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would that even those of us who most sincerely feel and own it as the truth and wisdom of God, did more thoroughly and constantly remember and walk by. The kind interest your letter indicates, has led me to write this long and rambling answer.-Believe me to be, dear sir, yours very JOHN RICHARD RUSHTON. Hook Norton Rectory, Chipping Norton, July, 1868. P.S. Of course Bray is still confined to his bed. On Monday he was for a time delirious, but is now going on favourably. No bones broken, though bruised. When first brought up, his pulse was imperceptible; nor could he feel the hot-water bottles, &c., applied to him. He says he heard the men at work soon after they began, and that he all along retained the hope of being delivered. He was fixed as in a vice, with his head bent back in a very uncomfortable position. Altogether, the more one considers all the circumstances, the more marvellous does his deliverance appear.

DR. CUMMING states that Dr. Manning had boasted of 1,000 converts in Westbournia, and of the admission of 11 clergymen of the Church of England within the last year into the Church of Rome. Dr. Manning had also stated that if the Roman Catholic Church could strike down England, the whole of Europe would be at its feet; he was setting to work with masterly power and skill to effect this object. He had 1,600 bishops and priests working on England alone; he had also 206 convents, 40 or 50 monasteries, and 1,300 cathedrals, churches, and chapels. Besides, look at and avoid those crafty sappers and miners, that are accustoming the people of England to popish processions, banners, crosses, and other popish symbols in our churches.

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Now I saw in my dream, that at the end of the valley lay blood, bones, ashes, and mangled bodies of men, even of pilgrims that had gone this way formerly; and while I was musing what should be the reason, I espied a little before me a cave, where two giants, Pope and Pagan, dwelt in old time; by whose power and tyranny the men whose bones, blood, ashes, &c., lay there were cruelly put to death. But by this place Christian

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went without danger, whereat I somewhat wondered; but I have learned since, that Pagan has been dead many a day; and as for the other, though he be yet alive, he is, by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger days, grown so crazy and stiff in his joints, that he can now do little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails because he cannot come at them.

So I saw that Christian went on his way; yet, at the sight of the old man that sat at the mouth of the cave, he could not tell what to think, especially because he spoke to him, though he could not go after him, saying, You will never mend till more of you be burned. But he held his peace, and set a good face on it, and so went by, and catched no hurt.

THE MONSTER.

A WONDER on this earth I saw,
Though strange, yet sadly true-
A monster, horrid, base, and vile,
Cruel and cunning, too.

This monster many has devoured,
Both men and women too;

And even children has not spared-
Pity he never knew.

This monster bears a human form,
But, deep within his breast
Infernal thoughts are daily nursed,
As in a viper's nest.

Besides his cruelty and strength,

Great cunning he possesses,

And oftentimes will he those destroy
That trust in his caresses.

He sometimes seems so meek and kind,
So gentle and so mild,

You'd think him harmless as a dove,
Or simple as a child.

When suddenly he shows himself
In his true, proper form,
And takes the unsuspecting one
As though it were by storm.

This monster's greatest end and aim
Is power over men;

Both souls and bodies he would rule,
And make them worship him.

66.

“All means and ways to him alike,
So he can reach his end;"

This is his maxim, and from it
He never yet did bend.

He never will-that firm is fixed
In all his horrid features;
And still to gain his wicked ends
Destroys poor human creatures.
"Who is this monster ?" you will ask;
The answer I will tell :

"Tis POPERY, that horrid thing,
Which thousands leads to hell.

What numbers of good Christian men
This monster has devoured!
Let Irish and Bartholomew woes*
Show up the shameless coward.

* The Irish Massacre of Protestants in the reign of Charles I., when 100,000 were killed, A.D. 1641.-Riching's Protestant Catechism. The Massacre of St. Bartholomew (it occurred on that Popish Saint's day), when 60,000 Protestants were slain, the king himself, Charles IX., being one of the murderers. A.D. 1572.-History in All Ages.

Yet still are found deluded men
(How passing strange it seems!)
Who in this monster make their trust,
Believe his lying dreams.

Oh, never listen to its voice,
Nor enter its abode,

Not e'en to see it "just for once
No; pass not by that road.

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And oh, may God, from heaven above,
Instruct your erring heart,
And show to you a Saviour's love,
Which safe will guard from art.

Then ask Jehovah if it be

His just and holy will,

This wicked monster to destroy-·
This fertile source of ill.

RIDLEY.

HISTORY OF THE JEWS.

FROM NEHEMIAH TO THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM.

CHAPTER XIII.

We

OUR last chapter concluded with an account of the affairs of Rome at the Christian Era. must now return to the affairs of Judea.

The king of Parthia undertook to place Antigonus upon the throne, and sent an army for that purpose. Herod, who was then governor of Galilee, escaped, but Phasael, governor of Jerusalem, destroyed himself to avoid falling into the hands of the enemy. The Parthians plundered the city, and placed Antigonus on the throne; Hyrcanus was thereby deposed, but his life was spared.

Herod took refuge in Rome, and sought pro

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