to our arrival. Still, however, having a strong desire to make known the good news of salvation to my friends and neighbours, I thought in spite of the opposition of the priest to try and do so. In place of the people being unwilling to receive us or buy our books, it was the very reverse. The Lord was with us, and it turned out differently altogether from what the priest had ordered. The people asked us to go here and there, and we passed long hours with them, reading and speaking to them about the things of God."

Prejudices. "There exist many false prejudices among the French Canadians about Protestantism. When they hear explained the doctrines which Jesus himself announced while on earth, and that these are the truths held by Protestants, they manifest much surprise. A woman did not hesitate to say to us,-'You Protestants are better off about your salvation than we are, because the poor, according to the way the priests claim money for saving ordinances, are to be pitied.'

"Oh! Sir, if you only knew how wrongfully we are judged by the people in relation to the pure doctrine of Jesus, which we profess; some think we have no more religion than the beasts of the field. When they hear us speak of our faith in Christ and love for Him, they are surprised. Often every day have we thus to witness to the Gospel."

AT POINTE-AUX-TREMBLES.

"I was at the College of

At the close of the examination, which was well sustained, Rev. Mr. Gibson remarked that Dr. Jenkins having spoken in terms of just commendation of the educational efforts of the society, he would confine himself to the part of his resolution which spoke of its evangelistic efforts. These he characterized as exceedingly important and measurably successful, in proof of which he HOW A PUPIL OF THE FRIARS BECAME A PUPIL read interesting extracts from the letters of some young colporteur evangelists, formerly pupils of Pointe-Aux-Trembles, who were now labouring in the parishes below Quebec. One of them had worn a friar's frock, but now loved the Saviour. Another, three years ago, had come to the school in company with three other youths; the latter became afraid and left shortly after they entered; he remained, and the prejudices of which his mind was full gradually gave way before the power of divine truth. He was also now employed in imparting the precious truths of that Gospel he had been taught to love to his fellow countrymen.

Extracts. From letters placed in his hand by the secretary, he would read the following interesting extracts, showing what these youths were now doing:

"We intended to leave my native parish and go to the next one, as the priest had denounced us from the pulpit on the two Sabbaths previous

preparing to be a teaching friar; a colporteur had visited the parish, and spread a great number of Bibles and Tracts. The Rev. Superior of our house, indignant at this, took great pains to follow the track of the colporteur into all the houses where he had stopped, and to gather the heretical books in order to have them burned. I was chosen to accompany him, and carry the books and tracts which he got back from our poor Canadians. None surrendered them without some hesitation, a few resisted, while others met the priest with objections. Of course I had to observe an humble silence all the while, but I was nevertheless very attentive to all that was said, and took deep interest in the discussions.

"I was ordered to deposit the books we had collected in a certain room of the college. I was possessed, however, of an intense desire, if possible, to get at them and read them. Several of

my comrades experienced the same desire. But best pupils, a young man, exemplary in his how to manage it? We were all under constant behaviour, and of much promise. His parents and close supervision. For a while the thing was are Roman Catholic, as he was himself when he impracticable, but our vigilant Superior happened came into the institute. He was with us only to start on a journey, and was absent several days. three months, but by that time his heart had We availed ourselves of the opportunity, and ate been given to the Lord, as was shown by most the forbidden fruit. Bibles and tracts were soon satisfactory evidence. When here about six weeks scattered in the rooms of the pupils, but well he was taken very sick, but after a few days of concealed and read in secret. What struck me careful treatment he was restored to health. A most, was the great resemblance I found between few days later he again took so sick that I sent the Romish and the heretic Bible. I had expected for a doctor and his parents. He never got well, then, from what we had been taught, to find and during his last days fell into a stupor, from them quite different books. I went on reading which, whenever roused, he gave evidence that assiduously the Bible and tracts, and gradually he had been communing with God. One day a discovered that I had been deceived in the most pupil sitting with him, to try him, asked if he deplorable manner by my spiritual conductors. wished the priest sent for. He answered immeUnder this impression I left the college in dis-diately, 'I will not confess to any other but Jesus gust, and decided never to go back. I then took Christ.' The day preceding his death, and while steps to obtain admission into our college at in the stupor, he cried out, 'Listen to me, my Pointe-aux-Trembles, and fortunately was re- sister, I wish you to spell these words: Jesus ceived. It is there I have learned to know my Christ came to save sinners!' He was heard every Saviour. Now my ardent desire is to spend my now and then whispering 'Jesus! Jesus!' and his life in spreading the Word of God, and making last words, uttered in a distinct voice shortly it known to my own countrymen." before he died to some of his fellow pupils round his bed were, 'My friends, put your trust in none but Jesus alone.' Was not this dying the death of the just?"

HOW ONE OF THE PUPILS DIED.

"We have to deplore the death of one of our

SUGGESTIONS AND REPLIES.

THE UNITY OF THE HUMAN RACE.

(To the Editor of Christian Work.)

IN your October number I read the following remarks of your own correspondent from Scotland, in reference to the meeting of the British Association at Dundee: "The only point to be noticed, in a Christian relation, is the determination shown by a few of the members to assail the chronology of Scripture. At such an association all scientific facts must be received; but the crude and hasty attempt to make use of these, when often ill understood, to create a prejudice against the statements of revealed religion, gives evidence of a spirit of strong hostility. The unity especially of the human race is not only a statement of scripture, but upon this unity rests the value of the Christian revelation; and with its rejection

the whole fabric of Christianity, as a religion given by God to man, is undermined."

Thus your correspondent. Before proceeding any further, I beg to say that I do not intend discussing the merits of the questions referred to, such discussions not coming within the sphere of your valuable publication. Further, in order that your Scotch correspondent may know in what a spirit I make these observations, I declare that I have never received, nor will receive, any scientific discovery as a fact, if it be opposed to the spirit or the letter of Holy Writ.

Allow me now to express my astonishment, in the first instance, that your correspondent should have mixed up as enemies to Scripture those who attack the chronology of Scripture, and those who reject the theory of the unity of the human races; in the second instance, that he considers the whole Christian religion undermined by the adoption of

the theory that all races of men do not descend unity of the human race. from Adam.

With regard to the first point, I merely beg to remind you that those who, like Dr. Bunsen and others of his school, maintain the unity of mankind, are precisely the same who attack the whole chronology of Scripture as revealed in the book of Genesis, in order to attempt to prove the unity of mankind; whereas those who deny the unity of mankind-i.e., the descent of all human races from Adam-are they who base their theory on the chronology of the Bible, and are able to bring into a clear unison with the spirit and the letter of Holy Writ the recent discoveries in philology, ethnology, geology, and other branches of science greatly developed in modern times, which bear a strong testimony to the correctness of their theory.

With regard to the second point, I am sure your Scotch correspondent could not on reflection repeat the assertion contained in the last few lines of what I have quoted from his letter. What does it matter for the great work of redemption, whether the Malay, the Hottentot, the Negro, descend with us from Adain or not; they are our spiritual brethren at any rate, as we are all created by the same Father,-only the Adamite race are the chosen one for spreading civilization and the Holy Truth as revealed by the second Adam, Christ the Son of God, among all the other inferior human races, who may have existed thousands of years before Adam was created in the image of God, the crowning act to the whole creation. He may just as well say that those who, with the truly Christian author of "The Testimony of the Rocks," see in the six days of the creation, as related in the Book of Genesis, six periods of incalculable time, undermine also the foundations of the whole fabric of religion and Christianity.

As I stated before, I must refrain from discussing the merits of the different theories mentioned. I offer these few lines of remonstrance only in the hope that your correspondent from Scotland may not forget another time that there are certainly millions of orthodox Christians who differ from him on many such scientific and religious questions of the day, and who still are quite as earnest as he is to proclaim and maintain the Divine authority of Scripture.

R. A. DE S.

[We cannot agree with our correspondent in attaching so little importance, as he does, to the

Christ is represented

in the New Testament as fitted to be the Saviour of men, not only by reason of His godhead, but of His manhood. But if men be not all of one family, then this manhood means nothing, and He might as well have been an angel or an archangel as a man. Besides, the explanation of the cause of sin and of the necessity of redemption is rendered null, if the perfection of a common progenitor be denied, and his wilful defection from that state of holiness in which he had been created. Science has, we believe, shown no sufficient cause to doubt either the unity of the human race on the one hand, or its origin within the scriptural period on the other.-ED.]

THE SWEDISH MARRIAGE-LAW.

(To the Editor of Christian Work.) SIR,-Your number for this month contains a statement regarding the Swedish marriage-law, and a narrative of a marriage celebrated by some Baptists in the town of Orebro.

I know nothing about the circumstances connected with the alleged marriage celebration; but though the Swedish laws are by no means yet clear of all traces of the old intolerance, they are not such as that it should be said that by them the Baptists are "driven to extremities," or that in being married by their own pastor they are "commencing an open resistance to the unjust law imposed upon them." I speak on the best authority when I say that by the law of the country since 1860-members of Baptist congregations have full freedom to be married to one another according to their own ritus, without the intervention of any Lutheran clergyman. It is only in the event of one of the parties belonging to the Lutheran Church that the law requires the marriage to be celebrated according to its rites. And, further, "civil marriage," or marriage apart from any religious ceremony, is recognized by the law. I am quite aware that there are some few cases of difficulty which have arisen, by reason of persons professing Baptist opinions not having formally separated from the national church, nor renounced their standing and rights as members of it; but such persons have evidently themselves to thank for the inconveniences to which they may have been subjected.

I shall feel obliged by your insertion of this

LITERATURE.