Christian to identify it with his daily study, that his prayer may unceasingly ascend, and his heart's best affections, and his hand's strongest efforts may be put forth in helping forward the glorious time when Jerusalem shall be established and made a praise in the whole earth.

And now, for the night, I enclose in its covering this beloved memento. Oh, for that morning to arrive when the Lord shall say to his Zion, "Arise; shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising."

C. E.

THE MOURNER'S PRAYER.

Он, Thou enthroned in light above,
Let me not now thine anger move,
Ruler of worlds, oh, in thy love

Subdue my struggling will!

Now may my heart, though doomed to bear
Keen anguish, though unyielding care
Hath her barbed arrows rankling there,
Yet be submissive still.

Even as Thou wert my Saviour when
Derided by malignant men,

Whose sins, a dreadful burden then!
Thyself didst deign to bear!

Thou, who attendant ever nigh,
To heed and aid the suppliant's cry,
Behold my wounds, and oh, apply
The balm of Gilead there !

I, at thy footstool to implore,
Rescue from bondage, Satan's power,
Who waits impatient to devour,
A stedfast suppliant bow.

Blest Spirit, come; thy sword, thy shield, Now to my foes destruction wield,

Banish the victors from the field,

Subdue my conquerors, THOU !

Review of Books.

UNIVERSAL HISTORY ON SCRIPTURAL PRINCIPLES. Chiefly designed for the Young. Vol. II. From the death of Constantine to the death of Charlemagne. A.D. 337—A.D. 814.—Bagsters.

WE are glad to see the continuation of a work, the commencement of which afforded us much satisfaction. The Author never, so far as we can judge, loses sight of the main principle on which she professes to conduct her history. We are not here dazzled with the false glare of human exploits, or disgusted by eulogies on heathen virtues; neither, we think, will the next, trying, portion of the work be such as to wrap around its readers those ecclesiastical fetters that have, alas ! proved in so many recent cases, the surest preparation for leading the bound victims blindfold into the gulph of Romish Apostacy. So perilous are become the de

vices of the enemy, spread abroad by means of the press, that we dare not now recommend a pamphlet or a half-penny book without carefully perusing it; and this must account for a paucity of notices, at the time when our table is most abundantly supplied with volumes of attractive title and exterior.

THE MASS AND RUBRICS OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, translated into English. With Notes and Remarks addressed to Roman Catholics. By the Rev. John Rogerson Cotter, A. M., Rector of Furrishannon: and Author of Questions and Answers on St. Matthew and the other Gospels.-Curry, Dublin: Longman, London.

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WE should feel great pleasure, could we afford it, in presenting a copy of this book to each of the robed clergymen, and all the masses of awe-struck laity, who were of late congregated in Dr. Pusey's New Church at Leeds. We think it would lead many of them not only to pray a good prayer for the sinner that built it,' but also for the many of our poor brethren who have, by him and his confreres, been led to the very perpetration of the blasphemous enormities here set forth; and for themselves also, that their feet may be turned from such perilous paths, and rather guided to where the pure gospel of Christ is proclaimed within the dilapidated walls of a decayed barn, or from the end of a reversed tub under the canopy of God's firmament, than tempted to wander where the "strange woman secretly laid her first snares, and can say "I have decked JANUARY, 1846.

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my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen from Egypt. I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon." Alas! these gorgeous inconsistencies belong not to the dwelling of the chaste and waiting spouse, who is mourning her Lord's absence, and longing for his return. Mr. Cotter really has supplied what he truly terms a great desideratum in controversial literature, by giving us the whole service; we trust that it, with his highly scriptural and judicious remarks, will be much blessed to his own poor countrymen, and to ours also.

"We wont

THE YOUNG PROTESTANT'S HYMN, give up the Bible; the words written and adapted by a Clergyman of the Church of England. Arranged for three voices, with accompaniment, &c. By W. H. Kearns.-Whittemore.

THESE very spirited stanzas first appeared in our Magazine, some years since. They are now adapted to a harmony of Mozart's, and form as animating a trio and chorus as any Protestant parent could wish to hear from the lips of his young family. We hope the musical publication will be as acceptable as we know the lines to have been when first published. It is very handsomely got up, in a neat coloured wrapper: a nice little gift for the juniors of a fire side-circle. Long, long may the fire-sides of dear Old England echo to such strains "We woNT give up the Bible ! "