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OLIVE-TREES NOW STANDING IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE.

IN our last Number we introduced a drawing of the present appearance of Mount Sinai. We here give a view of the present appearance of the Garden of Gethsemane. To the devout readers of Scripture, every place which was the scene of the great events recorded in the sacred volume possesses peculiar interest; and the accounts brought home by modern travellers, and the drawings which they have made on the spot, have consequently excited much attention. The Garden of Gethsemane is one of the sacred places which is visited by every Christian pilgrim. It is very near to Jerusalem, and is situated between the foot of the Mount of Olives and the brook Kedron. It was a place to which our blessed Lord and His Apostles were accustomed frequently to resort. It was in this garden that Judas the false Apostle went, with a number of officers, to betray his Master; and here it was that our Saviour endured His bitter agony. When Mr. Catherwood was on the spot two years ago, he found almond and fig-trees, and some very old olive-trees. Eight of the olive-trees are so large, that they are said to have been in existence ever since the time of Jesus Christ. This, however, is not likely to be true; for Josephus (the Jewish historian) says, that Titus, after having destroyed Jerusalem, cut down all the trees within one hundred furlongs of the city. It is probable, however, that these trees, which are exceedingly old, may have arisen from the roots of the ancient trees; for the olive is very long-lived, and will shoot up very frequently after having been cut down. The trees now standing in the Garden of Gethsemane are wild olives, and appear pollarded from extreme old age.

At the upper end of the garden is a naked ledge of rock, where Peter and James and John are said to have slept during our Lord's agony; and, a few paces from this, a grotto has been made on the spot where he is said to have endured the bitterest part of his agony, when "His sweat was, as it were, great drops of blood falling down to the ground." A small plot of ground, twelve

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yards long, is separated as accursed ground, being the spot where Judas betrayed his Master with a kiss.

The country is in the hands of the Turks; the walls of Jerusalem are seen on the upper part of the picture. The Christians who live in the neighbourhood are chiefly of the Roman Catholic faith. They have great veneration for every place connected with the Scripture history, and describe all the particulars as if they knew the very situation of every place described in the Bible. These accounts, however, are not to be depended on, the particular spots of the Scriptural scenes and miracles cannot be now known; but the general resemblance is quite sufficient to confirm the truth of the statements of Scripture. There is an engraving of the Garden of Gethsemane in Mr. Finden's elegant work of " Landscape Illustrations of the Bible," of which our print is a humble imitation.

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On a Robin Redbreast singing in St. Edward's Church, Cambridge, on Advent Sunday, during the time of divine service.

HAIL! little feather'd minstrel, hail!

Thy notes are sacred here;

They o'er thy wood-notes far prevail,
Melodiously clear!

In pure and unaffected lays,

You join the ADVENT hymn of praise!

You choose within our Maker's shrine,
To spend the sabbath-day;

O may thy choice be ever mine

May I the call obey!

In pure and unaffected lays,

To join the ADVENT hymn of praise !

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MEETING AT CHELSEA FOR THE OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH.

Ar a meeting held in the Infant School Room at Chelsea, on Tuesday evening, July 19, many excellent speeches were delivered by the clergymen and gentlemen in the neighbourhood, pointing out the duty and the advantages of a religious observance of the sabbath. Whether or not much will be done, or can be done, by the force

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of law, to promote a right observance of the Lord's day, it is certain that much may be done, and that much has been done, by the interest which the discussion of the question has excited throughout the country. Numbers of individuals have altered their former habits in consequence of being led to consider what was the manner in which a Christian ought to pass the day which the Almighty has appointed to be kept holy. Their example has been imitated by others, and thus much good has been done. Those who have been thus led to see the benefit of giving one day to the peculiar duties of God's worship, have soon felt the happiness as well as the advantage of their change; and the good effect of this has been seen in their general conduct during the rest of the week. A mere formal observance of the Sabbath is no proof of the heart being right towards God; for none ever were more strict in the outward observance of the Sabbath than the Pharisees of old, but there were none whose hearts were more set against Christ and his religion and there are many Pharisees in our own days who observe all outward forms, but who have no love for Christ in their hearts. But if the love of God be really grafted in our hearts by His Spirit, then shall we keep His Sabbaths, and shall consider His day as a means of preparing us for all the other duties which His Gospel requires.

Among the many excellent speeches which were made at the meeting of the Chelsea Association, there was none which attracted more notice than that of Mr. Chancellor, who was himself an example of the good effect produced by the interest which has been excited on this subject. Mr. Chancellor is well known as one of the largest and most respectable proprietors of carriages let out for hire in the neighbourhood of London, and has likewise a great concern in stage-coaches and omnibuses. Now, in the neighbourhood of London, unhappily, Sunday is often the most profitable day to these proprietors; so that whoever tries to point out to such persons the evil of making the Sabbath a day of work and of worldly gain, does in fact propose that this person should make a great sacrifice of his worldly interest. This, to a worldly-minded

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man seems hard; and though perhaps in the end there may be no real loss, yet there is a certain present loss and thus worldly interest will always be fighting against spiritual good. When, however, the right spirit of Christ's religion touches the heart, all other considerations give way at once. A person who was present has sent us some portions of Mr. Chancellor's speech, written down from memory.

MR. CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH AT THE MEETING.

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ABOUT four years and a half ago, it pleased God to turn my heart to Him, and I need not tell my Christian friends, that when the heart is changed, the conduct will be changed also. It then came into my mind that I was acting wrongly in allowing my public conveyances to run on the Sabbath-day, but I had great doubts what to do, for I knew that if I gave it up, it would be a loss of 500l. a year to me; and my family was large. I made it a subject of prayer to God, and at length my mind was quite made up on the subject. It is impossible to describe the peace and happiness which I have enjoyed since I made this resolution; I would not return to my former practice if you were to lay 10,000 pounds before me. I always now too pay my men early on Saturday morning, instead of Saturday night; and great is the benefit which has resulted from it. I used often to hear of their joining in riots at the public-houses near, on Saturday nights, but now nothing of the kind occursnot one of my men is ever drunk, nor do I hear of their using improper language. Our Sunday is really a day of rest. It is delightful to me to see my men at Church, and reading their Bibles; my wife and I distribute tracts among them on Sunday mornings, and they often come and ask me such questions about religion as quite stagger and astonish me. I desire not to speak thus in my own praise-to God be all the glory, for He has done it all. I wish many of my neighbours might be induced to follow my example; for they would find happiness from it here, and I am sure they would in heaven.

M. D.

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AT a neighbour's house, I was lately asked to try a glass of Treacle Beer, which had been made exactly according to the receipt sent by our correspondent B. and inserted in our last number (page 343). It was a pleasant sort of beer, very like spruce beer; and is in fact much the same, but the spruce is not added; and this omission to many tastes makes it more pleasant. It must be a wholesome, mild and nourishing drink. It is sweet in consequence of the treacle. All beer is naturally sweet; it is the sugary part of the malt which makes common beer; and in this there is a degree of nourishment. The hops are put in to make it keep, and they give it a different sort of flavour. Beer may be made of anything that has sugar in it, but malt has been generally used, as having been considered to produce this sugar at the cheapest rate. Those who like to try the treacle beer may make it at a very trifling expense. The yeast gives so much fermentation, that it is not safe to use glass bottles; stone ones, moreover, are cheaper, such as are generally used for ginger beer; and it would be well to tie the cork down. It would be a great thing for the pockets as well as for the morals of labouring people if they could get rid of the notion that a great quantity of beer gives them a great deal of strength; it is a very wrong, and a very expensive fancy. The use of drinking is to quench the thirst; but, after a sufficient quantity has been taken for that purpose, every fresh glass of strong beer only makes a man more thirsty. The treacle beer is quite as nourishing as the strongest ale, and will quench the thirst without heating the stomach. Ginger beer too is a wholesome, cooling sort of refreshment in hot weather. It is pleasant to see that many people in the streets of London will now stop and take a glass of ginger beer, which is sold for a penny, instead of going and heating and besotting themselves among bad company at the alehouse.

RED CURRANT JELLY WITHOUT BOILING.

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PICK from the stalks and strain either red or white currants into a basin or pan, (having first weighed the pan)

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