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the whole nation, or at all on this remote generation, the sin of crucifying our Lord. We again repeat that Paul expressly attributes their fall to their going about to establish their own righteousness," and having "not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God." It might serve very well as a gathering cry for the ignorant and sanguinary crusaders of the twelfth century, but ill becomes enlightened christians, at this advanced period of bible knowledge. To us it appears the most extraordinary jumble of ideas, to talk of "praying for the Jews who crucified the Lord and desired that his blood might be on them and their children." They have long since passed into eternity, and we pray not for the dead. We should be surprized if any one were to assert "The English are not Christians, for they worshipped Woden, and Thor, and offered human sacrifices to their abominable idols." Does our correspondent charge upon the present Bishop of Jerusalem the sins that he enumerates? Or is he prepared to say that the Bishop, believing in Christ, is no longer a Jew? In either case we must take leave to differ from him; but we merely point it out as a specimen of the natural consequences of thus indiscriminately condemning the Jew. We do not see any allusion to Mahomet in the passages quoted. Mahomet never said "I am Christ; he never showed sign or wonder; nor was there any likelihood of his deceiving for a moment one of God's elect.

Believing the doctrine and discipline of the Protestant Church of England, when the first is rightly understood and the last rightly administered, to approach as near the standard of scripture as can reasonably be expected, we think it right that young

people should be brought up in accordance therewith; and we therefore, do not fear to injure the interests of our Church by being careful" to write such things only as are strictly consonant with" the inspired, infallible, and all-sufficient WORD OF God. CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH.

AND lo, the trumpet of God shall be sounded in one and another land, and Jerusalem shall be built up, and God's elect shall be gathered together;-(Matt. xxiv. 31.) events quickly succeeding each other ;and the end shall come, before many that have been hastening it shall be prepared. "The Lord of those servants shall come in a day when they look not for him, and in an hour that they are not aware of, and shall cut them asunder, and appoint them their portion with the Hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, (See Matt. xxiv. 44, 50.) There is therefore, need of caution when we give our money, or our prayers, to the cause of Missions. We are then linking ourselves to the hand that sways the universe. And he who drew the picture of a man striving with all his might to saw through the beam, which supported the ladder on which he himself was standing, gave but a faint idea of the folly of one who labours and prays, and invites others to labour and pray that God's Kingdom may come, whilst he so lives that the coming of that kingdom would inevitably prove his ruin.-Children's Missionary Magazine.

Review of Books.

HOLY SCRIPTURE THE ULTIMATE RULE OF FAITH TO A CHRISTIAN MAN. By the Rev. W. Fitzgerald, B.A., Trinity College, Dublin. -Seeley and Burnside.

THIS is the work of a learned man, writing for the learned, and disproving in a clear, quiet, effectual manner, the assertions, while he firmly opposes the notions, of such as would exalt human tradition into an adjunct to scripture where God has commanded the latter alone to be received-i. e. as a Christian man's rule of faith. Mr. Fitzgerald, in a most workman-like manner, neatly and noiselessly, unclasps one after another the links forming this notable chain of oral tradition, and leaves it a heap of useless, unconnected, incongruous fragments. He quotes very largely those celebrated personages "the fathers," but it is to prove how very far they are from

yielding the testimony so much depended on by our traditionists, not as bringing them forward to establish any thing asserted in the word of God, much less to confute it, as they blasphemously do, who, on such authority, would teach reserve in communicating religious knowledge, and other anti-scriptural inventions.

We certainly wish, however, that Mr. Fitzgerald had rather adopted the language of our article in making the assertion with which he sets out, in the very first sentence of his book. He says, "The only ultimate reason for believing any article of faith, which a Christian can consistently rely upon, is this-that it was delivered as part of the Gospel, by Christ and his apostles." We admit that he fully and satisfactorily explains himself on the point; but we imagine, for instance, an enquiring Jew, (of whom, God be praised! there are now very many,) taking up this truly valuable book; and we cannot but think how much more encouraging to such a one would be the language of the article, "Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation." . . In the name of which Holy Scripture it is added we understand "the canonical books of the OLD and NEW Testament." Our Author's language has the advantage of brevity; but there are some whom he would delight to instruct, who would be disposed to throw down the book on meeting such an apparent setting aside of the more ancient scriptures.

We consider this volume very important; and trust it will be found eminently useful, particularly by our clerical friends.

JACOB'S WELL. By the Rev. G. A. Rogers, B.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Curate of WestonSuper-mare.-Hatchards, &c.

AN exposition of that portion of scripture which relates our Lord's discourse with the woman of Samaria. Sound, practical, and pleasing, we can safely recommend it in these days when such recommendation involves a serious responsibility unless the work noticed has been carefully compared with the word of God. There is much of brevity and point in this running commentary, calculated to arrest the attention, and to remain on the memory: A decided advantage to the reader.

A COMPANION TO THE BAPTISMAL FONT, Being an abridgment of a Treatise on Baptism; designed as a help to the due improvement of that Holy Sacrament; As administered in the Church of England. By the Rev. E. Bickersteth, Rector of Watton, Herts.-Seeley and Burnside.

We can permit Mr. Bickersteth to abridge his own books, but should give little thanks to any one else who undertook to abridge them. In the present instance he has compressed into a neat pocket volume the leading points of his larger treatise on this important subject. We need say no more, having spoken of the original when it appeared. On the one great difficulty in the baptismal service-the thanksgiving for regeneration-Mr. Bickersteth, like Mr.