persede all external worship, and triumph over outward forms; till the refined religionists passed so far as either expressly or seemingly to dissuade the practice of the vulgar and established ceremonial duties. And then, indeed, they check the supposed exorbitant enthusiasm which would prove dangerous to their hierarchal state. "If modern visions, prophecies and dreams, charms, miracles, exorcisms, and the rest of this kind be comprehended in that which we call fanaticism or superstition; to this spirit they allow a full career; whilst to ingenious writers they afford the liberty, on the other side, in a civil manner to call in question these spiritual feats performed in monasteries, or up and down by their mendicant or itinerant priests, and ghostly missionaries. ed the shepherd when he called them by their names. This morning I had an opportunity of verifying the truth of this remark. Passing by a flock of sheep, I asked the shepherd the same question which I had put to my servant, and he gave me the same answer. I then bade him to call one of his sheep: he did so, and it instantly left its pasturage and its companions, and ran up to the hand of the shepherd with signs of pleasure, and with a prompt obedience which I had never before observed in any other animal. It is also true of the sheep in this country, that a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him; for they know not the voice of strangers. The shepherd told me that many of his sheep are still wild; that they had not yet learned their names; but that by teaching they would all learn This is that antient hierarchy, which in re- them. The others which knew their names he spect of its first foundation, its policy, and the called tame. How natural an application to the consistency of its whole frame and constitution, state of the human race does this description of cannot but appear in some respects august and the sheep admit of! The Good Shepherd laid venerable, even in such as we do not usually es- down His life for His sheep; but many of them teem weak eyes. These are the spiritual con- are still wild; they know not his voice. Others querors, who, like the first Cæsars, from small have learned to obey his call and to follow him; beginnings established the foundations of an al- and we rejoice to think that even to those not yet most universal monarchy. No wonder if at this in his fold the words are applicable, Them also I day the immediate view of this hierarchal resi-must bring; and they shall hear my voice; and dence, the city and court of Rome be found to there shall be one fold and one shepherd.”—Church have an extraordinary effect on foreigners of oth- Missionary Record, p. 98. er later churches. No wonder if the amazed surveyors are for the future so apt either to conceive the horridest aversion to all priestly government; or, on the contrary, to admire it, so far as even to wish a coalescence or reunion with this ancient Mother-Church. [Religious Societies and Orders—analyzed.] "UNIVERSAL good, or the interest of the world in general, is a kind of remote philosophical object. That greater community falls not easily under the eye. Nor is a national interest, or that of a whole people, or body politic, so readily apprehended. In less parties, men may be "In reality, the exercise of power, however arbitrary or despotic, seems less intolerable under such a spiritual sovereignty, so extensive, antient, and of such a long succession, than un-intimately conversant and acquainted with one der the petty tyrannies and mimical politics of some new pretender. The former may even persecute with a tolerable grace. The latter, who would willingly derive their authority from the former, and graft on their successive right, must necessarily make a very awkward figure. And whilst they strive to give themselves the same air of independency on the civil magistrate, whilst they affect the same authority in government, the same grandeur, magnificence, and pomp in worship, they raise the highest ridicule in the eyes of those who have real discernment, and can distinguish originals from copies. O imitatores, servum picus !" [Sheep called by Name.] another. They can there better taste society, "I HAVE met with an illustration of Scripture "Thus the social aim is disturbed, for want which interests me. Having had my attention of certain scope. The close sympathy and condirected last night to the words, John, x., 3, The | spiring virtue is apt to lose itself, for want of sheep hear his voice, and He calleth His own direction, in so wide a field. Nor is the passion sheep by name, &c., I asked my man if it was us- anywhere so strongly felt, or vigorously exertual in Greece to give names to the sheep: heed, as in actual conspiracy or war; in which the informed me that it was, and that the sheep obey-highest geniuses are often known the forwardest SHAFTESBURY. to employ themselves. For the most generous spirits are the most combining. They delight most to move in concert; and feel (if I may so say) in the strongest manner, the force of the confederating charm. "Tis strange to imagine that war, which of all things appears the most savage, should be the passion of the most heroic spirits. But 'tis in war that the knot of fellowship is closest drawn. 'Tis in war that mutual succour is most given, mutual danger run, and common affection most exerted and employed. For heroism and philanthropy are almost one and the same. Yet by a small mis-guidance of the affection, a lover of mankind becomes a ravager: a hero and deliverer becomes an oppressor and destroyer. "Hence other divisions amongst men. Hence, in the way of peace and civil government, that love of party and subdivision by cabal. For sedition is a kind of cantonizing already begun within the state. To cantonize is natural, when the society grows vast and bulky: and powerful states have found other advantages in sending colonies abroad than merely that of having elbow-room at home, or extending their dominion into distant countries. Vast empires are in many respects unnatural; but particularly in this, that, be they ever so well constituted, the affairs of many must, in such governments, turn upon a very few; and the relation be less sensible, and in a manner lost, between the magistrate and people, in a body so unwieldy in its limbs, and whose members lie so remote from one another, and distant from the head. 55 way, will give the same testimony with them? I must not be contented to ask, Whether such a one had been wholly free of that particular enthusiasm? but whether before that time he was esteemed of so sound a judgement and clear a head, as to be wholly free of melancholy, and in all likelihood incapable of all enthusiasm besides? For otherwise, the panic may have been caught; the evidence of the senses lost, as in a dream; and the imagination so inflamed, as in a moment to have burnt up every particle of judgement and reason. The combustible matters lie prepared within, and ready to take fire at a spark, but chiefly in a multitude seized with the same spirit. No wonder if the blaze rises so of a sudden; when innumerable eyes glow with the passion, and heaving breasts are labouring with inspiration; when not the aspect only, but the very breath and exhalations of men are infectious, and the inspiring disease imparts itself by insensible transpiration. I am not a divine good enough to resolve what spirit that was which proved so catching among the antient prophets, that even the profane Saul was taken by it. But I learn from Holy Scripture that there was the evil as well as the good spirit of prophecy. And I find by present experience, as well as by all histories, sacred and profane, that the operation of this spirit is everywhere the same, as to the bodily organs. "A gentleman who has writ lately in defence of revived prophecy, and has since fallen himself into the prophetic ecstacies, tells us, 'that the antient prophets had the Spirit of God upon them "'Tis in such bodies as these that strong fac-under ecstacy, with divers strange gestures of body tions are aptest to engender. The associating spirits, for want of exercise, form new movements, and seek a narrower sphere of activity when they want action in a greater. Thus we have wheels within wheels. And in some national constitutions (notwithstanding the absurdity in politics) we have one empire within another. Nothing is so delightful as to incorporate. Distinctions of many kinds are invented. Religious Societies are formed. Orders are erected; and their interests espoused and served with the utmost zeal and passion. Founders and patrons of this sort are never wanting. Wonders are performed in this wrong social spirit, by those members of separate societies. And the associating genius of man is never better proved than in those very societies which are formed in opposition to the general one of mankind, and to the real interest of the state."-SHAFTESBURY's Characteristics, vol. 1, p. 111. denominating them madmen (or enthusiasts), as appears evidently says he, in the instances of Balaam, Saul, David, Ezekiel, Daniel, &c.' And he proceeds to justify this by the practice of the apostolic times, and by the regulation which the apostle himself applies to these seemingly irregular gifts, so frequent and ordinary (as our author pretends) in the primitive church, on the first rise and spreading of Christianity. But I leave it to him to make the resemblance as well as he can between his own and the apostolic way. I only know that the symptoms he describes, and which himself (poor gentleman!) labours under, are as heathenish as he can possibly pretend them to be Christian. And when I saw him lately under an agitation (as they call it) uttering prophecy in a pompous Latin style, of which, out of the ecstacy, it seems, he is wholly incapable, it brought into my mind the Latin poet's descriptions of the Sibyl, whose agonies were so perfectly like these. [Question of revived Prophecy.] "THE new prophesying sect pretend, it seems, among many other miracles, to have had a most signal one, acted premeditately, and with warning, before many hundreds of people, who actually give testimony to the truth of it. But I would only ask, Whether there were present, among those hundreds, any one person who, hav- Bacchatur Vates, magnum si pectore possit ing never been of their sect, or addicted to their | Excussisse Deum : tanto magis Ille fatigat -Subitò non vultus, non color unus, And again, presently after, -Immanis in antro "That the actual state of things differs from this theory; that there is no exact correspondence between the motion of the earth and the moon, no harmony between the day and the year, is well known. The year does not comprise a precise number of days, or equal parts of a day; [Correspondences in Nature-how they lead on to it cannot be measured by any number of moons; proper Thoughts.] "A MAN who looks at nature with an attentive eye, will observe in it many correspondences. Some of these correspondences are of necessity, and others appear to be the effect of positive institution. Of the former are all geometrical relations, and the harmony of numbers; as, to give only one example, the harmony which exists between numbers in arithmetical and geometrical progression, from which is derived the whole doctrine of logarithms. Every person present will recollect many instances of correspondence, which seem to be of positive institution, in the art or science with which he is best acquainted. A man who has frequently contemplated with delight these correspondences, may, perhaps, be ready to expect them where he will look for them in vain; or at least he may wish that they were still more numerous. In particular, he would be not a little pleased if an exact harmony was to be found between the motions of the earth and the moon and the apparent diurnal and annual revolutions of the sun. If he was to give a theoretical account of what he would choose the year and its divisions to be, he would say, The year consists of an even number of months, and of days, without any fractions. The motions of the moon and earth are so exactly accommodated to each other, that the last day of the last month is the last day of the year. Eight is a number which can be evenly divided for ever there are therefore eight months in the year. The moon revolves round the earth, from change to change, precisely in sixty-four days, which are conveniently distributed into eight weeks so that the year consists of eight months, sixty-four weeks, and five hundred and twelve days. For the sake of producing the variety of the seasons, the axis of the earth is inclined to the plane of its orbit; but this orbit is a circle; and consequently the seasons are of equal lengths. Such an arrangement prevents the painful labours of the astronomer; chronology is freed from all its embarrassments; golden numbers and other hard words, which would puzzle the heads of the unlearned, are unknown; every man, without any mathematical skill, can make his own almanack; the length of the year is the same in all ages and countries, and there can be no necessity of ever reforming the calendar. "A theory of this sort is apt to enter the mind of a man, who thinks, but who does not think profoundly. With Alphonzo, king of Castile, who lived at a period when the science of astronomy was imperfectly understood, he may be ready to say, The universe is strangely made; if I had been consulted, I could have arranged the heavenly bodies in a more exact order. nor by any number of weeks, hours, minutes, or even seconds. In consequence of this want of harmony, astronomy is one of the most difficult of all sciences, and chronology is full of perplexities. Many ages elapsed before even the length of the year was ascertained. They who made it consist of twelve moons, found that the commencement of the year was continually moving backward, from winter to autumn and from summer to spring. He, therefore, who first conjectured that it contained three hundred and sixty days, was supposed to possess great sagacity; and still wiser was he thought, who approached nearer, by adding five days more. An illustrious action of a renowned conqueror was the inven tion of the leap-year. But neither was his year exact; for after the lapse of a number of centu ries, the calendar was perceived to have fallen again into confusion; so that it became necessary to reform it once more; which was accordingly done by Pope Gregory XIII. The Gregorian year is that which is now in use; but even this measurement, though it approaches very near to the truth, is not exact; for after many thousand years have passed away, should the world exist so long, another reformation of the calendar will be required. In the mean while, the period of a month, though it was first suggested by, is somewhat longer than the revolution of the moon; and it cannot be divided into an equal number of weeks. The months themselves are not of the same length; and the commencement of the year is placed arbitrarily, and not on the days when the sun crosses the equinoctial line, nor on the days when it is either at its greatest or least distance from the earth. "Thus irregular is the year. Happily, however, in the present state of knowledge, no evils whatever result from this irregularity. We have calendars of time as exact as if astronomy was the easiest of sciences; and though every man cannot calculate his own almanack, yet when it is made for him by the learned, it can be rendered intelligible to a simple capacity. The Being who gives motion to the earth and the heavenly bodies, could undoubtedly have arranged them in a different order, so as that there should have been more points of harmony and coincidence between them; but in the arrangement which exists, his power and wisdom are sufficiently displayed. If the duration of the year could be measured by a precise number of days and moons, men would be ready to overlook the Author of nature, and would no more perceive his hand, than they now perceive it in the harmony of numbers, which is believed to be independent of his will, and to be the result of the necessary relation of things: but when they learn, that to a certain number of days must be added, EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE. [Religious Twaddle.] "MR. EDITOR, 577 hours, minutes, seconds, and fractions of seconds, | by a moment's reflection, ascertain that his salto complete the year, and that this measure con-ary is inadequate to his expenditure? In detinues the same, without the smallest variation, ciding on what is necessary to place a minister from age to age, they are obliged to confess that above trials of this nature, we must not calculate it must proceed from the positive institution of a the bare amount that will cover his domestic divine agent, and that he holds a balance, which outlay; but remember that food and raiment is so exquisitely exact, as to weigh the most form a small part only of what is required. He ponderous masses of matter, not only to tons, but has a library that is constantly calling for addito scruples and grains."-FREEMAN'S Eighteen tions; on his hospitality there are many claims Sermons, p. 76. -on his liberality there are more-the stranger is his guest, and the poor are his dependants. From the charge which has been here advanced, numbers will shield themselves, by announcing the fact, that their minister does not complain"I have seen it more than once recommended, that he never seems dissatisfied. But has he no in your valuable miscellany, to the attention of cause for dissatisfaction? and are you sure that professing individuals and families, who are in the he is free from secret anxieties? The dread of habit of visiting watering places in the season, to being thought greedy of 'filthy lucre,' and thus retire to those places where they could render of injuring his usefulness, may tie up his tongue, themselves useful in assisting some rising inter- but it cannot fetter his feelings. From motives est, while they could command all the advantages of delicacy, many never make known their diffiof sea air and bathing. At Seaton a congrega-culties; but then these are the very men who tion has been recently raised, and a church suffer most keenly under the neglect which they formed, of the Independent denomination; also experience. Now I would ask every Christian, considerable exertions are making to promote the and especially every deacon of a Christian church Redeemer's cause in its populous and dark neigh- (for many of them are verily guilty before God), bourhood; but the countenance and assistance whether it is not their duty to inquire if the supof good people are greatly wanted. Those who port of their pastor be sufficient to meet his exare attached to the salubrious air of Devonshire penditure? The estimate may be easily made, and to its beautiful sea-coast, will find, at the and where there is ground for concluding that it abovementioned village, commodious bathing, is not sufficient, then I hesitate not to say, their and lodgings good and reasonable, a delightful duty is to be just before they are generous; to public walk and an open shore, with an interest- consider whether they are not, among all their ing and most healthy neighbourhood, blended boasted deeds of charity, presenting robbery for with the preaching of the gospel of Christ, and a burnt offering.”—The Evangelical Magazine, a small society of his true followers. Applica- p. 381, August, 1827. tion on the subject of lodgings, &c., addressed to the Rev. J. Gleed, will meet with prompt attention."-Evangelical Magazine, for July, 1831. [The proper Claim of our Clergy and Flocks at Home to be looked to-and then we may go and offer our Gift for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. "Ir has for some time been impressed upon my mind, and, doubtless, the same fact has been obvious to others, that, notwithstanding our exertions for the support of the gospel in distant lands, a criminal indifference is manifested towards the claims of those whose energies and whose lives are spent in labours at home. There are many congregations that give annually a much larger sum to public institutions than they give for the support of their own ministers. While their names are emblazoned on the pages of a periodical, and the largeness of their contributions acquire for them the character of liberality, in many instances, the man who has called forth, and cherished, and given direction to their zeal, is left to struggle with pecuniary difficulties, and to mourn over embarrassments from which they have abundant means to extricate him. "I am perfectly aware, that many churches are ignorant of their pastor's perplexities; but is it not a wilful ignorance? Might they not, [Pretended Miraculous Cure by Prince Hohenlohe.] "NOTICE d'une Guérison Extraordinaire, obtenue par la vertu de la prière le 3 Juillet 1827, à la verrerie de Semsales au canton de Fribourg en Suisse. Publiée par permission de Monseigneur l'Evêque diocésan, Fribourg en Suisse, chez François-Louis Piller, Imprimeur de l'Evêché. 1827. "Le nombre et la qualité des témoins, dont nos Commissaires ont reçu les dépositions et déclarations, ne permettant point de révoquer en doute les circonstances principales et extraordinaires de la guérison dont il s'agit, nous permettons d'en imprimer la présente Notice pour l'édification des fidèles, et la plus grande gloire de Dieu. "Fribourg, le 22 Août, 1827. PIERRE-TOBIE, Evêque de Lausanne et Genève." Prince Hohenlohe is the operator in this cure. Louise, a girl of twelve years old, daughter of M. Bremond, Chevalier de l'Ordre du Christ, Consul Général de Portugal en Suisse, propriétaire et administrateur des mines et verreries de Semsales, the subject. M. le Docteur Ody, médecin traitant, describes the case thus, "Toute la région du ventre se trouvait plus ou moins atteinte d'une éruption de furoncles, vulgairement cloux, avec fièvre inflammatoire, perte complette d'appétit, insomnie, maux de tête habituels, et maux de cœur très-frequens. Il en est résulté une grande faiblesse. Au bout d'un mois de temps il s'est formé, malgré un traitement convenable, un groupe de furoncles, sorte de cloux, sur le côté droit du bas ventre, qui a dégénéré en abcès, dont il eût fallu faire l'ouverture avec instrument. Mais la malade montrant une répugnance insurmontable, l'opération fut différée pendant trois jours en attendant son consentement. Sur ces entrefaites, du soir au lendemain la fluctuation purulente disparut, et à la suite de sa rassorption le ventre se gonfla tellement, que la fossette même du cœur était proéminente. La grande tension du ventre et de l'estomac, l'augmentation des maux de cœur et de tête, la perte de l'appétit toujours plus sensible, les douleurs continuelles dans le ventre, qui forçaient la malade de rester couchée sur les reins, la continuation et progression de sa fièvre qui ne cédait à aucun remède, réduisirent la malade dans un état dangereux." The father then wrote to the bishop, requesting he would apply to Prince de Hohenlohe. The bishop promised so to do, but "réfléchissant ensuite sur le danger de la maladie de la Dlle Bremond, sur le temps plus ou moins long qui s'écoulerait avant de recevoir la réponse du Prince, et le jour plus ou moins éloigné qu'il fixerait, selon sa pratique, pour la prière sollicitée, engagea M. Bremond, par une nouvelle lettre du 19 Juin, a recourir, en attendant la réponse au moyen suivant, savoir: à faire une neuvaine de prières de manière à la finir le 3 du mois prochain (juillet) vu que le Prince de Hohenlohe, sur les nombreuses demandes qui lui ont été addressées, et par un effet de son ardente charité, prie, le 3me de chaque mois, pour les personnes de la Suisse, qui s'unissent à lui en esprit pour implorer quelque bienfait de la toute puissance de Seigneur, célébrant pour elles la sainte messe de huit à neuf heures du matin. Ces personnes s'y préparent ordinairement par une neuvaine en l'honneur et sous l'invocation du très-saint nom de Jésus." Thus then it was arranged, and moreover the child was to receive her first communion on the 3d, "en invoquant le saint nom de Jésus pour en obtenir sa guérison." The neuvaine was commenced on June 25. The next day the child discovered an invincible repugnance against all medicine, and as strong a belief that the course of prayers was to cure her. No intreaties could prevail upon her to take any thing that was prescribed internally; on the day of her communion it was, she said, that she should be cured,—and she promised to go on with her medicine the day afterwards. The day before, a Protestant physician, Dr. Coindet, visited her. He found her better: the chances for life or death, he said, were even; before this he had thought that the chances were as ninety-five out of a hundred against her recovery. After the nine days, and the communion, the family were at breakfast: Louise rose, drest herself, and was found in the garden gathering flowers, perfectly well. "Elle se frappait des deux mains sur le ventre, qui précédemment était si sensible et si douloureux, comme le siège de la maladie, et s'écriait, voyez, papa, je suis guérie; comme c'est drôle à-présent, d'être guérie." And this is the miracle. It is not possible from the pamphlet to get at the opinion of the Protestant physicians. [Parallel of our Own and of Jewish Sins.] "BUT however these latter Jews, almost from the time of their return from Babylon, did increase the measure of their forefathers' grosser sins, by too nice and rigid reformation of them, and added Pharisaical hypocrisy unto them, as a new disease of the soul scarce heard of before; yet this hypocrisie, though epidemical to this nation, had not the strength to bring forth that monster of uncharitableness, which did portend the ruin of this mighty people, until they were invaded by the Romans. For from the time that this nation was brought into subjection by Pompey the Great, their church-governors did allow and appoint daily sacrifices to be offered for the peace and tranquillity of the Roman empire and security of the emperors. But a little before the fulfilling of this prophesie in my text, there arose a sect which did condemn this custom, after an hundred years' continuance, as unlawful, as contrary to the law of God, as a pollution of the temple. And it is a point observable by such as read the History of Josephus, that of all the irregularities or prodigious villanies committed in the temple, during the time of the siege, as the tumultuous disposition of their high priests and murder of them, and others of better place, the faction, surnamed (by themselves) the Zealous, were the chief authors and abettors. The fruit of this their blind and misguided zeal, was to misinterpret the murder of their brethren, which would not comply with them in their furious projects to be the best service, the only sacrifice then left to offer unto God; for the daily sacrifice of beasts did cease for want of provision, they having plenty, or sufficiency of nothing but of famine. Now, to parallel the sins of our nation, of this present generation, especially with the sins of the latter Jews; as for sins against the second table, no man of impartial understanding or experience can deny that we far exceed them, unless it be for murder only; disobedience to parents, to magistrates, adultery, fornication, theft, falsewitness-bearing, and coveting their neighbours' goods, are far more rife amongst us than they were, or could be amongst them, at least in the practice. The keen edge of some few give us occasion to conjecture what the bloody voice of misguided zeal would be, could it once get as |