glorifies God. Pretend what you will, and talk as you please, yet, if you are guilty of great inconsistency of conduct, depend upon it, it is a sign that you have not made a full surrender of your heart to God. Consider your ways, therefore, search into the state of your heart before God, and rest not till you "bring forth fruits meet for repentance."

If you wish ever to be useful in the world, in society, or in the church of God, your conduct must be uniform at all times, and in all places; what you are in the public assembly, and in the society of God's people, that you must be in the family and in the closet. All your tempers and dispositions must resemble those of Christ, so that all who see you may bear testimony to you, that you have the spirit of Christ and the mind of Christ. It is only by such conduct that you can hope to be useful in life; and by the constant exercise of it you will put to silence the ignorance of foolish men."

Stir up all your powers, then, dear young friends, and strive, in dependence on divine grace, to enforce your pious admonitions by the example of your good and blameless conduct and conversation. Thus, you will prove blessings to those around you, and bring glory to that God in whom you trust, and whom you profess to serve. P. L. T.

PREACHING.

I HAVE often admired an illustration of Father Cornell's on the subject of preaching. In answer to the question how he made out to preach without embarrassment, not having his sermons written, he replied, that he formed his sermon on the same principle that he formed a piece of fence. In preparing to make his fence, he said, he planted a stake at one end of the line, and a second at the other end, a third in the

centre, and a fourth and a fifth, in the intermediate spaces, &c., according to the length of the fence to be made. This being done, he found no difficulty in keeping on the line, or at least sufficiently near to it, although every foot of the distance was not marked out. The application of the above is not difficult. Father Cornell's mode of preaching is believed to be the most successful that has ever been or ever will be tried. If, according to the declaration of a contemporary writer, of great celebrity, "the toils of learned acquisition have a direct tendency to impair the freshness of intellectual constitution, to chill and cloud the imagination, to break the elasticity of the inventive faculty," then is that method of preaching the best which, while it secures a sufficient amount of method and arrangement, leaves the speaker at liberty to indulge occasionally in an excursive sally, or to improve an incident, or a thought, produced or prompted by the circumstances of the moment. It ought not to be overlooked, that it is the business of the preacher more to bring people to feel what they know, than to teach them what they do not know; more especially in these regions, where the rising generation are, from their infancy, trained up in the constant contemplation of the doctrines of the Christian religion.

BAPTIST CHAPEL, LYMINGTON,

[With an Engraving.]

THE baptist chapel at Lymington, in the county of Hants, was erected in the year 1834, measuring sixty feet by thirty-eight feet six inches in the clear, having two large school-rooms, and vestries underneath, and is capable of seating 700 adults, besides a large space allotted for Sunday-school children. This is the third place of worship which the congregation

have occupied from the period of their origin, in 1688. The first meeting-house was a very small and inconvenient building, situate in Captain's-row, at the lower part of the town; in 1776, this was succeeded by another and more substantial building, in the street or lane on the ground now occupied by the third place, of which an engraving is here given, but which, notwithstanding an enlargement in 1820, became at length too small.

The church assembling in this place has experienced a very pleasing measure of success. During the last twenty years, about three hundred and fifty persons have been added to it, beside which, three or four churches and congregations in the vicinity have grown out of this. Ample encouragement is here furnished for fervent, importunate, believing, and persevering prayer. The pastors of this church from its commencement have been :

Rev. Rumsey 1693

Richard Church - 1705
John Voysey- - 1746
Joshua Tommas- 1768

1818 present pastor.

We cordially rejoice in the zealous efforts and the success of our revered friend at Lymington, and fervently pray that he may long continue an able minister of the New Testament.

SCRAPS FROM THE EDITOR'S PORTFOLIO.

SELF-DENIAL.-Self-denial is an excellent guard of virtue; and it is safer and wiser to abate somewhat of our lawful enjoyments than to gratify our desires to the utmost extent of what is permitted, lest the bent of nature towards pleasure hurry us further.-TowNSON.