a more stedfast looking to the ultimate and eternal unity of the Church. Our readers will be pleased with the following extract, which is part of the illustration of the last division of his subject : "Being in the world, we are always prone to think of the Church as it subsists here, and to shape all our arrangements and aspirations in accordance with its existing position and necessities. So far it is well. The present is ours, and we must now do what it now demands of us. But we err in over-extending this principle. Why is the future revealed at all, if not to exert a prospective influence? And if we cannot literally and absolutely act only for to-day; if action must have thought and concern for to-morrow, why not go beyond to-morrow, and beyond that region where rising and setting suns give such measurements of time? "If I spoke of the incorporation of Churches, I should be confronting a delicate subject. If I hinted that this and that Church might possibly be blended in twenty years, the suggestion would be shrunk from as premature, startling, and ill-advised. But is it not true? How few members of those Churches will be on earth after twenty years? and if the great proportion of them shall have gone hence, will they not be effectually incorporated above? It is not twenty years since we first met in Liverpool, and within the much briefer period that has elapsed, how greatly has the word we changed its meaning. How many did it then include having discriminating tenets which required to be prudently approached, if approached at all, between whom all discrimination is now wholly and for ever obliterated? "If we view the departed in relation to the surviving, the change is one of severance, -so much severance as there can be in one whole family named in Christ. They were of our company; some of them may have been relatives; we were allied with them, it may be, by intimate and endearing, by numerous and varied ties. Many of the joys and sorrows of life we shared with them in common; in the discharge of duty, in the enjoyment of comforts, in the endurance of trials, in the work of the week days, and in the worship of the Lord's day, we had a commingling experience. But this companionship is ended: we and they are not sensibly together now. If we seek these fellowChristians, perhaps kindred and fellow-worshippers, in the abodes to which their presence gave the meaning and the joys of home, they are not there. If we go in search of them to places of concourse, or houses of merchandise, where they cheerfully toiled, perhaps for our benefit, they are not there. If we look in places of worship to the seats which they occupied in the service of God, they are not there. If we cast our eyes on this assembly, so congenial with all their sentiments and likings, they are not here; and bereaved and sorrowing affection deploringly asks-Where are they? "But view the departed in relation to each other, and the change is one of identification. Their distinguishing names they have left behind, and all the dissociating peculiarities which these names denoted. And they belong now to one Church, a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing. They have no jarring interests now, no discordant feelings now, no petty and repelling jealousies. They are together before the throne, together in their relations, sympathies, and hallelujahs: and the only effect of past discrepancies is to perfect into rapture, the happiness of unembittered and imperishable intercourse. are. "So is it with them. But they are far away. Aye, but not long away. Here is the deception we practise on ourselves. Because we are so far behind, far in respect to place and frame, we feel as if we were long behind-as if it would take an unmeasureable duration to cross so great an interval. Very lately, however, they were as you How easy, how certain the deduction,-very shortly you will be as they are. And if our distinctions are so very transient, if in existing they are perishing, is it not allowable, is it not dutiful to be already feeling as if they were past, to be seating ourselves by anticipation in heavenly places, where our debated dogmas cannot be descried through the splendour of that kingdom, and cannot be heard amid the rapture of its songs?" Printed by WILLIAM GIBB, of 41, York Place, at the Printing Office of MURRAY and GIBB, North-East Thistle Street Lane, and Published by WILLIAM OLIPHANT, of 21, Buccleuch Place, at his Shop, 7, South Bridge, Edinburgh, on the 1st of December 1858. 466 331 Annuity Tax, Atlantic Telegraph, The Australian Evangelism, Baird (Rev. 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