ously ill and totally destitute of all support; | appreciate the value of distinguished literary attainments, consecrated to the advancement of biblical literature,-Mr. G's talent having been almost exclusively devoted to the important work of editing the Holy Scriptures, or works designed to elucidate its sacred contents, during the whole of his short but laborious career. ED. with this plausible story, which I have found on inquiry to be false, the said individual has been to this town during my absence from home, and made a most unwarrantable use of my name, and thereby obtained money from several persons; and, I understand, he has adopted the same plan in other places. I am, dear Sir, Your's truly, Fenny Stratford, January 13th. J. BROOKS. THE LATE MR. GREENFIELD. An Appeal to the Christian and Literary Public on behalf of the Widow and Five Children of the Late MR. WILLIAM GREENFIELD, Superintendent of the Editorial Department of the British and Foreign Bible Society, who died of BrainFever, Nov. 5, 1831. THE late MR. GREENFIELD having died at the early age of 32, and not having had any opportunity of making provision for his widow and five children, beyond an insurance on his life, the undersigned, on behalf of his bereaved family, solicit the aid of the benevolent, and offer themselves as Trustees for the faithful and beneficial application of such contributions as may be given. They venture likewise to submit, whether an appeal on behalf of his widow and family does not address itself with peculiar force to Christians in general, and to all who can admire and appreciate high talents usefully and laudably employed, upon the well understood principle, that when those who have been honourably distinguished are placed beyond the reach of expressions of personal regard, those nearest and dearest to them should be considered as their representatives, and receive in their stead what would have been cheerfully awarded had their own lives been prolonged. ANDREW BRANDRAM, SAMUEL BAGster, Jun. Subscriptions received by Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., Bankers, Birchin Lane; and the Rev. Andrew Brandram, 10, Earl THE REFORM BILL. In our last volume we have recorded the progress of the REFORM BILL up to its rejection in the House of Peers (see pages 427, 498). By this rejection, two branches of the legislature were unhappily at issue on this great national question, and it remained for the King, either to dismiss his present ministers, and transfer the reins of government to other hands; or, by dissolving the Parliament, virtually to refer the decision of the question to the nation at large. His Mathe commencement and the close of the jesty preferred the latter alternative, and, at session, has thus delivered his sentiments from the throne: Having had recourse to that measure [the dissolution] for the purpose of ascertaining the sense of my people on the expediency of a reform in the representation, I have now to recommend that important question to your earliest and most attentive consideration. "To the consideration of this important necessarily again be called at the opening of question the attention of Parliament must the ensuing session; and you may be assured of my unaltered desire to promote its settlement by such improvements in the representation as may be found necessary for securing to my people the full enjoyment of their respective rights, which, in combination with the other orders of the state, are essential to the support of our free constitution." Passing over the political struggles and party collisions which immediately ensued throughout the land, it will be sufficient to preserve the continuity and fidelity of our report to record the result of this appeal to the British nation, which has subsequently been unequivocally expressed. The second reading of the New Reform Street; John Remington Mills, Esq., Bill,-or rather the Reform Bill newly 30, Milk Street; Mr. Benham, 3, New Mil-modelled-(for in substance it is the same), man Street; and Mr. Samuel Bagster, Jun, took place in the House of Commons on at his father's, No. 15, Paternoster Row - Saturday, December 17th, when the house, also by Mr. Charles Godwin, Library, Milsom consisting of 542 members, divided exactly Street, Bath. two to one in favour of the Bill; exceeding, by twenty-six votes, the majority for the second reading last session, and by above fifty votes, that which passed the Bill, and sent it to the House of Lords. * We cordially and earnestly recommend this case to the attention of our readers. The family of the late Mr. Greenfield have a strong claim on the benevolent sympathies of the christian world,-on all who are able to The following are the particulars.— 162 162 324 Majority Voted 486 4 Paired off on both sides 52 542 The House has since gone into a Committee, in which the Bill will, no doubt, undergo all the scrutiny which genuine patriotism or party perspicacity can supply. ADDITIONAL SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THE BE- Mr. James Edwards, Lyme Letter appended to that Sermon, founded on certain passages in his Address to the Constituents of Airedale College. By RICHARD WINTER HAMILTON, Minister of Albion Chapel, Leeds. Transitory Character of God's Temporal Blessings considered and improved. A Sermon by the Rev. W. JAY. Occasioned by the sudden death of Mrs. Charles Taylor. Cabinet Lawyer. An enlarged, improved, and corrected edition (being the seventh) of this popular Work, including all the recent legal alterations. 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A Pictoral, Geographical, Chronological, and Historical Chart; being a Delineation of the Rise and Progress of the Evangelical or Christian Dispensation, from the birth of John the Baptist to the Ascension of Jesus Christ; shewing the situation of every place mentioned in the Gospels, with representations of the journeys of our Lord and of the principal events in his Life ;-drawn on the places of their occurrence, from designs of the old masters; having near 200 vignettes in the body, and 42 subjects in the margin. 42in. by 3in. Engraved by A. W. WarREN, in the best style of outline; and about 600 references. The whole arranged, by permission, according to the "Harmonia Evangelica" of the Rev. Edward Greswell, B. D. Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, by Mr. R. MIMPRISS. Size, FEBRUARY, 1832. THE subject of scriptural education for the poor of Ireland at present engages a large share of the attention of the Protestants in that part of the kingdom, in consequence of His Majesty's government having withdrawn their pecuniary support from the Kildare-street Society, and transferred it to a new Board of Commissioners for conducting a system of education common to Protestants and Roman Catholics. The principle on which grants were made to the Protestant Society in Kildare-street was, that the Received Version of the Scriptures without note or comment should be used in the Schools; the principle for the government of the new Board (which is to consist partly of Protestants and partly of Roman Catholics) is, that for four days in the week the Bible as a whole is to be totally excluded, and instead of it a new book of selections from the Scriptures, to be agreed upon by the Commissioners, is to be used; and on the two remaining days the Received Version, or the Douay Version, of the Scriptures to be used, or not, at the discretion of the respective pastors of the children, whether Protestant or Catholic. It will be instantly seen that this measure is a concession to the prejudices of the Roman Catholics against the indiscriminate use of the Bible, and such a compromise of the principles of the Reformation as was never before made by a Protestant government. Until now "the Bible, and the Bible alone," has been considered the religion of Protestants; but in future, should this unholy confederacy be cemented, a book composed of extracts, moral and historical, but excluding those parts which are evangelical, will be the religion of the liberal Protestant government of England in the year 1832; and of those political Protestants in Ireland, who may lend themselves to carry such a semi-popish plan into effect. A scheme which we venture to pronounce will be found to be as impracticable as it is anti-Protestant, and which, we doubt not, will terminate in the confusion of its projectors. Our senators would act wisely if they refrained from " meddling with God," in adopting schemes for governing popish Ireland. Better, far better, have no national education paid for from the public treasury than one which repudiates the Bible! It will be unjust to appro. priate the taxes paid by Protestants for such an anti-Christian, anti-Protestant purpose. One thing, however, is clear, that, should this objectionable plan be carried into full effect (which is not at all propable), the operations of the Baptist Irish Society will be rendered additionally necessary; as there is no fear but there will be plenty of children found, and even the children of Roman Catholics, to keep up the number of our scholars: nor can there be any doubt but what our liberal friends will be increasingly desirous of giving support to SCHOOLS in which the BIBLE will still be duly honoured as the principal book of instruction. We are happy to hear that a most crowded and respectable meeting was held in the Rotunda, Dublin, on the 10th inst., at which the Archbishop of Tuam presided. "It was a meeting," says the Editor of a Dublin newspaper, "of the friends of the scriptural education of the people of this country, through the medium of the WHOLE BIBLE, for the purpose of their testifying their approbation of the above prínciple, and their determination to abide by it." The following resolutions were adopted :- 1. "That it is our firm persuasion, that the Sacred Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, are alone the Word of God, and the only infallible rule of faith and practice, and that it is the inalienable right and bounden duty of all to read them, in order to be thereby made 'wise unto salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus,' and that as Christians and Protestants, it is our decided conviction, that the only means by which man, as an immortal being, can be trained up for the enjoyment of happiness in time and eternity, is through the instrumentality of that Word. M 2. "That we consider that the demoralized state of the country may be mainly traced to the ignorance of scriptural truth, and the consequent absence of scriptural principle, which characterize so large a portion of its population—and that the only effectual remedy is to be found, in the wider circulation of the Word of God, the more faithful enforcement of its principles, and the more general diffusion of education which adopts that Word as its standard and foundation. 3. "That we consider the general opposition of the Roman Catholic clergy to the scriptural education of the people, has been the greatest obstacle to the religious, the moral, and the social amelioration of our country-and that any attempt to coalesce with them in founding a system of national education on a substitution of any part for the entire Word, is, in our judgment, inconsistent with our principles and obligations as Christians and Protestants. 4. "It having been officially announced that the ground on which parliamentary aid was withdrawn from institutions for the education of the people, was, the determination to enforce, in all their Schools, the reading of the Holy Scriptures, without note or comment ;' we, therefore, feel it our duty to lift up our decided and uncompromising protest against this principle, as at variance with the reverence which is due to the Word of God, and with all the temporal and spiritual interests of our country." We give one of these speeches entire, as a specimen of the spirit manifested at this meeting. In seconding the third resolution the Rev. Robert M‘Ghee said,— "He felt that the present was the most important meeting ever convened in the Rotunda. It was not called that we may strengthen each others hands in our Christian duty, to consider whether we shall abandon Christianity itself; not to disseminate the Bible, but to consider if it be a fit book for a Christian people; not how children shall best 'be trained up in the Word of God, but whether the Word of God be true or not. The reverend gentleman commented at length on the resolution. He declared that he felt no unkindness to his Catholic brethren, and that it was of great importance to avoid entering into controversy on the present occasion. Nevertheless, this assemblage was imperative under all the circumstances of the case. He then adverted to the important fact of the Bible being forbidden to the laity by the Catholic clergy, the facts had often been denied by the Morning Register, and the Freeman's Journal, and had been denounced by O'Connell as 'untrue and unfounded,' but he hoped to send the fact forth from this meeting so thoroughly authenticated that no man could venture to deny it again. The reverend gentleman then read an extract from the Council of Trent, containing the celebrated passage condemning the indiscriminate perusal of the Scriptures in the vulgar tongue, calling for 'the judgment of the Bishop or Inquisition' on delinquents-empowering the Priest or Confessor' to appoint a fitting penance, and, in the case of contumacy, refuse absolution, and so let the offender die in his sin. The reverend gentleman next read and commented on the encyclical letter of Pope Leo XII. denouncing the Bible Society, and renewing the prohibition on the reading of the Holy Scriptures, which, in the hands of that Society, had become a human Gospel, or (still worse) had become the gospel of the devil. He quoted the Pope's letter in 1824, recognising, re-asserting, and enforcing the former prohibitory injunctions stated the readiness which the Irish Catholic Bishops received, promulgated, and commented on it, and rendering it imperative on the defaulter to give up the prescribed Book to the parish priest. This is not a mere Brutum fulmen. Dr. Troy was examined respecting its efficiency. He was asked if those who disobeyed the pastoral injunctions were received at sacrament? He replied, "Certainly not.' If schools were established by Protestants, and the parish priest entertained conscientious scruples against allowing the children of his flock to attend, and, in conclusion, warned the parents to keep them from such Schools, would the parents sin by disobeying him? He answered, Certainly.' When asked, Where would people go who died in mortal sin? He replied, To hell for all eternity!' Dr. Doyle had avowed the case of a peasant who was denied the sacrament for reading the Word of God; and Dr. Murray had written to the Commissioners of Education, to say "that they need not give themselves any trouble in making any extracts from Scripture, as the Schools would go on very well without them.' Dr. Doyle had indeed boasted that his Church had a Bible, published here in the vulgar tongue, but then its price was 188., beyond the means of a peasant to pay! Here it is (holding up a Douay Bible)! and he would read a few lines from its index, as characteristic of the views of the Church of Rome of the Holy Scriptures,' viz. 'Hard to be understood!—often wrested by, men to their own destruction!-not of private interpretation!-corrupted by heretics! Is this all that can be said in favour of the Word of God? Well-meaning persons have been misled by the sophism set forth on the part of the national system of education. Commissioners say, 'The Bible is good?" Granted. All parts are good?' Certainly. The Why, then, (they ask) not join with the Catholics to promulgate all the good you can, though partial?' This was the sophism which brought ruin to Ireland. The parts were. all good in their proper place, but arranged merely as a historical or moral compilation, instead of bringing life and salvation, they would inflict death and destruction on men's souls. What availed morality without a saving faith in HIм whose blood was shed for us on the cross? He would not attempt to distil the essence of the Scriptures and leave a Caput Mortuum behind. The Commissioners virtually say to the God of wisdom and glory, 'Your Word complete, however fit for the rest of the world, is too unworthy of the meridian of Ireland!' What right had human worms to impanel a jury to sit in judgment on the living God?-(Applause). Shall we be a party to such an impious outrage? Shall we pass sentence on HIM as on a felon, and commit him to a dungeon, as one fit to walk in the light of liberty, which his Word dispenses to created man? My Lord, (said Mr. M'Ghee,) you give us power and authority to preach the Word of faith and salvation, through Jesus Christ, and will again withdraw two-thirds of the words of God again from our grasp? Would you go there in the character of a national schoolmaster?-God forbid. It was his duty and inclination to respect the constituted authorities of the land, but if ever he were called on imperatively to abandon the principle of Scriptural education, he would say, like the apostle, If it be right to hearken unto God, or unto men, judge ye.' If ever the Protestants of Ireland be asked, 'Will you give up the whole Word as the means of education?' he trusted that one unanimous shout would reach from north to south, bursting from the hearts of a united people, who will exclaim, Never."-(Shouts of Never, and enthusiastic applause.) From the Rev. James Allen to the On Monday last, I left home for Erris, and preached in the town of Crossmolina in the way. In this town all the respectable inhaBallina, Dec. 19th, 1831. bitants, with one or two exceptions, attended. MY DEAR BRETHREN, Besides this, there were many Roman CathoI send you with this, the journals of lics; and, in fact, many who could not get in the Itinerant Readers, the accounts for were obliged to go away. On Tuesday eventhe present quarter, and a letter from ing, I arrived at Bingham's Castle, and had Mrs. Allen. Since I last wrote I have been a conference with Major B., the proprietor of constantly and busily employed. The pota- the castle and a great part of Erris, upon the the crops are now dug; and the children subject of establishing schools. It would, in who, for the last six or seven weeks, have my own opinion, require great caution and been employed in the fields, are now return- deliberation, especially at this period, before ing to the Schools. During my late tour it should be attempted. I took with me a among them, I found them as numerous, and large quantity of tracts, besides Testaments, the progress as great, as at any previous pe- &c. and distributed them among such of the riod. The country about us is very tranquil people as were able to read. The people at present; and the Night Schools are doing themselves seem to be heartily tired of being well. The Itinerant Readers were never priest-ridden; but they are too ignorant at more actively and usefully employed. I should present to refuse to submit. If any one think that, within the last quarter, from doubted the degrading tendency of popery, I 1500 to 2000 tracts have been distributed, would refer him to the district of Erris. and are eagerly read. Of these I have distributed 300 or 400 with my own hand, within the last two weeks. Our supply is now nearly exhausted; and I hope, therefore, you will not fail to send us more at the earliest possible period. I should prefer those upon the popish controversy, judiciously se-ing, I conversed with such as appeared to be lected, as these are most extensively sought and read. I I would just relate one circumstance connected with my stay in Erris, which will serve to illustrate the spirit of popery. preached at Binghamstown, on Wednesday last, to about 150 persons, the greater part of whom were priest Lyons' flock. After preach leaders among them, and requested that they would write down the names of such persons The past month has been to me one con- as were desirous for a school, and that I tinued scene of activity. In the early part would return from the castle to examine their of the month, I was engaged amongst the list on the following day. I did so, many schools and villages. Since then I visited were exceedingly anxious, but the news was Brother Wilson, attended upon the adminis- carried to priest Lyons as soon as I had left tration of the ordinance of Baptism by him town; the bellman was sent round, the in the sea near to Sligo, preached for the In- whole flock was assembled on that very evendependents in that town, and returned home.ing, though it was dusk before I left town |