an evil, but effort to wILLI 772. representation of a besieged & tr there is in this phrase the idea amaie no reference whatever to the (and the original word in this, mertan ta að m ̧ Most High. So by ne raginai sut ba the the little ones, 17 16 such is the kingdom of God." "of sneh the Stoke New Erm veer. preacueri on Whit Monday. me and present. opened: one library application. West. grants of elementary books had been **_ had been held on Whit Sunday morning. LEICESTER.—There are forty-tibe twenty of which are in the town & Leu-Ce** nine in the villages around. They, from their sabbath labours rest; By all who their examples plead: Lord! since we own the work is thine, Still keep us one in grace and truth; Grant more and more of aid divine To fill our schools with willing youth; And quickly multiply and bless, A thousand-fold, our past success! God thus to man himself reveals, Nor time, nor place, nor life, nor death, Which drew him from his throne above; Bound with this covenant to-day, J. MONTGOMERY. J. HOLLAND. HYMN III. Discord the world divides, While scarce within the church abides A calm, a loving zeal. Thus Satan rears his throne On high, amid the strife, But we another kingdom own, In heart, in lip, in life. At duty's stirring call Our blending labours meet, Take, Saviour-prince, the praise of all, Thus gathered to thy feet. Our sires have passed away Who this good work began, Now we fulfil the hireling's day, As helped of God, we can. And, while by mercy spared, In their bright track to run, May children's children rise, prepared, For more than we have done. Then shall each coming year, And bring, though fathers disappear, HYMN V. Lord! not to some few favoured nooks, Is learning in our day confined; Schools, teachers, education, books, Are free to each inquiring mind; Yea, to the children of the poor, Wide open stands Instruction's door. The mightiest stores of ancient thoughtThe daily streams of knowledge newAll that the church, the world, hath taught, Is now unfolded to our view: Lord! for thy glory, guide and bless, The active pen-the wondrous press. Thus each, in this fair spot of earth, Whate'er his intellectual span— Hail, happy age! Thanks, British birth! May be a soul-exalted man; May win a higher, holier aim, A bible-student's honour'd name. Then, while our thousands crowd the brink Of wisdom's life-inspiring flood, Lord! make us all athirst to drink, From the pure fount of heavenly good; That triple fount, from which above, Flows gospel faith, and hope, and love. J. HOLLAND. ANN GILBERT. HYMN IV. The grace of Jesus Christ our Lord, This is the threefold chord that binds The ONE eternal DEITY. HYMN VI. Fathers in Christ, who, hand-in-hand, In this glad year of Jubilee. Ye parents, who, as children dear, Whoe'er your christian pastors beAnd ye-the thousands, who on earth, Have through these fifty years had birthYours is this sacred Jubilee. How firm, a thickly-braided cord! Your work, the human soul to win, Your strength and banner,-christian love, Your foes, the banded hosts of sin, Children of earth, in earth's affairs, And when in heart, in hand, ye meet, For fifty years our task pursued, Myriads already, once our care, Then be this day of sacred mirth, When time hath run his latest round, And the last trumpet ceased to sound; The reign of grace triumphant,-tuen Eternity shall shout "AMEN! J. MONTGOMERY JUBILEE CONFERENCE OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION. SUBJECT" The Mode of Celebrating the Jubilee of the Sunday ON Tuesday, July 13th, the Sunday School Union entered upon the fiftieth year of its existence. It having been resolved at the last annual meeting to celebrate the Jubilee of the Union by raising a fund for the purpose of erecting in the metropolis a building suited to the enlarged operations and increasing wants of the institution, the Committee convened a conference of the ministers, superintendents, secretaries, and representatives of the Sunday schools connected with the four London Auxiliaries of the Sunday School Union, which was held in the spacious schoolroom adjoining Surrey Chapel, to further consider and carry out the project. At an early hour in the morning of Tuesday, the Committee assembled at 60, Paternoster-row, for the purpose of offering thanksgiving to Almighty God for the success which had attended the labours of the society during the long and eventful period of forty-nine years, and to implore a blessing upon the efforts about to be made for the celebration of its year of Jubilee. The meeting was presided over by Mr. W. H. WATSON. In the evening, at six o'clock, a numerous company, amounting to several hundred, sat down to an excellent tea, after which the chair was taken by WILLIAM BRODIE GURNEY, Esq., President of the Society, and who had the great honour of founding the Union in 1803. Near the Chairman we observed two gentlemen who were associated with Mr. Gurney in the formation of the institutionTHOMAS THOMPSON, Esq., and JAMES NISBET, Esq. There were also present-the Rev. Dr. Campbell, Rev. James Sherman, Rev. Edward Mannering, Rev. William Walters, Rev. John Blackburn, Rev. William Leask, Rev. Samuel Green, Rev. James Smith, Rev. T. W. Gittens, Rev. S. J. Le Blond, Rev. T. Muscutt, Rev. S. R. Symonds, the Secretaries of the Parent Society, Messrs. Watson, Jackson, Latter, and Groser, together with many of the leading friends and supporters of Sunday schools in the metropolis. Mr. PETER JACKSON, one of the secretaries, commenced the pro ceedings by announcing the following hymn, by W. BUGBY, which was admirably sung : "Though feeble be the early light, When first it breaks the gloom of night, Thus few and feeble were the band Its influence now through earth extends, "For this, O Lord, thy name we praise, And give us grace to do thy will." The Rev. JAMES SMITH, of New Court Chapel, having offered prayer, the CHAIRMAN spoke as follows:-My christian friends, I rejoice to see so large an assembly. I could not have expected it, when we met on a similar occasion, forty-nine years ago, in Surrey Chapel schoolroom: not this room, because since that time this chapel and schoolroom have been enlarged. Everything has been enlarged. The Union has been enlarged, and not only has this been the case, but the blessing of God has been eminently upon us, and on the pastor of this place; and we do all rejoice in this. But you have little idea of what Sunday school instruction was when some of us began it. Not that many of you, however, remember it. But having commenced it myself in 1795-now almost sixty years ago I well remember what the Sunday school institution was at that time. The system which was then pursued by Sunday schools was to take the children and teach them to read, and as soon as they had learned to read the scriptures, they were turned out of the school, to make room for others—just at a time when an impression might be made for eternity upon their minds. A Sunday school had been begun in Walworth while I was living in my father's house, under the care of a master of a day school; but it had not prospered, and a friend, whose name is well known as a promoter of education (I mean Mr. Joseph Fox), who was the means of rescuing the British and Foreign School Society out of the difficulty in which it was placed at one time, myself, and one or |