QUESTIONS ON THE COLLECTS.

5TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.

Fruit of Faith in the Trinity is a disposition to seek peace.

1. In what portions of the Service for this day is a disposition to seek peace to be found?

2. What steps are necessary to be taken with a view to establish peace?

3. What are the blessed results of peace?

6TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.

Fruit of Faith in the Trinity is an entire devotion of the heart to God.

1. In what portions of the Service for this day is an entire devotion of heart to God recommended?

2. Shew some of God's methods of promoting this entire devotion of heart?

3. What are the certain and happy consequences of entire devotion of heart to God?

7TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.

Fruit of Faith in the Trinity is Practical Piety.

1. What graces referred to in the Service for this day are the necessary fruits of faith?

2. What motives towards the manifestation of such fruits are to be found?

3. What prayers are desirable to be used for the advancement of such fruits?

8TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.

Privilege of Faith in the Trinity is a sense of Adoption, and its consequences.

1. What are the evidences of Adoption given in the Service for this day?

2. In what way are God's adopted children accustomed to express themselves in prayer, or otherwise?

3. What examples of God's provision for, and watchfulness over his adopted and obedient children, are there in the Service for this day?

DR. CHALMERS ON THE EDUCATIONAL

QUESTION.

(From the Witness.)

"THE following paper, the last composition on any public matter which emanated from the pen of Dr. Chalmers, will be perused with deep interest by all our readers, both from the vast importance of the subject discussed, and the sad consideration that the voice which could so wisely enunciate regarding this and every other topic of practical bearing on the wellbeing of man, will be heard among us no more for ever. The paper origi_ nated in a conversation which took place in London on the National Education Scheme, between the lamented deceased and the Honourable Fox Maule,.when the latter, struck by the breadth and general applicability of the Doctor's views, urged him to commit them to writing. Dr. Chalmers did so whilst at Whitfield, Glocestershire, on his way home; and the following valuable document,-eminently practical in its nature, and suited, we should think, in a country such as Scotland, to unite the suffrages of the majority in all denominations,was the result. For our own part, we regard it as a legacy of sound, well-weighed advice to our Church and country, to which both would do well to serve themselves heir."

'It were the best state of things, that we had a Parliament sufficiently theological to discriminate between

the right and the wrong in religion, and to encourage or endow accordingly. But failing this, it seems to us the next best thing, that in any public measure for helping on the education of the people, Government were to abstain from introducing the element of religion at all into their part of the scheme, and this not because they held the matter to be insignificant,—the contrary might be strongly expressed in the preamble of their act; but on the ground that, in the present divided state of the Christian world, they would take no cognizance of, just because they would attempt no control over, the religion of applicants for aid,-leaving this matter entire to the parties who had to do with the erection and management of the schools which they had been called upon to assist. A grant by the State upon this footing might be regarded as being appropriately and exclusively the expression of their value for a good secular education.

"The confinement for the time being of any Government measure for schools to this object we hold to be an imputation, not so much on the present state of our Legislature, as on the present state of the Christian world, now broken up into sects and parties innumerable, and seemingly incapable of any effort for so healing these wretched divisions, as to present the rulers of our country with aught like such a clear and unequivocal majority in favour of what is good and true, as might at once determine them to fix upon and to espouse it.

'It is this which has encompassed the Government with difficulties, from which we can see no other method of extrication than the one which we have ventured to suggest. And as there seems no reason why, because of these unresolved differences, a public measure for the health of all,-for the recreation of all,

-for the economic advancement of all, should be held in abeyance, there seems as little reason why, because of these differences, a public measure for raising the general intelligence of all should be held in abeyance. Let the men therefore of all Churches and all denominations alike hail such a measure, whether as carried into effect by a good education in letters or in any of the sciences; and, meanwhile, in these very seminaries, let that education in religion which the Legislature abstains from providing for, be provided for as freely and amply as they will by those who have undertaken the charge of them.

'We should hope, as the result of such a scheme, for a most wholesome rivalship on the part of many in the great aim of rearing on the basis of their respective systems a moral and Christian population, well taught in the principles and doctrines of the gospel, along with being well taught in the lessons of ordinary scholarship. Although no attempt should be made to regulate or to enforce the lessons of religion in the inner hall of legislation, this will not prevent, but rather stimulate to a greater earnestness in the contest between truth and falsehood,-between light and darkness,—in the outer field of society; nor will the result of such a contest in favour of what is right and good be at all the more unlikely, that the families of the land have been raised by the helping hand of the State to a higher platform than before, whether as respects their health, or their physical comfort, or their economic condition, or, last of all, their place in the scale of intelligence and learning.

Religion would, under such a system, be the immediate product, not of legislation, but of the Christian and philanthropic zeal which obtained throughout so