A CHRISTIAN MINISTER'S LIBRARY.

To that portion of the Christian ministry who can read the Sacred Scriptures, in their original tongues, and who, from their education, must frequently stand on the walls of Zion, to defend the Ark of the Covenant from the assaults of Infidels and Heresiarchs, we recommend the following library, as a portion of their armor and munitions of war, offensive and defensive:

1. The Hebrew Bible-Simonis Biblia Hebraica.

2. Analysis Critica Practica, Psalmorum. This valuable work gives a critical analysis of every word in the Psalms of David. 3. Gesenius' Hebrew and English Lexicon, or Baxter's Analytic Dictionary. 4. Leigh's Critica Sacra. 5. Septuagint, Leipsic edition. 6. The London Polyglott, containing eight languages-Hebrew, Greek, Latin, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and common English version. This is a great luxury. It may be purchased for $70, neatly bound. 7. Campbell's Four Gospels. 8. M'Knight's Epistles. 9. Stuart's translation of the Romans, with critical notes. 10. Stuart's translation of the Hebrews, with critical notes. 11. Robinson's Harmony of the Four Gospels, in Greek. 12. The Englishman's Greek Concordance of the New Testament. 13. Robertson's Greek Lexicon, Canterbury edition, 1676, if it can be found; if not, Scapula. 14. Bretschneider's Lexicon. 15. The English Hexapla, London, 1841. This valuable work contains the Greek text, after Scholz, with the various readings of the received text, and the principal Constantinopolitan and Alexandrine manuscripts, and a complete collection of Scholz text, with Griesbach's edition of A. D. 1805. The six versions are Wickliffe's, Tyndal's Cranmer's Genevan, Anglo-Rhemish, Authorized, 1611. There is in it a valuable historical account of the English translations.

16. For every day use, Greenfield's Greek New Testament, with a Greek and English Lexicon annexed. 17. Bloomfield's do. 18. The Critical Greek and English New Testament, with the Greek text of Scholz; readings textual and marginal, of Griesbach, with the variations of Stevens, Beza, and Elzivir, London edition. These last constitute the itinerating Christian preacher's vade mecum.

For the evangelists and elders of churches, who read only the English tongue, we commend the following. [Such of those in our first class who have not the following works, had better, if conve nient, add them to their library.]

1. The Common English Version of the Polyglott Bible, London

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edition. 2. The Holy Bible, containing the authorized version, with some 20,000 emendations or alterations, plates and maps. It is, indeed, in itself, a condensed and valuable commentary on the Com. mon Version. 3. Cruden's English Concordance. 4. Townsend's Bible. 5. Coit's Bible. 6. Horne's Introduction, 4 volumes. Anderson's Annals of the English Bible, 2 vols., London. 8. PriIdeaux Connections. 9. Shuckford's Connections. 10. Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible. 11. Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Ed. by J. Newton Brown.

12. Giesler's Text Book of Ecc.

History, 3 vols. 13. Jones' Church History. 14. Neander's Church History. 15. Waddington's Church History. 16. Neal's History of the Puritans. 17. Josephus. 18. Lord King's Primitive Church. 19. Cave's Primitive Christianity, 20. Campbell's Lectures on Ecclesiastical History. 21. Campbell's Pulpit Eloquence. 22. Taylor's "Ancient" (not Primitive) Christianity. 23. Paley's works, in 1 vol. 24. Sherlock on Providence. 25. Ernesti on Interpretation. 26. Greenleaf on Evidence. 27. Taylor's Manual of Ancient History. 28. Barrow on the Supremacy of the Pope. 29. Campbell and Purcell's Debate on Popery. 30. D'Aubigne's History of the Reformation. 31. Guizot's Modern Civilization. 32. Campbell and Owen's Debate on the Evidences of Christianity. 33. Campbell and Rice's Debate on Baptism. 34. Gaussen on Interpretation. 35. The Christian Baptist, Burnet's edition, stere otype. 36. Christian Baptism, with its Antecedents and Consequents, now in press. 37. Infidelity refuted by Infidels. 38. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. 39. All the Bridgewater Treatises on the Being and Perfections of God in Nature. 40. Whewell's Elements of Morality. [His Bridgewater Treatise on the cosmical arrangements of the Universe, with Bell's on the Human Hand, are enough on these subjects.] 41. Comprehensive Commentary of the Bible. 42. As a work of literature, Clark's Commentary.

To these I might add, out of my library, many miscellaneous works and treatises, but these are the best works I have found in many hundred volumes. As Virgil said of farms, I say of libraries : Praise large libraries, but study, or cultivate, small ones. And as

a regular hearer of the debate between Luther's party and their opponents, on seeing a reformer, who read no book but the Bible, always routing his opponents, said, so say I, Cave homini unțuș libri-Take care of the man of the one book,

A. C.

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UPPER CANADA BIBLE SOCIETY.

THE following is from the pen of our devoted brother, Ex Consul Buchanan, of Canada West. Its moral is very much in season, even in this latitude. The Lord works no miracles now in carrying out his great work of human redemption from ignorance, guilt, and bondage. He has left it to the church until he come. realize her glorious and awful responsibilities!

May she

A. C.

TO THE SUBSCRIBERS TO THE UPPER CANADA BIBLE SOCIETY, AND TO ALL WHO PROFESS TO REGARD THE BIBLE AS THE WORD OF GOD.

My Fellow-Sinners: I submit, for your consideration, sentiments chiefly taken from a work of a clergyman of the Church of Scotland, delivered in London. I have no reason to doubt but you believe the Bible to be from God, and that all who will obey it will partake of the pardon of their sins, through faith in the death of Christ upon the cross, and that there is no other sure way to obtain happiness hereafter, nor indeed in this life, if the Bible is not the source we look to for guidance. In the fear of the Lord, in view of death and judgment to come, I ask you to measure how you value that blessed book, and how others are to judge-God alone knows your hearts and motives, while all who read the report of the Bible Society, delivered last March, will see from the sums subscribed, how the contributors value that blessed book, as it respects their souls, and the souls of those to whom they contribute to send it. The Apostle James says, "faith without works is dead," and the blessed Saviour says, every tree is known by its own fruit." By the following abstract, taken from the report, exhibits the value placed on the Bible: 61 contributed 72d., 46 each at 1s., 23 at 2s. 6d., 23 at 5s., 24 at £1, and one at £2, Think of this fruit of your faith the next time you kneel down in prayer; if you rise at ease, with your estimate before God, as to your love for your souls and your fellow-sinners, may the merciful God lead us all to repentance, and may it be proved by our future course, if the Lord spares us another year. Recollect that the Lord "loves a cheerful giver;" can we expect a blessing upon our labors without fruit? Let us not plead poverty; the widow that had but a little meal, and two sticks to make a fire, to bake her last cake for herself and son, yet divided it with a poor old man, and see how she was blest in this life, and is held forth in the Bible for an example. Only in proportion as we value the salvation revealed in the Bible, can we have hope in death. May the Lord bless the Bible to all our souls! Beginning a new year, may we all be led to begin a devoted course of faithfully reading the Bible, and in judging our actions by what the Lord enjoins, for "if we judge ourselves we shall not be judged." We believe just as we feel, and we feel so far as we act, " doing, instead of intending, is all essential." I am aware, to many, these observations will not be

pleasing; they may be regarded as an exposure. I am not aware that faithful dealing as to our soul's interest is ever acceptable exposure, and faithfulness in love to our souls, may lead to repentance, but the day is coming, that every penny we have withheld or devoted to the Lord will be revealed, and shall be condemned or approved, as we were moved thereto; when condemned the day of repentance will be past. The awful sin of the present day is lukewarmness and want of faithfulness, in those who profess to be authorized servants or ministers of Christ; yet blessed be God, the terms of mercy and forgiveness is held forth in the Bible to all sinners, who will flee to the Lord Jesus for pardon, and seek to the Lord to be upheld by the Holy Spirit in rendering obedience to the blessed Bible. If I offend herein I pray to be pardoned, having alone in view to call the attention of my fellow-sinners to the way of mercy. May the Lord bless these imperfect efforts for Christ's sake-Amen.

One who works and feels in the spirit of
FALLS OF NIAGARA, Dec. 25, 1850.

THE PUBLICAN.

CHURCH EDIFICATION-No. II.

BROTHER PENDLETON-Dear Sir: In considering the subject at the head of this article, it may not be amiss to take some notice of the subject of church organization, as a proper organization is indispensable to capacitate a church to minister properly to its own edification, as also to attend to cases of discipline that may occur in the body; indeed, the discipline of the church, when properly administered, is an important means of edification. A church, in its most simple organization, is a body composed of a number of believers, who, having submitted themselves to the government of the Lord, solemnly agree and covenant with each other to live together in that capacity, and to meet together in one place, for the purpose of keeping the ordinances of the Lord's house, and to "edify one another;" but when this is done, its organization is still imperfect: to perfect which, there must be selected and ordained suitable per. sons to fill the offices of elders and deacons—a plurality of each class-for such, we learn, was the case in the primitive churches, and we have professed to take them for our models. The epistle to the church at Philippi, (a church more highly commended, perhaps, than any of the apostolic churches, and against which not a word of complaint is uttered,) was addressed to all the saints in Christ Jesus at that place, "with the Bishops and Deacons." Is it not, then, evident, that this church had a plurality of both these classes

of officers? We are, therefore, led irresistibly to the conclusion, that they were necessary; not only to the perfection of its organization as a church, but that they were necessary to the objects of that organization; the keeping the ordinances of the Lord's house and the edifying of the body; and hence it follows, that without such organization, a church is not capacitated scripturally to attend to these important duties, as we cannot suppose that the Lord would institute supernumerary offices or officers, or that he would perform or enjoin works of supererogation; and with the views advanced above, agrees the general teaching of the scriptures. We read, Acts xiv. 23: “And when they had ordained them Elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, in whom they had believed." And again, Tit. i. 5 : “ For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain Elders in every city." And again, Heb. xiii. 24: "Salute all them that have the rule over you," &c. The organization, therefore, of no church, an apostle being judge, was complete, without a plurality of both Bishops and Deacons; and whatever was necessary to perfect the organization of an apostolic church, is equally necessary to that object in the present day. This we presume no one is prepared to gainsay. It is true, however, that in prophetic imagery, we read of a little horn that came up among ten horns, looking more stout than its fellows, in which were eyes like the eyes of man," shadowing forth him that should speak great words against the Most High," and "think to change times and laws;" but we, as a people, profess to have renounced the authority of this personage, and to have escaped out of his dominions. But we think it would be well for us carefully to examine our whereabouts, and see if we have, in fact, altogether emerged out of the smoke of the great city; and examine our practice, as well as our principles, that we may ascertain whether we may not be still catering to some of her traditions or customs; and also to watch the tendency of things, lest haply it may be found, that we are building again some of the things which were destroyed, and thus make ourselves transgressors.

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We would here remark, that in our opinion, the great desideratum with us, at this time, is an efficient and devoted eldership in each congregation-one that fears God, and is willing to labor for the promotion of his cause, enjoying the confidence of the brotherhood, and which shall be honored by the congregation as the scriptures require; not only in being very highly esteemed in love for their work's sake, (for this is right and proper, and, indeed, is indis