the funeral cortege sets out but never arrives at the grave. He reasons about it thus, "The authorized version speaks of Moses as being buried, Deu. xxxiv. 6. The Hebrew word qabar signifies to perform funeral observances, and is rendered in the Septuagint, thapto, the first meaning of which is to perform funeral rites. The word qabar, like the Greek thapto, can therefore be properly used when there is a funeral and no burial or interment of the corpse." Mr. G. finds an instance of such a funeral in the case of Jehoiakim, where the same word qabar is used. See Jer. xxii. 19, " He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem." Now, says Mr. G., "a word used in reference to Jehoiakim, who was never buried, cannot indicate with certainty that Moses was buried."

Of course it can, and of course it does. The evident meaning of the passage in Jeremiah is that Jehoiakim should have a burial which was not worth calling a burial-that his body, like that of a dead ass, should be thrown into a pit, or left a prey for beasts and birds. The word man does not lose its meaning because it is sometimes applied to a two-legged creature who is unworthy of the name; and the word burial does not lose its meaning because it is here applied to a burial not worth calling one. If there is a Hebrew word in scripture which means "to bury," qabar is that word. It no more means a funeral without a burial, than baptizo means a baptism without an immersion. Its "primary idea," says Gesenius, "is that of heaping up a mound:" and do not the mounds in our cemeteries tell of buried bodies? This word is used in the Old Testament no fewer than forty-six times; and if it does not mean buried, then Miriam, Num. xx. 1; Aaron, Deu. x. 6; Abraham and Sarah, Gen. xxv. 10, have never yet found a sepulchre, for this is the only word which tells of their burial.

Again, so far as the Septuagint word thapto is concerned-the word which gives Mr. G. so much relief, because it tells of "funeral rites" rather than of a burial-that word is used several times in the New Testament; but, alas for Mr. G. the "funeral rites" it speaks of are burial and interment. It is the word which tells us concerning John the beheaded, that "his disciples came and took up the body and buried it," Matt. xiv. 12. It is also the word which informs us concerning Him who loved us and died for us, "that He was buried,” Cor. xv. 4. With either word, therefore (qabar or thapto) we are equally safe and scriptural in concluding that Moses was really buried.

We do not wonder that Mr. G. should be anxious to keep Moses out of the grave, for once in the grave he would be incapable (according to his theory) of appearing on the Mount of Transfiguration. Our only wonder is that he should resort to such strange shifts to overcome the difficulty. Discarding the only tenable theory which will account for this, viz., that of the division of man's nature into soul and body, Mr. G. can only explain the after appearance of Moses by tampering with the well-established meaning of certain scripture words, and by an equally unwarrantable, unworthy, and gratuitous supposition, that Moses had a burial akin to the one Dean Ramsay mentions, in which the mourners, anxious to drink as much whiskey at the funeral as was drunk at the christening, went forth in such a condition that when they reached the grave the corpse was missing. Mr. G. says that Moses had a funeral; but that his body, somehow, never reached the grave.

"There is no sound

A more untenable theory we have seldom examined. ness in it." It breaks down at every point where it is tested. It is crude, scrappy, and ill-formed. It would have been better for Mr. G.'s reputation if he had never published it. Mr. G. is an able and, we believe, conscientious minister of the gospel; and he has shown, ere this, at considerable cost to himself, that he not only has convictions, but that he has the courage to stand forth in defence of truth and righteousness before men, magistrates, and judges. We know Mr. G., and we have talked and laughed together over this theory of his; and now, in spite of all that we have said against his book, we hold Mr. G. in high esteem, and we cannot close this review without assuring those of our readers who are most jealous for orthodoxy that Mr. G. is really very much better than his creed. J. FLETCHER.

Chilwell College.

THE following Circular has been issued, and we venture to speak for it a welcome everywhere, and a speedy and generous response :

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MY DEAR SIR,-May I ask your kind attention to the following appeal? Three years ago it was felt by the Committee of the College that alterations in the premises at Chilwell in order to provide additional domestic accommodation were urgently required, and could no longer be delayed. It was felt also that, in view of the growing needs of our churches, and the increasing number of applications from young men desirous of availing themselves of the privileges of the College-some of which had to be declined for want of room-additional accommodation should also be provided for students, so that a larger number of young men might be constantly under training at the College, and the wants of the vacant churches of the denomination be more adequately supplied. The necessary alterations were agreed upon at the Association at Leicester in 1877, and are now completed. Four bed-rooms, three new studies and a bath-room, have been added to the premises; and besides better domestic arrangements, there is now accommodation for fifteen students. The present session commenced with fourteen students, all the new rooms being occupied save one.

The cost of the enlargement, including furniture and other expenses, has been £440. Towards this sum about £113 have been raised by special donations. For the remaining £327 this appeal is now made to the friends of the Institution. With a full house the ordinary annual income of the College will need to be permanently increased, and continued attention to the subscription list, and to congregational collections will be requisite to prevent annual deficits. It is, therefore, extremely undesirable that a charge of interest upon debt should be added to the annual expenditure, thereby offering a constant check upon the increasing usefulness and efficiency of the College. Will you kindly join with the friends who have already responded to the appeal, and whose names are given,* in the effort to discharge this debt at once? The time favours new enterprise and new liberality in Christian work. The generous gifts which originally secured the purchase of the College premises, there is now an opportunity to imitate and supplement. A prompt and hearty co-operation in this movement by friends old and new, by former Students of the College, and by all the ministers and churches of the denomination, will occasion much thanksgiving and rejoicing at the forthcoming annual meeting of the Association at Nottingham. I beg, therefore, respectfully and earnestly, to solicit from you, my dear sir, a donation towards this worthy and desirable object at your earliest convenience, and have the honour to remain, your obedient servant,

The

THOMAS GOADBY, President of Chilwell College.

Association,

I. BEDS.-Pastors and delegates requiring beds during the Association are requested to send stamped and addressed envelop to Mr. THOMAS GOODLIFFE, 40, Bridlesmith Gate, Nottingham, on or before Saturday, June 11th. After that date the Local Committee cannot possibly undertake to provide accommodation. Those who have made their own arrangements will oblige by communicating their Nottingham addresses to the Local Secretary, THOS. GOODliffe.

II. THE MINISTERS' RECEPTION AND LIST REVISION COMMITTEE for 1880 consists of Revs. E. C. Clarke, B.A., T. Goadby, B.A., S. S. Allsop, Messrs. C. Roberts, R. Johnson, J. Binns. Each Conference Secretary is hereby requesed to notify any Student or Minister accepting a pastorate within his Conference area, of the existence and requirements of this Committee, and forward his application, together with a report of all Ministerial changes within the same area, to Rev. C. Clarke, B.A., Ashby-de-la-Zouch.

N.B.-No name can be inserted in the List of Ministers without the sanction of this Committee, or of the Association. J. FLETCHER, Association Secretary.

* See Advertisement, first page.

Boys and their Teachers.

FOR THE YOUNG.

BY RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE.

WHEN I was myself a very small child, I went with my mother to visit a person very famous in her day, and of known excellence, Mrs. Hannah More. I believe I was four years old at the time, and I remember that she presented me with one of her little books, not uninteresting for children, and that she told me she gave me the gift because I had just come into the world and she was just going out. She was then very old. The feeling which comes upon people who are advanced in yeers is that they really wish that they could say something to enable you, who are now very young, to realize in your minds-to get practical hold in your own minds-of many truths that you will learn in the course of experience, in order that the learning of them may be more easy and the less bitter.

There is an immense importance-an importance greater than you can measure -in all that you are now doing; and this day on which we are met together for a single hour, or less, may be who knows?—a determining day in the life of some of you. But what is really wanted is to light up the spirit that is within a boy. In some sense, and in some degree-in some effectual degree-there is in every boy the material of good work in the world, in every boy, not only in those who are brilliant, not only in those who are quick, but in those who are solid, and even in those who are dull, or seem to be dull. If they have only the good will, the dullness will clear away day by day under the influence of the good will. If they will only exert themselves they will find that every day's exertion makes the effort easier and more delightful, or at any rate less painful, or will lead to its becoming delightful in due time.

I know from practical experience that the first beginning of effort, and the reward of effort, is a most important event in life. I can recollect it from experience. I can recollect the first occasion. Perhaps it was according to the fashion of schools at the time when I was a boy, but at the school where I was we were all taught to be very much like one another, and I don't recollect that any effort of any kind was made to establish a distinction between us; nor do I believe that anybody was much better or much worse than the rest. But that was a sleepy method of pursuit. Well, now, my friends, you are in more happy circumstances, because great changes have taken place, not only in the labours, but in the energy, and care, and affection which are infused into the work of schools.

It is impossible for you to be too grateful for the pains bestowed upon you, for it is not an easy work, the work of teaching. I advise you, and I hope you will contribute, by your own efforts, everything which is in your power, to lighten your teacher's labours, and show him that they are appreciated, and that you wish to make him your friend. Show him that you feel that he is making every effort for your good. Again, I say, do all that you can to help him, and it will be an immense consolation to him-it will tend to remove that feeling of irksomeness which is inseparable from teaching when the boys are unwilling to learn. There are few things in the world more beautiful and satisfactory than the kindling of the connection that grows between earnest teachers and willing boys. It is not only the brilliancy, it is not only the facility, with which a boy works, it is the will. There is not one of you who has not got it greatly in your power to assist our friend, your teacher, in this work, and, depend upon it, if it were necessary to refer to selfish motives, the more you lend him that assistance, the more yourselves will take the benefit from his toil.

THE RIGHT AND THE PLEASANT.-That may be right which is not pleasant, and that pleasant which is not right; but Christ's religion is both. There is not only peace in the end of religion, but peace in the way.-Matthew Henry.

LYING AND TRUTH.-Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.—Tillotson.

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