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there was any blood. Mr. Gilpin, observing their confusion, went on : "It appears then, that transubstantiation was never heard of in the church before the time of Peter Lombard : a man might have been a good catholic without acknowledging that doctrine till then : afterwards for a long time, the only meaning of it was, a conversion of the bread into flesh, and the wine into blood and thus it remained, till Thomas Aquinas introduced his notion of concomitancy; at which time this doctrine underwent another change: both flesh and blood were then, it seems, contained really and substantially in the bread alone.-Alas! alas! I am afraid these are novel opinions that have got in amongst us : the catholic faith, we are both agreed is unchangeable."

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The bishop was sitting before the fire in the same chamber, where this conversation happened; and leaning back in his chair, overheard it. When it was over, he got up, and turning to his chaplains, said to them with some emotion, Come, come, leave him, leave him; I find he has more learning than all of you put together."—Gilpin's Life of Gilpin.

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NONE BUT JESUS.

Thomas BilneY, the spiritual father of Latimer, and like him, a martyr for the Word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ, gives the following beautifully simple account of his conversion to the truth, after he had in vain sought comfort in fastings and watchings with the purchase of pardons and masses.

"At last," says he, " I heard speak of Jesus, even then when the New Testament was first set forth by Erasmus. Which, when I understood to be eloquently done by him, being allured rather for the Latin than for the Word of God-for at that time I knew not what it meant-I bought it even by the providence of God, as I do now well understand and perceive. And at the first reading, as I well remember, I chanced upon this sentence of St. Paul's, (O, most sweet and comfortable sentence to my soul!) in his first epistle to Timothy, first chapter.1 It is a true saying, and worthy of all men to be embraced, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief and principal.' This one sentence, through God's instruction and inward teaching, which I did not then perceive, did so ex

hilarate my heart, being before wounded with the guilt of my sins, and being almost in despair, that immediately I felt a marvellous comfort and quietness, insomuch that my bruised bones leapt for joy.

"After this the Scripture began to be more pleasant to me than the honey or the honey-comb. Wherein I learned that all my travail, all my fasting and watching, all the redemption of masses and pardons, being done without truth in Christ who alone saveth his people from their sins; these, I say, I learned to be nothing else but even as Augustine saith, a hasty and swift running out of the right way; or else, much like to the vesture made of fig-leaves wherewith Adam and Eve went about in vain to cover themselves, and could never before obtain quietness and rest till they believed on the promise of God that ' Christ the seed of the woman should tread upon the serpent's head.' Neither could I be relieved or eased of the sharp stings and biting of my sins, before I was taught of God that lesson which Christ speaketh of in the third chapter of John, 'Even as Moses exalted the serpent in the desert, so shall the Son of Man be exalted, that all which believe on him should not perish but have life everlasting,"

"As soon as I began to taste and savour of this heavenly lesson, which no man can teach, but only God which revealed the same unto Peter, I desired the Lord to encrease my faith; and at last I desired nothing more than that I being so conforted by him, might be strengthened by his Holy Spirit and grace from above, that I might teach the wicked his ways, which are mercy and truth, and that the wicked might be converted unto him by one who sometime was also wicked."*

How often does it thus happen with the enquirer after salvation, that having tried many physicians to no purpose, he finds the Great Physician to be all he wants. Christ found, is joy unspeakable; Christ tasted, is sweeter than the honeycomb; Christ only, is salvation perfected; Christ exalted, is peace in believing; Christ followed, is the gospel practised. He is, in fact, made unto his people, Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption.

Anderson's Annals of the English Bible.'

MOTTOES FOR THE MONTH,

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THOUGHTS TO THINK ABOUT.

January 1. The christian must be like the sun; but he must not be like Hezekiah's sun which went backwards; nor like Joshua's sun, which stood still; but he must be like David's sun, which rejoiceth as a giant to run his race.-Bp. Hall.

2. Satan would often assist us in confessing our sins, if he could but persuade us to keep back one.-Adam.

3. We may live by forms, but there is no dying by forms.Hill.

4. Sin, however strong, has its root in the creature; grace, however weak, has its root in the Creator.-Howels.

5. Those whom God finds work for, He will find help for.M. Henry.

6. In private we must watch our thoughts, in the family our tempers, in company our tongues.-H. More.

7. God's hand is as steady as his

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8. If a man is alone in doing his duty, he has the more cause to be thankful, and not to be ashamed of it before men.Bp. Wilson.

9. There are but two classes of really wise men; those who serve God because they have found him, and those who seek him because they have found him not.-Cecil.

10. How does it exalt the character of a minister of the gospel to reflect that our Saviour himself exercised it upon earth.-M. S. S.

11. Christians must be self-denying cross bearers, even when there are none but formal, nominal christians to be the crossmakers.- Baxter.

12 To live without fault is impossible; and he who thinks he does so, keeps himself not from sin, but from pardon.Augustine.

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It is more glorious to be the faintest halo round the Sun of righteousness, than to be the centre of a little system of our own.-Bennett.

14. What can we wish for in an heritage, that is not to be found in God? Would we have large possessions, he is Immensity: would we have a sure estate, he is Immutability:

would we have a term of long continuance, he is Eternity itself.-Arrowsmith.

15. Our Saviour, as man, wondered at that faith in the centurion, of which, as God, he himself was the Author.-M.S.S. 16. Our tears while we live must continue to flow; nothing but the dust of the grave can dry them.—Bp. Hopkins.

17. The least of the Divine mercies is beyond our deserts; but the greatest is not beyond our necessities.—Russel.

18. God never wrought a miracle to convince an atheist; because his works are sufficient for that.-Lord Bacon.

19. Faith is the grave of care.—Krummacher.

20. Unity in religious matters is not always a sign for good. There was great unity among those who worshipped the golden calf; great unity among those who cried out "Crucify Him! Crucify Him!"- Bp. Jewell.

21. Blessed are they that so incarnate the Written Word, by doing it, as the virgin Mary gave flesh to the Eternal Word, by bearing it.—Bp. Andrews.

22. Christ saith "Take not thought, &c." He saith not "Labor not."--Becon.

23. As the names of the children of Israel were graven on Aaron's breast-plate, so are the names of all God's saints engraven on the heart of Christ. Let them be so likewise on thine. Wilcox.

24. The covenant of grace does truly beat the spears of affliction into pruning hooks, to them that are in Christ.-Boston.

25. The sacrifice of birds, (offered by the poor,) was one of the most difficult services the priests had to perform, to teach those who minister in holy things to be as solicitous for the salvation of the souls of the poor as of the rich.

26. Theology is more divine light, than divine knowledge.— Jeremy Taylor.

27. It is a blessed thing to stoop, when we do so to gather spiritual manna for our souls.-Rowland Hill.

28. We shall be no more self-subsistent in glory, than we are in nature or grace. - Owen.

29. Privations and disappointments, which break the worldling's heart, ought not to break the Christian's sleep.-Thornton. 30. As the words that are written with the juice of a lemon

cannot be read when they are written, but may be plainly and distinctly seen if you hold the paper to the fire; so the smallest letters in the book of our conscience, yea, the least notes, and points, and scratches, which neither any other nor ourselves, see well now, shall easily be discerned by the fire of the last judgment.- Featly.

31. I have been seeking a name to call the property now subscribed, and I think it may be called, "property to seek lost souls:" It is the thought of lost souls that animates good people in their labors; they do not collect property for themselves, it is for lost souls. We give property for every thing; if we want a canoe, we give property for it, if we want a net, we give property for it, and, are not lost souls worth giving property to obtain? Think of lost souls, and work while it is called to-day.— Speech at a Missionary Meeting at Raratonga.

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ST. PAUL AT ATHENS.

THE house occupied by the American missionary, as a school, stands on the ancient Agora or market-place, where St. Paul "disputed daily with the Athenians." A few columns still remain; and near them is an inscription mentioning the price of oil. Winding round the foot of the Acropolis, within the ancient and outside the modern wall, we came to the Areopagus, or Hill of Mars, where in the early days of Athens, her judges sat in the open air, and for many ages, decided with such wisdom and impartiality, that to this day the decisions of the court of the Areopagites are regarded as models of judicial purity. We ascended this celebrated hill, and stood on the precise spot where St. Paul, pointing to the temples which rose from every section of the city, and towered proudly on the Acropolis, made his celebrated speech; “Ye men of Athens, I see that in all things ye are too superstitious." The ruins of the very temples to which he pointed were before our eyes.—Stephens.

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