Thou, Popery, art the younger sister; thou hast wandered as far from the Christian Revelation given by the Saviour of mankind; the greater sinner of the two art thou, for thou hast sinned against light and conscience, and in the face of this blessed book.

Paganism! thy doom is sealed! Thou didst corrupt this great city, and all the world into idolatry and sin. Thou art fallen already, thy final destruction is at hand!

Popery! thy doom is sealed also! I found this great city sunk in sin and idolatry. I purified, I sanctified it and many others for myself; but thou didst creep in unawares, and under false pretences drewest away my people into sin, and enticed them back into idolatry. Thy saints have superseded God; thy mediators have dethroned Jesus; thy lies have obscured His truth. Thy fall is near, thy destruction tarrieth not."

She ceased, and waved her hand: there was an awful crash, and the darkness of midnight was all around me.

"I awoke, and behold! it was a dream."

A. F.

THERE needs not a partition-wall between God and man; a sunbeam, alive with atoms, is a sufficient separation, if the man has no inclination to cross it. -Rev. T. Dale.

Review of Books.

THE INQUIRER DIRECTED TO AN EXPERIMENTAL AND PRACTICAL VIEW OF THE ATONEMENT. By the Rev. Octavius Winslow. Shaw.

THE view with which the author undertakes a work that he gives hope of carrying out to other most important branches of the Christian faith, is that of deepening the spirituality of the church, which he rightly describes as rent by alarming divisions, and wearied by controversy. The latter, indeed, we know to be unavoidable, because when the perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds are levelled at the foundations of our faith, those whose sworn duty it is to contend earnestly for that faith must needs assume a controversial attitude. Mr. Winslow, however, aims at the root of all divisions and debates, by

striving to fix the mind on those grand first principles which men are too ready to lose sight of; and delightfully has he executed the task. The volume is so small as to be soon perused; but it contains enough of the soundest doctrine, couched in the most persuasive and impressive language, to engage the mind and conscience for many a long day. It is a heart-searching treatise; we pray the Great Searcher of all hearts to accompany with his divine influence the striking and solemn appeals with which it abounds.

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FAMILY PRAYERBOOK. Compiled from the most approved ancient and modern formularies. By John Porter. which is prefixed an Essay on the Nature and Obligations of Family Religion. By the Rev. Thomas Best, M.A., Perpetual Curate of St. James's Church, Sheffield. Hamilton and Co.

MANY people object to a form of prayer; and yet, strange inconsistency! in social worship every body adopts it, save one. The leader of such devotions may, to be sure, use the gift of extemporaneous supplication; but what he utters the rest acquiesce in ; and what difference it makes to them whether his expressions be his own, or those of a third party previously committed to paper, we never had the sagacity to discover; unless it be that in the former case individuals and their circumstances may be more fully touched upon; whereas, in the latter the allusions must necessarily be more general. Still,

as to the latter the former may always be added, we protest against the denunciation of written forms on the part of those who contentedly follow such as are oral.

We like this compilation, especially because it takes a wide range, embracing the country, its queen, and her counsellors, with a continual remembrance of them before God. We also like its author's purpose of dedicating all profits to that invaluable institution the Church Pastoral Aid Society, than which we know of none more deserving public support.

DEATH; with other Poems. By the Rev. R. Montgomery, author of 'The Omnipresence of the Deity,' 'Satan,'' Woman,' &c. Sixth Edition, revised and enlarged. Glasgow: Symmington and Co.

THIS forms the fourth volume of the beautiful little edition which we have already noticed of Mr. Montgomery's poems. No introduction of a work in its sixth edition can be requisite; but we must say that the poem of The Stage Coach,' which closes this volume breathes, to us, the spirit of Cowper and Goldsmith, in the liveliness, the tenderness, the truthfulness of its delineation in a scene of every-day life. It is a perfect gem, in a somewhat difficult path of poetry. Mr. Montgomery is much of an Alchemyst-a class of whom we can boast but few.

A COURSE OF SERMONS ON THE PRINCIPAL ERRORS OF THE CHURCH OF ROME; preached in St. Andrew's Church, Liverpool. By ten Clergymen of the Church of England.

A COURSE OF SERMONS ON ROMANISM, preached in St. Michael's Church, Liverpool, in 1838-9. By several Clergymen of the Church of England. Hatchards.

LIVERPOOL is the Pleiades of our ecclesiastical sky: not that her bright particular stars' are limited to seven, but they are so clustered, though distinctthey sparkle so beautifully in unison, and while all "the heavens declare the glory of God," this constellation is so conspicuously engaged in the work, that we hail "the sweet influences of the Pleiades with a peculiar glow of delight. God be praised for the great grace bestowed on these his dear servants!

In these volumes the great Abomination is so dissected, not with an ordinary knife, but with the quick and powerful two-edged sword of the Spirit, that strong indeed must be the delusion to believe a lie on the mind of any Protestant who rises from their perusal without resolving to become a Protester. As to those clergymen who evade the subject in their ministrations, we can only say, May God pity them, and enlighten their minds !

Each of these volumes concludes with a masterly sermon by the Rev. Hugh McNeile, than whom no living man has better earned the blessing of a Popish anathema.