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feeling and privilege, are to be exhibited in the observance. On the first day of the week, the disciples came together to do this teaching that the life of a disciple is a life of constant faith and dependence on the Redeemer, as one who has suffered for him. But, let this ordinance be observed at longer intervals than on every first day of the week, and the latter salutary doctrine is lost sight of in the observance. Let individuals, or groups of individuals, forming but portions of a church, observe it, then the communion or jointness, and oneness of the body, is lost sight of in the observance. Let any superior place be given to one man as a dispenser of the elements, and then the disciples have not come together to break bread, but to receive broken bread-the perfect equality being lost sight of, which obtains in the family of God, and which this appointment is intended to exhibit.-D. Lindsay.

THE DYING BELIEVER.

COME, Stingless Death, heave o'er; lo, here's my pass,
In bloody characters, by his hand who was,

And is, and shall be.
Make channels dry;
Stampt on my brow.
It shines so bright.
That worlds can give.

Jordan, cut thy stream,
I bear my Father's name
I'm ravish'd with my crown,
Down with all glory, down,

I see the pearly port,

The golden street, where blessed souls resort,
The tree of life, floods gushing from the throne,
Call me to joys; begone, short woes, begone:

I liv'd to die, but now I die to live;

I do enjoy more than I did believe;
The promise-me, into possession sends,

Faith in fruition, hope in glory ends.

To render reproof effectual, it must be accompanied with the indications of a loving mind.

"WHAT TRACTS CAN DO."

The following, somewhat abridged from the pen of one who may perhaps use tracts to circulate evil, is worthy of our notice; and if such has been done, surely we may do something in the same way to hasten forward our great work.

It is my conviction that more will have to be done through the press than by any other means. Lecturing and preaching are great things. They can do something which the press cannot do; but the press can do much which they cannot do. Tracts can go everywhere. Tracts never blush. Tracts know no fear. Tracts never stammer. Tracts never stick fast. Tracts never lose their temper. Tracts never tire. Tracts never die. Tracts can be multiplied without end by the press. Tracts can travel at little expense. They want nothing to eat. They require no lodgings. They run up and down, blessing all, giving to all, and asking no gift in return. You can print them of all sizes, on all subjects, and in all languages. They can be read in all places, and at all hours. And they can talk to one as well as a multitude, and to a multitude as well as one. They require no public room to tell their story in. They can tell it in the kitchen or the shop, in the parlour or the closet, in the railway carriage or in the omnibus, on the broad highway or in the footpath through the fields. And they dread no noisy or tumultuous interruption. They take no note of scoffs, or jeers, or taunts; of noisy folly or malignant rage. They bear all things, endure all things, suffer all things, and take harm from nothing. They can talk even when the noise is so great, as to drown all other voices. And they stop when they are bid, or at least when they are done. They never continue talking after they have told their tale. No one can betray them into hasty or random expressions. And they will wait men's time, and suit themselves to men's occasions and conveniences. They will break off at any point, and begin again at any moment where they broke off. And though they will not always answer questions, they will tell their story twice, or thrice, or four times over if you wish them. And they can be made to speak on every subject, and on every subject they may be made to speak wisely and well. They can, in short, be made the vehicles of all truth, the teachers and reformers of all classes, the regenerators and benefactors of all lands.

I want my friends to give this subject their attention. I am sure of this, the press has never yet been employed as it ought to be in this great work. Luther wrote and published no less than eleven hundred works, in a few years, most of them small tracts or single sheets. He published at one time from two to three hundred in a single year. It was the multiplication of these tracts and books by the press, and their plentiful distribution among the multitudes, that gave power to the reformer's principles, that shook the power of the popedom, and worked so great a reformation. It was chiefly by a plentiful supply of cheap tracts that Wesley gained his influence with the masses of our countrymen, and worked such happy wonders in our land. It was chiefly by means of a plentiful supply of cheap tracts, sold cheap or freely given away, that the early Quakers shook the nation, and, in spite of some excesses in their conduct, and some mysteries and errors in their opinions, almost frightened the priests and sectarians out of their wits. It was chiefly by means of tracts that Joseph Livesey and some of his fellow-workers, roused the country on the subject of teetotalism, and gained for the principle such a firm and general lodging in the souls of the community. Livesey did not lecture so much; but his tracts, the fair expounders of his principles, were always speaking. Livesey did not visit one place in a hundred; but his tracts went everywhere Livesey could speak only English, but his tracts were soon made to speak both Welsh and German. His tracts made others become lecturers, and supplied the lecturers with truths and facts and arguments. Tracts have already done good without end, and they may easily be made to do still greater good. Let tracts be freely and plentifully circulated, and they will rouse the whole country; they will shake the foundations of every corruption in the land, and bring people in multitudes from darkness to light, from superstition and error and sın. They will not only set people thinking, but talking also They will raise up lecturers, and help to qualify them for their work. They will bring about a reform which will bless all ages, and spread purity and freedom and peace through all the countries of the earth.

TO MAKE THE MOST OF TRACTS,

they should be left and called for; thus keeping up a regular weekly visitation. But the advantages arising from the

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had fallen, we give the subjoined plan upon which they don their undertaking, owing to a confusion into which they some brethren to commence, and after a few weeks to abansupplied for 12 weeks with 600 tracts. Having known is really wanted. Six districts, of 50 houses each, may be a much greater number is requisite to supply a district than fact that some are wasting them, and others concluding that it unnecessary to offer any instruction, were it not for the sively worked during the last few years, that we should feel comment. In fact, the loan tract societies have so extenformation of tract districts are too well known to require

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Thus 300 houses may be supplied with a messenger of truth, and re-
ceive a visit from a Christian ready to instruct in the things of the king-
dom every week, during twelve weeks, by possessing 50 each of 12 kinds
of tracts. A few in reserve will be well to replace any that may be lost.
When the first quarter has expired other districts may be opened, and
so on until the entire neighbourhood has been visited.

This work demands our immediate attention. Prayerfully, energeti-
cally, and with love in our hearts and on our tongues, let us go forth and
compel them to come in. Let the Bible be our weapon, and let us shew
what Christianity is, leaving the people to discover the non-similitude of
sectarianism. Let us think and talk of Jesus, and labour not to enlarge
our numbers, but to save men as brands from the burning, for those who
so do MUST reap if they faint not,

THE FOUNDATION OF HOPE AND CHRISTIAN UNION.

Messiah was born in the city of David, in an awful crisis. Science had proved itself systematic folly; philosophy, falsely called moral, had exhibited its utter incompetency to illuminate the understanding, to purify the heart, to control the passions, to curb the appetites, or to restrain the vices of the world. A scepticism that left nothing certain, a voluptuousness that knew no restraint, a lasciviousness that recognized no law, a selfishness that proscribed every rela tion, an idolatry that deified every reptile, and a barbarity that brutalized every feeling, had very generally overwhelmed the world, and had grouped those assimilated in vice, under every particular name, characteristic of every species of crime. Amidst the uncertainty, darkness, and vice that overspread the earth, the Messiah appears, and lays a foundation of hope, of true religion, and of religious union, unknown, unheard of, unexpected among men. The Jews were united by consanguinity, and by an agreement in a ponderous ritual. The Gentiles rallied under every opinion, and were grouped, like filings of steel around a magnet, under every possible shade of difference of thought, concerning their mythology. So long as unity of opinion was regarded as a proper basis of religious union, so long have mankind been distracted by the multiplicity and variety of opinions. To establish what is called a system of orthodox opinions as the bond of union, was, in fact, offering a premium for new diversities in opinion, and for increasing, ad infinitum, opinions, sects, and divisions. And what is worse than all, it was establishing self-love and pride as religious principles, as fundamental to salvation; for a love regulated by similarity of opinion, is only a love of one's own opinion; and all the zeal exhibited in the defence of it, is but the pride of opinion.

When the Messiah appeared as the founder of a new religion, systems of religion consisting of opinions and speculations upon matter and mind, upon God and nature, upon virtue and vice, had been adopted, improved, reformed, and exploded time after time. That there was always something superfluous, something defective, something wrong, something that could be improved, in every system of religion.

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