are taught that "God is a Spirit, and that they who worship him” aright, "must worship him in spirit and in truth." The absurdity of the language of mere compliment, when addressed to Him who searcheth the heart, is plainly pointed out: and the worship of our church is adapted, exclusively, to the use of those who desire and expect to enjoy on earth, in the courts of the Lord's house, that which may afford them a foretaste of, and fit them for, more refined and exalted pleasures at God's right hand for evermore.-Ibid.

EDITOR'S PORTFOLIO.

LITTLE TRIALS.-It is the little trials of life that are, perhaps, the most difficult to bear. We harden and fortify ourselves against the great ones. We manfully "breast the lofty surge" of seldom occurrence, but let the little fretting ripples of every day drift us from our course, and strand us upon the reefs and shoals of discontent.-Leon.

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A WARNING TO THE CARELESS.-"I saw her," says a pious clergyman, speaking of a widow who had indulged false hopes of heaven, on her dying bed, and listened to her awful regrets for time past-to her prayers that she might not die. It was a striking lesson. The night of death had overtaken her before she was ready; and the soul, on the verge of eternity, still clung to the shadows of time and sense. 'I cannot die, I cannot die!' she exclaimed. 'My Bible will rise up in judgment against me. I have forgotten God, and served the world, and now he is taking me away for ever. O, I cannot die!" Dear reader, take warning, I beseech you. The houses of God are open to you, the Bible is at hand, Jesus Christ still waits to be gracious, and death is perhaps very near. Then, examine on what your hopes of future happiness are founded. SCENERY AROUND HEBRON.-There is no part of Palestine, which I have visited, so well cultivated as the country around Hebron. On the evening of our approach to the city, we passed for miles through scenes of ravishing loveliness, varied with hill and dale, of wood and corn fields, and vineyards, illuminated by the rays of the declining sun. The prospect was enlivened by groups of men and cattle busy at the harvest. Nothing could be conceived more rich, brilliant, and smiling than this garden of Eden. Thoughts of the days of old rose up, to give their interest to a scene replete with patriarchal associations and historic events. But here there was no melancholy contrast, as this country elsewhere presents, of present desolation and departed glory. The teeming threshingfloors and the clusters of Eshcol, are proofs that the land is not unworthy of its ancient patriarchs and kings.—Jewish Intelligence. AFFLICTIONS FOLLOW THE GODLY MAN CLOSE IN THIS WORLD. He that goeth towards the sun, shall have his shadow follow him; but he that runneth from it, shall have it fly before him. So, he that marcheth with his face towards the Sun of Righteousness, that setteth himself to do the things that may be without offence to God and man, shall be sure to have afflictions close at his heels. As for

him that hath his back upon Christ, that maketh a trade of sin, his sorrows and vexations of spirit, like the shadow, are still before him in this world; but they will be sure to meet him in another.-Dr. Micklethwait.

MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCE.

AN ADDRESS TO THE CHILDREN OF THE
BROMSGROVE SUNDAY-SCHOOL,

ON THE JUBILEE OF THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY, TO BE

COMMEMORATED ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1ST, 1848. MY DEAR CHILDREN,-When you sit with your parents by the quiet fire-side at home, or with your Teachers at school, reading the word of God, you little think there was ever a time when there were thousands of living souls, but no Bible in England. But such a time there once was, and that too through many a long year, when throughout the length and breadth of our now highly-favoured country, not a single copy of that holy book was ever found. The people who lived in those days had never heard of God-had no ministers to teach them-no schools-and they never learnt to read. Instead of praying to God, they were used to pray to the sun and moon, and to frightful images made of wood or stone, and call them gods, though they could not help them, or hear what they said. Yes, our forefathers were heathens; and instead of sending their little children to school, they let them run wild, as the untamed animals around them. They had no comfortable home, as we have; for their houses were only straw or reed-roofed huts, built of mud, and hidden here and there amongst the mighty woods, or in the quiet valleys. The people themselves were half-clad savages; their bodies frightfully stained, their long yellow hair hanging in heavy locks upon their shoulders, and their blue eyes fiery with the evil passions of our sinful nature. Both country and people, then, were all wild, and dim, and dreary. How different is the same land, now sprinkled with pretty villages and churches, thickly set with rich and busy towns, so full of active hands and heads, the happy Christian land in which we are dwelling!

But, children, in other countries, over the great and wide sea, there are at the present moment thousands, aye millions of people, precisely in the same condition as were the people of England 2,000 years ago-the time of which I have been speaking. And, as some good people came from other lands to our country, and preached the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ-and thus sowed the seed of blessings we are at this moment reaping, so, in our day, there are some very good men, who have gone into these far-off countries to teach them, and to tell them of Jesus Christ-and these persons are called Missionaries. You know sermons are every year preached at church, in behalf of the Missionary Society; and that afterwards a Missionary meeeting is held in the town hall, and the money which is then collected, and also that deposited in the Missionary boxes during the year, is all spent in sending ministers and Bibles to the poor heathen, who in his blindness bows down to blocks of wood and stone! But this year we want to do a little

more, than is usually done, for the Missionary cause. And for this reason-this year is the Year of Jubilee, or the 50th year since our Missionary Society was first established. This, then, is the First Jubilee of the Society, and I think I may almost say, that not fifty out of all at present connected with our school, will live to see its Second Jubilee. Some few children may be spared to do so; but it is quite certain, some one else will then stand in my place, and that other Teachers will then instruct the classes now taught by those friends whom you now sit around. We, therefore wish now to do our parts, and also persuade you to do yours, in sending the Gospel to the people who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death! at the same time praying that it may have free course amongst those to whom it is sent, that the Sun of Righteousness may arise and shine upon them, with healing in his wings-that all the heathen, as well as ourselves, may know and do God's holy will on earth; and, through the merits of our Redeemer, and only Saviour Jesus Christ, hereafter everlastingly reign with him in heaven.

The first reason why this year is commemorated by our Missionary Society, as a Year of Jubilee, is that we may express our gratitude to the Lord for having enabled this Society to accomplish what it has already done. Fifty years ago, and it had no existence. At the present day it has, in various parts of the heathen world, 102 Missionary Stations, 125 Ministers from England, 14 Native Ministers, and 1,342 Teachers and Schoolmasters; all these are constantly employed in making known to the poor heathen the unsearchable riches of Christ. Nor have they laboured in vain ; for at the different churches and stations under their care, upwards of 13,000 persons, once heathens, and living without God in the world, now listen with joy to the promises of a living Saviour, declared to them by our Missionaries, and are adorning the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things! All of whom, too, regularly partake of the Lord's Supper, (and some of them will even walk from 200 to 300 miles, to be present at its administration,) thus publicly professing their belief in the Gospel of Christ-their determination to forsake their idols, and, for the future, worship and serve only the one living and true God-looking for salvation through him alone, than whom there is none other name given among men whereby we or they can be saved, even Jesus Christ the righteous. But, besides this, thousands of others, through the labours of our Missionaries, have been converted to the truth as it is in Jesushave died peaceful and happy deaths, and are now standing around the throne of God in heaven, forming part of that vast and countless multitude, "Redeemed out of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues'-from whose happy voices, universal songs of gratitude and praise to God and the Lamb, are day and night constantly ascending.

The second reason for the Jubilee commemoration is, that we may humble ourselves before the Lord of Missions, that we have not done more for this holy cause, than we have hitherto done. Not done more? I fancy I hear some child saying; yes, I answer, that we have not done more. But you will say again, Teacher, you have just told us what a great deal of good has been done by our Church Missionary Society, and now you say, what a little has been done. My dear children, I do say, and believe, that a vast amount of good has been accomplished by the Society, during the past fifty

years; but still, when we look forward to what yet remains to be done, all our past labour appears almost as nothing. Why there are, it is supposed, in all the various heathen countries, not less than six hundred millions of persons, who have never yet heard the Gospel preached, but are living like the wild beasts of the forest, and altogether ignorant of God! Yes,

"From Greenland's icy mountains,

From India's coral strands,
Where Afric's sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sands;
From many an ancient river,
From many a palmy plain,-
They call us to deliver

Their land from error's chain."

And if we divide amongst this vast multitude of poor neglected heathen, ALL the ministers sent out to them from England, Ireland, Scotland, America, and from every part of Europe, it will only give about two missionaries to every million of them ;-and a million is a thousand times as many as all the people living in this parish. Now I hope you see what I mean, by saying we have done but LITTLE towards spreading the Gospel amongst them. may we here exclaim-"Who is sufficient for these things?" children, The kingdom of God is before us, the Lord of the whole earth is with us, and who shall stay those who go forth in his might, and at his command!" By the voice of His servants, He is more than sufficient for them all.

Well

But,

The THIRD, and principal reason for commemorating the JUBILEE, is, that we may resolve for the future, by the grace of God, to do all in our power to forward the salvation of the heathen. We can all help; and it is certainly the duty of EVERYBODY who is able to help the missionaries, by giving a little money, since God has been so kind as to place us in a land where we are taught to know and love him. Let us, dear children, remember, how we once sat in darkness, and are now brought into light: let us all (you, as you grow up in your powerful, wise, and happy Christian land) let us ALL strive to do the work that GoD now calls upon us to do; for unto us, indeed, has much been given, and of us we know will much be required. Each of you give what you can, even though it be but a penny or a half-penny; every little, be it ever so small, will help, therefore do not be afraid of giving because you cannot give much; -"let him that hath little, give gladly of that little, for God loveth a cheerful giver." Yes, remember I ASK IT OF YOU NOT FOR MYSELF, BUT FOR GOD; and, whatever you lay out in this holy cause, God himself will one day repay you a thousand-fold, even in this life, and in the world to come, life everlasting. But there is another way in which you may all help, even if you have no money. You may all PRAY. You should pray to God both for the missionaries, and the poor people they go to teach. You should pray that the missionaries may be kept safe in all the dangers they go into, amongst savage benighted human beings, and have the help of God in all they have to do; and that the heathen may be turned from their idols, to know, and love, and serve the Lord. Then God will bless you, and all the ends of the world will soon be brought to fear Him. G. LACY.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

"There are many devices in a man's heart: nevertheless the counsel of the Lord that shall stand."

THE day on which this notice appears before our readers has been fixed as the commemoration of the Church Missionary Society's Jubilee Year; and many of them, we trust, will be devotionally engaged in its services. The Jubilee Tracts, which have been issued by the committee, will explain the circumstances which render this a period of such gratitude and thankfulness to God. The Prayers and Hymns which have been arranged, place these circumstances in a devotional form, so as to be presented as the expression of grateful hearts at the throne of grace. The great duty of evangelizing the heathen has now been recognized for some years by the Church of England, and the spirit of desire for their conversion has developed itself in this great work, among others, for the accomplishment of so blessed a result. And yet the efforts of the church are not yet such as they ought to be. We need labourers for the work, and money to make them useful in it. We need the spirit of Christian self-denial, which, out of poverty and need, ministers to the spiritual wants of others. We need constant and lively prayer, the working out and manifestation of this spirit, that the blessing of God may accompany the labours of man, and render them effectual.

There is not much Home Intelligence at the present time of an interesting nature. Precautions are being taken on all hands against that scourge of humanity—the Cholera-if it should appear in its aggravated form in England. The Act relative to Infectious and Contagious Disorders, has been put into operation; though with regard to contagion, it may be remarked, that medical observation has ascertained that the Cholera is not of this nature. At Hull much alarm was manifested a short time ago, in consequence of three cases having appeared on board a vessel from Hamburgh, where the disease has been prevalent for some time back. But on investigation, though it was decided that they were cases of Asiatic Cholera, there was found to have existed the greatest imprudence as to food, which, at this season of the year, would have generated under any circumstances a similar disease. But we can scarcely hope, however long delayed, that it will not ultimately visit this island -perhaps the herald of mercy as well as of judgment. As we write, we learn that undoubted cases of cholera have appeared in Edinburgh.

The Chartist Leaders have been tried and convicted. The five most prominent were transported for life, twelve imprisoned for two years, and others for eighteen months, with fines.

In Paris, the debate on the Constitution is still proceeding, and