had sent Him into the world. Thus Christendom is without excuse, for the word of God plainly declares what is the Church, and men are bound to know it, when it appears, from the description which He has given of it in His written word.

Although this is the true unity of the Church, it must also be remembered that whilst circumcision was the bond which united the descendants of Abraham together, and constituted them a unity, as baptism unites all Christendom together, and makes it a unity, still as all were "not Israel who were of Israel," so all are not inseparably united to Christ who have partaken of His Spirit in baptism; and we read of His Spirit being resisted, being quenched, and being withdrawn from some who once possessed it. A Jew apostle said to the Romans who believed in him: "He is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; "neither is that circumcision, which is outward in "the flesh but he is a Jew, who is one inwardly; "and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, "and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, "but of God." So he is not a Christian which is one outwardly, neither is that baptism which is outward in the flesh; but he is a Christian who is one inwardly, and baptism is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter, whose praise is not that of men, but of God.

Without unity the Church cannot, as a body, go forth on visits of mercy. Many attempts have been made by Protestants to establish an institution on the sea coast, in order to send the sick poor for seabathing, and also a society of Sisters of Mercy to attend the sick. One of the oldest of these was at Bath; but it could not succeed because the members were under no vows of obedience, nor were of equal property by having each renounced all they possessed. The Protestant Churches, as bodies, have done nothing in works of charity in mercy; the Papists have done much. The world must not only see that God has restored the outward forms of unity to His Church, but the inward reality also, in combined acts of useful benevolence, and systematic care of the poor and destitute. By their fruits ye

"shall know them." One or two benevolent individuals in a congregation do not give the charity of the body, any more than one or two individuals who write religious pamphlets give the doctrines of the body. There must be an organized system and machinery of charity; and without this, as a body, that love cannot be shewn which is the test, to those who cannot understand your principles, that you have been with Jesus.

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II.-HOLY.

HEN Adam came forth from the hands of

his Creator he was endowed with all capacity for knowledge, yet knowing nothing. Consciousness of existence was a sensation as overwhelming as he could bear: everything around him excited his wonder. The trees, the flowers, the streams of water, increased his astonishment the more he contemplated them. The inhabitants of the earth, of the water and of the air, the animals, the birds, the fishes, all waiting on him, as their lord, to obey his will, added to the number of the objects that drew forth his admiration. He was desired to assume the dominion over them, to name them, and to consider himself their head and master. He contained also within his breast the power of loving; but he saw nothing to call his affections forth. He did, doubtless, feel gratitude to the Author of his being, and the Author of all the pleasure he enjoyed; he felt kindly disposed to the animals which had been given into his hands: but there were none of them he could love, because there were none with whom he could sympathize, who could sympathize with him, or with whom he could hold communion. The admiration of the beauties of inanimate creation would become

fainter and fainter; they were the same one day as another the animals could not enter into his feelings, nor he into theirs; interest in them would also diminish. He was not made to live alone; nor could he fulfil the greatest ends of his being until that loneliness ceased. Eve was given him; and when he saw her, then first were called forth the affections which formed the noblest part of his nature-of the power of which he was unaware until the sight of her made him conscious of their existence, and furnished an object by which they could be developed, and on which they could be concentrated.

All this, and much more of a similar nature, constituted, however, but a small portion of the wonders of his existence, of which he knew nothing. In the command to "increase and multiply and re"plenish the earth," he found himself declared to be the progenitor of millions of other beings like himself. But neither was this all. He was, although unknown to himself, the figure, type, and representative of a mystery which 6000 revolving years have not yet completely developed, even the union of his Creator with his own flesh and blood: he was also to be the father of a predestined divine Adam and Eve, of which neither man nor angels have yet seen the accomplishment.

In the espousals of our first parents was found the

greatest bliss that either could know; and in similar unions, from that day to this, is found the most complete happiness of which mortals are capable, until the period of the accomplishment of that divine union which was then first foreshadowed. Not only is the state of marriage the highest bliss which men and women can enjoy, but it is in itself the holiest and the purest, and the grand device of God for preserving sinful man in holiness and in purity. To tamper, then, in the remotest degree with this state, to cast reproach upon it, to proclaim any other state as more conducive to holiness and purity, is a blasphemous attack on the wisdom, plan, and providence of God. Wherever this state of marriage is not upheld in all its sanctity, reverenced beyond all other institutions, as being the first and most ancient of all God's devices for ensuring the happiness of man, there is cruelty, lust, debauchery, and profanity unbridled, as the experience of all history testifies in Heathen, Mohammedan, and Popish countries. Holiness or unholiness are written, as with a sunbeam, on all nations according to this one criterion: it requires no curious prying into the recesses of men's hearts, no statistics of crimes and of morals; he that runs may read. Let all the nations of the world be summoned; and let Asia, Turkey, South America, Spain, Italy, Austria, Prussia, Eng