looked at her face she knew the errand on which she had come.

'I'se beean to Pudseh to see my muther,' she said, 'an', nus, I'se fleared 'at ah'll hev to leeave my plaace, an' I'se cum to ax ye, if ah does, to help t' mester ti choose a servant, wun 'at ye knaw 'll luik weel efter t' little un, for ye knaw he'd be a seeght easier taken in nor ye wad. He hired me wi'aht knawin' ony moor abaht meh nor 'at ah wanted a plaace.'

'He didn't make a great mistake there, Matty. Your face was enough. But now I know all about it. I've been to my cousin's this afternoon. Your mother won't give her consent?'

'Noa, shoo can't trust him because he's no religion. Ah moant go agean God, shoo says. Bud, O, it is hard! Mester's beean that kind and eeasyful; an' it's a sooar thing ti giv' up t' little un.'

'I'm sure it is; and we'll do our best for her, Matty; don't you be afraid of that. But what about yourself, my girl? Do you mean to leave

at once?'

'I'se fleared soa. Mester 'll be angered at a poor lass like meh; an' I'se gotten a message for him from my

muther 'at shoo wadn't let meh off givin' him. Ah think ah mun goa ti my uncle's till ah leeghts on a plaace. He'll bea noan too weel pleeased nauther to see meh; an', happen, nus, if you hear of out ye'll speeak a woord for us.'

'I hope it may not be wanted. If my cousin tells you to stay, you may make yourself quite easy."

'Ah sudn't mind. It is si hard to leeave bairn, an' ah doan't knaw where ah mud goa next.'

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'Don't be afraid about that. Some day I'll tell you things that have happened to me in my lifetime: the Lord always opens a way. good girl, Matty, and just as you've taken care of this poor little child, the Lord 'll take care of you.'

'Ay! ah've beean leearning sum

mat abaht that. Who sud ah see at muther's bud t' Ministher 'at chirstened Emma, an' he talked to meh as kind and as free as he'd ha talked to Miss Furniss: si varrah plain as ah culdn't help understand.'

Here Miss Emma giving sundry signs of impatience and over-fatigue, Matty said, 'Good-bye,' and was soon at Vicar's Croft.

The master welcomed her in a very ordinary manner. It was not till the child was in bed that, taking a chair by her side, he said, 'Weel, Matty, ha is't t' be?'

'O, mester, I'se sore fleared 'at ye'll be offended,' said the poor girl, bursting into tears; 'I'se noan what I owt to be mesen, bud ah can't go so agean the Lord as to hev a man 'at doesn't believe in Him.'

Bellaby turned from her with a fierce gesture of scorn and impatience.

'My muther said 'at ah mun speeak t' truth to ye, tho' it was a seeght too good o' ye to think o' meh, an' ah was tempted t' be yere wife, if it was nobbut for t' saake o' t' little gell. Bud shoo saaid, "Tell him 'at ah saaid a man wi'aht religion weant do."'

'Just like t' weakness an' ignerance of an owd woman,' he exclaimed. 'What does shoo knaw o' t' world?'

'Shoo knows ommost nowt but what 't Bible teiches, mester, an' if nowt else 'ud mak meh believe i' religion, my muther would. It's carried her thruff iverything.'

'Well, Matty, I niver stood i' t' waah o' yere religion, if ah did mak leeght on 't sumtimes; an' bein' my wife ye wadn't hev less o' yere aun waah, ye may be suer. hes t' upper han'.'

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'Ay, but ah can't surve two mesters; an' theer's the end to think O, mester, ah do wish ye'd consither on't! An' when ye can suit yeresen ah'll go awaay, tho' it fair breeaks my heart to leeave t' bairn.'

Bellaby made no reply, but the

tending towards it, yet when we take a far wider scope we see some of our own solar system, and some members of other systems, passing through the stages that are leading up to the yet unreached condition in which life is possible. Finally, the heat and light apparently spent in dead worlds and systems is not lost, but passes on to keep up the eternal interchanges of cosmical vitality.

Some very delicate researches were made at Harvard College, U.S., by Prof. Pickering upon the newlydiscovered satellites of Mars. They had for their end the measurement of the diameters of these minute bodies. It is impossible to epitomize the method in which this was done, but it was based upon an accurate comparative estimate of the light-intensity of the two moons. The observations, in fact, were what are known as photometric; they are not yet wholly reduced, and only approximate results can be given; but they are believed to be very near. If the satellites reflect light in the same proportion as the planet, the light of the outer satellite, as compared with that of the inner one, by this method gives their ratio to each other in size as nine to ten. As, however, the darker colour of the outer satellite somewhat diminishes its light, Prof. Pickering considers it safe to reckon the diameter of the outer satellite as about six miles, and that of the inner one seven. This confirms the suppositions expressed in this Journal at the time of the discovery of the moons.

Microscopical researches by MM. Meunier and Tissandier have proved that certain very ancient rocks,-cretaceous, liassic, triassic, carboniferous, Devonian, etc.,-contain magnetic spherules which are absolutely identical with those that are now known to be in the air, and are often found in some quantity on the snows of high latitudes where the surface is undisturbed. These

spherules of magnetic iron are very minute, and are known to be the débris of meteorites constantly falling on the earth in a dissipated condition. The almost inevitable inference, then, is, that at those remote dates, when the geological formations in question were in progress, the same minute meteor-rain fell upon the earth, and is now embedded in the rocks.

Few subjects are more fraught with wonder, and in many senses with mystery, than that of parasites, as sources of pain, disease and destruction to other and far higher animal and vegetable forms. Recently it has been shown, as we stated at the time, that a fungus-representing diseasewas discovered microscopically in situ in a plant from the carboniferous epoch. Another, with very defined characteristics, has just been brought to light. But a still more remarkable internal parasite has recently been discovered as infesting under some conditions the human blood. All kinds of entozoa or internal parasites are unhappily known to science. They have as perfect adaptations to the needs and circumstances of their lives as the swallow or the eagle have to theirs. The complex history of the tape-worm, for example, is tolerably well known; but there is another form of entozoa that is microscopic in size and is painfully known to exist in some parts of Europe and elsewhere. It is the Trichina spiralis, and belongs to what are known as the nematode worms. It gives rise to often fatal symptoms, somewhat resembling

rheumatic fever, and known as Trichiniasis. In an immature condition this parasite an extremely minute one, quite invisible to the naked eye-inhabits usually the muscles of the pig. Hence badly-cooked pork is always a danger, and hence also the consumption by the German peasants of uncooked cured ham makes the disease

so prevalent in that country. The parasite exists in vast numbers coiled up in a little capsule; but it is incapable of further development in these circumstances, and may remain thus, producing no injurious results, for an indefinite time. If, however, man, or other warm-blooded vertebrate, eat a portion of this muscle from the pig, there is an immediate development of vast numbers of young trichinæ in the alimentary canal. The immature worms break out of their cysts, grow larger and give birth to an immense progeny, which are produced alive. These young ones commence to perforate the walls of the alimentary canal, and work their way into the muscles, where they eventually become 'encysted' or encased in a delicate sac. If the man or animal has strength enough to bear all this, he is now comparatively safe, for the parasite can do no more unless, and until, again transferred as before. But the suffering is often extreme and ends in death. In this instance, however, there is a

prevention possible: carelessness is usually the cause; but a human entozoa has just recently been found against which, under some circumstances, there appears to be no possibility of guarding. It belongs to the same group of forms as the trichina, but is far smaller. Dr. P. Manson has demonstrated that there is an entozoön, known as Filaria Bancrofli, which takes up its abode in the human blood, and is the source of marked diseases, and that the larve of this minute form may be sucked up out of the human blood by the mosquito, be carried by it as a 'nurse,' and then deposited in another human being. The matter has been most thoroughly investigated, and the conclusion of the leading physicians skilled on the subject was, when the paper was read, that the matter was absolutely demonstrated. This is to some extent a new phase of what has always been, for philosopher and physician alike, a difficult subject.

An Enquiry into the Scripture Doctrine concerning the Duration of Future Punishment. By Matthew Horbery, B.D. Reprinted from the Edition of 1744. London: Wesleyan Conference Office.-The thanks of the churches are due to Dr. Osborn for recalling attention to this of late strangely neglected book. The debate on the subject of eternal punishment has always been carried on upon the same lines; very few, if any, new arguments can be adduced on either side of the question. The present prominence of the subject might lead men to suppose that Mr. White and Mr. Jukes and their coadjutors were promulgating fresh discoveries. The republication of Horbery's treatise shows that orthodoxy has sustained and survived as formidable attacks as theirs. But the book has a high intrinsic value altogether apart from the date of its first publication. It contains, first, a careful examination of every text in the New Testament that bears upon the doom of the ungodly; then the philosophic and moral objections to endless penalty are discussed; and the

alternative theories of Restoration and Annihilation are accurately weighed. Everywhere the writer advances with a firm, reverent, irresistible step, forgetting nothing, yet never unduly pressing an argument. If we say that the criticism of texts is specially commendable, it is not because we have formed a low estimate of the rest of the volume, but because all doctrines drawn from the Bible must rest upon a fair and exact exegesis of particular passages. A review may well be brief where nothing is needed but praise. While Matthew Horbery's does not supersede more recent volumes, it is a most welcome ally to them, and is adapted to the requirements of Ministers and other professed students of the Scriptures. Annihilationism had not assumed the importance in Mr. Horbery's time that it has in our own, and Conditional Immortality could hardly be called then a formulated theory: but his remarks on these subjects are just, incisive and scholarly. The more widely this book is read the better for the faith of Christendom.

Stories and Songs of the Children's Home. London: The Children's Home, Bonner-Road, and the Wesleyan Conference Office.-Though the Children's Home is happily now a well-known and deservedly popular institution, its friends have felt the need of a complete and compact statement of the rise, progress and present position of the work, such as is given in the attractive little volume before us. Except a visit to the Home itself and the eloquent sight of the happy faces of the little ones, no appeal can be more powerful than these true and pathetic stories, and this plain statement of the vast network of Christian effort which centres in the Children's Home. We would urge our readers not only to study this little book, but also to act upon the application which conscience and right sentiment will make, and by all means to help this good work,

The Bible Record of Creation, True for Every Age. By P. W. Grant. London: Hodder and Stoughton.

The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science. By J. W. Dawson, LL.D., etc. London: Hodder and Stoughton.-These very able books of course, to a great extent, go over the same ground, the aim of both being a conciliation of Revelation and Science, without violence to the text of the one or disregard of the established facts of the other. Both will be hailed and prized by earnest students of the Scriptures, although Mr. Grant's style of interpretation will not always satisfy a strict and sensitive exegesis. Both reject the old Chalmerian expedient of detaching the first from the following verses of the first chapter of Genesis, and supposing an indefinite period of chaos immediately succeeding the creative fiat. Mr. Grant also abandons successive periods of creation indicated by the days of the Mosaic cosmogony; not without, as we think, an unwarrantable and unnecessary strain on sound, straightforward exegesis. His short-work policy (that is the descriptive word) is to minimize to the utmost the teaching of the first chapter of Genesis, in order to leave the field clear for scientific speculation and hypothesis in our view, an undignified, thankless and bootless concession to the arrogant and wanton encroachments of sceptical scientists. Dr. Dawson shows rightly that there is nothing in the verified and fairly-handled findings of science to frighten exegesis out of its propriety. As to the Mosaic days, we cannot see how single-eyed exposition can view them in any other light than as marking successive eras and stages of creation; probably over

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lapping at some points, but still in the main distinct. Mr. Grant rightly regards the first three chapters of Genesis as 'the inspired introduction to the inspired history of redemption,' and the Bible as an organic whole;' but this does not necessitate the denial of any revelation of the temporal order of creation. His illustration about a builder's bringing in a bill for mason-work one day, joiner-work a second day, etc.,' is most unfortunate, though the general working out of his hypothesis is ingenious when not convincing; but it is too elaborate for reproduction here. In one part he seems to make way even for the anthropologists, but on a subsequent page he shows that the words of the Book cannot but import a distinct creation of man and a direct communication of the Divine life and likeness. The tone and temper of the book are fine, from first to last; and he is far happier in his exposition of the second and third chapters than in that of the first; indeed, on both he casts a strong and beautiful light. This constitutes the chief value of the work, and will well repay the study of the theologian, the expositor and the Preacher. His remarks on constructive intelligence as displayed in creation, are also very fine.

Dr. Dawson, Principal of the McGill University, Montreal, is an old hand,' and an expert. This volume is, in fact, an expansion, completion and adjustment to the present state of thought, of his Archaia, a work published in 1860. As he states in his preface, his principles of interpretation are those of Dr. McCaul in his able defence of the Mosaic record of creation in the " Aids to Faith."' No one can complain of any want of either lucidity or candour in Dr. Dawson's book. He charts out with effect the strong breakwater which sober science is raising against the surging spume of heady, vague hypothesis a breakwater built up of the grand recent discoveries as to the constitution of the material universe and the probable process of its formation, the more recent calculations as to the age of the earth, the conservation of force and the correlation of forces, the explosion of the theory of spontaneous generation, the high cerebral type of the most ancient known men, the original unity of language as proved by comparative philology, etc., etc. Amongst the most valuable parts of the book are the concluding chapters on the Unity and Antiquity of Man, and Comparisons and Conclusions, and the Appendices on True and False Evolution, Evolution and Creation by Law, Modes of Creation, Present Condition of Theories of Life, Bearing of Glacial Periods on the Interpretation of Genesis, The Chemistry