t, but the departed-not the e. citizens." I If Christ is the "Lord of the d and the living," then we may ant pate the day when death shall swallowed up in victory. Space co pels us to dismiss this point. friend, art thou living to the Lor If so, great are thy privileges. T Lord reigns in thee and over th All divine workings, within and wi out, are for thee. Thy history is tru divine. But if thou art not livi thus-if thou art living to pleasure, business, to sin and self-I now for warn thee of thy fate. Rememb the immortal interests thou art sac ficing, the eternal laws thou art viol ting, the ever-blackening doom towar which thou art hastily directing th st is the "Lord of the dead steps. In the midst of thy bustle an ving," then death is not the excitement remember that there is on to a new kingdom. On time to die. In thy imagination tha earth there is a variety of time is far distant, but, in the arrange Some of these are so differ- ments of God, it may he just at hand ir laws, customs, and insti- What though thou hast twenty year at a course of conduct which to live, that twenty will soon com considered right and proper down to ten, that ten to one, that on would be deemed the very to a month; that month will dwindl another. The character down to the last day, that day to th d be in one place admired, last hour, and that hour to the las ond would be denounced. minute! Oh, that minute! Wha ere are so many different a universe of thought will be crowded character can never be a into that minute! What strings uniform appreciation. But about to break, will vibrate through st is the Lord of both worlds, thy heart in that minute ! What s not introduce into a new eternal visions will start up to thy but into a new province. mind in that minute! What deathless throne, standard, and king issues will hang on that minute! God ere. What is approved of be merciful unto thee, my friend, in be approved of there; what that minute! re will be right there. Does Homilist. Plain Papers on Prophetic and other THE "papers" of which this volume is "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." Scripture Lessons for. for every Sunday 1 noon throughout the don: Sunday Schoo LIKE all the compila London Union, thes been made with great tions" are given to proper use in connecti on Scripture Lessons The Pilot of the G Thomas Lowe. L Sons. THIS shilling book co on the night-scene evangelists, when ou tempest. T Correspondence. - C. H. SPURGEON, OF NEW STREET CHAPEL, LONDON. -eceived numerous communicam various parts of the country, o the letter of Mr. Grant in our per, page 108; several of which arnish. Some of these are from a in whose judgment we have nfidence. With regard to our uct in this matter, we have only we at we are neither detractors nor some time before the public, and But now for the ridiculous story of t announcement said to have been made Mr. Spurgeon to the young ladies of 1 ll kindly allow me a small our useful magazine I will enpossible, to remove the gloom ind of your esteemed correrom Scotland, respecting the e attacks made upon Mr. person and ministry by ceraper correspondents to which ant, alludes. As a general rule, -, religious men and christian es are not much indebted correspondents or editors of as exponents of their prineporters of their proceedings; et to add that the baptist in as a denomination, are not special obligation to Presby-nonsense. ven Independent editors. e remarks alluded to as having by an Independent minister, at the exhibition was an ind and man. I am not prepeak positively, but I was told Binney did make such remark ing the sermon preached at Street before the associated which sermon has been for Then we are told by this worthy correspondent, that Mr. Spurgeon's sermons are "redolent of bad taste, vulgar, and theatrical;" and yet, strange to hear, he tells us that Exeter Hall is crammed every sabbath to hear such precious This is really astonishing, and shews either a very bad taste on the part of an English auditory, or it goes at once to prove that both minister and hearers have been grossly libelled and insulted by this correspondent of the newspaper press. And whatever lesson the religious public may learn from such things, I think it ought to put editors on their guard in receiving communications from persons bandman has thrust him into his vineyard so young in years that he may let the church and the world see that he will accomplish his work by whatsoever instrumentality he pleaseth that the heavenly treasure is put into earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be made evident to be of God and not of man. May he be constantly standing upon his watchtower, always ready to do his Master's work, and ever listening to that voice which saith, "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." D. E. I WAS surprised on receiving my Baptist Reporter for April to see an article copied from the Christian News, headed, "A Clerical Poltroon." The facts of the case are, the London correspondent of the Ipswich Express said that all Mr. S.'s discourses are redolent of bad taste, vulgar, and theatrical. Now what do you think, this London scribbler never heard Mr. S. preach but only through the report of some pious rival, whose envy might possibly be stirred up by Mr. S.'s immense popularity. It is not likely you have seen the three letters that appeared, immediately after the attack, in the Ipswich Express, written by three different members of Mr. Spurgeon's church, two of whom heard every sermon Mr. S. preached since his removal to London; and they declare they never heard him utter such words as you have published. And in addition I may inform you that the proprietors of the said Express have sent an ample apology for the uncalled for attack on Mr. S.'s performance in the pulpit. Now, Mr. Editor, I have worshipped several times, when in Lon dications of a geni unto a brilliant mat I CAN readily conc siderable hesitation of inserting, in April, an extract Christian News, h Poltroon," and sub spondent of the Ip credit to these journ regret the pages of valuable periodical been defiled. Surel dent does not claim t the disciples of t breathes not his sp enemies of the cros may be expected, their hostility to div paragraph on page number of the Repor wark, New Park St less have been co conclusive refutation friend, Alexander G It is just possible committed a great of able sin, in the eyes of the Ipswich Exp baptist, and this, too S.'s father, he bei minister. It is su things will sometime produce bitter and marks, and even viol With Mr. Spurge unacquainted, but several, on whose j rely-men of long st of Christ—who have ministry is eminently tensive usefulness in a sketch of a sermon which on recently preached before n Association of Baptist vited remarks on this subject, vill not consider me intrusive. J. B. F. ring such glowing and enccounts respecting Mr. Spurs surprised and grieved on our article in the April Refew weeks since an Indepener, resident in London, was few days at the house of a is town, and as Mr. S. is a tive of the latter, particular were made respecting the eacher, and the replies given most satisfactory kind: and nan (who came to supply the e first Independent chapel in gave it as his opinion, that aracter and preaching of Mr. te unexceptionable. peatedly sent to the office of Express (the paper from malignant report was copied) pose of procuring, for your subsequent impression, contter from one of Mr. Spurtant hearers, utterly denying ons brought against this minihaving his address appended A full retraction has also n the same paper from the ir correspondent, and a full r the misstatements he had ✓ made. hat I have heard from various urces, I am quite inclined to the aspersions that have been ngly and unfeelingly cast upon k our friend for the copy. But on found a paragraph or two which we ereafter.-ED. of many thousands beside him who i subscribes himself, G. R. G P. S. If I get the paper referred I will forward it. In the last number of the Reporter y express a wish to receive communicatio from your readers, consisting of so expression of their opinion concerni Mr. C. Spurgeon and his preachi With your kind permission I will av myself of the opportunity offered. "Have you been to hear Mr. Spu geon ?" has almost become a standi question among religious people in Lo don; and it becomes Mr. S. himself, much as it does your readers, to con sider whether the popularity which implied by the continual repetition that interrogation is solid and likely last. A man whose preaching (I canno write eloquence) can fill a large buildin like Exeter Hall Sunday after Sunday must possess some amount of ability. Mr. Spurgeon's occupancy of Exeter Hall is caused by the necessity of enlarging his own chapel. But I doubt. in my own mind, whether there is likely to be that necessity for enlargement which he evidently anticipates. It is true that for some time past his chapel has been crowded, but the crowd consists of stray members of other places. But let me come to the subject of this letter himself. Mr. Spurgeon has been likened to a second Whitfield. Now I am not sufficiently acquainted with the writings of Mr. W. to be able either to endorse this opinion or to dispute it, but of this I am very certain, that there is a great want of the most important element in a religious service in those conducted by Mr. Spurgeon,-I mean solemnity and reverence. If a person were to enter |