ble one way, some another. The Romanist goes, in proof of his view, to the decision of his Church in the exercise of its infallible judgment, at some period after, it may be long after, primitive times, when development has brought out truth not known in those times, and authority has decreed it. The Lutheran, or Calvinist, or other ultra-protestant, goes to the Reformers, or to some great founder of a sect. The English Catholic goes to the early Church, while East and West were one, and when General Councils could determine, as a fact, what view of Scrip-in other words, the true Gospel system, is ably ture had been every where held from the time treated in this pamphlet, and is very necessary of the apostles: this, he rightly argues, must to be borne in mind by the friends of evangelihave been the originally intended, and therefore cal faith and piety. the divinely sanctioned, view. The effect of We trust the pamphlet will do much good, the Romish Council of Trent, is to rivet more and commend it accordingly to the careful peclosely the chains of the doctrines which papalrusal of our readers. Its republication in this authority had superadded to the Gospel in its country seems to have been originally suggested

primitive purity. The effect of Lutheran and Calvinistic protestantism, or ultra-protestantism, is to make of truth whatever human judgment, or modern authority may choose. The effect of the Anglican Reformation, or Catholic protestantism, is to cast off old, and shut the door against new errors, and restore and keep the Church to the principles and rules originally established therein. The essential distinction thus existing between popery and catholicism, and between mere protestantism and catholicism, or

* It is encouraging and pleasing to find this principle advocated by intelligent men as of such obvious propriety as to constitute a valid ground of argument in matters not strictly religious, but of high moral character, and of the most momentous practical importance. We, of course, have not a word to say respecting the merits of the particular use of this principle in the following quotation from a recent number of one of the most res pectable daily papers of this city. We are glad, how ever, to see the principle thus avouched. The article is referring to one of the leading political parties of the day, and observes, "It believes in no new lights in political faith; no modern revelations of obligations above the Constitution." [Which, in theology, may mean no popish development, and no rationalistic progress.] "As in the religion of our Saviour, those who would understand His teachings aright, must go back to their received interpretation in the earliest ages of the Church, so the * *, in their political faith, must obey the Constitution, not under any new version, or evasive construction, but as it was understood by those who formed and adopted it. So long as they do this, there will be unity, and concord, and strength."

by a very intelligent and pious layman, lately deceased, Professor David B. Douglas, of Geneva College, of whom Dr. Shelton speaks, in his Preface, as a gifted and venerable fellowChurchman, who had given much time, thought, and study, to these and kindred subjects." This, we hope, will be an additional motive with our lay friends to peruse it carefully. Its republication with the Preface may be regarded as a Voice from Western New-York, worthy of that sound, excellent, and efficient diocese, and particularly seasonable "for these times."

We acknowledge the receipt from Messrs. Appleton, of the beautiful and interesting volume, "Morton Montague;" but are compelled to postpone until our next, an intended more particular notice of it; as we must also, the farther remarks suggested by Bishop Wilberforce's History of our Church.

1. Monday in Easter Week. 2. Tuesday in Easter Week. 7. First Sunday after Easter.

CA ENDAR FOR APRIL.

14. Second Sunday after Easter.

21. Third Sunday after Easter.
25. St. Mark the Evangelist.
28. Fourth Sunday after Easter.

HE love which dwelt in the dren to come unto me, and forbid them not," bosom of the Saviour is, were the words addressed by the Saviour to perhaps, no where more His disciples when they would have kept touchingly exemplified, them from Him, "for," he added, "of such than in His treatment of is the Kingdom of Heaven." How touching little children. With the weight of is the scene thus presented to the faithful folwoe which was pressing upon Him, lower of Jesus! The Saviour, surrounded it might be thought that His heart by the people who were thronging his footwould have been too full to be di- steps to hear his words of Divine Wisdom, verted from its awful contemplations was propounding truths of the gravest and by the approach and presence of those who most momentous import. The multitude are too apt to be regarded with careless in- were listening with wrapped and concentrated difference. When, therefore, "little chil-attention to the sublime but, to them, somedren" were brought to Him while He was what startling, purity of the doctrines preachenunciating His lessons of sublime truth, theed. The solemn interest of the scene was apostles rebuked those that brought them; suddenly interrupted by the presence of chilbelieving, doubtless, that their presence would interrupt Him in His Divine teachings, and that in reproving them, they were doing that which He would approve.

dren. The disciples, themselves perhaps somewhat impatient of the interruption, rebuked those that brought them. The Saviour, regarding the children with an expresLittle, however, did they know the depthsion full of affectionate tenderness, which of that Love which burned in the Saviour's made his countenance radiant with celestial bosom. Momentous beyond the power of light, paused in the midst of his teachings. utterance, or of thought even, as were the He was "displeased" at the disciples for the interests which were the object of His earth-severity of their judgment, and addressing ly mission, and absorbing, as they might be them said, "Suffer the little children to come supposed to do, His whole soul, He could, unto me, and forbid them not." With such nevertheless, abstract His thoughts from these words, which must have touched and melted considerations, and rest them upon the young the hearts of the disciples by their gentleness children before Him. 16 'Suffer the little chil- and kindness, did He at once reprove them

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for the harshness of their censure, and show immortality about whom the Evil-One had how tender was His regard for the lambs of not, as yet, tightened his coils. They were His flock. Nor was this all. Suffering still innocent and guiltless; fit emblems Himself under the crushing weight of that of those pure spirits of whom "is the Kingsin which, as the representative of mankind,dom of Heaven." Their gentle natures apHe was bearing in His own person, that all-pealed to that tender solicitude which, in absorbing love which had prompted the tre-overflowing measure, had its home in the mendous sacrifice seemed, for the time, to bosom of Him, who, for the love He bore pervade His whole being. The utter mis-mankind, consented to leave the glory of His ery and anguish which, as a free-will offer- Father; to take upon Himself frail and pering, He was to endure, were for the moment ishing human nature; to endure suffering and lost sight of, and in the overflowing fulness indignity the most cruel; and finally to yield and tenderness of His love, "He took them Himself up to a most painful and ignominiup in His arms, put His hands upon them,ous death. Can we contemplate the Saviour and blessed them."

in His intercourse with the babes of his flock, and not feel in all its depth and fulness, that His was indeed a mission of Love, the like of which the world never, before or since, has witnessed!

It is one of the attributes of Divinity that while it comprehends objects, infinite in their magnitude, it at the same time comprehends those which are infinite in their minuteness. The same Protecting Power, which holds in their respective orbits the myriads of worlds that traverse the unbounded fields of space,

In many other parts of the Gospels the Saviour is represented as speaking of children in terms of the most lively affection. When the disciples were disputing among themselves who should be the greatest, Jesus •took a child and set him in the midst of them, and when He had taken him in His arms, He said unto them, except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of Heaven." What a lesson is here conveyed to the proud, the arrogant, and the self-willed. Their stub-fashions the smallest insect that exists, and day born hearts must be subdued; that pride, which hitherto, perhaps, they have regarded with a feeling akin to satisfaction, must be rooted out and cast from them as something to be shunned; they must become docile, simple-minded, obedient, and humble; they must become as little children," or they "shall not enter into the kingdom of Heaven."

by day encircles it with its protecting care. That same Omnipotent God, whose throne is the universe, and Who is surrounded by angels and arch-angels, and all the company of Heaven, marks every "sparrow which falleth to the ground," and numbereth every hair of our heads. Amazing thought! What mind can seek to fathom it, without feeling itself oppressed with the vain attempt, and forced to exclaim, "it is too wonderful for me."

His heart-overburdened as it was with the bitterness of the anguish laid upon it for the sake of mankind, and oppressed with the knowledge of the terrible future whose horIn Jesus, we see this same attribute of Dirors were ever present to His mind-seemed, vinity constantly exhibited. The interest when in the presence of children, to forget manifested by Him towards children, is a for the time the crushing weight of its sor-marked instance. His mission to the earth. row and to overflow with tenderness and love. He seemed to have recognized in them, in some faint degree, that purity which dwelt without spot or blemish in His own breast. They were the emblems of that lowliness and humility which formed the groundwork of His teachings, and were inculcated as essential to the true Christian character. He saw, moreover, in those children, heirs of

was one which comprehended the whole world. His mind expanded until it brought within the compass of its mighty energies ALL TIME, the Past and Future, as well as the Present; and included within its contemplations the entire family of man which ever had existed or should exist, from that period when God formed Adam, onward, for thousands of years, to the final day when the

sun shall go down in blood. While His mind was thus burdened with this, to us, inconceivably momentous conception, His heart was racked and tortured, enduring the weight of that sin which had bound the world with fetters stronger than iron, and given it as a heritage to the King of Terrors, and brought all mankind to the brink of ruin and destruction. He took upon Himself the burden of it ALL. With contemplations and sufferings of such awful magnitude it might be thought that His thoughts and faculties would have been so engrossed, so completely filled, that they would be insensible to aught else. But His was a Divine mind, and interests infinite in magnitude, could not close it against those which to men might appear insignificant and trifling in the comparison. One single little child, in its artlessness and purity, was as

THE EARLY PERSECUTIONS OF CHRISTIANS.

THEIR CAUSES.