cross, they laid him in a tomb. But God raised him up from the dead: and he appeared for several days to those that came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people. And we bring you good tidings, that the very promise, which was made to the fathers, God has accomplished to us their children, in raising up Jesus; as it is also written in the second Psalm, You are my Son, this day have I begotten you." And because he has raised him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he has said thus, "I will give you the sure mercies of David." Wherefore also in another place he says, "You will not permit your Holy One to see corruption." Now David having served his own generation according to the will of God, fell asleep, and was gathered to his fathers, and saw corruption. But he whom God raised up did not see corruption. Be it known therefore to you, brethren, that by Him the remission of sins is proclaimed to you: and by him every one that believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses. See to it therefore, that what is spoken in the Prophets may not come upon you; Behold, yon despisers, and wonder, and disappear; for I perform a work in your days, a work which you shall not believe, if any one tell it you.""

MODEL VII.

PAUL IN ATHENS.

"Athenians, I perceive you are exceedingly addicted to the worship of demons. For as I passed along, and beheld the objects of your worship, I found an altar on which there was this inscription, 'To the unknown God:' him therefore, whom you worship without knowing him, do I announce to you. The God who made the world, and all things that are therein, being the Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands: neither is he served by human hands, as if he stood in need of any thing; he himself giving to all life, and breath, and all things. And he has made of one blood the whole nation of men to inhabit all the face of the earth, having marked out the times previously arranged in order, and the boundaries of their habitations: that they might seek after the Lord, if possibly they might feel after him, and find him; though he be not far from every one of us: for in him we live, and are moved, and do exist; as some of your own poets have said,- For we his offspring are.' We therefore being the offspring of God, ought not to imagine the Deity to be like gold, or silver, or stone, wrought by the art and contrivance of man. For though God overlooked the times of ignorance, he now makes proclamation to all men every where to reform, because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world righteously by that man whom he has ordained; of which he bas given assurance to all men by raising him from the dead."

The remarks made on the models before submitted, are applicable to these. The same cardinal topics are kept continually in view, and the attention of the hearers, whether Jew or Gentile, is directed to the fact of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ as the earthly consummation of the whole economy of salvation. But for the application of these models to our times, we must take into view all our peculiarities, and all the principles embraced in the directions given under the first commission, as well as the conduct of the Apostles to their hearers. As we have never seen an Evangelist of the primitive character, nor a Christian preacher who filled up the whole outlines of this calling as we have learned it from the Book, we shall in the next essay narrate the whole proceedings of Evangelicus,

which we proposed as a model to ourselves about ten years ago; but, never having been employed in the work of an Evangelist, we have never practised upon it. Yet, after ten years' reflection, as often as the subject has been called up to our thoughts, we feel the more convinced that such is the most rational and scriptural model which a Christian preacher could now adopt. It will only require a reasonable degree of Christian fortitude to commence, and to persevere in a course, which indeed would be almost as novel as it is rational and scriptural.

WELCH ANECDOTE.

A. C.

A WELCH clergyman invited to assist in ordination of a minister in some part of England, was appointed to deliver the address to the church and congregation; and having been informed that their previous minister had suffered much froin pecuniary embarrassment, although the church was fully able to support him comfortablytook the following singular method of administering reproof.

In his address to the church, he remarked, "You have been praying, no doubt, that God would send you a man after his own heart, to be your pastor. You have done well, God, we hope, has heard your prayer, and given you such a minister as he approves, who will go in and out before you, and feed your souls with the bread of life. But now you have prayed for a minister, and God has given you one to your mind, you have something more to do you must take care of him; and in order to his being happy amongst you, I have been thinking you have to pray again." "Pray again! pray again! what should we pray again for?" Well I think you have need to pray again. "But for what?" Why I'll tell you. Pray that God would put Jacob's ladder down to earth again. "Jacob's ladder! Jacob's ladder! What has Jacob's ladder to do with our minister?" Why I think if God would put Jacob's ladder down, that your minister could go up into heaven on the Sabbath evening, after preaching, and remain all the week; then he could come down every Sabbath morning, so spiritually minded and so full of heaven, that he would preach to you almost like an angel. O yes, that may be all very well, and if it was possible we should like it; but then we need our minister with us during the week, to attend prayer meetings, visit the sick, hear experience, give advice, &c. &c. and therefore must have him always with us; we want the whole of his time and attention." That may be, and I will admit the necessity of his daily attention to your concerns; but then you will remember, that if he remains here, he must have bread and cheese; and I have been told that your former minister was often wanting the common necessaries of life, while many of you enjoy its luxuries; and therefore, I thought if God would put Jacob's ladder

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down, your present minister might preach to you on the Sabbath; and by going up into heaven after service of the day, save you the painful necessity of supporting him.

TIME-SERVING CLERGY.

WHEN Elizabeth came to the throne of England, only two hundred, in nine thousand four hundred clergymen, were deprived of their office, by a change of the national religion from Popery to Protestantism. In other words, forty-six in forty-seven of all the clergy of the land, changed their religion with the change of government for pay.

CHRISTIAN INTEGRITY.

THE gospel requires of all who profess it, perfect integrity:-not only the not lying to one another in word, but in deed also; not only the shunning of all evil, but of the appearance of evil also. Christians are denominated the children of the day and of the light. "Let us who are of the day," says the Apostle, "be sober: for we are not of the night or of darkness." They are called children of the day, because they have professed to believe in an everywhere present and allwise God. They profess to believe in the perfection of his moral character, as holy, just, and good; and in their responsibility to his judgment seat. Because God is everywhere and sees and knows all things-because he is true and requires truth, and will bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil-and all Christians have professed to believe this -it is required and expected of them to live and act uprightly. As the darkness and the light-day and night-are both alike to God, they are alike, too, to all the children of God. They are true-they are honest before God and their fellow creatures. They will not do in the dark or in secret, what they would not do openly in the light of day. Or if any do, or would do this, they walk not, or would not walk uprightly, according to the truth of the gospel.

A CHRISTIAN'S WORD.

"BUT let your communication be yea, yea; nay, nay; for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil."-Jesus.

Why this law, and why thus enforced?

I answer: Because a Christian's word should be sufficient, without any other attestation. Such should be his character for truth aud uprightness, that his word should be as good as the word and oath and sealed bond of another man. And so it once was, and so we believe it still to be of all who are worthy of wearing the Christian

name.

But, oh! how many unworthy professors are there in our day! "Whatsoever is more than this"-that is, than a simple yes or no-" cometh of evil." The evil from which it comes, or which renders oaths, and notes, and bonds necessary in the world, is a want of integrity. If every man, at all times, told the truth, nothing more than a simple affirmation would ever be required; and notes and bonds only would be required, where the subject matter of them might otherwise be forgotten. "Let your yes, therefore, be yes; aud your no, no; lest you fall into condemnation." Always speak as you mean, and mean what you speak. Let your conduct correspond with your professions. Let every Christian act thus, and it will be enough to say, or have it known, as an attestation to the truth of any word or deed, that it was said or done by a Christian.

Lines written on the first leaf of a Bible, presented by a mother to her son. By whom written we know not; but they are full of beauty.

A MOTHER'S GIFT.

REMEMBER, Son, who gave thee this,
When other days shall come;
When she who had thy earliest kiss,
Sleeps in her narrow home.

Remember 'twas a mother gave

The gift to one she'd die to save.
That mother sought a pledge of love,
The holiest for her son;

And from the gifts of God above,
She chose a goodly one.

She chose for her beloved boy

The source of light, and life, and joy:

And bade him keep the gift, that when
The parting hour should come,

They might have hope to meet again
In an eternal home.

She said his faith in that would be
Sweet incense to her memory.

And should the scoffer, in his pride,
Laugh that fond faith to scorn,
And bid him cast that pledge aside
That he from youth had borne;

She'd bid him pause, and ask his breast,
If he, or she, had lov'd him best.

A parent's blessing on her son,
Goes with this holy thing;

The love that would retain the one,
Must to the other cling.

Remember!-'tis no idle toy-
A mother's gift!-remember, boy!

TRIBUTE TO FEMALE EXCELLENCE.

In the path of duty no sacrifice is with them too high or too dear. The voice of pleasure or of power may pass by unheeded; but the voice of affliction never. The chamber of the sick, the pillow of the dying, the vigils of the dead, the altars of religion, never missed the presence or the sympathies of woman. Timid though she be, and so delicate that the winds of heaven may not too roughly visit her, on such occasions she loses all sense of danger and assumes a preternatural courage, which knows not and fears not consequences. Then she displays that undaunted spirit, which neither courts difficulties nor evades them; that resignation, which utters neither murmur nor regret; and that patience in suffering which seems victorious over death itself.―Judge Story.

THE PREACHER OF THE GOSPEL.

It is a privilege-an honour-to preach the gospel-anywhere, and to any class of men. It is an honour to be permitted to preach in Christian lands; it is an honour to preach among the heathen. It is an honour far above that of conquerors; and he that does it will win a brighter and more glorious crown, than he who goes forth to obtain glory by dethroning kings, and laying nations waste. The warrior goes with the sword in one hand, and the torch in the other. His path is marked with blood, and with smouldering ruins. He treads among the slain; and the music of his march is made up of dying groans, and the shrieks of widows and orphans. Yet he is honoured, and his name is blazoned abroad; he is crowned with the laurel, and triumphal arches are reared, and monuments are erected to perpetuate his fame.

The man who carries the gospel goes for a different purpose. He is the minister of peace. He goes to tell of salvation. He fires no city; lays waste no field; robs no one of a home, no wife of a husband, no child of a father, no sister of a brother;-he goes to elevate the intellect, to mould the heart to virtue; to establish schools and colleges; to promote temperance, industry, and chastity; to wipe away tears, and tell of heaven. His course is marked by intelligence and order; by peace and purity; by the joy of the domestic circle, and the happiness of a virtuous fireside; by consolation on the bed of pain, and by the hope of heaven which cheers the dying.

Who would not rather be a preacher of the gospel than a bloodstained warrior? Who would not rather have the wreath that shall encircle the brows of Paul, and Schwartz, and Martin, and Brainerd, than the laurels of Alexander, and Cæsar?-Albert Barnes.