with eminent humility. Did not humility and godly sorrow bring in faith, the law would not be our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. This shuts out that easy, merry, proud faith, that springs up without the dunging of humility, or watering of sorrow according to God.

CHRIST THE DOOR OF THE PROMISES.

THE Promises give us an interest in Heaven, but it is Christ that gives us an interest in the Promises. He opens the mouth of a Promise to speak comfort to us. In Him they are all yea and amen, but out of Him they all cry, 'No, no, we have nothing for you who are out of Christ.' They will deny all the world that comes not in his name, and never let out any thing of their treasure to such, no wringing out of one drop of solid comfort. Christ is the door of every promise: let us not think to make a forcible entry, to climb up at the windows, like thieves, to steal out mercy, as if we cared not how we came by it; you will find that what is so gotten will thrive accordingly, and quickly come to nothing.

POETRY.

THE LAKES OF WESTMORELAND.

SWEET Scenes of peace! Amid such calm retreats
A weary mind, worn with the vexing jars
And idle bustles of a busy world,
Sinks to repose. Nature's lone loveliness
Is all around: no sight, no sound of men,

Or of their works is here. Still could I gaze,
And muse, forgetful of the world, and feel

Drawn up above it to a purer sphere,

In fancy I could deem this little spot -
Unblighted by the curse, unscathed by sin
Which withered with pestiferous breath
The bloom of fresh creation. Yet not so;
For over these bright scenes dark error spreads
Its sable pall; enshrouding in its gloom
The minds of men, so that by things visible
They understand not things invisible.
To minds thus closed; even, Emmanuel!
Thy Eternal power, who stretchedst forth
The glowing curtain of the wondrous skies;
Reared up on high the everlasting hills,
And taught the shining stream how to trace
Unchangingly, its line of lucid light;

Oh! in thy works they see thee not who give
To senseless nature praise, without a thought
On nature's God. Sole source and spring of all
That was or is to be!

But shall a soul

Led but a little to the light of truth

Venture in cold indifference to view

The works which thou hast made, so wondrous fair,
And fail to cast in lowliness a mite

Of grateful incense on the glorious fane
Where angel and archangel ceaseless pour
Vials of odours to the Lamb of God?

No! Almighty! Thine own works shall praise thee
And thy saints must bless thee, while the prayer
Of travailing creation, waiting long,

Is breathed unceasing- Hasten, Lord, the time!'
That time, when the dark kingdoms of this world,
Its thrones and temples shall be found no more,
But in their stead, One kingdom, and that thine,
One throne, erected to the Lamb of God,
One temple, of this earth regenerate
Formed; wherein, for evermore, pure incense
And a holy offering shall be poured
To Him, who, long rejected, hath at length
'T'aken his power and reigned. Even so,
Redeemer, let thy blessed kingdom come!
'Then shall the glory, long withheld, be thine,

And thine the praise who hast made all things new. SB.

Rev. H. A. SIMCOE, (Penheale-Press) Cornwall.

THE CORNISH PAROCHIAL VISITOR.

ARRIVED at the close of the first year of our existence, we are anxious to look back upon the space over which we have travelled, and with much trembling to ask, how far we have been enabled to make good the purposes we had in view in coming amongst you. In the character of "Cornish Parochial Visitor," we have every reason to be abundantly thankful that the answer we anticipated at our first knocking, "If thou comest in God's name come in," has been far more

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generally given than we could have hoped. that, through various causes, some have since that, rather unceremoniously, and even unkindly, turned us out of doors; but as it was principally in the month of July, we had time to look out for a warmer habitation before the winter quarter, and have to be thankful that other friends were found to take us in, so that we had not to stand begging for admittance at this shivering season, but rather to thank our Cornish friends for our share in that Cornish hospitality so well known to all; and we rest fully assured that, as far as we are spared in the next year, we shall still find the same.

As to the other character in which we came among you, as “Light from the West," we have to speak with more fear and trembling. Whether our 'little book' has been sufficiently entertaining to suit the views of some or not; whether our "Light" has been sufficiently brilliant to suit the views of others is a matter of small importance; but whether it has been, like that of the Eddystone, sufficiently clear to warn the sinner of the

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'rocks and shoals” upon which thousands suffer shipwreck between the shores of time and eternity; whether it has been sufficient to guide the heaven-bound passenger safely on his course to the desired haven---this is a point we are deeply anxious about. In fact, the answer to this question would determine the fate of our work. By this we desire to stand or fall. We feel it indeed a small thing to be judged of man, or of man's judgment either way, though we are willing to learn from the remarks of them that receive us not as well as to take cheerful encouragement from the testimony of those who have found our "Light" cheering

and profitable. We feel it great cause of thankfulness, that we have not yet come under the lash of that woe denounced in Luke vi. 26; in fact, did we ourselves, or our "Light," receive the good word of all men, it would be high time that both should be extinguished.

With regard to the articles on Charms,' we wonder not that many should have turned us out on that account- the craft is in danger.

Of another article which has called forth remonstrances of every nature, kind and unkind, ignorant and learned--" Weak Grace Victorious," we have somewhat more to say. The question, (page 133)' whether that vital principle or habit of grace put into the heart by the powerful operation of the Holy Ghost at the conversion of the soul be not perpetually preserved and cherished by the same Spirit so that it never dies?' is one of the greatest importance. This question our article answers in the affirmative, and in our opinion unanswerably; from the nature of grace; from the love, power, holiness, wisdom, and glory of the Father; from the hand which Christ has in this work; and from scriptural proof. The single scriptural proof in the July number, (page 153)—the number which has called forth most hard names from those who had no better method of argument-seems to set the question quite at rest. If the believer is one that is born again not of corruptible but of incorruptible seed which lives and abides for ever, by what process is this life to be extinguished? The life of the plant depends upon the life of the seed, but this seed (the seed of grace) is incorruptible, therefore the plant produced by it is incorruptible. Q. E. D. We feel that 'in the midst of regeneration, justification, adoption, we should droop,