who are not overcoming the world, but manifestly | their eyes it "hath no form nor comeliness, and overcome by the world, that they have not so when they see it, there is no beauty that they believed, but are in heart rejecting the Lord's should desire it." At the same time, the greater Anointed?

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number are content that it should remain where
it is, in quiet possession of the place and the name
it has so long enjoyed. They seek not to remove
it out of the way; others may build on it if they
choose, but they have discovered in it no attrac-
tion, and build not on it for themselves. And,
moreover, the stone is hard, and difficult to hew,
and such as cannot be shaped and altered at plea-
sure; and more than all, it is by no
of a piece with the workmanship they have al-
ready finished. Their stones and this will not
fit into each other, nor in any way agree together.
They are of different appearance, of different sub-
stance, of different form and workmanship. Theirs
are old and dead; this is new and living. Theirs
are of the earth, earthy; this of heaven, hea-
venly. Theirs are vile and common; this, chosen
and precious. Theirs are wrought according to
the device of man; this after the mind of God,
for "I have engraved the graving thereof, saith
the Lord of hosts." The difference, in a word,
is so great, or rather the opposition and contra-
riety are so complete, that if this single stone be
set up,
all must be thrown to the ground to make
room for it, and the whole structure reared anew,
having this for all its basis and all its beauty,—a
sacrifice to which few of the builders are prepared
to submit.

Receiving, then, as true, the painful statement that Christ not only was of old, but is still, generally rejected by the builders, let us take a short survey of the work as it is now proceeding. And here (1.) the first circumstance which attracts our observation is, that a vast multitude, of different ages, and stations, and sexes, and characters, and views, are employing themselves about the heavenly house. Many of these are working in so slow and slovenly a style, that it is hard to make out what they have done, or are designing to do; and they may often be seen standing with their back toward the work. Still they wear on their persons the garb, and carry in their hands the implements of workmen; and exceedingly offended would they he were we to suggest that it is visionary in them to look for any share in the temple, or to intrude upon them with the question, Why stand ye here all the day idle? Others, again, though by no means so many, are abundantly busy; the temple seems to be ever before them; their hands are constantly engaged, and if they have built nothing, they have, however, some show and semblance of building. Others, yet again, are neither very active nor very idle, but are proceeding with moderate and regular, and, as they judge, safe and sufficient industry. But in the midst of this diversity there is one feature common to all; not indeed, thanks be to God, to all the individuals of every class, but common to a portion of all these classes: it is characteristic of the idle, without exception, of many amongst the moderately diligent, and of not a few out of the actively laborious, there is one stone which they are overlooking. That stone is not removed from them to any inaccessible distance, but is near them, before them, close beside them; for the Scripture saith that "no man need ascend into heaven to bring it down from above, or descend into the deep to bring it up from beneath, for it is nigh." And as its distance is not great, so its access is not difficult; for it lies alone and apart, quite separate from all the stones of the field, nor is there any crowd around it, most men moving in other directions. But it has never caught their eye. How few have seen it! is the common complaint of its admirers: "To whom has the arin of the Lord been revealed ?" They have stones too many of their own to build with and to polish,-good works, thoughts, devices, dispo- (2.) This is not the only sight that presents itsitions, resolutions, repentance, prayers, and with self to our regard, for "the stone which the these they are so occupied, that they can find no builders are rejecting, the same is become the leisure to glance at this other stone; nay, they head of the corner." Despised and overlooked by are so encircled in the midst of them, that they men, it is raised by God to be the ornament, and will not believe that there is any other," Who crown, and capital, of all the building. Not, howhath believed our report?" They say we see," ever, of that edifice which such artificers are rearwe have seen all that is to be seen, "and there-ing; these labourers are dead, their works are fore their sin remaineth." Or if any one call dead, their temple dead; for Christ, who is "the their attention toward it, they may look for a life," is not with them, and there is therefore no little, but soon cease, and turn away, because in life among them. But there is another building,

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Christ Jesus is offered freely to men an all-sufficient Redeemer, but being freely offered he must be fully received; he will be no partial Saviour, he will not consent to divide the work with any, nor agree that he should be exalted, while something of man's is elevated along with him, or near to him. He will bear the entire burden of the sinner's guilt, and receive the undivided honour of the sinner's salvation; or else he will take no "part nor lot in the matter." If Christ is in any way admitted, he must be in all, and through all, and over all, and instead of all, the first and the last, the foundation, and the head of the corner. His work is perfect; there is in it no lack, and no excess; we need it all, and we need no more, for "I," saith he, "have finished the work." Now, many are willing that Christ should be something, but few will consent that Christ should be everything; and on this account, because there is so much done by him, and so little left for us to do, so much honour given to him, and so little to us; therefore he is rejected by men. But,

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and another band of builders,-steady, sedulous, | can stumble against him, but men may fall severe, self-denying, self-renouncing workmen. him in his present position, and there is imminent Of them all, not one is permanently and com- danger of their so falling. For what is the state of pletely idle; many are moderately diligent,-yes, this world? It is darkness," the light shineth too moderate, by far, in their diligence; and not in darkness." The danger attending this state is a few are "in labours more abundant" than the obvious, "for he that walketh in darkness knowbusiest of their self-deceiving brethren; their pe- eth not whither he goeth ;" and "if a man walk culiar feature, however, and that which distin- in the night he stumbleth, because there is no guishes them from all the others, is not their zeal, light in him." So prevalent is this darkness, and nor their labour, nor their regularity, how good so imminent the consequent hazard, that Christ is soever these things may be,-and very good they often spoken of as if he were set for the express are, but it is this, that the stone which is dis- purpose of causing men to stumble; "Behold, I allowed of men is precious in their eyes. That lay in Zion a stumbling-stone and rock of offence;" which is despised by others, is the very founda- and he himself says, Blessed is he who shall not tion on which these have begun, and are continu- be offended in me," (that is, who shall not stumble ing, to build. Here, it may be after many against me,)—as if this were a privileged and rare mistakes and mishaps, they fixed the first stone distinction. Nay, more, not only is he represented of their fabric; and having done so, they ascer- as a stone of stumbling, but as a gin and snare,tained at once that Christ Jesus is a living foun- "He shall be for a gin and for a snare to the indation, and that, having life in himself, he com- habitants of Jerusalem, and many shall stumble municates life to all who rest on him alone: and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be and as they have found him a sure rock on which taken." to build, so also they are sure that he is the crown and glory of all that shall ever be built; for in him they perceive a vivid and glorious, yet exquisitely delicate beauty, and out of him they can find neither beauty, nor symmetry, nor stability. While, therefore, they are incessantly diligent, their motto is not, Let every man strive bow much he can build,-but rather, "Let every man take heed how he builds." To the wonder of the world, who cannot imagine what is rivetting them to one spot, they are ever seen standing fast by this one stone, gazing on it with intense inquiry and admiration. Its firmness, its lustre, its purity, its proportions, and its inimitable workmanship, they never weary of examining; and every fresh addition that they make to their work, they bring immediately to compare with this matchless model. And thus is the goodly edifice arising by the hands of many labourers, yet of one piece and one appearance; and "all the building, fitly framed together, groweth up unto an holy temple in the Lord; Jesus Christ himself being chief corner stone." But we observe,

II. That of Him who is thus disregarded by men, the slightest contempt is dangerous and hurtful, but a final rejection and provocation are eternally ruinous,-"Whosoever shall fall on that stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall it will grind him to powder." (1.) The first clause, the falling on the stone, appears to refer to Christ as he is now laid for the foundation; and the second, the falling of the stone, to Christ as he is hereafter to be exalted head of the corner. true, that as Christ is now the foundation, so he will continue such through all eternity; and again, that as he is hereafter to be head of the corner, so also he is such at this present hour; but since the fulness of his glory will not be disclosed till the final judgment, that is emphatically the season when he shall become head-stone; and until that time he is placed as the foundation in Zion. Now, when once he is crown of all the temple, none

From the extreme moral blindness of men, this result might be apprehended, even were Christ but occasionally brought before them; and how much more, when all things are full of Christ! The works of creation are teeming with his glory; for "all things were made by him, and without him was not any thing made that was made." Not less full of his wisdom and goodness are the dispensations of Providence; for "the govern ment is on his shoulder," and "he upholdeth all things by the word of his power." But more than either is the inspired Word replete with the riches of his glory and grace; for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy," and to bear witness of him, is the design and end of all Scripture. "All the promises lead to him, and centre in him; all the commandments refer to him; all the threats drive to him; all the ceremonies typify him; all the sacraments signify him; all the ordinances magnify him." His name is precious ointment poured upon the Sacred Volume, and every page breathes its fragrance. Now, as often as he is plainly present, either in his works or in his Word, and we carelessly overlook him, we are offended in him,—we stumble against him, and are snared and bruised. There thus arises, my dear friends, even a peculiar danger to the Christian; for more than others are you brought into contact with Christ. You are children, indeed, of light, and the light preserves you from harm, but whensoever the love of your heart waxes cold, the light of your eye will wax dim, and, not discerning your Redeemer, overlooking him, and setting some thing of your own in his stead, you will be taken in the snare that is hid beneath your feet,-and not without much struggling and suffering will you extricate yourself again. See, then, that your be be always single, that so your whole body may full of light; look straight forward to him who saith, "I am the Light;" turn neither to right nor to left, but, as children of the day, walk in the light; bringing your deeds to the light, and

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examine narrowly the ground on which you tread; for there are ways without number, and many of them by you unsuspected, in which you may cause the followers of the Lamb to stumble; by argument and allurement encouraging them to

making it manifest that they are wrought in God. | Above all, be lowly and broken in heart, and then you shall not fall and be broken. The lowly cannot fall, for they are on the earth already; the prostrate cannot stumble; the weak and child-like will not dash themselves against the rock of of-serve Satan, by harshness and mockery discouragfence.

(2.) But let it not be said, that if even to the believer there is such hazard, it is not good to be a Christian, for if there is possible danger to the believer, there is to the unbeliever certain ruin, because he does not merely fall upon the stone and is broken, but the stone falls upon him and grinds him to powder-utterly and eternally destroys him. He on whom the stone will fall is, we conceive, the man who continues in his unbelief, not only while it is laid for the foundation, but until it is raised to the summit, that is, till the day of final judgment, or the day of death, which seals for the judgment. And if the believer is beset by his own peculiar temptations, the unbeliever is not without his likewise. For not only does he run the hazard, or rather undergo the certainty of rejecting Christ in his works, and in his Word, but he incurs the special danger besides of rejecting him in his followers. He is a ready instrument in the hand of Satan for causing the disciples of Jesus to be offended in their Lord, and then heavy is the curse that falls upon his head. "Woe unto the world because of offences; for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh." Offences or causes of offence must occur, for the double purpose of proving the faith and constancy of the saints, and manifesting the patience of God toward such of them as fall. But while such occasions must therefore be offered, woe to him who offers them. "It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea, than that he❘ should offend one of these little ones," that is, cause one of them to offend, or to be offended in their Lord. And why were it better, but because a heavier doom awaits him. The being cast into the sea is expressive of punishment very severe, but the being ground into powder, of punishment still severer, and therefore the former of the two is to be preferred. The men of this world often entice Christians from the path of duty. By reason they attempt to draw, or by ridicule to drive, them from what they term childish scruples of conscience; if they succeed they rejoice in the ill-gotten victory, and triumph even the more on account of the remorse which may afterwards arise in the mind of the transgressing disciple. But bitter to them will be the fruit of that victory. The little one hath stumbled indeed against the rock of offence, and been broken, yet he shall be healed and will rise again, but for him through whom the offence came it were better far to have been cast into the depths of the sea, for while the other hath fallen on the stone, on him the stone will fall and grind him to powder. Beware, therefore, ye men of this world, look well and warily to your goings, ponder the path of your feet, and

ing them from serving Christ, or even by a cold want of kindness, which their Lord will charge against you as a condemning crime, "for inasmuch as ye did it not to the least of these my brethren, ye did it not unto me."

This, unbeliever, is one of the many dangers with which you are at present encompassed-an evil into which you may have fallen already, and all other evils are gathering rapidly around you against the day of your final doom. But it is not consistent with the plans of the Eternal that your condition should now be fully known and felt by you, for the temple is still being built and far from finished. This world is the outer field in which the stones are hewn and the work prepared, and various, and curious, and wonderfully wise, are the means by which the great Artificer is making ready his chosen ones. The dead stone he is' quickening into life by the resistless energy of his Holy Spirit, and the living stone, which is still rough and unformed, he is by the same Spirit as by the gentle and continual dropping of living water polishing into shape and seemliness. And you yourselves, how grudgingly soever, are in his hand a sharp cutting instrument, with which he is carving and adorning yet never marring the lively stones that are in the midst of you. Nor will there be any pause or cessation of the work till the whole materials have been beautified with every rare and costly device, and the sons and daughters of Zion have all become as cornerstones polished after the similitude of a palace." And when every stone is finished and fitted to fill the place allotted to it from everlasting in the design of the great Contriver, then will the eternal temple be reared. No sound of hammer will now be heard, for every piece has been prepared with the most delicate precision, the mightiest column not too massive, and the minutest fragment not too mean, but each part materially contributing to the strength and symmetry of the whole. And thus in due season will the majestic mansion issue forth as from the womb of the morning, in unbroken order and unblemished beauty, "growing up an holy temple;" while all heaven will look on hushed with wonder and delight, and all hell stand aghast, struck dumb with dismay, and you will shrink back in bitter surprise to see some despised poor one of your neighbours, established as a pillar in the house of God, and yourself cast out as useless. But another and a greater sight will break upon the view; the royal crown and diadem, the grace, and glory, and winning loveliness, of all the fabric will be raised on high, and Jesus Christ himself be exalted as head of the corner. Every other object in the universe will then be forgotten, and the gaze of every creature far or near be fixed intently on him alone, "for every eye shall see him." And

Saviour of sinners. And different must your heart be from the heart of all other men besides if you are not filled with wonder. Yet yours will not be the wild wonder of alarm but the soft wonder of joy, the sweet and quiet marvelling of that peace which passeth understanding. And des piser though you have hitherto been, you shall not wonder and suddenly perish, but you shall wonder and live for ever; for God himself will say unto

you will arise and stand a living monument "to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made you accepted in the Beloved."

THE YOUNG CHRISTIAN ON HER DEATH-BED. [The following lines were written on hearing of the death of an sumption at the age of sevent en. Her tender filial affections, Fer

amiable and accomplished young lady, who fell a martyr to con sweet and endearing dispositions; her soft and delicate regard to

friends; her meek resignation, and entire devotedness to the wi and the service of her God and her Saviour, raised for her, in the hearts of those who now deeply mourn her loss, a monument whose inscription shall only be obliterated when the fingers of death sweep rudelv over the heart, and the tablet of feeling and memory i crumbled into dust.]

"From the tomb

She, like the Phoenix, shall arise
To wear a heavenly robe of bloom,
To dwell in bowers above the skies,
And sing the holy martyrs' hymn
'Mong ranks of glorious cherubin."

now has come the hour of your anguish. For one short moment you may stand bewildered and in suspense, but you will quickly be aroused from your reverie by a voice of thunder in your ears, Behold ye despisers, examine this Stone which you contemned as unfit to build with, and would not stoop to work upon, and you will recognise it for the very same as it ever was, but how different from what you conceived it to be. Behold, therefore, ye despisers, and wonder, be amazed exceed-you-Live; and, being quickened by his power, ingly, be mad with the cup of astonishment. In your agony you will then call upon the rocks to cover you, if so be you might shut your eyes from the dreaded sight; you will cry to the hills to bow down upon you, if thus you might be sheltered from the wrath of the Lamb, for mountains of brass and rocks of iron would seem but a light and gentle covering when compared with the crushing fall of that once despised Stone. And then may you utter the prayer: Oh, that some one would hang a millstone about my neck and drown me in the depths of the sea, for that were better. But you will pray in vain. You are more insensible than the mountains now, for God toucheth the mountains and they smoke, they straightway acknowledge the hand that made them; but often with tenderest love has he touched your soul and no incense of gratitude has ever arisen; you have never returned a reverent and loving homage. Your hearts are harder than the rocks, for he uttereth his voice and they tremble, but you sit undaunted and unmoved beneath the rolling thunder of his loudest threatenings. And then in righteous retribution will the earth be deaf to your most plaintive supplications, and the only answer you shall receive will be the pitiable echoing of your own remorseful voice, ringing round from rock to rock, and from hill to hill, and mingling with the wailings of myriads of wretched ones. Unheard, unhidden, unsheltered, unclothed, you will stand on the open plain in miserable nakedness of soul and body; unashamed now, but shivering then with shame,-deaf now, but unable to stop your ears then, you will be compelled to hear out the conclusion of your sentence: "Behold ye despisers, and wonder, and perish." Quaking at the closing word, but forced by resistless command, you will raise your eye upward and look; filled with fresh terror at the sight of Him whom you pierced, and trembling with unutterable agony, you may with bitter tears be imploring one moment more-one moment more of respite, but rapid as the bolt of heaven, and heavy as the curse of hell, will that head-stone fall down from its height of awful glory, and, lighting on your devoted head, it will grind you into powder; "it is the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of his wrath is come."

Will no unbeliever be entreated to listen now, for now you might bear another sound: Behold ye despisers, and wonder, and live. Look at Jesus whom you have been disregarding; fix steadily the eye of faith till you behold him in his spiritual glory and excellence, and recognise him as the

DEATH is not dreadful, mother; and I feel
My spirits so composed, that I could take,
Even now, my last farewell, nor shed one tear
Save such as drop for those I leave behind.
Oh! sure the soul whose trust has been in God
A heaven of joy possesses in itself,
When up he conjures, as in me even now,
Which the grim foe, in all his terrors clad,
The forms of parents, brother, sisters, friends,
With eyes bedimm'd and cheek bedew'd with tears,
And points with withered hand, to make my soul
Shrink with reluctance from his iron grasp,
His power is on me now, but his fell sting
Has not the powers to kill or chase away.
Is of its force disarmed, for Christ has died,
And my soul lives!

The hour of triumph comes;
The earth, though clad in every blooming joy,
And rich in friends, and true, as I possess,
Could not allure me from my Father's house
One short, short hour to stay. The conflict's o'er,
I see them beckon to allure me home!
I see their snow-white plumes in radiant blaze
Of light celestial, beaming from the face
Of God's Eternal Son; the ransom'd stand
With palms triumphal, waving round the throne;
In sign of reverence deep they lowly bend.
Hark! sounds not earthly strike upon my ear!
It is the song of those that walk in light,
The martyrs' song to the once bleeding Lamb!
Oh! but those strains are sweet! my soul could fly
And join that chorus in the climes of bliss:
Hush! hark again! the strain is sweeter still!

"Come, sister spirit, come away
And leave thy tenement of clay;
Come, dwell in bliss, for ever dwell
In bliss even martyrs cannot tell,”—
Where the cheek is ne'er wet with the mourner's tear
Where love reigns triumphant and banish'd is fear;
And happiness is quaffed from the pure chrystal streams;
Where the day-star of gladness and glory e'er beams,
Where the loud ballelujahs of the ransomed and blest
Rise ceaseless to Jesus who gave their spirits rest."

O yes! I come, one short, short struggle o'er
And bliss is gained, and Jesus all my own!
Yet still my flesh is weak, I feel the cords
That bind me to this world and to my friends,
My heavenly Father's gifts, give pain in breaking.
But why these tears, dear mother, wipe them off,
Thy daughter's sorrows now are at an end,
And sin and suffering now give up their reign;
My soul is happy, mother, be not grieved,
A few short years, or only some few months,

And friend with friend, and soul with soul shall meet,
sweet communion in the realms above,
And dwell in glory with the God of love.
Greenock.

CHRISTIAN TREASURY.

A. T.

lightly to be spoken, and bade that this petition should go up, "Hallowed be thy name."-LLOYD.

Christ the guide of his people.-The gold and the silver are the Lord's, and where they are consecrated to his service, and used for the purpose of building up that temple which omnipotence has been rearing ever since time began its course, they possess a real and not a fictitious value. How delightful to think that the King of the temple sits upon his throne, and is now mustering his hosts to battle. Victory is certain. The Lord alone will be exalted in that day, and spoils of earthly glory will be laid at his feet, the temple will appear in celestial beauty, and the voice of its King will be heard in it. It is the prerogative of God alone to build this temple out of the ruins of the fall, but we are permitted to pray, Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O arm The Duties which private Christians are bound to of the Lord, awake as in the ancient days, the genera erform on the Sabbath. It is proper to observe, tions of old." We are permitted to welcome the day. hat the servants of the Lord ought not to begin star which dispels the darkness, and ushers in the o think of this day only when it arrives. Through-morning of this glorious day. Let us pray fervently ut the week, their thoughts should be occasionally that the Spirit of God may be given in rich abundance, urned towards it; and, they should earnestly long and that he may move the wheels of the machinery which is in motion, till it levels the mountains, and or it not only as a day which will afford them rest rom the various toils of life, but give them an ex- breaks in pieces the rocks which now oppose the spread ellent opportunity for intense meditation, and inti- of the blessed Gospel. I agree with you in thinking nate communion with their God and Saviour. On that the weakness and derangement of the earth-born he Saturday, Christians should contrive to adjust their tenements which our souls inhabit, fetter and impede vorldly matters in such a manner, as to create no im- the exertions of the new-born spirit, But it is an unroper interference with the proper work of the Sabbath. speakable consolation for us to know, that our blessed No sooner do they awake on the Sabbath, than their Emmanuel, when he became our surety and sojourned hearts should be filled with joy, and glow with gratitude in our world, took upon him the frail and perishing, as o the Lord, for sparing them to see another return of well as the undecaying and never-dying principle of his day. On the morning of it, they ought to rise as our nature, and that in this mysteriously constituted arly, if not earlier, than on other days. And this nature he has gone into the heavens to be our advocate ught to be especially attended to by those who live in with the Father, and to plead for the remission of our be country, as owing to their distance from the church, guilt. His ear is not insensible to our sorrow, his eye heir time for religious exercises would be otherwise is not unmoved by our tears, but he knows every sin ery much abridged. The loiterer in bed ought not to which besets us, every devious path into which we are se held up by the Christian as his pattern. That time prone to wander, every lurking element of evil in our hould not be spent in sloth and idleness, which ought hearts, and he sends sickness or sorrow to bring us o be set apart to devout and heavenly exercises. In back to God and happiness. He brings them into the our meals on Sabbath, let us be simple and expeditious; wilderness that he may speak comfortably to them. He n our persons studying neatness and cleanliness, guard- visits them with diseases that consuine their strength ng against finery and adorning of ourselves, whereby that he may teach them he is an Almighty Saviour, we will discover a trifling mind, and consume much of He casts the shadow of death before them, to remind Our precious time. It is not on external decorations, but them of him who conquered death and ascended on high He shed a darkness on the on the improvement of the inner man, that the regard leading captivity captive. of the Christian ought to be bestowed. Throughout grave that the light of heaven might illuminate it. the whole of this day, his care ought to be, that his Some one has remarked that, "death must put the seal But death is deart may be right with God, and that nothing may be of perpetuity to all our other triumphs." suffered to give it a wrong and opposite direction; an enemy. Satan guards the territory, and comes upon keeping it to the Lord; spending it in all the exercises his victims like an armed man. But Christ has overcome of his worship whether of a secret or public nature, and death in behalf of all who believe. He has given them also in works of necessity and mercy.-REV. JAMES the right, and he will furnish them with the power for MITCHELL. the conflict. We have no reason for despondency, but should feel in every circumstance, how great is our joy, how unalterable our security.

"An Essay on the Christian Sabbath." Sacred Oratorios.—Surely I do think that if God is ever insulted, it is when upon the same boards, before the same lights, where the orgies of impurity and impiety are nightly performed, the unhappy votaries of sin come forward to amuse sinners far worse than they, with the words of Scripture, alleviated and made tolerable by the harmony of high vocal abilities and the rich concord of instrumental fulness. But oh! under that tawdry roof to hear the words, "I know that my Redeemer liveth," well may the lamenting Christians exclaim, where then is the redemption from sin which he came to purchase? Alas! for you, unhappy souls, who, hired out to minister to this world's uses, can barter their immortal spirits for what is indeed the price of blood. Alas! for the forgetfulness of those who can purchase a song at the expense of a brother's or a sister's murder, alas! for the fearful forgetfulness that must have settled over all the forgetfulness of him who said, that his Father's style and title was not

THE TRUE NOTION OF THE LORD'S

SUPPER.

ABRIDGED FROM A TRACT BY CUDWORTH,
Author of the "Intellectual System.”
PART I.

IT was a custom among both Jews and Heathens to
feast upon things sacrificed. Among the Jews, for
instance, there were four kinds of sacrifices, viz., the
burnt-offering, the sin-offering, the trespass-offering,

The title of this Tract is A Discourse Concerning the True Notion of the Lord's Supper.' It is very rare and deserves to be reprinted. In the following summary of the argument there is one whole chapter omitted, viz., the third, in which, besides objections to the Passover being a sacrifice are refuted, the question about the day on which our Saviour celebrated his last Passover is discussed,