They are the only parts which can be recovered of a series of monthly lectures delivered in 1818, and their subjects are,-Christian Faith— the Enlightening Influence of the Divine Spirit-the Way of Holiness --and Christian Encouragement. To be able to discourse on such subjects in a manner intelligible and interesting to the young, is no ordinary attainment. Dr. M'All has, with admirable facility, presented upon each subject, a train of thought the best adapted to the class of persons for whose benefit he wrote. The youthful inquirer will find his difficulties carefully considered; he will see practical religion in its most inviting aspect; in the early and most perilous part of his Christian course, he will meet with the most valuable direction and encouragement. Without any laboured definitions, these discourses are distinguished by great exactness and precision in the statement of evangelical truth, and without any compromise of the dignity of the teacher, by a beautiful simplicity and condescension to the minds of the young. Those who are in the habit of addressing youth, would do well to study these discourses carefully, as in their most important and difficult engagements we know not where they can find a better model.

THE EDITOR'S TABLE.

A Wreath for the Tomb. An Essay, and a Sermon, on the Lessons taught by Sickness, with extracts from eminent authors, on Death and Eternity. By the Rev. Edward Hitchcock, LL.D., Professor of chemistry and geology, Amherst College, &c. &c. Second Edition. 16mo. Jackson & Walford.

The Great Commission; or, the christian church constituted and charged to convey the Gospel to the World. By the Rev. John Harris, D.D., President of Cheshunt College, Author of "Mammon," &c. Royal 12mo. Ward & Co.

Missions; their authority, scope, and encouragement. An essay; to which the second prize proposed by a recent association in Scotland, was adjudged. By the Rev. Richard Winter Hamilton, Minister of Belgrave Chapel, Leeds. 8vo. Hamilton, Adams, & Co.

Christian Consistency; or, the connexion between experimental and practical religion. Designed for young Christians. By E. Mannering. Second Edition. 12mo. R. Baynes. Elements of Mental and Moral Science. By George Payne, LL.D. Second Edition, enlarged. 8vo. Hamilton, Adams, & Co.

Christian Churches; their nature and constitution, illustrated in a series of conversations, between a minister of the Gospel and a young Christian. By T. Coleman.

12mo. Ward & Co.

Hints illustrative of the Duty of Dissent. By the Rev. Thomas Binney. Third Edition. 12mo. Dinnis.

The Holy Ordinance of Christian Baptism: its doctrine and duty considered, with an especial view to the obligation it imposes upon parents, and children, and the church of Christ. 12mo. Jackson and Walford.

Conferences of the Reformers and Divines of the early English Church, on the Doctrines of the Oxford Tractarians; held in the Province of Canterbury, in the Spring of the year 1841. Edited by a Member of the University of

Seeley & Burnside.

8vo.

A Visit to the United States in 1841; by Joseph Sturge. 8vo. Hamilton, Adams, & Co. Theodoxa a Treatise on Divine Praise; or the exercise of devout gratitude to God. By Nathaniel Rowton. 12mo. J. Snow.

With

Wesleyan Missions: their progress stated, and their claims enforced. observations and suggestions, applicable to kindred institutions. By Robert Alder, D.D. Royal 12mo. J. Mason.

Four Discourses on the Sacrifice and Priesthood of Jesus Christ, and the Atonement and Redemption thence accruing; with supplementary notes and illustrations. By John Pye Smith, D.D., F.R.S. Second edition, enlarged. 12mo. Jackson & Walford. Lucilla; or the Reading of the Bible. By Adolphe Monod. Translated from the French. 12mo. Tract Society.

Four Addresses to the Young, delivered at Macclesfield, by the late Robert Stephens M'All, L.L.D. 12mo. Jackson & Walford.

Three Discourses. On the Divine Will; on Acquaintance with God; on Revelation. By A. J. Scott, A.M. 12mo. Darling.

Luther; A Poem. By Robert Montgomery, M.A. Hamilton, Adams, & Co.

Second Edition. 12mo.

Cæsar de Bello Gallico. With a Geographical Index. Edited by Philip Smith, B.A. 12mo. Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.

Greek Poetry for Schools; containing three Books of the Odyssey, selections from the Palatine Anthology, and other extracts, together with materials for Hexameters and Elegiacs, and the whole forming a practical introduction to Greek poetry and versification. 12mo. Simpkin & Co.

Moral Agency and Man as a Moral Agent. By William M'Combie. 12mo. Seeley & Burnside.

Nothing New; or, the Judgment of Old Divines on Sentiments agitated in their day, and now revived by "the brethren," and others. 18mo. Simpkin, & Co.

A Manual Explanatory of Congregational Principles, By George Payne, LLD. 12mo. James Dinnis.

Memoirs of the Life, Character, and Ministry of William Dawson, late of Barnbow near Leeds. By James Erwett. 12mo. Hamilton & Co.

The Christian Weekly Miscellany and Weekly Family Expositor. Part II. Imperial 8vo. Groombridge.

Palmer's Map of Arabia Petræa the Holy Land, and part of Egypt, designed chiefly to illustrate those parts of the Old Testament which relate to the Exodus and Journeyings of the Israelites, and their settlement in the Land of Promise. Folio. Roake and Varty.

The Jubilee of the World. An Essay on Christian Missions to the Heathen. By the Rev. John Macfarlane, minister of Collessie, Fifeshire. Published at the recom mendation of four of the adjudicators of the Missionary Prize Essays, and under the sanction of the Committee. 8vo. W. Collins.

The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. A Fac Simile Reprint of the celebrated Genevan Testament, MDLVII. With the Marginal Annotations and References, the Initial and other Woodcuts, Prefaces, and Index. 12mo. S. Bagster & Sons.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

On October the 1st, 1842, will be published Part I. price 5s. of A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Edited by William Smith, Ph. D. Graduate of the University of Leipzig, Classical Tutor of Highbury College, Editor of the "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities."

CHRONICLE OF BRITISH MISSIONS.

HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

CHANGE OF THE OFFICE OF THE HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.-The friends of the Home Missionary Society are respectfully informed that the Office of the Institution has been removed from No. 11, Chatham Place, to the Congregational Library, No. 4, Blomfield Street, Finsbury, where communications as usual can be addressed to the Secretaries.

Many of the officers of auxiliaries and associations have found it impracticable to make up their annual accounts by the 31st of March, so as to enable the Society to close its financial year on that day, as proposed in last Magazine; it has, therefore, been considered desirable that the proposed alteration should not be made this year; so that, as usual, the accounts will close on the 30th of April. The officers of auxiliaries, and other friends who have funds in their possession, or which they have yet to collect, are respectfully urged to send the amount by the 20th of April, that the acknowledgment may appear in the Magazine for May, as well as in the annual report. The amount received during the past month has been £700. The payments up to Lady-day amount to nearly £2000, leaving the Society in debt about £1700, including the balance from last month.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE AGENTS OF THE SOCIETY.-The following extracts are from the journals of missionaries appointed to their stations during the past year. The first extract is from a new station in Cumberland, not having been occupied by the missionary twelve months. The accounts are encouraging, when it is considered that prejudice had to be removed, the confidence of the people to be gained, the Gospel to be received, and its influence felt, by persons who had never been accustomed to the ministry of reconciliation. The field of labour occupied by the missionary is very large, and fearfully benighted. It ought to be named, that the missionary was sent at the request of a devoted Christian gentleman residing in the neighbourhood, who defrays nearly the whole expense of the station. God having given him wealth, he considers it his privilege to expend a portion of it in spreading the Gospel around him.

The second extract is from Nottinghamshire, and shows the difficulty which a missionary has to encounter in a new station, when there is determined opposition on the part of influential individuals. It requires prudence as well as zeal, on such stations, to prevent injury being done to the cause of religion.

The third extract is from a missionary in Lincolnshire, who has occupied his present field of labour only nine months. It is a new station, and promises abundant fruit. A Christian church has been formed, and a piece of ground, on which to build a chapel and school-house, has been given by a gentleman who has property in the neighbourhood, and who is already the largest contributor to the Home Missionary Society. It is expected that the chapel will be built during the summer.

INSTANCES OF USEFULNESS.—“ Last month, I referred to the case of a young man who was brought to the knowledge of the truth, and I am now happy in being able to inform you of four others, that seem to have got good to their souls. Two of these are old men, a third is in the vigour of life, and the other is a little girl about eleven years of age. I could have informed you of some of these cases before now, but waited that I might be better able to judge of their characters; and both from observation, and the conversations I have had with them, I humbly trust I am not mistaken in saying, that, like the Corinthian converts, they are washed, sanctified, and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. At present, I shall refer to only one of these individuals, who is seventy-three years of

age. I have had many interesting conversations with this person, but especially one a short time ago, when I made enquiries regarding his past life, and how he had been led to embrace the truth. He frankly told me, that up to the time I came to this station, he had been entirely engrossed with the world, and had never thought about his soul and eternity; he had heard some people say, that there was a future state of rewards and punishments; others affirmed, that we died like dogs, to live no more; but, for his part, he never bestowed a serious thought upon the matter. He spent his Sabbaths in going from place to place, or in conversations about the world; “and this,” he added emphatically, "is the manner in which the multitude around us is still living." He had attended the preachings regularly in his own district, and stated, that his mind had been gradually enlightened by the preaching of the Gospel, and the conversations I had with him from time to time. He had also been led to search the Scriptures, from which he derived comfort and instruction, and met with hundreds of passages that he never knew were in the Bible. He informed me, that I repeated to him a passage from John v. 10.-" He that believeth on the Son of God, hath the witness in himself;" which words had given him great comfort, for while meditating upon this subject, he obtained a peace and happiness to which he was formerly an entire stranger; he now saw the way to heaven, through a crucified Redeemer, quite distinctly. This had subdued his attachment to the world, for he had too long consumed the energies of his life upon it. Not only has this aged man undergone a change in his dispositions, inclinations, and conduct, but he also feels a deep interest in the spiritual welfare of those around him, and is inspired with an ardent desire for the conversion of his wife, whom he discerns to be a stranger to vital godliness. It is truly interesting to sit down to converse with these two old people, on whose heads time has long since shed its grey hairs. They have lived together the servants of mammon, for nearly forty years; they are now divided in their aims; their desires and feelings are not in unison as formerly: the one is taken into the Divine family, and the other is left; the one is light in the Lord, the other is still in nature's darkness, clinging to the law for righteousness and salvation. The husband now tells his wife, who has long been the partner of his joys and sorrows, and whose worldly schemes he was wont to enter into, to take her heart off the world, and to fix it upon Jesus Christ, as her only and all-sufficient Saviour. I am constrained to believe that this old man, who, up to his 73rd year, remained alike careless and earthly-minded, is now, and will be through eternity, a monument of sovereign, almighty grace. It is a delightful exhibition of the power of the Gospel, and the riches of Divine grace, when we behold sinners yielding their hearts to the Saviour at the eleventh hour. Some other cases in my next journal."

PUSEYISM AND OPPOSITION.“ Our Bible classes are still flourishing, pleasing, promising; consequently, some imitation of them has been attempted on other ground, not only with a view of so instructing the young, that they may become wise unto salvation, but also that they may be instructed in the high churchism of the present day. e. g.-"Do you know," said the vicar, the other day, to his class, "how it is that no other minister beside myself can enter into my pulpit ?" "Cas," replied a young, shrewd, and forward one, "there aint room for two." "That is not my meaning," the ecclesiastical instructor went on to explain; "I mean, that if any one were to enter my pulpit, not ordained by a bishop, he would be liable to transportation." He has also declared from the pulpit, and by letter," that there are but three churches which have received their commission from Christ; viz., the Greek, the Romish, and the English church;" and "he who rejects the teaching of the church, risks the salvation of his soul."

Although cases of ecclesiastical oppression have been represented and recorded ad nauseam, still I cannot refrain from stating the following:-A lady of distinction

and high influence, called upon a poor woman at S, and asked, "What place of worship do you attend?" "The Independent chapel, ma'am." "Indeed! And how long have you attended there?" "Ever since it was erected, and I attended the preaching of the Independents, before the building of the chapel, in all five years." "But why do you attend there?" "Please ye, my lady, I have found it good to be there, I have obtained much good to my soul." "But," said Lady D., "I wish you to attend church-both you and your husband-for unless the people attend the church, what will become of the clergy? and the church will be brought into contempt." This was cause of great trouble and distress to the poor woman, but feeling driven, and obliged, having received a present from the lady, with a letter inclosed, desiring and requesting her to go to church, she went, and went again; but now followed a painful dilemma, to one who wished to have a good conscience. Being heavy of hearing, she heard not one word; all the ceremonies were dumb shows to her; she looked on; but her thoughts were busy; she thought of God, of her soul, of the great coming day, and of the lady; and greatly troubled by her thoughts, and condemned in her conscience, she has mustered up courage to resolve, to be found upon the ground internally forbidden no more; that the chapel is her home, and she will abide there, and that when her ladyship shall call again, she will declare it all to her, and that she will do any thing, at any hour, to please her, save in the matter of religion, the worship of God, and her own conscience. May she have grace and strength to abide faithful unto death!

SUCCESS. "We are going on well with our infant cause; the attendance is good, exceeding my highest expectation, nor can I forbear exclaiming, as I look over our crowded room, "What has God wrought!" O that God may so bless his word, that many may yield to the claims of the Lord Jesus Christ.

"On the 24th of January, we formed a church; the ministers that were expected from the churches in the neighbourhood, were prevented being with us, but we had delegates from the church at B. The service was solemn and interesting, and a hallowed feeling pervaded the assembly, and we felt conscious that He who was accustomed to be with his disciples when they met, as we then did in our upper room, was with us. A sermon was preached (by Mr. A.) on the preceding evening, on the nature and constitution of primitive churches; and an invitation was given to the congregation generally, to attend on the following evening, to witness our order. After singing and prayer, an address was given to the persons about to unite in church fellowship. A church covenant was then read, to which the members assented. The ordinance of the Lord's supper was then administered to the newly formed church, and members from other churches, who were present on the occasion.

"We hope this is but the beginning in good things, and that this little one, become a thousand.

will soon

"May the Great Head of the church bless all the attempts made by the Society to advance his kingdom and glory."

IRISH EVANGELICAL SOCIETY.

FROM THE JOURNAL OF REV. J. WHITE, OF ENNISKILLEN.

Through the past quarter, I have been enabled to attend to my appointments. Generally speaking, there is no very visible improvement in our cause or congregation in Enniskillen; nor, indeed, as I have frequently intimated, is there any probability at present of gathering an Independent congregation. Notwithstanding, however, this depressing consideration, upon the whole, it is an important field of missionary cultivation, and a considerable amount of spiritual good, in individual