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missed by the managers for immoral
conduct, or for otherwise conducting
himself in a way prejudicial to the well
ordering and interests of the chapels.
"That vacancies in the body of brethren
at either chapel shall be filled up by the
remaining or continuing brothers at such
chapel, with the advice of the minister
or ministers of the chapels; and in case
there shall be no remaining or continuing
brother, then a new body of brethren
shall be appointed for the chapel by the
manager or managers whose duty it is to
attend to the affairs of such chapel, and
the minister or ministers of the chapels.
But the managers or ministers of the
chapels shall not interfere in the election
or dismissal of the brethren, otherwise
than as herein before expressed.

the first Monday in July, from the hour of nine in the morning to the hour of six in the evening.

"That the managers shall cause books to be kept, as well of their several proceedings, as of their particular proceedings, at each of the said chapels, and also books of all their receipts and payments in respect of the said chapels respectively; and such books shall be preserved and kept in the respective vestries of the said chapels, and shall be open to the inspection of the members and seatholders of the said chapels twice in every year-that is to say, on the first Monday in January and the first Monday in July, from the hour of nine in the morning to the hour of six in the evening; and as well the books of the said "That the schools belonging to the board of management for the relief of chapels shall be under the superintend-the poor as the books of the managers, ence, order, and direction of the minis- may also be inspected by such members ter or ministers of the chapels and com- and seatholders, at any other reasonable mittees of subscribers to the schools, as times, on payment of such reasonable has been heretofore used in the said gratuity or fee to the persons having the chapels. care of the same as the board of management and managers shall respectively direct.

"That the brethren, with such other members of the respective chapels as the brethren shall from time to time associate

"And I do further order and award, that the said defendant, John Campbell, be and be continued a stated minister of the said chapels."

"That the said chapels, and the other with themselves for the purpose, shall, estates and properties belonging thereto, with the managers and stated ministers shall be from time to time vested in the maof the chapels, form a board of manage-nagers, or in such other persons as the mament for conducting the affairs relating nagers shall from time to time direct and to the poor of the chapels; and such appoint, intrust for the purposes aforesaid. board shall have the distribution of all But the persons in whom the same shall the moneys collected or provided for be vested shall not in their character of the benefit of the poor of the said trustees only, have any authority to inchapels, consisting of ordinance or termeddle in the affairs of the said sacrament money, quarterly collections, chapels, but shall hold the same subject the annual produce of charitable gifts to the order of the managers, for the and other moneys applicable to the be- purposes aforesaid. nefit or relief of the poor of the chapels. Provided always, that the said board of management shall not interfere with the regulation of the almshouses belonging to the Tabernacle, or the nomination of poor persons to be placed in such almshouses, which regulation and nomination shall belong to the managers alone. "That such board of management shall keep proper books, in which entries shall be made from time to time of their proceedings, and of all their receipts and payments; and such books shall be kept and preserved in such place or places as the board of management shall think most convenient, and shall be open for the inspection of the members and seatholders of the chapels, at such place or places, twice in every year-that is to say, on the first Monday in January and

The award then proceeds to name and appoint managers; viz., Mr. William Bateman and Mr. James Henderson (or, in case of the latter declining, Mr. John Lester) for the Tabernacle; and Mr. James Morgan and Mr. Martin Prior (or, in case of the latter declining, Mr.

Wright Anderson,) for Tottenham Court Road Chapel. And it closes by directing how the pecuniary accounts for the period of the past litigation shall be arranged.

And now" Peace be within these walls and prosperity within these palaces."

MILLENNARIANISM INCOMPATIBLE WITH
OUR LORD'S SACERDOTAL OFFICE. A
Letter to the Rev. Edward Bickersteth.
By GEORGE HODSON, Author of "Mil-
lennarianism Unscriptural." pp. 79.
Price 1s.

(and our author also) may "the Spirit of
truth guide into all truth.”

CONSIDERATIONS ON THE STATE OF THE
LAW REGARDING MARRIAGES WITH A
DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER. By A BAR-
RISTER of the Middle Temple. pp. 57.
Price 1s.

Nisbet & Co., Berners Street. If an uninspired man, a few years before the first advent of our Lord, had Longman and Co., Paternoster Row. set himself to compose a book upon that The author of this pamphlet in the subject and to harmonise the predictions first instance sets before his readers the believed to relate to the approaching era, actual state of the law upon this subject. he would have found himself much per- It appears, that by statutes passed in the plexed by difficulties, such as we (looking 25th and 28th of Henry VIII., it was back upon prophecy fulfilled) can hardly enacted that there should be a divorce at all imagine. And it seems probable, where marriages prohibited by God's that a like cloud may hang over the se- law had taken place; and among such cond advent, until "the Lord our God marriages were expressly mentioned shall come." Obscurities and difficulties | marriage of a man with his brother's of interpretation should not, therefore, widow, and marriage of a man with his as we think, be readily received as proof wife's sister. These Acts however were that the Millennarian is indulging a repealed in the following reign; and an dream of vain expectation, if the grand Act of the 32nd of Henry VIII. was and leading events for which he looks left in force, which declared all marriages seem distinctly revealed. Hence we did lawful that were not prohibited by God's not attach great weight to the argument law, explaining that thereby was meant of a great part of Mr. Hodson's former the Levitical degrees. Thus stood the work; because the general tenour of it law thenceforth; with this qualification, bore upon the incidental objections to the however, that the Ecclesiastical Courts theory it opposed-weak, but not funda- included the marriages in question in a mental, points in the case. His present prohibitory table of "degrees of consanwork is more entirely devoted to the guinity and affinity" published in 1563, substance of the question, and is, as we and called "Archbishop Parker's Table think, more forcible. The author main- of Degrees," and those Courts would tains, that our Lord at His ascension for dissolve such a marriage as wholly void the first time entered upon His priestly from the beginning, provided a suit were office, that He is to exercise that office in instituted during the lifetime of the heaven, that He is to continue to exer- parties for annulling it. If this were cise it there as long as there is one soul not done, the marriage was good. But upon earth that needs it-even to the end now the 5th and 6th of William IV., of the mediatorial dispensation (Psalm chapter 54, has passed, making absocx. Heb. vii.) of which it forms a part-lutely null and void all future marriages that is, till the general judgment-and between persons "within the prohibited that it cannot therefore be true that He degrees of consanguinity or affinity." is to reign personally upon this earth before that judgment. These successive points are well and ably argued; and we feel throughout the perusal of the pamphlet, that we have the deliberate judgment of a thinking and a Christian man. In closing the book, we bear our testimony that it contains material for much thought and meditation upon the important subject discussed. It is short; but several points are started, to which we are disposed on reflection to give great weight. And we have no doubt it will receive all due attention, from the excellent man to whom it is addressed; whom

To this state of things our author addresses himself; and as we believe, not without reason, for it is said that such marriages are still of frequent occurrence, the parties resorting to the expedient (of doubtful validity) of going through the marriage ceremony in France, where such unions are lawful. The author urges with considerable force, that the Levitical law in this respect is not binding upon Christians; his authorities being Jeremy Taylor, Hooker, Michaelis, and Sir James Mackintosh. It appears, however, singularly enough, that the prohibition in question was not

contained in the Levitical law at all; all have influence to use in reference to that was prohibited was (Lev. xviii. 18) desirable reformation of the law. If the taking to wife a second sister during neither God's written Word, nor nature, the life of the first-a provision founded nor expediency forbid snch marriages, perhaps upon experience of the jealousies where mutual affection exists, man thus occasioned in Jacob's family-and should not prohibit them; and as we it will be observed that there is no reason believe, the "Barrister" proves to be to suppose the case uncommon, for no fact all that we assume in this hypotheexpression of surprise appears in the tical conclusion. Gospel when the case of seven brethren marrying successively the same woman is mentioned. He further urges, that such a marriage is neither forbidden by principles of morality or of general expediency; and we think he makes out his case. The subject therefore is one well deserving of attention; and we recommend the pamphlet to all, who are either interested in the matter or

A PILGRIMAGE TO PALESTINE, EGYPT AND
SYRIA. BY MARIE-JOSEPH DE GE-
RAMB, Monk of La Trappe. In Two
Vols.

Colburn, Great Marlborough Street.
We are forced by the unexpected
length of the article on Church Establish-
ments to postpone till next month the
Review of this singular book.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

was

NEW CHAPEL. A new Independent Chapel at Warminster, Wilts, opened on the 12th of March.

CHURCH RATES. Further List of contested cases :

Lancaster
Dursley

....

Rate carried.
Rate carried.

POPERY. On the 26th of February a new Popish Chapel at Worksop was consecrated. It has been erected at the sole expence of the Duke of Norfolk.

Her Majesty has by Warrant declared the students at the Romanist Colleges of Stonyhurst and Oscott eligible for the degrees of B.A., M.A., LLB. and LLD. in the University of London on presenting a certificate of their having completed at those colleges the requisite course of instruction, in the same manner as the students of King's College in the Strand and University College in Gower Street are eligible after a proper course of instruction in these two Colleges.

CHURCH EXTENSION. On the 19th of March a meeting was held at the Freemasons' Hall to Petition Parliament

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against any farther appropriation of public money for the Extension of the Church Establishment." The main ground taken in the Resolutions was That the hypothesis of a National Church whose spiritual ministrations should be co-extensive with the supposed wants of the whole community, and therefore chargeable upon the whole community, irrespectively of their differences of creed and persuasion, is at variance with every principle of equity, and every dictate of enlightened expediency; inasmuch as it either overlooks the fact of the existence and recognition by the State of other religious communities than that of the Established Chnrch, or disregards in relation to them the most sacred of all rights, the rights of conscience; thereby giving a legislative character to intolerance. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex presided; and among other remarks spoke as

follows:

question of whether the public are to contribute to a taxation which is to be increased, in order to extend that church accommodation, from which a very limited part of the people of England only can derive any benefit at all." "I have an opinion respecting religious communities which I will not say is peculiar to myself, but which I believe I am apt to express in terms differently from those used by others. What is it, let me ask, that is defined by the Thirty-nine Articles to constitute a church? The church is described in those Articles to be a religious congregation. We will take those words. I consider, then, that any community is a religious congregation, the members of which bind themselves together by covenant, they feeling that their opinions agree upon certain facts. Upon those facts a certain code is formed, containing rules for the interior government of that establishment. So long as any one agrees with that community, and is "The next part of the case rests upon willing to act up to its rules, he is bound this, that this is a tax which would fall by those rules; but, as soon as he differs on the whole community; and when you from them, he may, in the first instance, recollect the very curious composition of make a respectful representation to the that communion, and that the members community of the ground of his difference; of the Church of England do not consti- and if the community should think that tute one-half the population of the coun- he is in error, they may endeavour to try, the injustice of it is forcibly called to convince him of that error; but if he canour attention. Then we go to Scotland, not conscientiously alter his opinion, then and what is the case there? If we take he retires. If, on the other hand, he can up the Court Calendar, which tells many convince the rest of the community that truths, as well as some other things, and they are in error and that he is right, look to the peerage, we find that out of then the consequence would necessarily the whole aristocracy of that country, follow that they would alter their opinions. there are not more than twelve or four- This is what I consider to be the system teen peers who belong to the Kirk of on which all religious societies ought to Scotland. There you have the whole of be conducted. Then it comes to thisthe middling classes belonging to the that a man is not the less likely to be a Kirk, and the aristocracy nearly all dif- good man and a good citizen because he fering from them. Then we go that un- happens to differ in opinion with that fortunate country, in reference to which, community towhich he had once belonged. so distressing is its situation, the almost There is, I believe, a term among the universal cry is, Justice to Ireland.' Society of Friends designative of such a What is the state of Ireland? The majo- character. He is called a 'wet Quaker.' rity of the people are certainly Roman But he may be a very good man for all Catholics. Whether 1 agree in their te- that. His going out of that community nets or not, is not the question. We talk does not make him an immoral or an of justice, but that does not concern reli- irreligious man. Let us, my friends, keep gious differences, but applies to the mat-down our little differences, whether we ter of fact. Then we come back to the question, which, as I have already stated, is one of pounds, shillings, and pence, and it is in arguing this subject to-day that I wish you to recollect that it is the

go to churches, or chapels, or conventicles, or to any place, by whatever other name it may be called, and keep steadily in view the one great cause-our common Christianity."

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ON THE COMPLIANCE OF THE REGENERATE WITH THE TERMS OF

THE GOSPEL.

Inscribed above the portal, from afar
Conspicuous as the brightness of a star,

Legible only by the light they give,

Stand the soul-quickening words-BELIEVE AND LIVE.
Too many, shock'd at what should charm them most,

Despise the plain direction, and are lost.

'Heav'n on such terms!' they cry with proud disdain;
Incredible! impossible! and vain'!'

Rebel, because 'tis easy to obey :

And scorn for its own sake the precious way.

These are the sober, in whose cooler brains

Some thought of immortality remains ;

The rest, too busy, or too gay to wait

On the sad theme-their everlasting state-
Sport for a day, and perish in a night."

COWPER.

THE Gospel is a system of mercy, a revelation of salvation, a discovery of eternal love, redeeming and sanctifying mankind, an instrument of recovery to the love and service of Jehovah; but it is not a system of release from moral obligation. It supplies motives to confide in, love, and obey God, and is employed as an instrument to convey the grace both requisite and necessary for so good and gracious a purpose; but it does not annihilate the requirements of the moral law. "For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us, that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world, looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God, even our Saviour Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people zealous of good works."-(Tit. ii. 11-14). So far from the Gospel annihilating, it establishes the law. So far from bringing it into contempt, it is the pen by which the Holy Ghost inscribes it on the heart of every true Christian. "For this is the covenant," saith the apostle, in Heb. viii. 10, quoting Jer. xxxi. 33-"This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those

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