stand. He must take his pupils by the hand, ever striving by gentle and loving means to lead the young mind up the hill of knowledge.

The teacher has need of patience, great patience, in attempting to instruct children. He must be ready to go over the same ground again and again. The mother of the celebrated John Wesley was once employed in teaching her son in the presence of his father, who grew weary of hearing the lesson repeated so often, "My dear," said he at last, "why do you tell that tiresome boy the same thing twenty times over?" Because nineteen times will not do," she replied. So must the teacher be ready to do; if "nineteen times will not do," he must patiently repeat the lesson 'twenty times." If twenty times" are not sufficient, he must be willing, with a patience that never fails, to retrace his steps "twenty times"

more.

The teacher should be characterized by deep earnestness. He should be a loving enthusiast in his work, feeling that to him is committed the high and noble duty of moulding the destiny of future generations. Yes, it is the teacher who, in a great measure, shall form the characters of the men and women of the next age. Shall they be virtuous and conscientious, acting well and nobly the part assigned to them

"In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of life?"

Or shall they be worthless, inefficient beings, who will leave the world no better for their having lived in it?

This depends humanly speaking, upon the manner in which teachers fulfil the duties which God has given them to perform. What a combination of motives should this thought furnish! How should it stir us up to bend every energy of mind and body so to accomplish our work, that when death comes we may hear the welcome plaudit, "Well done, good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."

"I paint for eternity," said an ancient painter to one who expressed surprise that he spent so much time over one picture. And do not we work "for eternity?" "If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds-if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God, and of our fellowmen-we engrave upon these tablets something which will brighren to all eternity." Let this be the object for which we labour, looking for strength and wisdom from Him who has said, 'If any man lack wisdom let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally." Then, though we may not be privileged to write down ours among

preachers, a guide to those who are still without experience and commencing their career. We have received some score of American works from first to last, on the subject of ministerial work, some of them excellent, more especially the work of Porter and of Puncham, but we do not think there is any quite so comprehensive as the present volume, which embodies both the experience and the reading of a lifetime. We have first a hundred pages of most instructive, interesting and thoroughly practical observation, entitled "Homiletical Paragraphs." We have

here a vast amount of wisdom, apart from everything in the nature of system. To this succeeds a series of ten letters to a young preacher, in which most of the leading points of the subject are taken up, and very ably discussed. These letters cannot fail, if they shall be universally, or even extensively read by young men, by students, and junior pastors, to produce the happiest effects. They are well fitted to correct reigning errors, and to exhibit commanding excellencies. We have next a very copious dissertation on the studies and discipline of the preacher, a most valuable composition, and withal very seasonable.

The Author having expended so much labour on the form and the vehicle, next betakes himself to the matter of preaching, which constitutes a very important portion of the work. None but a man of great powers, and wide experience could have written it. We are further treated to a dissertation on "Expository Preaching," a highly valuable subject, which deserves to be more in favour with the Churches than, we fear, it is, and to be more attended to by preachers and pastors. Nothing is so calculated to enlighten the people and to fill them with the knowledge of Divine things. The great Methodist minister, Dr. Adam Clarke, well observed, that the best definition of teaching he ever met with was contained in the book of Nehemiah:-" And they read distinctly in the book of the law of the Lord, and gave the senses and caused the people to understand the reading." This ought to be the basis of all pulpit instruction. Topical preaching, in its own place, is of unspeakable value. So is the inferential, and so is the observational. Everything is good which developes truth and applies it; but the foundation of all these things must be the written word. Dr. Alexander, having thus cleared his way, once more mounts his watchtower, looking behind him and around him, and the result is an erudite and masterly disquisition on the pulpit in ancient and modern times. Here we have a review of our great preachers, comprising much that is deeply interesting as well as highly instructive.

In conclusion, we have an essay on the eloquence of the French pulpit, which presents a clear and commanding view of the great pulpit orators under Louis XIV., which was the age of pulpit oratory in that country; there has been very little since, and it might almost be said there is none now.

Such is the sum and substance of the volume before us; and we have surely said enough very strongly to commend the work. God's Way of Holiness. By HORATIUS BONAR, D.D. Nisbet and Co.

WE are glad again to meet Dr. Bonar on his

own favourite field, where he never fails to scatter pearls around him. The very first sentence proclaims the spirit and the worth of the work. "The Way of Peace and the Way of Holiness lie side by side; or, rather, they are one." Here is the great governing principle of the book, and indeed of the Holy Scriptures. Without holiness, it is impossible that peace can be maintained. Peter told his countrymen that God "having raised His Son from the dead, had sent Him to bless them by turning every one from his iniquities." Iniquity and bliss cannot be blended. Sin and misery go together, and so do purity and felicity. Dr. Bonar holds by the great truths, "The spirit of peace is the spirit of holiness," "the God of peace is the God of holiness." The work comprises nine chapters, all bearing with singular force and much devout emotion on the one great subject it is the desire of the Author to promote. On the Seventh chapter of the Romans there will be of course, a diversity of opinion; but the subject is dealt with in a manner so wise, so moderate, and so scriptural, that even those who differ cannot be offended. The chapter entitled, "The true Creed and the true Life," is beautiful, while the counsels and warnings which follow it are invaluable.

We may just observe, that the appendix is an erudite and exceedingly useful affair. It brings before the reader a multiplicity of opinions from the wise and the good of former times, all in support of the cardinal principle of the book. A better antidote to a high and dry religion, or to an Antinomian, a mere tongue religion, we should have difficulty in naming.

Ashley Down; or, Living Faith in a Living God. Memorials of the New Orphan Houses on Ashley Down, Bristol, under the direction of George Müller. By W. ELFE TAYLOR. Second Edition. Shaw and Co.

WE are much pleased to find this very admirable volume in a second edition. It is the best digest of the subject anywhere to be found, and its circulation cannot fail very materially to promote the interests of the gigantic Institution to which it refers. We remember, many years ago, reading the very interesting work of Professor Franke concerning the Orphan House at Halle, but there is no comparison between the two volumes, or the institutions to which they respectively refer. The volume before us is a book of facts, and such facts! Within a very limited compass, the whole subject is presented to the reader with a clearness, a fulness, and an impressiveness, which render nothing more to be desired.

We may just observe, that the present somewhat differs from, and is superior to the first edition. It brings down the history of the institution to the present time, giving full particulars of the third Orphan House he has recently opened. It also contains an account of the proposed further enlargement of the establishment by the erection of two more houses, capable of containing 850 additional orphans. At this rate, Mr. Müller is in a fair way to create a little, or rather a large town. How he gets the money, and how he disposes of his orphans, are questions which will excite universal interest, and for answers we refer all and sundry of our curious friends to the work before us.

Heaven Opened. A Selection from the Correspondence of Mrs. Mary Winslow. Edited by her Son, OCTAVIUS WINSLOW, D.D. Shaw and Co.

THOSE who have read the admirable "Life of Mrs. Winslow" by her Son, will be prepared to receive the present volume, which comprises a large supply of the same material by which they were instructed, delighted, and often melted in the memoir. We know not where to find anything to equal it. The Countess of Huntingdon, Lady Maxwell, Lady Erskine, and the excellent Mrs. Graham, with half-a-dozen volumes of missionary female biography all teem with excellence; but there is not one of them that for doctrinal, experimental, and practical worth will gain by a comparison with the volume before us. While a book for all, we most cordially commend it to the ladies of England. It is entitled to a place in every family.

Sermons on Biblical and Theological Subjects. By the Rev. THOMAS ALLIN. Jackson, Walford, and Hodder.

THE title-page of this work is very general, but it is substantially correct. We have here thirteen discourses, or dissertations on such themes as

"The Trinity"-" Redemption”— "Inspiration"—" Miracles"- "The Deity of Christ"-" Philanthropy and Labour of Universal Deity." The volume is full of life and power, well digested, and well written. Mr. Allin is not a man of yesterday, as the preface tells us; he is a distinguished minister of more than half-a-century's standing. It is, therefore, to be presumed that the present work comprises the full harvest of his best thoughts. It is an affecting circumstance that the final revision was not completed by the Author; the work had not advanced far when he was visited with a stroke of paralysis, which entirely prostrated him, rendering him unfit for any literary labours. The work, however,

is well edited, and beautifully printed, and withal a highly respectable performance. We may just add, that it is much enriched by an appendix of very copious and valuable notes.

The Molyneux Family; or, How to do Good: A Tale. By JULIA ADDISON. Marlborough and Co.

THE volume before us is every way beautifully, finely printed, and tastefully got up. The matter is precisely that which is adapted to its object, and the expression is at once pure and elegant. It is a book of life, replete with incident and circumstance, calculated to arrest the attention of young people. It is very much some such book as might have been looked for from the practised and dexterous pen of Peter Parley. The illustrations, although not numerous, are excellent, and they might have been multiplied with advantage. We cannot withhold a suggestion from the authoress touching the mechanical part of the enterprise. For "Contents" we have here twelve chapters, without a single word to indicate the matter of which they are severally composed; simply chapter I., chapter II., and so forth. Let Miss Addison give us more or give us less, as the page stands it is merely thrown away. Twelve chapters indicating nothing are the precise counterpart of nothing. The book will form an elegant present to young persons of either sex.

The Complete Works of Stephen Charnock' B.D. With Introduction by the Rev. JAMES M'COSH, LL.D. Vol. I. Edinburgh: James Nichol. London: Nisbet and Co. We have been for a long time conversant with Charnock in the two stately folios published some generations back. From those we learnt to prize him as a stately, sound, although somewhat arid theologian. But our readers must not forget that he was a contemporary of Locke. Having been born four years previous to the birth of the great philosopher, the noble work on the "Attributes" appeared ten years before the "Essay on Human Understanding." Charnock died at the early age of fifty-nine, but not till he had left the world a legacy which entitles his name to be held in everlasting remembrance.

The present work is introduced by an admirable essay from the pen of Dr. M'Cosh, extending to nearly fifty pages. This very masterly dissertation having set forth the great facts of the theologian's life, entertains us by an admirable descant on "The Puritan Preaching and the Puritan Lecture," in which we have views which will carry with them weight wherever the writer's name happens

to be known. Although brief, the disquisition is sound, able, and practical. To this follows a section entitled, "Philosophical Principles Involved in Puritan Theology." We set great store by this part of the dissertation. It is highly seasonable, and it cannot fail to be useful.

Such is the Essay, and it strikes us, that were the Author to extend it to five times its magnitude, he might confer on the world a very substantial benefaction. The volume commences with "A Treatise on Divine Providence," a valuable dissertation, which is managed with adequate ability and great effect. This occupies considerably upwards of one hundred pages, and the rest of the volume is taken up with the "Existence and Attributes of God," the grand production of the Author's pen.

Select Anecdotes from Various Sources. By J. S. LAURIE. Thomas Murby. We know not precisely what is meant by the selectness of these anecdotes; they are simply a portion of the common boundless store. Many of them are amusing, and not a few have a salutary tendency, but a considerable portion of them are mere bursts of wit and

nonsense.

The Unity, Duality, and Trinity of the Godhead. Trübner and Co.

THE frame of this work is strikingly original, and its object is strikingly irreligious. It is the fruit of great labour, much reading, and not a little skill. It is infidelity of the worst type, dexterously popularised. It may be styled a companion to the Essays and Reviews, to Colenso and Renan. The obvious tendency, and indeed, the leading aim of the work, is to promote infidelity of the most daring character, so fragmentary, so manifold and multifarious are the points it elaborates, and so numerous the citations which it makes from published works, that it would require a volume thrice its own magnitude thoroughly to expose its errors, and fully to annihilate it.

All experience shows that the loudest bluster is compatible with the most craven cowardice. The volume before us presents a striking example. The Author labours in the dark; the light alarms him; he dares not

look his fellow-creatures in the face without the protection of a mask. Not so the Essayist and Reviewers, Colenso and Renan. He is, therefore, unworthy of the sad fellowship of these hapless individuals, who have at least honesty and manhood. The press will do well to ignore the present work till the skulking Author doff his visard.

The Christian Treasury holds on its noble path with undiminished vigour. The articles of the present number are various and excellent, doing great credit to the Editor, Dr. BONAR and his associates.

The Gardener's Weekly Magazine. This splendid serial, it might be supposed, would lack material; but on the contrary, its weekly numbers are crowded with matter of all sorts touching the culture of the earth. It is worth taking in by every man who has got a hundred square yards of ground to cultivate.

The Imperial Bible Dictionary. This magnificent work has now arrived at the word "Joseph." It constitutes part IX., and it is stated that about twenty parts will constitute the whole. Our advice is to all our readers, to take it in; for we feel assured the deed will be one they will never repent. Each part costs only 2s. 6d. and it will be found to contain matter sufficient to form a very considerable volume.

The Methodist New Connexion Magazine, always excellent, is this month particularly so. The matter is exceedingly varied, and every line has a practical bearing on the welfare of man.

The Life and Lessons of our Lord. DR. CUMMING is steadily prosecuting his present enterprise. One might almost say, each part is better than its predecessor. The work, when finished, will be a treasure both as to matter and illustration.

Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher. Parts I-III. Messrs. Heaton and Son are here performing an excellent service; for the trifle of 1s. 6d., we have twelve of the splendid orations of the first pulpit orator of the New World. We may just observe that the paper and the typography are of the best description. The volume, when completed, will be alike rich and beautiful.

BEARING THE SWORD.-"He beareth not the sword in vain," (Rom. xiii. 4), is spoken in agreement with the notions and customs of the Romans at the time when the Apostle wrote. Thus Suetonius says that Vitellius gave up his dagger, which he had taken from his side, to the attending consul; thus surrendering the authority of life and death

over the citizens. So the kings of Great Britain are not only at their inauguration solemnly girt with the sword of state, but this is afterwards carried before them on public occasions, as a sword is likewise before some inferior magistrates among

us.

THERE is a reaper, whose name is death,
And with his sickle keen,

He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between.

"Shall I have nought that is fair?" saith he; "Have nought but the bearded grain; Though the breath of these flowers is sweet

to me,

I will give them all back again."

He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes; He kissed their dropping leaves;

It was for the Lord of Paradise

He bound them in his sheaves.

"My Lord hath need of these flowerets gay," The reaper said, and smiled; "Dear tokens of the earth are they,

Where He was once a child.

They shall all bloom in fields of light,
Transplanted by my care,
And saints, upon their garments white,
These sacred blossoms wear.'

And the mother gave, in tears and pain,
The flowers she most did love;
She knew she would find them all again,
In the fields of light, above.

O, not in cruelty, not in wrath,
The reaper came that day;
'Twas an angel visited the green earth
And took the flowers away.

WHEN IS THE TIME TO DIE? I ASKED the glad and happy child,

Whose hands were filled with flowers, Whose silvery laugh rang free and wild, Among the vine-wreath'd flowers: I crossed her sunny path and cried, "When is the time to die?" "Not yet! not yet!" the child replied, And swiftly bounded by.

I asked a maiden; back she threw
The tresses of her hair;
Grief's traces o'er her cheeks I knew-
Like pearls they glistened there;
A flush passed o'er her lily brow,
I heard her spirit sigh;

"Not now," she cried, "O no, not now, Youth is no time to die!"

I asked a mother, as she pressed
Her first-born in her arms,
As gently on her tender breast

She hushed her babe's alarms;
In quivering tones her accents came-
Her eys were dim with tears;
"My boy his mother's life must claim
For many, many years."

I questioned one in manhood's prime,
Of proud and fearless air;
His brow was furrowed not by time,
Or dimmed by woe or care.
In angry accents he replied,

And flushed with scorn his eye"Talk not to ME of death," he cried, "For only age should die."

I questioned age; for him the tomb
Had long been all prepared;
But death, who withers youth and bloom,
This man of years had spared.
Once more his nature's dying fire
Flashed high, and thus he cried-
"Life-only life is my desire!"

Then gasped, and groaned, and died.

I asked a Christian-" Answer thou,
When is the hour of death?"
A holy calm was on his brow,
And peaceful was his breast;
And sweetly o'er his features stole
A smile, a light divine,
It spake the language of his soul-
"My Master's time is mine!"

BEESTON HILL, LEEDS.-The foundationstone of a new Congregational chapel has been laid here in a plot of ground adjoining the Beeston Hill day and Sunday-school, which has been successfully carried on for some years. The necessity for the erection

of a chapel in this neighbourhood had its rise in the evangelistic efforts of the churches worshipping at East Parade and Queen Street Chapels, Leeds. Sunday-schools were first established, the one in connexion with Queen Street Chapel, being at Hunslet Moor Side, on