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got a sovereign from a lady in Kinrossshire, to lay out for the comforts of the soldiers;-with this I purchase oranges, for which they are most grateful.

"I manage now to see all my men in the General hospital every second day the cases of dangerous illness, daily; and those in the other hospitals once in three days.

a very few exceptions, I have seen very little melting conviction. I fear there is great hypocrisy in many cases. One poor man who professed piety to me, was in the habit, in my absence, of cursing and swearing, even on his deathbed. To attempt to pour the balm of Christian consolation into the wounds of such hypocrites, is altogether a hopeless task. I have been speaking more plainly of late to the hearts and consciences; and I am encouraged to hope that some wounds are being made by the sword of the Spirit. It is lamentable to see men who have been raised from sick beds returning to their former habits. Though a meeting for public worship, according to the form of the Church of Scotland, has been intimated in the Barrack hospital for nearly two months, no convalescents have yet come out to it, and no meeting has been held. I intimated a meeting on the afternoon of the first Sabbath after my arrival, but none came. I afterwards learned, however, that several came to the bottom of the stair, but were told by the sentry that they were too late, (the English service being immediately before ours;) "Another man who, when I first spoke they went away disappointed. Last Sab- to him, was very distant and indifferent bath I had an audience of from twelve to to my inquiries. I spoke to him suitably fifteen, and to-day I had about twenty-called again on another day, and found hearers. I baptized a child publicly. His mother presented him. His father is at Balaklava with his regiment, the 93d.

"I wish I had time to tell you of some cases of deep interest. One man called me from his bed as I passed by-told me he was a Wesleyan, but would be thankful for my instruction. He said he was very ill, and feared he was dying, and wished me to write to his wife. I talked with him some time. He was deeply moved; told me he trusted in the Lord, and that he was able to say: The will of the Lord be done.' I read to him from the book you gave me The Sheltering Vine - that beautiful hymn: Thy will be done.' As I went on, he raised his streaming eyes to heaven, exclaiming: Praised be the Lord! Glory be to God!' &c. I saw him frequently afterwards. He died.

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him asleep, but very ill-did not like to disturb him. I called again. He now received me gladly, melted into tears "For the sake of those who feel inclined, when I told him of the necessity of givI think we ought to dispense the Com-ing immediate attention to the concerns munion here, monthly or thereby. There of his soul. I offered to pray with him; are several who, I am sure, would consider but he was not prepared to confess Christ this a high privilege. .. There before others, and declined indirectlyis always a loud cry for books; and there this shewed me that his convictions were is a supply to be had at the chaplain's sincere, a hypocrite would not have quarters in the Barrack hospital, of tracts refused. Next time I called he was and little books of various kinds, some of better in body, and, I hope, better also which are excellent, but many indifferent, in mind. He had been reading the New and, to a Presbyterian, somewhat objec-Testament, every line of which now had tionable. a meaning, which he never saw in it before. He reached out his thin arm for his little Testament, and opened the second paraphrase, saying: 'How beautiful it is! He began to repeat it, while I held the book; but his emotions choked him. I read it to him, and he exclaimed:

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"The books you have sent will be very acceptable when they come. As to sending clothes, I see not how you could in this way help me. I got from Mrs. W- of- Edinburgh, twelve jars of jam, which I distribute in small quantities to such as might specially be benefited by it. Two men told me the other day, that they had revived exceedingly from the time I gave them the jam-it gave them a little appetite. The nurses are the parties to distribute these things. I believe they are the means of saving many a man's life. The medical superintendent of the Hulk hospital told me yesterday, that he observed, when a man had a comrade to attend to his little wants, he generally did much better than when he had none. I also

Oh! what the Lord hath done for my soul! If it please the Lord to raise me up, I shall rise a new man.' The last time I called, he had been reading the psalms; and he said: 'Oh! what a blessed thing it is to have learned these in one's youth!' When I asked for his health, he said he was not much better, and added: 'I trust in God:

'Yea, though I walk in death's dark vale,
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ing from you soon,-I remain, &c.

"P. S.-Another Presbyterian missionary here would be a great help; but none are allowed to enter the hospital unless appointed by Government."

"Another was so weak as to be almost to write with care. In the hope of hearunable to speak. I spoke to him of pardoning mercy and redeeming love. He burst into tears, and said: 'It is too late now!' I told him yet the door is open; and the text which occurred was: 'Behold, now is the accepted time,' &c. He cried out in the most bitter agony: That is what my father used to tell me.' He was quite given up; and as I called daily I expected to see him gone. But he still lingers on, and there is now hope of his recovery.

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To-night, as I came down from the service, the nurse told me that a man in ward No. 5 wished to see me. He is an Irish Presbyterian, whom I had not seen before in consequence of the stupidity of the orderlies. He told me he was dying, and would be thankful if I would come and see him as often as convenient, as long as he lived. The open simplicity of his mind enabled me to speak to him freely at once. He was afraid there was not pardon for him. I endeavoured to hold up to him the Lamb of God. He told me he had led a religious life before he listed; but since, he had been a great drunkard; and though his other sins might, in comparison, be called little, they were all damning, and he had no hope in himself. I prayed with him, and for him, as a dying man. He said: 'If it were the Lord's will I would willingly go this night; but if it pleased Him to give three days more, I should be thankful. I asked him what he wanted three days' more life for-to work out a righteousness for himself? His reply was: "That I might get more fervency in love.' I had then to teach him not to make feelings his Saviour. He said he should like me to be near him when he died-I would do him a world of good,' for my words came to his heart, laying his hand upon his breast. I had then to teach him not to trust in man. I took his wife's address, to write her; and I asked him what he had to say to her. He said: Tell her I die as a Christian -that I have hope of heaven. Tell her to behave herself, and to take care of my two children; to live a godly life; and that I hope to meet her again at the great day, on the right hand."

"I shall not be surprised though I do not see him again. I might tell you of several other equally interesting casestime will not permit.

"The parents of the child I baptized are from St. Andrews--can the birth be registered in Scotland? I enjoy excellent health. Mr. Drennan has had fever, but he is convalescent.

SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THE SCUTARI
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Miss Scott and Mrs Kennedy, 227

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Miss Dixon, 28 India Street

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Andrew Wingate, 166 St. Vincent St.
Mrs Powell, North Frederick Street
Mrs Brodie, 5 Woodside Place
Misses Stevenson, 144 Wellington St.
Robert Craig, 4 Montague Place
J. Robertson Reid, Gallowflat
Peter Dallas
Miss M'Cairly

William Robertson, 136 Renfrew St.
Dr. A D. Anderson, 159 St. Vincent
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A. M'George, Mansfield Place
Mrs A. Bannatyne, 11 Woodside Ter.
Mrs. Pirrie, 201 St. Vincent Stret
Thomas Maxwell, 23 Woodside Place
James Ritchie, 9 Woodland Terrace
Miss Proudfoot, 36 Windsor Place
Miss Blackburn, Lyndoch Street
A. M'Ewan, 19 Newton Place
John Buchanan, 158 St. Vincent St.
Hor. Blair, Greenbank, Govan
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"God intends every accident should minister to virtue; and every virtue is the mother and the nurse of joy, and both of them daughters of the divine goodness; and, therefore, if our sorrows do not pass into comforts, it is beside God's intention,-it is because we will not comply with the act of that mercy which would save us by all means, and all varieties, by health and by sickness, by the life and by the death of our dearest friends, by what we choose and by what we fear; that, as God's providebee rules over all chances of things, and all designs of men, so His mercy may rule over all His providence."-Miracles of the Divine Mercy, (Jeremy Taylor.)

Beloved! thou wilt come to us no more. No more! although we feel thy sainted vision The whiles we speak of thee is lingering near, And know, that in the bliss of thy transition,

Thou still rememberest us who mourn thee here.

We loved, and still we love thee. What can

sever

This holy bond? The spirit is not dust; Sweet is thy memory in the soul for ever,

And fondly guarded as a sacred trust. Dear was thy living image, when before us It stood in all thy youthful beauty's glow, Yet still more dear thy spirit hovering o'er us, With the bright crown of glory on its brow.

How oft the weary heart, its grief dissembling, Sees the calm smile upon thy features still; And bears along its chords, like music trembling. The low clear tones to which it once would thrill!

The vision fades-we feel we are forsaken,

The gloom returns, the anguish and the

care,

And tender longings in the heart awaken, Which wish thee here, though thou art happier there.

Alas! how far the past outweighs the presentThe forms that come no more the friends we see!

How the lone spirit feels 'tis far less pleasant To smile with others than to weep for thee! Yet, in the struggle of its silent sorrow,

The pining heart can sometimes break its chain;

And from the Saviour's word this hope may borrow,

Beloved! we shall see thee yet again.

J. D. BURNS.

A REMEMBRANCE.

Though I must surely know where thou art

gone

Now thou art vanished from our mortal sight, And that thou hast thy dwelling in the light

Which no unpurged eye may look upon, still thy sweet image, as it once was known

And loved in sorrow; and thy gentle face With its mild suffering aspect, keeps its place Unchanged, unchangeable on memory's throne. I seem to see thee, near and yet apart

From the great congregation of the blest, Entranced in speechless wonder that thou art

With Him for ever whom thou lovest best,

With a great weight of gladness on thy heart,

And in immortal consciousness of rest.

J. D. BURNS.

IMMORTALITY.

"Repentance is not demanded, but because immortality is revealed, and a day of judgment appointed for the world, the certainty of which is known to all who have received the hostages of God and looked into the evidence-Christ is risen. If indeed there be any virtue, it cannot be without results; it must give a warrant of future bliss, from the assurance which a mind rightly engaged cannot but feel, that it is walking in the way that wisdom appoints, and hence in a path that, though it may not be naturally pleasant in itself, is yet evidently conducive to a perpetuity of peace and joy, because God has ordained it as a way to an end. There is, however, no virtue in merely pleasing one's self,-the word means nothing unless it signifies a state of mind with regard to heaven-a state that is blessed because that it is obedience to a law felt to be good; for both the motive and the joy of virtue consist in conscious fulfilment of duty. But duty depends on relationship between the mind that yields obedience in love, and the mind that commands in love. Without love there is neither authority nor duty. There is always reason in moral law; and every man who can apprehend it must submit to it, or suffer in his conscience, because he sees it to be perfectly good; and he could not be required, as a rational being, to obey, except in the faith and affiance of a soul satisfied that righteousness in God is only with benevolence. But where the righteousness, where the benevolence in the Omnipotent, if He grant only a short lease of life and enjoyment to His reasoning and confiding creatures that, in love, desire to do His will? Does not the Almighty himself, in man's brief earthly life, inspire him with gratitude only because he is also inspired with a hope that his present happiness, in the emotions awakened by God, is but a foretaste and an earnest of an unending abundance from the same source? There are contradictions and inconsistencies enough in the short-lease philosophy, but none in the Christian Testament. Here Jehovah is seen as the constant rewarder of those that diligently seek Him; and those who thus seek feel that, because they come to God as the everlasting Father, in Him they possess, not merely a quiet life for a few years, while obedience may be possible, and then death; but rather an eternal inheritance of active and happy service. Within them stirs a sublime spirit, witnessing to their consciousness that, as they have a right to call God Father, because they love Him for His

love, they are not thus born as heirs of death and unquickened dust, but to an immortality of honour in the faithful exercises of those endowments bestowed by Him, and by Him sustained in motive and power for evermore, and by the possession of which they know themselves as sons of God. Anything short of an eternal inheritance in God and His universe, reason itself, when roused up to its vocation, convinces us must be thoroughly incompatible with the idea of divine existence as related to man, and manifested in man; and if the Deity were not thus related and thus manifested, man would have had no capacity to believe in the existence of God; but he does so believe as soon as he is capable of thinking religiously or consecutively, therefore he must act and expect accordingly, with the consciousness of being either at one with the Almighty, or else in will opposed to Him. Now, if a man feel assured that the Omnipotent owns and loves Him eternally, he cannot faint under His hand. He must have seen the SaviourGod, and therefore be capable of incessantly acquiring strength, from the touch of the Divinity by which he lives, to bear all things well, because his heroism is religion. Hence he sees that trial is but the path of glory-he sees the end already. The Spirit that moves him to obedience and to hope, is the Spirit that confers perfection and eternal freedom, and therefore he looks forward undauntedly, expecting, without doubt, to be mighty in thought and in action, but incapable of suffering when he shall enter into that world and state of life where there can be nothing to oppose a will submissive to Heaven."-George Moore, M.D.

"We are all too prone to fall into the error of the Assyrian leper. We are ready to do some great thing, while we despise the apparently trifling tasks which are actually imposed upon us.”Thoughts on Self-Culture.

"Some hearts are like certain fruits, the better for having been wounded.”Southey.

"St. Paul saith: Let not the sun go down on your wrath,' to carry news to the antipodes in another world of thy revengeful nature; but let us not understand the Apostle's words so literally that we may take leave to be angry till sunset, then might our wrath lengthen with the days; and men in Greenland, where days last above a quarter of a-year, have plentiful scope of revenge."-Old Fuller.

Notices of Books.

Millie Howard; or, Trust in God. By son, and corresponding questions are MRS. HENRY LYNCH. Edinburgh: added. A story is also given, along Johnstone and Hunter.

This is a well-meant attempt to illustrate, by the aid of fiction, some of the distinguishing features of the Christian character. The literature of our day is deluged with religious novels, which, in most cases, exhibit the religious feelings in false or morbid action, or are directly intended to promote some sectarian object. We have, therefore, greater pleasure in noticing a work, in regard to the soundness of which there can be no question. The chief defect of the book is, that Christian feelings and principles are illustrated more by Scripture quotations than by life and action. The Gospel is not interwoven with the texture of the characters portrayed, but hangs loosely and apart. The most familiar Scripture passages are thickly strewn through the pages of the work; but a much better effect would be produced were they embodied in actual life and character.

Thoughts on the Freedom of the Will: with Remarks on the Rev. James Morison's Lecture on this Subject in the City Hall, Glasgow. By the Author of "Morisonianism Refuted." Paisley. 1854.

If Mr. Morison has the genius of a heresiarch,—and his success would indicate as much, it certainly does not lie in his logic. But in this age of Mormonism and spirit-rapping, it requires but a small capital of logic and knowledge to start as the founder of an heretical sect. He has not succeeded in giving anything like a fresh aspect to the old Arminian controversy. He uses the old threadbare arguments, and handles them very indifferently. The pamphlet before us is a reply to some of these arguments. The reply, like the arguments, has nothing novel; but it has a good many apt and homely illustrations, which may help to bring down the subject to the level of the

classes for whom it is intended.

Mornings with my Class: Questions on Passages of Scripture to assist in Bible Teaching. By the Author of "Chapters on the Shorter Catechism." Edinburgh: Moodie and Lothian.

This little volume is not intended to serve as a text-book, but only as a model for Sabbath school teaching. Passages of Scripture are indicated for each les

with each lesson, to illustrate some moral or religious principle. We are glad to welcome every such attempt to make the Sabbath school both useful and attractive. It is plain that the Sabbath school must now be regarded as an essential element in the organization of the Christian Church; but, from its recent origin, its position is not sufficiently defined, and the exact mode of teaching required, not sufficiently understood. At a time when it is attempted to secularize our week-day schools, too much thought cannot be directed to the proper idea and function of the Sabbath school.

The Flower of the Family. Edinburgh: T. Nelson and Sons.

This volume indicates a hand of no ordinary skill in portraying character, especially the characteristics of childhood and youth. In this department of fiction the female authors of America possess an unrivalled skill. In the present case, the author, who is an American, succeeds in investing the story with no ordinary charm, although she does not resort to the usual aids of an intricate love-plot. Religion, in her hands, is employed not to check, but develope the affections of the home circle; and she has certainly succeeded in giving a delightful picture of a religious home. If we must have religious tales and novels, the present is as good a specimen as we would desire

to see.

The National Restoration and Conversion of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. By WALTER CHAMBERLAIN, M.A., Perpetual Curate of St. John's, Little Bolton, Lancashire. London: Wertheim and

Macintosh.

In this volume Mr. Chamberlain com

bats, and we think somewhat successfully, the opinions of those who doubt

the literal restoration of God's chosen people to the land of their fathers, by shewing that the prophecies regarding a restoration of this kind have never been

adequately fulfilled in past time, unless, indeed, we are to be contented with a most meagre and far-fetched interpretation, such as we would not apply to human writings, or to any other portion of the divine.

Under this head there are scattered up and down the work some most valuable

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