limits of the parish, that we cannot even find a room to preach in. Our first object, therefore, is to build the schools, in order to secure this most important end. As soon as the weather will allow, we intend to begin preaching in the open air. But, dear readers, as we said last month, we require at least two thousand pounds before we can build the church and schools. It seems a large sum; yet what is it in His hands to whom belongeth the silver and the gold? It is His work, we are sure, and He will provide. Meanwhile He is pleased to employ instruments. He makes use of us to ask of you to give. We ask not for ourselves, but for the Lord. Beloved, we were much struck this morning, at a very early hour, with this word-"But this I say, he which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity for God loveth a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work" (2 Cor. ix. 6, 7, 8). We had had a sharp conflict with Satan and unbelief on the past evening, which was renewed on awaking between three and four o'clock this morning. It is long since we have had so deadly a struggle with Satan and unbelief upon the same grounds. Restless we rose, and resorted to the spot whence we now write to you; and how powerful was that word" God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work." Feeling this, beloved readers, that we are where the Lord would have us, and engaged in His great and glorious work, we are the more emboldened and encouraged to ask you to help us in that work. Be it ours to remember, increasingly, that "we are not our own, that we are bought with a price;" and that it behoveth us to seek to glorify God with our bodies and our spirits which are His." You were always prompt in aiding us in the work in which we were engaged in Ireland. That work was done. Let us find you equally ready to help in our own land. The claims of this benighted district are, we assure you, quite as strong; and, as God in his good Providence brought us here, unthought of and unsought by us, we feel that He must have a work for us to do. It is gratifying to us to find, that there is already a great spirit of inquiry among the people as to when the building is to be commenced. Much interest is shown, although a wrong impression has gone abroad, namely, that there is sufficient money promised to carry out our object. It is not so. The church is to be erected under the Peel Act. The fund which that act provided for the endowing of new churches in poor and populous districts being exhausted, a sum of four thousand pounds is required to be invested in Government securities, in order to secure the minister a stipend of £120 a-year. £2000 towards this ha been promised, provided other £2000 are forthcoming. The church (to accommodate 1200 people-half the sittings free) and land will cost £5000; architect's fees and incidental expenses will be at least another £500. These two last amounts have been engaged, consequently we are £2000 deficient ; and this we must obtain before we can secure the conditional £2000 towards the endowment. If our readers will write to us for Collecting Cards, at the same time engaging that within twelve months, they will collect and forward a certain sum (mentioning in their letter of application for the card how much), they will assist us greatly, and further the work considerably. It is a matter of faith with us; be it so with them. May we not trust our God? Has He ever yet deceived us? What does He say?"Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it." Is He not the same God now as when He challenged Moses, "Is "Is the Lord's hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not ?" We never yet put our God to the test, without His not only fulfilling His word to the letter, but even far exceeded it. He has not only uniformly been better to us than all our fears, but always has done for us exceeding abundantly above all that we could ask or think." When the Lord puts the question, "Have I ever been a r wilderness, or a land of darkness ?" | of a doubt that He that hath delivered, how completely is the voice of unbelief and doth deliver, will continue to deliver for the moment silenced! What broken- all our journey through. ness follows! what humility! How thoroughly is one ashamed of himself for ever encouraging even the semblance Bedminster, Bristol, CHRIST AND HIS BRETHREN. THE EDITOR. "Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.-John xx. 17. Spirit should be their portion for ever and ever, and all because He was their brother-He who was the eternal Son of God before all time, made them the sons of God in time; and to this the Spirit bears witness (Rom. viii. 16, 17). Not that this was new teaching to them. Christ's mission was to make His Father known. Fourteen times in WHAT a cluster of rich fruit is here, centre of bliss; that Father, Son, and fruit that may be gathered unto life eternal. The person speaking, the Beauty of Israel, the only begotten Son of God, the brightness of His Father's glory, and the express image of His Person: the individual addressed, once a poor outcast, possessed by the devil, now a loving disciple of Jesus: the message-the appellation given to those to whom she is sent, "My brethren:" His Sermon on the Mount doth He the occasion on which it was delivered, speak thus to His disciples, “Your the resurrection from the dead. Which Father." But in this place He reshall we pluck and eat? It is the Be-assures them of the blessed privilege. loved who brings it to us, saying, "Eat, O friends." Let us look at the message, "Say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God." With what pleasure Christ seems to send the joyful tidings to His people! He knew full well the value of the message. How He rejoices to be able to tell them, that by virtue of His finished work, His God and Father was likewise theirs. He would not say, "I ascend unto my Father and my God," without acknowledging the relationship into which He had brought Himself towards them, "Your Father, your God." Oh, He was not ashamed to call them brethren: i.e., He gloried in it. Here, then, we have the Lord Jesus Christ rejoicing at the happiness of His people; his heart's love gushing forth towards them, and finding pleasure in their good-a good He had dearly bought for them. He would they should know their happiness. He would teach them to look unto the great Jehovah, and say, each for himself," My Father, my God." He would teach them that nearness to Him was the source of joy, and that henceforth they should revolve around Him as their He was going from them, and He would A SERVANT OF THE CHURCH. up Obituary. "The righteous is delivered out of trouble."-Prov. ii. 8. PRECIOUS in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. "I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me, write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth, or, sleep in Jesus, and whom God will bring with Him. None of these jewels of His crown will He leave, no, not an hoof behind. The purchase of His precious bloodthe travail of His soul, are to Him as the apple of His eye; indeed, they are component parts of His mystical self: One with Jesus, By eternal union, one. On the 14th of January, 1859, the Lord was pleased to transmit from earth to heaven-from a worn-out clay tenement (of about three-score and twelve years' standing) to a mansion near the throne, the regenerate, ransomed spirit of the Rev. John Tucker, of Cheltenham, a man raised up by the Lord to blow the gospel trumpet with a certain sound, for a series of years, within the Established Church of England, made faithful, and kept faithful even unto death; consequently, he now possesses, and wears for ever, the crown of life; and, with the ransomed myriads round the throne, will shout for ever, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain," housed far above the lion's den, and mountains of leopards. away Í desire to bless the Lord for the grace bestowed, and mercy showed to my dear, ever dear, departed brother in the Lord, with whom I have had the sweetest communion in years rolled into boundless eternity. Near a half century have we been acquainted with each other. And when we were both young in the way, and for years, were we as Jonathan and David; our cares and troubles, joys and comforts, we shared together; we have cried and sighed together; prayed and praised together, many, many a time. I must declare that his equal I have never met, as to what we call an excellent and most affectionate natural disposition. He was, indeed, an enemy to none, but a friend to many. But above and beyond all this, the Lord made him an able minister of the New Testament, and whose labours He abundantly blessed to many a precious soul of the household of faith. He was an out-and-out preacher of the truth; no mincing, no concealing, no keeping in the back-ground the cardinal features of truth. Jehovah in His Trinity of Persons; the ancient transactions of the Holy Three; the covenant of grace, and its stability; the glorious Person, incarnation, precious blood, and perfect righteousness of Jehovah the Son; the Father's everlasting, electing love; nor less the almighty Person, ministry, work, and operations of God the Holy Ghost in the hearts of the blood-royal, the heirs of salvation; together with the indissoluble union of Christ with His Church, her oneness with Him, and completeness in Him, were the prime topics of his ministry. And what is truly remarkable (though from bodily infirmities he has not been able to preach for the last three or four years), that the last portion of Scripture he preached where is thy sting? O grave, where is from was 1 Cor. xv. 55, "Ŏ death, thy victory ?" When he first entered the ministry, more than forty years since, he became intimately acquainted with dear Doctor Hawker, and preached for the Doctor, at his church at Plymouth, during some of his visits to the metropolis. Indeed, the Doctor was very attached to him, and he to the Doctor. A constant correspondence was kept up between them of the most affectionate kind, until the Doctor was called home. Indeed, it may be said, that dear Tucker, in his ministry and manner, was the Doctor's counterpart. The same great, grand, and glorious truths the dear Doctor was so admired and celebrated for, and to the Church of God, were preached by whose labours were so abundantly blessed dear Tucker, and from which he never departed. "Such labourers send to thine elect, He has left behind him a widow and several children; but it is her mercy, and also some of the offspring, to know Him whom he loved whose loss they all deplore. A more affectionate husband and dear father I never knew or heard of. Very fond was the dear man of God of certain favourite hymns of Toplady, &c.: "A debtor to mercy alone," and "Jesus, I love thy charming name;" also, "How sweet the name of Jesus sounds," &c. Jesus, thy blood and righteousness,' ," "God moves in a mysterious way," &c., &c. But now he is at the fountain-head, and drinks immortal vigour in. He passed out of time without a struggle, sigh, or groan, and is entered into the everlasting joy of his Lord, to bask in the meridian of his Almighty Lord's most glorious shine, to go no more out for ever. "What is it for a saint to die, That we the thought should fear? 'Tis but to pass the heavenly sky, And leave pollution here. Eternal glory just before, And Jesus waiting there; A heavenly gale to waft us o'er- I would say, in taking a final leave (as | to time) of my once dear, ever dear friend, who has left the militant for the Church triumphant above, very pleasant hast thou been unto me; a faithful friend, and an affectionate brother in grace relationship. Thou hast got the start of me; home first-at rest-for ever at rest. Nor can I, nor do I, wish thee back. Farewell until the resurrection morn august, in which the righteous shall have the dominion. The memory of the just is blessed. The Lord of all lords do as He hath said-be a Father to the fatherless, and the widow's God. And, bless His dear name! He is, and must be, ever the faithful God. His faithfulness will He establish in the third heavens, where the whole election of grace shall finally convene around His august throne, and praise, for ever praise, the riches of His grace, while countless ages roll along." Amen. "Jesus shall soon collect His sheep, Reviews. W. BIDDER. A Trip to Sebastopol, out and home, by our humble testimony to the thousands way of Vienna, the Danube, Odessa, that have preceded us, that it was one Constantinople, and Athens. By JOHN of the most agreeable and instructive GADSBY, Biblical and Oriental Lec- evenings we ever spent. Mr. GADSBY'S turer, and author of " My Wanderings great originality, together with true in the East," and other Works. Lon- Lancashire adeptness at searching into don: Gadsby, Bouverie Street, Fleet everything, has rendered his position as Street. a Lecturer peculiarly important. Here SINCE reading Mr. GADSBY's former is not only much to be seen, but much work, My Wanderings," and upon to be brought away. The forcible way meeting his announcement of delivering in which he opens out the prevailing cusa course of illustrated Lectures, descrip- toms of the East, and brings those cus tive of his travels and of oriental customs to bear upon the testimony of toms and scenery, we have had the most ardent desire to become one of his audience. That wish, however, could not be gratified until a few evenings since, when it fell to our lot to take the chair at a meeting of about a thousand persons, whose interest was awakened and well sustained throughout a Lecture of two hours and a-half. We must add Scripture, is remarkable. Not only does he abound with anecdotes, but, by the variety of relics and illustrations, he conducts his audience into scenes, removes difficulties, and throws light upon dark passages, which brings us to the conclusion that Mr. GADSBY is called to one of the most important missions of our time. His audience can never forget what they see and hear at his illustrated Lectures; and we do most earnestly pray that he may long be spared to pursue that great work to which we doubt not he has been called. Those who have read Mr. GADSBY's former book, "My Wanderings," will be prepared for the same matter-of-fact narrative with which he has furnished us in his visit to Russia. A Sermon upon Particular Redemption. Preached at Manchester, by the Rev. W. BIDDER. London: W. H. Collingridge, City Press, Aldersgate Street. MEN oppose what is termed particular or, in other words, definite-redemption, on three accounts: first, because it is really so humbling to poor fallen nature; secondly, because they conceive it adds to the mystery of godliness, and places Jehovah in a questionable light as to His justice and mercy; thirdly, because what is called general redemption opens, as they suppose, a larger field for the invitation and encouragement of poor sinners. Now to these objections, it may be said, that the whole gospel scheme is based upon the thorough wreek and ruin of human nature; secondly, that the great mystery of godliness is embraced by faith, which, without comprehension or explanation, is prepared to justify Jehovah, and to stand firm as a rock upon the question, "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" Thirdly, so far from the general proclamation scheme bringing more souls to Christ, it draws less to Him; for there is an earnestness, and a decisiveness, and a reality about the one, which there is not about the other. Moreover, as the one is the truth of God, whilst the other is not, the latter testimony is that which the Holy Ghost will honour, and by which He will give testimony to the word of His grace. Mr. BIDDER's lengthened experience, and his peculiar aptness for quoting Scripture, renders this Sermon so much valuable and important; hence we heartily commend it to our the more readers. A vein of sweetness and power ran through the former, which we think will not be lacking in this additional Part. The Supplement contains many hymns which were either omitted for want of room, or by an oversight, in the original book. Hence the combined work will prove to be exceedingly valuable to the Church of God, for whom it is ostensibly designed. Ad The Gospel Cottage Lecturer. dressed to the spiritually Poor. London W. H. Collingridge. THIS is a double Number, and embraces the following subjects: Love's Appeal, A Pure Conscience, Faith Unfeigned, A Good Conscience. In his Preface to this, his fourth volume, our beloved brother announces-what we consider ---a most desirable change in his publication; a change not in its spirit, not in its tone, not in its depth, but simply in its title. Henceforth his work is to be published under the name of "THE GOSPEL LECTURER: the Heart-Experiences of a New Creature in Christ Jesus." We trust that the same signal blessing may attend the work under its new name that has attended it under its former title, for verily it contains a spirituality and a depth of teaching rarely to be met with in this day of religious fashion and mere external profession. Is the Romish Church the true, Catholic, Apostolic, Mother and Mistress of all Churches? Two Conversations between a Romish Priest and a Scripture-reader. Bristol: T. Jefferies, Redcliff Street. THE hand of God has been most remarkably seen in the production of this truly original and highly-important work. In the providence of God, the Scripture-reader mentioned in the title, left the scene of his labours in Bristol, for the purpose of a few days' recreation in the North of England. On the evening of his arrival there, he was unexpectedly brought in contact with a Romish priest, who, singular to say, was drawn into controversy, which lasted till a late hour that night, and was renewed on the following day. A shorthand writer happened to be present, who took down the whole of what passed, of which the pamphlet before |