surrection. After the funeral, most of the company went to the new chapel, and the Rev. Joshua Harrison, President of the Congregational Union, delivered an impressive address to the deeply attentive audi

ence.

Does not a review of Mr. Buckland's useful life suggest such thoughts as these-How much better it would be if there were many such specimens of primitive Christianity? How many villages there are in which no chapel is to be found, nor any better religious worship than that afforded by the parish church? How many How many more villages there are in which a Church has been established and a pastor chosen, but the scanty pittance which he receives is too little for his maintenance, and yet is too heavy a sum for the poor to raise ? A Buckland in each of these villages would be like a messenger from heaven; and how truly apostolic might his addresses be, "We seek not yours, but you!" "These hands have ministered to my necessities and to them that were with me." "What is my reward, then? Verily, that when I preach the Gospel, I

may make the Gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the Gospel.' "For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail; for labouring night and day because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the Gospel of God." "Neither did we eat any man's bread for naught, but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you." If any should doubt the propriety of the increase of such a Gospel ministry, let them look at the life of our departed brother, and see how plainly the broad stamp of the Divine Master's approval has been impressed thereon. He has had seals to his ministry and souls for his hire; not merely here and there one in his ministry of forty years, but a numerous company will be the crown of his rejoicing in that day. Part of this company preceded him to the skies, and the rest are following him thither.

The harvest is plenteous, but such labourers are few; let us pray the Lord of the harvest to send forth such labourers unto His harvest.

INTERCHANGE OF PULPITS.-We find that we were in error when we stated last month that Dr. Steane was the first Nonconformist minister who had preached in a consecrated church since the Act of Uniformity, and we are greatly obliged to our valued correspondent, whose letter will be found in another page, for setting us right by citing another instance, which

had escaped our recollection. The condemnation of Dr. Blackwood's conduct by the evangelical Bishop of Ripon, based on the assumption. that he had broken the law, has led many to suppose that this system of exclusion is to be traced wholly to the existence of a State Church, and to conclude that, if it ever came to be disestablished, there would be no further obstacle to a free inter

change of pulpits. But the information recently received from America militates against this supposition. It appears that the Rev. J. P. Hubbard, an Episcopalian minister in the United States, has not only allowed a Baptist to preach in his pulpit, but has actually preached in the Baptist pulpit himself. His diocesan, Bishop Clerk, on receiving the first intimation of his intention, not only reprobated it in very severe language, but interposed his episcopal veto. Mr. Hubbard met his ecclesiastical superior with a firm but respectful reply, and carried his design into execution in spite of the injunction. As there is no State religion at all in America, we are driven to infer that, although this feeling of exclusiveness is doubtless. strengthened by the position of an Establishment, the members of which are bound by their ordination vows to root out schism, it originates in a more deep-seated feeling of Episcopalianism, which refuses to acknowledge as ministers of the Gospel any but those who have received ordination from the hands of a bishop, in lineal succession from the Apostles. It is the Apostolical Succession, and not the Act of Uniformity, which blocks up the way, and the repeal of the Act would not, therefore, remove the repugnance now felt to the admission of Dissenters. The Church of Scotland is as much established by the law of the land as the Church of England, but its ministers are as strenuously excluded from the pulpits of consecrated churches as Nonconformists. Dean Stanley and his friends are making strenuous exertions to procure the abrogation of the legislative prohibition, and there can be no doubt of their ultimate success; but it must still rest entirely with the incumbent to avail himself of the liberty

the law may grant him, or to decline to use it.

If

THE MACKONOCHIE CASE. there be any body of men who might be thought pre-eminently to desire the separation of Church and State, it would be the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, whose time and energies are incessantly taxed for the decision of cases connected with the Act of Uniformity. Six weeks ago there were no fewer than four of these delicate cases before them, only one of which has, as yet, been decided. The Rev. Mr. Mackonochie, of St. Alban's notoriety, had been previously condemned for his ritualistic practices, and received a monition to abstain from them; but his sacerdotal fervour was stronger than the feeling of loyalty to the law. He was again brought before the Judicial Committee for having disobeyed the monition, and elevated the paten with the consecrated bread above his head, and prostrated himself before the altar during the prayer of consecration. His defence was, that he had not kneeled that is, actually touched the ground with his knee-as the words were pronounced, "This is my body," but simply bowed low; and that he had not raised the paten above his head, but only to a level with it. He avowed that his object was "to see how far he could obey the law of the Church without disobeying the law of the land." The Court decided, however, that he had disobeyed the former admonition, suspended him for three months. from the exercise of his spiritual functions, and condemned him in costs. This decision of the Privy Council was affixed to the door of St. Alban's, and served upon him as he issued from the vestry in full canonicals. The church became at once a scene of great excitement,

as Mr. Mackonochie took his seat in the choir instead of within the altar, and thus became the object of universal observation. In the service of the morning, the celebrant of the Eucharist, in ostentatious defiance of the judicial decree, raised the paten higher than Mr. Mackonochie had done, and prostrated himself lower than usual; and the sermon from the pulpit was a continued stream of vituperation on the highest ecclesiastical tribunal in England. After the service was completed, the most distinguished members of the congregation came to Mr. Mackonochie, and offered their condolence on the persecution of which they considered him the victim. Foremost among these was Lord Eliot, the lineal descendant of thatillustrious patriot, Sir John Eliot, who was foremost in the opposition to the Ritualism which Laud endeavoured to introduce, and who consequently died in the Tower, Lord Eliot has since appointed Mr. Mackonochie his domestic chaplain. It is one of the most degrading influences of this system of Ritualism, that its priesthood are unable to perceive how the stratagem adopted by Mr. Mackonochie degrades the sacred cause of religion. The audience, who could not measure the position of the hand or the knee, of course concluded that he was doing exactly as he had done before, in total disregard of the judicial prohibition; while he was contriving to evade the spirit of the injunction, and pretending to honour the letter. Such jesuitry is utterly repugnant to the national instinct of Englishmen, who love plain dealing and honesty, and loathe whatever savours of evasion. Mr. Mackonochie is invested by his followers with the halo of martyrdom, but he is no martyr except to his own infatuation. He is a member of a State Church estab

lished by the Crown, the Lords, and the Commons, and from this Church he derives his orders, his emoluments, his privileges, and his prestige. The law of what is called the Christian Church-which is embodied in the Roman decretals— is not the law of the State, but the law of the State is the law of the Church which it has established, and which it continues to maintain. Mr. Mackonochie claims two things which are incompatible-the privilege of a Dissenter, and the position of a State Churchman. His adherents are so rash as to affirm that he is at liberty to disregard the suspension of the Privy Council. He received his spiritual powers, they say, from his ordinary, and his ordinary alone can deprive him of the exercise of them. The gall and wormwood of the legal decision is, that it comes from a lay tribunal. Then let the Ritualists act like men-quit the Church in which the lay element predominates over the spiritual, give up the churches, relinquish the pay and the social position of the Establishment, doff the State living, and erect a Free Anglo-Catholic community; and the odious Judicial Committee will cease to take notice of the ritualistic priesthood, though they should raise their arms high, or prostrate their bodies as flat, as an Indian jogee. Or, let them honestly join the Roman Catholic Church at once, and there will be no suspension of spiritual offices, except from an infallible Pope.

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MODE OF BAPTISM.-The American papers report that Dr. Byng, an Episcopal clergyman, on a recent occasion said, "You Baptists don't know how to baptize. You lead people down into the pool, and immerse them face upwards, filling their eyes, ears, and mouth with

they produced a number of books on scientific subjects, which, from the information they contain, and the idiomatic purity of the texts, have so recommended themselves to the fastidious taste of native scholars as to be considered classics. At the colleges, Latin, philosophy, and theology are taught, as well as drawing, painting, Chinese literature, and various trades." The

attainments of the students at the present time are said to be of a lower standard; but we know that half a century ago, Manning, the great Chinese scholar, when endeavouring to penetrate into China, obtained the services of a Chinese student from one of the colleges, with whom, during his residence with Dr. Marshman at Serampore, he conversed only in Latin.

Beacons and Patterns; or, Lessons for Young Men. By the Rev. W. LANDELS, D.D. London : Hodder & Stoughton, 27, Paternoster Row. 1870.

THIS series of addresses to young men has appeared during the last year in the Bible Student, a valuable periodical published by Messrs. Hodder & Stoughton. We are glad that they now make their appearance as a self-contained book, and in such a form as to render them a suitable present for young men. Dr. Landels is very happy in the faculty which he possesses of gaining the attention of intelligent young men, and he invariably rewards it by the practical lessons he imparts, and the earnest style in which they are clothed. The examples which point his warnings and enforce his encouragements are all derived from Scripture. Many of Dr. Landels' descriptions are vividly pictorial; all that he writes commands the respect of the reader. We wish that this book may be largely distributed in Christian families, for no philanthropy can surpass that which aims at bringing young men to become devoted disciples of Christ; and certainly we have no pastor in our

Churches more devoted and untiring in its pursuit than the author of this excellent work.

Power in Weakness; Memorials of the Rev. William Rhodes, of Damerham. By CHARLES STANFORD. Third Edition. London: Hodder & Stoughton.

WE rejoice in the demand for another edition of this memoir, which is not surpassed, for interest, beauty, or spiritual usefulness, by aught in the rich treasury of Christian biography.

Sunday Library. Vol VII. “Alfred

the Great," by THOMAS HUGHES, M.P., Author of "Tom Brown's School Days." Macmillan & Co.

Publishers.

No king ever deserved to be called the Great more than our own Saxon Alfred. By his bravery, his piety, his learning, and his generosity, he steps out beyond the foremost rank in the line of kings.

The volume before us gives a good idea of his life's work and his personal character. If at any time a man may own himself fairly conquered, Alfred might have done so when, his followers all