Elijah desired death (1 Kings xix. 4); and Jeremiah not only desired death, but cursed the day of his birth (Jer. xx. 14-18). Diversified as these sins appear, it is remarkable how they centre in one point, viz.-incapability of endurance. The reader has only to consider the incidents embraced in the above quotations, to perceive clearly, that typical Christs failed just where it was most incumbent on them to succeed. The messiahnic office itself demanded capability of suffering. We may apply to the types, for illustration, the following beautiful remark, made primarily, respecting the antitype, The Messiah's connection with his people makes it necessary for him to be susceptible of suffering, since the imperfection of the many oc casions the anointing of the One.' Moses, for instance, did truly in some sense, bear the imperfection of the many; he did this for time, but ultimately broke down under the load. He and all his as sociates were witnesses that THE Messiah must be a sufferer; but by their imperfection in suffering, each declared, I am not THE Messiah It behoved THE Christ to suffer,' said the risen Jesus, Luke xxiv 46. If,' said Paul before king Agrippa, IF THE CHRIST SHOULD B A SUFFERER, if the first of a resurrection of the dead, about to an nounce light to the people [of Israel] and to the Gentiles; then argues he, I, in proclaiming a suffering, dying One, have wit nessed none other things than those which Moses and the prophet did say should come.'

Thus the types of the Old Testament, and its predictions, as we as the positive statements of the New, concur in the proposition that the true Messiah must be an extraordinary-a perfect suffere In looking for the true Messiah, we look for one who avoids the de fects of his types, and especially their capital defect-their incap city to endure the needful suffering.

Turning now to Jesus, we affirm, he did avoid all the defects the typical Christs; he avoided their grand defect-He never BROK DOWN under his sufferings. He suffered patiently, fully, to the en By suffering perfectly, he became perfect through suffering. Pro of this we do not present. No one believes the New Testament, ar disbelieves, that while Jesus triumphantly avoided all the defects his typical predecessors, over their constant official failing h triumph was most glorious. He became obedient, as far as deat even the death of the cross.

3. HE CONQUERED THEIR MORTALITY. Not one of the Christs the Old Testament could have been considered the Christ, even h he been immaculate, simply because he was mortal; he abode n in his office, he failed by reason of death. Or if any of them see not so slavishly as other men, to submit to the demands of t grave, as Moses and Elijah, these are they, who, of all others, a pear on the mount of transfiguration, and lay their honours dow at Jesus' feet. Jesus triumphed over death, and him that had t power of death-i. e. the devil. 'He, because he continueth eve hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able also save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing ever liveth to make intercession for them.'

In conclusion, if Jesus combined the excellences, avoided the d fects, and conquered the mortality of all who preceded him in t office of the Anointed, is not the conclusion irresistible, that he

heir antitype, he is THE Anointed that should come into the world? And what is this, dear reader, but to say that he is your Saviour and nine; that God has chosen him to take away sin, to bring in ighteousness, pardon, and peace; that as God has chosen him, we an have no other choice? And why should we desire another? s not God's Elect infinitely lovely; entirely suited to our state and rants? Take care you do not neglect him. Jesus, as the true fessiah, is for us Gentiles (also'), our Ensign, our Rest, our Hory, our Light, our Salvation, our Deliverer! Is he these to ou? Do you rally to him; repose under his wing; delight in his haracter and work; see in his light; stand secure in his salvation; wn him as your deliverer? Remember well, that his arrows are harp in the heart of the king's enemies.' Remember, and be adtonished by the remembrance, that of the Messiah, it is written, he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the reath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.' Kiss the Son, lest he e angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled ut a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.'

J. B. R.

Poetry.

THE SPELL OF THE GOSPEL.

I'D been taught from my childhood-the days of my youth,
By the Spirit of grace, through his record of truth,
Of the advent of Shiloh-his toil and his pain-
Of his leaving joy's mansions for sorrow's domain,
Till all the events of his life's troublous sea

Seemed familiar and well-known, yea, common to me,
I could trace in my spirit each step of his path
Through city and village, o'er sea, hill, and strath,
Bethle❜m and Nazareth, Jerus'lem, and all

The scenes of his wanderings to memory recall;
The wilderness' trial, and the mountain's cold air,
Gethsem'ne's red sweat, and Calvary's last prayer;
His death and his burial-his rising again-
His farewell commandments-his ascending to reign;
I'd been told of the solace the truth could impart
To the wounded in spirit, the broken in heart,
I had read of the sunbeams accompanying its ray,
Giving life to the dead, turning night into day;
I had heard of the righteousness it had brought near
A deliverance from sin and the torments of fear,
Of its hopes and its joys-of its peace and its love-
Its rich promises here-their fulfillment above,
With its victory, too, o'er the victor, the grave,
Its surmounting in glory dark Jordan's proud wave.

Yet as a tale that is told-a mere doleful lay,
All seemed nought to me but a woeful array;
With the daughters of Salem it caused me to weep,
But except this emotion, my soul lay in sleep,

Evincing no action, nor evidence gave

That the Gospel declared, is God's own power to save.

Now, how did it come that the life-giving breath
Should prove naught in me but the savour of death?

Come, list to me, list, while I open the spell-
The mystery unravel, the enigma tell.

The Gospel I knew, yet apprehended it not,
The pith of the Record, the 'FOR ME' I forgot.
Now, this is the gospel, that Christ died FOR ME;
And this apprehended, the truth made me free.
For thus was I drawn by the magnet of love,
Attracted in spirit to Jesus above.

For in his broken body-in his pensive eye-
In his gracious look-and his heart-rending cry-
In his stricken spirit-his life's ebbing stream,
I saw God's compassion refulgently beam.
In that he gave up to the death for us all
His own well-beloved, our hope to recall.

Be this, then, our watchword, our joy, and our plea,
That Christ died FOR US, yes, for you, and for me.

Cloud of Witnesses.

ED.

CHRISTIAN EVIDENCE.-The fruit is now as it shall be hereafte the test of the tree. There is no such thing as faith without work Without these your profession is a lie, your faith is dead, your hop is a delusion. It is a delusion and a snare like the phosphoric ligh the product of putrefaction, which to the terror of superstitious pe sants, and the destruction of unwary travellers, gleams and burns night above the pool in whose dark depths life has been lost, and body evolving gases capable of spontaneous combustion, is goir to decay. Now, as the fruit is the test of the tree, obedience is tl test of love; hear our Lord,' He that hath my commandments ar keepeth them, he it is that loveth me.' Dr Guthrie.

CHRISTIAN PROGRESS.-Why is the progress of the Church so slo compared with the progress of the nursery? Why has child aft child in our families learned to walk while the best of us are st but creeping, tottering, stumbling on our way to heaven? The are mysteries in grace, but there is no mystery here. The reason plain. Every hour of the day the infant is on its knees or its fee it falls, but it is to rise; it fails, but it is to begin again; its ve happiness and business lie in the acquisition of this power, and t smile which lights up its beautiful face, and its proud-like air wh it can stand alone, or cross the floor to throw itself laughing into mother's arms, shew that its heart and happiness are in this wor We say to God's people, Go by God's grace, Go, and do likewis Take more pains, give more prayer, to learn this holy art. Let t perseverance of the nursery be imitated by the Church. Let o

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knees be as much employed in prayer, and our powers and hours in attempting a holy life, as those of infancy in learning to walk. if we would give the same diligence to make our calling and election Sure-the same diligence to work out our salvation, I am certain that we should be holier-much holier than we are. Our life would present a happy illustration of these sublime and resplendent emblems, Ye are the light of the world;' The path of the just is as the shinFog light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day;' 'They shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.' Dr Guthrie.

Correspondence.

THE BAPTISM OF THE SPIRIT-QUERIES AND REPLY.
DEAR BROTHER,-Do the words, ‘By one Spirit we are all baptised
to one body,' apply to all true Christians? and is the one baptism
Ephesians that of the Spirit or water?—Yours in the good hope,
Carron.
ALEX. PHILIPS.

The baptism of the Spirit was the immersion of the disciples in
he Spirit's outpoured manifestation, first on the day of Pentecost,
and second on the conversion of Cornelius and his friends. Respect-
g the former, Luke says, 'there came a sound from heaven as of
rushing mighty wind, and filled all the house where they were
tting, and there appeared unto them separated tongues as of fire
which sat on each of them, and they were all filled with the Holy
pirit, and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave
bem utterance.' The baptism took place by the filling of the room
where the disciples sat: but in this case none but Jews were im-
ersed. However, on the opening of the door of faith to the Gentiles
Cesarea, Peter said the Holy Spirit fell on them, as on the Israel-
ish disciples at the beginning. On seeing the Holy Spirit thus
ven to them, they of the circumcision were astonished, as many
came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out
he gift of the Holy Spirit, for they heard them speak with tongues
magnify God. Then answered Peter, can any man forbid water
at these should not be baptised, who have received the Holy Spirit
well as we; and he commanded them to be baptised in the name
the Lord. By this miraculous spiritual baptism in which the gift
tongues was bestowed, the apostles so spoke that men of every
ation heard in their own language the wonderful works of God, and
ey that gladly received the apostles' word, being baptised according
the Saviour's command, were added to the Church. Thus was
Church-the body of Christ formed, and in like manner as quoted
bove, the Gentiles were admitted into the one body, and in manifest
ecurrence to these facts, Paul wrote, saying,' By one Spirit we are
I baptised into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, bond or free,
ad have all been made to imbibe one Spirit.' In this sense, then, the
ptism of the Spirit applies to all true Christians, but not at all in
e sense contended for by some in these days, who would have us
lieve in their individual or separate immersion in the Spirit, albeit
ey speak none save their mother tongue, and it may be, 'a little

Latin, and less Greek,' acquired by ordinary means. The 'one baptism' of Ephesians is unquestionably that of the commission-immersion in water into the sacred name. The baptism in the Spirit having been fulfilled in the facts above noted, it had no existence except as a thing of history when Paul wrote the disciples in Ephesus. Had it been a baptism still continuing to be administered as in the case of water baptism, he could not have taught that there is but one baptism, as there is but one Lord, one faith, one body, one Spirit, one hope, one God and Father of all. ED.

Entelligence.

THE FREE CHURCH.-The little daughter of a Christian friend, one first-day, straying a little behind the family, lost sight of them, and thereupon entered the first place of worship on the way-a FreeKirk. Her father was amused, on his interrogating her on his return, as to where she had gone, for asking, whether it was not the Free Church she had entered, her reply was, that it could not be the Free Church, for there were plates at the door.

THE CHURCHES IN VICTORIA.—A Quarterly Social Meeting was held at Windsor, on Tuesday evening, 30th March, by the disciples of Christ belonging to the Churches in Melbourne, Prahran, and Brighton. Brother Kidner presided. The brethren were much de lighted by accounts of the progress of the good cause. The ad dresses and recommendations evinced much of the zeal that work by love. The brethren feel great reason to thank God, and tak courage. The meeting was gratified to see a brother from th newly planted Church at East Brighton.

J. R. M.

BIRMINGHAM.-Brethren King and Rotherham's labours in thi city continue to be followed by very cheering results. By their varie meetings, out-door and in, many have heard the word; not a fev have had their difficulties and objections removed; and the littl band of brethren have been gladdened by the addition of abou thirty to their number.

BAPTISMS.-Swansea. On Lord's Day, June 13, a believer was in troduced into the Kingdom of the Messiah, by immersion; the hus band of the sister, two months before. With this brother were re ceived two others, previously baptized. Edinburgh, Nicolson Stree Hall.-Two believers were immersed last month, and so added t the Church.

OBITUARY.-Sister Brown, wife of Brother Hugh Brown, an daughter of the late Mr Sanderson, pastor of the baptized Church i Musselburgh, long and well known to brethren in and around Edin burgh, as a warm-hearted follower of the Saviour, fell asleep o Monday, 24th May, aged 74. Brother John Dron of Auchtermucht a faithful and beloved disciple, after a pilgrimage of seventy years during which he stedfastly served his Saviour, in constant but un ostentatious labours, departed this life on Saturday evening, 5t June. A sketch of his honourable and useful life will be interestin and edifying to our readers.

J. Taylor, Printer, Edinburgh.