with their own blood, as with sweet wine, and all flesh shall know that he, the Lord, is her Saviour and her Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. He will cause the glorious Gospel to be proclaimed to the ends of the earth, and clothe it with Divine efficiency, that all nations may be won to his standard. He will make his enemies his footstool, triumphing over whatever may exalt itself against him, until his kingdom shall entirely occupy the world. Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O Most Mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth, and meekness, and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the King's enemies, whereby the people fall under thee. Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever; the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. Sing, O heavens, and be joyful, O earth, and break forth into singing, O mountains, for the Lord will comfort his people, and will, in majesty and might, claim the nations for his own.

Our Divine Redeemer has exhibited a most astonishing love. The God of Heaven, who made us, assumed our nature, and placed himself under the law, that he might obey, suffer, and die in our room, to deliver us from the curse, and secure to us unspeakable honors and privileges. Truly, this is "love all love excelling." The sacred writers bear ample testimony to the mysterious character of this love. They call the Gospel, on this account, "the mystery of the faith," "the mystery of godliness," and "the mystery of Christ." There is no better evidence of the cold ingratitude of the followers of Christ, than their backwardness to spread abroad over the earth a knowledge of this transcendant love. We are all guilty here; not a single man is doing his whole duty. We should all be at the work with our whole hearts, either sending or bearing the news of the cross to all men,

"Till nation after nation taught the strain,
Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round."

Remember also, it is no light thing to reject a Divine Saviour, and treat with contempt the overtures of his love. Why will not the impenitent multitude think

of this fact? The richest blood that ever fell to the earth has been shed for them, and yet they evince little more concern than when the blood of an ox is spilt. And this same despised Redeemer, will meet them on the judgment day! Who can picture their anguish and dismay, when, as they assemble before the bar, they shall espy upon the throne this same Jesus, whose offers of pardon they had disdained, and from whom they are compelled to receive the irrevocable sentence. They cannot escape-hills and rocks will refuse to cover them from his sight-they must behold his dread countenance, "with clouds of glory circled round," and openly encounter the fierceness of his wrath. Would we could speak to all stout-hearted unbelievers with an angel's voice, and solemnly warn them that they are not done with Jesus,-that they must meet him soon in all his Divine majesty, when he shall come upon his great white throne, and with his hosts of living chariots, to the judgment of the great day.

And finally, we have an important suggestion to make, arising from that controversy in which learned men have been engaged concerning the divinity of Christ. Never should the fact that minds of no mean repute are enlisted against us, shake any man's faith. This is easily understood. Men often decide what is reasonable and what is absurd, what is true and what is false, before they consult the sacred volume, and then they must torture whatever they meet with there into conformity to their views. We must exercise reason in relation to the teachings of the Scriptures, but due allowance must be made for the fact, that human reason is limited, blinded, and perverted. Our attention was once arrested by the following passage from the pen of a popular divine: "We have sat down in pensive grief, when we heard from the lips of tyros in divinity, solemn and unmeasured denunciations of reason in matters of religion."* This remark may be just, for so far as we exercise reason correctly, upon the Word of God, it can only throw a halo of glory around it. But, there is, evidently, too much unsound philosophizing over the Scriptures.

* Barnes in his Introductory Essay to Butler's Analogy.

There is too much importance attached to the decisions of a narrow and perverted reason. We are not at liberty to force the Scriptures into a complete parallel with any system of human philosophy we may be pleased to adopt. Man should turn to God with the utmost docility, and, as it were, receive the truth from his lips. We should love the testimonies of the Lord like David. "Thy testimonies are righteous and very faithful. Thy word is very pure, therefore thy servant loveth it. I do not forget thy precepts."-See Psalm 119th.

In conclusion, dear reader, we commend to you the song of celestial worshippers, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and blessing." "Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever and ever." May we be permitted to sing this song together in that temple where sits the Lamb "in the midst of the throne." Amen.

ARTICLE II.

INTERNATIONAL COPY-RIGHT LAW.

The subject indicated, has already excited an interest in the Republic of Letters, and elicited animated discussions in a few of our well-conducted and able periodicals. As the principles involved are intimately and essentially connected with the righteousness that exalts a nation, and also, with the temporal security and happiness of literary and scientific writers, it is hoped that a brief investigation, however humble and desultory, of the objections proposed and the advantages accruing from the establishment of such a law, will not prove entirely uninteresting or unprofitable.

That we may possess a clear and definite knowledge of the signification of the terms employed, we merely remark, by the international copy-right alluded to, we understand a law to be so ordained by the American

and English Governments as to secure to English authors the exclusive privilege of printing, re-printing and selling their original works within the United States and her territories, and also, to permit the same privilege to be enjoyed, on the other hand, by all American authors within the limits of Great Britain and her dominions. It must also, be mutually understood, that all English authors, while in the United States, shall enjoy all the privileges, rights and protection to which her own citizens are entitled in reference to works first published by them, and that the same privileges, rights and protec tion should be extended to all American authors while in Great Britain. Although we believe this to be a full and correct explanation of the phraseology, yet, so far as we have collected information, it appears that the design of such a law would be, not so much to secure to authors the exclusive privilege of republishing and selling their works abroad, as to prohibit other men from re-printing and selling them without their permission. This construction provides that no citizen of the United States shall re-publish the works of a British writer, nor any citizen of England the works of an American, except he shall first have obtained license by the purchase of the copy-right. According to this aspect of the case, the cardinal principles of equity, and the admirable direction of the golden rule, are prominently exhibited and vitally concerned; and, for our own part, we are convinced that an international law, with this special object in view, and to this effect, would not only be just, but would raise the standard of literary excellence, and greatly meliorate the condition of the wisest and most useful class of citizens.

When, by means of cultivating the soil, mercantile pursuits, or other honourable avocations, a person has succeeded in acquiring an estate, it is his own property. The laws of the land consider it such. He has a right to dispose of it as he pleases, either at home or abroad, and any attempt to deprive him of it, or to change his chosen method of its disposal, is regarded as an encroachment and an invasion. Every wise and good government will protect the merchant, planter and tradesman, in the enjoyment of their possessions, and in their pre

ferred disposition of the proceeds of their labour. What shall we say, then, with regard to the productions of an author? If, by the exertion of his intellectual powers in persevering and indefatigable study, he produces an original work, has he not a right equally inalienable and valid as that of the merchant or farmer, to prefer a claim to it as so much property, honestly acquired? The only conceivable difference is, that in the one instance, the acquisition is effected by physical, in the other by mental discipline and labour; and this difference completely turns the scale in favour of authors, since all men acquiesce in the belief, that if an indvidual can prefer a better right to one part of his property than another, it is that in the acquirement of which, external means have been most wanting. In the production and manufacture of almost all objects of value, the essential materials are supplied from without, and man only coöperates with nature and extraneous instruments in furnishing the articles. But the composition of a history, or treatise of any description, is the offspring of the unassisted toil of mind. External means are entirely wanting. It is supplied from abroad only with the paper and ink used for recording the work and affording the evidences of its accomplishment. But, we need not consume more time in substantiating this proposition, as it has long since been confirmed by the soundest and ablest moralists, that an author possesses a right as absolute and unquestionable as can well be imagined, to the proceeds of mental effort and toil, and that too, independently of any special enactment. Now, it necessarily follows, that the author has the prerogative to dispose of his book as he pleases, and that it would be nothing more than just for him to demand and receive the profits arising from its sale. But it were impossible to obtain a portion, much less the entire amount of such profits, unless he possess or lawfully acquire the exclusive right of re-publication. At present, publishers are not so scrupulously considerate and covetous as to request the consent of authors, or to remunerate them for their claims in the books which they desire to present to the public. This method of procedure is, in our humble opinion, unjust to the author, and would be at once condemned by pub