the gaiety of social intercourse-the frankness that spreads ease and animation around it-the eye that speaks affability to all, that chases timidity from every bosom, and tells every man in the company to be confident and happy. This is what I conceive to be the virtue of the text, and not the sickening formality of those who walk by rule, and would reduce the whole of human life to a wire-bound system of misery and constraint.-From Dr. Chalmers' Sermons. BODILY HEALTH.-Good men also should learn to be attentive to their health, and keep the body as much as possible the fit medium of the mind. A man may be a good performer; but what can he do with a disordered instrument? The inhabitant may have good eyes; but how can he see accurately through a soiled window ? Keep, therefore, the glass clear, and the organ in tune. We do not wish you to be finical and fanciful-to live in the shop of an apothecary, or to have a medical attendant always dangling at your heels, but be soberly and prudently attentive to the body. Rise early. Take proper exercise. Beware of sloth. Observe and avoid whatever disagrees with your system. Never overburden nature. Be moderate in your table indulgences. Let not appetite bemire and clog the mind. Medical authority will tell you, that where one disorder arises from deficiency, a thousand spring from repletion; and that the board slays far more than the sword.-Rev. W. Jay. ENGLAND THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH.-If we divide the globe into two hemispheres, according to the maximum extent of land and water in each, we arrive at the curious result of designating England as the centre of the former (or terrene) half, and an antipodal point near New Zealand as the centre of the aqueous hemisphere. The exact position in England is not far from the Land's End, so that if an observer were there raised to such a height as to discern at once the half of the globe, he would see the greatest possible extent of land; if similarly elevated in New Zealand, the greatest possible surface of water.-Quarterly Review. CHRISTIANITY AND INFIDELITY.-To a young infidel, who scoffed at Christianity on account of the misconduct of some of its professors, Dr. Mason said, "Did you ever know an uproar made because an infidel went astray from the paths of morality?" The infidel admitted he had not. 66 "Then," said the doctor, "don't you see that you admit Christianity is a holy religion, by expecting its professors to be holy; and that thus, by your very objection, you pay it the highest compliment in your power?" Religion refines our moral sentiments, disengages the heart from every vain desire, renders it tranquil under misfortune, humble in the presence of God, and steady in the society of men.-Zimmer man. CORRESPONDENCE. MISSION SCHOOLS. MY DEAR SIR,-One important branch of the missionary work is the education of native children in the mission schools, where "they are instructed, clothed, and fed at the expense of the Church Missionary Society, or of individual friends either in this or foreign countries, who are interested in the work. Many sums are collected from year to year in this country from schools composed of those who know something of the value of Christian instruction, from their teachers and other friends, and sent out to different stations for the support of these native children. My object in sending this communication is to draw the attention of the readers of your widely circulated journal to the fact, so that the plan might be adopted in other schools, where an interest for the heathen in the dark places of the earth has begun to be felt. In South India and Travancore, where there are about 50 or 60 scholars supported in this way from England, the annual cost for each one is from £2 10s. to £3. Sixty subscribers at one penny a month, or half that number at a halfpenny per week, would produce this sum; when it might be transmitted through friends to the particular station where help was required. I think this might be effected in many schools without diminishing the funds for the general purposes of the society; and I need not say how additionally interesting it is felt to be to the youthful mind, when it can be said that such a sum is raised for the definite, specific purpose of educating a pagan child. I am, &c., &c. May 14th, 1849. S. S. Y. GALATIANS iii. 20. Yours, &c., REV. SIR,-A solution of the following Scripture difficulty will greatly oblige May 7th, 1849. A CONSTANT Reader. "Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one." (Galatians iii. 20.) P. S.-Of course its connexion with the context should be explained. SUMMARY OF NEWS. "There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand." OUR readers will expect to receive some account of the position of our leading religious societies, whose meetings have been held during the past month in London. We begin with the Church Missionary Society. Its general fund for the year amounted to £101,003. 8s. 5d.; its Jubilee fund to £53,127. 10s. This last amount it has been determined to devote in the following way: £20,000 to the support of disabled missionaries and the education of their children-which added to £20,000 which has been already invested for the same purpose, will, it is trusted, be an ample provision for their necessities; £10,000 towards the endowment of native Christian churches, to meet subscriptions raised among these communities themselves. And the remaining portion of the fund to the support of ten additional missionaries, who it is hoped will be found and sent out in the course of the ensuing year. The proceedings of the annual meeting were rendered very interesting by the presence of Mr. Smith from Benares, and Mr. Townshend from Abbeokouta. The latter bore testimony to the beneficial effects of the cruising force on the coast of Africa. He said, "It is entirely through the instrumentality of British cruisers on the coast of Africa that we are enabled to carry on our work in Abbeokouta and Badagry." We were happy to see that the Bible Society's report gave an encouraging account of its labours during the past year. Its income has been £95,933. 6s. 1d. Bibles and Testaments put into circulation 1,107,518. The Tract Society's Jubilee Fund has amounted to £10,000, and we see that a portion of it is to be devoted to prizes for essays on improving the condition of the working classes in this country. We must not omit to notice the Home and Colonial School Society. Its operations are extending, and its labours becoming more appreciated, each succeeding year of its existence. It has sent out through the country 800 Teachers; and if we may judge from the specimens which we ourselves have seen, they are well calculated to superintend the education of our infant population. There are now in the society's buildings 132 Teachers in the course of training, and 470 scholars. While we are upon the subject of education, we must not forget to mention the labours of the London Hibernian, or Church Education Society for Ireland. It numbers in its schools 120,000 scholars, 46,000 of whom are Roman Catholics, and 15,000 from Dissenting denominations. The Bishop of Cashel mentioned that he was about to present a petition from 1,600 clergymen in Ireland against the government system of education as pursued there, and in favour of this society. A conversation on the subject took place in the House of Lords, when we were glad to see that the Bishop of London spoke of the duty of government to re-consider their educational measure, and introduce another, if possible, more in accordance with the feelings of the parochial clergy. The accounts from the Continent represent the disturbed condi he Grenfiles throug themetives Christina 1 T.S. (John v. 28.) A stance of the whole law, V. emition be, if we were left to ! V.28. (Gal. iii. 10.) enter into discussions about disputed beramine into our own sins and shortar much from what we see in others; some A. ER! STREET, 3. |