10. It is our duty to labour for the establishment and increase of this kingdom.

THY WILL BE DONE, IN EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.

11. It is our duty to submit absolutely to the Will of God, in precept and providence.

12. It is our duty to desire the accomplishment of this will.

13. It is our duty to seek the doing of God's will by others.

14. It is our duty to desire and aim after perfection in doing God's

will; or universal holiness.

15. It is our duty to imitate the perfect obedience of angels in heaven.

GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD.

16. It is our duty to feel dependence on God for all supplies of good.

17. It is our duty to seek these supplies day by day.

18. It is our duty to be contented with the allotment of the day. 19. It is our duty to resort to God for temporal mercies.

20. It is our duty to pray for the still more valuable supplies of heavenly food.

AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS.

21. It is our duty from the heart freely to forgive those who offend us.

22. This duty is especially appropriate when we draw near to God. 23. It is our duty to feel and repent of our sins against God and

man.

24. It is our duty to confess our sins.

25. It is our duty to implore the free forgiveness of God, for Christ's sake.

26. It is our duty to believe that God, for Christ's sake, is able and ready to forgive sin.

AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION.

27. It is our duty to dread the occasions of sin.

28. It is our duty to feel and acknowledge our own liableness to

fall into sin.

29. It is our duty to fly to God as the only means of escaping sin. 30. It is our duty to avoid temptation.

BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

31. It is our duty to abhor sin.

32. It is our duty to be vigilant against our adversary, the devil.

33. It is our duty to cry to God for deliverance from all the con sequences of the fall.

34. It is our duty to seek the influences of the Holy Spirit.

FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM, AND THE POWER, AND THE GLORY.

35. It is our duty to adore the omnipotence of God. 36. It is our duty to place his glory above all.

AMEN.

37. It is our duty to maintain to the end of our prayers, the spirit

of sincerity and earnestness.

38. It is our duty to expect an answer to prayer.

III. PROMISES.

OUR FATHER WHICH ART IN HEAVEN.

1. God, in Christ, will prove himself the Father of all sincere worshippers and true believers.

HALLOWED BE THY NAME.

2. Grace may be expected, to enable the believer to magnify and sanctify his name.

3. It is the purpose of God that his great and holy name shall be ultimately glorified.

THY KINGDOM COME.

4. The kingdom of God and of Messiah is certainly to prevail in all the earth.

THY WILL BE DONE IN EARTH, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.

5. The will of God shall infallibly be accomplished.

6. God's Holy Spirit will enable believers to render an obedience similar to that of angels and glorified saints.

7. True Christians shall one day perfectly do the will of God, in heaven.

GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD.

8. Our heavenly Father will have regard to our temporal necessities. 9. He will supply these, day by day.

AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS, AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS.

10. Grace will dispose and enable true disciples to exercise forgiveness towards those who have offended them.

11. Those who forgive shall be forgiven. 12. For the sake of Christ, the surety, God will fully absolve his people from all condemnation.

AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION, BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

13. God will preserve his people from being overcome of temptation. 14. God will hear the cries of sufferers, and give them escape from real evils.

FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM, AND THE POWER, AND THE GLORY, FOREVER.

15. Christian hope may expect every thing from a Father on the throne.

16. The power of God implies a promise of the utmost help and fullest salvation.

17. All glory shall redound to God.

18. The hearing of prayer tends to the glory of God.

AMEN

19. Prayer shall asssuredly be heard.

J. W. A.

THE FORCE OF TRUTH IN BOOKS.

FEW are ignorant of the admirable book called the "Force of Truth," by the Rev. THOMAS SCOTT, the commentator. In it he gives an interesting account of the great change in his religious views, from Socinianism to pure evangelical Calvinism. A beautiful edition of this valuable work is issued by our Board of Publication, and all who desire instruction should read it, and endeavour to promote its circulation.

Perhaps if the experience of all were published, there might be found many who have passed through a change similar to that of Scott. And thus the experience of multitudes might illustrate the force of truth. It is exceedingly interesting to trace the change in the late Rev. Dr. Milnor of the Episcopal Church. He was once a cordial hater of Calvinism; he became a no less cordial lover of all that is essential in it. You have another instance in the "Search for Truth," published by our Board.

My own early training was under Quaker influence; in my youth I rarely attended any other meetings except occasionally a prayermeeting. When I first became thoughtful on the subject of religion, I was both Pelagian and Arminian-on some points at least, for I had no system. Soon after, a Presbyterian Church was organized near where I lived, and I joined it at the time of its organization; but it was under New School influence, and in this connection and under this influence I was brought into the ministry. But I am now, so far as I know, on every point, thoroughly Old School. The change, however, in my views, from Nothingism to Calvinism, has been very gradual, and serves to illustrate the force of truth.

A good old neighbour used to lend me books; and among those which were serviceable to me I would name Doddridge's Rise and Progress, Baxter's Saint's Rest, Life of Harriet Newell, Levi Parsons, Pliny Fisk, Fuller's Gospel its own Witness, and Dickinson's Five Points. This last he afterwards gave me, and I have it yetan old copy, once the property of the late Rev. Methuselah Baldwin, of Scotchtown, Orange county, N. Y. Dickinson's Five Points! This made a Calvinist of me. "Precious Book," wrote an aged and infirm ministering brother to me lately-precious indeed! Our Board of Publication have published it; let it be read and scattered every where.

Another friend gave me Fisher's Catechism, and Symington on the Atonement; and the study of these works and many others, together with the Bible, has made me a thorough Calvinist and a Presbyterian of the Old School; and if I am, or have ever been, worth any thing to the church, it is because of books because of the force of truth.

I have read a very large part of the books published by our Board, and I feel deeply interested in their general diffusion. They work like leaven wherever they go. They have power; they do good. Scatter them abroad. The fruit shall be reaped in due time.

Now let me suggest to the reader,

1. If you have the means, buy books, and give them away. Let the thought of my old copy of DICKINSON'S FIVE POINTS encourage you in this. I suppose Mr. Baldwin gave it to B. H. C. and he gave it to me. Read "Grace Reigning," and go and do likewise.

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2. Buy some books and keep them to lend out. Have a little circulating library of your own, and thus you can be doing good in dozen places at once, and no one can tell where your influence will end. Remember my old neighbour who lent me books!

3. Send on a donation to the Board of Publication, and thus aid them in circulating books. They need your help, and a little given just now may put many books in circulation this winter.

W. J. M.

POPERY EXAMINED.

BELLARMINE'S NOTES OF THE CHURCH.

Who was Belarmine? Under what circumstances did he attain to the celebrity with which his name is associated? Why is he so frequently quoted as an authority in the Romish controversy? What

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weight should be attached to the positions which he has laid down and defended? and what are the celebrated NOTES or characteristics which he has affirmed to be indicative of the true and Catholic Church of Christ? These questions we propose to answer in detail, some of them very briefly and we shall then pass on to an examination of the reasoning by which he has endeavoured to show that the true Notes of the Church of Christ are only found to meet in the Church of Rome.

We are persuaded that the members of the Church, and our citizens generally, are in such a state of security and carelessness respecting the present state and efforts which Popery is making in these United States at the present day, that it is an incumbent duty to urge this subject with more earnestness on the public mind than our fathers felt to be needful in their day. We are no alarmists, we have no fears for the cause of God nor for the future triumph of the gospel over all the wiles and efforts of the man of sin. But it is the character of a prudent general to examine his position, especially when in the face of a relentless enemy, and though he may feel persuaded that his cause is a righteous one and his forces are adequate to the emergency, he is aware that it is essential to victory that they should be rightly marshalled and conducted with vigour until the forces of the enemy are swept from the field.

The following extract from a Romish journal which has been before the public for the last three months although written in a braggadocia spirit, and often setting up the skin of the lion when there is little or no life and strength within, yet contains such facts as demand attention from the evangelical churches of this great land.

"Within the memory of the rising generation, the Catholic Hierarchy of the United States was composed of only one old venerable Archbishop, with three or four suffragans and about one hundred priests. The Catholic population which was confined mostly to the eastern and northern States, were so few in number, that you could scarcely find them. Twenty years ago, Catholicity was unknown to the masses of the people in the southern and western States; twenty, nay, fifteen years ago there was but one Catholic journal published in the United States. Twenty years ago, a white choker in the backwoods, and even in the large cities of our country, could mount the stump or the pulpit and tell his congregation long stories about priest's horns, prohibition of the Bible, &c. &c. How changed is the picture! At this day our Hierarchy numbers about thirty archbishops and bishops, we have in all about fifteen hundred clergymen, and our Catholic population is large enough to employ the services of twice as many more. are no longer numbered by hundreds and thousands, but by millions. We are no longer confined within the limits of a few States, but we are spread throughout the whole country. We no longer meet in a private room of some obscure dwelling-house to worship, but the largest edifices and tallest spires that adorn

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