part of those who appeal to Cyprian for the Presbyterians and Independents of Scotland, support of infant baptism. "Do evangelical and are silently, but rapidly, diffusing themIndependents baptize sickly children only, selves in England. And so few are there and baptize them that they may not perish ?" who adhere to the teaching of scripture on p. 402. "From the date of Cyprian," says all these points, that most of the works which Dr. Halley," there can be no doubt that in- oppose these views, contribute indirectly to fant baptism existed;" but Cyprian, replies their spread. Under such circumstances, a Mr.Stovel, "stands convicted as the first suc-work which illustrates and enforces that cessful advocate of sacramental efficacy, and teaching with fulness, consistency, and power, the canons gradually passed in favor of in- is like fine gold. Such an one is the work befant baptism, show that it was not only ad- fore us. Its author's views are obviously demitted as a new thing in each case, but on rived, not from schools, but from scripture; the ground of its necessity to salvation:" p. not from men, but from God. The depth 402, 3. At length the forms of sacramental and soundness of his scriptural knowledge, efficacy increased to seven, and were de- and the clearness with which he presents the clared to "contain the grace they signify." mysteries of godliness, give ample proof of Mr. Stovel next traces the extent of this this. His excellent lectures on Puseyism error in the reformed churches, and argues were lately noticed in these pages; and that if infant baptism be received at all, while commending the present little work either the language of scripture "must as worthy of attention for its accurate and be rejected, or the power of that rite to able defence of truth, we can but express produce faith must be allowed:" p. 417. our earnest hope that the author may be The rite without sacramental efficacy is a nullity, and with it a delusion.

Mr. Stovel has most ably sustained the views we receive as the will of God; and viewing Dr. Halley's treatise as to its real tendency, we can but think that his attempts to break down the former defences of infant baptism, and the absolute failure of his endeavour to raise new ones, have left it tottering in the midst of ruins, with use only as the last outwork for its protection.

unremitting in his defence of those glorious doctrines of the gospel, from which many are falling away into the most dangerous errors.

Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries.
By WILLIAM HOGAN; formerly a Roman
Catholic priest, and Author of Popery as
it was, and as it is. Dyer and Co. London;
E. Howell, Liverpool. 12mo., pp. 213.

It is

Mr. Stovel adds a powerful exposure of The next election will decide whether the the folly and daring of Mr. Godwin's at resolve of the premier to endow deception tempts to prove that baptism means to pu- and wickedness under the name of popery rify; and concludes with an earnest address can at present be effected; and that election to his own brethren, founded on the stability may take place in a few months. of their sentiments, to avoid and remedy pleasing, therefore, to see that the country whatever tends to weaken their power; to is beginning to examine with earnestnesss remember especially that the faith required into the state of popery now, and are beginis that which prostrates the heart before ning to understand that it is a system of as God; that greater intercourse is needed much vice,imposture, and cruelty as ever-the among church-members, and much more effectual training in religious duties; and that to be negligent of those who are perishing is a direct violation of the divine law. In an appendix he shews with what ease the English reader may satisfactorily decide for himself what really constitutes the act of baptism.

New Views compared with the Word of God.
Second Edition, with Appendix. 12mo.
pp. 60.
London: Groombridge; Edin-
burgh: J. Johnson.

The "new views" referred to are chiefly those which deny the headship of Adam, and the condemnation of our race in him; particular and effectual redemption, and the necessity of special grace to convert the soul. These "new views" have agitated both the

worst of abominations, and the greatest of evils against which we have to guard. There is no doubt whatever that the advancement of popery is made at Rome one of the conditions on which the priests and Mr. O'Connell are to hush agitation in Ireland. The patronage of a system which is treason to liberty, both civil and religious, is to be one of the terms on which the government is to be assisted, for the present, by its agents. A Baptist minister from America recently informed us, that there the bishops hold the balance of political power; that Roman Catholics are compelled to vote as the bishop directs, on pain of perdition, and that he barters their votes for the promise of political offices for his nominees from the successful candidate; and thus they obtain great influence in the state. No doubt, all possible means will be used here, as in Ame

Lectures delivered before the Young Men's Christian Association: The Extent and Moral Statistics of the British Empire. By W. ARTHUR. Luther and the Reformation. By J. CUMMING, D. D. Aylott and Jones.

rica, for obtaining political power; and when that power is once in the ascendant, our religious liberty is destroyed. We have, therefore, no slight reasons for opposing the endowment of such a system. The act itself, is the endowment of fraud, falsehood, and vice; and its tendency is to invest that system These lectures are both of first-rate exwith a power which will expel true religion cellence. Mr. Arthur's elaborate account of from the land. Were it not for this, such a the vastness of the British empire, and of work as that before us, ought rather to be its power to do good, exceeding that ever hid than published. The very mention of yet possessed by any nation upon earth, imsome of its details shocks every virtuous presses the mind most forcibly with the imfeeling, and yet even their awfulness is one mense importance which attaches to every testimony to their truth; for it is scarcely effort to influence aright our own population. conceivable that any one could have invented Dr. Cumming is well acquainted with popery, such fearful details, or having done so, would and has given authentic proofs of its fearful have dared to publish them, especially as he state before the reformation, and a vivid outinvolves himself in much of their guilt. line of the exertion of divine power, chiefly The statement, also, of similar facts by as it respects Luther, for its overthrow. Roman Catholic authors, and the intense Cornelius Confuted: or, An Answer to Mr. power which must, of necessity, be given to Elven's Pamphlet on Communion. By a the passions of men forbidden to marry, by SUFFOLK BAPTIST. 12 pp. London: the secrecy and degrading shamelessness of Dyer & Co. the confessional, render them less incredible; and though the character of the author demands the strictest examination before they are received as undoubted facts, there is enough internal evidence to demand inquiry. Mr. Hogan acknowledges that as a Roman Catholic priest for twenty-five years, he was himself deeply involved in these awful scenes (p. 30), and makes this dis- Mr. Harrison, of 35, Caroline Street, Birclosure of them partly to justify his seces-mingham, has published a good tract of four sion, and partly to warn Americans against pages, on Christian Charity and Church evils of which most of them are utterly unCommunion. Dyer & Co., London. conscious, and which even protestants are helping to promote. He states that he was influence and the Christian's prospects, may educated at Maynooth, Ireland, (p. 16), and be had there also.

Mr. Smeeton has succeeded admirably. With a clear and powerful brevity he has exploded the whole of brother Elven's propositions. At trifling cost, and in a few minutes' time, the plainest mind may understand and decide the question. It should be widely circulated.

Mr. Moreton's two Poems on Satanic

refers to Antoine, and Dens, de peccatis, We are indebted to the Scottish Tempetaught there, for a clue to the character of rance (or, strictly, Abstinence) League, for the confessional. Having witnessed the vices three copies of their Review, which appears of popery in that island, he went to America, to be very well conducted; for "An Affechoping to find it less corrupt; but having tionate Appeal," by Archdeacon Jeffreys, found it more grossly immoral, he ultimately of Bombay, and Six Sermons on Intempeabandoned popery altogether, and since that rance, by Dr. Lyman Beecher, of Boston, time has practised as a barrister. His pre-abstinence from intoxicating liquors, and United States; all of them advocating total sent religious theory seems to be, that pure morals are all that is necessary to salvation, some contending that even temperance, and p. 166; but, viewed only as a narrative of not merely "excess" in the use of them, is the effect the system has had in involving unlawful; and if so it is sinful. Voluntary himself in such dreadful wickedness, it is self-denial as to what is lawful, for the good one which must leave an impression of the of others, is excellent; but if "the use of present enormities of popery, and the dan- these liquors" ought to be "proscribed by a ger of the system, such as can scarcely be vote of all the churches," (Dr. Beecher, equalled. The gross errors in spelling, be- P. 27,) we make our blessed Redeemer himlong, we suppose, to the English printer; self a sinner, for he came drinking wine, the work having been published in America. Luke vii. 33, 34; and then what becomes of It contains much information respecting Ire- his divinity, of his atonement, and of our land, and a most remarkable narrative illus-salvation? The whole gospel is in that case trating the character of those educated at an imposture. They do well who "disclaim the Jesuit College, Stonyhurst, Lancashire: every mode of advocating this cause, which p. 97-108. would disparage the morality of the gospel:" Review, p. 351.

Entelligence.

AUSTRIA, of these brethren. Besides these, there are brethren who go out into the villages round about Hamburg on the Lord's-day. The brother who superintends the book-depository goes out thus, occasionally, on the Lord's-day, and lately had, quite unexpectedly, a congregation of six hundred persons, some of them ladies and gentlemen who had heard there was to be preaching. Other brethren are sent to much greater distances.

for this brother to go and hold worship there; very likely, we shall yet be placed; for I which he did. On a second visit, some con- do not expect that the victory will be achieved verts were baptized, and about ten or twelve without much struggle and many difficulties. dear brethren and sisters united in the There is a perfect religious ferment on the Lord's-supper in the upper part of the steeple. continent in the minds of all. But there is Several small churches have been formed, a formidable mass arraying itself against the and it is humbly hoped that brethren will be truth of God. The infidel parties in the raised up among them to preach the gospel. Roman Catholic church, under Rongé, in the The persecution there has run so high, that Lutheran church, and among the Jews, all one brother has had his house emptied of its move on together, and now begin to feel furniture, and even his Sunday coat taken their numerical strength, and to come out from him. There was but little hope of be- with a boldness we have never witnessed being able to baptize the fifteen converts re- fore. Germany begins to wear the appearferred to; but there came a great flood, and the water quite surrounded the brother's house where they assembled, which stood a little on rising ground, and thus they were well protected from the police. During the night (for all baptisms in Germany are administered at night) the fifteen were baptized, and early in the morning the brethren carried the sisters through the water, and all went home.

AT BERLIN, about 70 members have been added during brother Lehmann's absence, and two or three small churches were to be formed by him at the distance of twenty, thirty, or forty miles from Berlin, on his return.

THE RHINE.-The brother who is labouring in Hessia, and another from Marburg, are about to go up the Rhine. There are converts at Strasburg and Mulhausen, on the Rhine, and these brethren, if not arrested in Hessia, intend to visit these and other places.

NORWAY. It is proposed, early in the spring, to make an effort in Norway, where perfect religious liberty is enjoyed. In political principles, Norway is more free than either America or England, and last year its parliament passed a decree of complete religious liberty. Brother Köbner would have gone thither this year, had he not been called away elsewhere.

THE AMERICAN AND FOREIGN BIBLE SoCIETY has just resolved, at brother Oncken's earnest request, to employ six colporteurs in Germany.

"Our prospects," says brother Oncken, "are exceedingly delightful just now. Christ shews that he has all hearts in his hands, and if we can only venture upon him, not putting on the armour of Saul, but using his precious word, we shall see great things. I commend the cause to the fervent prayers and supplications of my brethren that the Lord may be with us still, and endue us with power from on high; that he may enable us to adhere to his holy word, and make us faithful in the trying circumstances, in which,

ance of France before the dreadful revolution burst out. I can only wish that the Lord may guide all things in such a manner that we may have nothing like what has taken place there. But how delightful is it to know that we are all safe, encircled with the arms of everlasting love; that though thousands and tens of thousands may fall on the right and left, if he is precious to us, and his will is exemplified in our spirit, deportment, and every action of our lives, so as to prove that we are his, nothing shall ever separate us from bis love; we shall soon meet all those who are most dear to us in heaven, and see him to whom we owe our everlasting all.”

JAMAICA.

MALDON.-The corner-stone of a new chapel, at Maldon, to measure 75 feet by 45, was laid by Edward Knibb, Esq., of Falmouth, on June 12th, in the presence of a large assembly. Maldon is a village originally purchased and settled through the instrumentality of Mr. Walter Dendy, pastor of the church at Salter's Hill, by persons emancipated from slavery. The new place of worship is for the accommodation of the members and others connected with that church, in this neighbourhood. Mr. Edward Knibb, in referring to the death of his brother, William Knibb, said, that many years Thomas arrived in England, William said, ago when news of the death of his brother "I must take up the work that my brother Thomas has been called upon to leave;" and he (Mr. E. Knibb,) trusted that he was ready, as far as he could, to assist in carrying on the work in which his late brother took so active a part.

Mr. Charles Armstrong has accepted a unanimous invitation from the churches in Gurney's Mount and Fletcher's Grove, lately under the care of Mr. Woolley.

The gross immorality of the white population, comprehending magistrates, attornies, and overseers, is said to have lately increased. Five-sixths of the whites on estates in Trelawney, (given as an example of the rest of

MRS. E. HEWITT, of Jericho, has been removed by death. Her deeply afflicted husband says, "She was ever ready to devote herself body and soul to the glory of God."

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the island,) are alleged, by the Baptist | reproach to be brought on the name of Herald, to be living in shameless impurity. Christ." The "decline of piety," is accomThe theological students at Calabar, under panied by "unwillingness on the part of the care of Mr. Tinson, are stated by eight some" to contribute as they once did to reliexaminers to have made very creditable pro-gious objects, but the majority are rendered gress in their studies; but, owing to the di- unable by "the unparalleled distress which minished resources of the island, not the is felt throughout the island in consequence slightest hope is entertained that the semi- of another severe drought.' To make nary can be carried on without foreign aid. matters worse, thousands of Hill Coolies are of the people, who are taxed for bringing arriving to take the bread out of the mouths them, and to spread wretchedness and vice over the land." Under these circumstances, many of the missionaries "are in deep disSTATE OF THE CHURCHES.-The Baptist tress; their people are unable to support Herald strenuously asserts, that the church- them, and unless they obtain assistance from es formed by missionaries in Jamaica can- England, they will either be compelled to not exist without a connecting link with the relinquish their work, or involve themselves churches in England, and that the results in personal debts. Two brethren, I am of the experiment already made by the sorry to say, have adopted the former alterBaptist mission have been most distressing. native, and have left the island....There There are churches without pastors, mis- are few of our stations which are not in debt, sionaries without health or energy, build the responsibility of which rests entirely upon ings, erected at vast expense, comparatively the minister." He is also expected to carry useless, and no apparent remedy. For a on the schools, and pay the expenses of wortime, at least, pastors must be supplied, it ship. One brother whose people raise only says, from England, or many of the church- half enough, with the greatest economy, to es will be soon numbered with the things support himself and his family, is in danger that were. Mr. John Clark, in a letter ad- of being sued for a debt of nearly £400. dressed to the Baptist Record, says, that in The income of Mr. Clark's own church this time past, a mighty change had been wrought year is £127 below the expenditure, so that in those who made no pretensions to piety, without the assistance of a few friends in but now "after long restraint, Satan, having England, he would have been compelled to been permitted to return, has come in like give up the schools, and now must diminish a flood, and by the power of temptation, the agency, and cut down the expenditure has carried away multitudes of those whose in every possible way, to prevent the present reformation was only that of the outward heavy debt from being increased. Others life-not of the heart, and with them not a are in similar circumstances. "Surely," he few professors of religion, who, under deep convictions of sin, or anxiety to be saved, joined themselves to the people of God, and who, probably, were never truly converted. Some of these have been brought again under the bondage of African superstitions, others indulge in unhallowed passions, and many have returned to their former APPEAL ON BEHALF OF SPANISH TOWN, JAMAICA. licentious practices.... The great mass of church-members are, so far as regards their outward conduct, walking consistently; but in 1842, his church at Spanish Town was numbers of these have, to a lamentable ex- left under the care of a Mr. Dowson, a young tent, lost the fervour of their first love,' man recently arrived as missionary, and on with that tenderness of conscience, hatred of Mr. Phillippo's return, he proposed at a sin, attachment to the ordinances of religion, leaders' meeting, that Mr. Dowson should, and zeal for the glory of God, which once as an experiment for six months, divide the distinguished them." The enemies of the labour of the stations with him. It soon cross triumph; they have left no means un-appeared that Mr. Dowson was endeavourtried to hinder the gospel. Yet "none com- ing to alienate the affections of the people plain more of the increase of crime and im- from Mr. Phillippo, and eject him from the morality." Several of the pastors labour pastorate and premises. He demanded to under heavy pecuniary difficulties, which, be put in possession as sole pastor, and being says Mr. Clark, "I fear will cause some of refused, opened a booth near for his friends, them to go down with sorrow to the grave, or, in which matters were so conducted as conwhat will be still more distressing, occasion stantly to annoy Mr. Phillippo and the church,

says, "after all the expenditure of money and sacrifice of life to raise these churches, British christians will not, cannot make up their minds to abandon them, or to forsake their missionaries in their time of need."

DURING Mr. Phillippo's visit to England