high with the spirit of prophecy, and the power of speaking an unintelligible language. The title of Irvingites is disclaimed by their biographer, for himself and for them; but when we find the whole party avowing and justifying the blasphemous heresy concerning our Lord's human nature, which caused the church of Scotland to eject Mr. Irving, we must number them with those who were deluded to believe a lie of Satan's forging, and honestly apprize our readers of the tendency of these books.

It is a very common, a very dangerous plan, to take up and purchase a religious work, as a gift to a young friend, and to bestow it without farther investigation; or to leave it within the reach of unguarded inquirers. Every passing day renders caution as to books more imperatively a duty; for many are the snares that the enemy of souls induces even God's children unwittingly to assist him in weaving or spreading.

We have seen with much pleasure the first part of a publication, entitled 'The Union Harmonist, a Selection of Sacred Musie,' brought out by the Sunday-School Union in Paternoster-row. It affords at a remarkably moderate price, 24 beautifully-printed pages of sacred music, on very superior paper, and harmonized for several voices. A musical friend, taking it up from our table, expressed so much admiration at the design and execution of the work, that we feel bound to record the recommendation of a more competent judge than ourselves. By all means would we encourage sacred harmony, being decidedly of Martin Luther's opinion that in such case, 'The Devil hates music.'

THE PROTESTANT.

AN INVITATION TO THE LADIES OF ENGLAND.

A SUBJECT has lately engrossed much of my thoughts, which I desire to bring before the Christian ladies of the land, as one peculiarly important to them. Simply as females, it nearly concerns them every one: as sisters, wives, mothers, it is of thrilling moment; and as Christian members of a community, as being among the lights of the world, the salt of the earth, patterns of good works, and exemplars to those in humbler life, they stand engaged before God not to neglect what appears at this juncture their peculiar calling.

It has pleased the Lord to set over us, on the throne of these realms, a female monarch; youthful, and consequently inexperienced; confiding; therefore open to receive impressions from the opinions and actions of those around her. It has also pleased the Lord, in his inscrutable wisdom, to permit Satan at this time to raise up among us a system, which, in point of moral atrocity, actually outdoes all that we have ever heard of among the most abandoned of barbarous heathen nations; a moral atrocity springing from what is not merely a negative atheism, a disbelief in the existence of Deity, but such a raging hatred of the very name of God, such an active, rest

less, insatiable madness of blasphemy continually foaming out against the Holy One, and against his revealed word, that I verily believe there is not a devil in hell who would DARE to utter what is poured forth daily, hourly, openly by the pen and the lip of the Socialist.

It is wholly out of the question to enter into particulars suffice it to say that the writer of these pages, supposing it to be only a common form of infidelity, conceived not long ago the project of supplying a few tracts for the poor, to guard them from such stupid delusion. As a necessary preliminary, some of their publications must be examined-two or three were obtained for that purpose, and the investigation commenced. In less than two minutes after opening the book that was first taken up, that book was blazing on the fire; and though the few lines that had been seen left a heart-sickening horror on the mind for many a day, and troubled the rest of many a subsequent night, the reader of them was positively assured that what had met her eye was nothing compared with the contents of several leaves that had been purposely cut out before the atrocious thing was suffered to come under her observation. Of all the fiery darts to which the Christian soul can be exposed, the most agonizing are those which come in the form of blasphemous and diabolical thoughts: who, that fears God, would venture to invite them by reading books dictated by Satan himself for that express purpose? Who shall dare to tempt and insult the Most High God, and to grieve the Holy Spirit of grace, by offering his mind as a mirror to reflect the face of Satan, his memory as a reservoir to receive the arch-fiend's defiling sugges

tions? No: Socialism cannot be written against, because it cannot be read without committing presumptuous sin: it must be otherwise dealt with; and may the Lord our God graciously prosper an attempt to grapple with this Apollyon without contracting the pollution of his touch!

If it were a matter referring only to such a class of females as the readers of this Magazine, the evil would not be so awfully great, nor the urgency so crying. But, alas! the humbler ranks of society lie open and exposed to the full effects of this most frightful malaria. Incredible as may appear the fact, yet a fact it is, that the lectures of these wretched deceivers draw a crowded audience of women to listen to what ought to kindle the most burning indignation in every female bosom-for it is a cause where woman may to almost any extent " be angry," and yet "sin not." Keeping aloof from the still more dreadful branches of the subject, at the head of which stands unparalleled blasphemy, the ground on which every female should instantly take a position of active determined resistance is this:-The main plan of the foul device, as regards us in our natural and social relationships.

What is the plan? First, wholly to abolish marriage; to render the contract between the two persons binding just so long as both of them shall please to have it so, and not one moment longer. In other words, to remove every shadow of restriction of every kind whatever, not leaving even a form of contract, nor any obligation that can bind either party for a single day. Matrons of England! consider this.

Secondly, to take every child away from its mother at the time of its birth, admitting no possible mode

of after recognition, either as to its filial or fraternal ties, and to commit the infants to persons appointed for the charge, who shall nourish them like a promiscuous litter of pigs, and subsequently train them like a kennel of young hounds, to pursue in after years the same plan as that to which they owed their wretched existence, as chance and fancy may dictate. Mothers, sisters, daughters! does not this curdle the blood in your veins?

Thirdly, and as a matter of course, to do away with that sacred and endearing thing-home. Every man's abode, equally with every man's wife, daughter, sister, mother, will be every man's property. All domestic duties and occupations must merge in the grand principle of SOCIALISM, and whatsoever partakes of individual proprietorship must utterly vanish. There is to be no separate dwelling, no husband, no wife, no parent, no child, no brother, no sister, no neighbour, no friend, no pastor, NO GOD.

'And can it be possible that such a project has really entered the mind of a man, in this age and in this country?' It has not only been projected, but is at this day carried into effect, not by one man, but by very many thousands of men and women in London, in Liverpool, in Birmingham, in all our towns, and in almost all our villages. Hundreds of thousands of books and tracts, with several newspapers, the circulation of which is immense, issue from their presses; hundreds of acres of English soil are purchased and contracted for, to erect the necessary buildings--the nurseries for infants already born, or about to be so, of parents who have wilfully reduced themselves below the level of the brute creation, and who are eager to prove their vast inferiority, by fling