service. Again, immediately after Mr. Hunt's second remonstrance, the very day after the banns were "out," the marriage was attempted to be smuggled through; and had it not been for the extraordinary energy of Mr. Hunt, Mr. Cotton, (the clergyman passing through,) and Mr. Sim, the surgeon of the mission, the girl would have that day been irrevocably united to this notorious man, without hesitation or one word of inquiry.1 Again, when the Bishop's Scripture Reader informed his Lordship of the girl's avowal of aversion to the marriage "she was removed from his house (where she had been living for some days,) by the dragoman of the Church Missionary establishment at Jerusalem."2 Again Hanna Hadoub, who had previously been admitted, excommunicated, and readmitted, having been again formally interdicted from attending the Protestant Communion on account of his immoralities, and that by the responsible superintendent (under Dr. Gobat) of the mission,+ this " excommunication was not removed till the second day of the proclamation of the banns."5 Again the girl's brother states"Michael Sueder having made it known that his sister Sophia was averse to marrying Hanna Hadoub, Dr. Sandreczki's dragoman, Yacoob (the Church Missionary Secretary's dragoman,) had been closeted with his sister for three hours telling her all manner of things to go on with the marriage, mentioning Hanna Hadoub's riches, &c., and also that in consequence of her betrothal, she would never, during Hanna Hadoub's lifetime, be free to marry any one else." Again the brother of Hanna Hadoub's first wife, swore that this dragoman to the Mission had come with the fellow Hanna, and threatened him with violence for having given information of the crimes and punishment of the latter.7 Again, the Scripture Reader himself who had ventured to apprise the Bishop of the girl's aversion, was "threatened with the loss of his situation by the secretary and superintendent, and his dragoman, on account of the evidence that he had given in the matter."'s But all this trickery and cajolery, and corrupt threatening having failed, we find an episcopal screw applied, so clumsy and ill-disguised, that nothing but the desperation of defeat could have suggested so miserable an expedient. A document is got up by the Mission itself, in the missionary dragoman's own handwriting, and presented by the Bishop, "protesting against European protestants examining into the character and conduct of the members of the Arab congregation, and petitioning that they might be permitted to separate from the congregation of Christ Church, and have a Church and Clergyman of their own!! but still in connection with the Anglican Church."9 This ridiculous ruse having also failed, and Mr. Hunt being unterrified by the responsibility suggested, the Bishop seems to have lost all patience, and resorts to a coup d'état. A meeting had been convened by him for the 1st of June, to "hear the evidence read," but to make "no final decision" until "the impartial and GoDfearing Mr. Bowen were present." At the meeting the Bishop desired Mr. Hunt to furnish him with a copy of all the evidence, which being extremely voluminous, was being sent accordingly, by instalments,-when suddenly, without waiting for "the impartial and GOD-fearing Mr. Bowen," or for the copy of the whole of the evidence, (and both were to have been awaited before the final decision,)—without explanation or even intimation to Mr. Hunt or any of the remonstrants,-without further examination of the brother and guardian of the girl, he writes a note to Mr. Nicolayson (head of the Mission of the Jews, and Dean of the English Church there, and opposed to him in all the above transactions,) informing him that the dragoman of the Mission's Secretary, and of the Mission itself, "has taken the parties to be married elsewhere! viz., at Nazareth."2 "I have authorized Mr. Klein, who himself knows the parties well, to celebrate the marriage, which I hope and pray that the LORD will bless!” "Hope and pray that the LORD will bless" a union between the prostitutor of a mother, two sisters, and two previous wives, for money, an attempted violator (in conspiracy with the mother) of the miserable child herself, a girl of fourteen years of age! But the prey is too far for rescue. Now Nazareth was four days' journey off.3 The Bishop shortly writes, with ill-dissembled pleasure at his feat, that the marriage is accomplished, and in the teeth of evidence, oral, documentary, sworn, and irresistible, strives to justify his course by a letter, in which it is hard to say whether cant, or equivocation, or insolence preponderate. There is the candid admission, after the most approved snivelling style, that that brutal pet of his "cannot yet be said to be a light in the LORD."4 "But I believe he is a smoking flax." "He is one of the little ones whom we must not despise."4 This, for the unparalleled scoundrel: while for the noble and intrepid stranger who stepped in between the shuddering girl of fourteen and her panting destroyer, and did cow his co-conspirators to shame and drive them to artifice to compass their disgusting end; nothing but sarcastic insinuation, accusation of slander, and exhortation to repentance. And now for the catastrophe. One year had not passed since this marriage when this "smoking flax," this "little one of CHRIST" was convicted of a "daring burglary," committed by a gang of four, "armed and disguised" ruffians of whom he turned out to be head. "He goes to the hulks for life."5 And the wretched victim of all this wanton and complicated 1 P. 37. 2 P. 37. 3 It is mentioned by Mr. Hunt that they actually passed through Nablous, where Mr. Bowen resided; from whence he infers that Mr. Bowen had refused to have anything to do with the matter. 4 P. 44. 5 P. 59. cruelty? "Before this," that is, within the early months of her marriage, "his wife was in such terror of her life from his conduct towards her to mould her to his wicked purposes, that Issa (her brother,) asked me to try and get a divorce for her, as she was afraid of being poisoned." Well then might the writer add, "Alas! poor girl! what has the Bishop not to answer for !"2 Worse than widow now, she wandered to the Bishop's door; that Bishop who had refused to rescue her, had baffled efforts to deliver her, had with a pertinacity that never swerved, resolved to throw the victim to the beast of prey; and with her, is that mother to whom he lent himself to accomplish her hideous purpose. Complicity in the cause of ruin gave the mother right to plead; endurance in the consequences of his work gave the daughter right to ask. But the Bishop is an unbending spirit; resolute to ruin then, he is resolute not to aid now; deaf to intreaty for her virtue, he is deaf to intreaty for her wants; pitiless to befriend the maiden in the peril of her soul, he is pitiless to relieve the wife, of his making, in the breaking of her heart and necessities of her body. Cast upon the world, a wife, yet husbandless, homeless, and desolate, -to the cause of all her woe and want she went; and these words speak her future hope from him, "She and her mother-even as beggars driven away from the Bishop's door."3 Stupid girl; she lacked one indispensable recommendation; she had not prostituted herself. "The girl bore her husband's cruelty rather than lend herself to his wicked design "no thanks to Bishop Gobat. No alms for her. It should be added that Mr. Graham has now been dismissed from the office of Secretary, by the London Jews Society, and that Lord Shaftesbury expresses himself prepared to stand by Bishop Gobat. Dr. McCaul alone among those who are usually associated with this party appears to have spoken out. REVIEWS AND NOTICES. Catholic Antidotes. By the Rev. W. E. HEYGATE, M.A. London: Masters. THIS volume belongs to a class of theological literature, which has been rather out of fashion of late. That is, it cannot rightly be called controversial; although it touches on several doctrines which have been severely controverted. The writer's object has been rather to direct attention to the only safe method by which all theological controversies may be set at rest; and there is a calmness and composure about his way of stating it, which is well calculated to inspire confidence in him. The subjects on which he discourses, are: The Inspiration of the Scriptures; Original sin, in relation both to Baptism 1 P. 59. 2 P. 59. 3 P. 15. 4 P. 15. and to the dogma of the Immaculate Conception; the Eucharist, in connection with the Incarnation and the Atonement; the Penal due of sin; and Predestination. And on all he takes, as his clue, Scripture as interpreted by the undivided Church, which he asserts anew to be an intelligible and available test. "Our position (he says) is this, and it is modest and charitable; that a true resort to antiquity would reform the whole Church, and that the results of such a course would be, by GoD's blessing, not a Roman, nor Greek, nor English, but a Catholic Church, or rather the Catholic Church, pure, and one, and irresistible, as of old, in conquering error, and reducing the Kingdoms of the world into that of GOD and His CHRIST.”—P. xxvi. We will give one example, (taken from the last chapter,) because it handles well a point of some importance at the present moment—the authority due to S. Augustine : 66 Certainly, predestinarians must never appeal to S. Augustine and his followers, so long as they neglect to preach the judgment, and the penal consequence of evil actions, and the place which works of mercy hold in the pardon of the sinner, and in the eternal recompense of the just. "But there are other considerations connected with the line taken in these pages, which require attention. 66 According to the Catholic principle, no doctrine which was not held universally from the beginning is essential; no doctrine contradicted by eminent and trusted doctors, who would have been censured, had they erred, is admissible. : "Calvinism certainly is excluded by the last rule, and even that which is considered the Augustinian teaching is shown to be non-obligatory by the first for the statements of S. Augustine go beyond those of his predecessors. Moreover, the Eastern Church has been uniformly free from such speculations, and has taught what can barely be reconciled with them. The four first centuries, and the East, cannot be adduced in support of S. Augustine's later views on this subject, formed as they were, under the provocation of Pelagianism, and of questions mooted upon his replies to it; and they plainly oppose the opinions of those who exceed him."-P. 180. We feel that this is a very inadequate notice of a valuable work which has cost much labour to the author; but it is scarcely possible to review a book of essays in any satisfactory way. Hymns Descriptive and Devotional, for the Use of Schools. By the Author of "Hymns for Little Children." London: Masters. To say that these Hymns are worthy of their predecessors, from the same well-known hand, would be high praise; but we can go even further, and say that we have seen none which appeared to us more full of touching tenderness and grace, or more likely to win little children to love that religion which is too often made to them so gloomy and repulsive; we have no writer who at all equals this lady in the difficult art of writing sacred poems for children. We subjoin a specimen of the present little collection: "EVENING HYMN. "The crimson of the sunset sky, The last gold lines of day, Along the mountain's rosy verge O for the pearly gates of Heaven, O for the Sun of Righteousness "The lark that soar'd so high at dawn The flowers so fragrant all day long O for the songs that never cease "O'er the dull ocean broods the night, Save where a line of broken foam O for the land that needs no light, "The highest hopes we cherish here, We are glad to announce another addition to the scanty stock or really good Tracts, i.e. tracts which do not in some form or other contain erroneous doctrine. It derives its title from the subject on which it treats, viz., Justification (Masters); but, besides this, it furnishes the clue to the true interpretation of the Epistle to the Romans. And when the student in theology has mastered that he has made some real progress in his science. Under the title of Open Churches and the Offertory, (Fowler and Sons, Manchester,) the Committee of the S. Alban's District, Strangeways, have published an interesting report of their effort for building a church in a very poor district of Manchester, to be not only wholly free of pews, but no sitting in which is to be appropriated. The earnest co-operation of the Dean of Manchester is evidenced by his hearty speech at the anniversary of the commencement of this work. This district, with its cheap and temporary but quiet ecclesiastical- little chapel, is one of those cheering signs of that zeal which is dotting the surface of our great towns with mission-stations, and which is striking far below the surface the roots of that tree which if now the smallest of all trees, and because to man's eye it seems the smallest of all trees, is throwing out its boughs, and attracting those who are weary of the strife and unbelief of the world, under the shelter of its lordly branches. A pamphlet of Dr. MAITLAND's, which though unpublished, has been freely circulated, will we trust waken the delegates of the press |