Edinburgh Auxiliary Society. 06 0 Mr. Garratt (2 yrs.). 0 8 0 Miss M. Elliott Mrs. Smart (2 yrs.)... 0 16 0 Mrs. Knott Rev. E. J. Sadler (A.) 0 10 0 Miss Slade... and Mr. Gwynne 026 Mr. Linney 026 190 0 6 1 1 0 1 0 0 McLaren. 034 Esq. 1 0 0 Lord Provost Mel Mr. Frith, Higham Mrs. Barlow.. 072 ville 2 on-the-Hill 1 1 0 Jane Battley. 068 Mr. Phair 1 1 0 Ditto, Box 02 2 Mrs. Cumner Exs. 88. 8d.; 117. 168. Withybrook. D. Haselwood, Esq. 2l. 128. WILTSHIRE. Mr. S. Geddings. 041 Class. Henry Greenhall 027 005 015 0.10 2 Mrs. Sainsbury 032 John Wheeler 0 13 3 A Friend, Fractions 094 137. 158. YORKSHIRE. 0 56 Juvenile Missionary Bradford District. Collections, &c., by Rev. T. Proceeds of Bazaar 150 General Sermons Melksham. 09 Horton Lane Ladies 19 7 7 Per Mr. E. W. Phillips. 015 R. Smith, Esq., Shaw Broad Chalk and Ebsbourn. Rev. W. Mace. W. Barnett's Family Mrs. Wheeler S. Ann Thompson... 0 2 2 House Mr. E. Phillips Mr. Cochrane Mrs. Cox.... Mrs. Knee Mr. Knapp. Sunday School Mis sionary Box A Missionary Box... Leeds District, per 06 115 0 0 100 Ladies' Association, for Fe- 0 10 0 For Mrs. Campbell's WALES. Templeton. Rev. W. Thomas. 137 Queen Street Hall, Place Chapel, Rev. H. Rose Street U. P. Dr. Livingstone's Dunfermline. 00 7 16 10 11 3 4 436 Rev. A. McAuslane. 0000 3 2 0 18 0 0 5 0 Robt. Saunders, Esq. 1 0 1 00 1 0 0 016 8 011 O 1501. 076 03 0 Less Expenses 93 11 5 1 4 9 026 0 8 8 Public Meeting, less 022 019 Exps, 58. 9d. 26 10 8l. 18. 4d. 014 064 Trowbridge, on Ac count Master Carpenter... 0 1 7 110 Collection 71. 48. 4d. Codford. Rev. J. W. Maddox. 47. 08. 6d. 6 4 00 Wilton Provis...... 10 00 Helensburgh. Independent Chapel. Rev. J. Arthur. 0145 Collection by Depu 1 10 0 T. Thomas, Esq....... 1 0 0 tation Paisley, Mr. Contes, per Rev. W. Ellis (D.).... Bible Class in con Reformed P. C., 01 Sunday School ditto 0 13 048 Subscriptions. 0 0 4 Mr. Lucas 0 19 7 Rev. Chas. Baker Tenby. Tabernable. Rev. E. Griffiths. Collection 0 Miss Eliza Edmunds 0 50 Mrs. Andrews (D.), Missionary Boxes. 6 Sarah Hopkins nection with the IRELAND. Belfast, Edward, 10 0 Corsham. Rev. G. Slade. SCOTLAND. Ellen, and Martha, 020 4 1 10 035 41. 68. 10d. Devizes. Sarah Lewis 020 Louisa Hopkins Annie Axton. 06.5 Collection at Juvenile Meeting..... Charles and Emma 190 Stroud 082 Dewar, Esq., for AUSTRALIA. 60 7 11 0 2 2 Edinburgh, H. B. Further Contributions unavoidably postponed. Contributions in aid of the Society will be thankfully received by Sir Culling Eardley Eardley, Bart. WILLIAM STEVENS, PRINTER, 37, BKLL YARD, TEMPLE BAR. were accustomed to go with their schoolfellows. It would appear that they mistook the depth of the water, and the state of the tide. Their companions entered the water with them, and with difficulty escaped the same distressing end. From the testimony of these young friends, it appears that Frederick, the younger child, first sank, and that Luther was drowned in the noble attempt to rescue him. It was feared that this mysterious dispensation must prostrate a constitution already frail and worn, but she read the visitation in the light of Holy Writ, calmly resigning her children to Him who gave them. During the remaining portion of her life she was singularly detached from the earthly, and became daily more and more meet for heaven. Mr. Rees in referring to her death, thus writes:"On Saturday, July the 4th, death placed his hand upon her. In the afternoon of that day she entered her chamber for the last time; it was not, however, evident until the following Wednesday that her end was so near; on that day she placed her hand in mine, her eyes fixed on me, were full of sorrow and warning. I said to her'Must we part ?' She replied, Separation sooner or later must come.' I asked if she felt herself resting on Jesus? She answered, 'I am very unworthy, still I rest on Him; he alone can avail me now.' She again broke the silence, and said, 'Oh, how sad it would have been had I left all preparation for death until this hour!' She did not afterwards speak distinctly. I said to her, 'You are now very near heaven, you will recognise dear friends there; your mother, the children, and above all Jesus, the Mediator of the New Testament. She feebly pressed my hand and tried to speak. I turned aside, praying she might have an abundant entrance into the joy of her Lord." That night at the midnight hour she breathed her pure spirit into the bands of her Redeemer. On the following Monday her mortal remains were interred in the Llanelly new cemetery. The funeral was public, and unprecedentedly large, and all classes of persons paid every possible respect to the memory of the departed. On Lord's day, July 26th, two funeral sermons were preached, in the morning in Welsh, by the Rev. W. Morgan, of Carmarthen, from Phil. i. 21, and in the evening, in English, by the Rev. T. Roberts, of Gloucester, from 1 Cor. ii. 9, 10. Mr. Morgan's sermon contained apt and truthful references to those Christian excellences which marked the departed. II. NOTICE OF MRS. ALLIOTT, OF NOTTINGHAM. MRS. ALLIOTT, the widow of the late | stances led her, about the year 1828, to Rev. Richard Alliott, of Nottingham, was born in the year 1785. Her parents were exemplary Christians, and till their death members of the Wesleyan communion. At an advanced age they departed this life in the faith and hope of the Gospel. They brought up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord; and, as the result of their training, the subject of this brief notice was early led to give her heart to God. She made a public profession of her faith when young, and was in full communion with the Wesleyans for many years. Circum attend the ministry at the Independent Meeting House in Castle Gate, Nottingham, and she eventually joined the church assembling there. Two or three years afterwards she was united in marriage to the senior pastor, and she contributed much to the comfort of the latter days of his life and ministry. Mr. Alliott died April 19, 1840, and after his death she devoted herself to works of usefulness, in connexion with the church over which he had presided for forty-six years. For several years she conducted a Bible class for young females, and was much beloved and esteemed by its members. She took great pleasure in visiting the poor and the sick, and in ministering not merely to their temporal comforts, but also to their spiritual interests. Her house was always open to Christian ministers, and whenever they visited her on missionary and other occasions, they were most cordially welcomed. During a long and severe affliction she was cheerful and patient, and often expressed her firm trust in Jesus and his finished work. For many weeks prior to her death, her mental powers were greatly enfeebled, but even then she evidently derived support and comfort from religion, and seemed to take special delight in the fourteenth chapter of John. She fell asleep in Jesus on the 26th of November last, and will be long and affectionately remembered by her family and many others whose friendship she valued. "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord; yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them." THE OFFICES OF CHRIST. THREE mighty ruling powers have, in all ages, controlled mankind: LAW, KNOWLEDGE, and RELIGION. Allegiance to what is lawful, submission to what is wise, reverence for what is divine, these are the grand means by which men have held dominion over their fellows. All rightful authority must rest on one or more of these bases. Physical force, or fear; love, and selfinterest, are powerful engines and auxiliaries of government, but cannot claim to be independent foundations of authority. The rule of force, or fear, divided from wise and righteous laws, would be simple tyranny. The only legitimate employment of force is in sustaining the majesty of law. The sword is venerable only in the hand of the magistrate. So, again, a good ruler may influence his subjects by love, and a just and wise government may enlist self-interest in its support; but the power of love and of self-interest is, nevertheless, that of persuasion, not of command. Loyalty, however, when it combines strong attachment to the person of the ruler with intense reverence, approaches to the religious sentiment. Among pagan nations, this mingling of reverence and awe with love, actually raised the great benefactors and leaders of mankind after their death to the rank of deities. Examples of "her worship" scarcely less real have been found in modern times, among the soldiers of the First Napoleon. A dying veteran being asked by the chaplain of the hospital, what was his religion, answered (with melancholy truth), that he was a soldier of the Emperor's Old Guard! That was his religion. He believed in Napoleon. His devotion to his general and sovereign was the supreme affection of the poor old soldier's heart. And while love, if directed towards a superior, thus tends to rise into religion, and becomes idolatry; on the other hand, the Religion of the Bible has established an indissoluble connexion between love and law, affection and obedience; for it sums up all its commands in this one requirement,-" Thou shalt love." over a ship's crew, is an example of the second. The dominion of the Romish or of the Hindoo priests over their votaries, is an example of the third. The authority of a father over his children (which is based on an express divine command) partakes of all three at once. Hence, the KING, or LAW-GIVER, the TEACHER or PROPHET, and the PRIEST, have always been the three greatest names among mankind. These are the impersonations of the three great forms of power ordained by God in this world. A ruler of men, who is not a tyrant, ruling by force and pay, must sustain one or other of these characters. It might be added, that what we may call the false kinds of government-the different species of tyranny that have oppressed mankind, are the degenerate offspring or the spurious counterfeits of these genuine forms of sovereignty. The cruel despotism of the sword has veiled its atrocious injustice under the sacred name of lawful authority. Error and falsehood have swayed men's minds under the guise of superior wisdom. Priestcraft has usurped the authority and worn the garb of Religion. The despot, the false prophet or false philosopher, and the false priest, have enslaved mankind in the triple bondage of terror, ignorance, and superstition. Government is the ordinance of God. Tyranhy is the counterfeit of it, produced by human lust and folly. The grand difference between them is, that the one rests on the elevation of the ruler; the other, on the degradation of the ruled. Now, if there be One Ruler, to whom the whole human race is to become subject, and who is to "put down all rule and principality and power," it is evident that He must unite all these three kinds of power in Himself, as their grandest example and supreme possessor. He must rule by the authority of a law which none can question, and none dare disobey. He must rule by the moral force of truth and wisdom. And He must rule by the power of religion, or else there will still be a power in the world, ruling the minds and lives of men, greater than His own. All this is realized in our Lord Jesus Christ. All power is given to Him in heaven and in earth,-all kinds of rightful power, as well as the highest degree of it. He is the lawful Ruler of the world which He died to redeem, and rose to save. To Him every knee must bow. On his head are many crowns. His name is above every name. To this end He both died and rose from the dead, that He might be Lord both of the dead and the living. Accordingly He is presented to us in Scripture, clothed with this threefold dignity; claiming at once as our King, our Prophet, and our Priest, our allegiance, trust, and reverence. All other kings, and prophets, and priests, even the mightiest of them, are but faint shadows of Him. "Art thou a king, then ?" asked the Roman governor. "Thou sayest that I AM A KING," was our Saviour's reply. He is King of kings, and Lord of lords; and He must reign until his foes be made his footstool. Of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom. All kings shall fall down before Him, all nations shall serve Him. His throne is for ever and ever; the sceptre of his kingdom is a right sceptre. And the sway of this sceptre must extend until all nations shall be His inheritance, and all the kingdoms of the world become the kingdoms of our God and of his Christ. The kingdom of Christ is no figure of speech, no oriental metaphor or poetic image. It is a real and actual government. It combines in the highest perfection those excellences which are incompatible in human governments-namely, absolute monarchy; perfectly wise, well-known, and inflexible laws; and free choice on the part of every subject. The government of the Lord Jesus is sovereign, |