to have medical assistance; and, on her saying that she could not afford it, he promised that if she consulted his own medical attendant, it should be no expense to her. She did so: but her disorder being consumption she grew worse, and was obliged to quit his service. He had the cruelty, on paying her pittance of wages, to stop twenty-eight shillings from it, under the head of doctor's fees. Reduced thus to great destitution, poor Ellen took up her abode in a damp cellar of St. Giles', and attended the Dispensary as long as she could crawl there: but becoming too weak, she was visited by our good Samaritan, Dr. P, who mentioned her to me as one greatly needing help. I sent a person to make inquiries; and his report revealed the above circumstances, adding that she was a complete papist, but very eager to listen when he read to her in Irish. I ordered her a loaf and a pint of milk per day, and directed the Reader to pay great attention to her spiritual welfare.

Soon after, Ellen was removed to a large airy room, kept by a very kind and hospitable poor Irish widow; and while her body rapidly sunk, her mind became so filled with joy and peace in believing, that it was quite a refreshment to Christians to visit her. When last I saw her, she opened her dress, to show me to what a perfect skeleton she was reduced: I observed, Never mind, Ellen, dear; you will soon drop that poor body, to be with Christ, and when once you see him as he is'- She caught hold of my hand, and her whole aspect changed to such a character of rapturous expectation and triumph, that I really could not go on, it so overcame me. In this state she continued for a

fortnight longer; and then fell asleep in Jesus; not leaving a doubt on any of our minds as to her state. I am told that His name was the last sound which escaped her lips.

On the succeeding evening her wake was held: the room was quite filled, being in a conspicuous situation, in the thickest part of my district. God put it into the hearts of Murphy and another reader to go among the people assembled. As soon as it was announced that the Readers were coming, all the liquor was put away; the party arranged themselves with great decorum; and there, until long after midnight, they sat listening to the word of God, faithfully expounded by our two witnesses, who failed not to bear a most solemn testimony against the delusions of that faith which they had all been taught to look on as the only key to heaven: not a hand was raised, nor a tongue wagged against the men whose lives were hazarded in thus proceeding. Nor was this all: the kind-hearted landlady had three sons, fine young men, able to read the Irish character. They were so much affected by what they saw and heard, 'during Ellen's last days of existence, that they became diligent in studying the scriptures; and their mother lamented that they would shortly be leaving their own church: for that is now foreseen as the natural consequences of examining the word of God, against which popery is as diametrically opposed as hell to heaven. This may appear too strong an expression; but before any Christian condemns it, let him read the catechisms and the mass-books of the Romish church, and hear from those who have been delivered out of her snare what was the teaching of their priests, what their own belief, before the Lord

enlightened them. When an Irish reader of mine had taken the ribbon-man's oath, he was appointed a leader among those misguided rebels, in his native country. He mentioned this to his priest at confession, repeating the terms of the oath, which were that he never would leave off till he should be kneedeep in heretic blood; that he would not buy or sell with a Protestant; and would do his best to destroy them, and to burn and lay waste all their property. He did not receive a single reproof from the priest; nor even a remark, on relating this: but when, some time after, he had, through curiosity, entered a Protestant church, and heard a gospel sermon, on confessing it to the same priest, the latter told him in a rage that he had then taken the first step to hell; and enjoined an unmerciful penance of fasting, prayers, and pilgrimages. To inspire their deluded followers with a horror of God's book, and a hatred of God's servants, is the unvarying aim of those from whom we seek to deliver their souls; and where conversion really takes place, whether of priest or layman, the testimony is uniformly the same, exhibiting the awful picture drawn of the apostate church in the book of Revelation, as perfectly applicable to, and as minutely descriptive of, the popish religion now, as when in the plenitude of unresisted power she formerly made herself "drunk with the blood of saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus."

There was scarcely an individual among those whom I loved to visit, who would not have deemed it a claim to everlasting life if he were to have put me to death; but the work is the Lord's. He restrains their hands, he softens their hearts; and all glory be

to his sovereign grace! he often, by our poor instrumentality converts their souls. Could I but fairly pourtray a few prominent features of popery in Ireland, or popery in St. Giles', it would send many forth to a work, the neglect of which is among the deepest stains of our national iniquity.

No death, no sufferings, can do you so much mischief as the fainting of your faith in an evil day. It gives Christ a loose from the promise. It doth quit and discharge him, and is not that a great thing? As long as you believe, Christ stands engaged, but if faith fail, you have no hold of him, you let him go.

God cannot do what he would in a way of judgment, when faith holds his hand; nor can he do what he would in a way of deliverance, when unbelief stands in the way.

This unbelief weakens his working hand. Christ "could do no mighty works there because of their unbelief." Nothing is difficult to Christ that is feasible to faith. How much of this is the spirit of the day we are in! Among professors the cause and interest of Christ is a sinking thing, a decaying thing. There is a death upon his cause and church, and therefore many forsake it; "trouble not the Master."-Mead's Sermons.

DIVINE TITLES.

BEAUTIFULLY and faithfully as our English bible has been rendered into our own language, yet undoubtedly we lose something of its perspicuity and sublimity by the translation, and in no part more than in the titles or names of the Deity, which are synonimous with his attributes-God and his attributes being one. The understanding of them throws much light upon scripture, and must always be attended with much satisfaction and delight.

The word God is translated from the Hebrew word Alehim, a plural noun, generally used with the verb in the singular number; it signifies Covenanters, a plurality of persons in the Divine essence. Thus, in Genesis i. 1. God is at the beginning of the creation called Alehim, which proves that the Divine Persons had covenanted before they created this world; and in the 26th verse, it is said, "Let us make man in our image; " and to enforce the plurality still further, in the following verses in Genesis, iii. 22; xi. 7; xx. 13; xxxi. 53; xxxv. 7, with numerous others out of the Old Testament, the same word is used joined with pronouns, adjectives, and verbs, all in the plural. What then becomes of the fallacious arguments of the Arian and Socinian, who deny the divinity of our Saviour Christ, though so repeatedly set forth, as one with God, creating, governing, and preserving the universe, co-equal and co-eternal with the Father;