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And though the warrior's sun has set,
Its light shall linger round it yet,
Bright, radiant, blest.

This is the longest of his translations, but it is no finer in its execution than are many of his shorter gems. Of his own poems "Evangeline" has all the fragrance of a fresh bouquet of flowers; and its strange rhythm, tender pathos, splendid pictures of nature, and unrivalled purity of sentiment, will always secure for it a lasting place in the hearts of all lovers of Longfellow.

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and yet noble lesson it teaches. This poem is a rich song, full of high aspirations, and sung in musical numbers:

All are architects of Fate,

Working in these walls of Time;
Some with massive deeds and great,
Some with ornaments of rhyme.

Nothing useless is, or low;

Each thing in its place is best;
And what seems but idle show
Strengthens and supports the rest.

In the elder days of Art

Builders wrought with greatest care
Each minute and unseen part;

Nor the gods see everywhere.

Let us do our work as well,

Both the unseen and the seen;
Make the house where gods may dwell,
Beautiful, entire, and clean.

Else our lives are incomplete,
Standing in these walls of Time,
Broken stairways, where the feet
- Stumble as they seek to climb.
Build to-day, then, strong and sure,
With a firm and ample base ;
And ascending and secure

Shall to-morrow find its place.

And lastly, his "Psalm of Life" will be his imperishable

monument.

"Great Hart Longfellow" has just passed through the 'Building of the Ship" we have another fine gateway of the grave into the realms of fadeless light and example of our poet's power. This poem, like the author's life. He has long been nearing the sunset; but in his loss, "Psalm of Life," is a universal favourite in all lands. It is even in a ripe old age, there comes a shock and personal pain to almost every heart in two hemispheres. Sweet singer, a picture in words-a poem illustrated by itself. The closing lines, it is safe to say, have been committed to memory by his death will leave a void which nothing but his works can pure teacher, tender philanthropist, and white-souled man, nearly every schoolboy in the United States, and they are fill. These will preserve the healing warmth of a sun which surely worthy of this great distinction:has sunk out of sight for ever to all human eyes. Surely he wore on his heart the "White flower of a blameless life!" if ever mortal did.

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Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,

With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
We know what Master laid thy keel,
What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel,
Who made each mast, and sail, and rope,
What anvils rang, what hammers beat,
In what a forge and what a heat
Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Fear not each sudden sound and shock,
'Tis of the wave and not the rock;
'Tis but the flapping of the sail,
And not a rent made by the gale!
In spite of rock and tempest's roar,
In spite of false lights on the shore,
Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea!

Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,
Our faith triumphant o'er our fears,
Are all with thee-are all with thee!

The Builders, in my opinion, is only second---if second we should place it-to the "Psalm of Life," in the simple

I come now to speak of one I regard as the Shakespeare of our poets-the undoubted genius of our constellation of poets. I never hear or read the name Edgar Allen Poe without feeling that his early death was a calamity, and that in his sad loss the world had cause to mourn. As a poet, as an inventor of a new and striking school of poetry, for such he was, he is without a peer in many respects. He was original, dramatic, powerful, and in some of his creations stands forth like the North Star in the heavens, which has no misleading rivals near it-distinct, fixed, and so fortunate for ever. The great test of great works, after all, lies in the appreciative and considerate judgment of mankind. The favourite of a day or of a class lives with his admirers, and is forgotton when they are no more. But the genius whose works become fixed in the great heart of living millions, whose creations keep abreast of every age, whose words become a part of the

great diapaison of humanity, such a one, surely, must be recognized as of the few-the immortal few-who were born not to die. In this circle Poe, undoubtedly, has a place. I am confident that this will be allowed even by those who do not like the poet or his poetry. The weird, strange imagery of the "Raven," the originality and power, as well as the strength and beauty of the "Bells: " and the matchless tenderness of the peerless "Annabel Lee," have won him a lasting position among the deathless poets of this world. I speak thus strongly, but with saddened pride, because Poe was not as pure a man as he was great as a poet. In our short national past, we have not produced a Milton or a Dante, or a Shakespeare, and, yet-with Longfellow and his pastoral music, and Poe with his masterpieces, rich, wild, and sublime-I feel confident that we have no reason to hang our heads in regret over the lack of peerless masters in the deathless world of poetry. Poe is all our own, and while my pride in speaking thus of him is not unmixed with pain, he is worthy of praise, for while unerring he was yet a noble son of song. Alas! one cannot speak with any measure of patience of the curse of drink in the presence of such a gloomy wreck-such a complete and splendid ruin as it wrought in one so gentle and so great, so tender and so wise, as was Edgar Poe! I need not dwell upon his faults, for these are past mending; but his poetry deservedly ranks high, and will never lose its claims to popular favour. I cannot take time to read many extracts from his many gems; but I am sure you will all excuse me for giving place to his sweetest creation.

It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know

By the name of Annabel Lee;

And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,

In this kingdom by the sea:

But we loved with a love that was more than love,

I and my Annabel Lee;

With a love that the winged seraphs in heaven

Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,

In this kingdom by the sea,

A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling

My beautiful Annabel Lee;

So that her high-born kinsman came

And bore her away from me,

To shut her up in a sepulchre

In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me.

Yes, that was the reason (as all men know

In this kingdom by the sea),

That the wind came up out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we-
Of many farwiser than we-

And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And so, all the night tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling-my darling-my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,

In her tomb by the sounding sea.

If this is not wondrous tenderness and pathos, then I do not know what true pathos and tenderness are. It is the soul of poetry, and sparkles like a dew-drop in the sun. The skill which marks the literary execution of this little poem is very striking. It has a melody and movement all its own, and in its effectiveness and soul-stirring power it is without a rival. Take another example of his strength and grasp :

Type of the antique Rome! Rich reliquary
Of lofty contemplation left to time
By buried centuries of pomp and power!
At length-at length-after so many days
Of weary pilgrimage and burning thirst,
(Thirst for the springs of love that in thee lie,)
I kneel, an altered and an humble man,
And thy shadows, and so drink within
My very soul thy grandeur, gloom, and glory!
Vastness and age, and memories of Eld!
Silence! and desolation, and dim night!

I feel ye now-I feel ye in your strength-
O spells more sure than e'er Judean king
Taught in the gardens of Gethsemane!

O charms more potent than the rapt Chalde
Ever drew down from out the quiet stars!
Here, where a hero fell, a column falls!
Here, where the mimic eagle glared in gold,
A midnight vigil holds the swarthy bat!
Here, where the dames of Rome their gilded hair
Waved to the wind, now wave the reed and thistle!
Here, where on golden throne the monarch lolled,
Glides, spectre-like, unto his marble home,

Lit by the wan light of the horned moon,

The swift and silent lizard of the stones!

But stay! these walls-these ivy-clad arcades

These mouldering plinths-these sad and blackened shafts-
These vague entablatures-this crumbling frieze-
These shattered cornices-this wreck-this ruin-

These stones-alas! these grey stones-are they all

All of the famed and the colossal left

By the corrosive hours to Fate and me!

"Not all "-the echoes answer me--" not all!"

Prophetic sounds and loud arise for ever

From us, and from all ruin, unto the wise,

As melody from Memnon to the sun.

We rule the hearts of mightiest men-we rule

With a despotic sway all giant minds.
We are not impotent-we pallid stones.
Not all our power is gone-not all our fame-

Not all the magic of our high renown-
Not all the wonder that encircles us-

Not all the mysteries that in us lie-
Not all the memories that hang upon
And cling around about us as a garment,
Clothing in a robe of more than glory."

It is no wonder that this picture of the Colloseum at Rome is admittedly the sublimest creation ever penned over a

magnificent ruin. Poe is always artistic-full of life and vigour-never weak or commonplace. To the scholar his work is a continual surprise and a constant feast. He is fresh as new-mown hay, and as sweet as new-blown flowers. The erratic and wild life which he led is a sad phase to dwell upon. He was not equal to the rough battle of this world,

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is great; as a man he is not strong.

As a model he cannot

be strongly recommended, for he is lacking in faith in God and faith in mankind. And, all in all, he is to be admired for his genius as a poet, and pitied for his weakness as a man. [At the conclusion of the lecture, in responding to a hearty vote of thanks, Colonel Shaw expressed his pleasure in meeting so appreciative an audience; and to foster a love of poetry among the younger members of the society, generously offered a number of book prizes, to be awarded to the best reciter of one of six poems, among which should be "Barbara Frietchie," "Gray's Elegy," and "Annabel Lee."

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ZION CHAPEL MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY.

HE third meeting of this Society was held on Tuesday evening last in Mulberry Street, Hulme-The President (the Rev. E. Simon) in the chair.

After preliminary business a paper was read by Mr. J. A. Goodacre, the secretary, entitled “Johnsoniana." Having stated that his object was rather to picture to his hearers Johnson at play than Johnson at work, he proceeded to draw a lively sketch of this king of literature, following his fortunes from early childhood to ultimate success. He playfully described the school which Johnson kept, or rather attempted to keep, and then depicted the great man amid the horrors of penury and want in a great city, often compelled to walk the streets of the metropolis till dawn, with no other companion than the licentious Savage. He at length procured employment in connection with the Gentleman's Magazine, and "manufactured' for that paper parliamentary debates from the scanty notes with which reporters were then obliged to content themselves. These debates made his name, and he soon procured other literary employment. Among his works his "Dictionary" stands prominent, for which, when completed, he received £1,750, then thought to be an enormous sum.

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Prestwich.

The SPEAKER (Mr. CROFT) took the chair shortly after eight. Answers having been given by the Government to several questions relating to Egyptian affairs, the Member for Northampton (L) rose and moved that

"A Bill for the Reform of the House of Lords" be read a second time. The Member for Rochdale (C) at once rose to order. He quoted the first rule of the House which enacts" that this House shall be conducted in all points on the rules and methods of the Imperial House of Commons, as far as may be practicable." And amongst the rules of that House, must originate in that House." He submitted that the Bill, being for the Reform of the House of Lords, could not, therefore, originate in a House of Commons.

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The Member for Northampton replied that his Bill was for the abolition of the House of Lords, as could be seen by its provisions.

The SPEAKER here interposed, and said that the hon. Member for Rochdale was perfectly right, that if the title of the Bill were not amended, the Bill could not proceed (applause).

The Member for Northampton expressed himself unwilling to alter the title then, but would promise to do so in committee.

The Member for Midlothian (C) contended that this was like the rest of the Liberal policy, shifting and evasive in everything (opposition cheers).

The PREMIER (Member for Halifax, L.) said that Mr. Labouchere had been permitted to introduce his Bill into the Imperial House of Commons, and he thought that that was a sufficient precedent.

The Member for Northampton also urged the same precedent, but the Speaker ruled that the title would be fatal, and that it must be immediately altered, or it could not be discussed.

The Member for Midlothian spoke when the Speaker's bell stopped the debate, and he stated that this irregular discussion could not proceed. The Member for Halifax (L) now agreed to alter the title. They did this in conformity to the ruling of the chair, and not at the dictates of the opposition.

The Member for Northampton moved that the second reading of the Bill, which, amended, was to the effect that "The present House of Lords be abolished, and replaced by a Senate, the member to be elected for a period of three or six years. No member to be less than thirty-five years of age." The hon. Member contended that although the House of Lords had in the past done some good, it had done a great deal-more harm. It had opposed Catholic Emancipation till Ireland was on the verge of rebellion. In 1832 it passed the Reform Bill, but in such a mangled state, that the Commons did not know it when it came back to them, and a new bill had to be brought in, which was only passed after the creation of new peers. The House of Lords kept the Jew, Baron Rothschild, waiting eleven years outside the door of the House before the Jews' Disabilities Bill was passed. (Ministerial Cheers.)

The Member for Midlothian (C) rose to reply :-He said that while he was prepared to admit that the House of Lords ought to be reformed. He did not think the scheme proposed by the right hon. member opposite would act as well as the present House reformed. He could understand members of the proposed Senate being created for life, but why for three, and six years? "If three years be good, let us have three years, if a term of six years be better, let us have six years." Both could not

be good; and why the age of thirty-five? This clause of the Bill amused him most. Does a man only reach mature thought at the age of thirty-five. Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Disraeli, and many others, were notable exceptions. Then again, our best form of rewarding men of renown (like Sir Garnet Wolseley, &:) would be gone.

The Member for Northampton in reply, maintained that it was his opinion that in a House possessing the highest judicial power, it was necessary to have men whose thoughts and minds were matured, and not mere boys with crude, unreformed ideas. As to not having the power to reward talent, that could be done as easily then as now by creating men who deserved well of their country life members of the proposed Senate. He then descanted at some length on the hampering of trade by the House of Lords, showing that they had opposed the introduction of foreign corn solely that they might be able to rack rent the farmers. Before the Corn Law, wheat was 66/- a quarter, it was now 44. Before we had Free Trade, our exports were £88,500,000; in 1880 they were £235,000,000. The repeal of the Tast and Corporation Acts was opposed by the Lords. Why should a man be fit for office only if he would take the sacrament according to the rites of the Church of England. Why should a man sit in judgment on others because he was his father's son.

The debate was continued with great energy, and no inconsiderable amount of talent.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND TEMPERANCE CONFERENCE.

which was to prevent magistrates licensing houses where the public did not want them. That was the sum and substance of the whole thing, but it was upset in the House of Commons because it was so simple. Al he wanted was the power of the people to veto the licensing of drinkshops. Was it not scandalous that the Government of this free country, while admitting the evil which drink was bringing on the whole nation, did nothing? They could go on meddling with things at the end of the earth. Resolutions were unanimously carried calling on the Government to introduce a measure of licensing reform, which to be satisfactory should give to the ratepayers of each locality direct control over the licensed houses in their midst, with restraining power in the issue and renewal of licenses, which would be best secured by the appointment of representative boards. The Bishop of Oxford presided at another large meeting in the Corn Exchange in the evening, when the speakers at the conference again attended.

THE OPIUM QUESTION.

N Wednesday afternoon a conference of the general council and

to the Suppression of the Opium radd

was held at Queen Anne's Mansions, London, S.W., to consider the various schemes proposed for the settlement of the opium question in the Parliamentary papers recently published, and what course of proceeding the society should adopt in pursuance of its object. The Earl of Shaftesbury presided, and among those present were the Rev. Prebendary Wilson, the Master of the Charterhouse, Professor Leone Levi,

HE Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford was crowded on Monday, on the Sir Joseph Pease, M.P., Alderman McArthur, M.P., Sir John Kennaway,

Toccasion of the holding of a conference in connection with the M.P., Mr. S. Morley, M.P., and Mr. A. Morley, M.P. Sir Joseph Pease,

Church of England Temperance Society. The Bishop of Exeter pre-
sided, and among those present were Sir Wilfrid Lawson, M.P., Sir
George Rickards, Sir William Herschell, Sir William Anson, the Arch-
deacon of Oxford, Dr. Acland and Professor Burrows. The subject for
disenssion was local option and local control. The Bishop of Exeter
said the Legislature had laid down no definite rule by which the magis-
trates were to govern themselves in the granting of licenses, and the old
traditionary rule had altogether passed away. He thought the real
blame was due to the legislation which multiplied beerhouses. He
thought it would be wise to limit the power of granting licenses to a
certain proportion of houses to the population, and even if the inhabi-
tants of the district were supreme in the matter, their supremacy should
be limited by some proportionate rule of that kind. Sir W. Lawson
said the main temptations to drinking were legal temptations, and he
had taken some part in the House of Commons in trying to diminish
these temptations which were put before the people by the Legislature.
'It was most important that those people who believed that these tempta-
tions were a necessity should make them as little injurious as they
could. He wanted to remove the temptations, and not to minimize
them, and he would tell them how. The country was marked out into
districts, which had superintendents over them in the form of magis-
trates, and the law said to them that they had the local control over their
districts, and it was for them to say whether drinking-shops should be
set up in them or not. When a license was granted to a man it in-
creased the value of his property. When a man bought sixpence-worth
of spirits, more than four-pence went to the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, and so the public were robbed of £30,000,000 a year, which
was employed on the army and navy, and people were poisoned at home
and the forces were killed abroad. And not only did they get this
£30,000,000, but the sober and respectable people had to pay the rates
and taxes necessary to keep drunkards, paupers, and criminals, who
were manufactured by these things, and were supplied by people whom
the magistrates had licensed. It was to prevent this extraction of
the money from the people that he brought in his Permissive Bill,

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M.P., moved :-That, having regard to the papers laid before Parliament as to the existing connection of the British Government with the manufacture of opium in India, and to the national support which has unhappily been given in the past, both by arms and diplomacy, to the opiam trade with China, this meeting is of opinion that any employment of diplomatic pressure for the purpose of retaining the admission of an injurious drug at a low rate of duty into Chinese markets is unworthy of the Government of a professedly Christian nation and unjust to an independent and friendly power; that the British Government should recognize the right of the Chinese Government to deal with opium as they deem expedient in the interests of China; also that the opium clause in the Convention signed at Chefoo, being a statement of China's just and lawful rights, ought at once to be confirmed by her Majesty's Government." In the course of an argumentative speech, he complained of the gross injustice done to China by the non-ratification of the opium clause of the Chefoo Convention. Lord Elgin had always acknowledged the right of the Imperial Government to impose what duties they pleased upon the obnoxious drug, and there was no restriction of that right in the Tientsin treaty. It was melancholy to see in what an ambiguous light the recently published State papers placed our own authorities. Sir John Kennaway, M.P., seconded the motion, which was supported by Mr. S. Morley, and carried. Mr. James Cropper, M.P., proposed-" That this meeting has learned with great satisfaction from papers recently presented to Parliament that the majority of the opium shops in British Burmah have been suppressed by order of the Indian Government, and this meeting would continue to urge upon that Government the inconsistency of trading in opium solely for the sake of revenue, and of taking active measures to promote the increased production for export to China of a drug which, according to the declaration of their own Commissioners, has caused in Burmah demoralization, misery, and ruin' to a degree which affected the very life of a young and otherwise prosperous province." Mr. Henry Richard, M.P., seconded the resolution, which was supported by Mr. Donald Matheson and other speakers, and carried unanimously.

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THE REV. E. PAXTON HOOD ON MR. GLADSTONE.

HE following is an abstract from a lecture delivered by the Rev. E. Paxton Hood, in connection with the Bloomsbury Chapel Literary Society :

1 am not a politician by profession. But I justify my admiration of Mr. Gladstone by the assurance that he has elevated the character of the politician, that in his own person, and by the grand doctrines he maintains he elevates politics, so long and so usually divorced from that relation, into the sphere of morals, as I justify my relation to politics by the consciousness that to me there is a close, and even indissoluble relation between politics and faith; faith which is the eyesight of the soul. In the Hebrew Bible the relation between politics and faith is most apparent and impressive; all the prophets were great political leaders, and in all ages and nations I believe faith to have been the great power which has overruled in human history. I sometimes fear that a great change has come over our politics-in this, that we have dissevered our political life and action alike from a life of faith in high and great and general principles of action, and from those great traditions which are the illustrations of our history, and which constitute the Bible of the nation. The men of the Bible, from the very earliest times, were great political teachers. That is synonymous with what the prophet means in the Old Testament. Was not the prophet Elijah a political teacher and preacher when he resisted the King and Queen, the Court and the country, in the attempts made to crush the essential principles of the constitution, and to set up the groves and the altars of Baal? Cream off all the politics from Isaiah and Jeremiah, from Ezekiel and Daniel, and all the minor prophets, Nahum, Habbakuk, Hosea, and Micah, and how much of their teaching will remain? Politics I cannot regard as a mere secular feathering of the oar to a passing expediency. I must believe that politics have deep moral relations. We may speak of a political creed and a political faith, but this merely implies that both rest on great guiding principles of action. This high order of statesmanship has not been very marked or predominant in the character of our great English statesmen from the time of Cromwell, but I claim it as a marked attribute of Mr. Gladstone, and I must believe that faith gives strength to action, and that the great events which have resulted from a deep under-current of principle which looked beyond and deeper than the necessities of the hour into the essentially wise and true.

The first meeting for conferring degrees of this University was held on Wednesday at the Manchester Town Hall. The proceedings excited much interest, and attracted a very crowded attendance of spectators, who were admitted by ticket. The Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Greenwood, accompanied by the members of the Court, Board of Studies, and the officers of the University in academical dress, took their places on a dais. The members of the University Court who were present included

the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of Manchester, the Vicar of Leeds,

and Sir Edward Baines.

The VICE-CHANCELLOR said his first duty and impulse was to give utterance to the regret felt by every member of the University at the absence of the Chancellor, the Duke of Devonshire, and in the name of the University he would express their respectful sympathy with his Grace in his private sorrows, and their grief at the event which had taken from them a governor, the late Lord F. Cavendish, whom they looked to for many years of wise and able services. After reviewing the constitution of the University, the Vice-Chancellor said at the date of the granting of the charter Owens College possessed a body of 125 associates, who,

as the first condition of their appointment, had passed at least three years as full students at the College, and had there gained a University degree or passed a special examination, and it would have been an injustice to them if, when the College entered the University, no place had been found in it for them, and it would have been a loss to the Univer sity not to have enrolled them in their own body. (Hear, hear.) Accordingly, the charter allowed the University to grant degrees without examination to all persons being at the date of the charter associates of the College. Nearly all the associates so qualified had applied for the degree. They gained no step in academical rank, but they showed their loyalty to the College and shared the reputation and fortunes of the University.

Subsequently at a meeting of the University Court a resolution was passed accepting the bequest of Mr. Mercer, of Accrington, of £1,000 for a scholarship in chemistry. Mr. T. Ashton said it should be understood that these bequests did not cover the costs of examination. The University was getting overwhelmed with examinations for very small bequests, and he thought it would be better if the Council were recommended to consider this subject of incidence of expenses of examinations for scholarships. An addition to the resolution embodying this instruction to the Court was adopted without discussion. Professor Roscoe moved that a petition be presented to Her Majesty in Council to grant a supplemental charter to the Victoria University empowering the University to grant degrees in medicine and surgery. The Archbishop of York seconded the motion, which was adopted.

It has been finally arranged that the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon will leave town in a few days for Mentone.

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The annual summary of British contributions to seventy-seven societies, for foreign mission work, during the financial year 1881, has just been completed by Canon Scott Robertson, of Sittingbourne. The total is £15,381 less than that of the previous year. chief items are as follows:-Church of England Missions, £460,395; Joint Societies of Churchmen and Nonconformists, £153,320; English Nonconformist Societies, £313,177; Scotch and Irish Presbyterian Societies, £155,767; Roman Catholic Societies, £10,910.-Total British contributions in 1881, £1,093,560.

STREET-PREACHING in London is, according to Mr. Hannay, the Worship Street magistrate, becoming all over the metropolis "beyond bearing," and not a few good Christian people, we are inclined to think, are of the same opinion. The disturbances created in Shoreditch by the ranting of ex-pugilists and others led, a few days ago, to cross-sum monses for assault being issued, and provoked the above remark. We have every sympathy with aggressive evangelistic work, but we more than doubt whether any lasting success can attend the preaching of the Gospel when it involves a street brawl and an appearance at Worship Street.-Christian World.

ВоTH the Established and the Free Churches of Scotland

have provided valuable courses of lectures in the Scottish capital during the winter months. Those delivered on Sunday afternoons in St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, and in the cathedral of Glasgow, during last winter, by foremost men of the Church of Scotland, on "The Faiths of the World," form an interesting and instructive volume, giving a concise history of the great religious systems of the world. Principal Caird, Dr. George Matheson, the Rev. John Milne, and the Revs. Drs. Dodds, Milligan, Macgregor, Stewart Burns, Marshall Lang, M. C. Taylor, James Cameron Lees, and Robert Flint were the lecturers.

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