ageously elevated there some years ago by a few who, for their reward in this world, were consequently expelled from the national church, and amerced in their pecuniary means, has not been displayed in vain : but conformably with the character of attractive power through the Spirit, which is ascribed to it in the word itself, and which essentially belongs to it, has drawn unto the feet of IMMANUEL not a few of those citizens, who feeling themselves thrust out in the persons of their ministers, have naturally rallied around them in places of worship "without the camp," where, although bearing the reproach of Methodists or Momiers, before the world, they are now not only tolerated, and permitted to hold their meetings in peace, but enjoy the same municipal protection with the others. The principal of these independent places of worship, which also has an evangelical seminary of education, and a Societé des Missions attached to it, is the Oratoire the members of which (among whom are numbered the three ejected ministers, Mons. Gaspen, Bost, and Merle d'Aubigné) by no means have embraced any close dissenting or separatist principles; but only for freedom of worship and edification's sake, they have built for themselves this "house of prayer," at least until the national church and the venerable company of its pastors' shall be restored to a healthier spiritual condition than at present. This interesting and most useful establishment, so well deserving the sympathy and the prayer of all who wish for the extension of the Redeemer's kingdom, is the principal focus of that missionary zeal, which through the means of ministers, localized or otherwise, as circumstances may demand, and of colporteurs, is at present so effectively at work

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in some parts of France. And as money was wanting for the carrying on of these operations, it has pleased Him whose is the silver and the gold, and in whose hands are the hearts of all men, to add to this church, as a fruit of revived evangelical preaching, some of the wealthiest as well as the most illustrious (by their descent from ancestors whose pictures are to be seen among the original ones of the Reformers in the public library) of the citizens of Geneva-to the no small mortification of the Socinian party.

This latter body, though still forming an oppressive majority, and generally possessing the pulpits in those churches where once the men of God of the sixteenth century lifted up their voice, saying, “Fear God, and give glory to him," are greatly fallen in publie estimation since the time when, by legal persecution, they compelled their brethren who were more righteous than they, Mr. Bost and others, to turn round upon them in necessary self-defence-or rather in defence of their gospel, and prove them before the world to have trampled under their feet, at once, the word of God and the civil and ecclesiastical institutions of the Genevese republic. And they are now reduced to the necessity of preaching no doctrine at all in their ministrations; and of quietly suffering it,' not only that the ejected ministers should preach freely elsewhere within their walls, no man preventing them; but also that young men in the ministry, of the national church, upon whom the spirit of Elijah has fallen in at least equal measure, should occasionally mount their own pulpits, and from thence (as I was privileged once to hear in the old cathedral of St. Peter's) astonish and delight those that love the Lord, by a declaration of the whole counsel of

God, no less characterized by its uncompromising boldness than by the eloquence of style in which it was delivered. God has therefore not yet forsaken Geneva nor its national church. For there the gospel net ceases not to be cast, and on the right side of the ship too; and there still is an Elisha found, to direct leprous Naaman to the waters of Jordan: aye, and the little maid too, in the midst of families sunk in scepticism, indifference, or superstition, who, in her contracted sphere of opportunities for usefulness, is ready to confess her belief in the ears of her master that there is a prophet in Israel. I was much delighted to find that all the eminent divines whom I met and with whom I conversed at Geneva, among whom I would not omit to mention that good man and faithful evangelist, Dr. Malan, all hold in the strongest manner the view so ably defended by Mr. Carson, of the verbal inspiration of scripture. Ideas, they say, unclothed with words are but a mist of confusion; or rather they vanish altogether, and become nonentities; and they observe that it is not ideas which God gave unto his church, but tongues. Here then is the true infallibility in doctrine of the church of Christ; of which the synagogue of Antichrist, when she forfeited it by taking mere unwritten traditions, instead of written verities, for her rule of faith, has been driven to the necessity of fabricating a counterfeit, which is nothing better than a vile caricature.

I am happy to add, that prophetical subjects are not regarded by all the evangelical ministers at Geneva (as they seemed to be at the place from whence I last wrote) as only perplexing and profitless: they have been made even the subject of public lectures for children at the Oratoire. I am not, however,

aware that any there have yet arrived at any certain conclusion upon the point of the nearness of our Lord's second advent. I have only room to add, that a professor and some of the students, chiefly Germans, at the theological academy attached to the Oratoire, some time since were deceived by the pretensions of Irvingism. This calamitous event at first much distressed, and was a sore trial to its soberminded conductors: but the prompt measures that were taken at once nipped the evil in the bud, and it exists no more.

Once more farewell, dear friend, may God bless abundantly your useful labours.

D.

How little is all this varied scene of things regarded as the stage on which the Supreme Being is exhibiting his attributes, and guiding all the movements, however complicated, however minute or obscure, and causing them to effect the purposes that he has fore-ordained! How thankful should we be that he has pointed out to us the means whereby, whatever may become of our temporal interests, our eternal concerns may be placed beyond the reach of danger! -Wilberforce.

MY DEAR MADAM-I lately visited a spot in which you and many of your readers would take a deep interest. It is the scene of a Protestant martyrdom, which took place during the reign of Henry VII., and was attended by circumstances of greater cruelty than marked most of even those atrocious ceremonies.

I believe the name of William Tylsworth is not among those recorded in your late abridgment of Foxe's Martyrology. He suffered in the year 1506, at Amersham, in Buckinghamshire, a spot which was wont to receive the light of truth from no less a luminary than John Knox himself, and where the principles of the glorious Reformation had been adopted by a large congregation as far back as the year 1495.

Tylsworth was the first of a band of martyrs who were burned there in the cause of Protestant truth, and his sufferings were distinguished by the peculiar barbarity of his own daughter being compelled to set fire to the pile which was to consume her persecuted parent.

I stood on the scene of this unnatural atrocity a short time ago. It is a sunny, extensive field, sloping down the side of a hill, and overlooking a lovely woodland country. The quiet sunset was gleaming over the adjacent church and the forest trees; all was smiling and peaceful, and no apparent trace remained of the fiery cruelties once perpetrated there.