We need not wonder if those human institutions triumph over the church when we see the church and the world unite together in building them up. How can the church compete with the world, while her own members are wasting her strength by bestowing their talents and substance upon these worldly institutions? So long as the combined strength of heavenly and earthly institutions is spent upon any earthly scheme, so long will the earthly preponderate; unless Jehovah shall, by some original interposition, bring it to confusion, and show, as he has done before, that the wisdom of man is foolishness with him. Wishing that every member of the church may ascertain if there be not room in the church for all his benevolent exertions, before he think of seeking room for them in any earthly institution, even the most commendable, I remain, yours in love, ROBERT MILL.

Perth, April 16, 1849.

CHURCH AND STATE
CHRISTIANITY.

(From the Church and State Gazette.)

dination with the resolution to fulfil his duty to the utmost. The last advices from India show that he is not inert in the accomplishment of his office, and it is gratifying to us to perceive in various Indian papers, and to collect from divers private letters, that in the recent days of bloody trial by the Jhelum, the Padre (as all the European ministers are entitled in the East) has, by the exercise of his office, nobly maintained the fame and the honor of our beloved church. Mr. Whiting joined Lord Gough's army as a volunteer: he considered he had no right to comparatively inglorious ease, as some of the company's chaplains, when death was likely to be abroad, and thousands might need ghostly comfort to prepare them for the battle or its consequences. The step taken by the rev. gentleman was highly agreeable to Lord Gough and the troops generally, and it was soon seen how great was the value that was to be attached to such co-operation.

When the cry "forward" gave impulse to the mighty power that confronted the Sikhs forces on the 13th of January, Mr. Whiting busied himself in preparing a hospital for the wounded, as well as in making preparations to perform the sacramental rites for all who might desire to partake of the privilege of consolation in the hour of peril. It was when ocacupied in ministering double aid to the sick and the dying, that a report reached the hospital that her Majesty's 14th dragoons were hurrying from the field of blood with their backs to the enemy. Our gallant soldier-priest in an instant leaped on his own horse, pistol in hand: he met a party of the regiment named, with their chargers heads turned in the direction of safety. The rev. gentleman rallied them, upbraided them for their want of firmness, reminded them of home and honor, and finally led them back to where blows were ringing. Having achieved this much, he hastened back

We have no doubt that to many of our readers who have sojourned by the banks of the Cam, and particularly to those who have cultivated learned leisure beneath the roof of old Magdalen, the name of Walter John Whiting will be as familiar as household word. They would, perhaps, be surprised, were we to inform them that their fellow-student who honored, and was honored, by his college that the alumnus who, after a course of study conducted and terminated with repute, was admitted into the ministry of the Church of England—that, in short, the Rev. W. J. Whiting, whom they so well remember, is now Padre Whiting, of Chilsanwallah. But so it is; and yet, in nothing has Mr. Whiting changed, save such change as accompanies progress in good. He received or

to his own vocation, and took his place once more by the side of the wounded. A Calcutta paper (the Englishman) commenting upon the heroism of the volunteer chaplain, says:-"The Padre ought to have the first good vacancy in his own corps, whether archdeaconry or bishopric. Such exhortations to duty, at such a time are invaluable; and the presence of our chaplains on the field of battle is a rare event. We hope the whole army will drink to the health and speedy promotion of the rev. gentleman."

(to dig sepulchral trenches) and two companies of Europeans. With this aid and protection, he succeeded in recovering the bodies of 197 soldiers. Under the very eyes of the Sikhs he had open trenches dug; and as each was filled iu succession, he stood over the bodies of the brave that lay in it, and performed no maimed rites, but the entire ceremony of Christian burial, as it is contained in our Book of Common Prayer.

The pioneers dug seven trenches, and the Europeans collected the bodies -mangled, mutilated, and stripped as they were-and placed them in their last resting place. The sight was sad and solemn, but the effect was con

We hope so, too; and that the wish implied may assume reality. Sure we are that such a toast will be duly honored at Cambridge when Mag-soling to all who survived. The comdalen next sends round a social cup in honor of her celebrities.

rades of the slain expressed their loud satisfaction that the bones of those Another paper (the Bombay Times) who fell were not left to be outraged speaks in similar grateful eulogy of by the savage enemy, or by beasts of the exertions made by the old Mag-prey; aud the widows of the departed dalen man, after dubious victory had submitted in weeping resignation to at length lighted on our helms. He their lot, now that the fathers of their was most active in administering the children slept in a grave above which sacrament to many about to surrender had been breathed an English prayer. their spirits upon the spot where they The Sunday after the hard fought had been stricken down. It is hardly contest was one to be remembered by possible to convey to our readers the all present. On that day Mr. Whiting gratitude with which such services performed three services of acknowwere received. Then came the mourn- ledgment to the Giver of all good. ful ceremony of burying the dead. The first service was celebrated at A day or two later Mr. Whiting re- half-past seven o'clock, a.m. in the solved to enter the jungle, and perform open air, when the rev. gentleman had the last solemn ceremony over every for his congregation her Majesty's British corpse that needed the sad 24th and 61st regiments, with the rite. It was a dangerous, though holy adjacent artillery. At 11 o'clock a mission, and could not be effected with- large congregation was assembled in out the protection of a strong escort. the durbar tent of the CommanderFor the safety of this escort, curiously in-Chief. In the progress of the serenough, Mr. Whiting was made re- vice an alarm (a false one) arose, that sponsible, we suppose that as chap- the enemy were at hand, and in conlains rank with majors in India, he sequence a full third of the congregawas looked upon as commanding tion quietly withdrew, in order to "do officer, and it was trusted to his dis- their duty in that state of life into cretion not to lead his escort into a which it had pleased God to call peril from which they might not be them." But in spite of this unavoidable to extricate themselves. How-able diminution of the numbers, the ever this may be, he entered the jun-rev. chaplain had the gratification of gle under an escort consisting of a detachment of cavalry, 100 pioneers,

finding, at the end of the usual service, that above a hundred communi

cants approached to receive at his
hands the solemn sacrament of the
Supper of the Lord.
"It was (says
a correspondent of the Delhi Gazette)
--it was, indeed, a solemn and affect-
ing sight, to see the bravest spirits in
our noble army kneeling humbly be-
fore their God, and imploring, for
the sake of Christ, His healing mercy
and protection." At the performance
of this cheering rite a thousand rupees
were collected for the Relief Fund for

widows and orphans. Subsequently
to this, Mr. Whiting celebrated divine
service in presence of Her Majesty's
14th Dragoons and 9th Lancers; and
later in the day his Sabbath labours
were closed by the performance of his
not light duties at the Field Hospital,
and by his committing to the earth one
more heir of immortality.

the remembrance of Christ's death as a sacrifice for sin-to promote gratitude, humility, purity of mind, and union of heart to the Redeemer and all his followers. That this ordinance should be employed to sanctify deeds of darkness, murder, war, and the wholesale shedding of human blood, is truly astounding. Such, however, is one of the uses to which it is devoted, both by Protestant and Catholic nations. But whoso eateth and drinketh, not discerning the Lord's body, eateth and drinketh condemnation.-ED.]

QUERIES AND REPLIES.

We feel satisfied that we owe no DEAR BROTHER - You say in this month's apology to our readers for the inser- HARBINGER, page 136, that three Replies have tion of these details. They are honor- been sent to Queries No. 1, and No. 3 and 4 able to human nature, and most of the Replies to No. 4? two each. Why have you given us only one I intended to have honorable to the individual who may sent one also, but want of opportunity preventnot inaptly be styled the hero of them.ed my doing so at that time. It appears to me As scenes in the life of a chaplain in that W. M. does not seem altogether to comactive service they will prove of in- prehend the spirit of the passage, and the drift of the writer. I agree with him that it is a terest to clergymen who are perform-fruitful source of error to take sentences, and ing quieter, but it may be not less half-sentences, and even words out of their important, services at home. The connection, and endeavour to find a meaning dwellers by the peaceful rivers of Eng- for them foreign to the general scope. We land may be pleased to know what is ought to remember that when Paul delivered the testimony of God concerning Jesus to the doing by their brother on the banks Corinthians, he says it was confirmed among of the Hydaspes, and may smile at the them. And if we inquire into the confirmation thought that, where the wry-necked of the testimony as Paul explained it, we shall Macedonian encountered the gigantic find that he makes the spiritual gifts, or those Porus, the voice of the English Church extraordinary and miraculous powers which the apostles themselves displayed, and which so has been uttered: and that where Alex- many of their converts also possessed, an assuander invoked his hundred deities rance or confirmation of what he promulged. and the barbarian his countless idols, The light which his first Epistle to the Corinthere British captains have knelt and thians throws upon this subject, reads as follows:-You were enriched by Him with every acknowledged no god but God-the gift, even with all speech and all knowledge, Father of our Lord and Saviour Jesus when the testimony of Christ was confirmed Christ. among you, so that you came behind in no gift, &c. There are diversities of gifts, (chap. xii.) for to one disciple is given the word of wisdom by the same spirit, &c. Now the Corinthians were put in possession of these gifts for the confirmation of the gospel ; for Paul says, I came not to you with excellency of speech and

[The Lord's supper-erroneously so called - is an institution which belongs, not to a profane and ungodly world, but exclusively to the disciples of Christ. Its design is to perpetuate

of wisdom; my discourse also, and my proclamation, were not with persuasive words of hu

man wisdom, but with the demonstration of | Holy Spirit by the Pentecostians and the house

the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God in the demonstration of the Spirit which confirmed the facts that I told you. It was a visible, audible, sensible demonstration of the Spirit and of power: it was that supernatural attestation of the testimony of Christ which made it credible, so that no man could call Jesus Lord but by this demonstration of the Holy Spirit. And by this Spirit they had all these miraculous powers; and by this Spirit they were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or freemen. This was a baptism different from that which Peter taught the three thousand who said what shall we do, to which Paul is referring, (see Acts i. 5) which commenced with the hundred and twenty, and was fully accomplished in the house of Cornelius, (Acts x. 44-45.) See also Peter's defence at Jerusalem, (chap. xi. 1-18). "God is no respecter of persons; but in every nation he that feareth Him and worketh righteousness is accepted of Him." And God has given proof of this by His Spirit, in baptizing them with his Spirit, making no difference between Jew and Gentile, slave or freeman. See also Eph. iv. 1-3. If these few hints seem worthy, you will give them a place in the HARBINGER for the ALEX. HUTCHISON.

benefit of all.

Old Mills, March 10, 1849.

QUERY 1.-"Is there any record in the New Testament of the baptism of the Holy Spirit taking place, excepting the one recorded on the day of Pentecost, (Acts ii.) and that some years after in the house of Cornelius, (Acts x) ?"

ANSWER. Neither of the above instances are, immediately and directly, called baptisms. It is inferred that they were baptisms. The inference, drawn upon comparison of scripture, is correct; but the baptism of the Pentecostians was realized or performed by the pouring out of the Holy Spirit upon them. Herein was fulfilled the prophecy of Joel, (in part) the testimony of John the Baptist, and the promise of Christ. The baptism of the household of Cornelius is spoken of in the same manner :"The Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word." "On the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost." Peter said to the audience, "These have received the gift of the Holy Ghost as well as we." And again he said, "The Holy Ghost fell on them as on us at the beginning. Here is not the word baptism in the narration applied to either circumstance. It is inferred and rightly. The baptism, then, is distinguished by three important features:-1, the pouring out-2, the falling upon 3, the reception of. No man can receive the Holy Spirit until he is poured out, and falls upon him; but that reception of the

hold of Cornelius, was the baptism of the Holy Spirit. "Now if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his." But no man can have the spirit of Christ before or except he receive it; but the reception thereof is the baptism. Ergo, every true disciple of the mystical body of Christ is baptized with the Holy Spirit. Wherefore? Because every one receives the Holy Spirit.

We are now prepared for the second part of this question" If these are the only instances of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, in what manner did the disciples of Corinth, Ephesus, and other places, become possessed of so many splendid and miraculous powers ?" The only answer further needed to this part of the query is, these are not "the only instances of the baptism of the Spirit," as appears from the preceding remarks. The Corinthians and the Ephesians received the Spirit, and they were hence baptized with the Spirit, as were the Pentecostians and Cornelius. The gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the Gentiles: the diversities of gifts from the same Spirit was in the church at Corinth and Ephesus.

There is another idea confirmatory of the above conclusion. Christ is called the head of the body, which is his church. Was the head of the body alone to be baptized with the Holy Spirit ? Certainly not! The spirit which dwells in the head, must dwell in the heart, the body, and in every living member. The body must be baptized with the head.

"Christ loved the

Again, Christ sent out his servants to disciple and to baptize all nations, not with water the church, and gave himself for it, that he only, but with the Spirit. might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word. He said to the disciples, "The words that I speak unto you are spirit, and they are life." And again he said to them, "Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you." It would appear from hence, that the entire saving operations and gifts of the Spirit are in, with, and through, the word of the gospel. It is through the preaching of the gospel the faithful are baptized. Mark, in proof hereof, the following important evidences. Jesus said to the woman of Samaria, "Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life." Again, he said, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive," &c.) The well of water with its perpetual spring, and the flowing rivers, are spoken of the Spirit. But the Spirit rises up within, and flows forth from the mind through the lips, not without, but with the word of life. And besides that, the