-- covered. The day was exceedingly hot, and the ascent very steep; but my dear wife accomplished it with her usual energy, and with no worse result than a face rather more ruddy than usual. From the top there is a complete panoramic view, very beautiful, which alone amply repaid us for the toil of the walk. When we came down, we again set off in our cart for Mr. B-- -'s station, about twenty miles, accompanied by Mr. Cheyne, upon whose parish we had now entered; Mr. Gregory remaining behind at Mr. P---'s, with the intention of returning to the field of his labours in the afternoon. At Mr. B-.. 's we were, as usual, kindly received, and, only that we had a wooden bedstead, which was tenanted by its own peculiar community, spent a very comfortable evening and night. Mr. B--- was a watchmaker, and is now, I believe, a flourishing settler, but lives in a perfectly simple and unostentatious manner. He has a wife and large family, and his house presents a very favourable specimen of domestic life in the bush. The few people about the station came in to evening service, and, with his wife and children, formed a congregation of fifteen or sixteen attentive listeners. There are great opportunities, far greater, in my opinion, than an ordinary English clergyman has in his parish, for the exercise of his ministry, in such a journey as I am now taking. May the Lord give me grace to use them as I ought, and may he, by the influence of his Holy Spirit, make them profitable to the people. And now I am called upon to adore him for a special instance of his providential goodness. In the course of yesterday's journey we came upon the high road from South Australia to the goldfields, and, in consequence, fell in with many scores of people, all on their way to obtain a share of the treasure. We had thus an opportunity of speaking to a great number of persons as we drove along, and distributing tracts among them. Today our route lay along the same road; and, having determined to ride part of the way, I was on horseback, when I saw a company at some distance before me, and began to look out for some tracts for them. While I was thus engaged, trotting along at the same time, my horse stumbled and fell with me, throwing me forwards on my face, and actually rolling over my back as I lay along. Most providentially the dust was very deep, and furnished a soft bed for me to fall upon; and, through the special goodness of God, the saddle of the horse appears to have rested exactly upon my back; so that, although the weight made me breathless for some moments, it inflicted no other injury than a bruise in the loin, and another, a slight one, on the chest. It is the most remarkable escape which I remember to have ever experienced. Bless the Lord, O my soul! may the life which he has thus preserved be consecrated to his service! You may imagine what a figure I was when I rose from my sprawl in a bed of dust two or three inches deep. My appearance, as she had previously heard that I was unhurt, called forth a hearty laugh from Mrs. Perry at my expense. For my part, I was quite content to be laughed at, having so great cause for thankfulness that I was able, after such a fall, to resume my seat in the cart, and drive the remainder of the stage with very little inconvenience. To this extract from the bishop of Melbourne's journal we have permission to add the following extract from a private letter of the same date: C has just been writing an account of our journey as far as the gold-fields, which he wished me to copy and send to you; so here it is; and I will only add a few incidents of a smaller nature, which he has omitted, and which may serve to amuse you. The character of the bush, as we journeyed through it this time, has been quite changed. Instead of perfect solitude, only broken by the appearance here and there of a shepherd, and here and there a bullock-dray, the road actually swarms with human beings; some on foot, some on drays, in parties varying from two to twenty; some with wife and family, some without. Csaluted every individual we met with a touch of the hat, and a good morn ing: from some he got a civil return, and from others a broad grin. We took a great quantity of tracts with us, which were gladly received by all. Life in the camp is most amusing, and was quite new to me. Our old friend, the chief commissioner, most kindly gave up his neat little tent,? feet by 9, with two stretchers, a table, a great tin dish to wash in (we had our own leathern bucket, belonging to the cart, to hold water), and a comfortable American chair. The tent was lined with green baize, which was a very great comfort in keeping off the sun; but, notwithstanding all endeavours, the thermometer was upwards of 100 in the day-time, and had been very much higher a few days before. The nights were most beauti fully cold, and we were glad, in addition to a very liberal supply of blankets and rugs, to pat all our clothes over us. There is a large messtent, where the commissioners, military officers, superintendent of police, &c., &c., take all their meals, Mr. Wright presiding. Here we also messed; and I could not help being reminded of college-rooms, though certainly there was no similarity, excepting that the party consisted of gentlemen only. I could not divest myself of the idea that I was on board ship, and several times began to put things away in a safe place in on tent, against night came, when I expected to rol about. The noises of various kinds heard in ou tent at night were very curious. Every hour w announced by three sentinels; one stationed the gold-tent, where the diggers deposit ther riches in little leathern bags, ready to be tra ported to Melbourne by the escort; one at the lock-up, a regular American log-hut; and keeping guard over a certain water-bole, that the water might be secured pure for the use of the mess. I had taken a strong cup of tea (no milk), and consequently lay awake almost the whose night, and was intensely amused by listening to the various voices, pitched in different keys, of the sentinels. The man at the gold-tent first cries, "No. 1, twelve o'clock, all's right;" then follows from the lock-up, "No. 2, twelve o'clock, all's right;" then from the water-hole, more distant, and as if just emerging from the water, "No. 3, twelve o'clock, all's right." Then comes a dead silence for a short time, broken perhaps by the conversation, in an under tone, of the oce pants of the neighbouring tent, the deep bark of a beautiful bloodhound belonging to one of the officers, or the half-chattering half-warbling of གས the magpies, who sing through the night when it is moonlight. As soon as it was light, Saw yer's voice was to be heard (he slept with Mr. Wight's servant in one of a line of tents just behind the commissioner's line), growling about the poor horses, who certainly had a sorry time of it; for they were obliged to be tied to the cart, with a feed of oats night and morning and 14lbs. of hay. Sawyer's complaint was grounded on their being exposed to the cold night; and I used to hear him saying, "Poor creatures-frozen to death-can hardly move," &c., &c., in the tone of a deeplyinjured man. The scene was altogether exceedingly picturesque, particularly late in the evening, or in early morning, when the dust would allow you to see it; but you cannot conceive any thing to equal the depth of dust there is; and they say it is nothing compared to what it is four miles beyond, at the post-office (Forest creek), where the great mass of diggers are congregated. Here we have trees mixed with the tents, and the people are chiefly employed in merely washing in this creek the clay which is brought down in carts from the Forest creek diggings; so that there are very few of the deep, well-like holes, with the heaps of earth thrown about them, which give the desolate Babylon-like appearance to Forest creek and Fryer's creek. We are now comfortably housed at Mr. Hall's station, near the Pyrenees, and are going in an hour to Mr. C---'s, where we spend Sunday, and then make for Portland with all expedition, by no means sorry to turn our backs upon the diggings. should run from London, and the Crystal Palace itself should be strictly closed. After that hour they proposed to throw open the park and the winter-garden, but not to exhibit those departments of the building which will partake exclusively of a manufacturing and commercial character, the intention being to devote a certain portion of the space to specimens of manufactures, &c., which the public will be invited, on certain conditions, to display. In the third place, the directors undertook that on Sunday no spirituous liquors should be sold in their grounds. On Monday last lord Derby requested an interview with the directors, who, with sir Joseph Paxton, waited upon the premier and the home secretary, in Downing-street. At this meeting his lordship acquiesced in the stipulations proffered by the Crystal Palace Company, suggested a few trifling variations, and promised to grant the required charter." An article in the "Times," four days later, Aug. 6th, gives a full account of the ceremony of erecting the first column of the New Crystal Palace. With every desire that the best interests of my countrymen should be promoted, and with sincere respect for those who entertain a similar wish, I have felt it my duty as an Englishman, and still more as a clergyman, to submit the following considerations to my queen and my country. The Crystal Palace now erecting at Sydenham is designed to be the most splendid display of national greatness in the earth. No objection can exist to its grandeur, its beauty, the marvellous exotics to be exhibited in it, or to the display of ingenious manufactures. Some things it is intended to expose which may prove decidedly objectionable, I refer to the sculpture department. CRYSTAL PALACE, But I will not enter into details. The one great evil characterizing the plan is this-that it is designed to open the building to visitors during one half of the Lord's day. THE DIVIDED SABBATH. REMARKS CONCERNING THE NOW ERECTING AT SYDENHAM. BY THE REV. WILLIAM JOWETT, M.A., Incumbent of St. John's Church, Clapham Rise, and late fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. THE following report, found in the "Times" of August 2nd, 1852, appears to be, on one side at least, demi-official. It has given occasion to the remarks contained in this pamphlet. "We are happy to be able to state that, so far as the government are concerned, no impediment will be thrown in the way, and that there is now no fear of the people's losing their palace on the day on which they can best avail themselves of its many means of elevation and refinement. When the directors of the Crystal Palace Company applied some few weeks since to lord Derby for a charter, they communicated to his lordship the terms upon which they proposed to open the building and grounds on Sundays. They were of opinion that until after one o'clock no trains We gladly give insertion to a portion of a tract by Mr. Jowett on the threatened desecration of the sabbath by the Crystal Palace, and earnestly call the attention of Christian men to the subject. We can bear personal witness to the evils likely to result. We reside in a locality frequented in the after part of the Sunday by pleasure-seekers from the neighbouring metropolis. The scenes of disorder and drunkenness, the foul language, &c., &c., defy description, and seem to have baffled the attempts hitherto made to repress them.ED. "Resort to that is, four millions, are invited to mutilate the I have said four millions are thus invited. But consider the counties involved in this invitation-, the many watering places in those counties which have excursion trains in connexion with London the whole of Sunday; the near neighbourhood of France and other continental countries; the habits of those countries in making Sunday an open day for every kind of diversion. Taking all these points into consideration, there is something more to be contemplated than the mere erection of a Crystal Palace. Let us reflect how the plan will work. I have 66 pleasure." And the faused a decent term, vourers of the scheme may adopt terms yet more reputable-inviting people to the study of nature in all the wonderful productions of native and foreign plants, leading them from "nature up to nature's God." This sounds well; but after all the thing is not what an elegant writer may describe it, but what the million will make it. A poet or an artist may disguise a subject in a thousand ways; but this temple of pleasure will infallibly become, in the hands of the million, a focus of dissipation. Analyze a little this divided sabbath-this Lord's day divided into two halves; not indeed perfectly equal halves, for the nominal date of recreation commences precisely one hour after mid-day; then the rush of railway carriages from the London terminus is to commence, divine service having at most churches in and about London ended at one o'clock. Then, and in the hours following, the twenty, or the fifty thousand men, women, and children, are to be set in motion. They will find no intoxicating drinks sold on the premises of the Crystal Palace! But will not the surrounding localities offer them, under the name of refreshments, whatever they please? Look to the first part of the day. Does any man suppose that one-half of these thousands many will have been worshipping God in the family and in the church? Is it in the least degree likely? Does a single favourer of the scheme imagine it probable? I think not. But then it will be pleaded, that the scheme is purposely so arranged, that people might, if they wished, go to church with their families in the forenoon. I have even heard it gravely said, "The people need not break the sabbath: they may go to church in the morning; and if they do not it is their own fault." To this argument silence might be the best reply; and I hope truly that the conscience of the nation will repudiate such sophistry. I speak of conscience; and I remember that the conscience of a child is as much honoured and protected by God as the conscience of any other individual. "Take heed that ye offend not one of these little ones." Better for a man to have a millstone hanged about his neck, and he be cast into the sea, than that the moral sense of a young person be perverted. Suppose, now, a father and mother to take some of their children to church, and hear the commandments read; then imagine an ingenuous boy or girl, on the way to the Crystal Palace, saying, "The minister read the words, Remember that thou keep holy the sabbathday';" and they ask father or mother to reconcile the words of the command, and their excursion of amusement. The parents hush up the matter by saying, "Children must not be particular: it is enough to keep holy half the sabbath day, and spend the rest of it pleasantly." What a comment would this be! | This then is the sin, the one sin, at which I take aim. I do not pursue this part of the subject, by showing what multitudes of railway servants, publicans, policemen, and others, will inevitably be absorbed during the entire sabbath for miles and miles around, by this scheme. Here is the one crime, a divided sabbath: here is the focus and centre of it-the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. If any do not see the evil, or are determined to blink it, it will not be difficult to draw up a sketch (not an exaggerated sketch, but a very simple one, and so much the more convincing), taking into view: 1, London and its suburbs; 2, the circumjacent counties; 3, the infection of the continental sabbath; 4, the state of the families of the industrial classes during the six week-days; and 5, their probable condition from Saturday evening to Monday evening, fortyeight hours, resulting from this scheme of a divided sabbath. But I hope that no such tract will ever have to be written. fear him, and "To know God and to love and to know also his Son, Jesus Christ, whom God sent into the world to save and to instruct mankind, and to feel the want of such a Saviour, and to put your trust in him alone, and to ask him to give you his Holy Spirit to make you holy too, and to do righteousness, and to love mercy and holiness-this knowledge and this prac tice is enough for all, and will save all; for it includes every thing essential to salvation" (War ton's "Death-bed Scenes"). "Nothing but the work of the Holy Ghost ca make us to be, nothing but the witness of the same Spirit should satisfy us that we are, Christ's. O that each soul may experience that work of the Spirit that he may be, and have that witness of the Spirit that he may joyfully know that he is, Christ's indeed. And, if we are his, all things are ours.' But, if we would prove this in life, work, and joyful issue, we must grow from the weakness of the babe to the strength and experience of manhood in Christ. And where does this teach us to look? As our work for Christ led us to look inwards upon his work within us, so does his work in us bid us to look upward to his work for us. ... Exalted on high, above all power, and wielding all power, possessed of all, bestowing all blessings on his church-of God made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption," crying in the largeness of his love and the plenitude of his blood-bought redemption, Look unto me, and THE EVIL HEART: A Sermon, H. S. BY THE REV. JOHN AYRE, M.A., Minister of St. John's Chapel, Hampstead. JER. xvii. 9. "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" be ye saved, all the ends of the earth;' and 'able | fabrics which grew under the great Former's to save them to the uttermost that come unto God hands. For God made man in his own` by him' this was he 'yesterday:' this, even the same, is our Jesus 'to-day.' And what will"image", after his "likeness", and gave him be not be in his and our 'for ever'?" (Hon. and all the faculties and powers which were befitrev. J. T. Pelham). ting the position be was to occupy. It might be most truly said of his heart that it was imbued with holy principles; for, by the expression just cited, we must, it is clear, understand that it was the image and likeness of the Creator's righteousness after which he was made; his disposition being virtuous, his desires pure, his affections refined, no wish or thought of evil harbouring in his breast. There were no angry passions, no sensual lusts, no vain imaginations then existing in him. It was a large heart, too, that man then possessed. There was nothing narrow or confined. There was room for all holy affections towards God, and all kindly charities towards his kind. there were intellectual powers rich and rare, able to collect all knowledge, and quick to convert it to practical use. A sufficient proof' of this we have in the remarkable naming of the animals, as by the Creator's will they were passed in review before Adam. His knowledge, also, was a sanctified knowledge. It was to be subservient to God's glory. And his powers were intended for development and growth. He would have gathered wisdom day by day, more and more. For, just as the earth, with her original fertility, was to have yielded most largely to him her increase, so in his inner man there were rich harvests to be reaped; and every day's experience of the wonders of creation, while it expanded his intellect, would also, by a sense of the goodness of God to him, have strengthened and multiplied the holy affections of his heart, and concentrated them more powerfully in the great purpose of showing forth his praise in whom he lived and moved and had his being. Ir man might have fashioned the scripture as he chose, we should never have had such a declaration as this put on record. We do not like to have the darker touches of our character displayed: we turn away from the faithful monitor who would unveil us to ourselves. But there it stands, written with the pen of inspiration; and we cannot obliterate it: there it stan ds, beneath the eye of God; even if we shut our eyes to it. It is a truth which we cannot gainsay or evade. It is our wisdom, therefore, to weigh it, and consider, and see if we may not reap instruction from it. It is our wisdom, knowing the worst, to see if there is not some remedy for the evil, and to use every means for the effectual application of that remedy. Hard though it may be for the evil heart to be renewed and purified, we know that there is a promise for it: "I will sprinkle clean water upon you; and ye shall be clean .... a new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you" (Ezek. xxxvi. 25, 26). Let us direct our present attention to the subject we have here indicated, and look I. At what the heart was created for ; To describe all this fully is necessarily a difficult task; because scripture, both in the text and elsewhere (1 Cor. ii. 11), shows that the accurate fathoming of all that is in a man's heart is impossible, save for him before whom all things are naked and open. Nevertheless with the gracious help of God's Spirit we inay see much in the inquiry which may be profitable to us: may that Spirit bless it abundantly to each one here present. I. Man was a noble creature when first created; little, very little below the angels; one of the most complete and most excellent of the Such was man in his original; truly a very glorious edifice, adorned with very fitting furniture, a sumptuous temple wherein on God's altar might be offered an excellent sacrifice well-pleasing to the Lord. How angels must have rejoiced when they beheld such a creature! and how sweet was the communion which God is described (employing human language) as descending to hold with him! And alas! how biting must have been the jealous malice with which the fallen one contemplated the happiness and excellence from which by his proud rebellion he had for ever excluded himself! I must not, however, linger on such a picture: it is the description of a beauty that has faded, of an edifice that has fallen, of a fair day that closed in storms, of a state that lasted but a little moment, and fled like a dream when one awaketh. I must rather call your attention to stern and sad realities, to, as I proposed in the IInd place, the condition of the human heart as we now find it. And here specially comes in the difficulty of describing, which I before adverted to. But I will take, as simply as I can, the testimony of the scripture, and endeavour to go forward only as it shall lead me by the hand. The temple, though shattered and polluted, is subsisting still; but how different the furniture from that which once adorned it. There are the powers and faculties which are essential to our being, but perverted and with an evil bias. For, as God himself has told us, "The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth" (Gen. viii. 21). Each carries about within a kind of little world of thoughts and affections, some ministering pleasure, some inflicting pain, yet never quiet. The heart is hardly ever free from plans and purposes. There are, for instance, the devices of early youth, the disposition sometimes so wilful, sometimes so deceitful, of which the wisest of men, whose natural talent too was in this case heightened by inspiration, has told us that "foolishness is bound in the heart of a child" (Prov. xxii. 15). There are the cares and busy anxieties of maturer years; some object anxiously pursued, some thoughts of vanity or ambition, some working project always on hand, of which our Lord has said that they spring up quickly, and quite overshadow and choke the good seed of his word, which else might grow and yield good fruits there. And then there are the sensual lusts, so fondled and indulged, which poison the sources of innocent enjoyment, and are sure to issue eventually in bitterness. For, as the apostle says, giving the sad history of such degeneration, a "man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed. Then, when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, bringethforth death" (James i. 14, 15). Naturally, God (to adopt the words of scripture) is not in all our thoughts, i. e., God as he really is, glorious in majesty, terrible in holiness, lovely in goodness. The idea of the carnal heart is far diverse: it desires another God; and, as his pure image has been lost, so it is forgotten and shrunk from. For the Lord to draw near to the sinful heart would produce impressions similar to those created in the Israelites, when, terrified by the voice which proclaimed his pure law, they fled from Sinai, and desired that Moses might speak to them; if God himself continued to address them, they should die. Alas! instead of being prepared to welcome God, the heart of man, in its various compartments, is too often but those chambers of imagery which the prophet saw: "Behold every form of creeping things, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about." "Son of man," said the awful voice, "hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The Lord seeth us not; the Lord hath forsaken the earth" (Ezek. viii. 10, 12). True it is that it not unfrequently seems as if two contradictory principles were at work: and, when very probably sensual desire has been gratified and found to be vanity, or when calamity has fallen like a blight upon the hopes, some higher aspirations may be breathed, some whisper is heard inviting to a nobler object, and some resolution may be taken to aim at it. Perhaps it is the voice of God not yet entirely stifled in the heart. But, alas! how frequently does temptation, when it next presents itself, triumph again; and, instead of any expansive desire for God's glory, a short-sighted selfishness, like a chilling mist, damps and quenches the better purpose. We find in scripture history that in our Lord's days the demons made their actual abode in the bodies of men, using their senses and natural faculties with mischievous purpose for the torment of those they so inhabited. And it was one part of our Saviour's benevolent mission to eject these hateful tenants; so that many that had been possessed became afterwards his faithful followers. Sever devils had nestled in Mary Magdalene, ere she was taught so intensely to love her Master. Now, though we do not see at pre sent this bodily possession, yet the scripture plainly tells us (Eph. ii. 2) that the spirit of evil fails not to work in the hearts of the children of disobedience. He is skilful make a lodgment, and to bend the desires his will. Nor is he easily ejected. He taint the soul by the sin he persuades to: it is recol lected, dwelt upon, kept before the mind's eye, and consequently is readily indulged again. Even if the heart were empty, Satan would soon fill it with polluted furniture. Our Lord describes such a case, and relates with startling minuteness how it was not long un occupied; for evil with sevenfold force assailed it, entered it, and dwelt therein (Matt. xii. 43-45). But, perhaps, one of the worst forms in which the wickedness of the heart shows itself is when it is a hardened heart. 'Tis better to see the writhings of agonizing disease than that still, motionless rest, which tells that there |