labour in the proposals you have so frequently advocated, for simultaneous exertion, auxiliary to, and under the direction of Israel's chosen leaders, for the amelioration of the social condition of their brethren throughout the world.

The God of my fathers has vouchsafed to Jew and Gentile their respective but distinct missions: all who know and trust His word, will be content to work out those missions in their seeming parallelism, content to believe that they do really converge, although that fact be not now visible to all, and that they will not, and cannot become one, until that day of which it is promised that the Messiah of our hopes shall gather us again. Then only will men of all nations of the earth worship with one accord, and the name of Israel's God be called unity for evermore.

May the Redeemer come unto Zion speedily and in our days.

Faithfully your elder Brother,

JACOB.

Review of Books.

THE GLORY OF THE REDEEMER in his person and work. By Octavius Winslow, Author of 'Personal declension and revival of religion in the soul,' The inquirer directed,' &c. &c. &c.-Shaw.

THE deep and pure spirituality that characterizes all the preceding works of this dear servant of God, shines most beautifully here. The object of the treatise we will give in his own words: In this age of polemical divinity, the author is far from speaking lightly of it; for, if the truth is worth possessing, it is worth defending, and it now, if ever, behoves the saints of God to heed the Apostle's exhortation to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered unto the saints,-yet, in this age of much and sharp controversy, the eye is liable to be drawn off from Jesus; and thus the spirit with which his truth is defended, and his kingdom is advanced, may be such as would, were he personally on earth, call for

his tender, yet firm rebuke, as not partaking sufficiently of that meek, lowly, and self-annihilating element, which only is imbibed in a close study and a profound contemplation of his character and glory.' To assist the believer in maintaining such spiritual ground, and to fill him with high and holy thoughts concerning his Lord, is the end at which the writer has aimed; and, if he succeed not, the fault lies not in him, but in the faithless spirit of the reader. The last Chapter, treating of 'The glory of the Redeemer in his second coming,' sets forth with great force and clearness the blessed truth of our Lord's speedy, personal, pre-millennial Advent; the restoration of Israel, their final re-establishment as a nation, under the dominion of the Messiah, 'David their king,' and the glorious reign of the risen saints with their Lord, over a renovated earth-all this is shown forth with the simplicity of deeply-felt truth, and without the sacrifice of one jot of that consistent spirituality of which we have spoken. The whole volume is a feast both for mind and soul.

THE CHURCH in the Navy and Army, including original auto-biographies of officers in both services. A New Series.-Hamilton.

WITHOUT assenting to the compiler's arguments in favour of the compatibility of voluntary service in Army or Navy with the spirit of the Gospel of Christwithout admitting that because John the Baptist was not commissioned to disband the Roman army; and, because the faith of centurions was acceptable before God, THEREFORE, a pious Christian is justified in en

tering, or in placing his son, in the midst of those fearful scenes alike of profligacy and of homicide, to which he is thereby exposed-we are still very glad to meet with works that can commend themselves to the attention of our soldiers and sailors, bringing before them the realities of spiritual life. We recognize in this interesting compilation memorials of some well-known friends.

THE MISSIONARY'S REWARD; or the success of the Gospel in the Pacific. By George Pritchard, Esq. Her Britannic Majesty's Consul in the islands of the Pacific. With an Introduction, by the Rev. John Angell James.-Snow.

MELANCHOLY indeed, alas! is the feeling with which we glance over these simple records of the Gospel's triumph, referring to a period now past, while our eyes have recently been pained with the grievous recital of recent, and we fear present, scenes, once again enacted in Tahiti. Never did Popery appear in greater hideousness, never more glaringly unmasked, than in the events that have lately re-established Satan's seat, where it was so signally cast down. Mr. Pritchard's book does not include any of these events, but treats of the state of things while yet the word of God had free course and was glorified there; the contrast is the more intensely painful, for we all know what has occurred; and while reading the faint sketch of horrors from which the poor natives were delivered by the accepted preaching of the Gospel of Christ, we see to what they are again given over. A letter lately appeared in the Record newspaper, stating, that while the writer held the pen, the French

commander was amusing himself and his officers by witnessing the fearful spectacles of vice for which the islands were so grievously notorious, until the introduction of Christianity; which, if it caused not the unclean spirit to pass out of the land, at least completely suppressed the external badges of his presence. Popery, maintained in its intrusion by French cannon, was rapidly undoing all that Christianity had done; and ere this time, it is most probable that the Lord's little flock have been hunted from their pleasant pastures, and the truly diabolical wickedness of former generations is again in full operation. In the Introduction, these reverses are pathetically noticed; but we cannot comprehend the writer's meaning, when he asserts the undoubted right of Popery to promulgate its doctrines, provided it only uses the Scriptures for that purpose. This looks much like pleading for the right of an incendiary to fire a house, provided he uses only a bucket of clear spring water to effect it. It is because Popery CANNOT adduce anything peculiar to its creed on Scripture authority, that it has no more right to spread its venom among a christianized, or, indeed, any other race, than a private felon has to place poison under the name of food on the dinner-table of a household, into which he may have gained admission either by force or other illegal means. In resisting the first approach of these emissaries of Satan, the Tahitians did right; and the end will prove that they did so. May the Lord send deliverance to these our poor brethren, and their afflicted queen! It is a solemn consideration that she is as much, by His appointment, sovereign of Tahiti, as our own honoured lady, Victoria, is of England, or Louis Philippe of France. A warning is deducible from this, that we may do well to lay to heart.