion, the religion of the gospel. By argument, by the exemplifications of history, by appeals to the different conditions at the present day of the most conspicuous nations of the globe, they show that patriotism and policy equally demand evangelical piety for their support.

The thousands of persons in our country, who read the French language, would do well to supply themselves with either or both of these periodicals. Single numbers cannot be obtained. One must subscribe for a whole year, beginning with January; but the preceding Nos. may be obtained by new subscribers, to a certain amount of number, for the current year. The Agents in London are Messrs. Trenttel, Würtz, and Co. Soho Square. The annual subscription for the Archives is 7s. 6d. and for Sémeur, 20s.

From the latter of these works we shall translate a few passages:

Innumerable facts have demonstrated that genuine Christians usually are successful in whatever profession or calling they exercise; because they bring to the conduct of their affairs an orderly mind, habits of industry, strict economy, and solid integrity, so that by these means they obtain the confidence of those who deal with them. It is well known what opulent commercial houses exist in England among the Society of Friends, and in Germany among the Moravians. The spring of their prosperity lies in their Christian virtues; and, strange as the fact may appear (particu

larly to the St. Simonians who, with such ignorance or conscious falsehood, accuse Christianity of being unfriendly to industry) they would have been less prosperous had they been less religious. As for the working classes, the gospel would remove the chief causes of their distresses; by its inspiring them with habits of order, economy, and foresight. And, as the general welfare of a country is formed of the aggregate of private interests, it is clear that the Christian religion would favour the development of national prosperity in all its parts.

"Thus, by means of the GOSPEL, every thing that we need [in France] would be realized; order, stability, the solid interests of all classes. Ye men of the present [as distinguished from the eulogists of the old system of the deposed Bourbon government,] weigh our reasons, examine our proofs, and give them that serious attention which they have a right to receive from you. On every one of our points, we have called up the evidence of experience, and experience has pleaded for us. Consider again the saying of the illustrious Washington, who, a few hours before his death, solemnly declared that he regarded Christianity as the essential basis of the liberty and prosperity of his country.

"With a just indignation, you repel despotism, under whatever form it may endeavour again to appear among ns; you are determined to endure no longer a sanguinary penal code, or the law of bayonets but be aware of it, ye men of the present, you will be compelled to return to despotism sooner or later, and you will even court it as a deliverer, if you persist in refusing to make a true religious faith, the support of the so much wanted private and public order, and the indispensable securities for the well-being of society. Your first-rate orators did not hesitate, in a recent debate, to proclaim aloud this alarming fact; they told you that anarchy is at our gates, that it is pressing hard for an entrance, and that it threatens to bear down every thing before it and what is anarchy, but the forerunner of an absolute government?

"You will confess, alas! perhaps too late, that a people without religion is fit for nothing but slavery. You will see, too late, that the Gospel is liberty itself; and that, if it be excluded, we must sink under tyranny, or fall into the horrible disorganization of Buenos Ayres. then, as of old, God brought out of the forests of Scandinavia innumerable hordes of barbarians, to overthrow the Roman Empire, as a vile carcase whose limbs were scattered by its own atheistic im

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piety; as he collected the Mohammedan armies under the walls of Constantinople, whose government and people had converted their Christianity into an arena for incessant civil war; so will he raise up some race of men, some conqueror, we little imagine, who, to reduce under the law of the sword a nation which had refused to bow to his law of love; and upon the dishonoured brow of this nation, will be written, Slave, because it would not be Christian.

"O ye men of the present! Disappoint these sad forebodings. Embrace with faith the gospel of Jesus Christ and then we may say, relying upon promises which will not fail, GoD PROTECTS FRANCE."-Sémeur for Oct. 19, 1831.

In the Number for February 29, 1832, we find a petition which had been presented to the Chamber of Deputies, by the Society for promoting Christian Morals, praying for a law to fix an equitable scale of premiums of redemption for negroslaves in the French Colonies; after which, it is the intention to raise subscriptions for that purpose. "The

Society will then address itself to the nation; it will call upon all Frenchmen to support it, by putting at its disposal the sums requisite to pursue upon a large scale its plan of redemption; and it hopes to be approved and aided by a great number of our countrymen. Can any cause have a greater claim on freemen and Christians?

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March 7.-After announcing the publication of a translation from the English of Mr. Newton's Cardiphonia, (his Omicron, has also been lately published in French,) the Sémeur says: "We recommend those two volumes to our readers. The letters which they contain have all the charm of personal correspondence; and yet they present a maturity of thought and a depth of judgment rarely to be found in the epistolary form. The author was a Christian. He pours out his soul in these letters; and there are scarcely any subjects in Christian experience that are not discussed, sometimes incidentally, in the way of a natural digression, and sometimes with all the amplitude which their importance requires. The simplicity with which Newton expresses all that he felt and thought, is most admirable. It is plain that he does not keep half his sentiment back, but that he gives it in all its fulness exactly as it is; and he takes his readers to his heart, as his confidential friends. This is not the least merit of the work. We often hear it said, and with too much reason, that Christians are not open enough, that the men of the world see no more than the

outside of them, and that the inward reasons and motives of their conduct remain undisclosed. But here at least we have got one who lifts up the veil and shows his whole heart. He hides none even his foibles; but while he acknowledges them, he also shows the source from which he drew the strength which made him a self-conqueror. These disclosures of the moral life of the soul are far more valuable and beneficial than the melancholy confessions of certain boasted chiefs of the modern philosophy, who, of themselves and their associates knew only how to expose the black spots, without having, like Newton, a remedy to offer for the heart's corruption; without so much as once lamenting that corruption; yea, even making it the food of their vanity, in the face of a world which, for half a century, has been the dupe of their impious doctrines and dissolute morals."

PROCEEDINGS AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE DISSENTING MINISTERS OF THE THREE DENOMINATIONS, REDCROSS STREET.

Our readers will learn, from the following statement, which we extract from the last number of the Monthly Repository, that the orthodox portion of the general body have felt themselves called upon to vindicate their conduct from a statement made in a review that appeared in that work, which, if not written, was avowedly published by a member of that association, the Rev. W. J. Fox.

"Having received the following resolutions in an official communication from the Rev. T. Rees, LL.D., the Secretary of the body, we comply with the request contained in the second, and lay them before our readers:

"At the annual meeting of the Protestant Dissenting Ministers of the Three Denominations, residing in and about the cities of London and Westminster, held at Dr. Williams's Library, Redcross Street, April 10, 1832, Rev. Dr. Winter in the chair, On a question of Privilege.-The following passage from the Monthly Repository for January last, p. 54,-'It was by the Unitarians that the petitions to Parliament in favour of Catholic emancipation, from the general body of Dissenting Ministers, were saved from being smothered by the previous question,'having been read and discussed, it was resolved

"Our readers will easily perceive the reason why we do not analyze, or refer to, the proceedings of the meeting at which the above resolutions were voted; for if 'PRIVILEGE' makes it a censurable offence to allude, en passant, to discussions and divisions which took place three years ago, and which were referred to and commented upon in various ways at the time, in various periodicals and pamphlets, à fortiori, the present must be held sacred, especially by a periodi cal which has an avowed editor. The sentence quoted from the Repository was elicited, together with other remarks, by an arrogant boast of the exertions of orthodox dissenters in the cause of civil and religious liberty. This boast our reviewer rebuked. It deserved rebuke. He alluded to a fact which was directly in point-the division in the Body' on petitioning for the Catholics: we knew that his statement was correct, notorious, and on record; and never suspected, nor could any man living have known, that, under all the circumstances, it violated any privileges. It would not have violated those of either the House of Lords or the House of Commons. The passage is said by the resolution to be calculated to produce an erroneous impression.' Should it have led any one to suppose that the Trinitarian members of that body were generally hostile to the Catholic claims; or that many of them had not long and honourably distinguished themselves by advocating that great measure; or that, after the previous question had been negatived, a large majority of them did not support the petition in opposition to a resolution framed in an Anti-Catholic spirit -then an 'incorrect impression' has been made. But if the fair construction be, that, the Trinitarians being divided, and the Unitarians united, on Catholic emancipation, the votes of the former gave a majority for the previous question, and thereby against petitioning, and the votes of the latter turning the scale in favour of petitioning, and against the previous question, then no incorrect impression' has been made. The recollection of the

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