liberality of the times, as our safeguards against the re-establishment of Popery. With all the advantages of knowledge and liberality too, we see Popery on the increase, and men of gifted intellect and high literary acquirements falling victims to its delusions. Instead, therefore, of an indolent confidence in the spread of liberal opinions, there must be effort, incessant, prayerful effort, in defending the truth, in exposing the Man of Sin, in exciting and fostering a healthy, earnest hatred, a hearty, zealous loathing of Popery, and in putting forth a masculine, energetic opposition to it by the use of every scriptural means. With such views, we cannot but earnestly recommend Mr. Rule's book to the perusal of all right-hearted Protestants.

THE REVOLT OF TARTARUS. A Poem.

By CHARLES HEAVYSEGE. Pp. 155. London: Simpkin and Marshall.

Mr. Heavysege is the son of one of our friends in Liverpool. We have read his book with much pleasure. There is the soul of poetry in this volume, and it contains some passages of very superior merit. We could wish, however, that the author had chosen a different theme; for many persons will consider the effort an attempt to traverse the field of Milton. Yet it is not for us to dictate in what channel a man's genius ought to flow; but, from the specimens given in this volume, we are quite sure that our author would have shone equally bright in some other themes.

HEROES OF THE BIBLE; or, Sketches of Scripture Characters. By W. S. ED

WARDS.

Pp. 352. London: J. Snow.

This book has many excellences, and will be read with pleasure and profit by the intelligent Christian. The style is free, elevated and descriptive, the doctrine sound and evangelical, and the matter in general interesting to all who feel anxious to be followers of them who, through faith and patience, are inheriting the promises. There is one page, however (40), which is not in accordance with geological science and wellascertained facts. The discovery of the fossil remains of different climes buried deep in "the very heart of this island," and the fishes and shells of the sea on continental Alps and British inland cliffs," or "in the hill's opened ribs and the quarry's rugged depths, in the mine's dark chambers and the cavern's scooped and dreary cells," are not "footprints of the Deluge," nor "palpable witnesses of that event.' In former times, these facts used to be regarded by theologians as

evidences of the Mosaic Deluge, but more accurate and extensive observation has established the conclusion that they are evidences of changes and revolutions in the history of our globe in distant ages anterior to the Deluge, or even the creation of man. In a subsequent edition, Mr. Edwards will, we think, see . reason to expunge or greatly modify this portion of the work.

THE AGE AND THE CHURCH; or, The Church Called to Exertion. By T. CARTWRIGHT. London: Ward and Co.

The celebrated Richard Watson used to say, when urged to publish, "Wait till I'm forty, and then, when my judgment is matured, I may perhaps offer a few thoughts to the world." Our friend Mr. Cartwright has anticipated that age by many long years. Yet his publication, though comparatively juvenile, is distinguished by good sense and respectable talent. Many important subjects are placed before the reader, and many excellent and apostolical counsels are urged upon ministers and people, which, if practically regarded by all, would prove a blessing to the Church and the world. To indicate the general design of the work, we may remark, it is divided into four chapters. In the first, the author brings under review the political and intellectual aspects of the age. In the second, he contemplates the religious aspects of the age, noticing especially Atheism, Pantheism, and the various forms of infidelity that prevail. The third chapter is occupied with a sketch of the monster Popery. The fourth chapter is taken up with a general view of the corruptions of the age and the state of the Church; and to the whole a practical character is given by suitable remarks on the duties devolving on the Church of God at this crisis.

AN APPEAL TO THE MEMBERS OF THE WESLEYAN METHODIST ASSOCIATION, relative to Certain Arbitrary Proceedings of the Connexional Committee and Annual Assembly of 1851; in a Series of Letters, with Introductory Remarks. By DAVID ROWLAND. Reprinted from the Wesleyan Times. London: J. Kaye and Co.

Our views of this very painful controversy have been already expressed. We have nothing to add except our deep regret at its continuance, and our earnest desire that it may be brought to a speedy and amicable termination. It is well worthy the consideration of intelligent and pious men in the Wesleyan Association, to consider whether some means yet untried could not be adopted to ad

just existing differences. We ask, could not a few pious and disinterested men of sound judgment and high integrity, either from their own body or some other Christian denomination, be chosen as arbitrators and peace-makers? We think they might, and to their decision the contending parties might, without any compromise of principle, consent to submit; and henceforth bury their contentions in eternal oblivion, and unite their peaceful energies and prayers in promoting a revival of the work of God and the salvation of souls. Oh, how the malignant disposition of Satan is gratified, and how effectively his cruel purposes are accomplished, when he can divide the friends of the Saviour and rend his Church in pieces! Brethren of the Wesleyan Association, let it not be So. Arise and stop this evil, and save your Churches from spreading discord and threatened division. Let not liberal principles be any longer caricatured by unseemly and unbrotherly contentions. God commands you to be at peace, and the state of the Church and the world imperatively demands it.

THE FORMATION OF CHARACTER. A Lecture addressed to Young Men. By JOHN HUDSTON. London: Our Book

room.

The lecture before us was one delivered in the course of the united religious services conducted monthly by the Dissenting ministers of Nottingham. It is a most excellent lecture. We have read it with unmingled satisfaction and delight, and could wish that a copy might find its way into the hand of every young man in the kingdom.

AN IDEA OF A CHRISTIAN. By S. W. PARTRIDGE. London: Partridge and Oakey.

This book is not a formal treatise on the Christian, but a string of aphorisms and brief sententious sayings, like so many radiant pearls and gems of richest hue, sparkling with truth, love, and every moral excellence which adorns the Christian character. There is thought and wisdom in every sentence, and from their unconstrained freedom, their quaintness, their frequent antithesis, and from their pregnant fulness of important meaning, they will be to fix themselves in the memory and the heart. As the design is to afford a free sketch of the Christian, we should have been glad to see a more distinct and prominent recognition of that evangelical and saving faith which unites the soul to Christ and lays the foundation of

sure

Here is a course of services for five weeks, comprising a morning and evening prayer, hymns, and suitable portions of Scripture for each day; and, besides these, there are two sermons for each sabbath. The composition of sermons and prayers is evangelical in sentiment and appropriate in character; and the whole appears, so far as we have examined the manual, to be well adapted to render important help in the devotions of sailors.

NOTES AND NARRATIVES OF A SIX YEARS' MISSION, principally among the Dens of London. By R. W. VanderKISTE, late London City Missionary. Pp. 352. London: Nisbet and Co.

The author of this work was for six years engaged as a City Missionary in London, devoting his time and energies to the work of an evangelist in one of the very worst districts in the great metropolis, in the midst of physical as well as moral contamination. The author writes like a man of God whose soul was in his work; and the details of ignorance, vice, and every species of physical and moral wretchedness depicted, are of thrilling interest, and ought to awaken intense concern for the salvation of the myriads contained in this great Babel.

THE CHRISTIAN'S LAW OF LIFE. A Sermon preached in Surrey Chapel, before the London Missionary Society. By JOHN STOUGHTON. London: Jackson and Walford.

A discourse distinguished by masculine thought and earnest practical sentiment in reference to the great business and end of life. It is calculated to do great good.

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THE ANTI-SOCIALIST WARNED GOD. A Lecture. By SAMUEL MARTIN, of Westminster Chapel, Westminster. No. III. 12mo, pp. 18. London: Ward and Co., Paternoster-row.

Mr. Martin thinks, with ourselves, that so good a name as Socialism should not be allowed to be degraded by the monopoly of the Infidel, and henceforth become a synonyme for the most disgusting bestiality and depravity; but appropriated, in its most refined and elevated sense, to the ethics of Christian benevolence. Without committing ourselves to every opinion of the writer, we are free to acknowledge that the lectures are earnest, pious, and faithful, distin

guished by strong sense, enlightened views, and benevolent sentiment.

SABBATH LESSONS FOR A YEAR. Adapted to the Classes of Sunday Schools, to Domestic Instruction, and to Bible Classes for Youth and for Adults. By SAMUEL MARTIN. Minister of Westminster Chapel, Westminster. No. II. 18mo, pp. 32. London: Ward and Co., Paternoster-row.

MR. JOSEPH TATTERSON, OF

STALYBRIDGE.

OUR departed brother Tatterson was born at Holmfirth, in the county of York, about the year 1797. In early life he was taught the outward observances of religion, and attended public worship at the Methodist chapel in that place, his father and mother being members of the Methodist Society. From a child brother Tatterson was of a remarkably kind, affectionate, and peaceable disposition; and as he grew up to manhood, although a stranger at that time to true religion, he was a peaceable, orderly, well-disposed young man, When about twenty years of age he had the misfortune to lose his mother, to whom he was greatly endeared; and, in consequence of changes which then took place in his father's family, he left his father's house, and about the year 1820 he resided at Walsall, where he formed a very close friendship with a person of the name of James Shillinglaw, who, like our brother, attended the Wesleyan chapel in that town, and they dwelt together under the same roof. "In the year 1820," writes Mr. Shillinglaw, "I had occasion to go to

Liverpool, and was absent from my friend for a week. On my return, he told me he was in deep distress about his soul, and that he had passed sleepless nights while I had been away. At the same time the Spirit of the Lord was striving with me also; and we began to converse and pray together, and we both became savingly converted to God; and, blessed be his name! we have continued to pray until my brother's prayer is turned to praise in the realms of bliss."

In the same year these two friends were called to separate, and brother Tatterson removed to London; but they kept up close correspondence with each other, which tended greatly to their spiritual improvement and edification. After having been separated for about six years, Mr. Shillinglaw went also to reside in London, and the two comrades again became helpers of each other's joy, and greatly strengthened each other in the Lord. Both of them became pious, useful office-bearers in the Wesleyan body, and Mr. Shillinglaw continues so to this day. A sweet, soul-refreshing correspondence was kept up between these two kindred spirits when

they could not see each other's face, which has only been terminated by death.

During the latter part of brother Tatterson's residence in London, he formed a close friendship with the late Rev. James Dunkerly, a native of Ashtonunder-Lyne, and minister of the Methodist New Connexion; and by that means became acquainted with the rules and government of our Connexion, which so far commended themselves to his judgment and approval that, on his removal to Stalybridge, which took place about the year 1831, he and his partner united with our people. About the year 1834, our brother had serious family affliction, and in a very short time lost his affectionate wife and their two children; but in the depth of his suffering he was calmly resigned to the will of his heavenly Father, and was enabled to say, in humble submission and confidence, "The Lord gave and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord." Brother Tatterson's piety was not of a fluctuating, uncertain character; hence, whether in sickness or health, in prosperity or adversity, he was the same humble, meek, resigned, submissive Christian. He was rooted and grounded in the truth; he had given himself in solemn covenant to God, and that covenant he kept in mind, and performed the solemn vows he had made to the Lord. About two years after his conversion to God, the solemn transaction of which we now speak took place; and from the document which has been found among his papers, it is manifest our brother did not take up a profession of religion as a trifle, but as the work of time for eternity.

Such were the feelings that influenced brother Tatterson in giving him self to God; and his after-life did not contradict the professions and promises he then made. About the year 1840 he had a very serious personal affliction, from the effects of which he never fully recovered; his lungs were then in such a dreadful state of inflammation that he had to be blistered until his body was nearly all one wound. He was reduced to the feebleness of infancy, and his sufferings were most excruciating; but he was meekly resigned to the will of his heavenly Father, and patiently endured the chastening of the Almighty. During that affliction the writer often visited brother Tatterson; but although so great a sufferer, he never heard a murmur escape from his lips. At the crisis of that affliction he sent for his brethren,

Mr. Davis and Mr. Ridgway, and after a
little serious conversation and prayer, he
said to them, "I do not know what the
Lord is about to do with me, but I cannot
live long in this state; and I have sent
for you, my Christian friends, to assist
me in settling my worldly affairs, so
that if God sees fit to take me, I may
have nothing to do but die. He then
proceeded to give directions respecting
his temporal concerns; and during that
interview he was visited by his medical
attendant, who spoke very unfavourably
of his case, and commended brother
Tatterson for settling his temporal con-
cerns, as there was little or no hope of
his recovery.
Never will the writer
forget with what calm resignation our
brother listened to the doctor's state-
ment, while he meekly and submissively
exclaimed, "Not my will, but thy will
be done. If it be thy will to take me, O
Lord-

Walk with me through the dreadful shade,
And certify that thou art mine,
My spirit, calm and undismayed,
I can into thy hands resign."

He

After the doctor had retired, brother Davis suggested that other medical aid should be called in, and that every means within their power should be tried to give him relief. Brother Tatterson listened to the proposal, and, after a little consideration, gave his consent. said, "You, brother Davis, must go for the doctor (Dr. Clay, of Manchester), and you, brother Ridgway, must see my brethren the leaders, and you must have a meeting in the vestry and pray for me;" adding, "I have great faith in the prayers of God's people and the promises of his Word." Contrary to all expectation, brother Tatterson was raised from the bed of affliction; and often has he been heard to declare his belief that his restoration was a special interposition of Divine Providence, in answer to the prayers of his people.

Brother Tatterson filled various important offices in connexion with the Church. As a leader and local preacher he was judicious and instructive. He was not what we should term a popular preacher, but his public addresses were full of rich, experimental Christian doctrine, always giving great prominence to the doctrine of the Atonement and the influence of the Holy Spirit, and calculated to inform the head and affect the heart. But our brother shone most as a private Christian; and by those who knew him most he was most beloved. In his private walk, in the social and domestic circle, in his epistolary corre

spondence with his choice friends, there was a spirit of earnest, deep, solid piety that is very rarely met with. A few extracts from a letter addressed by our brother to a Mr. Jameson, cannot fail to interest and profit. Mr. Jameson is an attorney, who formerly resided in Stalybridge, and attended our chapel. He lived next door to Mr. Tatterson, and they were on terms of close intimacy; and no doubt our brother was made instrumental in promoting Mr. Jameson's spiritual welfare for during his short sojourn here he gave himself to God and united with his people. Shortly after his removal to Liverpool, brother Tatterson addressed to him the following interesting letter:

"MY DEARLY BELOVED BROTHER,-I greatly rejoice to hear that the Lord has brought you safely to the place of your destination, and am thankful you have met with Mr. Townsend. Has not the Lord answered our prayers in preparing your way before you? So he is your old shepherd. May he be made a blessing unto you, until the Chief Shepherd appear! Do not neglect the seats in the chapel; the next thing after a covering for our heads and the heads of our families, should be convenience for worshipping God with our families in his house.

greatly rejoice that you have established family prayer, and am glad that you do, and am sure that you will derive much comfort from it. Suffer me to say it is impossible to be a Christian without it. Oh, how I was gladdened in hearing your voice when engaged in this sweet and delightful exercise, at the time you lived in my house. And the Lord hath said, 'Behold, he prayeth!' I find private prayer the life and soul of religion; it fans the spark of grace into a flame-in it we are privileged to talk with God our Saviour, and to hold converse with Heaven. And I need not tell you you must use ejaculatory prayer. This you can do at all times, in all places, and under all circumstances; and your prayers will be registered on high, and answers will come down into your soul in the street, in your office, and anywhere and everywhere; and your cup will run over with blessings, and you will empty yourself into the Infinite Divinity, your Lord and your Love, and be filled again and again until in his own good time you shall drink of his fulness in his blessed presence. As to the Lord continuing his goodness to you, there can be no doubt of it. His past mercies, the Redeemer's blood, the present softness of your heart-his patience and past longsuffering-all the promises

of mercy and grace which he is offering to you now the past and present intercession of our blessed Saviour-his assertion that he is the Resurrection and the Life-his prayer to God the Father that you may be with him in his glory and like him for ever-all combine to pledge the continuance of his goodness to you immeasurably as Jesus' love. I know you will be cautious in forming your connexions in Liverpool. My plan is not to seek the acquaintance of the men of the world. Fellowship with the world is enmity against God. Have no fellowship with the unfruitful workers of darkness, but rather reprove them. I have chosen the children of God for my companions; they are the excellent of the earth-they are God's jewels. I believe the present world is only continued in existence for their sakes, until he shall have made them up. Tell William Henry he is still my boy, if he continues to be good, and especially if he prays to Jesus Christ to make and help him to be a good boy."

"This bears my Christian love to Mrs. Jameson, and I need not say to her she can help you much by her prayers-with Mary's heart, while using Martha's hands, and especially at her set times of devotion; and I trust you will not forget me when it is well with you. And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up; and to the blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the good shepherd of the sheep. May he make you perfect in every good word and work, to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, and to him be glory everlasting. Amen."

Mr. Jameson has retained his piety, and he with his household are still walking in the fear of the Lord.

Since the serious affliction which had brought our brother near to the grave, he has had many severe attacks of disease of the lungs, from which, at times, he has suffered greatly; he also had to endure great pain and suffering, in consequence of a slight accident, which happened to him many years ago. While pursuing his daily calling, he sprained his foot or ankle, and, through improper treatment, he was made a cripple for life. For many years he suffered greatly from his foot and leg, and eventually had to submit to amputation of the limb; but under all his sufferings, his patience was remarkable; he was never heard to murmur at his lot. On one occasion, when suffering greatly, he said, 'My afflictions are painful, 'tis true; but why

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