battered and forlorn when she comes back on the wings of another spring.

It would be, perhaps, wonderful, as far as human nature is concerned, it no one had stepped forward and said, 'I can cure your unfortunate son ma'am.' We did not happen to have any surgeon in our village, and we regarded that rather as a blessing than otherwise. There was, it is true, old Nancy Foster, famous for her pills, potions, and plaisters, and withal of so famous a tongue that she could talk anybody into doing almost anything, coax the refractory, or rouse the dispirited, persuade a tenant into with drawing his notice, and sway the whole village as seemed best to her own queenly will; but there was no one, as yet, who had discovered that everything in medicine was wrong, and he alone could put it, and the world, to rights; so that as far as Hawthingtonians were concerned, was left untempted by any of these marvellous restorers of human life. But even this was not to continue long. A young physician had recently come to Laxton, a market town, some six miles off, and was reported extraordinarily clever; and either he must come to me, or I must go to him, at least, so said the people at the Hall. He came to me; a tall, pale, young man, of aristocratic mien and prepossessing manners, with a tremendous silver-headed cane; mumbled to himself a good deal, as he examined me, about currents, discharges, and electrical chains, and finally said he would bring a machine to operate upon me the following day. He brought his electric machine, and tried to put something like life into my poor crossed legs, but all seemed in vain. Day by day be came, and I submitted, because I could not help myself, to the torture, only craving it might soon cease, one way or other. One day, he saw from my dejected countenance, that I was dispirited, aud he enlarged so tenderly upon how I might, if I grew better, ramble in the green fields, and join in all gambols of the youths, in, as well as the out-of-doors, that I was lost in a dream of hillocks of new-mown hay, over which I tumbled in glee; new life seemed to run down my legs, and to the amazement of all, I loudly

declared I could walk. I tried, tumbled all my length, and bruised myself sorely, and have never since indulged any dreams of ultimate recovery.

I can always get a ride when I choose, either in the Hall carriage, or my own little chair, but I much prefer remaining at home when well, and taking voyages in spirit after my own fashion.

For years, people who came to see me invariably treated me, and talked to me, in consequence of my Lilliputian size, as if I were a child. This I could very well bear from some; but not from others. Once, I well remember being very cross when my friends came from the Hall, and could hardly restrain myself. As soon as they were gone, I burst into tears, and told mother, I didn't like always being treated like a child. I didn't mind being called little," but people might speak to me when they came as if I were a man, if I was but an exceedingly small specimen.' She expostulated with me, but I argued and implored, until I won her to my side. Millie, who is my favourite, came next day from the hall to see me, and taking my hands, said, Well, how is Tom to day?' and looked so lovingly that I could not resist her. I told her all my sorrow, slight as it was, bedewed her hands with tears as I kissed them, and from that time she held all my secrets, and we became firm and constant friends. You may wonder I did not fall in love, for she was a very handsome blonde, but its utter hopelessness sobered it into a calm, Platonic passion. She came to see me daily, and we talked on many subjects, her blue eye kindling as she listened to my earnest utterances, and marvelling at times at the depth of my thoughts; and her flood of golden tresses often smothered me, like a rough kind of aureole, as she stooped to kiss my brow at parting.

Those were happy days. Like a poet with his ideal, I forgot everything else, and wrapt myself, while she was by, in a kind of golden, godlike existence, utterly forgetting all the common-places and meannesses of my condition. She brought me books, and led me, like a bee, through the sweet mazes of her own rich reading. In a few years (it was bliss too deep for me to expect it to last very long,) she

Another hinderance is found in the laws of the country. Formerly, Moslem law denounced the penalty of death against a convert to Christianity. Shortly before this law was abolished, a missionary from Constantinople writes, that the Jews in that city are at this moment actuated universally by an intense spirit of religious enquiry; and says that he was in the habit of always saying to an apparently very pious and devout Jew, 'When will the Messiah come?' and the answer he gave for a long time was, 'The Messiah cometh;' but one day, instead of making his usual reply, the Jew said, 'The truth is, the Messiah is come; and if you will shew me a place of safety from the scimitar of the Moslem, I will shew you ten thousand Jews ready to say that the Messiah is come, and that Jesus of Nazareth is that Messiah.'

But though the missionaries in Turkey have had to grapple with these and other obstacles, they have the highest and strongest encouragements to prosecute their work. The importance of Turkey as a missionary field cannot be overrated. The country embraces an area of six hundred and fifty thousand square miles, abounding with lofty mountains, spacious rivers, fertile plains, and a salubrious atmosphere. The population is thirty-five millions, and the country is immediately contiguous to the highway to India, China, and Australasia. We have a great interest in Turkey. Christianity came to us from the East. Turkey in Asia is, in some respects, the most interesting country in the world. Judaism and Christianity both had their rise in it, and most of the circumstances related in the Bible occurred there. It was of Palestine, part of the territory of Turkey in Asia, that our great dramatist wrote two centuries back,

'Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which sixteen hundred years ago were nailed For our advantage to the bitter cross.'

Modern Turkey also embraces the country which was the seat of the Assyrian and Babylonian empires. Moreover, religious liberty now prevails in

this law of liberty a dead letter; but our foreign ministers are determined not to allow it to fall into disuse. The Turks and Protestants regard our country with special favour. The Grand Sultan's mother was the daughter of a priest, and some say the Sultan himself is secretly a Christian, and convinced that Mahomet was an impostor. He sent one thousand pounds to India during the Sepoy insurrection. The late conspiracy against his life originated in the suspicion of the old Turks that he was a Christian. During the last few years more Bibles have been sold to the Turks than during all previous years. The leading men in Turkey are now ardently studying English, and read our religious books with great eagerness. Many are convinced that Christianity is true. Mahometanism is surely destined to come to an end. The crescent of the false Prophet is already paling before the Star of Bethle hem. Besides the missionaries sent out by the American Churches, there are in Syria others from Great Britain and Germany, but they all work har moniously together. One delightful feature of Foreign Missions is the entire disappearance of all sectarianism from amongst them. Americans, Britons, and Germans, regard each as brethren. There is no jealousy, no rivalry, no denominationalism. The prophecies respecting the Jews must be a prolific source of encouragement to the Turkish missionaries. The 37th chapter of Ezekiel, the 60th and 61st chapters of Isaiah, primarily describe the restoration and conversion of the Jews. It would appear, from the signs of the times, that these prophecies are in some measure receiving their accomplishment. See the condition of Palestine at the present moment. In the age of Constantine the Great, there were just five hundred Jews in Palestine. In the twelfth cen tury, after the crusades, there were a thousand Jews in Palestine, and two hundred in Jerusalem. In 1848, there were twenty thousand Jews in Palestine, and ten thousand in Jerusalem; and the mixed population is diminishing every day. A few years ago, Sir Moses Montefio re visited the Em

peror of Russia. He was most graciously received, and the Emperor has given full permission for ten thousand Jews to go home to Palestine. Tholuck, the distinguished German divine, says that more Jews have been converted during the last fifty years than during the whole eighteen hundred that preceded them. It is also a remarkable fact that nearly all the newspapers of Germany are, at the present time, in the hands of the Jews and under their control. The gold of Europe is so much in their hands that they can bring about a monetary crisis almost whenever they choose. They have nearly all their property in a portable shape. We seldom find a Jew with property in land or houses. He sits loose to the nations. In this respect he may be ready to go at a

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moment's warning, and return to take possession of his own inheritance. And what does the Apostle say? For if the casting away of the Jews be the riches of the Gentiles, what shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead?' All have an interest in their recovery. We have only to advert to what Christianity has done for Britain, to see what Christianity can do for Turkey. Once, least among the nations, and an outcast from civilized life, Britain is now the greatest of them all. What has built up this loyalty and love,

this attachment to freedom,-this reverence for law,-this sympathy with all that is good, and great, and noble? It is Christianity. Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.' G. S.

THE first of these lectures is upon the proximate cause, or immediate occasion of redemption, an occasion furnished by some painful occurrence in the history of man, to which it bears the relation of a remedy. Our first parents ate of the forbidden fruit, and became subject to the sentence, In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.' Adam was the federal head or the race in the covenant of Eden. If the penalty of its violation had been inflicted, Adam could have had no posterity; death would have immediately followed trangression. A new dispensation was introduced, the great dispensation of divine mercy founded on the atoning work of our Lord Jesus Christ. For this reason Adam did not die in the day' when he sinned, and for this reason it is that his posterity still inhabit the earth.

Some elements of the abolished system are retained. Death and moral corruption are inherited from Adam. They are not to be regarded as penalties of the fall, but as elements of trial in a new probationary system.

The second lecture is upon the procuring cause of redemption. As individual probationers all have sinned,' and have thus brought them

selves into a state of guilt and misery unspeakable. With a view to remedy this fearful mischief, Divine mercy interposes, not primarily to deliver man from sin, but from the wrath of God. God is regarded under the two characters of the father of mankind, and their moral governor. What the affection of a father might prompt, the justice of a judge might forbid. Hence arises the necessity for the exercise of infinite wisdom in the plan of redemp tion. The fact that a system of mediation has been established prepares the way for about twenty pages on the general subject, and the peculiar fitness of the one Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus.'

The subject of the third lecture is Expiation.' Man having sinned, it is required of God, as a magistrate and a judge, that he should execute the sentence of the law; Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil;' that he should execute righteous judgment, nothing more, nothing less. But it is the impulse of God's heart to deliver the trangressors of the law from its penalty. The

Howard Hinton, M.A. London: Houlston & On Redemption, eleven lectures, by John Wright.