healthy for the young. Sunday - school teaching is practical work, and will only be carried on by those who love the oar of duty as well as the sail of excitement. We do not grudge our young friends the pleasure of seeing, occasionally, how a vivid imagination can invest their work with beauty and sublimity. Indeed, except in the case of parental instruction at home, we see nothing so like our Saviour's love to little children, as the tenderness, pains-taking, and patience of devoted teachers. We even pity those who have no sympathy with the enthusiasm which throws some halos or hues of glory around the Sunday-school. We more than forgive Montgomery for dreaming of infant

"Schools,

Beneath the shadows of the Tree of Life
By spirits of just men made perfect, taught,
The glorious lessons of redeeming love."
Pelican Island.

Such being our own taste, we shall not be suspected of any peculiar coldness or dulness, when we protest against both sickly and clap-trap sentimentality in books for the Sunday-school. "Michael Smith," is a little work of the right kind; graphic, scholar-like, lively, and yet grave, as might be expected from the pen of Mr. Davis. Michael had been a scholar and monitor in Croft Chapel school, until he was unfairly sent to sea. There, however, he retained his piety, and, when liberated, returned to his favourite work, which he pursued with all the energy, and some of the peculiarities, of a sailor. He must have been a fine character. It is difficult to say whether Michael's character, or Mr. Davis's counsel, illustrate best what a good teacher should be.

We cordially commend this little book.

The GATHERING of FIFTY YEARS, POEMS, etc. By RICHARD HERNE SHEPHERD, Minister of Ranelagh Chapel, Chelsea, and Secretary to the London Annuity Society for the Widows of Members. Royal 18mo. pp. 160.

Hatchard and Son.

This pleasing little volume consists chiefly of a series of poetic compositions, which have been written by the esteemed author, at intervals, during the lengthened period of fifty years. Many of the articles appeared in the pages of the Evangelical Magazine nearly half a century ago. If we cannot award to them the first rank as specimens of poetic genius, we can conscientiously affirm that their tendency is unexceptionably excellent, and that they are very touching memorials of persons or events in which the Christian community has been wont to

take a lively interest. To the personal friends of the author, this " Gathering of Fifty Years" will be an acceptable offering.

The BREAKFAST-TABLE COMPANION. By MARY JANE DOUDNEY. 32mo. pp. 226. Darton and Clark.

HEART-BREATHINGS. By Alfred. 32mo. pp. 246.

Darton and Clark.

These two beautiful little volumes are admirably fitted to fan the feelings of true devotion, especially in the minds of the young. The first consists of judicious selections from the writings of eminent authors, on almost all topics connected with the religion of the heart; and the second, of original pieces, gleamed from a diary written under diversified circumstances, during ten years' sojourn in the wilderness. We recommend both very cordially to the notice of our readers. The amiable young lady who edited the first is now numbered with the spirits of the just.

WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED.

1. Sunday Schools and Missions; or, Outlines of Correspondence with Sunday-school Teachers, during the years 1841, 1842. By T. and J. THOMPSON. 12mo, pp. 36. J. Snow.

This tract should be seen by all who wish to interest Sunday-schools in missionary undertakings.

2. The Puseyism of all ages briefly analysed, as to its chief error in principle and its evil effects. By the Rev. J. C. YORKE, Rector of Shenfield. 32mo, pp. 32. Nisbet.

An admirable little tract for these popish times.

3. A Pastoral Address to the Parishioners of St. James's, Clerkenwell. By W. E. L. FAULKNER, A.M., Chaplain to H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex, and Minister of the Parish. 12mo, pp. 36. Harris, Rodney-street.

The spirit of this address is most Christian, and the exposure of Puseyism most faithful and admonitory.

4. The Tractarian Dialogue of Christian Unity not the Doctrine of the Gospel. A Reply to the Rev. H. W. Wilberforce's Tract on Christian Unity. By the Rev. W. H. TURNER, M.A., Vicar of Barnwell, Somerset.

5. Geneva and Oxford. A Discourse delivered at the Opening Meeting of the Theological School of Geneva, October 3, 1842. By J. H. MERLE D'AUBIGNE, President, Author of "The History of the Great Reformation." With an Introduction by the Rev. E. BICKERSTETH, M.A., Rector of Watton, Herts. 18mo, pp. 66. W. H. Dalton.

6. A Memoir of Ebenezer Birrell, late of Stepney College, London. By his Brother. Second Edition. 18mo, pp 100. Simpkin and Marshall.

7. Anti-Popery; or, Popery unreasonable, unscriptural, and novel. By John Rogers, formerly of St. John's College. Cambridge. 12mo. Simpkin.

MISS SOPHIA MOORE.

It is our painful duty to record the death of Miss Sophia Moore, for many years a member of the church under the pastoral care of the Rev. Dr. Morison, of Brompton. The event took place on the 26th December, at the house of her beloved brother, John Moore, Esq., of Camden Town. The deceased had long walked with God, and had eminently adorned her Christian profession; but through life she had been perplexed by many painful doubts respecting her spiritual state, and in her last hours the enemy of souls was permitted to distress and harass her greatly. But the desire of her soul was towards her Saviour, and the remembrance of his name. All her reliance for eternity was on his finished work; and though her sense of interest in his unchanging love was at times much beclouded, yet she had her moments of realizing faith, and, in her darkest seasons, breathed out her soul in earnest desires for the light of his countenance. Her weak frame and intense physical suffering accounted, in a great measure, for the depression she was wont to feel.

Those who knew her best could entertain no doubt as to the safety of her state. She was a humble, spiritually minded, and disinterested Christian. Her funeral took place on Friday, the 6th January, 1843, when she was interred in the catacombs at the cemetery, Abney-park. Dr. Morison delivered the funeral oration; and the Rev. E. A. Dunn offered up prayer to God at the place of sepulture.

REV. R. WILLIAMS.

Aug. 30th, 1842. At his residence in Mulberry-street, Liverpool, in the 41st year of his age, died in perfect peace, the Rev. Richard Williams, one of the pastors of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists in that town.

Sept. 2.-Being the day appointed for his interment, after a large congregation assembled, the remains of the departed minister were conveyed from his house into the chapel in Mulberry-street, where Mr. Evan Williams, of Carnarvonshire, commenced the service, and the Rev. John Hughes, of Liverpool, preached with great appropriateness; taking a brief view of our late beloved minister's worthy labours and ministerial services, from Acts xiii. 36, "For David, after he had served his own generation by

the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption."

There

The coffin being lowered into a new grave, the Rev. Henry Reese addressed the multitude in the following terms: "My dear friends, our beloved brother, whom we have now laid in the grave, was one of those to whom mankind has certain duties to perform in their lifetime and after their departure in death." For a confirmation of this, and as a foundation of his address, he rehearsed Heb. xiii. 7, "Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God, whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation," Then he remarked, that, "the time for us for the fulfilment of our duties towards our beloved brother in his lifetime, was then at an end; and that, according to the words he read, our duty toward him from henceforth, being to remember him; or, according to the Welsh version, to think of him.' were two things very serviceable for many in that great congregation assembled around his dust for their aid in fulfilling of this duty; viz., a fervent love towards him, and a remembrance of the benefits we received through his ministry while he was with us. 'Whose faith follow.' The doctrine of the faith. Our beloved brother was a great advocate for the doctrine-the doctrine, which, we, as a connexion, view as being true-the principles that our fathers taught and preached before us in Wales,-the doctrine of the fall of man; of the justification of a sinner through faith, of the person of Christ, his offering and atonement. Our beloved brother preached this doctrine for many years, with labour and fervency, light and edification, according to the gift given of God unto him. And in vindication of which, he wrote much in his latter years. Walking according to the faith.' Our beloved brother did not preach salvation through Christ, and lead an antinomian or an ungodly life. No; but he preached the gospel, and walked as becometh it in all holy conversation and godliness. Considering the end of their conversation.' The end of the conversation of the prophets and the apostles came, and so came the end of our beloved brother."

Then Mr. Reese concluded with prayer and thanksgiving; and after he had blessed the congregation, an appropriate hymn was solemnly sung, and the multitude dispersed with mingled feelings of joy and mourning.

THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL AMONG THE JEWS.

The public are aware that a society has for many years existed in this metropolis, having for its object, the conversion of "the lost sheep of the house of Israel" to the faith of Christ.* Its labours in the instruction of Jewish youth, in printing and circulating the Hebrew Scriptures and other books, and in sending forth and supporting missionaries to the Jews, have in no small degree been owned by the God of Abraham. May its efforts prove a thousand times more successful! May it be instrumental in turning multitudes of the disobedient sons of Jacob to the wisdom of the just!

While, in the devout spirit of these petitions, Christians belonging to other communions than that with which the society referred to is identified have cordially wished it prosperity in the name of the Lord, it has, with many of them, been matter of serious and conscientious inquiry, whether, seeing they were excluded from all active co-operation with those who were thus laudably engaged, it were not their duty to employ distinct measures for the recovery of Israel-measures in which all might unite who hold the Head, and are agreed upon all points essential to salvation.

In consequence of overtures sent up from various Presbyteries and Synods to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, that venerable body passed an Act, in the year 1838, constituting a committee of Ministers and Elders, for the purpose of adopting measures for the conversion of God's ancient people. This Committee has, during the intervening period, given its best attention to the subject-having instituted inquiries respecting the state of the Jews in different parts of the world, and sent out able and devoted missionaries to labour among them in Hungary, Moldavia, and Palestine. It has also, in the course of the past year, submitted a proposal for the formation of a Society in London on the catholic basis above stated-partly with a view to secure additional efforts on behalf of the Jews resident in the metropolis and other large towns in England, and partly in order to afford to Christians generally in this division of the United Kingdom an opportunity of contributing towards the attainment of the common object.

The call thus made has been responded to by a number of ministers and others, who have cordially united for the purpose of carrying the plan into effect. Increasingly convinced of the imperative duty of the

The London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews.

1. That a Society be formed, to be called, "The British Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Jews."

2. That the Society consist of Christians of evangelical principles, interested in the propagation of the gospel among the Jews.

3. That the more immediate field of the Society's operations be London and the larger towns of the United Kingdom.

4. That the Society shall maintain a friendly correspondence and co-operation with the church of Scotland's mission to the Jews.

5. That the Association cordially invite the co-operation of all kindred institutions.

6. That an annual subscription of ten shillings constitutes membership; and a donation of five pounds membership for

life.

7. That the Committee consist of twentyfour Ministers, and an equal number of laymen; and that the Treasurer and Secretaries be members thereof ex officiis.

Agreeably to these Resolutions, the immediate sphere of the Society's operations will be the metropolis, where, as must be evident to every observer, a large and important field opens before it. In almost every street are to be seen, in circumstances of deplorable spiritual ignorance, and many of them in those of great temporal wretchedness, the descendants of those who were once the singularly honoured and highly privileged people of God. Though living in the midst of Christians, they have too much ground for the complaint: No man careth for our souls. Instead of meeting with commiseration, and calling forth prompt and appropriate efforts for their welfare, they are, for the most part, left to perish in a state of impenitence and unbelief. By many they are regarded as beyond the influence of human instrumentality; by others, they are treated with scorn and contempt. With great propriety they may adopt the language of their own Scriptures : "Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold and see, if there be any sorrow, like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger." "Have pity upon

me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends, for the hand of God hath touched me."

These piteous complaints, Christain brethren, they pour into your ears. To you they make the touching appeal. They claim your tenderest compassion-your promptest relief. Contemplating their condition, must you not be compelled to say with Paul, "Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved?" and, in some measure, to imbibe the spirit which caused him to declare, “I say the truth in Christ, I lie not (my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost) that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh?" If you sympathize with that devoted apostle in ardent self-sacrificing longing, or, if you have any tears akin to those which our blessed Redeemer wept at the prospective view of what you now actually behold, delay not, but hasten to their help.

Verily, brethren, you are debtors to the Jews. To them you owe your Bible, your Saviour, your present privileges, and your future hopes. Their unbelief has been your mercy; their fall, your riches; their rejection, your reconciliation.

Say

Despair not of their restoration. not that their case is hopeless. They have not stumbled that they should utterly and irrecoverably fall. God is able to graft them again into their own olive tree. They are still beloved for the fathers' sakes. They are the subjects of many promises, predictions, and prayers. God's covenant with them is to be renewed. The veil which is now upon their hearts is to be removed. The Messiah God hath exalted with his right hand a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance unto Israel, and the remission of sins. All Israel shall be saved.

With a view to excite more general attention to this interesting people, the Committee has made arrangements for a course of twelve lectures, to be delivered in the National Scotch Church, Regent-square, of which the following is a list of the subjects and lecturers :

I. Friday, Feb. 3. The Prerogatives of the Jewish people-the Rev. J. Pye Smith, D.D., F.R.S. II. Friday, Feb. 10. The Destination of the Jews-the Rev. J. Hamilton III. Friday, Feb. 17. The National Characteristics of the Jews-the Rev. F. A. Cox, D.D., LL.D. IV. Friday, Feb. 24. The Dispersions of the Jews-the Rev.T. Archer, A.M. V. Friday, March 3. The Present Condition of the Jews-the Rev. J. Bennett, D.D.

VII. Friday, March 17. The Obstacles to the Conversion of the Jews-the

Rev. R. M. Herschell. VIII. Friday, March 24. The Encouragements which Christians have to undertake the Conversion of the Jews-the Rev. J. C. Burns.

IX. Friday, March 31. The Obligations of Christians to labour for the Conversion of the Jews-the Rev. H. F. Burder, D.D.

X. Friday, April 7. The best Means for Effecting the Conversion of the Jews-the Rev. J. Morison, D.D. XI. Friday, April 14. The Benefits which will accrue to the Church of Christ from the Conversion of the Jews -the Rev. J. S. Stamp.

XII. Friday, April 21. The glory which will redound to God from the Conversion of the Jews-the Rev. J. Harris, D.D.

**The lectures to commence at Seven o'clock in the evening.

By order of the Committee, EBENEZER HENDERSON, Secretaries.

JAMES HAMILTON,

Donations and subscriptions will be received by the Treasurer, J. D. PAUL, Esq., 217, Strand.

NEW PORTRAITS.

We have been delighted by the sight of two portraits, by Baxter, in his most beautiful style; one of the late lamented Williams, and the other of Moffat. They are faithful likenesses, and the execution is admirable.

We have also seen a full length engraving of Dr. Harris, after a picture by Scrimgour, which we think displays great talent both in the painter and the engraver. To Dr. Harris's numerous circle of friends, the portrait will be very valuable.

VENTNOR CHAPEL, ISLE OF WIGHT.

A warm friend of this cause has engaged to raise, or give, ten pounds, to clear off the debt of forty pounds still pressing on this little interest, if the good deed can be effected by the end of March. The Editor will raise five pounds more towards this object, and he earnestly entreats his friends, both in town and country, to aid him in this object, which lies near his heart.

EVANGELICAL SOCIETY OF FRANCE.

In connexion with our appeal on behalf of this most important institution, a meeting was held at the Rev. Dr. J. P. Smith's chapel, Homerton, a few weeks since, at which the Rev. Mark Wilks, of Paris, gave