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saving efficacy to their own wretched doings, and to a morsel of half-baked dough, while overlooking the most vital doctrines of the gospel; repentance towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. He that worships and falls down before the mouldy fragments of a wafer, repeating prayers of which he knows not the meaning, to them that by nature are no gods, is instructed that he thereby becomes a partaker of eternal life; but of the word itself how little is imparted to him! how little do his blind guides themselves know of the nature or object of saving faith! "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him." From that wrath may the Lord deliver all who yet lie under its power!

We must not omit to exhibit the light in which Protestantism is set forth by the biographer of the "Saint Sacrament de Miracle." The picture of millennial happiness under Romish sway is very graphic, and with it we conclude our Legend.

"Avant que les Luthériens et les Calvinistes eussent propagé le poison de leurs fausses doctrines, nos ancêtres jouissaient de la plus douce paix; le peuple obéissant à la voix de leurs Pasteurs, vivait dans la crainte de Dieu; les offices imposés par notre sainte religion, étaient strictement observés ; le vice n'était pas connu, et l'homme menait une meilleure vie. Les enfans élevés chretiennement, étaient dociles à la voix de leurs Parens; les saintes obligations du mariage étaient en honneur; les familles étaient nombreuses, la concorde et l'amitié présidaient partout; le luxe cause de tant de maux, ne trouvait pas d'asile dans notre pays; le peuple

était laborieux, et fidelle à ses devoirs; les arts et les sciences faissaient des progrés immenses; le commerce fleurissait, et de bonheur des Neérlandais excitait la jalousie de l'Europe entèire. Mais dès que les erreurs des Hérétiques avaient été introduits dans notre pays, la discorde et la rebellion gagnèrent du terrain, et donnèrent naissance aux révolutions, aux guerres, aux devastations, aux destructions des images, et autres malheurs dont le Belges furent accablés."

Let Popery but fix her stake and kindle her pile, the merit is nearly equal in her eyes of casting a Jew or a Protestant into the flame.

C. E.

THE ANGLO-CATHOLIC.

WOULD'ST thou in this our dark and stormy day,
From Catholics a brother's welcome claim?
Let hate of Calvin burn with steady flame;
Each ancient rubric with fond zeal obey;
Cry up church forms, put preaching far away;

Thyself schismatic, those schismatics name

Who doubt thy creed, and heap upon them shame; While altars, fonts, and robes thy faith display. Like Pharaoh make again the church's life, A slavish toil in mortar and in brick ; Murder sweet charity with poison'd knife; Curse all Dissenters; and with Jesuit trick Entangle Protestants in hate and strife: So Rome shall hail thee Anglo-Catholic.

Hon. and Rev. B. Noel.

THE RUSSIAN UKASE.

WITH mingled sorrow and indignation we transcribe from a Frankfort Journal the following announcement. Hopes were entertained that a more merciful, or rather a less unjust and cruelly oppressive line of policy would be adopted by the Czar towards his Jewish subjects; but it seems that the LORD is allowing His people again, as of old, to fall under the extreme of tyrannical severity, in order that his promised interposition on their behalf may be the more marked; and the glory of their ultimate deliverance be ascribed to Him alone. May He hasten the day!

"Notwithstanding the applications made in favour of the Israelite inhabitants of the frontiers of Russia and Poland, the transportation of that unhappy population has been irrevocably decided, as the only means of maintaining the system of exclusion, and the laws which protect it. One hundred thousand Israelites come under that measure. The rich Israelites, it is true, have been authorized to dispose of their property, and to fix their residence wherever they please. This was considered a favour, but it is a mere illusion. The Israelites being compelled to alienate their property, will not be able to sell it to advantage, and, on the other hand, they are only permitted to settle in the governments that formed part of the kingdom of Poland at the period

of the first partition. Now, the Israelite population is so numerous in those governments, that the new comers will find it difficult to earn a livelihood in competition with their co-religionists. As regards the property belonging to Israelites in less affluent circumstances, the Government will take it on an estimation, but will give so small a price for it, that it will be scarcely adequate to defray the expenses of their new establishment. The country, besides, assigned to the Israelites for a residence, is not only almost uninhabited, but is so barren, that the produce of the soil will scarcely pay the expenses of cultivation."

We are not aware that any movement is practicable on the part of English Christians, towards the amelioration of these cruel sufferings inflicted on a helpless people; but a general spirit of watchfulness for occasions to aid their cause, upheld by constant prayer, would tend to the discovery of some means to serve the victims. Above all things, the project started by the American Consul at Jerusalem, of which we will afford a sketch, promises, if extensively supported, to issue in important and permanent national good to Israel, and we greatly desire to see it taken up by those who seek the welfare of Zion.

MARY SPENCER.

A TALE FOR THE TIMES.

CHAPTER XVI.

"Thus, by degrees the truths, that once bore sway,
And all their deep impressions, wear away;

The coin grows smooth, in traffic current pass'd,
Till Cæsar's image is effaced at last."-CowPER.

WHEN Mr. Sidney was gone, Lady Sophia commenced writing to Marcella Norman, but her task was hard. When she began to speak of the bright hopes of the Gospel, she found that she could no longer, with a steady hand,

'Point to that redeeming blood,

And say, Behold the way to God.'

She had listened to the "instruction that causeth to err," and though she had never formally given up the foundation-doctrine of Christianity, justification by faith, yet her views had insensibly become cloudy, and confused.

Copy after copy of her letter she destroyed, ashamed almost to appeal to the Bible, whose voice she had so often suffered to be overpowered in her mind by Marcella's arguments, drawn from the decrees of what she called the Church Catholic. When at length she so far succeeded as to please herself, the letter which she read aloud to Emma and Mary, appeared so flimsy and compromising, that the latter OCTOBER, 1844.

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