him. 'Jerry,' says I, where are the legs of you? what are they doing under you, that don't be after him?' With that, away the poor boy run. And what could I do, but stay where I was, and screech? Well, just as he was turning for the corner out of my sight, a gentleman who saw me screeching to every body to follow him, caught hold of Johnny by the collar of his little jacket. What has this boy done, that you are hunting him this way?' said the gentleman; and with that he took and shook the life out of him: 'what has he done, says he?' 'Oh, sir,' says I, (and he going to shake him again,) he has done nothing at all, but only to run away from his poor mother; and 'twas here I found him at last.' 'Well then,' says the gentleman, here he is for you,' and he put Johnny into a little shop, and he gave us both a fine advice. For my part, I did'nt know where I was, my heart was so glad; for all I spoke hard to Johnny, though I did'nt bate him till we got home.

Well, what have I more to say? The same evening we turned our backs upon Cork: we stopped that night at a house by the road-side, and I held Johnny between my two hands till the sleep came over them; and I brought him home safe.'

SEEKING COUNSEL.

THE Woe menaced to them that take counsel, but not of the Lord, is a denunciation that ought to be borne in mind more generally than it is. God, by the mouth of the apostle James, has said, that if any who lack wisdom ask it of Him, it shall be given him: yet how frequently do we find this most blessed assurance put, as it were, aside, and the perplexed soul turning to almost any quarter rather than the Source of all wisdom-the Father of lights Himself! We are provided with the written word, which is declared to be a lamp to the feet of those who desire to use it; and we yet need daily admonition to remember its illumining power and purpose. It is very desirable that young believers especially, should be less anxious to inquire the opinions of their fellow-mortals, and more willing and desirous to be taught of God. He has bestowed on fallen man a revelation of his holy will, in all that concerns us: we are taught to prize that Book beyond all the dear, all the precious things of earth we are encouraged to refer to it, under the teaching of the Holy Spirit, for daily direction: and we have before us, in that volume, a long series of historical proofs that none ever sought in vain the face of that heavenly guide. Yet, alas! how prone are we to overlook our precious privilege, and to "take counsel" in any form rather than as an answer to the believing, watching, prayerful inquiry, "Lord, what wilt THOU have me to do?"

Review of Books.

THE PEACEMAKER: laying forth the right way of peace in matters of Religion. By Joseph Hall, D.D. successively Bishop of Exeter and Norwich. Seeleys.

THE name of Bishop Hall carries with it sufficient weight, it may be believed, to render the bare announcement of this re-print a recommendation. We wish to add more, notwithstanding; for a thing however admirable in itself, and profitable for all seasons, may possess an enhanced value from its peculiar suitableness at some great juncture. Now, we consider such to be the case with regard to the very small and very precious book before us: it is just what is most needed at this very time, by the church in general, and by Christians individually. The first chapter is a complete antidote to the semi-popish delusions held by the bewildered sect of the Puseyites, in our day. It is the glorious character of simple scriptural truth, that it furnishes a reply to every form and combination of error, even as if it had been originally levelled against that particular

manifestation of it to which this truth is applied. Bishop Hall's book was written long ago: but it meets with marvellous exactness the existing evils of 1837.

THE BRITONS AND THE SAXONS; or a History of England, from the earliest times to the Roman invasion. Religious Tract Society.

THIS very pleasing little history appears to be just what we have heard many Christian mothers wishing to find for their children. It is concise, simple, and interesting: embellished with a number of neat wood-cuts, and, throughout, interspersed with profitable reflections, and scriptural allusions, of which the value will be appreciated when larger books, written by worldly men, come, in the course of education, into the hands of the young student. We regard it as a matter of incalculable importance, early to establish this association between profane history and the word of God. It is still a desideratum in very many branches of necessary knowledge; and the sooner it is supplied, the better.

SELECT PASSAGES, for a Morning Portion. From the Sermons and Conversations of a Clergyman. By one of his Hearers. Fourth Edition. Hamilton and Co.

As some of our readers may, like ourselves, have been hitherto ignorant of the existence of this small

volume, we beg leave to assure them that it is a very pleasing one, and calculated to do much good. The clergyman is the Rev. W. Marsh, whose praise is in all the churches.

THE CHRISTIAN WARRIOR wrestling with Sin, Satan, the World, and the Flesh. By the late Isaac Ambrose. Abridged, methodized, and improved, by the Rev. Thomas Jones, of Creaton, Northamptonshire. Seeley and Burnside.

NOT having read the original work of Ambrose, we cannot say how far a modern hand has succeeded in improving the production of an older pen. We are most pertinaciously attached, not only to the matter, but to the very manner of those who went before: insomuch, that if we could afford to be extravagant in any thing, it would probably be in the accumulation of old volumes in black letter. However, we are willing to accept at the hands of such men as Mr. Jones of Creaton, a new version of an old book: though the one before us is not of the very antique class. In substance this volume is truly precious. The author opens a deep view of the power and craft with which every Christian must expect to be assailed by his great enemy, and furnishes the militant soul with cautions, directions, and encouragements, of inestimable value to all engaged in warring the good warfare; that is, to every real Christian upon earth.