tunes; but I will observe thus much, that all duett or solo passages are out of keeping with the legitimate character and design of congregational singing. Let the melody be simple (the tune of the old hundredth psalm is a fair type) and the harmony be studiously correct, so that no offence be given even to a fastidious critic. At the same time, in order to foster and keep alive music of a higher order, let the choir be encouraged to cultivate and to exhibit their gifts in the performance of anthems and set pieces, praising the Lord “in the beauty of holiness," and seeking to excel that they may edify the church. Thus may the highest talent be again consecrated to its legitimate use, and "make his praise to be glorious." Further, let the people be instructed in their duty. I do not mean by this that they should be assembled for musical practice. In the machinery and working of so-called singing schools, I see little or no utility whatever. They are at all events perfectly unnecessary. Under favouring auspices, if the people would but make the attempt, the advancement of congregational singing, though gradual, would be certain, without having any recourse to such fatiguing exercises. Where there is a good organ, every man, woman, and child should be encouraged to try to sing. No particular voice would or could be distinguished, and the full tide of harmony would force into its current those few who might otherwise find themselves unable to sing the tune steadily. The effect would be inconceivably grand, impressive, and sublime; and would more than amply repay the effort. Let false pride and delicacy then be cast aside, and let us unite in loudly celebrating the praises of our crucified Redeemer. "Let the people praise thee, O God! yea, let all the people praise thee." How else can we expect the fulfilment of the promise?" Then shall the earth bring forth her increase; and God, even our own God, shall give us his blessing." The Cabinet. THE LUSTRE OF THE CHURCH.-What is meant when the church is commanded to "shine," or "be enlightened?" These two readings give the entire sense of the word; for first, having no light of herself, she must receive light, and then show it-first be enlightened, and then shine. She is enlightened by Christ the Sun of righteousness shining in the sphere of the gospel. This is that light that comes to her, and the glory of the Lord that arises upon her. Hence she receives her laws and forms of government; and her shining is, briefly, the pure exercise of those and conformity to them. And the personal shining of the several members of a church is a comely congruity with pure worship and discipline, and it is that which now is most needful to be urged. Every Christian soul is personally engaged first to be enlightened, and then to shine; and we must draw our light for ourselves from that same source that furnishes the church with her public light. There is a word in the civil law, "the wife shines by the rays of her husband's light." Now every faithful soul is espoused to Christ, and therefore may well shine, seeing the Sun himself is their husband. He adorns them with a double beauty of justification and sanctification; by that they shine more especially to God-by this to men. And may not these too be signified by a double character given to the spouse in Cant. vi. 20?" she is fair as the morn, and clear as the sun.” The lesser light is that of sanctification, "fair as the morn"; that of justification the greater, by which she is "clear as the sun." The sun is perfectly luminous, but the moon is but | half enlightened; so the believer is perfectly justified, but sanctified only in part; his one half, his flesh, is dark: and, as the partial illumination is the reason of so many changes in the moon, to which changes the sun is not subject at all, so the imperfection of a Christian's holiness is the cause of so many waxings and wanings, and of the great inequality in his performances, whereas in the meanwhile his justification remains constantly like itself. This is imputed—that | inherent. The light of sanctification must begin in the understanding, and from thence be transferred to the affections, the inferior parts of the soul, and from thence break forth and shine into action. This then is the nature of the duties "arise and shine."-Archbishop Leighton, Sermon on Christ the Light and Lustre of the Church. Poetry. A FRIEND BURIED AT SEA. BY MRS. WOOLLEY. (For the Church of England Magazine.) AT sea, beneath the rolling wave, Far from thine own once happy home, Thou sleepest in thy watery grave, Amid the storm and billow's foam. The green turf covers not thy breast; No friends convey'd thee to the tomb; Yet dost thou sweetly take thy rest In the vast ocean's cavern'd gloom. Asleep in Jesus-'tis as well In the unfathom'd deep to lie, Soon shall the mandate from the skies THE MARINER'S HYMN. BY MRS. SOUTHEY. Tempests will come ; Breakers are round thee; Let fall the plummet now, Shallows may ground thee. Reef in the foresail, there! Hold the helm fast! So-let the vessel wear There swept the blast. "What of the night, watchman? What of the night?" "Cloudy-all quiet No land yet-all's right." Be wakeful, be vigilant; Danger may be At an hour when all seemeth How gains the leak so fast? Now the ship rights: Slacken not sail yet At inlet or island; Cut through the foam- Miscellaneous. THE WORLD AND THE VOLUPTUARIES THEREOF. "The end of these things is death."-In the year 1792, Sheridan lost his wife, whom we can never help fancying to have been of a nature too truly refined for him; and in 1795, being then in his forty-fourth year, he married his second, Miss Ogle, daughter of a dean of Winchester, a lady "young and accomplished, and ardently devoted to him"-so fascinating is the fame and wit, and the power of enlivening the present moment. Miss Ogle brought him a fortune also of five thousand pounds; and with this sum, and fifteen thousand more, "which he contrived," says his biographer," to raise by the sale of Drury Lane shares," an estate was bought in Surrey, where he was to live in love and happiness, till drink and his duns could endure it no longer; for, alas! he had long been in difficulties, but knew not how to retreat. A certain show of prosperity seemed to be necessary to him, to convince his unspiritual soul of the presence of any kind of happiness; and thus, through perpetual show and struggle, and every species of ingenious, eloquent, and, it is feared, degrading shift-helping his party occasionally with a promising effort, but gradually degenerating into a useless, though amusing speaker; familiarly joked at by the public, admired but disesteemed by his friends, seeing his theatrical property come to worse than nothing in his hands, without energy or perhaps power to retrieve himself by his pen, secretly assailed by disease, and at last threatened by every kind of domestic discomfort-this unhappy and brilliant man dragged out a heavy remainder of existence, between solaces that made him worse, and a loyalty to his prince which did him no good. He died near a dying wife, amidst the threats of bailiffs, and forsaken by that prince, and by all but his physician and a few poet friends (God bless the imagination that leaves men in possession of their hearts!), on Sunday, the 7th July, 1816, in Saville-row, Burlington Gardens, and in the sixty-fifth year of his age. When his accounts were settled, it was a surprise to every body to find for how comparatively small a sum improvidence had rendered him insolvent. His death should never be mentioned without adding the name of his physician (Dr. Bain), Mr. Rogers, Mr. Thomas Moore, and Lord Holland, as those of his last and, we believe, only comforters. It is a remarkable and painful instance of the predominance of the conventional and superficial in his feelings, even when they were most strongly and deeply excited, that, after going through life with apparently a laughing carelessness as to troubles far from humiliating, he bursts into tears, and complained of his "person" being "degraded," because a bailiff had touched him. That word "person" expresses all.-Leigh Hunt's Biographical Sketch. THE LAMAS OF SIBERIA. (Scene-The principal temple.)-Andantes alternated with Allegros; and, during a transient pause, one of the lamas, from the upper end of the temple, descended its whole length with a hurried step, and, dipping his hand in a plate, presented each of the numerous priests who assisted, with a handful of corn, which they afterwards threw up into the air, as soon as the music and singing recommenced. The chief altar at the upper end was decorated with candles made of butter (which are a votive offering from the faithful), as well as with flowers and other objects formed of the same substance. The idol, Tschegelmuneh, with other deities, is suspended in the midst of these candles. Besides the usual bason of holy water at the foot of the altar, there was a larger one filled with corn, which has no virtue in it unless a plantain-seed be introduced. The priests, as they passed before this altar in long procession, made a low bow to it, touched the bason last-mentioned with their foreheads, and were presented by the high priest, who was seated, with a second handful of corn. The people stood, during the service, at the lower end of the temple along the wall; the females being attired in robes of blue silk, and decorated with handsome beads of malachite, and mother-of-pearl across the forehead. Both sexes kept their hands clasped. Behind the altar hangs a curtain, which conceals a closet, where the sacred books, manuscripts, and single leaves are preserved between two boards, and folded up in variegated cloth. The interior of the temple is adorned with an immense profusion of peacocks' feathers, tigers' and leopards' skins, elephants' teeth, and hundreds of boards: these last are suspended from the ceiling, and are carved and rudely painted in imitation of the human face, with a single round eye in the forehead, and a quantity of ribbons streaming down from the chin. A large paper cylinder, decorated with ribbons, inscribed with Tungusian prayers, and turning round on a shaft, stands in the vestibule at the entrance into the temple. Those who cannot read, when they quit the sacred edifice, turn the cylinder round, and occasion it to strike certain bells-a ceremony which is equivalent to the recital of a prayer. In one of the numerous chapels which surround the temple, the travellers saw a large car, in which Tschegelmuneh's mother may take an airing round the building. Seven wooden horses, of a green colour and of very superior workmanship, are yoked in a single row to this vehicle. The centre steed is of the size of life; but the others decrease gradually on either side, and the outermost are not more than a fourth of that size. Dr. E. describes the Tibetian rites as being extremely impressive. On taking leave of the chamba-lama, the pontiff desired him to convey his greeting to the emperor of the Russias, and to assure him that the Buof their capabilities.-Frofessor Ermun's Travels. ractes fervently prayed for him, to the utmost extent London Published by JAMES BURNS, 17, Portman Street, Portman Square; W. EDWARDS, 12, Ave-Maria Lane, St. Paul's; and to be procured, by order, of all Booksellers in Town and Country. PRINTED BY JOSEPH ROGERSON, 24, NORFOLK STREET, STRAND, LONDON. SELF-EXAMINATION. APRIL 16, 1842. We PRICE d. Te may for a short season, in the brigh Or the various duties incumbent upon each sunshine of life, when health beams in the of us as individuals who must hereafter give countenance-when the endeared ties of affecan account of our stewardship, there is none tion remain unbroken, and all around preof greater importance than that of self-sents a summer's sky-we may then feel a examination. At the same time it is too kindred spirit animate us, and, in the full enobvious that this duty is the one of all joyment of the present, a thought of the future, others from which the mind of most men nay, even the voice of gratitude to the Giver either shrinks altogether, or, if entertained, of all these good gifts, is often a stranger to it is but as a single ray which only ren- us. But a change is soon visible in the landders the surrounding darkness visible. By scape: the sun withdraws his beams, the eveself-examination, however, I would be un- ning closes in, the chill of night is felt, and derstood to mean an enquiry entered upon we are alone amid the darkness. Then it is with deep humility, and with an earnest de- the heart looks within for relief, but no solace sire to be conformed to the will of God, un- is there; it is a stranger to itself: we desire der the guidance and teaching of his Holy to shut out reflection, but past scenes are in Spirit. Actuated by other motives, we may review before us; the future inspires but terindeed, after the example of the pharisee, re- ror, as we shrink from the handwriting that flect with a degree of complacency upon our-flashes across our path; and thus "the heart selves when compared with others, or upon our works when viewed in our own light; but we should do well to remember that "the light of the body is the eye; if therefore our eye be single, our whole body shall be full of light, but, if our eye be evil, our whole body shall be full of darkness." The question then naturally arises, why is it feels its own bitterness" until our very weariness in broken slumber finds a friend. This too is over; but does the dawn arise with healing in his wings? Can we enter upon another day without a thought of the past? Let the heart of each answer the inquiry. Such, reader, is the melancholy position of every unrenewed mind, for "the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God (the Comforter), neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." that we are thus averse to hold communion with ourselves? Either we do not admit its necessity, or, if we do, we know that the result would only bring a cloud across If, however, we would have a good hope to our path-a cloud which we fear to look upon, realise the promises held out to us in the word and will not use the proffered means to dispel. of God, we must look to that word for our Thus we slumber and sleep, our affections guide in this, as in every act of life, under given up to this world, and we close our ears the teaching of his Holy Spirit, and we then to the voice that would warn us of our dan- find the duty of self-examination clearly set ger, and foretell a happy change: "Awake, before us. I select the following passages: thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead," Examine yourselves whether ye be in the and Christ shall give thee light.' faith; prove yourselves. Know ye not your VOL. XII.-NO. CCCXXXIX (London: Joseph Rogerson, 24, Norfolk-str T ownselves, how that Jesus Christ is in you except ye be reprobates" (2 Cor. xiii. 5.)?" Let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another; for every man shall bear his own burden" (Gal. vi. 4, 5). Again, "Let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup" (1 Cor. xi. 28). He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, and rejects that rule which he has mercifully given for our guidance, and which, if improved, would draw us more and more closely to himself. And, if we thus shun his warning voice on earth, how shall we stand before God in the day of judgment, when every one shall receive according to his works? Whatever may be our position in life, our talents, our fancied independence, we are alike ignorant of ourselves and of that peace of mind which the renewed mind enjoys, and which this world can neither give nor take away. Would we then have God our Father, Christ our Redeemer, the Holy Spirit our Sanctifier, in this our earthly tabernacle, and know that when dissolved we have a mansion, not made with hands, eternal in the heavens, we must examine ourselves in deep humility, whether we be in the faith, whether we experience the holy influence of the indwelling Spirit of God, whether we are daily pressing towards the mark for the prize of our high calling in Christ Jesus, whether our hearts burn within us when we reflect upon his revealed word, whether our prayers to the throne of grace are the of prayers one who worships in spirit and in truth. And, if we are sincere in thus working out our own salvation in fear and trembling, "looking unto Jesus as the author and finisher of our 66 faith," we cannot look in vain; but shall, sooner or later, have the happy assurance that "it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure," and that, though "of ourselves we can do nothing," we can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth us." I say, sooner or later; for, as in the natural, so in the spiritual world, seed-time and harvest do not come together. We have "first the blade, then the ear, and afterwards the full corn in the ear;" and the promise is not that we shall immediately find fruit, but " in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." Our faith must be tried; and when this due season may arrive is known only to him "who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will" (Eph. i. 11). AMICUS. THE CHURCH THE HARBINGER OF LIGHT*. To enlighten a benighted world, in the highest and most comprehensive sense of the term, is the end and object for which a church was founded, and a ministry ordained. The methods of illumination are various, comprising all the processes which God himself has appointed, or human reason, enlightened by his Spirit, has suggested, for imparting divine knowledge, and making it effectual to its ends; the reading and preaching of God's word; the dispensing of his holy sacraments; the rites of public worship-all these are parts and features of the work. To bring sinners out of the darkness of ignorance or corruption; to open their eyes to the marvellous light of the gospel; to make plain and obvious the Such, for a season, was the condition of the largest given its name to a large portion of the middle ages, the church was still "the light of the world," dim and imperfect and insufficient as that light might be. The truth of God was overlaid with unwarranted additions; his worship encumbered with superstition; the church did not rightly value nor faithfully use the precious deposit with which it was intrusted; but it never renounced, nor relinquished, nor lost it. Although another supreme head was substituted for Jesus Christ, his laws were not formally abrogated. The fundamental verities of religion were never denied, nor kept wholly out of sight: the creeds, which embodied them, were ever amongst the church's formularies: the doctrine of a Trinity in unity, of an atonement wrought by the incarnate Son of God, of the Holy Spirit helping our infirmities, of the necessity of per From "The Light of the World:" a sermon preached on Sunday, January 30, 1842, when his majesty the king of Prussia attended divine service in the cathedral church of St. Paul, London. By Charles James, lord bishop of London. Published in obedience to his majesty's desire. London, Pellowes. sonal holiness, the certainty of a judgment to come; these features of revealed truth were presented by the church to all her members, marred and disfigured as they were by the deification of holy, yet peccable men, the multiplication of mediators between God and man, the doctrines of meritorious works, a commutation for actual sin, and of a remission of its penalties by an earthly judge. So also with respect to the two ordinances which Jesus Christ had appointed as means and pledges of grace, these were never disused, nor even lightly esteemed; but they were misunderstood, and corrupted with unauthorized additions; and their operation was misrepresented; while others were added, which had "not the like nature nor the like effect." true light, and guards it as a sacred deposit, and where More especially is she qualified, by the purity of her 66 Thus, then, it appears that when the good providence of God brought on the time of the church's reformation, the work to be done was not, properly speaking, to rekindle the extinguished light of divine truth, nor to devise new methods for its maintenance and diffusion; but rather to clear away the long accumulated barrier of human devices and errors which had grown up around it, and intercepted its beams; and to lay open to the gaze of mankind the very light itself, in its native purity and brightness, even the written word of God: not to demolish the shrine in which it had been always burning though dimly seen (for that shrine was from the hand of the divine Master Builder himself), but to clear all the avenues that led to it; and to exhibit the church in something like the beauty of its ancient, if not its primitive holiness, as the receptacle and guardian and dispenser of that light. And herein we have great reason to be thank-recognise her as an instrument providentially ordained ful to him who in his own time disposed the hearts of his servants to purify and reinstate his church, for having dealt very mercifully with that branch of it which was planted in this realm; for having tempered and sanctified the zeal of those who set their hands to the work, with a just reverence for antiquity; for baving enabled them to take such comprehensive view of the truth itself, and of the instrumental means divinely appointed for its diffusion, as preserved them from the fatal error of demolishing its outworks and defences, together with its impediments and encumbrances; and of destroying the very edifice of the church itself, in their desire to clear away from it every thing of mere human device and workmanship. It is lamentable that any should now be found, not amongst the enemies of that church, but amongst her sons and servants, to speak irreverently and disparagingly of those holy men who proved their sincerity by the test of martyrdom; and whose wisdom and moderation, under circumstances of difficulty to us almost unimaginable, were surely indications that they were guided by that Spirit who had been promised to the church; and who would not forsake those who loved, and prayed and suffered for it, in the moment of its fiercest struggle with the adversary. I repeat it, we have great reason to be thankful that divine Providence, when it restored to this nation the full enjoyment of the light, preserved to us also the sanctuary in which it burned, and the ministry by which it was tended. You remember, no doubt, the almost prophetic words with which good bishop Latimer encouraged his brother martyr at the stake: "Be of good courage, master Ridley, and play the man; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out." Those words have hitherto proved true; and that they will still be verified, we have no manner of doubt. But it may well be questioned whether that candle would have continued to burn with a clear and steady light, had there not existed in the reformed church of this realm its discipline as well as its doctrine-that whereon the light was conspicuously and firmly placed," the candlestick of gold, with the lamps thereof." Where, as in our own case, the church possesses the for its accomplishment, and possessing authority to THE POOR AND THE FACTORY SYSTEM. [A valued correspondent has forwarded to us the following papers for insertion, which he met with in the perusal of two distinct newspapers in one afternoon. We recommend them to the careful perusal of our readers, and do not now enter farther on the subject, as we hope to do, ere long, in a more enlarged form. We would only remark that such contributions are always most thankfully received by us, when not anonymous.-ED.] FACTORY LABOUR *.-The period of growth is one of weakness; the purposes of growth necessarily require a more than ordinary supply of nutriment; children require not only a large supply of food, but that it should be nutritive, and given frequently. Assimilation cannot be perfectly formed without air A synopsis of the evidence which was given before the select committee of the house of commons on the 4th of August, 1832, by Mr. Joseph Green, F.R.S., surgeon of St. Thomas's hospital, professor of surgery at King's college, and clinical lecturer at St. Thomas's hospital. |