which had been worshipped in the heroes and emperors of Pagan times were again worshipped as saints and Popes in Papal times. The old rites were restored, the old festivals were re-enacted, the flowers, the incensings, the lustral water, the vestments, the statues, the incantations, the very gods, but with new names which had been employed in the worship of Paganism, were again revived. In short, had an old Pagan risen from the grave, he would certainly have thought the old religion was still flourishing, and that Jupiter was still worshipped under the name of Peter, and Venus under that of Mary.

"In the dogma of the immaculate conception, Popery has developed dogmatically, as it had long since developed practically, into a system of creature worship. The same earthly, sensuous, and polluting Polytheism, whose cradle was rocked by the soothsayers and star-gazers of Chaldea-whose youth was passed amid the olive groves and beautiful temples of Greece, and whose manhood was reached amid the stern contests of Rome Imperial-has revived anew in the Popery of the so-called Christian Rome. The aim of the Papacy, as fairly judged by her essential principles and undeniable creed, is dominion, uncontrolled and uncontrollablepower without limit and without end, over all beings and over all things. Any other despotism that ever existed, placed alongside the measureless despotism of the Papacy, is insignificant and harmless. Thus has that idolatrous principle which entered the world at the fall, and which ever since has been working upward-first, through the star worship of Chaldea; next, through the Polytheism of Greece; and lastly, through the Pantheism of Rome received its widest earthly development and attained its highest earthly dominion in the Popery of modern Europe; and the Bible is the record of the development of Satan, in his person, his wiles, his victories, and his final defeat, as it is also of the development of Christ, in His Person, His offices, His sufferings, and His final and glorious victory."

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THOSE Who would not be without the Lord's blessing need not desire or expect to be without trials, for they are inseparably connected.-Wakeling..

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"THE UTTERMOST AND "IN NO WISE."-We must follow the believer into all the intricacies of his experience before we can understand the full meaning of the word, "in no wise "how impossible to weary or tire out His love by all our backslidings and ingratitude. "No wise" and "uttermost " are words the believer takes his life to learn. Not one has ever outstretched His "uttermost," or wearied His "no wise."-Lady Powerscourt.

LETTERS FOR THE YOUNG.-No. LIII.

MY DEAR MISS JEAN,-Mr. C's last letter is dated the 4th of June, and yours the 3rd. As you stand first in date, you must be first answered. I cannot always write when I would, but I can always find time to read what you write; and therefore I beg you will not keep silence from a fear of interrupting me in my supposed important business.

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When you tell me what a sad heart you have, and what strange and evil thoughts pester your mind, you tell me nothing new. also feel the same. The hearts of all men, women, and children are deceitful, and desperately wicked. It is a mercy to know and feel this truth, provided the knowledge of the disease leads us to the Great Physician. Our depravity, like the human face, has universally the same leading features. People of all ages and sizes, in all countries and climates, have a nose, eyes, &c., and yet it will be difficult to find two faces so exactly alike that one cannot be distinguished from the other. Thus constitution, education, habits of life, make each person, in some respects, an original ; but the heart, from whence the issues of life proceed, is exactly the same in all. Grace will make you feel your inward malady, teach you to loathe it, to watch, and pray, and fight against it, and to be humbled for it, but it will not free you from it while you are in this world; therefore your life will be a continual warfare, but death will put an end to it. Then you will leave the flesh and all its inseparable evils behind you. Till then we must "groan, being burdened," as others have done before us. You must not expect to be better than Paul, who tells us that in his flesh there dwelt no good thing, and that, when he would do good, evil was present with him.

Young converts are apt to think their cases singular. I thought my own so once, and should have reason to think so still, if the Scriptures did not teach me otherwise. The case of Jonah is singular indeed. He was entombed alive three days in the belly of a fish, and came alive out of it. He is the only one I have ever heard of in such a situation. I could point you out a shorter road than that by which I travelled myself, but I question if unbelief will permit you to walk in it; and perhaps the Lord sees it best that we should all, like Israel, be led round about.

Our Lord, in John iii., teaches us the sure way of salvation by a very instructive and plain emblem. When the Israelites were bitten by poisonous serpents, God commanded Moses to set up a brazen serpent upon a pole, and whoever looked up to the brazen serpent was instantly healed. If, with such a sure and easy remedy at hand, they presumed rather to trust in plaisters of their own contriving, they must die. Again, they could get no

help by meeting at the foot of the pole, and saying to each other, "Ah! I am worse bitten than you.' Looking to the serpent was necessary if a man had received but one bite, and it was sufficient to cure him if he was bitten from head to foot. Now, the Lord has opened the eyes of your mind. You know that you are a sinner, and what a sinner deserves. You know likewise who is the Saviour.

Now go to the cross. Consider who hangs upon it--Jesus, the Son of God. Read John i. 1-3; then consider, why did He who was with God, who Himself was God, assume our nature? The Apostle says, "He came into the world to save sinners." "But will He save me?" Yes, if you come to Him; for He says, "Him that cometh unto Me, I will in no wise cast out.' Here, you see, He makes no exception; He prescribes no c ndition. It is only "Look and live ; " "Believe, and thou shalt be saved." Then think of His sufferings. If He sweat blood in Gethsemane, and died in agonies upon the cross to save sinners, will He be disappointed, and suffer in vain ?

But, if you listen to unbelief, it will try to persuade you that it would be presumption in such a sinner as you to believe that Christ really means what He says, and is able to make His Word good. Stop the mouth of unbelief with those words, "In no wise." If He should cast you out, it must be in some wise; either for the nature, number, or aggravation of your sins. But, if His Word may be safely taken, though you were chargeable with all the sins that have been committed in L- since it has been a parish, yet, if you had a sense of your need of mercy, and were willing to accept it in His appointed way, "in no wise" would He who gave you a sure and safe warrant to trust in Him cast you out. The point is not what you think of yourself, but "What think you of Christ?" Not, "What can I do?" but "What has He done?" He has obeyed the law, made an atonement for sin, brought in an everlasting righteousness. He has lived, and died, and risen again; and now He reigns a High Priest upon the throne, and all for us, therefore He is able to save to the uttermost.

But there is a growth and gradation in the Christian life. If you wish to enjoy a stable peace, you must pray for a simple, upright, and humble spirit. You cannot avoid many of the effects of indwelling sin, but by His grace you may avoid wilful sin, and you will do this more successfully, the more firmly you trust in Him. You must likewise read and take heed to His Word, by which young persons are enabled to cleanse their ways, and carefully attend the preached Gospel. You have reason to fear the snares of the world, and to watch and pray against them; and, if you are honest in this endeavour, the Lord will help you in two ways--He will give you such tastes of happiness as the world

cannot give; and He will, when needful, put some wholesome bitters in your cup of earthly comforts, that you may not drink too eagerly. In a word, though believers will surely repent, and be found in the use of the means of grace, these things have nothing to do with their acceptance. They are "accepted in the Beloved," because He died for sinners, and because, renouncing every other plea, they commit their souls and their all to Him, as their wisdom, righteousness, their Lord, their Prophet, Priest, and King.

Do not indulge unbelief, but consider it not merely as a weakness, but a sin. Yea, it is the greatest of all our sins, and the source of them. We can believe one another, and yet distrust and contradict the God of truth. When He says, "I will receive you,” how dare we say He will not? But you are yet but a young plant. May the blessing of God water you, and make you grow in faith and holiness; "then shall you know, if you follow on to know the Lord."

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I have often written in this strain to Mrs. C. Gospel is equally good for the mother and the child. Give my love and Miss Catlett's to your dear parents, to James, and to all your brothers and sisters, and take a large share for yourself. We can love those whom we never saw. How else should we love the Saviour? I mean to write to Mr. C and to Mr. B― while I am here, and as soon as I conveniently can. We left London on the 9th instant, and spent a week at Reading; arrived here in safety on the 19th. We are both in perfect health. Mercy and goodness attend and surround us, at home and abroad.

I commend you to the great and good Shepherd. Endeavour to be cheerful, thankful, humble, and watchful. You have no sufficiency in yourself, even to think a good thought; but let not this discourage you. Look to Him, and you shall be enlightened. You shall be able to do all things, through Him who is always near to strengthen you. Pray for us, and believe me to be, Your very affectionate friend, Southampton, July 25th, 1799.

JOHN NEWTON.

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