BASS. AIR. TENOR. "FROM THE CROSS UPLIFTED HIGH." Words by Dr. HAWKER. From the cross up- lifted high, Where the Saviour deigns to die, "Love's re-deeming work is done, Come and welcome, sinner, come! 2 Sprinkled now with blood the throne, On my pierced body laid, Justice owns the ransom paid: Bow the knee, and kiss the Son, 3 Spread for thee the festal board, Never from his house to roam, 4 Soon the days of life shall end; To the realms of endless day: Up to my eternal home, Come and welcome, sinner, come!" We have received some answers to the queries in our last number, but not sufficient to enable us to give the full answers that we wish. We therefore leave the questions for replies to come in for July. ANALOGIES BETWEEN THE WORKS OF GOD IN NATURE AND IN GRACE. THIRD ANALOGY.-UNIVERSALITY. UNIVERSALITY is a characteristic equally of the operations of Deity in nature and grace; we mean by this simply, that the laws which regulate nature are the same all over the world; the same air is breathed by all, the same elements are necessary for food to all, the same sun lights and cheers all. By placing Christianity in analogy with nature here, I mean to affirm, distinctly and clearly, that it is the only religion suited to universal man, and to every country and every clime. Though we do not yet see all these things accomplished, yet knowing and believing from the Bible itself, that such will be the case, we sorrow not at the miseries of the heathen as those who have no hope, but look forward to that bright and blissful period, when our glorious and simple religion shall become the religion of the shivering Icelander and the sun-burnt Moor, of the grovelling Hottentot and Caffre, of the wandering Arab, of our darkskinned brethren in the west, of the red man of the woods, of the millions of Hindostan, and last, but not least, of the benighted inhabitants of the "central flowery empire." Neither would I forget the ingathering of ancient Israel, as soon as the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. If any one ask, How is it that Judaism did not become an universal religion; it was divine? the answer is very easy: | Deity, or what we term sovereignty, exercised by him. I think, however, that the best course to pursue with objectors, is to maintain the great truth often stated in the Bible, that the book of revelation and its blessings will become the universal gift to man, and that the Sun of righteousness will, in due time, shine around this sea-girt ball, imparting light and heat wherever there is a human mind to receive the one, and a heart to feel the other. May the firm belief of this great truth stimulate all the followers of Christ to constant individual and united effort, and to fervent and persevering prayer for hastening on the coming of this glorious promised period. Liverpool, 1849. Judaism was but the shell of the J. M. Reviews. HEAVEN'S ANTIDOTE TO THE his educational advantage. It is a CURSE OF LABOUR; or, The Tem-fine specimen of what rightly-directed poral Advantages of the Sabbath, effort and well-regulated mind may considered in Relation to the attain to, when under religious prinWorking Classes. By JOHN AL-ciple; and we would set it before our LAN QUINTON. With Engravings. youth to stir them up to proper London Partridge and Oakey. courses of thought and feeling. How 8vo, pp. 141. many a poor lad may yet rise to respectability and honour if he will only give God his heart, and devote his energies aright! This is a truly beautiful, deeply interesting, and highly useful work, the first prize essay of the Working Men's Essays on the Sabbath. The author is a working man, in the printing office of Mr. Burton, of Ipswich; but the work before us would have done honour to any, however high his station or great John Allan Quinton was born at Needham Market, and was the oldest of some twelve or thirteen children of the same parents. His school years were first spent at a dame's school, and afterwards, from ten to fourteen years of age, in an ordinary village school, where he acquired some knowledge of writing, arithmetic, reading, and grammar, but all imparted in the most crude and meagre manner. Here he never learned one sentence of geography, had no Latin, no study of maps, no drawing, no history, no natural philosophy, no composition. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a printer, and served the same master for six years. During his apprenticeship he kept himself much alone in his leisure hours, and employed them in the study of music, poetry, works of general information, and sometimes of fiction. When he was about seventeen years of age he became a Sunday school teacher, and soon after was brought to decision of character, and joined a church of Christ. His attention was now much directed to religious reading, visiting the sick and ignorant, and occasionally preaching in the villages. He had serious thoughts of devoting himself to the ministry at the expiration of his apprenticeship; but not having the means for prosecuting the necessary preparatory studies, he remained at his business, and entering the office of Mr. Burton, has remained there ever since. Such has been his life, and here is one of the fruits of his trifling leisure time, and which has been selected from 1045 essays, as the one most worthy of the highest prize. The work itself is most elegantly written, while its spirit and matter are all that could be desired in reference to the subject of which it treats. It is an able defence of the sabbath of rest, as the poor man's right, Heaven's own boon to the entire human race, and of which none has a right to deprive him. LECTURES TO YOUNG MEN; delivered before the Young Men's Christian Association, in Exeter Hall, from November 21, 1848, to February 6, 1849. London: William Jones, 56, Paternosterrow. 8vo, pp. 480. All excellent, full of information, and eminently calculated to improve, inform, and direct our young men. We have already noticed some of the separate lectures, and now that all are placed together, and the whole series complete, we can only repeat our former appreciation, and add that we know of no better book for our young men's libraries than this. THE TABERNACLE IN THE WILDERNESS; or, The Gospel preached under the Old and New Testaments. London: Wertheim and Macintosh, Paternoster-row. 18mo, pp. 68. This is a very good class book for Bible classes, on the tabernacle, and should accompany Smith's beautiful models and pictures of the same. At the close are a number of questions adapted for Scripture classes, to bring out the various points connected with each part. THE YOUNG TEACHER; or, Friendly Hints to those Persons who have A very good and suitable present THE NEW BONNET. "You'll be sure to send it home on Saturday, Mrs. Smith." "Certainly, Miss Johnson; you may depend upon it." new bonnet. But it rained all day! and it was a day of fretfulness and impatience to this giddy girl. Another week passed, and a bright sun cheered the next Sunday morn "To be trimmed with pink, you ing, but Amelia was sick! She did remember, and not too full." "Yes, ma'am; I will make it to suit you, or you may send it back." And so the matter was left till Saturday evening, when a messenger came with a bandbox, and in the bandbox the bonnet for "Miss Amelia F. Johnson." It was examined and tried, first on one head and then on another, and finally acknowledged on all hands to be very tasty, and quite becoming Miss J. It was talked about till bedtime; it was then dreamed about; and the first thought on Amelia's mind on Sunday morning was the not leave her bed all day, a violent fever seized upon her, and brought her near to the grave. As she lay upon her sick bed, she wept to think how foolish she had been to make so much of a new bonnet, and so little of the great end for which she was created. SYMPTOMS OF BACKSLIDING. If decay of love to Christ be our disease, it will have such symptoms as these: 1. Christ will be less in our hearts and mouths than formerly. 2. We will be more slack in our |