somewhat angrily, "Give me some more honey." "I shall not help you to any more," was the reply. "Then may I help myself?" said the unmannerly boy. "You may leave the table," said his mother. "If you do not know how to behave better, you must hereafter eat by yourself." The child, as usual, began to cry, and to make bitter complaints. "You may leave the table," said his mother, at the same time forbidding him to utter a syllable; and as he continued to pout, he was sent by himself into an adjoining room. This mode of punishment, subjecting children to some self-denial, depriving them at once of some lawful gratification, unaccompanied by a word, probably will have more effect in curing the faults of children, than an ill-timed chapter on the rules of politeness, or an hour's lecture on the duty and importance of obedience to parents. MIRTH AT HOME. I ADVISE you not to be afraid of a If THE WAY TO BE HAPPY. joyment must be left on the thresh"JENNY, come try your new cart," old without, when they come home said Charley Mason. His little sister at night. When once a home is took hold of the string, pulling very regarded as only a place to eat, drink, cautiously at first, and looking with and sleep in, the work is begun that wonder and admiration at her new treasure. Charley had been at work all the morning to please his sister, and now, with a satisfied look, he pulled on his overcoat and cap, and started for school. "Jenny won't be much care to mother this morning," he said, as he left the house. "Johnny Webster, where are you going?" he called to a small boy, who was carrying a basket which seemed to be heavy for him. "I am going to my grandmother's; she is sick, and mother has sent her some nice things." "Let me carry the basket for you as far as I go." And Johnny walked by his side, very willing to be relieved of the weight. ends in the gambling-houses and reckless degradation. Young people must have fun and relaxation somewhere; if they do not find it at their own hearthstones, it will be sought at other and less profitable places. Therefore, let the fire burn brightly at night, and make the homestead delightful with all those little arts which parents so perfectly understand. Do not repress the buoyant spirits of your children. hour of merriment around the lamp and fireside of home, blots out the remembrance of many a care and annoyance during the day, and the best safeguard they can take with them into the world, is the influence of a bright little domestic circle. Poetry. THE PREACHER'S THEME. BY DR. BURNS. 1 Cor. i. 23.-2 Cor. iv, 5. WE preach Christ Jesus, not ourselves; Ourselves as servants stand, And point to Christ our Sovereign Lord, And bow to His command. Him first, Him chief, Him last and all, Creator, Ruler, Lord, Who by His fiat made the world, And governs by His word. He is our Prophet, Priest, and King, No other Saviour God has sent Through whom sin is forgiven. We preach Him in His boundless grace, We preach Him as the only hope His cross the altar, where was slain We preach Him as our Master, Head, Nor preach we any other. To all we preach, and cry aloud, We preach Him as the final Judge THE PRIEST. "The Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins."—Luke v. 24. THE hearts of men in ages past On whom, their weight of sins to cast, Beneath the massive sculptured stone Of Egypt's temples grand, And where the fiery pillar shone Across the desert land; In splendid Rome, and polished Greece, And, since in every age and clime The heart's need is the same, Men yearn as in the elder time For man's release from blame. In Christian as in heathen lands To-day the Priest we see, Bower Cottage, Skeffington, Oct., 1865. E'en in our own He boldly stands And says " Absolvo te." Each priest, though an incarnate lie, O men misled by alb and stole, A man forgives and heals the soul, A human heart beats on God's throne, Thy sins, thy fears, thy prayer. E. H General Correspondence. UNION BAPTIST BUILDING MR. EDITOR attempts to combine your interests In the meantime, please accept the enclosed donation as a practical expression of my good wishes for your success. I am, dear Sir, Dear Sir,-Will you allow me to inform our friends, through the pages of the Magazine, that J. Heard, Esq., with his wonted liberality to the General Baptists, has generously sent one hundred pounds to be applied to the purposes of this society? James Benham, Esq., treasurer of the Baptist Building Fund, gives expression of fraternal sympathy and approval of our object by sending us five pounds. Our brethren R. Pedley, junr., R. Booth, J. Aston, W. Newman, and R. Johnson, Esqrs., have severally promised fifty pounds. Being desirous to give a good report of my stewardship, I would respectfully urge upon the committee the importance of a personal canvass of our friends in their various districts, and press upon them the necessity of MR. EDITOR— prompt and generous action in this matter. To our monied friends in ticular we appeal for special help in this special case, for unless they come to the rescue with the ability God has given them, setting a good example in this financial effort, it cannot be expected to succeed. Our present prospects must be more than quadrupled during this connexional year, or I am fearful we shall seem to display a feeble interest in this, to my thinking, our most laudable and gigantic enterprise. Hoping to have a monthly list of subscriptions for the Magazine, I am, Mr. Editor, Yours truly, 13, West Street, Leicester. par J. ROPER. NORWICH. Dear Sir,-The subject in regard to Norwich, as so ably set forth by the Rev. G. Gould in your last number, is worthy of serious consideration. I can fully endorse his powerful appeal, and especially his graphic description of the present inconvenient and disgusting access to our chapel. I sincerely hope his suggestions will meet with prompt attention. I have but little doubt there might be a flourishing church established in that important city, which might be the means of greatly extending our religious principles in the county. There are some very devoted and pious persons connected with the place. The other section of Baptists sincerely sympathize in the movement, and provided we will make the attempt by substantial aid in the first place, they are prepared to afford considerable help. There is an endowment of £72 per annum, so that if a more eli. gible place of worship could be secured, I apprehend there would be little diffiOn Thursday I was introduced at culty in sustaining a respectable and Bradford to one of the members of efficient ministry in the midst of a your body (whose name I now forget), densely populous neighbourhood. The and there expressed to him my warm proposed purchase of old dilapidated sympathy with your effort, and my buildings in the front would give a sincere regret at the failure of the frontage, I believe, of nearly sixty feet, Dear Sir, I have only heard within the last few days of the formation of a new Building Fund, and I have since then had the pleasure of perusing the Rules, &c., which you have adopted. General Correspondence. I must leave the matter to the consideration of the denomination, and remain, Yours truly, Melbourne, Oct. 17, 1865. 413 and the property may now be had on | vice of a red cross inscribed on it, reasonable terms. We are, I am sure, singing as they walked in procession greatly indebted to the Rev. G. Gould with chanting song and with slow for the deep interest he evidently takes pace round the church and the more in the matter, and if we are only pre-extensive burial ground, ere they enpared to make an effort to accomplish tered the church to perform their the object, we shall have the whole solemnities inside the building. The weight of his influence in our favour. church, having been lately rebuilt A number of his friends have already according to the most approved plans promised handsome subscriptions. of church restoration, and decorated with wax candles, wheat, flowers, &c., &c., appears to be dressed up in character and more in accordance with a London concert room. The clergyman is evidently determined to approach as near to Rome with his congregation (who seem to sympathize with him) as the highest orders of Protestant churchism will tolerate. Abominating everything of an evangelical character, he glories in restoring the monkish absurdities of Augustine's times, and prides himself in being a good priest of the true church of that period. Possessing the keys of Peter by the sacraments of the true church, he admits only the faithful, whilst alí heretics are condemned. ANGLICANISM. MR. EDITOR J. E. Dear Sir, The enclosed was brought me by a good friend who was an eye witness to the scene described, and anxious to do something if possible to enlighten his deceived neighbours, whom I advised to send it to your Magazine, trusting your kindly insertion of the same may be the means of drawing the attention of some of our friends to consider our need of help, especially those who may be interested in the evangelization of our coast towns and neighbourhoods. I am, dear Sir, Yours very truly, W. KILPIN. Birchington, Oct. 11, 1865. Any good brother who can send us a few tracts to enlighten their darkness, would be doing good service. LOUGHBOROUGH. MR. EDITOR Dear Sir,-Will you allow me to state, on behalf of the Wood Gate Thanksgiving Services for the Har-church, that the Rev. J. T. Gale havvest were lately announced by bill at ing now settled amongst us, I have Birchington, Margate, as follows:- been instructed by the church to ex"All Saints' Church, Birchington.-press, through your columns, their Thursday, Sept. 28, 1865, will be observed most grateful thanks for the kindly and as a day of thanksgiving for the harvest. The services will be full choral as under: 8 a.m., Holy Communion; 10.30 a.m., Matins and Holy Communion; 4 p.m., Even Song and Sermon. The offertory will be devoted to the debt still remaining of the restoration of the church." efficient services rendered to them by Very truly yours, "THE HIGHER MINISTRY OF NATURE." On the day appointed the officiating priest in ordinary, with several of the neighbouring clergy, collected to gether, with the village church choir, all robed in white surplices, the clergy wearing their clerical honours, formed themselves into a procession extending MR. EDITOR— across the village square, one preceding Dear Sir,-In this month's number them bearing an elevated gilded cross of your Magazine there is a notice of adorned with bunches of wheat with a my book-"The Higher Ministry of white banner beneath having the de- Nature"-containing strictures so ob viously unfair that for their author's he speaks of flowers begetting a feeling benefit, as well as for the sake of jus- of purity. They may be taken as tice to myself, I beg to call your atten- illustrations of purity; but it is very tion to them. strange theology to speak of them as Your critic selects a few sentences regenerators of the heart." Mr. Miall from my lecture on flowers, and passes says also of flowers,-"There is somea judgment on the whole book from thing lying at the back of them which the "defects" which he fancies he has through the outer senses makes an found in them, on the principle, I pre-appeal to the inner-man"—(page 86). sume, of the old, but not always true, "They have an evangel for men"adage, "Ex uno disce omnes.' He is (page 91). And he welcomes them for at a loss to understand what I can the "purity which they_bring to us mean by "communing" with flowers. from God"-(page 91). But, if flowers If he would read Mr. Miall's recent be, as your critic says they are, "illusvolume," An Editor off the Line,”—trations of purity," then their tendency which I commend to him because its must be to beget in man the same element author is a man who rarely allows or quality which they illustrate. Perhaps "fictitious feeling to usurp the place he will be so kind as to inform us of of reality," (which your critic charges me with doing,) and because Mr. Miall has an established reputation as one of the most philosophic and purest writers of the day; and because his book did not appear until mine was in the press," the regenerators of the heart," I and therefore any corroberation which my views on the influence of flowers receive, is not attributable to their having been influenced by his,-your critic will find in Mr. Miall's essay on flowers this sentence, which to a competent critic should need no explanation-"We praise art, we commune with nature"- (page 86). In the same sense I use the word. Your critic next says that I "am not happy in my selection of phrases," because I speak of flowers producing "a feeling of softness and sympathy,' and say that "if there be a soft spot in any breast, the sight of a flower is sure to touch it." Mr. Miall writes of flowers,-"The hard, rugged, coarseminded man momentarily softens towards them"-(page 85). "This evanescent tendency of flower-life wakes a corresponding tenderness in our souls" (page 88). In our version of the Scriptures, in which the purest and tersest Saxon is used, we find these sentences: "God maketh my heart soft" (Job xxiii. 16). "A soft answer turneth away wrath"-(Prov. xv. 1). "A soft tongue breaketh the bone"-(Prov. xxv. 15). It is in this common sense of gentleness or tenderness that I have also used the terms softness and soft. Wherein, then, am I not happy in my selection of these phrases? Your critic further says of me,"The author is not more accurate when any other tendency which illustrations of moral qualities possess; or of any other use they are meant to serve than to produce what they illustrate? And as to his charging me with making flowers But if he would ask him, if a feeling of purity He closes by saying,-"We regret that a book of this kind should contain such defects. It will only confirm many dull souls in the opinion that nature has nothing to teach, and perhaps strengthen the disinclination of practical men to accept her ministry." It does seem strange logic to say that because an author in a passage happens to use the words, softness and soft, to signify tenderness and tender; and because he says that flowers "beget a feeling of purity," and "produce in all who commune with them a state of mind favourable to the Gospel,"which, be it remembered, are all the defects (?) your critic points out,-it is strange reasoning to say that because |