will refuse to pray that her divisions may be healed, for the glory of God and the furtherance of His kingdom? and for this more especially are they of her communion bound to pray, lest to them our Saviour's words may be applied, "Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye." Let all, then, strive and pray for the help of the Holy Spirit in this labour of love, to restore again to our distracted country the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace; and when these impediments are removed, these beams of schism are plucked out from our spiritual eyes, then shall we see clearly to extract the motes of heathen and Romish error from the eyes of our brethren without and within the pale of the christian church. Now indeed, we see through a glass darkly, and the time appears to us far distant when there shall be one fold under one shepherd. But however remote the prospect may appear, and though the times and the seasons are hid from us, yet there are signs in the christian world which all would do well to mark. The Papacy, for a time depressed by the iron hand of Napoleon, hath regained its elasticity; its energies are awakened and its agents are busily employed in their dark and crooked designs; noiseless and stealthy as the

serpent, the Jesuit labours in his vocation-like the mole, seen only by the convulsions he heaves up on the earth. It is, therefore, most especially needful that all should be on their guard. Again, christian reader, I beseech you peruse these pages with a spirit void of controversy, imploring the Holy Ghost to print in your hearts whatever is the truth, and to blot out whatever is erroneous. If the love of God be in you, you will love your brethren also; you will seek peace and ensue it.

BELL AND BAIN, PRINTERS, GLASGOW.