The Metropolitan Tabernacle. By G. H. PIKE. London: Passmore and Alabaster, 18, Paternoster Row.

THIS is a very interesting account of the rise and progress of the Church worshipping at the Metropolitan Tabernacle. The book is carefully edited and beautifully printed, but we cannot quite understand the strange conceit of placing at each page-heading a proverb, which no ingenuity in the world can connect with the text.

Things New and Old. An Address delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Bristol Baptist College, 1870. By the Rev. F. BOSWORTH, M.A., Exeter. London: Stock, 62, Paternoster Price Threepence.

Elliot Row.

ALL our ministers, both old and young, will do well to possess and ponder this most excellent address. Its practical suggestions are tempered with a devout spirit, and cannot fail to benefit those who read them. We wish that Mr. Bosworth could be persuaded to publish something more extensive and more permanent than his occasional sermons, which have shown how large a capacity he possesses for usefulness through the press, but have whetted the appetite of his readers for a more copious supply than their author has hitherto furnished.

Bible Palm Trees, or Christian

Life. Illustrated. Third Thousand. London: Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row.

ALTHOUGH we cannot endorse all that the author of this little volume has put forth, there is so much that is precious in it, that we are constrained to wish its multiplication to many

thousands.

NEW YEAR'S GIFTS. New Series: Toy Books. Little Paul's Christmas. The Religious Tract Society. One Shilling; Untearable, Two Shillings.

The Lord's Prayer, with Hymns and Illustrations for Little Children. London. The Religious Tract Society. One Shilling; Untearable, Two Shillings.

HAPPY is the nursery furnished with such wholesome fare and glittering pictures as we find herein!

Animal Life in Europe. London: The Religious Tract Society. Illustrated with coloured plates, by F. SPECHT.

THIS is a very comprehensive and instructive introduction to the study of zoology. The drawings are accurate, and the descriptions are interesting and truthful.

The Child's Companion, 1870. Religious Tract Society.

Is full of fascinations, both in text and pictures.

Panorama Series: Scenes from the Acts of the Apostles: History of David. Religious Tract Society. AN infallible plan for impressing Scripture facts on the memories of the little

Fuller's edition of his father's works, vol. 1, pp. xcix.

That the Bishop of Ripon should have thought it necessary to interfere does not say much for the advance of religious liberty since 1796. Still I am of opinion, with the writer, that such "atrocious crimes" will become increasingly frequent. I know that many of the clergy are longing for this old partition-wall to be demolished. The rector of this parish has more than once said to me, while I was able to work, "I wish I could exchange pulpits with you."

I am, dear sir,

Yours sincerely,

Devonport, December 5, 1870.

MINISTERIAL CHANGES.

The Rev. J. W. Thorne has resigned the pastorate of the Church at Kington.

Mr. Porter, of the Metropolitan Tabernacle College, has accepted the unanimous invitation of the Church at Caxton, Cambridgeshire.

The Rev. W. H. Smith, late of Bourne, in Lincolnshire, has accepted an invitation to become the pastor of the Church at Tenterden, in Kent.

The Rev. Joseph J. Harrald, of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon's College, has accepted the invitation of the Church at High-street, Shoreham, Sussex.

The Rev. J. G. Dovey, late of Charlotte Chapel, Rose-street, Edinburgh, has accepted a call presented to him by the congregation worshipping in the Baptist Church, Anstruther.

SENEX.

The Rev. H. Watts, of Stanningley, has resigned his office as pastor of the Church there, and has accepted the unanimous invitation to the pastorate of the Baptist Church at Barnsley.

RECENT DEATH.

On the 19th of October, at his house in New Brentford, in the 75th year of his age, Mr. Jacob Haynes. The deceased, had for many years been connected with the Baptist denomination, and was a liberal supporter of our several societies. He was much respected by all who knew him for his upright conduct and Christian consistency. Most of the tradespeople in Brentford, to show their respect for him, closed their shops on the day of the funeral. "His end was peace." The deceased, with his widow, had for the past two years been united with the Church meeting in Trinity Chapel, Borough.

"In the midst of this state of things new and heavy responsibilities have been thrown upon us by the disestablishment and disendowment of the Episcopal Church, an event brought about largely by the long-continued and persistent efforts of members of our own denomination. This freedom of religion from the trammels of the State, has removed obstacles which were previously in the way whenever we attempted to evangelise certain. outlying portions of the colony, some of which, as might have been expected, are in a state of great religious destitution. To these districts we have

now the freest possible access, and are most earnestly solicited to occupy them, not only by the people themselves, but in some instances by those who were indifferent to or in active opposition against us. In the eastern part of the island, the seat of the late lamentable outbreak, the labours of our missionaries, Teall and Service, have been most successful. In the short space of six years, nine new stations have been formed in the parishes of Portland and St. Thomasin-the-East-six of them at or in the neighbourhood of Morant Bay, since the riot and massacre.

"At these stations, not less than 1,700 persons are gathered together Sabbath after Sabbath to listen to the Word of God, whilst nearly 600 have been gathered into Church-fellowship; and five or six more stations could be commenced at once with the most promising hopes of success, had we men to send to break up the ground.

"In St. Elizabeth, and at the extreme western point of the island, old stations nearly abandoned have been reoccupied by our native brethren, Smith and Brown, under the most pleasing auspices, and God everywhere seems to be multiplying our opportunities for usefulness. We are, how

ever, embarrassed and disheartened from the want both of money and of men. With a membership of nearly 23,000; inquirers, 2,500; and congregations amounting to not less than 50,000—in a country where the people are widely scattered, and where the roads and means of travelling are such as English people cannot understandthere are only seventeen European, and twenty native pastors. Of the Europeans, one is more than threescore and ten, four others are nearly that age, whilst all the others, with three exceptions, have been labouring in the island nearly or quite thirty

years.

"The only source to which we can look for a supply of pastors here is the Calabar College. To that institution we are already largely indebted; indeed, it is difficult to know what we should have done but for the supply of useful men with which it has favoured the Mission, nor are we without hope

that in the future its help will be greater and more efficient than in the past; still we feel it will be in vain to expect from it the help we need at the present time.

"We have urged our people to do their utmost, and while we believe that many of them might do more, our