true that the committee, as such, unceremoniously condemned him for publishing things injurious to brother Arny, &c. Any one who will read the report of the proceedings, will see that the resolution here referred to is no part of the proceedings of the committee, but of the church when assembled. 2d. It is not true that the committee published these slanderous charges, for, as already stated, the order to publish was made by the entire church. 3d. There is no inconsistency between the resolution of the church and their act in publishing--for the resolution has respect to publications made by private individuals, before matters have been presented to the church at all, and does not respect the course a church may take, when she deems it proper to publish. The resolution explicitly affirms, that the church is the proper tribunal to which all cases of offence or difficulty between its members are to be referred for examination and adjudication, and, of course, assumes that she may do, if she deems it necessary, what she denies to the private member the right to do. We presume it will be admitted that if this distinction is not allowed, it will be difficult to justify the publication of this extra; but we apprehend it will be readily seen and appreciated by the unprejudiced, and shall not pursue it further.

Again, on page 47, Mr. Hall says:

"We do not dissent from the judgment of said committee, that the publishing of said letter was a sin against good order and Christian courtesy, but we believe in not charging a man with more than he is guilty of. But why did the committee pass censure first against me for publishing, and second against Arny? when his letter was the cause of mine? You may draw your own inference."

Here, again, the committee is charged with a judgment which was given by the church, and Mr. Hall is again at fault. Besides, it will be remembered, that the 6th resolution, to which Mr. Hall refers, does not pretend to state the time at which Mr. Arny was censured, but only the fact that his course and Mr. Hall's were equally censured, and that he had confessed his fault. This might have shown the church of which Mr. Hall was a member, that the church at Bethany had pursued a course towards Mr. Arny such as she might be expected to pursue towards Mr. Hall. But we presume that the intelligent reader will deem it trifling to consume further time in exposing such perversions as this.

With regard to the reasons given by Mr. Hall, and which seem to be adopted by the Elders who have signed the account of his trial, to justify him and them in treating with direspect the proposition of the church at Bethany, we have but little to say. Under the circumstances, they explain themselves and are of a piece with those

urged for not coming to Bethany on the original call of our committee. Mr. Hall's proposition was to settle difficulties between him and Mr. Arny-but as our committee was not engaged in this business, while we told Mr. Hall that it would be well for him and Mr. Arny to do so, we distinctly informed him that such a course would not cover the ground of discipline instituted by our church. A private settlement between himself and Mr. Arny could not be relied upon as a substitute for the regular public discipline of our church. His proposition was thus distinctly declined in its first form, and for these reasons. The proposition, made by Mr. Hall through Mr. Lard, was an alternative in the form of a threat, lawless and insubordinate, and, besides, too late, as it came after our church had acted. After all our efforts to get him here had failed, and he had positively refused, and thus compelled our church to proceed without him, he makes a proposition to set aside all her proceedings, and, in the language of one of his letters, for us "to back out of the unjust and untenable demand you (we) have made upon me (Hall) and meet me half way and have the matter investigated before a disinterested and impartial tribunal," &c. Such a proposition, under such circumstances, we presume, no church having any regard for good order, or its own dignity, would feel itself under any obligation to notice. On the contrary, we regarded public discipline as a matter under the control, not of the individuals who were the subjects of it, but as belonging to the churches. Therefore, in this matter, we did not consult Mr. Arny as to the course we should pursue, but our church; neither did we consult Mr. Hall, but his church. If the forms of discipline and the methods of settling difficulties in the churches are to be left to the parties involved, and made the subject of private agreement, just as the whims or the obstinacy of offenders may require, then we may hand over the kingdom and its laws to the lawless and unruly, and give that power, which was instituted for the control and discipline of evil doers, into the hands of those upon whom alone it should be exerted, and thus make the Christian church nothing more than a tribunal of wrangling, violence and shame. Upon these general topics we hope to speak again, without, however, any particular allusion to this case, of which we now, with heartfelt pleasure, take a final leave.

On behalf of the committee,

W. K. PENDLETON.

P. S.-It is proper to state, that so much of this report, &c., as requires the attention of the church will be duly considered and disposed of as in her judgment she may think judicious and just.

COMMUNINGS IN THE SANCTUARY.

NO. XI.

With thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light. Ps. xxxvi. 9. WE are here convened to dwell on themes of deepest moment; to engage in heavenly ministrations, and to redeem a few sweet hours from the evil days of earth's corroding cares. How sacred the moments which are thus ransomed through the divine and pervading efficacy of the name of Jesus!-of Him by whom we are ourselves redeemed from death and ransomed from the grave! To Him may they each one be consecrated! To Him may each one bear the tribute of its praise!

It is here that solemn thoughts become us! It is here that soulabsorbing themes await us in the vestibule of heaven to lead us to the inner temple of the divine abode. It is here that we are presented with the memorials of that death omnipotent which has doomed the grave itself to desolation, and forever abolished the domination of the powers of darkness. It is here that we are permitted to approach that perennial fountain of love from which we derive eternal life and joy.

How solemn should be our thoughts of futurity! How serious our communings with the unseen world to whose eternal shores we hasten! How mysterious the gloom in which it is enshrouded! How eventful the moment when that gloom shall vanish from before the unsealed vision of the soul! Surely that approaching future may command our soberest thought, and claim our deepest and most strict regard! Surely its immutable decisions may well engross the hopes and fears of deathless beings awakened to the dread realities which Truth reveals!

Who can contemplate the dissolution of the material frame without emotion! Who can meditate upon the inevitable hour of death, and prepare to resign this pleasing, anxious being without one longing gaze of fond remembrance! But ah! if death be momen

tous, how much more solemn is the thought of life! How much more serious the reflection that we live-that we are raised from the senseless dust to breathe the vital air; to gaze upon the works of God; to hear his words; to move, and act, and feel; to realize that we are moral and responsible beings; that our every word and action is chronicled in heaven, and every thought reported by an unseen but unerring stenographer of the soul! Ah! no, it is not

A GLANCE AT THE WORLD.

MORE than three-fifths of the race of men are idolators, though we are near the termination of the sixtieth century of its history.*

Nearly sixty generations of men, numbering 40,000,000,000, have lived and died since Jesus Christ brought life and immortality to light.

There are now 1,000,000,000 on the earth; 630,000,000 are idolators, 100,000,000 are Mohammedans, 6,000,000 Jews, 264,000,000 nominal Christians.

A few millions more than one-fourth have nominally recognized Jesus Christ as the Saviour of the world.

Of these, 130,000,000 are of the Roman Church, 56,000,000 Greek Church, 8,000,000 Armenians, 70,000,000 nominally Protestants.

There are 194,000,000 bearing the Christian name, to whom the Bible is a sealed book.

Only about one-fourth of the population of the globe are permitted to read the Bible.

Only about 40,000,000 are professors of any kind of Christianity; mere nominal Christians, one twenty-fifth of the population of the world.

Of these, about 25,900,000, one-tenth of nominal Christians, one-fortieth only of the entire population of the world are evangelical followers of Christ.

Therefore, at this very hour, thirty-nine fortieths of our fellow-men possess unregenerated hearts.

It is now nearly half a century since the commencement of the modern missionary effort; the following exhibits the brief results:

Two thousand missionaries, four thousand churches, three thousand missionary schools, two hundred dialects into which the Bible has been translated, thirty-two millions of Bibles scattered over the earth, in languages spoken by six hundred millions.

Then the disparity between the friends and foes of Christianity is greater and vastly more at the present day than it was fifty years since, when the missionary enterprize commenced. Yet the present position of the world, the great changes that are taking place, the promises of Christ, the language of prophecy, give strong evidence, and ought to inspire every believer's heart with hope that will induce him to act in hastening on the millennial state of the world. Mothars' Journal.

THE BIBLE.

THE Bible has been copied during three thousand years, as no other book ever has been. It has also shared the captivities of Israel, and the exterminating persecutions of the first Christians; it has gone through the darkness of the middle ages; it has been driven to the cells of the monks, and from all it has come forth like the children from the fiery furnace, with not a hair of its head touched. It fell into the hands of the Romish church, that great corruptor of every thing she touches-and that church had a powerful interest to obliterate those strokes with which it sketches her portrait as that of the great apostacy-and yet it has come from her hands unscathed.

All the libraries of the world have been ransacked for various copies and versions; and though all the manuscripts, from the third to the sixteenth century, have been examined a thousand times by innumerable critics,

An error of one century. This is the 59th, and not the 60th century of the world.-A. C.

many of whom had the impulse of a keen desire to discredit the divine record, they have discovered not a solitary reading which could cast a doubt on any passage, before considered certain.

Forty years ago, Claudius Buchanan, while in India, found in possession of the black Jews of Malabar, supposed to be a remnant of the dispersion by Nebuchadnezzar's first invasion, an immense roll 48 feet long and 22 inches wide, upon which a portion of the Scriptures had been copied by different hands. He procured and deposited it in the Cambridge Library. This was compared letter for letter with a printed copy of the Hebrew Bible. And it was found, that between the Hebrew text now in use in the West, and that manuscript so long used in the East, there were only forty petty differences, not one of which made the slightest change in the meaning of the text.

This work of making a thorough search of manuscripts, was made necessary by Rationalists; but it has resulted in their unanimous confession that they can gain no advantage from that quarter. Let none, then, be disturbed in his reliance on the infallible truth of the written record, by the pretence that errors of its transcribers have corrupted it. Its wonderful preservation from error in these circumstances is a mark of its divinity. A divine hand must have guarded it in all the way of its conveyance to us. Mother's Jounal.

WHY THE OCEAN IS SALT.

THE saltness of the ocean has usually been regarded as a special provision of Nature to guard against certain inconveniences which inight otherwise have resulted. The presence of so much saline matter in solution depresses the freezing point of the water many degrees, thereby diminishing the dangerous facility with which fields of ice are produced in the polar regions. It has been said that the salt is useful in checking evaporation, and also that it aids in preventing the corruption of the water by the accumulation of animal and vegetable remains. Without for a moment questioning the incidental benefits resulting from the circumstances under discussion, and which, in one case at least, are quite obvious, it may be suggested that the saltness of the sea may be considered as more an inevitable result of the present disposition of things, than a special arrangement expressly intended to fulfill a certain object.

The rain that falls upon the earth is due to the condensation of aqueous vapor previously existing in the atmosphere, and which is supplied in a great part by evaporation from the surfacethe area of the latter, compared with that of the land, being very great, necessarily so, perhaps, to furnish this requisite extent of evaporating surface. This water, as is well known, is perfectly fresh and pure, the saline constituents of the ocean having no sensible degree of volatility at that temperature at which the vapor had been raised. No sooner does it reach the earth than it becomes contaminated with soluble substances which it meets while floating on the surface of the ground or percolating beneath. It is thus that the waters of springs and rivers invariably contain a greater or less amount of alkaline and earthy salts, which all eventually find their way into the sea, and there remain, since there is no channel for their return. The condition of sea water is but an exaggeration of