speedily even in our days. Blessed art thou, O Lord, who buildest Jerusalem.

15. "Make the offspring of David thy servant speedily to grow up and flourish, and let our horn be exalted in thy salvation; for we hope for thy salvation every day. Blessed art thou, O Lord, who makest the horn of our salvation to flourish.

16. "Hear our voice, O Lord our God, most merciful Father, pardon and have mercy upon us, and accept of our prayers with mercy and favour, and send us not away empty from thy presence, O our King; for thou hearest with mercy the prayer of thy people Israel. Blessed art thou, O Lord, who hearest prayer.

17. "Be thou well pleased, O Lord our God, with thy people Israel, and have regard unto their prayers: restore thy worship to* the inner part of thy house, and make haste with favour and love to accept of the burnt-sacrifices of Israel, and their prayers; and let the worship of Israel thy people be continually well-pleasing unto thee. Blessed art thou, O Lord, who restorest thy divine presence to Zion.

18. "We will give thanks unto thee with praise; for thou art the Lord our God, the God of our fathers for ever and ever. Thou art our Rock, and the Rock of our life, the Shield of our salvation. To all generations will we give thanks unto thee, and declare thy praise, because of our life, which is always in thy hands, and because of our souls, which are ever depending upon thee, and because of thy signs, which are every day with us, and because of thy wonders and marvellous loving-kindnesses, which are morning and evening and night continually before us. Thou art good, for thy mercies are not consumed; thou art merciful, for thy loving-kindnesses fail not. For ever we hope in thee. And for all these mercies be thy name, O King, blessed and exalted, and lifted up on high for ever and ever; and let all that live give thanks unto thee. Selah. And let them in truth and sincerity praise thy name, O God of our salvation, and our help. Selah. Blessed art thou, O Lord, whose name is good, and whom it is fitting always to give thanks unto.

19. "Give peace, beneficence, and benediction, grace, benignity,

*That is, the Adytum Templi, which in the Temple at Jerusalem was the Holy of Holies, into which none ever entered but the high priest once a year on the great day of expiation. From this place after the Babylonish captivity were wanting the ark, the mercy-seat, the shechinah of the divine presence, and the urim and thummim, which causing an imperfection in their worship in respect of what it was formerly, a restoration of them seems to be that which is prayed for in this place.

and mercy, unto us, and to Israel thy people. Bless us, O our Father, even all of us together, as one man, with the light of thy countenance. For in the light of thy countenance, hast thou given unto us, O Lord our God, the law of life, and love, and benignity, and righteousness, and blessing, and mercy, and life, and peace. And let it seem good in thine eyes to bless thy people Israel with thy peace at all times, and in every moment. Blessed art thou, O Lord, who blessest thy people Israel with peace. Amen."

MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCE.

PROSPECTS IN INDIA.

FROM a recent publication issued by the London Missionary Society, we extract the following observations of a missionary just returned to his labours in India:

The natives of India are now far less attached to their ancient superstitions than they were; and the chain of caste is gradually melting down under the plastic force of European education and Christian truth. A general knowledge of the Gospel has spread far wider in India than in Spain and Portugal. Many may be found in the neighbourhood of all our Mission stations who would be able to give you as clear and correct an account of the leading doctrines and facts of Christianity as the children that are brought up in our Sunday-schools at home.

Mission schools to any number and extent can now be established in any part of this vast empire, with a reasonable prospect of their being well attended. Notwithstanding all the antagonistic efforts of the Brahmins, and other wealthy natives, to put down these nurseries of Christian truth, and to prevent the natives from sending their children to these low-caste schools, as they term them; yet it is a pleasing fact, that they are better attended than ever, and that at present there is a greater number of Hindoo boys and girls under Christian instruction than has been known at any previous period.

Never was there so wide and open a field for Christian effort as that of British India. We can not only operate on the outskirts of this vast empire, but we can enter the vast interior, and plant the Tree of Life in the midst of the region of the shadow of death. British Christians! how do these perishing millions claim your attention, your sympathies, and prayers. They are your fellowbeings, your fellow-subjects, and are fully open to the most vigorous efforts of the Christian Church.

Think, that for the past 2,000 years, they have been educated in the most polluting errors and degrading superstitions that have ever cursed our earth. Could we lift the veil of ignorance that has obscured the black crimes which have been perpetrated under the name and sanctions of Hindooism, what an amount of sorrow, wretchedness, and guilt, would be unfolded to our view!

Members of Christian churches, arise, arise to the help of the

Lord. We serve a great and good Master: we have a great workt before us, great promises to sustain us, and a great and glorious triumph is ensured by the Word of Him who cannot lie. Let us

not be weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."

WESTERN AFRICA MISSION.

DELIVERANCE EROM A LEOPARD.

August 16, 1848.

YESTERDAY a leopard assaulted one of our male candidates for baptism, and seriously wounded him. On visiting him I found him suffering much from three principal wounds which the wild animal had inflicted upon him; one in the left shoulder, another in the side, and a third upon the lower part of his left leg, the flesh of which is nearly separated from the bone. The poor man was in a very composed frame of mind: instead of complaining about the pain, as many would have done, he emphatically lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, "Please, Sir, truly God live there: thanks be to him! Not my strength, but he only, delivered me. If he had not been with me, I should now be dead." He had been to his farm to fetch a basket of Indian corn, and in returning home he met the animal lying in the path. Scarcely had he time to consider what it was, when the beast leaped upon him, but being quick enough to throw the corn toward the leopard, he escaped for this time without injury. The furious beast, however, was not yet satisfied, but rushed again four times upon the poor man, snatched a woollen cap from his head, and tore his blanket shirt all to pieces. During this struggle the man got hold of the beast's throat, and both fell on the ground. The man now saw a stone near him, which he took, and hit it on his antagonist's forehead. Upon this the leopard began to howl fearfully, and made away. It was shot the same day by the hunters, and I now have its skin in my possession. It measures five feet by three, which is considered rather large for those in the colony. These beasts have frequently frightened us during the last rainy season, being in our yard nearly every night, and carrying with them whatever prey they could.-Rev. Mr. Frey.

EDITOR'S PORTFOLIO.

The Teacher's life is exposed to numberless crosses and vexations, which embitter his task, try his patience, and depress his spirits. He, more than most men, requires some firmer support than the satisfaction which, under favourable circumstances, his natural inclination may find in the exercise of his calling. He, most especially, needs to be under the abiding_influence of a sense of duty, such as religion only can inspire. Even if it were no part of his office to instil religious principles into others, he would want them continually for himself. It is only when he has learnt to contemplate his work in the light which religion casts upon it, that he can

find in it a source of unfailing comfort, which will sweeten all his toils and hardships, and brace him to bear the burden and heat of his day. It is only when he has accustomed himself to consider his office from the point of view taken by the Apostle in our text, and to estimate it according to the place it fills in the Church of Christ, that he will feel its true dignity, and be ready to devote himself to it with his whole heart. And it is, above all other reasons, because the teaching and training of the institution we are now opening will be carefully adapted to impress him with a deep sense of his position as a member of Christ's spiritual body, and thus to still the natural craving for worldly gain and honour with the consciousness of his higher privileges, to hallow the round of his daily duties by a cheerful piety, and to fill it with the pure light of a heavenly peace; therefore it is that we venture to implore the Divine blessing upon it, and to commend it to the favour of all friends of religious education.-Bishop of St. David's Sermon, at the opening of the Training College at Carmarthen.

Let us not delude ourselves, nor attempt to delude others, with the vain imagination, that it is enough for a nation to devote large sums of public money to popular instruction; and to stimulate the intellectual faculties of all classes of society by literary and scientific knowledge. The eye may be dazzled by specious results of mental proficiency,-flattering reports may be drawn up and circulated of the progress of schools,-a great and complex secular machinery may be organised and centralised for the conduct of public instruction, as a neighbouring country has taught us by a terrible example, and yet no real permanent good may be effected; the national character may not be improved, it may not be more dignified, more humane, more Christian. On the contrary, it may have become more restless, more proud, more revolutionary, more unChristian, more anti-Christian. And so national instruction may lead to national ruin.

Let us be sure of this, that the true greatness of a people depends, not on popular instruction, but on CHRISTIAN EDUCATION. Let us, indeed, yield due honour to literature and science; but let us not expect from them what they are not able to perform. Let us not rely on them as adequate means and sufficient instruments for informing the judgment, controlling the will, and purifying the heart; in a word, for doing the work of the Holy Spirit of God. If we do, we shall find to our cost that we have been leaning on a broken reed-nay, more, the reed will pierce our hand. Not only shall we discover that they are insufficient for these purposes, but if we have trusted to them as sufficient, they will prove very pernicious. True, they give men force, but they do not place any bridle upon it; and force, unchecked by reason, and unguided by religion, will soon break forth into fury. Too often, alas! they make men proud, presumptuous, self-willed, self-confident, self-idolising, and restless; and so school them for sedition, and arm them for civil war. They give men Knowledge, but not Wisdom; and “knowledge," it is true, "is power," but WISDOM alone is PEACE.National Warnings on National Education. A Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth.

WONDERS OF A WATCH.-The common watch, it is said, beats or ticks 17,160 times in an hour. This is 411,840 a-day, and 150,424,560 a-year, allowing the year to be 365 days and six hours.

Sometimes watches will run with care a hundred years; so I have heard people say. In that case, it would last to beat 15,042,456,000 times. Is it not surprising that it should not beat to pieces in half that time? The watch is made of hard metal. But I can tell you of a curious machine which is made of something not near so hard as steel or brass: it is not much harder than the flesh of your arm. Yet it, will beat more than 5,000 times an hour; 120,000 times a-day; and 43.830,000 times a-year. It will sometimes, though not often, last 100 years; and when it does, it beats 4,383,000,000 times. One might think this last machine, soft as it is, would wear out sooner than the other. But it does not. I will tell you one thing more. You have this little machine about you. You need not feel in your pocket, for it is not there. It is in your body-you can feel it beat-it is your heart.

"I HAVE NO TIME"-He who cannot find time to consult his Bible, will one day find that he has time to be sick. He who has no time to pray, must find time to die. He who can find no time to reflect, is most likely to find time to sin. He who cannot find time for repentance, will find an eternity, in which repentance will be of no avail.-H. More.

RECENT LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS TO HER MAJESTY'S INSPECTORS OF SCHOOLS.

REV. SIR,-The Committee of Council on Education have received not only from Her Majesty's Inspectors, but also from various other well informed and influential persons, satisfactory accounts of the zeal with which the masters and mistresses, as well as the pupil Teachers, apply themselves to the fulfilment of their duties under the minutes of August and December, 1846. The consequent steady improvement in the attainments of these Teachers and their assistants, as well as their increasing interest in their profession, cannot fail to have a marked influence on the education of their scholars. My lords are confident that it would be difficult to raise the intelligence and inform the understandings of the children of the poor by a well-ordered course of religious and general instruction, without improving their manners and habits, as well as giving them a better tone of feeling in all their relations of life, and preparing them for a more faithful, assiduous, and thoughtful discharge of their duties. This conviction of the general tendencies of a sound religious and general education, has not, however, prevented their lordships from taking peculiar precautions that the selection of pupil Teachers shall be constructed with a strict regard to their moral qualifications, and to the prospect which the character of their parents may give that the instruction and training of the schools will be seconded by judicious domestic precept and correct example. Their lordships, before any apprentice is selected, are desirous of seeking from the managers of the school satisfactory assurances in these respects, and if the character of the family do not permit such a certificate, they require that the pupil Teacher shall board in some approved household.

At the close of every year their lordships also demand certificates