acquisition. "To this man will I look," says God, 66 even to him that is of a poor and contrite spirit, and who trembleth at my word." "The meek will he guide in judgment, and the meek will he teach his way."

2. Readily yield to the dictates of truth when they are discerned by you. When you refuse to follow them, you set yourselves in opposition to God, their author and avenger. Ignorance of what should. be known is sinful, but disobedience, after instruction received and understood, is still more sinful. Trust in the God of Truth, whatever be the opposition which you may experience at the hands of your fellow-men. Greater, you may well believe on His own word, is He that is for you than all they that can be against you. Even though matters, in the all-wise and faithful providence of God, should go to extremities, you will not be forsaken. "Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.”* But let not fear alone be your constraining motive. Seek that perfect love which casteth out fear. Lay hold of the love of God in Christ Jesus, and say, from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as

"Who shall separate us

* Luke xii. 4, 5.

sheep for the slaughter.) Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors, through him that loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

CONVERSION AND BAPTISM OF TWO STUDENTS

OF

THE ELPHINSTONE INSTITUTION, BOMBAY.

(FROM THE "ORIENTAL CHRISTIAN SPECTATOR.")

We have been requested by several friends to be somewhat particular in our notice of this case; and, for reasons which we need not specially mention, we comply with the wishes which have been expressed to us. The following narrative, taken principally from a letter of Dr. Wilson, and the documents which are subjoined, probably contain all the information connected with it which is desiderated.

The baptism of Sayyad Hasan and of Shápurjí Edaljí took place in the Free Church Mission-house, Ambrolie, Bombay, on the 8th February, before a peaceable and deeply-interested congregation of natives and Europeans. The introductory devotional exercises were on this occasion conducted by the Rev. Dr. Glasgow, and the sermon was preached and the ordinance administered by Dr. Wilson. The text was from Jer. xxix. 8, "Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive

you," which was applied particularly to "The Trial of Muhammad by his own Tests." Dr. Wilson hopes to be able to introduce the substance of the discourse into the new edition of his work on Muhammadanism, which he has been preparing for some time, with special reference to the latest course of oriental research and critical investigation of the Kurán. The Personal Statements of both the young men, copies of which are subjoined, were quite analogous to that of Behrámjí, another student lately baptized, and equally satisfactory and gratifying. They were read by them with much modesty and feeling, and awakened much sympathy. They show a very clear apprehension of the first principles of the oracles of God, especially as connected with the doctrines of the atonement and justification by faith, and refer to a Christian experience which has every appearance, to the eye of man, of being genuine.

Sayyad Hasan is a young man of great promise and amiability. In his childhood, he had the advantage of the counsels and example of an enlightened father, who was one of the first Muhammadans in Bombay who enjoyed a thorough English education, and who became a teacher in the Government College, in connexion with which Dr. Wilson had long ago made his acquaintance. His first inquiries relative to Christianity, and indefinite desires to embrace it, arose in his mind when he himself was attending the class in that seminary taught by Mr. Ardeshir Frámjí, with whose name many are now familiar. In December 1855, he went to

the English congregation of the Free Church, to hear Dr. Duff preach a missionary sermon; but on observing the entrance of some Muhammadans hostile to Christianity, he left the congregation before the commencement of the service, lest he should be accused by them of favouring Christianity, and thus led either to make a premature avowal of his attachment to it, or tempted to conceal his real religious convictions. Before he went out, however, he had a short conversation with an excellent Christian lady, (Mrs. Miller,) who quoted to him the text, "God so loved the world, that he gave his onlybegotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life," which made a deep impression on his mind. A few days afterwards he called at the Mission-house, expecting to have an interview with Dr. Wilson, and finding him absent with Dr. Duff, he addressed a note to Mrs. Wilson, asking from her a copy of the Bible, which she readily furnished to him. His experience on perusing it was, that the entrance of the Word of God giveth light, that it giveth understanding to the simple. In a second note he asked from Mrs. Wilson a book of prayers, to aid him in his devotions. Having no suitable work of this kind at hand to send him, she advised him to express his own desires in his own language before God, and directed him to several of the Psalms, in which he would observe the breathings of the devotion of the saints of old under the inspiration of the Divine Spirit, by which all may be instructed and guided to the latest