ON THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN CONNECTION WITH PREACHING.

THROUGH the afflicting hand of God upon me, I have not been able to preach for many months, but at times I am permitted to attend the house of the Lord, and listen to the voice of my brethren in the ministry; and while I should dread to say a word to the annoyance or grief of any of my fellow-labourers, yet faithfulness requires me to say that in some instances I have been disappointed at the manner in which the Gospel has been preached. I have listened while the servant of the Lord has told the sinner of his utter ruin, and inability to save his precious soul;-I have heard the glories of the Redeemer set forth,—his willingness and ability to save; and listened with great satisfation while the poor sinner has been invited to Christ, to receive all the blessings of the Gospel "without money or price: " but in some instances I have not heard any allusion to the work of the Holy Spirit, and my heart has been grieved. The blessed Saviour has taught us that the Spirit is the great agent in the work of conversion, and told us to ask for him at the hand of our hea

venly Father. He convinces of sin-he quickers -he takes of the things of Christ, and shows them unto us-he guides into all truth-so explicitly does our Lord speak in his last conversation with his disciples before his death;-but in some instances the sinner, after hearing what I have heard, might have said in the language used in Acts xix. 2, "We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost."

I do not for a moment doubt the correctness of the views of my brethren upon this important subject, nor am I setting up myself as their judge, but it strikes me that unless the Holy Spirit is more clearly placed before the sinner in the preached Gospel, the work of conversion will not be likely to proceed. If we do not honour the great Agent, how can we expect to prosper, or to see sinners taught the way of salvation? But if the work of the blessed Spirit is set forth more prominently, may we not expect to see greater success attend the labours of God's servants? I venture these brief remarks for the consideration of my fellowlabourers in the vineyard, and they are put forth in all sincerity. A COUNTRY MINISTER.

Orations by Father

We have already animadverted on the fact that in great movements in which many men and more than one nation are concerned in connection with the subject of religion, there are always to be observed peculiar conjunctions of important events. A number of things have recently occurred illustrative of the essential character of monasteries and nunneries as they bear upon morals, and also of the power of the Confessional in overthrowing virtue. English Courts of Law have likewise testified to the operations of the power of Popery in the dying chamber. In conjunction with these important events is the appearance of the work of Dr. Achilli, a most damaging publication, and to that we have now to add the "Orations of Father Gavazzi." There is, however, a difference between these two eminent Italians. Achilli is a Protestant-he has come fairly out, and become an adversary; Gavazzi remains within, and has commenced a reform. It is not Popery, but its abuses, that form the staple of his vehement oratory. In British ecclesiastical phase, Achilli is a Dissenter-Gavazzi a Churchman, hence he is the more likely to make his labours and his brilliant tirades bear on the mind of his countrymen and the church to which he belongs. The present production contains ten Orations, which Mr. Bogue is

Gavazzi. Bogue.

selling for the insignificant price of a shilling. The service so done is an excellent one. The book is valuable as a specimen of Italian oratory, as well as a storehouse of important facts. The Orations are thus indicated-Papal Abuses -The Papal Sceptre-The Holy Inquisition, constituting two orations - The Character of Pius IX.- Canon Law

Infallible Supremacy Convents and Nunneries-Hierarchical UsurpationsClerical Celibacy. From the best sources the following sketch of this remarkable man has been drawn:

ALESSANDRO GAVAZZI was born at Bologna, in 1809, and at the early age of sixteen entered the order called clerici regulares of St. Barnabae, in which he rapidly rose to a distinguished position. Professor of rhetoric at Naples, he not only taught the theory, but exemplified the practice of eloquence, in the pulpits of that capital, and subsequently in most of the principal cities of Italy. views were broad and generous; and, though little to the taste of Pope Gregory, that pon. tiff prudently refrained from molesting the popular missionary.

His

The advent of Pius IX. gave unfettered scope to the liberal and enlightened views hitherto compressed and discountenanced among the Italian clergy; and foremost among the upholders of the new Papal policy were Ugo Bassi and Gavazzi, both Bolognese.

The first appearance of Gavazzi on the po litical scene was on the news of the Milanese insurrection and the discomfiture of the Austrians throughout Lombardy being 'celebrated

in Rome, when the students of the University seized on the eloquent priest, carried him on their shoulders into the pulpit of the Pantheon, and called on him to pronounce the funeral oration of the patriots killed at Milan. The orator rose at once to the height of that great argument, and became at once the trumpeter of freedom throughout Italy. The tricolour cross was now displayed on his cassock, and is the same decoration which he has worn during the whole campaign, and now wears unsullied on his manly breast. In the Colosseum he harangued for weeks crowds of citizena gathered within that gigantic structure, which became an arena of patriotic manifestations. The Pope encouraged his efforts to rouse the national energies, and conferred on him the office of Chaplain General to the Forces, then organising by the levy of volunteers and the formation of national guards. In that capacity he marched from Rome with 16.000 men, and after a short, hesitating halt on the frontiers, positive orders came from the Vatican, and private instructions to Gavazzi himself, to move forward and act against the Austrians. The onward progress of the Roman army was a succession of triumphs to the walls of Vicenza. Gavazzi's eloquence supplied ammunition, clothing, provisions, horses, and all the matériel de guerre, from a willing population. He was the Hermit Peter of the whole crusadethe life and soul of the insurrection. At Venice, in the great area of St. Mark, he harangued, day after day, congregated thousands, and filled the Venetian treasury by the voluntary oblations elicited by his irresistible appeals. Women tore off their earrings and bracelets, and the wives of fishermen flung their large silver hair. pins into the military chest, and several thousand pounds' worth of plate and jewellery was the result of his exertions. When the Roman division was ordered to fall back, the Father made Florence ring with his exhortations to uphold the cause. The Grand Duke, who had already begun his tergiversations, gave orders for the forcible expulsion of Gavazzi from Tuscany. He took refuge in Genoa; but the Bolognese, having broken into open mutiny against the Pope on the 8th of August, and formed a Provisional Government, Gavazzi was recalled, as the only means of allaying the discontent of the legations; his return was in triumph, and order was restored by his presence.

General Zucchi was now sent from Rome to take the command of the troops at Bologna, when, at the instigation of the Cardinal-Legate, this lieutenant of Rossi seized on Gavazzi, and sent him off secretly, under a strong escort, to be incarcerated in Corneto,-a sort of ecclesiastical prison, where clerical robbers, assassins, and adulterers have been for ages confined by popes; but on his passage through Viterbo the whole city rose to rescue their patriot, and Pius IX. found it expedient to order his liberation amid the plaudits of the town. On the flight of the Pope, the formation of a Republican Government, and the convoking of the Roman Assembly, Gavazzi was confirmed in his previous functions of Chaplain-General to the Forces, and began his preparations for the approaching siege of the French, by organising the military hospitals on a scale commensurate with the coming warfare. He formed a committee of the principal Roman

ladies, to provide for the wounded (Princess Belgiojoso, Countess Pallavicino, and Pisacane at their head), and superintended the surgical ambulances during the whole struggle. At the lull of the fight against Oudinot, when a sortie of 14,000 Romans was made to repel the King of Naples, who, with his 20,000 men had ad. vanced as far as Velletri, the Father went forth at the head of the troops with the gallant Garibaldi, and after the utter rout and precipitate flight of the invading army assisted the dying and the disabled of both sides. Returning into the besieged capital, he sustained the spirit of the inhabitants throughout, and was ever at the bastions and in the front of the battle. At the fall of Rome, he received an honourable testimonial and sauf conduit from Oudinot; and while his companion, Father Ugo Bassi, was shot by the Austrians without trial, and against the law of nations, at Bologna, he was suffered to depart by the more civilised freebooters of France. In London he has since lived in retirement, giving for his daily bread a few lessons in the language of his beloved but downtrodden land; when a few of his fellow.exiles, anxious to hear in the country of their forcible adoption once more the eloquent voice which cheered them in their hour of triumph, clubbed together the pittance of poverty to hire a room for the purpose; and the result has been, the potent blast of indignant oratory, and the trumpet-note of withering denunciation, with which he now assails the treachery, fraud, and accumulated impostures of the Roman court, and all its malevolent and Macchiavellian machinery. The bold freedom of his strictures derives immense importance from the fact he sets forth of their being in accordance with the sentiments of a large body of the young clergy of Italy-a kind of Puseyism, menacing the utter ruin of ultramontane ascendancy at home, while it seeks to triumph in England.

The Jesuits. Religious Tract Society. THE Jesuits! A king is but a little thing compared with a Jesuit. All the kings of the world, though, as a whole, they have constituted a collection of the worst of men, have, nevertheless, been a collection of the weakest men. Not so the Jesuits. While, as a body, they have been the worst, they have been the mightiest of men. Pope, in poetic flight, when he winged his fancy to celebrate the scourges of mankind, who had devastated the earth, from

"Macedonia's madman to the Swede," stated, of the latter, that he had left nothing but a "name," at which mankind turned “pale." It was needful to the antithesis and to the rhyme thus to speak. But the best portion of mankind had nothing either to hope or fear from Charles. How few were affected by "Pultowa's evil day!"

Not so the Jesuit. Wherever men are, he is. Wherever he is, he makes himself felt, working in the light and working in the dark, directly, obliquely, circuitously, upward, downward, every way; by passion, by religion, by syllogism, by all means, physical, moral, religious, and irreligious, advancing the interests of that dread system of which they have been the main props, during these last three hundred years. We hesitate not to say, the most dreadful chapter in the

history of human kind is the history of the Jesuits. If we could conceive of devils possessing not legions of swine, but legions of men ; and if we could believe that devils are permitted to possess themselves of a class of human kind, to subserve the diabolical purposes of Popery, we should scarcely hesitate to say, that, to a large extent, these men are inhabited of evil spirits! It is a fact, that, taken as a class, intellectually, they have had no equals: the world has been picked to keep up their legion. Then, as to learning, they have appropriated all learning. If they have not enjoyed a monopoly, they have yet possessed the lion's share in most countries. In England alone have they found equals and superiors, just, perhaps, because in England alone was the Reformation completed; and perhaps we may be permitted to say-justice, indeed, demands it-that in England they have not been so thoroughly worsted as in Scotland. In England they have long had a standing place, and we regret to say that it has been recently enlarged; whereas, in Scotland, they were driven completely across the Border, or into the Irish Sea. For generations, it may, without hazard, be affirmed, there was not, in all Caledonia, a single Jesuit. Knox was right -the way to remove the rooks was to cut down the tree. Unhappily, in England, where the Reformation was but partial, as compared with Scotland, the trees were left-the Cathedrals, the Bishops, and a large amount of ecclesiastical corruption; and hence there were jungles, and hiding places, and fastnesses, in the Church and in the Universities, where the monsters of the Vatican could hide themselves, biding their time, and waiting their period, when they might sally forth once more, to manacle, kill, and destroy mankind; and hence the Jesuits are counted by hundreds in England: and not only so, but they possess a number of Colleges, and are holding up their heads in high places, and as recent events demonstrate, are appearing where they were least expected. It is now clear, beyond all contradiction, that they have been at the foundation of the recent revival of Popery in the English Church: they have found their way into the Universities, and the chief seats of learning; they have become holders of Ecclesiastical patronage, and occupants of English pulpits; and to an extent not generally known, they possess a share of power in English affairs.

Under these circumstances, we are right glad to find that the Tract Society has entered the field with them, and to the list of their invaluable series of popular publications of an antiPapal character, they have added this historic sketch, which will admirably subserve the purpose, first, of an introduction to the more extended history of the subject, for those who desire to pursue it further, and will also be useful to the scholar who has already mastered it, by enabling him, in the briefest way, occasionally to revise his bygone reading. The only fault we find with this excellent production is the limited character of its references. We could wish there had been appended to it, that which is appended to all the publications of the Society, a list of books in which the subject is discussed.

The Family of Iona, and other Poems; with Historical Notices. Smith and Elder.

IONA was famous in the history of Ancient

Caledonia for the piety of its sons, and their
missionary spirit. One of the finest chapters
ever penned by Johnson was sitting on the
mountain side when a spirit of mingled piety
aud poetry descended upon him, and when he
expressed himself as follows, "Far from me, and
from my friends, be such a frigid philosophy as
might conduct us, indifferent and unmoved, over
any ground which has been dignified by wisdom,
bravery, or virtue; and that man is little to be
envied whose patriotism would not gain force
upon the plains of Marathon, or whose piety
would not grow warmer amid the ruins of Iona "
The subject of this poem is sufficiently distant
both in time and place, to remove the obstacles
which vicinity or recentness always interpose to
the success of the poet. All our poets have been
compelled to shoot into the distant and the past.
Those exquisites, Campbell and Rogers, have
been reduced to a similar necessity: Rogers.
singing the Pleasures of Memory, and Campbell
the Pleasures of Hope. The present pieces are
few. Perhaps the most touching is that which
turns on the funeral of Cruthnie Dhu:
"O children of Cruthnie Dhu,

Here lies your father-dead.
Alas! alas! for you,

Who now will give you bread?
Great were thy stores and flocks,
Great were thy clan and crew;
Like gannets from the rocks

Thy ships the sea o'erflew."

Having poured out a black curse on the false Gael of Duncolly, we are introduced to the Culdees, a piece of well-spun, antithetic reflection, interspersed with a dash of good divinity of the olden style, which pours its merited execration on the head of the priests of Rome. The day of trial to the poor pilgrims is well sung: "Friendless and sad in distant lands Must we, ejected, roam ?

And beg a crust from strangers' hands,
Scorn'd by the priests of Rome;
Till with a bursting heart we fall
Beneath life's grievous load,

And lie on common ground, unbless'd?
Forbid it, Lord, our God!"

The Palmer" succeeds to the "Culdees." He creeps through all the earth beholding the workings of the men of Rome, who labour hard to waste the saints and to overthrow righteousness. One of the best and most copious series in the book is "The Deacon," a devout, intelligent, and reflecting man, who is marked by truth and piety, and tells his sorrowful tale in strains adapted to melancholy musings. "Bruce" is a tribute to the Scottish King, whose glory is too peerless for common poets to attempt to touch after the magnificent effusion of Burns. cuts are copious and instructive, and by those who have a slight tint of the antiquarian they will be read with interest, and also serve to indicate the quarters in which certain subjects may be successfully prosecuted.

The

Reformatory Schools for the Children of the Perishing and Dangerous Classes. and for Juvenile Offenders. By MARY CARPENTER Gilpin. THIS lady has performed a great and good service in the cause of humanity. She seems deeply affected by the enormity and the amount of juvenile depravity "Statistic tables prove to

us," she tells us, "its appalling progress, in a ratio far exceeding that of the population generally, while even these, clear as they may appear to be, are less powerful to convince of the dreadful truth, and to demonstrate its results, than the daily experience of our great cities, as it can be witnessed by our Magistrates, Governors, and Chaplains, the police, and even the common reader of the public journals." Our Authoress has been "oppressed by the conviction that if the evil is not checked, it must increase." She therefore propounds the questions, "What can be done?" "Is there a remedy?" and if so, "How can it be applied ?"

To answer these questions is the object of the present volume. She holds that early religious nurture, and a sound religious, moral, and industrial training of the children, is the only curative that can strike at the root of the evil, by infusing early a true principle, instead of that which is now so rotten. On this position she bases the question, "Can it be given so as to influence these degraded children ?-and if it can, Ought it to be bestowed gratuitously upon them?" "Have we already done enough in this country for the prevention of crime, by providing schools, penitentiaries, and jails ?" Such is the essence of the valuable volume before us, and to answer these questions is the object of the philanthropic authoress.

After an introductory chapter, observational and statistical, she proceeds to lay down a body of first principles, regarding instruction, industrial training, sanatory conditions, and results; religious training, intellectual training, instructors, and so forth. We have here a succession of chapters on Ragged-schools, Free Day-schools, Industrial Feeding-schools, Civil and Penal Reformatory-schools. Under all the chapters are embodied the vast amount of statistics, woven up in a clear and touching narrative of facts and statement of principles, indicative of a high-toned moral feeling, and a most intense solicitude to rescue from their sin and misery the masses for whose behalf the work is written. While all are excellent, the two last chapters are particularly so. The chapter on the Jail is a singularly affecting one, presenting a most mournful portrait of society, showing how small the progress which has yet been made in the reclaiming juvenile offenders. We think Mr. Gilpin would do well to republish that chapter in a separate tract. It were much to be desired, that every statesman, and every magistrate, and every minister of the gospel, of whatever sect, and every man of intelligence and influence, of all denominations should not only possess but peruse and ponder it. We recommend the volume with more than ordinary solicitude.

The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent; with a Supplement, containing the Condemnations of the Early Reformers, and other Matters relating to the Council. Translated from the Latin, by J. A. BUCKLEY, B.A., Christchurch, Oxford. Routledge and Co.

In our times the best polemic discussions that have appeared, are those between Pope and Maguire, Gregg and Macguire, and Dr. Cumming and Mr. French. In these cases, both systems were adequately represented. Pope, a man of eloquence and learning, possessed the needful

acquaintance with the subject to deal with such a man as Macguire; while Maynooth and the priesthood generally have no cause to blush for the exhibitions of that accomplished Jesuit, who was, perhaps, as thorough an impersonation of the spirit of Popery, as even Ireland itself could have presented during his time. Mr. Gregg combined courage with talents for dieputation of the highest order, to which he added a perfect knowledge of the subject. Of Dr. Cumming nothing need be said; he is a match for all the cardinals of Europe, and we could exceedingly hope to see him engage in public conflict, either with tongue or with pen, with the redoubtable Dr. Wiseman; and it is but simple justice to say that Mr. French, for a layman, was a very competent representative of the evil cause to which he gave himself and his talents. His studies and habits as a barrister were of signal service to him in contending with the Divine. The volume, as a joint production, is one of great importance, doing equal credit to both so far as mere advocacy is concerned. The late Mr. M'Gavin, of Glasgow, in his four well-known volumes, the "Protestant," has supplied the best general treasury in our times. His letters in reply to Milner, are good, but very defective in arrangement, contents, and indexing. In our own day, the Papists have done but little in the way of separate and independent authorship; nearly all they have done has been controversial. In all their conflicts, however, they agree in this, that the standard of Catholic Orthodoxy is the Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent, and hence the importance attaching to that publication, which now, for the first time, has been given to the public in a popular form in the English tongue. There have been previous translations, but none so adapted, from price and completeness, to meet the general wants. The season for its appearance is also highly opportune. They who want to know what Popery really is, have only to examine this elaborate volume, the result of five-and-twenty years' labour to an assemblage of the most able and erudite Papists that ever met. Everything appertaining to the question is here touched with a bold hand. Nothing that learning and penetration, courage and cunning could effect in support of the throne and sceptre of Antichrist has been left unattempted and unaccomplished in the present We cordially commend the volume to the Protestant public of Great Britain.

case.

SHORT NOTICES.

Memoir of the Rev. Rowland Hill, consisting of Anecdotes, illustrative of his Character and Labours. By JAMES SHERMAN. Gilpin. MR. SHERMAN has done worthily by his great and never-to-be-forgotten predecessor, Mr. Hill, in presenting this interesting compend of the man of God, and the striking things that issued from his lips. Mr. Jones, of the Tract Society, embalmed his memory in a valuable volume prefaced by Mr. Sherman; and the Rev. Edwin Sidney, M.A., wrote a full memoir of his relative. The object of Mr. Sherman is to bring forth the attic salt of these volumes, and serve it up in such a manner and at such a price as to bring it within the reach of all, and more especially, that the poor of the Church of God

may be enabled to hold close and fervent converse with one of their best friends.

Once more, we feel mortifed at the neglect which has been suffered to overtake one of the greatest and best of men, the late Rev. Matthew Wilks, of the Tabernacle, Mr. Hill's friend and contemporary, a man of equal value, equal usefulness, and equal eccentricity; a man whose life, also, was one continued progress of Christian benevolence, and contributed much to stamp with his own noble mind the minds of a multitude, his contemporaries; but somehow he has been allowed to slip his cable, and pass away into the land of forgetfulness without even one page to commemorate his labours and his virtues. We need not say that the blame of this does not lie with his successor, but with the family of the deceased. The whole of his papers, we believe, were in the possession of his worthy son, the Rev. Mark Wilks, then resident at Paris, and it was for years expected that that gentleman would rear a monument to his distinguished father. The work, however, still remains to be done, and although not yet too late, it is clear that no further time is to be lost. Why might not Mr. Wilks, in the retirement to which he has withdrawn, now betake himself to this work? or if too much for his broken health, why not remit the papers to his celebrated relation, the Rev. James Parsons, of York, son-inlaw to John Wilks, Esq., late M.P. for Boston, and, therefore, in the line of relationship and every other way, as one who knew, and was known, and exceedingly admired by the deceased ?

Life Reviewed and Death Surveyed. By JOHN Cox. Nisbet.

THIS valuable volume was founded on a sermon preached on the occasion of the death of Mr. Pope, Baptist minister, Mopham. Mr. Cox is well known as an earnest, useful, and devout writer, who has done great service to the cause of truth by his various tracts and other publications. The present volume is in happy keeping with the other effusions of his sanctified pen. The sermon is remarkably excellent, and the biographical sketch is full of instruction. The volume well deserves a wide circulation, beyond the circle of the friends of the deceased. The large family has been left in great distress, and the profits go for their benefit.

The Child's Book of Homilies. By HELEN TAYWertheim and Co.

LOR.

THIS pretty little volume presents homilies for some of the festivals and holidays of the Church of England, and also for the week, and is much fitted to instruct young people, being a pleasing mixture of devout prose with evangelical versification. It is a nice present to a young person. Ireland as it was, and [by the grace of God] as it Will be. Wertheim and Co. THIS is avowedly the work of an Englishwoman, who "with the deepest feelings of respect and admiration for the long severely-tried and devoted, faithful servants of a Heavenly Master, the Clergy of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church of Ireland," dedicates to them her pages. This dedication rather startles us. We believe there are some very worthy men in the Church of England, by law established, in Ireland; but as to that Church being either "Catholic" or

'Apostolic," we have some doubts about it, and should have no difficulty in showing that this said Church no more resembles the Apostolic Church than the plains of Down resemble the plains of Salamis. However, let that pass; the dedication is the worst part of the book, a book which we greatly like, forasmuch as it is a good and womanly indictment against a system of unmixed abomination-Popery as it exists in Ireland. The book well deserves perusal, and cannot be too widely circulated, since it abounds in facts, and these facts clothed in language which bespeaks devout feeling.

A Lecture on the Glory which will redound to God from the Conversion of the Jews. By JOHN HARRIS, D.D. Aylott and Jones.

IT may be enough to exhibit the foregoing words to excite attention and command circulation for this invaluable dissertation. With the Sons of Abraham for a subject, and John Harris for a preacher, the public will require no information as to the result, and we can assure them they will not be disappointed.

Lectures on the Conversion of the Jews. By the Rev. Drs. HENDERSON, BENNETT, and BURDER. Aylott and Jones.

THREE exceedingly valuable publications, presenting a large and luminous view of one of the most important religious themes that can occupy the mind of a converted Gentile. Dr. Henderson deals with the conversion, Dr. Bennett with the present condition, and Dr. Burder with the duty of the Gentile Churches, and each acquits himself with his customary ability. A Retrospect; being some Passages in the Life of an Infidel who obtained Mercy, testifying to the Reality of the Work of the Holy Spirit. By ALIQUIS SECUNDUS. Wertheim and Co. IT may be proper to state that the worthy rector of Whitechapel, Mr. Champneys, has prefixed to this work a prefatory recommendation. The narrative is singularly valuable and remarkably suited for usefulness in a certain walk. The divinity of the individual, whore name is not given, is better than his logic. He belonged to the Civil Service, and in point of impiety possessed the full measure of the usual qualifications, distinguishing, to an awful extent, both the chiefs and the subordinates of the Navy and the Army. After his conversion, he got weary of cockades, swords, sashes, and epaulettes, and longed for the ministry. On this point he says, "My attachment to the Church of England, through a firm conviction of her spiritual character, was such that I had fully determined it would be wrong for me to enter a Dissenting Pulpit." Thus it is that individuals who still but "see men as trees walking" talk on the subject of the "spiritual character" of an Institution of thoroughly human origin, and which as an Institution, has not one single attribute of Apostolicity about her. Whatever she has of that, she has in common with other religious bodies. Strange, that men, overlooking what is peculiar, should fix upon that which is common, and should identify the common with the peculiar! However, there is much in the tractate we admire and approve. We think the unknown writer is more of a Christian than bigot, and we hope that time and the Pope may drive out of him the remains of his bigotry.