CUP WHICH MY FATHER HATH GIVEN ME, SHALL I NOT DRINK IT." MUSING of all my Father's love, (How sweet it is!) Methought I heard a gentle voice "Child, here's a cup I've mixed it -drink it up." My heart did sink-I could no more rejoice. O Father, dost Thou love thy child? Then why this cup? "One day, my child, I said to thee___ Pluck'd from a beauteous bow'r : "One day I gave thee pleasant fruit How pleas'd, how grateful you did seem: Thee; faithful may I prove : And all that's in it comes from me." Forgive my naughty will. But what's the cup? may I look in and see? "You see, my child you must not see; His destined cup of bitter gall: No, child, believe, Meekly the cup receive, And know that love and wisdom mix'd it all." O Father must it be? "Yes, child, it must." Then give the needed medicine, Be by my side, Only Thy face don't hide : I'll drink it all-it must be good-'tis THINE. Surely, there was a hand more than human in such an appropriation! The desire, "Nearer to thee," has been granted. The cup has been drunk. Resignation to a mys. terious cross (she scarcely knew what) was wrought in her soul, and "Now in nobler, sweeter songs, A Letter from Mr. H. Dowling, Jun., the Mayor of Launceston. MY VERY DEAR SISTER C- -The footsteps of the God of Israel are in the mighty deep! Clouds and darkness are oft around his feet! Little did we think, dear sister, when, a few weeks ago, expressing sympathy with you on an occasion of sorrow, that so soon we should have to taste of deeper sorrow. Our dear Waller, our beloved Maria, and their six beloved ones, we shall see no more till the sea gives up her dead. The papers by this mail will tell you the sad, sad tale. All our dear ones gone, just at our very door where they were looking forward with joyful anticipation of a happy re-union in these lands of our adoption. Let us do honour unto God. His grace has preserved from a rebellious thought. I have not had a doubt of his right to do as it pleaseth him, nor of his purposes of love in the dark dispensation. But my dear sister, her darling little ones, her devoted husband; I should have loved to have seen them here once more. You are the first dear friend to whom I have conveyed a letter. The news reached us like a thunder-clap a week ago; but I have been unable to compose myself to write. Indeed, now I am all incoherence. I can only say, the Lord knoweth me altogether. I could be glad if the opportunity offered, that at this very moment you could be with us, that we might weep and pray together. I may just say here that this dreadful calamity occurred at the very entrance to Sydney harbour, at 12 o'clock after a tempestuous night, the 20th of August, the captain having got too near the land. 119 out of 120 precious souls buried in the deep. The mention is full of dreadful recitals. Very few of the bodies were recovered save my beloved Maria, dear Polly, and her servant. Mr. John Waller found these after an anxious search along the coast, and he thus writes-"I discovered my darling Maria thrown upon one of the buoys of the harbour about three miles from the scene of the disaster. She was decently clad in her night dress having all the appearance of a placid death, and a cheerful and confiding submission to the will of a wise and nevererring God. Our dear Kilner and the other children have not been recognised amongst the many bodies which the dashing waves rolled ashore. The immediate spot where the wreck took place is so rocky and precipitous that the remains of the poor people are sadly mangled. In five minutes from the time the vessel struck, all was over. The fine 1000 ton ship, and all but one of her living freight was completely broken up. We all feel the loss very deeply, and the almost universal sympathy expressed for we who survive, is overwhelming. You will be glad to hear that the dear old pastor, our father, received the sad, sad intelligence very meekly and that his mind has since been sus tained in a marvellously encouraging manner. How deeply these events humble and solem- The news was brought to us at five o'clock on Those lengthened particulars will be found in the English papers. We send you the evidence of the spared man. We know you will retire before the throne, and when the heart may not be able to govern articulation, the look up, the sigb, will affectionately re cognise us as one with you in Christ. Sunlay evening, the 30th of August. My up in the bundle of life with the Lord. We dear Mr. Lonim kindly consented to go to him will hope so; we only speak with absolute with the sad news. He said at once, "Be certainty in matters of faith, where truth is still, and know that I am God," and retired declarative. alone to another room. The people were assembled for divine worship, and they determined to hold a prayer meeting. I understand that, to the astonishment of all, at the close he walked into the chapel and prayed for several minutes. On the following Wednesday evening, he preached the usual weekly sermon." It is I, be not afraid." This morn. ing, and prior to the ordinance, he preached to a large body of sympathising friends from "Ye shall indeed drink of my cup," and wonderfully was he sustained. "This cup is mine, and all that's in it came from me. Father, I'm still." had scarcely dried up the tears of sympathy for you, as the honoured weepers in your sorrows, when we have to call upon you to weep for us; not sorrowing as those who have no hope, but believing that those who sleep in Jesus God will bring with him. Dear John Waller wrote to say, the bodies of Mrs. W. and her eldest daughter were found together (no doubt it was a dying embrace) unmutilated, and the only ones so preserved. Dear Maria, he says, her features were calm, placid, and unchanged. They were buried in the same grave. It was thought that Kilner was seen in the sea, but that is uncertain. The fragments of others were put into the graves, unowned. HENRY DOWLING, Sen. Launceston, Aug. 31. [We have copies of other letters written to Mr. Dowling, but cannot possibly give more this month. Several other letters have also come to hand, and shall be given—ED.] THE POWER OF THE PULPIT. (Continued from page 265, Vol. xiii.) I "And I, if I be lifted up." &c., &c. In the December number of this work gave a simple report of the way whereby 1 was led to the words which gave rise to my writing these papers. I refer the reader to that paper; it is the first in the December number, and if he has not read it, I would beg of him to do so, before he proceeds with this. There were four branches to the sub In the moment of unexpected sorrow we feel as creatures; but, brought up by the Holy Spirit in the faith of the Divine reigns, we find that our triumph over human weakness is complete, and the language of our heart is, "Blessed be the name of the Lord!" One trial seems often sanctified to meet us for another; and as we have so often found the flame could not reach to destroy, so we expect that it is only destined to purify. The enclosed will give you some of the de- ject: The glorious Person, "And I;" the tails of the melancholy fact, to which I may Proposition," If I be lifted up," the Promise, add, that it seems by evidence that our dear" I will draw all men unto me:" lastly, the Waller was, up to the last day on board, proofs we are his, are to be found in that the chaplain; and while thus sustained in "we have been drawn UNTO HIM." Christian character, I have no doubt mini- There was one other feature in the chastered in the gospel of God. And who can racter of this blessed "I" referred to, betell, but the lispings of his tongue were the side those already noticed; that is, "Christ, power of God unto salvation " We may as the Glorified One of heaven" (see John hope so, even without testimony. Such pro-xii. 27, 28). There are four consecutive vidences confound sense, but leave faith upon parts of his mediatorial work there. First, a high and stable Rock, "Firm as th' eternal hills." Having felt the shock of the shipwreck, we are looking round to gather up the instances of providence, so awakening to our thoughts and feelings. One man saved to tell the tale! and only one to mark the desolation, and tell he knew the Wallers, and to inform us that dear Kilner was the spiritual light in the ship, until Jehovah our God required him no more in an earthly position. He heard the speaking that was Divine,-"Enter into the joy of thy Lord." Viewing the covenant purposes of our God, the provisions of mercy in our all-glorious Christ, and the Divine Agent, the Quickener or heaven, it is possible that all were bound His soul is troubled,-"Now is my soul troubled." Secondly, He is in prayer,"What shall I say? Father, save me from this hour." Thirdly, You have the Saviour's resignation,-"But for this cause came I unto this hour." Then, lastly, His honor,"Father, glorify thy name.' Then there came a voice from heaven, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again." work-is laid out in seven distinct sentences Now the work of Christ-his redemption in Daniel ix.. 1. It was the finishing of transgression. 2. It was "making an end of sin." 3. It was "making reconciliation for iniquity." 4. It was "bringing in everlasting righ- | not, he is none of his. See now Christ's teousness." : 5. It was "to seal up the vision.” 6. To anoint the Most Holy. 7. To confirm the covenant with many. Three words are used to denote our fallen condition,-Sin is an internal, natural dislike to that which is holy and good. This lays in the heart; Transgression is a stepping out of the way; this is in our practice: Iniquity is a rebellion and perverseness; this lays in our unrenewed wills. Take three illustrations, Sin is a dislike of that which is holy Cain hates Abel and slays him. Transgression is a stepping out of the way: Saul of Tarsus goes right out of the way, persecutes the saints, and thinks he does God service. Iniquity is rebellion: Judas betrays Christ, sells him, and delivers him into the hands of his enemies; and Peter declares he does not know him. In the one sacrifice of Christ, he finishes the transgression, and so restrains it to his own Person, as that the punishment of it cannot fall upon his people; makes an end of sin; so puts it away, that it cannot come to condemn them. Makes reconciliation for iniquity, so endures the curse of a broken law, that Justice having once smitten him for them, never can smite them. But when he came to do all this his precious soul fell into trouble,-"Now is my soul troubled." The Latins get their word hell from the same root as we get this word trouble; so we may read, "Now is my soul sinking into hell." What do we understand by hell? A load on the conscience, a black cloud on the mind, the arrows of the Almighty in the soul, a hopeless and a helpless plight; into this hell of trouble the Saviour sunk, and now cried out, "What shall I say " like one amazed, overwhelmed, and in agony. Into these deep waters he sunk, that his people might never be overwhelmed by them. Here he prays, "Father, save me from this hour." I fetch two arguments from this,-1. That the sword of justice entered so deeply into his own soul that it was poured out in agony and bloody sweat. 2. That in his humanity he feared death, and it is no marvel, therefore, if, in his members at times, there are the solemn fears of death also; for in all their afflictions he was afflicted; but being lifted up he draws all his friends unto him. honor,-" Then came there a voice from heaven." How intent the Father watched him! how quickly the Father answered him!" then came." Like that then in Isa. vi." Then flew one of the seraphims." So here is quickness and certainty. The voice came, "I have and I will." God glorifies his own name, by putting away his people's sins by the sacrifice of his Son; and he glorifies his own name, by pardoning poor penitent sinners through faith in the Redeemer's one offering. All this is as true as heaven itself; and therefore, prophetically, the Saviour said, "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me." I very reluctantly pass from this first branch the Glorious I. I have hovered over this part, and would gladly fill the VESSEL with nothing but the most blessed testimonies concerning His Person; His Eternal Godhead, His pure and perfect Manhood; His new Covenant Characters; His Mediatorial Work; His dolorous Sufferings; His mysterious blood-shedding; His holy Righteousnes; His Ascension; His Gospel Kingdom; His indwelling in the hearts of his redeemed; His intercession for them; His Spirit's reign in them; His blessed bundles of precious promises to them; His future advent; His coming to marry the Church in the full view of angels, men, and devils; and His eternal unfolding of His Father's Glory to them in the countless ages of a never-ending world of bliss and blessedness: all these branches of the Tree of Life spread themselves before the eye of my mind until in contemplation, I am lost, and feel assured that I might sooner empty the seas of their waters-I might sooner draw out the light from the natural sun, and put the stars into obscurity, than I could either with my tongue declare, or with my pen describe, one thousandth part of the beauty, the glory, the wisdom, the mercy, the compassion, the love, the light, the salvation, the purity, the power, and the millions of millions of springs of Life Eternal, which in my Saviour dwellwhich make up, and constitute that ineffably adorable PERSON, who, in my poor drooping soul, so softly said “And I if I be lifted up from the earth will draw all men unto me.' Oh, brethren! when once we are favoured to get one view of this exalted GOD MAN, how do our souls catch fire as it were with ardent pant. ings and love intense! How doth such a view kill us to the world-to sin-to the flesh We have now his resignation," But for this cause came I unto this hour." This, to me, is a wonderful expression, "This cause." This bearing sin, death, and hell for my people. "This hour," this period of time cut out by predestinating purpose.yea, to all sublunary things! How truly ca "Came I." "I have magnified the law, by we sympathise with Watts when he cried ou obeying its precept; now I come to endure of the very centre of his soulits penalty. Now, therefore, Father, glorify thy name!" A perfect resignation; falling into one desire, that his Father's name might be glorified. This is, indeed, the Spirit of Christ, of which, if a man have Had I a glance of thee, my God, Do we wonder that John says—“ And | looked at that which was yet to come-a fourwhen I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead?" fold dreadful conflict lay out before him→ Do we not believe the great apostle when he the betrayal- the judgment hall-the garden says "suddenly, there shone a great light and the cross. Let us review the increasround about me, and I fell unto the ground?"ingly dreadful scene; and if we are indeed Ah! yes, indeed; if we saw more of this vitally one with this great High Priest of "Desire of all nations"; we should think less our profession-if the Holy Spirit anoint of ourselves; and be much more humble, our spirits, and lets them into some sacred contrite, devout, and zealous for him, than fellowship with this "Man of sorrows"now we are. But, the Lord be praised, that we shall know that it was from the depths some of us can say "And, last of all, he of his inward grief, He said—" And I if I,” was seen of me also, as of one born out of (My soul is troubled: what shall I say? due time." Dear brethren, I feel in my FATHER, save me from, or in this hour:very soul, as though I could here stay, and but for this cause came I unto this hour, and gaze on him-speak only of him-write alone now, IF,) I be lifted up from the earth, I about Him—and walk in contemplation with will draw all my friends unto me.” Him, until in higher strains, and a holier state, I see Him face to face, without a vail between. May the Lord help you, brethren, to take sweet views of Him, to draw such" light from Him, and so entirely to live for Him, that our whole aim and object, design, and desire, may be to prove the truth of that mighty promise-" And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.' I must get away to the second branch, because I have promised to do so; but to leave such sacred ground is not easy when the soul towards Him is drawn. I dare not occupy more space this month. The subject increases; have patience with me; and I will endeavour to shew this lifting up" of our Lord next month. C. W. B. [Among many encouraging testimonies sent me this month, I am requested to give the following from a most sincere friend to truth :-] DEAR SIR.-I arrived in London about four months since, and my first wish, before I fixed my place of residence, was to find out a Particular Baptist minister. I heard two II. The Proposition comes next-" And ministers preach, before the same guiding I, if I be lifted up." Here is an "if" from hand that is with the blood-bought family of the Saviour's lips; which is not an "if" of Jesus Christ through the wilderness, led me absolute uncertainty-neither is it a vague tended your ministry as often as permitted to your chapel (Unicorn Yard). I have atunmeaning" if." There were some few since. You also were satisfied with the documost solemn occasions when Christ used this ment I put into your hand of my twelve word; as when in Gethsemane, "if it be years' membership of a Baptist church in the possible let this cup pass away from me"-southern hemisphere, whose dear old pastor as He went on to Calvary, bearing his cross, brought me, and a beloved sister still in his he said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not church, out of bondage, and through whose for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your instrumentality we saw the symbol of baptism, children; for if they do these things in a and followed our Master through that ordigreen tree, what shall be done in the dry?"nance; and surely we can testify that his There is a two-fold view to be taken of this banner over us has been love. We had no proposition-first and principally, it looks at kindred, according to the flesh, that even his" lifting up" on Calvary's tree; secondly, voice, and they follow him, even though, like were Baptists; but Christ's sheep know his it looks at the subsequent "liftings up" which Abraham, they know not whither. He knew were connected with that awful and most wonderful scene which my favourite poet so solemnly describes Well might the sun in darkness hide, I have had it for some time on my mind to give you my simple testimony, as far as the Spirit revealed to me the truth as it is in the gospel, that you are a faithful watchman on the walls of Zion, and that the immutability of a covenant God, the finished work of his glorious Son, and the revelation and unction of the Third Person in the work of redempIt is singular to me that but few of the best tion, is fully, fearlessly and lovingly preached writers on Christ's sayings have hardly to your congregation; and that I believe the noticed these words-although they contain reward you look for is souls for your hire. the whole of the great mystery of the If I thought that, dear Sir, what I have stated Church's redemption-her effectual calling-would be the means of strengthening your and her holy and happy espousals unto her hands in the least measure, in the multitude living Lord, Consider these words, now should feel very happy. of difficulties you have to contend with, I first, as immediately pointing to the cross, and then see how keenly, how perfectly, how minutely, the manhood of our Great Redeemer entered into all the anxieties, sorrows, faintings, and troubles, which so closely entwine themselves, about his people. He five pounds, in aid of the EARTHEN VESSEL. I now beg your acceptance of the sum of From an unworthy instrument in the hands of Omnipotence, A Witness to the truth of those words, "I am with you always." Nov. 22, 1857. E. SOLOMON. OR, EARTHLY HOPES WITHERED, AND HEAVEN'S SALVATION REALISED. BEING A FAITHFUL NARRATIVE OF THE CHEQUERED LIFE AND SACRED DEATH OF CLEMENT - BOURNE, THE SON OF THE LATE MR. JACOB BOURNE, BAPTIST MINISTER, OF GRITTLETON, WILTS. [The above is the title of a pamphlet just issued. We insert the greater part of it in our pages because of its great value and interest. As the profits of the pamphlet are for the bereaved widow and mother, we hope the superintendants of our Sunday Schools will see that every lad is presented with a copy, which may be had at is. 6d. per. dozen. In the preface we have the following explanation]. "THIS pamphlet is truly a voice from the shores of eternity. The father, Mr. Jacob Bourne, and his son, Clement, both lay in the arms of death at the same time. The son went to glory first-and the father-who, for many weeks appeared fast sinking—actually sat up in the bed four days before his departure, and wrote this sweet memoir of his departed boy, and addressed it to me. I feel it an honor to be permitted to send it forth, and most devoutly do I beseech the Lord to accompany it with his blessing, yea, I am persuaded it will be a message of mercy and consolation to many a precious soul. "I have been strengthened in this persuasion by a letter I have received (since the memoir was in type,) from my most faithful Christian brother, P. Smith, a deacon of the Baptist Church at Grittleton. In that letter, Mr. Smith, speaking of his late pastor, Mr. Jacob Bourne, says " He was a great suff erer. His son was a miracle of grace! I stayed with him all night before his death. O! it was delightful to be with him! O how I loved him for what the Lord had done for him! He gave a most blessed testimony of what the Lord had done for him." But I will first give you a little account of his progress through life. You will doubtless recollect, when I state it, of your coming to Grittleton, about eight years ago, and preaching to us on a week. day evening, and of calling upon me on the following morning. In the course of our conversation you asked me if there was anything you could do for me that would be a help to me, as you should feel a great pleasure in doing it? I told you I had a boy about sixteen years of age I wanted to get out into a situation. You said you would do what you could for him, and that you was in want of a boy yourself, and would take him and learn and the boy on trial should like it, to which I him the art of printing, if I approved of it, agreed. Arrangements were afterwards made, and I brought the boy to London. He came into your office for a few days, and you asked him if he thought he should like to learn the business. He said he did not think he should, You told him then he had better come to me, that I might look out for something else. I was then at Mr. Moody's, minister of East-street Chapel, Walworth, with whom I had been acquainted for many years, and with whom I have enjoyed much home the next morning they kindly offered spiritual conversation; but having to return to try to get a situation for him, if I would leave him with them, to which I consented; and the next morning I arose early from bed, leaving my poor boy behind, with emotions of mind I cannot find language to describe, as my expectations and prospects respecting him were blasted; and I returned home with a heavy heart, thinking I had left my dear boy in a place so devoted to wickedness, not knowing what might become of him, or what might be his future lot; and as my many prayers for him appeared unanswered, I But, blessed be the Lord! he was much better to must say my faith was at a low ebb. me than my expectations or deservings; for on the Monday morning I received a letter from him, stating that he had got a situation through the instrumentality of Mr. Moody's The late Mr. Bourne to the Editor. son, at Mr. Whitewick's draper, Bagnigge DEAR BROTHER BANKS.-Knowing you to Wells road, which he entered upon the same be indefatigable in your ministerial and edi- day, and remained for four years, giving the torial labours of love for the good of souls, greatest satisfaction to his employer, who was and that you always rejoice when you hear of very fond of him, as he took as much interest their salvation, I now take pleasure in send-in his master's buisness as if it had been his ing you an account of one of no common occurence, and one of whom you have some little knowledge and acquaintance; and it affords me the greater pleasure in communicating it to you, as it was my own dear child of whom I write, and in whom the grace of God has been so manifest in conversion and salvation, as not to leave a doubt behind. a "I can, with such a holy confirmation, leave all in the Lord's hands. He will be father to the fatherless; and a husband to the widow," and will constrain many to spread abroad this testimony of His grace. That the Lord may revive His work in the midst of His Churches, and gather in many unto His fold, is the prayer of the Church's servant, CHARLES WATERS BANKS." own. But now, thinking that he had learned as much in that establishment as he could, he saw fit to leave, and seek for further improvement. He came home for a few weeks, and returned to London again to seek for another situation, which he obtained in a few days, at Messrs. Meekin and Co.'s., 62, Holborn Hill. In their establishment he re |