his congregational predilections. He consents to remain at Warrington, to use his own words, on no other condition. The "constitution, mode of worship, and discipline," must be that adopted in congregational churches. He was at full liberty

so to determine. It is regretted by some that predilections so decided, were not more fully avowed at the time of his undertaking the charge of a congregation where another mode of worship prevailed. Nor should any deviation in the worship or constitution of the church have been made without the knowledge, and, under the then circumstances, the concurrence of the Executive Committee. As it is, we wish Mr. H. success in the great work of saving

souls, and, in the great day, it will not much matter whether they worshipped at St. John's or Salem, provided that in both places Christ was exalted, and holiness to the Lord impressed alike on the vessels of the sanctuary and the tribes that went up to the Mount Zion. We say again, Warrington needs all the means of grace which the combined zeal of all the churches can furnish. Nor do we despair of St John's and Salem being crowded with converts if the Gospel, in the simplicity and energy and fulness of olden times, be proclaimed with meekness and might, and the Holy Ghost honoured in every prayer and in every sermon, as the Lord and giver of life. May God grant such issues. Amer!

their name is legion, because they are many. Some, wretched; others, exquisite ! You start, and say, "There he is." The venerable warrior with his white cravat! how neat and noble !

"Blest be the art that can immortalize;" and it seems as if there would be as many printed portraits as "graven ones.” “. "Every one hath a prophecy." We had one ourselves, and thought it a tolerable one, but whether one more would be tolerated now, is a matter about which we dare not prophecy, certainly not smooth things. So for the present our "Shield of Wellington" lies in state in our sermon crypt.

Last month we commended" Wellington and War," that is to say, Mr. Hall's book with that name. Dr. Brown, of Cheltenham. has brought up the rear with another word in season, called "Wellington and Victory." The author's text is, "More than conquerors." A glorious text at any

"Wellington and Victory; or, Christians more than Conquerors." By Rev. A. Morton Brown, LL.D. Foolscap 8vo. London: Snow.

rate. The triumphant compendium of the most glorious chapter in the Book of God, the eighth of Romans. We have been preaching from that chapter for years, and have only just got through the last verse. A grand system of theology for a young minister is that eighth of Romans.

The Dr. selects the passage for the purpose of contrasting the earthly and the heavenly warrior in the war they wage, the weapons they use, and the victory they gain, and he does it well. But with such a text, we could have wished some fuller exposition of its meaning in the light of the context; particularly of the fact, that the christian warrior gathers spoils which, but for the war, had never been his, and of that other fact, that all the glory of our conquests belongs rightfully to our Captain's brow. Oh, yes! "We are MORE than conquerors through HIM" Nevertheless, the Dr. has written an evangelical and excellent discourse. Hear ye him.

"Whatever you may think of the profession of arms, and of the glory gained in war; still, if personal bravery and foresight-if a cool head and a clear judgment -if fervent devotedness to the honour of his sovereign and country, are elements necessary to constitute a great leader and successful soldier-in all, never man surpassed Wellington. He was not precisely a military genius-he was what is far better for a great and lasting work-an out and out military man. He was a man

of work. He saw what he had to do, and he determined to do it. Nothing daunted him. 'Duty' was glory to him, and he saw no glory save in duty.' Napoleon as a soldier was a blaze of military genius; Wellington as a soldier was a steady, sturdy flame-the one was a flaming comet, the other a fixed star. The progress of the British arms, from the period Wellington took the command of the allied armies, is an unbroken triumph. Outnumbered as he was by the finest soldiers France ever produced, and opposed by the most illusirious of her generals, yet steadily, surely, and with crushing effect, till every foe in the field against him was scattered, did Wellington march to honour. And, without a vaunting expression, an ambitious word, but simply in obedience to duty, has he recorded his progress in his despatches, as one who only needed to recount his doings to establish his fame. This is greatness."'

Then Binney has spoken. He has tried his hand at "Wellington, as Warrior, Senator, and Man."

We have elsewhere given his remarks on Peace and War. One passage, among many passages, we thought a word in season to many Christian professors. It runs thus:-"It is sad to see how many Christian men will sometimes prefer their own will to that of the Master; how they will injure His cause sooner than sacrifice their ambition or selfishness; how they will indulge resentments, and reply and retaliate, to the disgrace of the Gospel, instead of, for a time, silently submitting to wrong for the sake of it; how they will do nothing if they cannot have everything their own way.'

Speaking of Wellington as a man of reality, Mr. B. says "he was free from humbug." We do protest against ministers of the Gospel employing, as they now too often do, the slang phrases of men of the world, There is a coarseness that is repulsive about such expressions. The essay, as a whole, is "like Binney," only it bears the marks of being somewhat hastily thrown together, sheet after sheet, without unity of plan or project. The concluding part of the essay relates to the aspects of France under the emperor, and contains an earnest admo

nition that we, as a nation, do nothing to irritate the man whom Providence has permitted to occupy so high and awful a position.

"When France is satisfied, the world is tranquil.' Most true. The agony or madness of a great people placed in the centre of the civilized world, and necessarily sustaining many and intimate national relations, cannot but affect all others. It diffuses and propagates whatever sentiment predominates in itself. It cannot move in hostility to any without exciting general alarm. The political satisfaction of such a people, is a security for the repose of the world. However Louis Napoleon may have got where he is, if the French Nation choose to have it so, it is not for us or others to complain. Being where he is, and with the possibility and prospect of what he may be, he has in his single hand, at this moment, greater power to affect the destinies of the nations than any other individual in the world. More depends on his personal volitions than on those of any other man upon earth. While, however, it is at his own peril if he use his power for any but great and noble ends; it is at our peril if we provoke him to abuse it, by goading him into the abandonment of a policy which he says he wishes to pursue ; -a policy which he probably will pursue if he is not tempted to risk its violation. Of course, he may be urged from within, as well as irritated from without;-impelled to aim at military conquest by troops and generals wishing for war."

Another Wellington serinon is before us, it is by the Rev. W. Forster of Kentish Town, on the "Lessons of Wellington's Life." The object of the discourse is to arouse young men to patriotism, self-denial, concentration of purpose, and energy. Mr. Forster thus speaks of our loss of the illustrious departed.

"What will England do, now that the Achilles of her army and the Nestor of her senate is no more? To us his name was a tower of strength. His presence was the palladium of our safety. The moral influence of his splendid career held our enemies in check. He was himself an army, a military organization, an institu

"The Life of Wellington: its Lessons to Young Men." A Discourse, by Rev. W. Forster. Demy 18mo. London: Ward & Co.

tion of defence, a mighty Peace Society. When it was transmitted by lightningletters all over the island that the Duke of Wellington was dead, the shock on the great and manly heart of the nation was electrical, an undefinable feeling of insecurity seized us, and, in the language of the Book to which we owe all our greatness, we seemed to cry after the venerable man who had been taken from us, 'My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof." "

Mr. F. thus notices the times that are passing over us:

"He has bequeathed to us a name which will be a watchword and a war-cry to the young men of Great Britan should our territory ever be invaded and our independence assailed. It has occurred at a time when the nephew and successor of the man whom he overthrew is just rising to imperial greatness and power. The signs are solemn. The omens are calculated to produce serious thought. We feel, if we could have had a few more years of his presence and counsel, we might have escaped the dangers which seem to be looming in the distance. But he is gone. did all he could for his country. He was not without grave fears about her future. They were flippantly ridiculed at the time they were expressed. Being dead, may his warning voice produce, not an unmanly panic, but a prudent preparation to preserve our shores sacred and secure from the touch of hostile feet."

He

"It is idle, it is worse, it is madness to say that the independence and integrity of this empire are not menaced. No policy,

no concessions, no courtesies, will ward off the premeditated blow. It can only be prevented by England assuming such an attitude as to show that it will be hurled back with destructive recoil on the head of him by whom it may be dealt. Should the conflict come, the burden will rest upon our young men. If they have the manly spirit of their forefathers, combined with the intelligence of the present day, there can be no reasonable fear of the issue of the conflict into which we shall

sooner or later be forced. If they are called upon to defend their mothers, their sisters, their wives, their daughters, their homes, and their altars, from the outrages of a brutal soldiery, then, animated by the spirit of a bold patriotism, they are sure to come off victorious. I have said they may have to defend their altars. I use the word as symbolic of religion; and I refer to religion because I believe the religion of the Bible, the noble Protestantism of this land, will be assailed. The priesthood of Rome, now that it has got a champion, backed by a million of armed men, and an immense navy, will not let such an opportunity escape of striking a blow at the power under whose mighty wing religious freedom has long flourished and reposed."

We concur with the following remark

"It is impossible to conceive what would have been the fate of Great Britain had not that demon of war, Napoleon, been checked and overthrown. If he had got Europe permanently under his feet, could this country have remained erect and free? Had we been obliged to succumb, what would have been the effect on the human. race? Civilization would have been thrown back for centuries; true religion would have received a deadly wound; the cause of freedom would have been trodden in the dust; the modern Titan would have swayed his desolating sceptre over the greater part of the world. It is appalling to think what would have been the consequences to the human race, if the insatiable ambition and gigantic projects of the French Emperor had prospered. As surely as God raised up Moses, Joshua, Samson, David, or the Maccabees to bring deliverance to Israel, so surely did he raise up the departed warrior to rescue the civilized world from one who threatened to be its greatest oppressor, and to say to him, in the roar of cannon, the clash of arms, and the sound of trumpets, Hitherto shalt thou go, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.'

It is a manly and impassioned appeal to our youth to be valiant for their people and their land.