unconscious and apparently unconcerned, whilst his disciples are in the greatest trepidation, asleep like a man! Him they 'see advancing; and, with majestic power and sovereign authority, they hear Him whisper to the winds, and waves, and tempests-peace be still-instantly the waves retire, the tempest is hushed, the wind is still. The spectators, astonished and filled with admiration, exclaim-"What manner of Man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?”

I might proceed, my dear friend, and, from the word of God, exhibit Jesus as receiving Divine Honours, Heb. i. 6.-As conferring Forgiveness of sin, Matt. ix. 2.-As the Object of Faith, John xiv. 1.-John viii. 24. and as the Judge of all men. I might lead you to His sepulchre, and shew him triumphing over principalities and powers; but what has been said will, I trust, lead you to consider the proofs that abound throughout the Scriptures, to compare them together, and particularly to attend to the different déclarations of the Prophets, and examine how "far they apply to our Lord and Saviour.

Before I conclude, suffer me to advert to the attestation borne to the Character of Christ as God by John the Baptist; by His -disciples and by various others.

The testimony of John is striking-John i. 32, 34.-" I saw and bare record that this is the Son of God." The Apostles in their discourses and writings bore the same witness; they preached in His name, repentance and remission of sins through His blood. Indeed if Jesus Christ were not God, it must be ad'mitted, (and I speak with reverence) that His mode of speaking concerning Himself was most incautious as well as obscure, and that His apostles were culpable in using such language as that which appears in their writings. Read as specimens Col. i. 15, and Hebrews i. 3.

Pliny, who was governor of Bithynia, under the Emperor Trajan, A. D. 103. writing to that Emperor, says that the Christians met on a certain day, before it was light, and addressed themselves in a prayer to Christ as to a God. His words are these, "Solent stato die, ante lucem convenire; carmenque CHRISTO, quasi Deo, dicere secum invicem.”

Justin Martyr, who flourished A. D. 155, had been a heathen philosopher; after his conversion to Christianity, he published

two Apologies in its favour. In one of them he says, “ The Pagans tax us with Atheism-if they mean a refusal to worship any God, we disown the charge-The true God, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, we worship and adore."

The doctrine of our Lord's Deity is important in every part of the Christian system. It renders His atonement infinitely valuable and efficacious, and His Intercession powerful and availing. Oh how firm is the hope that is built upon Him! how solid the friendship that is formed with Him. Let him have your entire confidence, and seek your joy in Him. May I beg your attention to the subject, and that you will consider me always, Your most affectionate friend,

Jan. 1829.

OF PAPER AND PARCHMENT.

R. C. W.

VARIOUS are the materials on which mankind, in different ages and countries have contrived to write their sentiments, as on stones, bricks, leaves of herbs and trees, thin rinds or barks; also on tables of wood, wax, and ivory; to which may be added plates of lead, linen rolls, &c. At length the Egyptian papyrus was invented, then parchment, afterwards cotton paper, and lastly, the common or linen paper. The Egyptian paper, which was principally used, according to the ancients, was made of a rush called papyrus, growing principally about the banks of the Nile, from whence the word paper is derived.

The honour of the invention of parchment is usually ascribed to Eumenes, king of Pergamus, who reigned about 245 A. C. though in reality that prince appears only to have improved the manner of preparing parchment, for the Persians are said to have used parchment, upwards of 300 before Christ. Paper from cotton rags, is a sort of paper that has been in use upwards of 800 years, as is shewn by Montfaucon, from several authorities.

In the French king's library are MSS in this paper, which, by the character and other circumstances, appear to be of the 10th century. Rees Cyclo. Britt.

This agrees with Guthrie, who says it was invented about the year 1000. Vide Tables. EUGENIO.

THE fishermen are a finer race here than those in the neighbourhood of Calcutta, and their boats better. They have also large sieves, like those on the Hooghly; yet many circumstances in their equipments are extremely rude. Many have for sail a mat, or cloth, suspended between two bamboos, one on each gunwale, like the New Zealanders; and one skiff passed us scudding under a yet simpler contrivance-two men standing up in her, and extending each a garment with his feet and hands. I have seen some such representations of Cupids and Venuses on gems, but little thought that the thing had its prototype in real life, and was the practice of any modern boatman. HEBER.

BEAUTIES OF HEBREW.

Ir has been asserted by an eminent Hebraist, and I believe the sentiment to be an incontrovertible truth, "that there never has been nor ever can be an Infidel perfectly acquainted with the Original Language of the Old Testament," for such transcendent beauties, and peerless elegance, in that sacred language, adorn every part of Holy writ, that surely the most sceptical mind could not refrain from exclaiming, "the hand that made it is Divine."

What has already been said in a former number of the Youths' Magazine, respecting the excellence of this inestimable and most interesting branch of knowledge, has rendered it unnecessary to expatiate on the importance of becoming acquainted with it; but with a view to support the testimony there given, and in the humble hope that it may be instrumental in keeping alive that desire of information on the subject, that appears to be enkindling in the breasts of some of the readers, I have selected the following, as a brief specimen of the inimitable beauties of that language.

As the rays of light in the morning break through the lattices of eastern chambers, the dawning of the day is called

In the same figurative beauty of expression, a Bird is called

Wine

Mighty Cedars

Flame

An unworthy Son

The Sea shore

A Sharp Rock

[yoke.

.The eyelids of the Morning Dawn עפעפים שחר

,A master of the wing בעל כנף ,Blood of the grape דם ענב .Cedars of God ארזי אל .Tongue of fire לשן אש A son of Belial, or no בן בליעל .Lip of the sea שפת הים ,A tooth of rock שן סלע .Men of secrecy מתים סתר

.A man of lips איש שפתים

.Son of the floor בן וני . .Son of the bow בן נשת .Sons of the burning coal בני רשף .A master of hair בעל שער ,A master of covenant בעל ברית ,Dying thou shalt die מת ימת

Intimate Friends .
Deserving of death. .
ASlanderer or evil-speaker
A Speaker

An hundred years old
Thresher of Corn

An Arrow or Archer

A man of death.
A man of tongue.

NDA son of a hundred years.

ACCOUNT OF JERUSALEM.

Διδυκος.

THIS eminent city, it is said, was founded by Melchisedek, the high priest, on the hills Moriah and Acra, B. C. 1981, and called by him Salem, (peace.) After sixty years it fell into the power of the Jebusites, a tribe descended from Jebus, the

son of Chanaan, who extended its walls and built a fortress on Mount Sion which they called after their common father, and gave the city the name Jerusalem, the vision of tranquillity. Joshua advanced against it and took possession of the lower part, but the Jebusites still held the upper town and the citadel of Jebus, and were never finally dislodged till the reign of David, 824 years after they had established themselves in the city of Melchisedek. David strengthened the fortress, built a palace for himself, and a tabernacle on Mount Sion for the ark of God, and Solomon constructed and dedicated the celebrated temple which bore his name.

The city was besieged and plundered five years after Solomon's death, by Shishak, king of Egypt, (2 Chron. xii. 2.) and was ravaged again 150 years after by Hazael, king of Syria, (2 Chron. xxiv. 23.) and besieged again by the Assyrians in the reign of Manasseh, who was carried captive to Babylon. At length in the reign of Zedekiah, Nebuchadnezzar completed its destruction, burned the temple, and sent the inhabitants prisoners to his own capital. This event occurred 470 years after its foundation was laid by Solomon, A. M. 3513, and about 500 before the birth of Christ. After seventy years Zerubbabel began to rebuild the temple, which was finally completed by Ezra and Nehemiah.

Alexander the Great offered sacrifices in the new temple, A. M. 3650. Jerusalem was afterwards taken by Ptolemy, king of Egypt, and recaptured by Antiochus, who plundered the capital and placed the statue of Jupiter Olympius in the sanctuary of the temple. The Maccabees once more gave freedom to their country, but a dispute arising between Aristobulus and Hircanus the chiefs of that family, they applied to the Romans, and in consequence Pompey hastened to Jerusalem and soon possessed the temple. Hircanus was supported by the Romans and was for some time successful, but Antigonus, the son of Aristobulus, induced by the followers of Pompey, made war against his uncle Hircanus, who was at length taken prisoner.

Herod the Great, son of Antipater, an officer in the court of Hircanus, assisted by the Romans, seized on the throne, and Antigonus was at length delivered into the hands of Herod,