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SIR MATTHEW HALE'S RESOLU

TIONS.

"Morning.-1. To lift up the heart to God, in thankfulness, for renewing my life. 2. To renew my covenant with God in Christ, by renewed acts of faith receiving Christ, and rejoicing in the height of that relation, and by resolution of being one of his people, doing him allegiance. 3. Adoption and prayer. 4. Setting a watch over my own infirmities and passions, over the snares laid in our way. Perimus licitis.

"Day Employment.-There must be an employment of two kinds : 1. Our ordinary calling; to serve God in it. It is a service to Christ, though ever so mean. (Col. iii.) Here faithfulness, diligence, cheerfulness. Not to overlay myself with more business than I can bear. 2. Our spiritual employ

ments: mingle somewhat of God's immediate service in this day.

"Refreshments.-1. Meat and drink; moderation seasoned with somewhat of God. 2. Recreations: 1. Not our business. 2. Suitable. No games, if given to cove tousness or passion.

"If alone.-1. Beware of wandering, vain, and lustful thoughts; fly from thyself rather than entertain these. 2. Let thy solitary thoughts be profitable,-view the evidences of thy salvation,-the state of thy soul, the coming of Christ,-thy own mortality; it will make thee humble and watchful.

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Company.-Do good to them. Use God's name reverently. Beware of leaving an ill impression, by ill example. Receive good from them if more knowing.

"Evening.—Cast up the accounts of the day. If ought be amiss, beg pardon. Gather resolution of more vigilance. If well, bless the mercy and grace of God that hath supported thee."

JESUITISM.

The following anecdote is current in Germany, and illustrates the disguises often assumed by Jesuits to forward Popery. When the Duke and Duchess of Anhalt Cothen embraced the Romish faith a few years back, the court followed their example, with the exception of one maid of honour, who abided by her Protestant principles. Shortly after, a young gentleman arrived from Vienna, who won the affections of the lady, but informed her that being a Roman Catholic, he could not ally himself to a heretic. She consented, after a struggle, to forsake Protestantism, but fainted

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"Massa Justice, me know me got dem tings from Tom dere, and me tink Tom teal dem too; but what den, Massa? dey be only a piccaninny knife and a piccaninny corkscrew; one cost sixpence, and tudder a shilling, and me pay Tom for dem honestly,

Massa."

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66 A very pretty story, truly," said his worship; "you know they were stolen, and yet allege in excuse you paid honestly for them; I'll teach you better law than that, Sirrah! Don't you know, Pompey, the receiver is as bad as the thief? You must, you black rascal, be severely whipt!' "Berry well, Massa, if de black rascal be whipt for buying stolen goods, me hope de white rascal be whipt too for same ting, when you catch him, as well as Pompey." "To be sure," replied the justice. den," says Pompey, "here be Tom's massa; hold him fast, constable; he buy Tom as I buy de piccaninny knife and de piccaninny corkscrew. He know berry well poor Tom be stolen from his old fadder and mudder; de knife and de corkscrew had neder ;Such was the justice as well as the severity of Pompey's address, that after pause, the magistrate, with the consent of Tom's master, dismissed him and discharged the action.

MISCELLANEOUS.

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THE PAPACY AND THE PAPAL STATES.Bologna, July 23, 1840.-" And now this is the last night, I trust, in which I shall sleep in the Pope's dominions; for it is impossi ble not to be sickened with a government such as this, which discharges no one function decently. The ignorance of the people is prodigious-how can it be otherwise?The booksellers' shops, sad to behold-the very opposite of that scribe instructed to the

kingdom of God, who was to bring out of his treasures things new and old,-these scribes, not of the kingdom of God, bring out of their treasures nothing good, either new or old, but the mere rubbish of the past and the present. Other governments may see an able and energetic sovereign arise, to whom God may give a long reign, so that what he began in youth he may live to complete in old age. But here every reign must be short; for every sovereign comes to the throne an old man, and with no better education than that of a priest. Where, then, can there be hope under such a system, so contrived, as it should seem, for every evil end, and so necessarily exclusive of good? I could muse long and deeply on the state of this country, but it is not my business; neither do I see, humanly speaking, one gleam of hope."-Arnold's Letters, vol. ii. p. 423, Appendix C.

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MR. LOCKE, in a letter written a year before his death to one who asked the question, 'What is the shortest and surest way for a young gentleman to attain to the true knowledge of the Christian religion in the full and just extent of it?" His answer is, "Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its author; salvation for its end; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter."

What a quiet world we should have if every thing and every person knew its own place! If the sea kept its own place, we should have no inundations. If men kept theirs, we should not see such floods of sin

and misery.

"What a beautiful place heaven is!" said a little boy, not four years old. "Why do you think so?" said his mamma. "Because," said he, alluding to the stars, "the nails in the floor are so beautiful."

CABINET.

Selfishness is a swamp that sucks in all and gives out nothing.

Pride is a cold, stormy, barren mountain; humility a warm, serene, fruitful valley.

He who indulges ill tempers, warms and nourishes a nest of vipers to wound himself and his friends.

He that will be his own teacher, will be constantly finding out that he has a fool for his scholar.

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La Religion d'Argent, or The Religion of Money, continued. - A translation of this little tract, appeared in the pages of the Operative. Our readers will be glad to learn that it has since been adopted as one of the Society's publications; and that at the suggestion and expense of a generous friend, nearly 2000 have been sent gratuitously, to various parties in the University of Cambridge.

A meeting was held on Thursday evening, January 9th, at the Educational Institute, Blackfriars Road, to expose the proceedings Catholic School Room in the vicinity, by a at meetings held in a Temperance Hall and Mr. Daniel French, who has for some time been advocating the claims of Popery in that neighbourhood, and who, after challenging discussion of the various topics he adverted to in his several addresses, employed and directed an infuriated audience to expel by FORCE from his meetings every Protestant who dared to stand forward to offer any reply to his vile and abusive attacks of the clergy of the neighbourhood, and the misrepresentations he so often made of the faith of Protestants, although he had secured for himself money from them on their admittance to those meetings. The persons who had thus been maltreated immediately called a meeting of Protestants, to counteract such principles and practices of the Popish advocates, and to shew the public this spirit of Popery, at work even in the heart of the metropolis. This meeting was very numerously and respectably attended. Mr. R. H. Binden presided; and Messrs. W. Allen, Ballard, and A. V. Allen

were the speakers. One universal feeling of indignation was expressed by the audience, with a determination to maintain a more than ever decided protest against the claims of Popery, to what she calls equal privileges, which in reality means only liberty to do with the faith and persons of Protestants whatsoever may best answer her ends.

It appeared from the statements made at this meeting, that this Popish advocate was not recognized by any party in his Church to lecture on Popery. Dr. Doyle, in a letter to the Chairman, disowned him, and the Roman "Catholic Institute" have rejected

him from its body since 1842. He has upon

more than one occasion violently conducted himself at Westminster ;-he created an uproar, even to preventing the continuance of service in a chapel during a lecture by a Clergyman, by demanding to be heard in reply to the Rev. Gentleman's address. At Woolwich, at a Protestant meeting, because he was refused admittance with his band of disturbers, brickbats were thrown through the windows into the meeting, but providentially without injuring any one, the object nevertheless was the same. Thus, in this land of freedom, as in America, Popery begins to manifest and practically develope her dogmas of persecution. The proceedings did not close until after 11 o'clock.

City of London Association.-A Tea and Public Meeting of the members and friends of this Association was held in the Royal British Institution, Cowper Street, City Road, on Thursday Evening, December 26. Mr. Callow presided at the Public Meeting. The Speakers were, the Revs. A. S. Thelwall and J. R. Barber, and Messrs. Sibley, Binden, and A. V. Allen.

The members of the Metropolitan Association held their united Quarterly Prayer Meeting at 11, Exeter Hall, on Wednesday Evening, January 1. The Meeting was well attended. The members take an increasing interest in their meetings for prayer.

Health of the Pope.-Munich, Jan. 17.— Letters recently arrived here from Rome, state, that the Pope is in a most alarming state. His Holiness is upwards of 79 years of age. Frankfort Postal Gazettee.

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THE PROTESTANT

At F. BAISLER'S

124, Oxford-street;

Bavaria. The number of Protestants at present in Bavaria is 1,226,753. In the last four years there has been an increase of 25,531. In that period 8,805 Protestants emigrated from the kingdom; 281 turned Romanists, and 179 Romanists became Protestants.

United States.-The Boston Tribune states that there are no less that thirteen colleges in the United States under the charge of the Papists, ten of which have been established since the commencement of Jackson's administration. There are now being educated in these institutions about 1300 students."

the Belgians (the Protestant Leopold) anBelgium.-An ordonnance of the King of nuls the resolution of the Municipal Council of Verviers, which opposes the installation of the Jesuits in that city. King Leopold represents this municipal resolution as contrary to liberty, such as it is proclaimed Belgium.-L'Esperance. A prayer, asking of God the conversion of England to the Catholic faith, has just been published in Belgium.-Novelliste de Flandres.

Italy. According to a correspondence published in the Gazette d'Augsbourg, the governments and various communities of the Italian States rival each other in restoring the secularised property which they held to its former masters, for the establishment of new ecclesiastical foundations, and especially for the benefit of the Order of

Jesuits.

Hackney. The temporary (Popish) chapel in this neighbourhood is said to be too small for the congregation. The Society of St. Ann and St. Mary Bethnal Green has been dissolved, and the funds and property made over to the priest of this chapel.

Clifton, Bristol.-A Popish Mission has lately been established here, and a chapel, cemetery, and school-room purchased.

Conversions. The Rev. J. B. Murphy, late Superior of Youghal Monastery, has left the errors of the Church of Rome, and a letter from him in the Record, stating many important circumstances connected with his conversion, and that the entire Community have since conformed to the Protestant Faith.

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SIMPKIN, MARSHALL & Co.

LONDON:

W. DAVY & SON,1

Seven Shillings per Hundred, for Distribution.

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"If they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them."-Isaiah viii. 20.

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THE PROPOSED ENCREASED
GRANT TO MAYNOOTH
COLLEGE.

THE very heading of this article will astonish many of our readers. What!-they may exclaim, an encreased grant-and that from a Conservative Government!! The late administration would not have dared this. But so it is: and before the present session has gone by, we must expect to see severe blows struck at the Protestant Institutions of our country. Not, indeed, by avowed enemies-no, they could not have done it, but by professed friends, and that too, without such timely notice as might have enabled the country to manifest its full and determined opposition against them. The grant to Maynooth is to be encreased, and one or more colleges to be erected in Ireland, where education is to be carried on, as we are informed, upon liberal principles - that is, without principles. It is also rumoured, that alterations of a serious kind are to be made in the Dublin University. Whatever truth there may be in these reports,-whether some or all of these innovations will be made,-time itself must develope. Meanwhile, we have enough before us to make it plainly apparent, that the baneful drug of expediency is to be more and more filtered into the Constitution of

VOL. VI.

the Country, and the proceedings of Parliament, destroying all sound Protestant energy and spirit. To what a pass are we coming! Protestants in Ireland, day after day, may be murdered; and yet the religion-oh! profanation of the name!!-the religion which prompts to the commission of the murder,-which sanctifies the deed, and lends her influence to the concealment of the assassins-that religion must not even be spoken of as false, cruel, bigotted, and intolerant!

Protestant Operatives of England, have you no sympathy with your brother Protestants in Ireland? Will you not exert yourselves to stay the plague in that Country? Ah! if you do not, it may soon extend its ravages amongst you. It will fall more heavily upon you than upon the higher classes, for you cannot so easily get out of its way.

An aristocrat, or a wealthy commoner, may now and then indeed, fall victims under the mild and paternal government of the Pope, in Ireland, or in England!! but, the majority are, and will continue to be, taken from your own rank in Society. But what can you do, it may be said, against Popery? And so it might have been said by each soldier at Waterloo-" What can I do against Buonaparte and his conquering Frenchmen?" What? it might have been

replied; why, you are all armed—you have the right on your side, and you have your King and Country to fight for, and Wellington for your leader. So, Protestant Operatives, we say now in reply to your question -What can we do?-Why, every man can do his duty; and England expects that you should do it.

Popery is the enemy against which you are to fight, not the Papist; and tho' you have no Wellington for your leader, yet the great Captain of your salvation is looking on. The weapons with which you are to contend are not carnal, nor formed of earthly materials; your sword is to be the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, used with all prayer, and diligence, and watchfulness.Yes, the Bible is the best weapon against Popery nothing can blunt its edge, nothing withstand it. It cuts right down the infallibility of the Pope; it sweeps away the figment of tradition; overturns the false plea of Catholicity, Apostolicity, Antiquity, and so forth, so frequently put forward in defence of her corruptions, and teaches you to regard the Truth-the Truth as it is in Jesus-as paramount over all other considerations.

The adamantine chain, woven and twisted of these varied links of Popish errors, melt and dissolve like snow before the noon-day when the light of Divine Truth, poured sun, forth from the Sacred Oracles, is shed upon them.

This then do pray for your Roman Catholic fellow-subjects, that the Lord of his mercy would be pleased to convert them, delivering them from that blindness, hardness of heart, and contempt of his word and commandment, into which Popery has led them. This further do: whenever you are confronted with them, meet them in the spirit of love, but in the spirit of truth also; knowing that you dare not compromise, or compliment away the Truth. We doubt not but that if this were done by all our Operatives throughout the empire, that Popery in Great Britain would be shaken to its centre, and the Word of God would have free course and be glorified. The mighty moral and religious influence moving upwards from a vast multitude, would do more than all mere human legislation has yet effected upon the subject. Yet legislation must not be despised; for though it be powerless as to forming a single real converted character, it is powerful in throwing obstacles in the way of the progress of truth, or removing them so as to facilitate the progress of error. Each of these two processes is now going forward throughout our country. Whilst many in Ireland are coming out from the

errors of Popery, the whole weight of government influence seems thrown into the scale against them. The power of the mighty frowns upon them; and the Protestant educated Maynooth Priests go forth to agitate against the Protestants, by whose misplaced bounty they have been educated.

We would never advocate a persecuting principle or a persecuting measure; but we feel it a bounden duty to protest against such measures, and to petition against them, by whomsoever they may be advocated, and against whomsoever they may be directed.

We trust, therefore, that our Operative Readers will not neglect the use of this right of petitioning, amongst other means, vested in them by the laws and constitution under which we live. Let them petition immediately, numerously, and unanimously, that no grant be given to support Popery at Maynooth; that no money be given for sup porting Popery in the Colonies; and that every due protection be given to converts from the errors of the Church of Rome.

THE CHARTER.

A Dialogue between JOHN HOBBS, who is well known in his neighbourhood as the Pious Shoemaker, and SAM IDLE, better known by his nick-name, Young Soaker, from his drunken habits.

Soaker. Well, Master Hobbs, always hard at it, there's nothing like leather.

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Hobbs." If any will not work, neither shall he eat;' "an idle soul shall suffer hunger, but the hand of the diligent maketh rich;" that's my way, Master Soaker.

Soaker. I know you work hard for little money; why don't you strike? We pitmen have turned out, and shan't turn in, till we get more money and less work.

Hobbs.-The more money, the more drink, will just do for the Chartist leader at the Redcap; but, friend Soaker, I have often told you, "drunkards, who rise up early that they may follow strong drink, shall in this world have poverty and rags; and I tell you again, it is declared, "they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."

Soaker. You're always hard on me about the drink; but you see a poor man can't get on with such wages,-you see the big 'ons take it all.

Hobbs.-Stop! stop! as to money, Soaker, where I get fifteen shillings, you can get five and twenty; but you know, when I'm at my lapstone, you are at skittles; on Sabbath day as I go to Church, I meet you coming from the Public; so you see, your

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