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of our standard. One paragraph from the preface may be taken as an illustration of this three-fold objection: "In considering this subject, it should be borne in mind that the Potestant and Roman Catholic systems have the same origin-the same power of consecration and ordination being transmitted by an uninterrupted succession from the apostolic times; that they both spring from the same root, and. although they form separate branches, that each branch points towards heaven, so that nothing should induce a person of one persuasion to harbour an unkindly feeling to one of another, or to presumo to think that outside their own Church there is no salvation, which is, in fact, to doubt the power of the Almighty to extend the blessings of Christianity to the whole of mankind."

The Duty of Irish Presbyterians to their Church at the present crisis in the Sustentation of the Gospel Ministry. By JAMES MCCOSH, LL.D., D.D. Belfast: C. Aitchison.

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DR. McCOSH considers it " tory to Presbyterians in Ireland to find that they are shut up into a well-defined path of duty at this particular time." There is no choice left, he believes, "but the two: endow Romanism alongside of Protestantism; or, preserving existing personal rights, let every Church be thrown on its own resources." Dr.

McCosh does not hesitate for one moment, and he says, 66 'Surely no Evangelical Protestant pleading the name of Luther, or of Usher, no orthodox Presbyterian claiming an ecclesiastical descent from Knox, will hesitate between the two." In these circumstances he summons his co-religionists to consider their position and to prepare for the future, which he believes to be near at hand. His words are seasonable and weighty.

New Facts and Old Records: Plea for Genesis. By S. R. PATTISON, F.G.S. London: Hodder & Stoughton. AN admirable "plea" this is-by one who is at once a competent geologist and a devout Christian. The style is clear and as dispassionate as any man of science could desire-all the more dispassionate that the author feels himself standing on safe ground. Mr. Pattison does not pretend to meet every difficulty. "Both records," he says-Genesis and Creation-" have chasms; not yet, perhaps not ever in this life, to be bridged over by human understanding." But, he says, we will not speak of reconciliation, they are brothers who have never differed. Let us take time to learn their language, and we shall

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even find it so. The one with mute eloquence, the other with fervent words, alike tostify, 'Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.""

Images in the Windows of Churches: Protest against them. By GEORGE ROCHFORT CLARKE, M.A. In Letters addressed to the Bishops of Oxford, London, and St. David's, and the Vicar of St. Martin'sin-the-Fields. London: Seeley, Jackson, & Halliday.

WE hope there are some readers who have sufficient patience to follow this doughty Iconoclast through his long small-type letters to their Lordships of Oxford, London, and St. David's; but we cannot profess to be of the number. An Address to Pope Pius IX., Bishop of Rome; with an Introductory Letter to Napoleon III., Emperor of the French, on the State of the Roman Catholic Church in 1868. By the Author of "A Letter to the Emperor of Russia, on the Invasion of the Turkish Principalities in the Crimea; and an Address to the Plenipotentaries on the Affairs of Italy: considered in a religious point of view." London: Published by the Author, 53, Paternoster Row.

IF Rome and France and Russia would but listen to the author of these hundred. pages we should have no small abatement of great evils under which Europe and the world now groan. It would be, of a certainty, the dawn of the millennium. Outlines of Apologetical Theology: an Introductory Lecture. By Rev. JOHN CAIRNS, D D., Professor of Apologetical Theology to the United Presbyterian Church. Edinburgh: William Oliphant & Co.

THE students of the United Presbyterian Church enjoy a rare privilege in having such a man as Dr. Cairns to instruct them on those great questions which are included under the title of "Apologetical Theology."

The Union Question: its status quo, and the present Duty of its Promoters. By ANDERSON KIRKWOOD, LL.D., Glasgow. Glasgow: David Bryce & Co. ENGLISHMEN find it very difficult to understand the Ecclesiastical questions which agitate Scotland, and few indeed care to understand. But for those who do feel an interest in them, the pamphlet now before us furnishes important and satisfactory information. "The time has not yet come," we fear, when the various sections of non-established Presbyterianism can be built into one goodly temple.

London;

Church Tracts for the Times. John Snow & Co. THESE "Tracts for the Times" are not from Oxford, but from Nottingham. They treat of "The Real Presence of Christ," "Successors of the Apostles," "Apists and Papists," "The Sacred Rail, or Confirmation," "Independents: what are they, and why ?" and "My Parish." We commend them heartily. Our Home Mission Stations should be well supplied with them. Their form-more like little books than tracts-is pleasing and attractive.

The Final Triumph of the Church of Rome. A Sermon preached on the 10th May, 1868, by the Rev. JNO. FOSTER, of Plaistow. London: F. L. Robertshaw. THE Prime Minister of England has lately been telling the world some of the dreadful things which must happen in the event of the severance of Church and State; and his special fear seems to be that in that case the Church "must break into endless sects and schisms, which would be finally absorbed by the tradition and discipline of the Church of Rome." Mr. Foster takes this prophetic warning as his text, and discusses it in an able, temperate, and admirable sermon.

A Glimpse of the Great Secret Society. London: William Macintosh. THIS pamphlet contains first of all, "An introduction connecting the present with the past," and then the "Report on the Constitution of the Jesuits, delivered by M. de la Chatolais, Procureur General of the King to the Parliament of Bretagne, on the 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 5th December, 1761." Readers who want pleasant and easy reading must not open it. But controversialists and others, who do not grudge labour in order to master the subject, will find it useful.

London:

The late Charge of the Bishop of Salisbury considered; and in regard to its fundamental doctrine of the Sacerdotalism of the Christian Ministry, shown to be Anti-Scriptural, Anti-Anglican, AntiChristian. In Three Letters to an Incumbent of the Salisbury Diocese. By the Rev. E. B. ELLIOTT, M.A., Incumbent of St. Mark's, Brighton. Seeley, Jackson, & Halliday. WE are one, thoroughly one, with Mr. Elliott in his views of Christian doctrine and of the Christian Ministry, and are thankful for every voice that is raised in protest against Anglican Popery. But to us, in our simple-mindedness, it is passing strange to find a Presbyter proving the doctrines of a Bishop of his own Church, a Bishop in the true Apostolic succession,

to be Anti-Scriptural and Anti-Christian! Of one thing we may rejoice, that as the times now are, the Presbyter may do this without any bodily fear of "correction by fire."

"Ecce Homo;" its Character and Teaching. By EDWARD ASH, M.D. London: W. MacIntosh.

DR. ASH makes out a strong case against "Ecce Homo"-but we suppose we must be content to wait for the revelations of reserved opinions with which we are to be favoured in the sequel to this now famous work. At the same time, there are many things in "Ecce Homo" which no sequel can justify.

Sinful and Righteous Heresy. A Sermon preached in King's-road Chapel, Reading. By JOHN ALDIS. London: Elliot Stock.

"IT has often occasioned surprise," Mr. Aldis says, "that France, in its great Revolution, could pass in a few months from abject Popery to defiant Infidelity. The two are, however, only opposite faces of the same thing." Of this he finds an illustration in a book (which suggested the subject of the sermon before us) entitled "The Comedy of Convocation," which "shows how closely Priestism is allied to Atheism," and the logic of which, if pushed a little further, would root out all faith. "One of the chief speakers in this book adduces this as the great wickedness of Protestantism, that it allows every man to choose his own religion." Mr. Aldis discusses this alleged heresy in a clear, manly, and eloquent discourse.

Is not the Church of Rome the Babylon of

the Apocalypse? From "Lectures on the Apocalypse." By the Ven. CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, D.D. London: Protestant Association, 11, Buckingham Street, Strand.

WITHOUT regard to any political purpose which this extract from Archdeacon Wordsworth's "Lectures" may be intended to serve, we believe with our author, that the Church of Rome is the Babylon of the Apocalypse.

On certain Moral Aspects of Money-getting. By W. T. GARDNER, M.D., Professor of Medicine in the University of Glasgow. Glasgow: James Maclihose.

THIS is an Address to a Young Men's Association expanded into a goodly pamphlet. It contains a good deal that is curious and interesting in its quotations from classic authors. But we do not feel, as we read it, that it has much power to produce moral and salutary impressions with reference to "money-getting."

What is the Talmud? A Reply to the Article in the Quarterly Review. By the Rev. C. SWARTZ, D.D. London: Elliot Stock.

THE writer of a recent famous article in the Quarterly Review is a Jew who does not believe in Christ-so Mr. Deutsch is characterised by Dr. Swartz-and yet he spoke of " our Saviour," and said "it is the glory of Christianity" to have done this and that. But with all this show of belief in and reverence for Christianity, the Editor of the Jewish Chronicle exulted in the article as a deadly blow given to a "book called the New Testament." This said book, however, has recovered from many blows supposed to be deadly by those who inflicted them, and shows no sign now of impaired life or approaching

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death from the assault of this last-born champion of the Talmud. Jesus was himself put to death by the votaries of the unwritten traditions of the fathers, but he had power to take his life again," and he dies no more. The written traditions of the Talmud are powerless against the life which He now lives in His holy Gospel. Brief as Dr. Swartz's Lecture is, it contains materials sufficient to prove that there is far more of contrast than of similarity between the ethics of Christianity and the ethics of the Talmud. And out of the few pages of Talmudical wisdom which we have here, we could make out a strong case against the Rabbis of later Judaism, and in favour of Him who was, what they were not, a Teacher come from God.

CONGREGATIONAL REGISTER.

July-August.

[To prevent mistakes and delay, all communications for the Register should be addressed to the Editor, 2, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, E.C., and marked on the envelope "For Congregational Register."]

ASSOCIATION MEETINGS.

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May. Congregational Union of Victoria in Melbourne. Chairman, Rev. A. M. Henderson. Discussions on-" Vacant Churches and Pulpit Supplies ;" "The Ministers' Provident Society;" Organisation of Branch Churches;" and "The Circulation of the Christian Witness."" June 11.-Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec at Hamilton. Chairman, Rev. R. Robinson. Papers were read on "How can we better work our Mission Fields ?" by Rev. W. F. Clarke; on "How can a Church best work its own Field ?" on Doctrinal Uniformity: how far desirable and attainable," by Rev. K. M. Fenwicke.

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Pastor), by Revs. J. Spence, D.D., and T. Davies, B.A.

July 15.-Eltham (Rev. J. Marshall, Pastor), by Revs. Samuel Martin and Alexander Raleigh, D.D.

July 27.-Calne Free Church (Rev. E. Edwards, Pastor), by Rev. Newman Hall, LL.B.

July 31. Thornton Heath (Rev. H. Lee, Pastor), by Revs. R. D. Wilson and Newman Hall, LL.B.

Aug. 6.-Eastwood, near Nottingham, by Rev. Dr. Halley.

CHAPELS RE-OPENED.

July 17. Sardis, Pembrokeshire, by Revs. J. M. Jones, W. Thomas, and D. Thomas, D.D. (Pastor, Rev. D. Matthias.)

July 21.-Princes' Street, Gravesend, by Revs. J. Spence, D.D., and J. W. Boulding. (Pastor, Rev. B. H. Kluht.)

July 21. Headgate, Colchester, by Revs. J. Stoughton and E. Jones. (Pastor, Rev. E. Miller, B.A.)

July 28.-Cirencester, by Rev. T. W. Aveling. (Pastor, Rev. H. Ashbury.)

July 30. Kington, by Rev. D. D. Evans. (Pastor, Rev. J. L. Jones.)

SCHOOLROOM RE-OPENED.

London Road, Chelmsford, by Rev. Dr. Edmonds. (Pastor, Rev. G. Wilkinson.) ORDINATION.

April.-J. Legge, M.A., Brighton, Victoria. Introductory discourse, Rev. W. R. Fletcher. Prayer, Rev. W. R. Lewis. Charge, Rev. A. M. Henderson.

RECOGNITIONS.

May 17, 18.- Rev. T. S. Forsaith, Woollahra, New South Wales. Sermons by the Revs. W. Slatyer and J. P. Sunderland. Mr. J. Fairfax, Kevs. T. Roseby, T. Gainsford, W. Graham, and J. Scott, B.A., also took part in the services.

July 14.-Rev. A. W. Johnson, Wooburn. Addresses by Rev. R. Bulmer and C. Robbins. Sermon by Rev. J. C. Harrison.

July 28.-Rev. W. Dorling, Buckhurst Hill. The Revs. E. T. Egg, J. Nunn, J. Kennedy, M.A., C. Aylard, J. Chew, and S. Conway took part in the service. A. Fraser, Esq., gave a statement respecting the Church and the call.

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Rev. H. F. Walker, Uppingham, to Pendlebury, Manchester.

Rev. J. Jefferies, Wheatley and Great Haseley, to Peppard.

Rev. W. D. Aston, Burton-on-Trent, to Bodmin.

Rev. S. Gladstone, Goole, to Kirkham. Rev. T. Hall, Dublin, to St. John's, Newfoundland.

Rev. J. Morlais Jones, Narberth, to Lewisham.

Rev. J. Ellis, Ewell, to New Tabernacle, Old Street Road.

Rev. D. Nimmo, Peckham, to Victoria Parade, Melbourne.

Rev. C. S. Y. Price, Emerald Hill, to Geelong, Victoria.

Rev. R. Brown, Garafraxa, to Green Settlement and Douglas Village, Canada.

Rev. G. Sale Reaney, Taunton, to Wycliffe Chapel, Warrington.

Rev. T. Edwards, Rubery, emigrated to Australia.

Rev. E. Ebbs, of Aurora, Illinois, returns to Canada, to be pastor of the Independent Church, Ottawa.

Rev. A. Russell, M.A., Bradford, to Drighlington.

RESIGNATIONS.

Rev. A. McGill, Barton, Canada.
Rev. D. Macullum, Warwick, Canada.

Rev. D. Johnstone, Glasgow.

Rev. W. D. Simon, has withdrawn his acceptance of the call to Keighley. Rev. H. Ault, Kilsby.

DEATHS OF MINISTERS.

May 17.-Rev. W. Waterfield, Green Ponds, Tasmania. Age, 73. Length of ministry, 42 years.

July 21.-Rev. G. Rogers, Bomereheath. Age 72. Length of ministry, 41 years. July 29. Rev. T. Pinchback, Manningtree. Age, 93. Length of ministry, 50 years. July 30.-Rev. A. F. Shawyer, Delph. Age, 57. Length of ministry, 33 years. July 31.-Rev. J. Alexander, Norwich. Length of ministry, 50 years. Rev. P. Anderson, M.A., of New Length of ministry, 30 years. July. Rev. John Coyle, of Forfar. Length of ministry, 2 years.

Age, 75. July. Lanark.

August.-Rev. F. Evans, Ulverstone. Ministry, 35 years.

DEATHS OF MINISTERS' WIVES. May 27.-Mrs. Kent, wife of Rev. C. S. Kent, Camden College, Sydney, New South Wales.

July 16.-Mrs. Dobson, wife of Rev. S. St. N. Dobson, Dublin.

July 22.-Mrs. Horne, wife of Rev. D. Horne, Hanley.

August 4.-Mrs. Rawson, wife of Rev. J. Rawson, Burley, near Leeds.

Aug. 12.-Mrs. James, wife of Rer. T. James, Little Haven.

TESTIMONIALS.

To Rev. S. Gladstone, on leaving Goole. To Rev. D. Johnstone, on leaving Great Hamilton Street, Glasgow, for New Zea land-Purse.

To Rev. J. Humble, on leaving Martock -Purse.

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To Rev. T. Edwards, Rubrey for Melbourne-Plate. To Rev. W. Gill, on leaving WoolwichEpergne, dessert stand, and antique clock.

To Rev. J. Adey, on resigning his charge at Bexley Heath-Purse.

To Rev. J. H. Cadoux, on resigning Weathersfield-Timepiece.

To Rev. R. W. McAll, on leaving Bir mingham-Plate.

To Rev. W. Griffith, on leaving Hitchin -Silver inkstand.

To Rev. H. Ault, Kilsby, on retirement through ill-health-An address and a purse.

THE MERCHANTS' LECTURE Will be delivered (D.V.) on Tuesday, Sept. 8th, in the Poultry Chapel, by the Rev. Samuel Martin, at noon precisely.

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CONGREGATIONAL MAGAZINE.

OCTOBER, 1868.

THE "GREAT MOUNTAINS."-THOUGHTS ON A VISIT TO THE HIGHLANDS.

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Thy righteousness is like the great mountains.”—Psalm xxxvi. 6.

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THE sacred poetry of the Jews is full of reference to mountains and mountain scenery. They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed but abideth for ever. As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth even for ever." (Psalm cxxv.) "Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name." (Psalm lxxxix. 12.) "Before the mountains were brought forth or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God." (Psalm xc.) "The mountains shall depart and the hills be removed; my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee." (Isaiah liv. 10.) "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be cast into the midst of the sea." (Psalm xlvi. 12.)

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These and other Scriptures, full of mountain imagery, are very plain in their meaning, and lodge themselves at once in our hearts. Not so the language of the thirty-sixth Psalm :-"Thy righteousness is like the great mountains." These words fasten themselves on our minds and are easily remembered; but their meaning is far from obvious. May we be permitted to associate them with what is now an old story.

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