who is born of God "keepeth himself," (1 John v. 18,) by keeping within himself; and so "that wicked one toucheth him not." But all who dwell in the world of fancy, and in the world of reason, he can touch; and his touch ever defiles. He can come; Oy yes, he can, and touch our bone and our flesh. He can come, and scare us with visions, or delude us with dreams, painting the walls of the fancy, and making it a chamber of imagery. He can come, and make the worse appear the better reason, having all the arts of the sophist at command, and being in pos. session of a logic superior to any in the schools. But into the "hidden part" he cannot coine. O no, he cannot; and abiding there, he toucheth us not. He cannot force the heart, the secret place of the soul, or know what passes there in our intercourse with God. We keep the heart then with all diligence, while we keep within it, along with God, who will not suffer the adversary to draw nigh to our hurt. (1 John v. 18.) Communing there with Love, seated on the throne of the affections, we learn the secrets of Wisdom to be above all our conceptions, and find his joy fulfilled in ourselves. The pure heart, thus seeing God, revealed in the midst of it, is satisfied. There is nothing apart from him worth a thought; and looking ever upon Him, it is made pure even as he is pure. To such a soul, unspotted from the world," all things are pure. Every labour is a labour of love; every work is a work of faith; every suffering is a suffering patiently endured in hope; every service is the service rendered by a child, a son, an heir; every deed is an act of devotion; every word is spoken from the law of kindness dwelling on the lip; every cross is pleasant, as affording a trial of affection; every creature is a minister of good sent in mercy; every wind serves to waft it to the "fair havens," the port of peace, the harbour of everlasting repose.

66

How, then, shall we obtain this pure and undefiled religion, so godlike and divine? By obeying the truth. Jesus Christ calls us to enter

into our heart, and there learn of Him, who is meekness and gentleness itself. It is not what we hear with our ear that profiteth. We think we know the truth, because perhaps we can speak and write about it. But to know the truth in reality, is to know it in the power of Christ's resurrection; and in the fellowship of his sufferings; and in the conformity of his death; and in the hope of his glorious appearing to be admired by all them that believe. If we know him thus suffering, bleeding, and dying for us, we are satisfied, and at rest in him. We seek nothing, we desire nothing, we make choice of nothing, we have nothing, but one. The world, the flesh, and Satan, all in arms, are weakness itself in the presence of such a soul, abiding with God, who is its strength. What shall harm it? Who can draw nigh to it? Can any overcome it?

But let us not suppose this religion will at all suit those in the church, whom the Apostle has denominated "carnal." (1 Cor. iii. 1-4.) Such persons trust to what they experience, and not to the power of Christ. They draw their support from what is seen and temporal, and not from what is unseen and eternal, while they live among the pictures and shadowy representations of religion, afraid of walking with Jesus in the more excellent way. The centre of this religion is self; and though God bear with many of us a long time, in tender mercy, looking over all we do; yet his final intention is to reduce us to himself. The idols shall be utterly abolished; and every thing is an idol which serves in any way to hide him from us. They are dreadful ruins in very deed upon which his temple is reared: the ruins of every thing dear, and precious, and delightful, and desirable, the flesh, and blood, and bones, and life, and soul, and all of the old man of sin, which is corrupt. In one word, every thing which is not God, and from God; for he alone will be exalted in that day; and his work only will stand the "crush of atoms, and the wreck of worlds." His work is perfect, and will remain, to give him pleasure through eternity. Let us, then, since

he made us for himself, return to him, as obedient children; giving up ourselves to his gentle hand, that we may be led into all the truth. Yielding up all is the only way to find all, when we stand in need of it; and to live unspotted from the world. I write in all simplicity what occurs

to me.

Still, as this life, unspotted from the world, is "hid with Christ in God," it is a life unknown and much mistaken by the world, and worldly hearts, and all who have not yet attained it. To them the things of the Spirit will appear foolishness indeed; while at the same time they profess to be led by him. But he ever teaches the same truths, and shows himself by the same token, godlikeness, a universal charity. Let all disputation be avoided; let all contention between brethren cease; let each please his neighbour for his

CHINESE

"LET Kinming-kwan be delivered over to the criminal court for trial. Respect this." So said His Majesty the Emperor of China. And what had this person done? He presented a sealed memorial to the Emperor, showing his opinion how to rid the nation of rebellious banditti, of thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes. Being a man devoted to letters from his childhood, he had more knowledge of the ancient classics than of modern manners, and wished to revert to those happy days in which the land was cultivated by the united labours of the Government and people; when "hunger and starvation," the causes of all social evils, were unknown. These and similar vagaries were the head and front of the old man's offending.

The Court says there was nothing rebellious or disrespectful in his paper. But for his presumption and

good to edification; let every one study to approve himself to God, who knoweth the secrets of the heart, and how soon would the church present a different aspect! The Christian world, as it is called, pulled down one Pope at the Reformation, and set up many thousands; for now every man will have you see with his eyes, and hear with his ears, or you are in his mind wilfully blind and deaf. I say no more; for the prudent (Amos tells us) shall keep silence in the evil time.

Farewell. May the Spirit of the Lord, that free and noble Spirit, deign to lead you into the land of uprightness; so that in your flesh you may see God! When in the brightness of his countenance you vail your face with your wings, you shall know as you are known. Amen,

Jesu.

JUSTICE.

imprudence in giving unasked-for advice, their decree that he shall receive one hundred blows with the large bamboo, and be transported for three years, would not have been passed. However, he set up as a plea, that he was the only son of an aged mother. The Court, therefore, directed that, in the first instance, he be sent back to Gan-hwuy, the green-tea country, whence he came, that the local Government may ascertain the facts of the case; and if his allegation be true, to put him in the pillory, and hamboo him, before they send him to his mother; but if false, to transport him as before directed. The Court in their memorial add, that his suggestions are impracticable; and recommend His Majesty to dismiss the subject without further consideration.-Chinese Register.

may surprise some of your readers when I state, that in my judgment, it is not even a very probable one. Judging from the ill-concealed jealousy which already exists between the slave-holders of the south and the Yankees, as the Virginians call the people of the north,-jealousy, originating in a dissimilarity of the views and interests of the cotton growers of the Carolinas and the manufacturers of New-England,-it is much more likely that the present United States will be separated into two distinct and independent empires, than that our transatlantic possessions will ever be added to their already over-grown territory; in proof of which I need only refer to the attitude of hostility which was assumed by a large and powerful State, when the late celebrated Tariff bill was adopted by the general Government, and to the haughty and menacing terms which were employed in some of the public documents issued by the authorities of this State on that occasion. According to them the federal union is little, if any thing, more than a political firin and co-partnership, from which any of the members may withdraw, when they deem it expedient and necessary to do so, with or without the consent of their confederates so that, according to this doctrine, instead of the many States in one, constituting a body as compact and well-knitted together in all its parts, as it is vast in its dimensions, it is but an ill-cemented structure, in which there is no internal principle of adhesion, and the duration of which in its present form is exposed to various contingencies which may at any time occur, and occasion its disunion. In the case now under consideration such a result was avoided; not, however, I believe by the adoption of any fixed principle or the enactment of any law adapted to such an emergency, but by a mere compromise. The State halted in its career of contumacy; and the obnoxious Tariff was modified at Washington. That our foreign dependencies will not always maintain their present relation to Great Britain, does not even admit

of a doubt. There is a period when the colonial branches of an empire, like the different members of a family, come of age, and grow impatient of that constant supervision and control on the part of the parent State to which, in their infancy, they readily submitted; and when this is the case, enlightened reason and sound policy require that their position should be changed, and that the mother country should enter into new engagements with her grown-up offspring, by which course she would secure advantages to herself far more valuable than any that she could derive from any attempt that she might make, even if it succeeded, to enforce an unwilling subjection to her authority.

No country, either in ancient or in modern times, ever exercised a sway so extensive, or wielded an influence so powerful, as England does at the present period. The sun never sets on her dominions. Her ships visit every sea; and her flag floats triumphantly in various and distant climes. The magnitude of her commercial transactions astonishes the nations of the earth. Her language is spoken by millions in America. It is spreading throughout her Indian empire; and is taking root in Australasia, and in the islands of the Pacific, as well as in extensive districts of Western and Southern Africa. She has derived, and still derives, numerous political advantages from those countries that acknowledge her sovereignty; advantages which have greatly assisted her in the acquisition and maintenance of the high rank which she holds in the scale of nations. This mighty empire is entrusted to Great Britain for other and more important designs than the diffusion of literature and science, or the increase of trade and commerce. These are objects of secondary importance. It has been committed to her for a season by the Most High, that she may impart to every portion of it the Gospel of salvation, with its rich and varied blessings, in return for the political advantages which she derives from it, and as the agent of mercy make known the word of life to all people. Whatever else

she may do for the millions that own her sway, if this be left undone, if she look with indifference on the wretched condition of that portion of her subjects who dwell in the dark places of the earth that "are full of the habitations of cruelty," instead of honestly endeavouring to enlighten and save them; if, instead of exhibiting and maintaining the sound principles of the Reformation, she should act as the protectress of every system of religious error established in the countries that are subject to her authority, she will bring upon herself the displeasure of Heaven, and her very blessings will be made a curse to her. While, then, men who look only at the things which are seen, direct all their attention to matters of worldly policy, let British Christians awake to a sense of their responsibility, and seek the highest good of their colonial fellow-subjects, by introducing amongst them the kingdom of God, that they may be made the partakers of its peace, and joy, and righteousness. Whatever others may say or do, let them at least be consistent; and by their holy enterprise, their adventurous zeal, their generous sacrifices, and their fervent prayers, seek the good of their country, by promoting the salvation of the world. Something has been attempted and accomplished; but, O how little, in comparison with the magnitude of the work, and the weight of our obligations! And yet there are persons to be found, who profess to have a zeal for God, who would divert the attention of our churches from the great business of human salvation to questions of doubtful disputation; who would interrupt the flow of Christian liberality, if by that means they could carry measures, which, however important in their estimation, are of little or no consequence to the church or to the world. Judging from their proceedings, the settlement of a question of ecclesiastical polity is of more importance than the conversion of men to the faith of Christ; and idolatry should continue to insult Heaven and blight the earth, until difference of opinion shall cease to exist in the church.

Are such persons as sure that they are right in the course which they pursue, as it is certain that the Lawgiver of the church has directed us to go "into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature?" And this royal decree shall be accomplished; for, whether ambitious Monarchs, or fanatical religionists, take counsel to prevent its fulfilment, He that sitteth in the heavens will do all his pleasure; and his pleasure is, that the Gospel shall be preached to all nations.

In the present unsettled state of public affairs, it is difficult to say what changes may, or may not, speedily take place; but unless I am greatly mistaken in the opinion which I have formed, it will be long ere our colonies in America will renounce their allegiance to the British crown; and when they do so, it will not be, I repeat, to become a part of the United States, but to live under their own political institutions as a free and independ. ent nation. Judging from the intemperate, if not seditious, statements and proceedings of a few political leaders, and their violent partisans in two of the provinces, it would seem that they are ripe for revolt, and on the very verge of revolution; but happily for the public tranquillity, in this as in many other cases, the noisy party is the most powerless. A strong attachment to the crown of England exists in both the Canadas, as well as in the neighbouring colonies. There are thousands of individuals scattered over those extensive regions, whose hearts are imbued with feelings of loyal and devoted attachment to our Sovereign and his dominions, and who are well satisfied with the shelter and protection that the British oak affords them. Long may they dwell beneath its branches!

But I will not now pursue this topic, as I may have ocacsion to advert to it again, and shall only observe, that, whatever changes may take place in the relation of those provinces to this country, or to each other, the geographical position of Nova-Scotia, its extensive coast and numerous harbours, will secure

for it great and manifold advantages. The island of Cape-Breton is now placed under the same government, and in fact constitutes one of its counties. By this arrangement it possesses the command of a safe and convenient entrance into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and will be enabled at any future period to exercise great influence over the commercial intercourse of Canada. The island of Prince Edward, which is within a few miles of the northern shores of Nova-Scotia, though at present placed under a Legislature of its own, will, in all probability, be annexed to that province, and be identified with it. Though but little is known of Prince Edward Island in this country, for natural beauty and fruitful. ness, it is not surpassed by any part of British America. It is one hundred and twenty miles in length, and its average width may be estimated at from twenty-five to thirty miles. The soil is very fine, and is nearly all of the same quality. It varies in depth from four to twelve feet; and, being free from stones, is easily cultivated. In its natural state, it produces large timber of various kinds, and of good quality; and when cleared and improved by the industry and skill of the husbandman, wheat and other grains of an excellent description grow and ripen upon it in great abundance. It is said, and I believe with truth, that, before it fell under the dominion of Great Britain, and while in common with Lower Canada it was subject to the government of France, it was regarded as the granary of Quebec. The air is pure and salubrious, it abounds with brooks and streams of the finest water, and it is so level, that, though gentle declivities and rising grounds here and there present themselves to the eye of the traveller, neither a mountain nor a high hill is to be seen on the surface of this lovely island. The waters that encompass it abound with a great variety of fish of the best description, and it is, in all respects, well situated for the security and comfort of its inhabitants. It is to be regretted that its improvement has been greatly retarded by the circumstance of its

having been divided into extensive lots, which were appropriated to those civil and military servants of the Crown who were deemed worthy of such a reward; for, though one of the conditions on which they were bestowed, was that the proprietors should place a certain number of settlers upon them within a certain given period, this was long disregarded; and as the proprietaries were persons of great influence they succeeded, at different periods, in obtaining such modifications in the terms of the grant, as enabled them to retain possession of the land notwithstanding their non-observance of one of the original conditions on which it was conveyed to them. The price required for uncultivated land from purchasers, and the terms on which it is offered on lease, prevent persons from settling upon it, while land is to be obtained elsewhere on far more advantageous conditions. He who clears a part of the forests of America, and prepares the ground for the plough, works out for himself a strong claim to the possession of it; and no prudent man will expend his strength in improving the wilderness as the tenant of another, when it is in his power to obtain, for a trifling sum, a portion of it as a freehold which he may cultivate for the benefit of his own family. The dissensions which a few years ago so frequently existed between the different branches of the Legislature acted most unfavourably on the interests of the colony by nourishing a fierce party-spirit amongst many of the inhabitants, and by preventing the execution of plans for its internal improvement. In spite of the existence of these and other difficulties, several settlements have been formed in various parts of the island, and the population may be safely estimated at sixteen thousand souls. It is a remarkable fact, that, notwithstanding its insular situation, the atmosphere is by no means humid, and that it is entirely free from those disagreeable fogs, which, during certain seasons of the year, visit Nova Scotia and NewBrunswick. It is a place endeared to me by the most pleasing reminis