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grounds alone, would I impeach Popery and her advocates. What alliance have Christians with Antichrist? what, the lovers of light with the agents of darkness? Bear with me for one moment more. The system which is erroneous towards God can never be for the best interests of man. True religion elevates man towards the God who made him, and leads him upwards to his native skies. False religion would degrade Deity to the corruptions of humanity, and lead its votaries down to wretchedness and destruction. Hence, wherever Popery is established, irreligion, immorality, ignorance, superstition, tyranny, and degradation exercise their baneful sway. Time would fail me to point out, and your patience to listen to me doing so, the various ways in which the poisonous effects of Popery operate throughout_the_length and breadth of society. Let me point you to some facts. Let me enumerate the most Popish, and I shall at the same time enumerate some of the most wretched and degraded portions of civilized Europe. France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Italy, Austria, and Ireland-you are my witnesses to prove the truth of my assertion. You know it. Why is not England amongst the number? Thanks, devout thanks be given to the Almighty, that she is not. Thanks, that by his blessing upon the wondrous exertions of our ancestors, the light of Divine Truth has shone upon our island, dissipating the darkness, and melting, with its heavenly radiance, the chains which once held them captives of Rome. Are you not inspirited by the recollection of what they have done? Do not your hearts glow with generous sympathy for those who, in Popish countries, have hazarded their livelihood and their lives for the truth's sake? Whether like a Nangle or a Gayer in Ireland, a Dr. Kalley at Madeira, a Fiorini at Malta, a Ciocci at Rome, or a Ronge, or Czerski,† in

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Germany? Yes, their cause and your own are one. They are rising up against the giant Popery, that has long been crushing them, and is now preparing to hurl the thunders of the Vatican against you. Yes, indeed your hearts kindle at the mention of them. Then imitate as you can the examples you admire. As their conduct influences you, let yours also influence others, that thus you may obey the apostolic injunction-provoke to love and to good works. Protestant electors of the Borough of Southwark! the eyes of the whole country are upon you! Stand forward in the hour of trial, and stand firm to the cause of Protestantism, and the victory is yours. Other constituencies will follow your example. Supreme above all merely local and party considerations place the Protestantism of your country; and whatever differences may exist in minor matters, let the sound, constitutional religion-Protestantism-of your candidate, be the sun, that shall melt before it all the clouds that would obscure its lustre. And you, Sir, when you shall be returned, as we trust you ere long will be, to represent this enlightened constituency in Parliament, I implore you, I intreat you, that you will never betray-as I feel persuaded you will not—the interests confided to you, nor suffer the icy hand of expediency to chill down the Protestantism-the life-giving principle of our constitution.

MISCELLANEOUS.

THE POPE AND PURGATORY.— A miner at Schneeberg, meeting a seller of indulgences, inquired, "Must we then believe what you have often said of the power of indulgences, and of the authority of the Pope, and think that we can redeem a soul from Purgatory by casting a penny into the chest?" The dealer in indulgences affirmed that it was so. "Ah," replied the miner, “What a cruel man the Pope must be, to leave a poor soul to suffer so long in the flames, for a wretched penny! If he has no nasty money, let him collect a few hundred thousand crowns, and de

liver all their souls by one act. Even we poor folks would willingly pay him the principal and interest."

THE WHIG REPEAL COMPACT.The attention of the gentlemen, young and old, composing or lately composing the war party in the Repeal Association, is respectfully solicited to the annexed paragraph from the "Mail," of this evening. "His Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant, representative of our Most Gracious Sovereign has made a special party of kindred spirits to do honour to the man whom Lord John Russell and the Ministers honour, Daniel O'Connell, the Agitator. A grand banquet is to be given to the Demagogue by Lord Besborough on Thursday next, in commemoration of his abandonment of Repeal; and Mr. George Roe, and other Anti-Repeal Whigs have been invited to meet the Liberator (!) on the auspicious occasion. The Premier and the Viceroy are playing their game well. Dan, too, is looking cautiously to the main chance; but Heaven help the poor dupes and gulls throughout the country who still permit themselves to be cheated into the belief that Repeal is not cast to the winds by their treacherous leader."-From the Times, Wednesday, September 9, 1846.

THE RATIONAL PART OF THE

MIND BROUGHT INTO UNISON WITH THE GLORIES OF NATURE.-Let us not confound the love and perception of the beautiful with the love of God; yet at the same time, we would seek to awaken in the youthful mind, while it is yet tender to receive impressions, the spirit of natural religion. It will make spiritual religion both more lovely, and more freely apprehended. A greater than we have said, that man

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the browsing kine on the sloping meadow; above are the blithe birds carolling; and gazing forth into the depth of the vast, boundless ocean, you look intensely into the blue expanse, fancying that the eye may pierce its filmy substance, and see crystal cities afar off in space. Turning again to earth, you note the sleeping shadows, that unperceived are lengthening into darkness -or your look falls upon the flowers that fascinate you (who but a God could have created such lovely things?) -there they are, bright, beautiful, but frail, teaching us a deep lesson on the brevity of life. While we are admiring their gorgeousness, who does not feel their poetry touch him? If stars be the poetry of heaven, they are the poetry of earth, being likest to the stars. The bee is finding a rest for the evening amidst the honey and the sweet odours; breaking the dreary silence and the reverie into which you have been plunged, are the jocund voices of happy children. Who, we ask, gazing upon such a scene as this, would not give himself up to the intense delight that fills his heart? Man, at such moments, is naturally religious; he is elevated by his noble thoughts of the many bright things around him he dreams of God, of eternity; he forgets the heartless bustle of the world, the ring of gold, and the selfish strife of hearts-and he forgets the toils of life, and the sacrifices of mammon. Such moments are not of often occurrence. Let man, when they do come, think there is a deep philosophy to be gathered from such musings, and that they are essentially a natural religion. And that which is here but indicated to him, Revelation makes certain; that which natural religion gives him now and then in scanty measure for a few moments, spiritual religion gives him constantly-boundlessly, for ever!

CABINET.

BEWARE of adorning thy house more than thy soul, and above all give thy care to the spiritual edifice.

The martyr Jerome, of Prague,

when the paper cap was brought, on which were painted demons in flames, took it in his hands and placed it on his head, exclaiming in the words of John Huss, "Jesus Christ who died for me a sinner, wore a crown of thorns, I will willingly wear this for him."

Protestants have distinctions, but they have not different religions.

The final conflict between Christ's true Church, and Antichrist, and their respective chiefs and supporters, both visible and invisible, is set forth in prophecy as most severe. As a nation, as a Church, and as individuals, how may we best prepare to meet it?-Elliott's Hora Apocalyptica.

THE WARNING.

"Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues."-Rev. xvii. 4.

"COME out of her," the mystic city seated

In pomp and splendour on the seven hills, Whose sorceries have so long the nations cheated,

Whose cup the intoxicating wine yet fills.

"Come out of her,"-who o'er the many waters

Her blood-impurpled skirt has spread abroad;

Her lies, her crimes, her blasphemies, and slaughters,

About to be remember'd are-with
God.

"Come out of her,"-the sentence has been spoken,

And he who judgeth her, the Lord,

is strong;

The spell of the enchantress has been broken,

And soon shall cease for aye her

syren song.

"Come out of her,"-for fearful is her story,

She sitteth as a Queen; nor care has she,

But in one hour, her grandeur and her glory,

Will like a gorgeous vision vanish'd be.

O, yes. No fading sunset-splendours, brightening

Her proud decline, the gazer shall deplore;

But suddenly-as struck by wrathful lightning

Great Babylon shall fall, to rise no

more.

From the Lake, and other Poems, reviewed below.

SOLUTION OF THE PROTESTANT CHARADE WHICH APPEARED

IN OUR LAST. THE fancied site on which is rear'd The Pontiff's pomp and prideNam'd as your second-is, I ween, A rock 'tis soon descried. But this proud boasting idle proves, When scanned by Scripture light, "Tis but your first— a sham, as vague As phantoms of the night. Your whole-the shamrock, fair device

Of Erin's verdant isle, Beneath a purer, holier ray With brighter bloom would smile. CYMMRO.

NOTICES OF BOOKS.

The Lake, and other Poems. London: Seeley, Burnside, and Seeley, Fleet-street. 1846.

THIS is an unpretending little volume. flowers, has much that is sweet, lovely, But, like many unpretending little and beautiful.

It is pervaded with a Christian spirit, and the Protestant feelings of the author are displayed in many of the poems. We have given above, "The Warning," and in the following, the Author points to the Gospel as the lever to raise the Roman Catholics from the state of slavery into which a false religion has plunged them :

ERIN MAVOURNEEN. O Erin Mavourneen, while viewing each

scene

Of thy beautiful land in her garment of green;

I could grieve to reflect, while thy face is so fair,

What a curse overshadows the mind that is there.

What country on earth boasts a people like thine,

With feelings all fire, and a genius divine? But alas! Superstition's malar' withers all, And turns every kindlier impulse to gall. Even now in their bosoms a dark spirit lurks,

Yea, crime in their hearts, like a lava tide works;

For those who should guide, to enslave them agree,

And they crouch to the despots, nor dare to be free.

But Erin-despair not; thou yet shalt be bright,

The soul of thy children shall burst into light;

For the stream of salvation, shall one day o'erthrow

Every stronghold of death, with its lifegiving flow.

The Jesuits. By MM. MICHELET, and QUINET, of the College of France. Translated from the seventh edition, with the approbation of the Authors, by C. COCKS, B. L., Professor of the living languages in the Royal Colleges of France, &c., &c. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Long

mans.

WITHOUT agreeing in all the views and principles of these eminent opposers of Jesuitism, in France, we are yet very highly gratified with the work in general, and are rejoiced to see so cheap and popular an edition as that now under notice.

How singular it must appear, that whilst, in France, the Jesuits are thus unpopular, our Government should be taking them by the hand in England, and making fresh concessions in their favour!

We shall refer more fully to the contents of this work in our next, Meantime we have no hesitation in

saying that it will prove useful, not only to the public in general, but a very valuable addition to the libraries of Mechanics' Institutes, and those of our Operative fellow Pro

testants.

The Extent, and Moral Statistics of the British Empire: A Lecture delivered before the Young Men's Christian Association. By the Rev. WILLIAM ARTHUR. London: Ay

lott and Jones; Mason. 12mo. pp. 76.

WE wish all of our countrymen possessed Mr. Arthur's information and missionary spirit. Nor do we see why they should not possess a far greater amount of intelligence, as to the power and responsibility of their country, than many at present have. Surely, to the Christian mind, the contemplation and history of the peaceful triumphs of the Gospel are far more gratifying than the conquests of Alexander, or the victories of Cæsar. The one spreads desolation, the other, happiness, and peace. Amidst all the acquisition of Pagan poetry, history, and mythology, we fear that even the plainest rudiments of Christian knowledge have been almost overlooked in the educational process. And many a one, to whom the names and pedigree, attributes and characters, of Heathen gods and goddesses, are as familiar almost as household words, know little of the history, and doctrines of Christianity, have bestowed only a short time to the perusal of the Scriptures,- are almost entirely ignorant of the peculiar nature of Popery and Protestantism, and are thus prepared as fit tools to the hand of the Jesuits.

We rejoice to see Juvenile Missionary Societies, and the Young Men's Christian Association formed, and cordially wish prosperity to their exertions.

Having taken a rapid survey of the extent, and moral statistics of the British empire, the author thus proceeds at page 72:-

upon our

"Gentlemen, permit me one word more. The greatness of England is essentially a Protestant greatness. The dawn of our national glory was the rising of the Bible land. Our greatest acquisitions were made under our most decidedly Protestant Sovereigns. England has grown mighty in proud defiance of the 'Man of Sin.' While other nations have bowed before him, some prostrate in the dust, others gently kneeling, she has sat on high with her foot on his authority, and her smile at his rage. In that elevation, the sunshine of heaven has been

bright over her, when all the countries that obeyed him were scourged with dreadful storms. But the posture of England is hardly what it used to be. There is not now the same haughty distance, the same bold disdain. Her countenance is toward the throne of the spiritual despot, her attitude inclined, her form stooping. She has begun her descent from the high place, where God was wont to bless her. The kings of the earth are moved to meet her, and cry from their place below, Hah! art thou become as one of us?' Stay, Britannia, stay! Give not thy power and thy strength unto the Beast; forsake not the seat on which God has smiled. Let men sneer as they may, I solemnly believe, and I think the history of Europe requires me to believe it, that the departure of England from Protestantism must involve her in those national woes which every Popish country attests as the judgment of God on apostasy."

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INTELLIGENCE.

FIFTH OF NOVEMBER.—It is intended to hold a Meeting of the members and friends of the Protestant Associatlon (D.V.) in the Large Hall, Exeter Hall, in the evening of the 6th of November next. A sermon will (D. V.) be preached on the Fifth of November. Further particulars will be announced.

ENGLAND.-Ramsgate.-A lecture was delivered in this town, on Friday, Sept. 4, which was numerously and respectably attended. Lieut. Hutchinson, R.N., took the chair. Among others, there were on the platform, Captain Baker, Rev. T. C. Whitehead, Rev. Daniel Wilson, Vicar of Islington, Dr. Beamish, W. Small, Esq. An Association was formed, which appears likely to be of great

service.- Reading.-Mr. Lord lectured here on Wednesday, Sept. 23, Rev. C. J. Goodhart in the chair.

-Colchester. A lecture is announced to be delivered by Mr. Lord in this town, on Tuesday, September 29. Southwark.-A Protestant Meeting was held in the National School-room, Borough-road, on Tuesday, September 8, Charles Shaw, Esq., in the chair.

IRELAND. · A Convert to the Established Church.-Maria Isabella Keon, eldest daughter of Ferdinand Keon, of Newbrook, county of Leitrim, Esq., solemnly renounced the errors of Popery in Kilcar church, county of Donegal, on Sunday, the 2d of August last. She subsequently signed the roll, and received the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.Evening Packet.- -Reformation in Dublin.-On Sunday, September 6, we had the gratification of seeing ten persons publicly renounce the errors of Popery in St. Audeon's Church. Three of the converts were educated for the Romish priesthood; but they have now abandoned for ever the idea of taking on them that yoke, and have embraced the doctrines of Jesus Christ. One of the converts had been a priest's clerk for upwards of thirty years, and is deeply versed in the mysteries of the profession he has left.

All the converts received the

He

Lord's Supper, and signed the renunciation roll in the usual way. The Rev. R. H. M. Eyre read prayers, and the Rev. Thomas Scott preached from the words, "I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord." (2 Chron. xxxv. 15.) was listened to by all present with breathless attention. We shall give none of his observations, as we understand that his discourse on that interesting occasion will appear in the first Number of his work, entitled, "The Believer."-Dublin Statesman.

Copies of the Protestant Magazine, price 5d., may be had at any time by order to the Publisher, and may be forwarded to any part of the kingdom. N.B. Every Subscriber of 10s. annually to the Protestant Association is entitled to a copy of the Magazine: to be had on application at the Office.

Macintosh, Printer, Great New Street, London.

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