chapter of the Song of Solomon, and 6th and 7th verses. I also met twelve or fourteen of them in the house of one of their friends, to whom I spoke words of comfort, and also of caution against spiritual pride, and exhorted them to the daily reading of the Scriptures in their families. Wolf I did not see, for he was at his work on the river; but I visited his wife, along with Pastor Keller, and listened with delight to her account of the conversion of her husband, and subsequently to her own conversion, through his instrumentality. She seemed a happy Christian, and it was delightful to see the order and neatness in her humble dwelling, with a large Bible on the table seemingly much used, and full of bits of paper put in as marks.

Here the grace of God hath again manifested its power in such a way as to stop the mouths of the enemies of the Gospel, which has again proved that it is "the power of God and the wisdom of God unto salvation," and enables such as believe it "to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, and righteously, and godly." As a further proof of this, I was told that thieving had been very common among these poor people, but that during the last long winter, in which they had to struggle with great poverty, not a single instance had occurred. Even the Magistrates have openly acknowledged the improved state of morals among the lower orders, to whom this awakening seems to be exclusively confined.

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powers. When our Savi John, "Are ye able to drink of, and to be b shall be baptized with honour, they are q

answer accordingly, "We are able." But, alas, poor men! No thanks to them that they were able to run away (as they did) when their Master was apprehended; for God must give us his daily bread to feed us, and his daily breath to quicken us, or we quickly perish. Yet how common it is for men to brag and crack of what they can do! Yea, one that hath but a wooden head, and a leaden heart, how will he help it out with a brazen face, and a golden hand! For being as great in pride as he is small in desert, he will keep himself in an audacious masterliness; as if, with Simon Magus, he could bear down all with large proffers. But this cannot be so pleasing to nature, as it is hateful to God. Neither can there be a worse sign of ensuing evil, than for a man, in a carnal presumption, to vaunt of his own abilities. How justly doth God cause that man to be foiled, that he may be ashamed of his own self-confidence.R. Younge, 1655.

TRUST IN THE ALMIGHTY GOD, IN WHOSE MERCY AND STRENGTH ALONE IS ALL OUR SUFFICIENCY. Nothing but confidence in God supports us. Without him, we are like vines unpropped, which can only crawl on the earth. And suppose a man is exempt from many vices, yet he is not beholden to himself for it." Lord," saith St. Augustine, "thou hast forgiven me those sins which I have done, and also those by thy grace." They were them; and that inclinatio mercy he calls

I have not done, only n our inclination to od's mercy, and that ape temptation, it is on, it is his mercy. overcome, it is his act be hindered, it is gain by repentance, all sufficient of ourselves t which is good. We out we must thank grace can bear no fruit," saith ide in me." Yea, more can do nothing." So that

The geysers, or springs of boiling-hot water.

broken and spreads itself, it is white as snow. Some rise perpendicularly with great force, others are thrown out in spreading curves. Altogether they are wonderful objects, and impress the mind with sacred awe, as visibly displaying, in this singular form of manifestation, the power of the great Creator. Where snow continues all the year, and frost reigns through the chief part of it, here are burning-mountains, and springs of boiling-hot water, bursting out in lofty columns !

"Through all the world how great art THOU!
How glorious is THY NAME!"

OCCASIONAL REVIEW.

The Jerusalem Sinner saved; the Pharisee and the Publican; the Trinity and a Christian; the Law and a Christian; &c., &c. By John Bunyan. To which is appended, An Exhortation to Peace and Unity. With Life of Bunyan, by the Rev. James Hamilton, Scotch Church, Regent-square, London. Foolscap 8vo., pp. xxxiv, 310. Thomas Nelson.

IN taking leave of our kind readers, with whom we have felt that inward communion which produced an earnest and

practical desire to contribute, as far as was in our power, to their intellectual and spiritual benefit, by the various articles of our monthly compilation, we are glad to have the opportunity of calling their attention to a small volume, well deserving a place in the library of the cottager, however limited. There are few of our readers who have not some leisure moments which would be most profitably employed by that serious reading which should bring before them the solemn subjects comprehended in that one important word, RELIGION. They would thus be separated from the outward world of vanity, and their attention would be directed inwardly, in a manner which should at once inform their minds, and place them under steady discipline. In this way, mental wanderings would be prevented; for the mind would have something to think about, and would be, at the same time, accustomed to thought, and enabled to exercise and guide it. There can be no excellence of character without stability, and no stability without self-government; and there is little stability where there is no reading. Let this be remembered. The same causes that indispose the mind for reading, render it unstable. The religious professor who is disinclined for serious reading— that is, for conversing with the mind which lives and speaks in the book is always superficial, generally self-conceited, easily offended, and disposed to find fault. It should be a rule with the Christian to spend some time, more or less, every day, in communion with those who, being dead, yet speak in the works they have left behind, and with God; first, in meditation on his word, secondly, in prayer. The first Psalm should be seriously considered. It shows the only way by which a deep-rooted establishment, a continual freshness of profession, and an abundant and abiding fruitfulness, can be secured.

Every body knows the "Pilgrim's Progress of John Bunyan. But his more strictly theological works, though numerous, are not so well known. Brought up a wandering tinker, he became a sound, first-rate Divine. He applied himself diligently to the study of divinity, as well as sought the experience of the blessings which divinity unfolded to him. Indeed, his study aided his experience, for a reason analogous to that which explains how our bodily health is aided by eating and digesting proper food. He who does not read and think, starves his soul, and then complains of his deadness, except when actually under the influence of violent excitement. Something is amiss when the stomach refuses wholesome bread and milk, and can only live upon brandy.

reason is clear enough," replied Bahalul; "for if everybody went to the same side, all men would be gathered together, and the world would be turned upside-down." He meant to intimate, that the difference among the inclinations, habits, and occupations of men were arrangements of Providence, by which the world is kept in better order, and that, without them, all the exercises of natural and of civil life would produce nothing but confusion.-D'Herbelot; Bibliothèque Orientale.

A TRUE RELIGIOUS REVIVAL IN
GERMANY.

(From a Letter in the Monthly Extracts of the Bible Society, for September, 1845, from Dr. R. Pinkerton.)

Eberfeld, August 11th, 1845.

ON my way from Duisburg to this place, I visited Mülheim on the Ruhr, for the special purpose of gaining information respecting a remarkable work of grace going on among the sailors employed in the coaltrade upon the river Ruhr. The circumstances of this religious revival are of a very extraordinary nature; and on this account I shall endeavour to state a few of them, just as I learned them from many of the humble individuals themselves, and from their pious and able Pastors, whose acquaintance I made, Schulz and Keller.

The coal-mines on the banks of the Ruhr give employment to nearly one thousand barges, and to each boat they reckon four sailors. A large number of these live in Mülheim, and have generally been considered among the most rude, ignorant, and wicked of the lower classes. About two years ago one of these, named Wolf, pre-eminent in all these evil qualities, at once became thoughtful, and his conscience smote him and reproached him on account of his wicked life, and his cruel treatment of his poor wife and children in his drunken fits. He had very little knowledge of the truths of Christianity, for he could not even read; but he was afraid of the judgment of God, and that he must