scriptural or unscriptural, but the Synod has not been discussing that point. I will only express my full conviction that one of the marriages referred to in the Shamrock Street memorial is altogether in opposition to the law of the Lord Jesus, and with regard to the other, I must say that I am very nearly of the very same opinion. I think I could give good reasons for my opinion, but think it would be wrong for me to enter upon the scriptural discussion.

Mr. Johnstone of Duke Street congregation, Glasgow, did not believe that these marriages were unscriptural and incestuous. Dr. Eadie had most cor clusively proved that there was no r hibition of them in Leviticus, and tainly there was no prohibition c' in any other part of the Scriptr The Moderator then read motions before the house. Robertson and Dr. Strut their motions, in order t' might be between Mr and Dr. Brown's.

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ting, till within a week of his eath on the 2d March, 1791, in the eighty-eighth year of his age. "Leisure and I," said Wesley," have taken leave have of one another. I propose to be busy availers as long as I live, if my health is so long artment; indulged to me. Lord, let me not live taturies, no to be useless." He was favoured with on the a constitution vigorous beyond that of reprobat ordinary men, and with an activity of it was no spirit which is even less frequently to weil. If a be found than bodily health and strength. e doing of a "Ten thousand cares," he was wont to a criminal say, were no more weight or burden to moment be de- his mind than ten thousand hairs were 5, though told to his head." His manner of life was dug out of its favourable to longevity. He rose early, have fed on it for kept his mind in a pleasant state, was then hung up to temperate in diet, continually in motion, and lay down at night with nothing to keep him waking or trouble him in sleep.

METHODISM.

great rivers usurings. It spread much by its concomonts, and the great ous movement was octrinal antagonism which Na adjusted. The earliest got over this movement was thx father was a rector moolnshire, where he

MATTHEW HENRY, THE COMMENTATOR.

ABOUT three miles from Whitchurch, in Flintshire, on the road to Wrexham, there is a small township, in the parish of Malpas, called Iscoed; and in the seventeenth century there stood a farmhouse by the wayside, called Broad Oak. It had long belonged to a family of the name of Matthews. Philip Henry, one of the ministers ejected by the Bartholomew Act, in 1662, had married a

Tr. Matthews. Broad li. 17: I think it was that which melted me." He was ordained to the ministry when twenty-five years of age, and Chester was the scene of that ministry for twenty-five years. In 1712, he

THE CROW'S NEST FOR CHILDREN.

daughter of Mr. Matthews. Broad li. 17: I think it was that which melted me." He was ordained to the ministry when twenty-five years of age, and Chester was the scene of that ministry for twenty-five years. In 1712, he removed to Hackney. His labours here were short, as they were pleasant. His horse one day fell under him, and he was severely injured. "Pray for me," he said to friends around him, "for I cannot pray for myself. Sin is bitter; but I bless God I have found in His word supports." His last utterances were syllables and short sentences, like dewdrops from lips which had been refreshing to many souls. On THE TWENTY

Oak became a refuge for Philip Henry when driven from his living, and within three weeks after reaching it, his wife gave birth to her second son. In his diary, the father has the following note of the birth of this child:-" We have no reason to call him Benoni; I wish we had none to call him Ichabod." Matthew Henry was the boy then born. The character of that boy was formed by his father's private ministry at Broad Oak. On one occasion his father had been preaching on The Grain of Mustard-seed," and Matthew, after the sermon, told his little sister that he hoped he had received "a grain of grace," which in time might come to something. In a memorandum written in October, 1675, when he was only thirteen years age, he says: ·- "I think it was three years ago that I began to be convinced, under a sermon by my father, from Ps.

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SECOND DAY OF JUNE, 1714, apoplexy silenced all utterance, and the great commentator fell asleep in his fiftysecond year. "We gathered the mantle of the dear Elijah," says his sister, "and having taken the remains to Chester, lodged them in the silent tomb."

II. How did Moses describe to the Israelites the land which they were about to possess?

III. Did Joseph ever yield to a sinful custom prevalent in Egypt?

IV. How many passages give a circumstantial account of Christ raising the dead?

V. Who were the kings that withstood Moses, and what became of their country?

VI. Name four Jewish kings who came to violent deaths.

VII. A priest lived in the time of Solomon, survived through the seven succeeding reigns, and had an honourable burial. Who was he?

VIII. Which is one of Paul's finest definitions of the gospel?

IX. Where does Christ refer to the amusements of children?

Extracts from the Pages of the Living and the Dead.

WHICH ARE THE GREATEST CHARACTERS ?

SOME men you can never understand, never fathom. They always seem to be enveloped, not only in a mist, but in a dense fog. I don't want a man to unfold too soon, but I like to see of what stuff he is made. I like to find that he is ingenuous. I like to read his sentiments, and get into his heart.

Character may be operated on and moulded by a thousand circumstances which are continually occurring; but I do not like to be too much influenced by circumstances. Circumstances will tell on the mind, and influence the character; but a truly elevated nature will rise in a great degree above circumstances. He will make circumstances bend to him, he will not bend to circumstances. These, I think, are the greatest characters.-Jay.

HOW TO TREAT WHAT OTHERS SAY OF YOU.

I NEVER notice anything which I see
about me in print. I find many in-
correct things, many exaggerated state-
ments, and many very foolish, but I
disregard all. I adopt the maxim of
Mr. Wilberforce. That great man ob-
served, "I never reply to anything said
about me in the public prints. Once
I was grossly misrepresented.
walking in Bath Pump Room, and hap-
pened to look at a little volume which
I carried about with me, and in one of
the Bath papers it was waggishly and
unkindly stated, that Mr. Wilberforce
was seen in the Pump Room reading
his Prayer Book. It was a take-off.

I was

It was intended to ridicule my pro-
fession of religion-to charge me with
sanctimoniousness and folly-and to
damage me. It was utterly untrue.
I did not, however, notice it." I have
followed the advice of Mr. Wilberforce.
I have left my character, my reputation,
to speak for itself.
to speak for itself. That is the best plan
at all times. If you notice what is said
of you, or written against you by wasp-
ish, snarling people, you will have little
else to do. Live it down! Live it
down-Jay.

THE BEST MAN TO MEET WITH.

I LIKE to meet with a man who makes me think-who grapples with me, that is, pleasantly-who brings out my mind. It is like testing me, to see what metal I am made of whether I am genuine -whether I am proof.—Jay.

EVILS OF TRAVEL.

TRAVEL is commended, as expanding the mind, and giving a knowledge to be obtained in no other mode. Thus the devout Archbishop Leighton was accustomed to express a lively sense of the advantages he had gained from his own youthful visit to the Continent. But do all gain in a similar way by their travels? Do we not see much of peril and of alarm, in the lowering of the moral tone and the debasement of principle, brought back by some of the travelled sons of our land, as their only trophies from the banks of the Seine and the Tiber? They see the godless, but glittering dissipation and profligacy of Paris or Vienna.