potatoes, or possibly serving round a pint of small beer to the smiling group at the Sunday table. Threepence per head per diem from some hundred workmen -we won't calculate how far it may go towards the income tax-any possible surplus is well earned by the ingenuity of the discovery, and the determined resolution with which the noble project was carried into effect.'

Now I understand where the sin of our omission comes to help on the effects of this fearful commission. The spirit of Christianity says to the oppressed, "Why do ye not rather take wrong? Why do ye not suffer yourselves to be defrauded?" We have not done our utmost to diffuse this spiritual feeling among the people; and nature, unsubdued by grace, rises against the cruelty. The poor defrauded man rejects his diminished pay; and resorts to violence against his employer.'

"And then come in those wily ones, the Anti-cornlaw leagues, and the Chartists, and proffering a present supply for his hunger, spur on the guilty poor man to aid them in overthrowing the government of the country.'

'Which government did its best to relieve his wants, and had no hand in grinding his face by reducing his scanty, inadequate earnings.'

True but then remember that every person, however unconnected with any of the trades, and therefore seemingly guiltless of oppressing the hireling, is a party to the wrong, and accountable for the mischief, just in proportion as he lives in luxury, and fosters the prevailing taste for display. All that he wantonly lavishes on himself, is a robbery of his starving brother; while the pernicious example

operates on the men who make their wealth by the labour of others. When I see a lady richly clad, in a superb carriage, with laced footmen, rolling through the streets from one fashionable shop to another, I regard her as actively engaged in breaking windows, and throwing stones at the military. When I see a Christian man rejoicing in his spiritual privileges, and expatiating on his own happiness, his present peace and assurance of future glory, while he uses no means to communicate to his fellow-men, in the humblest classes, the knowledge that has made him wise unto salvation; I look on him as the abettor of those deeds. We have schools for children in abundance, and console ourselves with the anticipated piety of the rising generation : we want teaching for the men of this, or our school-houses will be turned into dens of robbers, and our country become a desolation.'

Indeed, uncle, I fear the present storm, however hushed for a time, will burst again with greater and more destructive fury.'

'I fully expect it, niece, unless God puts it into the hearts of men to show more mercy to the poor; to deliver the needy when he crieth, and to spread abroad, far and wide, loud and deep, the glad tidings of the gospel of peace. See how ferocious an industrious and quiet man becomes, when once he has given place to the Devil by resorting to rebellion and violence! That temporal poverty alone is not the evil that menaces us, is quite evident from the resources of those Chartist and League men: they seize on the misery of the poor to make tools of them in their own nefarious designs. There is money enough in the country to do away with all extreme

wretchedness without diminishing the comforts or respectability of the higher ranks: but money alone will not suffice. God is most foully dishonoured in the state of our poor countrymen, who have not the necessaries of proper food and raiment and to honor him aright we must deal forth, not instead of, but in addition to, the food that perisheth, the Bread that nourisheth unto eternal life, by proclaiming to every ignorant soul the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who being rich became poor that we through his poverty might be rich indeed. Then, and not till then, will the Lord look favourably upon us: then shall the earth bring forth her increase, and God, even our own God shall bless us !'

I will tell you a circumstance, uncle, that was related to me yesterday, incidentally, by a well-informed friend, who only named it incidentally, not to make good any point. He remarked that even the trade of those who repair shoes was at a stand; no work going forward: for the labouring poor were so distressed, that they could not afford to have their shoes mended. Yet luxury of every kind is on the increase among the "rich in this world's goods."'

'Ay, and not on the decrease among those who know their responsibility better than worldly men. I tremble at the costly display, the comparatively sumptuous living, of many Christians; and I ask, shall that spirit never again be poured forth on the Church, that impelled the saints in Jerusalem to part with their superfluities that the necessities of their poorer brethren might be supplied?'

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CHRISTIAN LADY'S MAGAZINE.

OCTOBER, 1842.

JUDAH'S LION.

CHAPTER XIX.

'Now Cohen, said Da Costa, as soon as they were alone, have the kindness to repeat to Captain Ryan what you understand to have been my share in this business.'

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There is no need of it;' said the Captain. am satisfied that you have acted as fairly as the circumstances would admit: but having accepted, and so far faithfully discharged a sacred trust, I cannot at a moment's notice relinquish it, without ascertaining the mind of my young friend.'

My mind is soon spoken,' said Alick. The first wish of my heart would be to remain as I am, enjoying this affectionate intercourse with you both; but since it appears that I have, with the rest of my family, been remiss in keeping the commandments of God, as delivered to my fathers, and as fulfilled here in Jerusalem, through successive ages, I am

desirous to repair that omission, and to observe the law, to its extremest letter, in all the strictness of uncontaminated, undiluted Judaism. This, it seems, I cannot do, at present, through ignorance and inexperience, while associating, in domestic life, exclusively with Gentiles; therefore I am willing to make a sacrifice, which I can say from the depth of my heart, is not one that costs me nothing:' his voice faltered for a moment, but he went on with fresh spirit. I wish to be, in the sight of all men, wholly and openly a Jew; and as such I shall carefully compare the law and the prophets with what Christians assert is their fulfilment. I shall ask wisdom from the God of Israel, who alone can give it: then, if I find Christianity to be, as you say it is, the end of our law and the fulfilling of our prophets; if He, whom you assert to be King of the Jews, is really so, and not an impostor, I shall be found in the right path for the acceptation of that which as yet I cannot receive; and as I know Judaism to be of God, so if Christianity be of God also, they cannot clash-they must combine, and form but one. To you, dear sir, I owe more than I can speak ; and I do indeed regret that my father's tardy acknowledgment of what it seems was certainly obligatory on him, should have involved you in so much additional trouble on my account; should have deranged your plans, and embarrassed your movements, and perhaps have placed the beloved babe in danger. For your sake I most deeply regret it; for my own I cannot : selfishness prevails, and the benefits that I have derived, and may yet more derive, from our short intercourse.' He took Captain Ryan's hand, and pressed it to his lips; then joining it to Da Costa's, he added, 'In