nuren service we v UD 1 required, were continually reazing gain, not long since, pro- with a profusion of such arguments as are taken in the Court of generally used in favour of being dipped. the Rev. W. H. Henslow, At last the subject formed itself into a e of the parish of Worme- strong temptation, with which the peace Norfolk, who refused to of his mind was, for a time, considerably se of Sarah Bowden, a troubled. Though he was satisfied that o had not been baptized he had both the shadow and the subed church, and the judg- stance, the outward and visible sign, and ced in this case by Sir the inward and spiritual grace, yet he er Fust, was, that the rev. thought the best way to get rid of his uspended from the minis- temptation, and silence certain scrupulous months. Of a similar clamours, which had been excited in his with similar results, was mind, was to get dipped, as he conceived ding against the Rev. that in this there could be no harm, and r of Basingbourne, in the that afterwards there could be no prebridge, for refusing to bury tence for the continuance of those scruhter of a parishioner." ples, which should be thus met and vere cases of parties who silenced on their own ground. As his baptism," so called, at the religious experience was well known, and er father, mother, nurse, he had at that time been of considerable er, or some one else-for standing in the church of God, he was on who repeats the form, afraid that if this was well known, it ee," &c., is competent to might be the means of stumbling others, remony. Such "baptism" and turning them out of the way. He alid in the courts, and no could not expect a baptist to do this lawfully refuse to bury privately for him, as this was inconsistent But in the case of the with the end which they profess to have ptists who have not been in view by administering baptism. He baptism in any form, the at last thought of a method of dissolving nt, and we believe that a the difficulty. Having made earnest ght lawfully refuse. And prayer and supplication to God in his on remains, why, as the chamber, be walked down to the beach, rds are national property, which was very near his own dwelling, Es and their children, or and having stripped himself, as if he ine excluded? Indeed why tended to bathe, he waded into the water ious service at all? Why to a considerable depth, and then said, natter to the discretion of Thomas, I baptize thee in the name of if pious persons, will take the Father, and of the Son, and of the t all is done decently and Holy Ghost,' and having so said, he and if not, they will only dipped himself thrice over head, returned eligious service with con- to the shore, and thus finally terminated s, how often is the solemn the temptation, and the ceremony to ce of the Episcopalians, which it gave birth. I feel no scruple to riate to the character of recommend the same measure to any person in the same circumstances, and advise them never to put themselves in the Episcopal Church-"the life-giving, the allowed to take place wi regenerating sacrament!" Surely those tion in the Ecclesiastica who can say such things should be silent churchwardens. The p about Mary worship, purgatory, or tran- proceed accordingly. Sabbath Schools and Education RAGGED SCHOOL ANECDOTES.- Dr. ings are now the homes Guthrie, of Edinburgh, related the follow-the poor. In one we four ing incident in a lecture to the Young some half-naked child Men's Christian Association :-"There is and in her arms a yello another class in that table who are en- skeleton infant. Enga tered as fatherless with a drunken mother. visits from house to ho Let me lift the curtain from their con- this woman of her soul, dition, and leave you to judge what in- against the vice to whi strumentality can reach and save them was addicted: and doin but a Ragged School. Let me now con- interrupted by the infa duct you to the Horse Wynd, a steep looking in its mother's narrow street; once, when Edinburgh her dishevelled hair. was a walled city, the principal thorough- dressing her with a p fare from the south; and where, in the wail, and we at length as days of our grandfathers, the great, if That woman was a dr not the noble, resided. They tell of a wall flowers clinging to a lady, once a resident in the Horse Wynd, ing fragrance on it, so so punctilious in matters of etiquette, nature still survived. Sh that she must ride out to dinner in her and said-'It is asking chariot, although the horses' heads, when have none to give it.' she entered the carriage, were at the death, but never famine door of the house where she was to dine. shocked to read it in the These dwellings still stand, with their and hollow cheeks of th grand and ample staircases, up which of them was despatche you might march a troop of soldiers; bread. Now I have bee with heavy solid marble flanking the when the wild beasts handful of cinders over which poverty seen the lion, the tiger, now sits shivering; with angels and gry wolf fall fiercely heathen gods looking grimly down from meal; but never more the ceiling on a wretched group stretched voracity and avidity, th beneath their rags on a corner of the floor, creatures on that bread that once shook to dances and dancers homes out of which we that have all passed away. These dwell- these are the children o ess; and although I could dren." OBJECTIONS TO SEPARATE SERVICES give you a case as related ANSWERED.-The difficulty felt by the most distinguished philan- ministry manifests itself in two ways. haplain to the Preston jail. They fear that the sense and sign of e case he tells, was eleven unity in christian worship may not be and while he had been preserved, and that the children may be jail, he had a brother, who, brought up with false views of the old, had been four times "means of grace," and also that the he last of these occasions conduct of the services may be so iuto seven days' imprison-effective as to be worse than that which very heinous offence of it is proposed to amend, or rather to Poor fellow! No wonder supplement. t; the winter night was It should be understood that the plea frozen ground less hard, put forth is only for the benefit of the ts at home. My father,' younger children. It is not proposed that o Mr. Clay, 'kept a jerry the whole school should be retained to drunk nearly every night. a separate service, and it is so strongly d through his beating her. felt that the effort can only be successbefore he got wed again; fully made, where the instrumentality is ame was Aggy Stevenson. thoroughly efficient, that, everywhere, the gave over drinking a bit, school is looking to the church to supply again. He was a porter this new order of lay agency. station, and came home got paid on Friday night; took James and me, and take us to the canal and e attempted it: with these boys, one in each hand, valked out beneath God's o perpetrate this horrid t for a woman whom God to fish them out, he had d. And where was the ne, although a step-mother, etween him and this deed, e to do his worst, and tell her mangled, murdered drag these victims to their she dead? No; for the ity, not even dead drunk; calm, with a heart within -ung to the stroke like a ne, had we tried it on that We would ask whether, if the younger children could be provided for by some such special agency, it would not tend to prepare them to take an intelligent interest in public worship when they come to be elder scholars, and by fixing habits of attention and thought, fit them to become really interested as devout worshippers, when the "food for babes" might be exchanged for "strong meat." Whatever the nature of the plan, and whoever the agents in its prosecution, there seems at the present time a united testimony, that something should be done to meet this great want, and so prepare the way for a new order of things, when our children, learning to love in early life the exercises of religious service, shall hold fast, in riper years, the things that make for their everlasting peace. 1 for the aiшusion or Divine truta in that prewren Ju тапсС UI country. Not a few communities of Pro- with them in their worl testants are animated with new spiritual labours of love,-Donation life, and are exerting themselves to their fully received by Mr. W utmost ability in diffusing a sanctified Paternoster-row, to wh literature through every part of their orders may be addresse country; but the far larger proportion of Western Depository, 164 their members being in humble life, their means are restricted, and they are compelled to look to christian brethren in other lands for sympathy and aid. There is also a large demand for tracts for the supply of the army, both in France and the East. But, at the present time, the claims of France possess a special character. The Industrial Exhibition at Paris will attract multitudes from the remotest OUR DONATIONS O Donations have been fo Handbills. Spalding 500 .... Broseley... 500 Bristol 500 NEW ARRANGED provinces. Thousands from Garonne, Important.-The excel Languedoc, Brittany, Normandy, the Alps, postal carriage for maga the Pyrenees, Algiers, and the French stationery, notwithstand Colonies, will meet together, and who and expence of this tir have never hitherto been brought into just been brought into contact with a pure gospel. The Pro- enable us to forward our testant community in that city contem- in future to all applica plate the most vigorous action on that Wales, Ireland, and occasion; but, from their circumstances, without the assistance of they feel wholly unable to meet the ur- lisher or a country books gent requirements of the case. In their not had time yet to mat great need they have applied to the Com- of operations, but next m mittee of the Religious Tract Society to have it ready. In the m assist them with large pecuniary grants add that all applicants for that special object, as well as their take care to send their general operations. While the Committee and written in a plain re recognise the importance of the move- no obstacle may be in ment, and are prompted to afford the delivery of the parcels most effectual aid, they feel embarrassed, officials. (See our last from the exhausted state of the Jubilee further particulars.) Fund (which was largely devoted to France), and from the inadequacy of their ordinary benevolent income, to meet such special claims. They therefore feel justified in making an appeal to those friends who have generously responded to former calls for help for other quarters of the world, in the confidence that they And here we may fur although this periodical, may have suffered som from the peculiar circu times, and our means curtailed, we are yet that is in our power to tracts to applicants. the Rev. S. Ironside, from the afternoon the Rev. D. ter of the congregation, ev. ii. 1. The Rev. T. D. ng of this institution was neid on wednesday and Thursday, the 23rd and 24th of May; there was a numerous attendance of the friends and supporters of the institution present each day. The examination of the ted the evening service, students took place at the College on Wedphesians v. 14. The con-nesday morning-that in the classics was conducted by the Rev. J. E. Butterworth, M.A., of Abergavenny; and that in theology by the Rev. Thomas Price, of Aberdare. At seven o'clock in the evening the Welsh service was held in Crane Street chapel, when an essay on the history of the Jews was read by Mr. Lewis Lewis, student; and a very impressive and appropriate sermon was preached by the Rev. W. Thomas, Pisga. The English service on Thursday morning was introduced by the Rev. David Rees, of Braintree; Mr. Evan Jenkins, student, read an essay on miracles; and the Rev. W. Aitcheson, of Newport, preached a very excellent and highly appropriate sermon. The public meeting for the transaction of business was held in the afternoon, W. W. Phillips, Esq., in the chair. The meetings were all of a most gratifying nature, and the feeling elicited on behalf of the institution highly encouraging. Mr. Hinton was expected to preach on the occasion, but in consequence of an accident he met with at Cheltenham the meeting was deprived of his services. A resolution, however, of sympathy with Mr. Hinton was passed at the meeting, and a request that he would preach, if spared, next year. hout the day were large, interest in the erection by Ons to the building fund. ternoon about 200 persons Nelson School Society's dly granted for the occag been provided by the evening meeting, held in was numerously attended, sq., presided. Interesting Eresses were delivered by Gardner, Saxton, Hough, , and by the Revds. T. D. nside, and D. Dolamore. er pieces of sacred music ecourse of the evening, general satisfaction and ssembly. The entire ex= building, including the ting contracts, will amount, scertained, to about £494. 'contributions, &c., stands lected in the collections at £ 8. d. dation stone.. 203 0 0 31 10 7 46 0 0 NEW PARK-STREET CHAPEL.-New Parkstreet Chapel, Southwark, formerly connected with the ministry of the celebrated and venerable Dr. Rippon, which has been for some time closed for the purpose of enlargement, was re-opened last week for the first time since the alterations. The north-east end feet, and accommodation thus afforded for of the chapel has been extended about thirty upwards of 300 additional sittings; in addition to which a large and commodious vestry and school-room has been erected. A sermon was preached in the morning by the Rev. James Sherman, formerly minister of Surrey Chapel, and in the evening by the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon, the pastor. |