early life he passed through many temporal trials, yet after a succession of struggles, he was enabled to bring up his family in comfort, all of whom it has been his happiness to see united to the church of Christ. Though spared to a good old age, his departure was sudden at last. For years some indications of heart-disease had been observable, and, as his age increased, fears as to its ultimate issue were entertained; yet he continued to enjoy an average share of health, and persevered in active duty until the day of his departure, the 11th of August. On the morning of that day he accompanied a number of old friends to Richmond for a day's recreation; and no signs of illness were apparent until the evening. On returning to the railway station, however, he complained of feeling unwell; but by the assistance of a vehicle which was driving past at the time, he reached the station in safety, and descended the steps, leaning on the arms of two of his friends. Arriving on the platform, however, he was unable to walk, and was carried to a seat. Medical aid was immediately obtained, but was unavailing to restore him. He became unconscious, and in a few minutes, he peacefully, and without a struggle, fell asleep in Jesus, in the arms of his friends. The family has lost a kind and devoted parent the church an honoured and useful deacon-and society an upright and sincere member. But our loss is his gain. Yet he is Poetry. J. T. B. LYRICS FOR THE HEART.-"O HEARTS THAT HUNGER THROUGH THE WORLD." BY W. POOLE BALFERN. O HEARTS that hunger through the world, But never taste true joy, Behold the fount from whence it springs All pure without alloy; Lo! from the heart of Christ it flows All tranquil and serene, And through the heart which stoops to drink, O hearts that hunger through the world, All broken, pierced, and lone; Whose dreams of peace and earthly love, Come hither, now, and taste the bread The Bridegroom of thy soul embrace, O hearts that hunger through the world, Whose weary feet have wandered far, Look up, behold the Saviour's heart, Whose virtues when by faith applied, O hearts that hunger through the world, Despair not! hark! 'tis Jesus speaks- Page for the Young. THE ECHO. 66 LITTLE George had never heard any thing of the echo. And accordingly one day, when he was out in the meadow, he cried out, Hurrah, hurrah!" Immediately in the nearest wood he heard a voice sound out, "Hurrah, hurrah!" He was very much astonished. He looked around, but could see nothing. At last he shouted "Where are you?" The voice cried out, "Where are you?" He answered back, "You are a foolish boy." "Foolish boy," echoed back from the wood. Now little George became very angry, and still harder he began to shout nicknames into the wood, all of which were echoed very faithfully back again. Then he ran into the wood, and sought all through it for the supposed boy, but he could find nobody. George ran home, and complained to his mother how a bad boy concealed himself in the wood, and had called him names. The mother answered, "This time, my dear little boy, you have betrayed yourself, for it is yourself whom you accuse as the 'bad boy:' you have heard nothing but your own words, for as you have But he's so slow-he'll promise to do a thing, and put off till the saints would be out of patience; then he'll borrow things and forget to return them for ever so long. I don't mean to lend him my Robinson Crusoe again, if I ever get it back, I know." don't Children," called mamma, you want to come and help me to arrange grandma's room?” 66 66 This they were ready enough to do. Grandma was coming to live with them. Now, to many children, a grandmother's coming "to stay always" would be very far from a matter of rejoicing; for grandmothers, as well as children, are of two kinds-good and bad. The grandma was of the good sort, neither fault-finding and fussy, nor weak and all indulgent. An easy-chair and toilet-table, with a glass, had been purchased for her room; and after the furniture was all nicely arranged, Mrs. Coberg asked her children to look in the mirror, and tell her if they thought the plate was good. They glanced at it, and said in a breath "Why, mother, it is so dusty, it wont show anything clearly;" and Fred added, as his sister turned to get the feather brush, "I shouldn't know my own face." Jenny passed the brush lightly over Would you think any one who should send back a dusty mirror to the store, saying it was good for nothing, very foolish?" 66 Yes, indeed! But nobody would." 'Probably no one would do that; people can make allowance for dust on a mirror, and wipe it away. The dust on human hearts, and in human eyes, generally meets no such treatment. Which way do you think is according to the golden rule-when you find dust on the hearts of your schoolmates to resolve, before you have even tried to wipe it off, that you will have nothing more to do with them, or to wait patiently, and do all you can to help them to see it, and get rid of it?" The children owned that this would be the true way, and said they would try to do so. 66 And remember, my darlings," the mother added, "there is more or less dust on all our hearts, and only the water of Christ's truth can fully wash it away."-Children's Hour. Reviews. The Works of George Swinnock, M.A. Vol. IV. Edinburgh: James Nichol. London: James Nisbet and Co. Dublin: G. Herbert. Pp. 508. THIS Volume contains the Latter Portion of the Fading of the Flesh; the Pastor's Farewell; the Gods are Men; the Beauty of Magistracy; Men are Gods; and the Incomparableness of God. We have given such full notices of George Swinnock's worth and works in our reviews of the previous volumes of this series, that we need only say of this fourth volume, it is well worthy of the holy and distinguished man who wrote it. Swinnock, indeed, like the men of his school, had exaggerated notions of the scope of the magistrate's office. He did not hold what is now the fundamental principle of the Liberation Society; hence he heaps abuse upon the Anabaptists and Quakers of his day, classing them with Libertines, &c. (P. 173.) But we can forgive the holy man these mistakes for the sake of the pure gospel which he held and taught. His works furnish an interesting illustration of the state of ecclesiastical parties in that age of mighty movements and heroic deeds. George Swinnock will now become known and appreciated through this handsome and wonderfully cheap edition of his excellent writings, and, we are persuaded, by none more so than by the readers of the Primitive Church Magazine. Baptist History; from the Foundation of the Christian Church to the close of the Eighteenth Century. By J. M. CRAMP, D.D. London: Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster-row. Cloth, We know no man better qualified to write such a work as the one before us than Dr. Cramp. It is on a subject in which he is peculiarly at home. Ecclesiastical History he has made his study from his youth. His former works have become standards, and so will this one. Himself a Baptist, and president of a Baptist College in Nova Scotia, he writes with all the sympathy that we should look for in such a man, and yet with wonderful fairness and impartiality. His style, too, is eminently suited to history, being clear, direct, and forcible. His learning and research cannot be impeached. Others have written histories of "English Baptists," of "Foreign Baptists," and of "American Baptists," but we do not at the moment remember any other work that gives the history of all in a condensed and popular form. We trust that all our Sunday school libraries will be furnished with copies of Dr. Cramp's admirable history. No library, indeed, should be without it. All the movements of religious thought in our day, prove the importance of holding fast our distinctive principles as Baptists; and an intelligent acquaintance with the way in which those principles have been handed down to us from the apostolical age, must materially aid us in our witness for their truth. Often the stream of transmission is through sects which Rome has abused and excommunicated, and whose real principles are only now beginning to be understood. Dr. Cramp has done much to correct popular misapprehensions as well as learned" blunders, about communities whose only heresy was that they protested against prevalent corruptions, and themselves held a purer faith. We do, in concluding, most heartily and emphatically commend this work as a noble contribution to the literature of ecclesiastical history, and wish for it a wide circulation. The Book of Genesis. The Common Version, revised for the American Bible Union, with Explanatory Notes. By THOMAS J. CONANT. New York: American Bible Union, No. 32, Great Jones-street. London: Trübner and Co., 60 Paternoster-row. Pp. 209. This is a truly valuable work. It is the production of one of the greatest biblical scholars of America, who is at the same time one of the most modest of men. The American Bible Union is rapidly rising in public estimation. We saw the way in which its annual gathering was attended at Chicago, in 1867, and greater enthusiasm we never witnessed at an anniversary meeting. The work which the American Bible Union is accomplishing, is of incalculable value to the church and the world. It is giving pure and faithful translations of God's word in the various languages of the earth; but it does not neglect doing the same good work for people who speak the English tongue. Its English version of the new testament is a noble monument of sanctified scholarship, which we constantly use and highly prize; and we now rejoice to receive the revised version of the most ancient of the sacred books-the book of Genesis. The work is prefaced with a brief but admirable introduction; the text is enriched with valuable explanatory notes; and the translation is textually and critically exact. The diction is clear, and thoroughly Anglo-Saxon in character; it contains no needless departures from the received version: on the contrary, that version has been retained in all cases where doing so was compatible with fidelity and perspicuity. We thank our friend Dr. Conant for this admirable contribution to our biblical literature, and trust his life may be spared to complete the good work on which he has so auspiciously laboured, in conjunction with others, for years past. The New Testament of our Lord and Gospel of Matthew. By J. B. THIS is a new translation in which special regard has been paid, among other important points of detail, to the power of the Greek article; to the forces of the various tenses; and to the logical idiom of the Greek original. It is enriched with critical and explanatory notes. The text has been conformed to ancient authorities. Mr. Rotherham has evidently done his work carefully and conscientiously, and has furnished the thoughtful English reader with materials for ascertaining the exact sense of the original. But his translation is too painfully literal ever to become popular. Take this as an illustration: "And whensoever they may persecute you in this city, flee into the other; for, verily I say to you, in nowise may ye finish the cities of Israel till whensoever come may the Son of Man." (X. 23). It is certain, too, that in rendering the aorist participle, Mr. Rotherham has too often adopted the English present participle instead of the past. In avoiding the English perfect participle, which is, indeed, strictly our only past participle, he has often used the present inaccurately. Multitudes of illustrations might be given. We give a few from one chapter alone, the fourteenth :-"Going across, they went over the land into Gennesaret," (34) should be, "Having gone across, they went," &c.; or dropping the participial form so as to avoid the use of the English perfect for the Greek aorist,— They passed over, and went, &c." So in 35 verse, "recognising him," should be "having recognised him,' or "when they recognised him." Similar cases are found in verses 33, 32, 29, 23, with many others, in this one chapter alone. In all such cases where an aorist participle is followed by a dependent aorist indicative, both describing past acts, they should clearly both be rendered by some equivalent past tenses in English. In many cases, Mr. Rotherham has rendered the aorist participle by the English perfect participle; as for instance in II chapter, 1 verse,-" Jesus having been born." In other instances, he has dropped the participial form, and used two past indicatives, as in xiv. chapter, 10 verse,-"Sent and be VOL. XXV.-NO. CCXCVIII. headed." Now, either of these modes of translation are preferable to the use of an English present tense in rendering an aorist which clearly describes an action past, and, indeed, perfected. Justice compels us to state that the American Bible Union has fallen into the same inaccurate style of dealing with the Greek aorist participle, in its version of the New Testament. The English language is not as affluent in participial forms as the Greek, and we must do the best we can with those that we possess. We trust Mr. Rotherham will be encouraged in the work which he has commenced. His object is most commendable. Perhaps he would have met with greater success if he had left less work for his readers to do in using his version. Still, if people have brains, and will industriously use them, they will find Mr. Rotherham's work very useful. Baptists are specially bound to support him, as he honestly translates all the words relating to baptism. Scenes Among which we Labour. By the Wife of a Missionary in Bengal. London: Elliot Stock. Cloth. Pp. 94. THIS beautiful little book is dedicated to the young people of our British churches and Sunday schools, and is intended to familiarise them with missionary scenes. It is admirably adapted to answer this end, for we never read more natural, graphic, and vivid pictures of life and nature than it contains. It is a gem of a book. The Priests of the New Testament. A Sermon. By Rev. J. UPTON DAVIS, B.A. London: Unwin Brothers, 24, Bucklesbury. THIS sermon was preached at the triennial meeting of the Cornwall, Devon, and Western Associations of Baptist churches, held at Plymouth, June 30th, 1868. It has been published by request, and is a thoughtful, clear, and scriptural presentation of its theme. It deserves a wide circulation. The Theology of the Commission on the Subjects of Christian Baptism. By V |