our Lord Jesus Christ." This peace is also a pledge of everlasting peace in heaven. The effects of this peace in life are to keep the heart and mind through Christ Jesus. This peace will keep the heart and mind from all evil. All the faculties of the soul will be restored, the understanding, which was darkened is illuminated, the will which was perverse is reduced to obedience, and is in unison with that of God. Man lost much by the fall, but he has gained infinitely more by Christ. This peace which passeth all understanding and keeps the heart and mind, not through ourselves, but Christ. Of ourselves we can do nothing; but we can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth us. Our salvation is not all of ourselves; but from first to last of the sovereign unmerited mercy, and favour of God through Christ Jesus; to him be all the praise.

I shall in conclusion address a few words to the immoral and profane. To you I cannot say be careful for nothing. God has not promised you one single blessing. It is written (Deut. xxviii. 15.) It shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, and observe to do all these commandments and his statutes, that all these curses shall come upon thee. Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field, cursed shalt be thy basket, and thy store, cursed shalt be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, and vexation and rebuke, and all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do: until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly, because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me." And all this should be but the prelude to thy sorrows. To you I cannot say, the peace of God shall keep your hearts and minds, but the wrath of God is hovering over you. The wicked shall be turned into hell, and every one who forgetteth God must endure the eternal wrath of God. (Psalm vii. 12.) "If

he turn not, saith the Psalmist, God will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow and made it ready; he hath also prepared for them the arrows of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors. There is no peace, saith my God, for the wicked." But now is the time to repent and seek for salvation.

Second. To the self righteous. I cannot say be careful for nothing to you. Your self righteousness will be insufficient for you. Nothing but the righteousness of Christ will be sufficient to hide you from the vengeance of God. There is no other name given under heaven, but that of Christ by which men can be saved. Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. (1 Cor. iii. 11.) It is only those who are ignorant of God's righteousness who go about to establish their own righteousness, and do not submit to the righteousness of God. To such there is no solid peace. Seek for the righteousness of Christ.

Third. To the people of God. How blessed is your privilege; yet how far do you live beneath it. God would have you to be careful for nothing, yet many of you, perhaps most of you, perhaps all of you, are careful of too many things-take too much thought for the morrow. Let us pray to Christ to remove these fears and cares, and to increase our faith. You will never weary God by supplicating him. Be exceedingly careful to be careful for nothing, that you may have more pleasure in religion and in serving the Lord. Soon your time for prayer and supplication will for ever pass away. Delight yourselves in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your hearts. Amen,

amen.

ADDRESS FROM THE FINSBURY OPERATIVE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.

To our brother Operatives in England, Scotland, and Wales.

Brother Operatives!-We address you on matters of great momenton matters deeply connected with our comfort and peace in this world, and our eternal happiness in the world to come. We address you on matters which concern not only our

selves, but our wives, our sisters, our parents, and our children.

The interests of England are at stake-all we love and venerate is threatened; and, therefore, with all the solemnity of a high and Christian duty, we address you in the calm and sober words of truth, but in language fervent and earnest.

We entreat of you a fair, candid, and dispassionate hearing. We implore you to ponder deliberately what we say; and we beseech the Almighty Father of us all to bless, direct, and guide you to a right conclusion. May the Spirit of our God and Saviour rest mightily upon you, enable you to walk in his pure and holy light, and, with all the sacred energy of his gracious influences, nerve your heart and hand to the duty that lies before you.

Popery, the dreadful curse of every nation in which she gains supreme power, is now struggling for the mastery amongst us. Popery, which in the days of Queen Mary shed freely the blood of operatives like ourselves, for no other crime than loving the Lord Jesus Christ, and boldly maintaining his truth, is daily gaining more and more power in our free and happy land-power which she would doubtless use again for the same murderous purposes. Po pery, which murdered John Huss, after granting him a safe passport— Popery, which massacred, in cold blood, thousands of Protestants at Paris, on St. Bartholomew's day, and struck a medal to commemorate the wholesale murder-Popery, which slew thousands upon thousands of the innocent Waldenses-which put to torture and to death tens of thousands by means of the Inquisitionthis very same Popery has set up her persecuting laws against us in these dominions, and only wants the power to put them into force Popery, which fitted out the Spanish Armada, and freighted the vessels with rods of iron, thumbscrews, and other cruel instruments of torture with which to torment and destroy our forefathers -Popery, which, in 1641, stirred up a great rebellion in Ireland, in which many thousands of Protestants were barbarously murdered, is again plot

ting, scheming, and organizing her deadly plans of treason and sedition in Ireland-Popery, which tried, by the notorious gunpowder plot, to blow up King, Lords, and Commons at a stroke, is again attempting to destroy the defences to the Throne, and the institutions of the country. Her plans are deep laid, with marvellous forethought and profound sagacity; her vigour is unabated, and gathers strength progressively. She makes use of every instrument that presents itself-avails herself of every favourable opportunity that occurs. Step by step she steadily advances; her assaults become more bold, powerful, and incessant; her proud and impious claims are urged with increasing audacity, and she hesitates not to tell us that in a very few short years every free-born Englishman shall again become the slave of the Pope.

Brother Operatives! with these facts before us, and knowing from her own lips that Popery is unchanged, and therefore as cruel and persecuting as ever, we cannot look upon the rapid strides she has lately made towards power in this Protestantland without great fear and alarm. We behold her chapels for idol worship springing up in every direction

her power in the House of Commons fearfully great-her influence at Court alarmingly manifest. We see, with grief and shame, her College at Maynooth, in Ireland, receiving £8,924 of the public money every year. We have seen, within the last month, with deep and heartfelt sorrow, another of her colleges, viz. St. Mary, Oscott, in England, receiving a charter from the Queen.

Brother Operatives! these things fill us with serious alarm, for we know well that Popery is "the curse of nations," and has always brought with her, wherever she has come, ruin, misery, and persecution. But this is not all, neither is this the thing that gives us the greatest uneasiness, or that fills our minds with the most pungent grief, fear and apprehension. In the midst of all these evils, brother operatives, with Popery coming like a deluge, bringing in its train every imaginable evil the Protestants of

England are asleep-asleep, with the volcano heaving beneath them, ready to explode and bury them in its ashes. This, this, brother operatives, is the most dangerous of all the fearful "signs of the times." The majority of British Protestants appear to be almost blind to their dangers, careless of their privileges, and heedless of the host of enemies that are banded against them. We see on all sides open and reckless immorality: So cialism and every kind of blasphemy and infidelity running like torrents of water down our streets. And in the midst of it all where are the souls faithful to truth? Where are the zealous servants of God striving and protesting against these "aboundings of iniquity? Where are the noble witnesses for Christ, clothed with zeal as a cloak, lifting up their voices with strength, vindicating the injured cause of their Divine Master? Where are the true and patriotic souls who "sigh and cry for the abominations of the land ?" We scarcely know where to find them. They are few, scattered and divided. Instead of great, earnest, constant, and united efforts to stem the torrent, we see only here and there a solitary individual struggling in the strength of God to defend the perilled cause of truth, and stave off the mighty tide of national desolation.

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Brother Operatives! ought this to be? We put it to the conscience of every one of you ought this to be? Ought God to be thus insulted, Christ thus despised, derided, and blasphemed; his glorious Gospel thus shamefully vilified, by Papists, Socialists, and other Infidels, and we standing by? Ought the liberties of Englishmen to be thus threatened-our rights to be thus invaded - the peace and security of our wives, our children, and our children's children, thus endangered by the prosecuting system of Popery, and the demoralizing system of Socialism?

Brother Operatives! we know you are too generous, too warmly attached to your domestic comforts, too paternally fond of your offspring, to be inactive. You will not -you dare not permit this tide of desolation to sweep over your hearths

and the safeguards of society unopposed.

Brother Operatives; we feel convinced you love your Bibles too well to permit them to be torn from your grasp; you know the value of that precious charter of salvation too well quietly to permit any system to gain power, which would use that power to deprive your offspring of that glorious Gospel. We know right well that you merely want information; you only require, as we did, to have these things pointed out to you, to engage heart and hand in the glorious work of opposing Antichrist, and beating back the deluge of Popery and Infidelity which threatens to destroy our once happy land.

Brother Operatives! we feel sure that you love and reverence your God, the God of Britain, too devoutly not to come forward boldly, "quit yourselves like men," and "contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints." We trust that you love your Lord and Saviour too fervently not to confess him faithfully and serve him truly in these days "of trouble, rebuke, and blasphemy." We call upon you, then, brother operatives, with all the affection of a common brotherhood—one with you in truth-one with you in occupation -one with you in creed-bound to you with the closest ties that can bind man to man; with one common faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all-one with you in our temporal duties, and in our hope of a glorious immortality. We call upon you, brother operatives, by your zeal for your God and Saviour; by your reverence for the Bible; your love to your country, your wives, and children, your attachment to your civil and religious liberties; your loyalty to your Queen; your pity, love, and compassion for your poor deluded Roman Catholic brethren, to be up and stirring-to unite -"Arm yourselves with the whole armour of God," and be "valiant for the truth.”

We do not summon you to perform a task from which in slothfulness we ourselves would shrink. We are willing, with God's help, to spend and be spent in this work. We are

Protestants from rational conviction -Protestants upon principle-operatives by occupation. We find the consolations of the Gospel our support in affliction, our solace in adversity, the soother of our cares, the sweetener of our daily toils, the soft quieter of our anxieties and fears; and we know that they will be our comfort and support in death. We cheerfully earn our bread by the sweat of our brow, cheered in our daily work by the abundant love of our compassionate God and Saviour; and while we learn from our pure and undefiled religion the duty and the privilege of labouring for our sustenance, and are taught that the Christian operative is as acceptable to God as the Christian monarch or the pious nobleman, our principles lead us to be operative and energetic in defence of our religion. We have formed ourselves into a Society for mutual edification, to receive at monthly meetings information on these vital matters, and to arm ourselves with arguments and facts with which to refute the falsehoods of the enemies of our God and of his truth. We call upon you to do the same. We warn you, brother operatives, that Popery unresisted will soon be Popery rampant. She cannot be

she will never be, content with anything short of undivided power over every man's body, soul, and spirit. Our enemy is formidable- -our dan ger is imminent-but the strength in which we stand, the weapons with which we war, are mighty, spiritual, and never yet failed the man who trusted in them. We stand in the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is omnipotent. We take the Bible for our weapon, which we know to be eternal truth, the word of the living God," sharper than a twoedged sword," against which no form of error, however subtle, no antiChristian power, however formidable, ever yet prevailed.

Committing you to God, who is able to make all grace abound towards you, and to render you fruitful in every good word and work; humbly praying that the words we address to you in much feebleness, but with equal earnestness and strong

affection, may be blessed with the lifegiving energy of the Holy Ghost, and soredound to the glory of God and the spiritual benefit of our fellow-men.

We remain, Brother Operatives, your affectionate brethren in Christ. Office of the Finsbury Operative Protestant Association, 3, Princes Street, Finsbury.

CLERGY RESERVES IN CANADA.

To the Right Hon. the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled.

The humble Petition of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts:

Showeth,-That from the earliest period of our colonial history, a desire has been professed by the government of Great Britain to provide for Divine worship and religious instruction in the colonies, and that the public faith has been solemnly pledged to the discharge of this important duty.

That in the year 1701 the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel was incorporated for the express purpose of assisting in the accomplishment of these great objects, and from that time to the present day has been engaged in the building of churches and maintenance of clergymen throughout the foreign dependencies of the empire.

That in pursuance of the measures adopted and recommended by the society, episcopal sees have been erected in Nova Scotia and Canada, and, more recently, in the West Indies, in Upper Canada, and in Newfoundland; and that the Church of England has been recognized as the established church in the colonies.

That from the time when the Canadian provinces were ceded to the British crown, public attention has been perseveringly directed to the maintenance of a Protestant clergy in those extensive territories, as will be seen by referring to the royal instructions to the governors of the province, and more especially to the acts of parliament for the better government of Canada, passed in the years 1774 and 1791. That the last-mentioned statute, having recited that his majesty had been graciously pleased, by

message to both houses of parliament, to express his royal desire to be enabled to make a permanent appropriation of land in the said provinces, in such manner as may best conduce to the due and sufficient support and maintenance of a Protestant clergy within the said provinces, in proportion to such increase as may happen in the population and cultivation thereof," enacted, that no grant of land should be valid, unless one-seventh part thereof should be allotted and appropriated for the support and maintenance of a Protestant clergy; and that the profits arising from such lands "should be applicable solely to the maintenance and support of a Protestant clergy within the province in which the same shall be situated, and to no other use or purpose whatsoever."

That in the year 1819 his majesty's law officers gave an opinion relative to the rents and profits of the clergy reserves in the Canadas, in which they state, that "they think that the governor would be justified in applying such rents and profits to the maintenance and support of clergy of the Church of Scotland, as well as those of the Church of England, but not to the support and maintenance of ministers of Dissenting Protestant congregations."

That, in consequence of the urgent spiritual wants of the colonies, and the insufficiency of the proceeds of the clergy reserves to meet the expense of maintaining an adequate number of clergymen, annual parliamentary grants were voted for that purpose, and the distribution of them intrusted to this society.

That upon the discontinuance of such grants in the year 1831, the society was encouraged by government to keep up the full number of clergymen then in connexion with it; and, as regarded clergymen who had been employed previously to that year, a specific agreement was made for the payment of threefourths of the salaries of those stationed in Upper Canada and Nova Scotia, from funds under the control of government, on condition that such as were stationed in Lower Ca

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nada, New Brunswick, Prince Edward's Island, and Newfoundland, should receive payment in the same proportion from the society. And, although there was no arrangement equally definite respecting successors, or any additional clergyman whose services might be required in settlements not provided for before the year 1831, it was announced to the society in that year, by his late majesty's principal secretary of state for the colonies, that the clergy reserves in the Canadas, and the church and school lands in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, would be so appropriated as to afford, at no distant period, the means of supporting a Protestant clergy in those provinces, and thus relieve the society from a burden too heavy to be borne permanently by a charitable institution.

That, relying on these assurances, the society, in addition to very extensive operations in the West Indies and Australia, has undertaken, since the year 1831, to engage and assist in maintaining forty clergymen in Upper and Lower Canada, over and above the number employed in those provinces at the time of the withdrawal of the parliamentary grant; and that a still further addition of one hundred and fifty clergymen is required to meet the wants of the numerous emigrants from the mother country now settled in British America.

That the the society has therefore seen, with great alarm and regret, a bill recently passed by the legislature of Upper Canada, enacting that the whole of the clergy reserves in that province shall be sold, and that the proceeds of such sales, and of sales heretofore effected under the provisions of the act of 1827, shall be vested in any securities within that province, and the interest divided among the Churches of England and Scotland, the Presbyterians of the United Synod, and all other "religious bodies or denominations of Christians now recognized by the constitution and laws of the province;" which are understood to be as follows::

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