Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father;" "Chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world;" "Because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation," &c., &c. And for the subjects of the other kingdom: "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers ;" "Ye are of your father the Devil, and his works ye will do," &c. From the above, and many more similar passages, I consider it undeniably evident, that the blessed Redeemer had, from the beginning, a kingdom, the subjects of which were as distinctly known and distinguished by Him from the rest of mankind, and abundantly more so, than ever wheat and tares, sheep and goats, were distinguished among men. These gracious visitations had, through the operations of the Holy Spirit, a strong tendency to enable me more firmly to trust in the promises and purposes of God, and the finished work of the Mediator; but no more confidence in myself, for I still found, to my sorrow, that in my flesh dwelt no good thing, but the seeds of all evil. My only hope, therefore, arose from the immutable purpose of mercy to all God's people through the atonement. It was also the Lord's good pleasure, daily to make me feel and see my entire inability to do anything of myself that should be pleasing to God, or that could come with acceptance before Him; that I was wholly dependent on His gracious influence for every good desire, will, or purpose-being in His hands, like clay in the hands of the potter; and that God moved in love to every individual of his people, only on account of what the Redeemer, by his active and passive obedience had procured for them, and His own everlasting love had purposed concerning them—for all their own doings being defective, only rendered them more guilty. After thus for some considerable time laying me prostrate at his Sovereign feet, one Sabbath morning as I went some distance to meet and commune with the church of which I was a member, I was particularly quickened, and enjoyed some special influence of the Holy Spirit, both on my way thither, and during my stay; but on my return in the afternoon, I had such a view of the holiness and purity of God, as I never had enjoyed before-and I think I never particularly loved Him so ardently, on account of his possessing those attributes, and yet I could not help blessing, praising His holy name, for making me the subject of redemption. I never till then got the right understanding of the apostle, in Rom. vi. 17, "God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin," &c. If I had not been the servant of sin, I could not have been the subject of redemption; I should never have been brought into that nearness of relationship to our blessed Redeemer-I should not have been an heir of God through Christ, nor a member of His mystical body, the church militant. I could, and did at that time, bless God with my whole heart, for the very thing that some years before, had been so severe a trial, and for the solution of which I would willingly have given the whole universe, had it been at my disposal. The redemption of the church, as well as the creation of all things, prepared the way for setting our glorious Emmanuel at the head of all the works of God, and the giving Him a name above every name-a name to which every knee must bow, and every tongue confess, and the only name by which we must be saved; for we were chosen in Him, created, begotten, and quickened in Him through the Spirit, clothed by Him with the garment of salvation-covered with the robe of righteousness —the righteousness of God in Him—have eternal life and redemption in Him-are accepted of God in Him, and have access to God by Him— are sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, and sanctified and set together in heavenly places in Him. Ought He not, then, to be precious to us who believe? Is it any wonder that St. Paul, who had been admitted into the third heavens, and who had so effectually proved the inestimable value of redemption, or of being found in Christ, should so earnestly desire to be divested of his own rags, and to be clothed with that precious robe-the righteousness of God wrought by the Redeemer ? While meditating on the many highly important and glorious truths contained in the Word of God, concerning our blessed Lord, the passage in Isaiah liii. 10, "By His knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many," proved, for a time, a paradox. I could not discover how his knowledge was particularly concerned in the act of justification-but afterwards considering the heinous nature of sin-the extent and purity of the divine law, reaching to the most secret thoughts, and in everything requiring complete perfection, I began to perceive the indispensable necessity that the ever-blessed Redeemer should be perfect in knowledge, or He could not, with propriety and certainty, perform the work, or assert, "I have finished the work thou gavest me to do;" nor declare immediately before his expiration, "It is finished!" Since he had to fulfil the law in all its requirements, to magnify it, and make it honourable, and go to the end of it for righteousness to every individual given him by the Father, it highly concerned him to know each one, and the full demand of law and justice against him, the extent and turpitude of sin, and the excruciating pain he had to endure in effecting and finishing the atonement—all which was to be performed understandingly in full assurance of faith, with perfect love and delight. And who less than Jehovah is sufficient for these things? A full promulgation of the gospel must therefore exhibit Christ both the power and the wisdom of God; wisdom and power unitedly exerted, in constituting a Saviour every way suitable and sufficient, as beautifully expressed by the apostle, "Who of God is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption." Every thing we need to complete our happiness, our blessed Redeemer is made of God unto us. Surely this is a gift worthy of God's bestowing. The above relation contains a record of some of the dispensations of God towards me, during a period of more than sixty years, which I have endeavoured to relate and express, so as to retain as much as possible the same ideas which occupied my mind at the times I experienced their influence, without addition-although many thoughts that thus occurred have been suppressed, to avoid swelling the narrative -and many because they could not be perfectly recollected. Grand Lake, New Brunswick, JOHN PALMER. "FRENCH POLISH" AND POPISH POISON, IN LIEU OF PROTESTANTISM. "I'll be a Catholic, Mamma!" said an interesting little girl not yet three years old, as she entered the room, and came looking up into her mother's face, with a thoughtfulness of manner and a shrewdness of expression, which bespoke but too plainly the treacherous influence of the child's casual attendant. "A Catholic!" was the reply with seriousness and surprise. "Yes," resumed the child, with increased determination, "I'll be a Catholic; I'll not be a Protestant. And I will go to mass." Reader, art thou a parent? Art thou more than this-art thou a Protestant parent? Still more, art thou a Protestant in principle and practice, as well as in profession? Have thine eyes been opened to the malignities-the dreadful destructiveness of Popery, and the danger of its contact with weak and wicked human nature; and art thou crying for thyself thy children-thy kinsfolk-thy friends-thy neighbours, to be preserved from-and such as are in it to be snatched from-its cruel fangs? If so, thou wilt understand the torture of a parent's feelings when arrested as above. Readers, in the autumn of last year we strongly remonstrated with parents upon the impropriety-to use no stronger term-of sending their children over to the Continent to educate. Constituted as society there is, it is to place them upon the very brink of a precipice within the very jaws of destruction-to throw in the face of God's Providence the petition, "Lead us not into temptation," which those parents so often professedly offer in sincerity. Surely, if nothing more, the awful disclosures with which the papers have lately teemed of the Jesuitical influence exercised over the offspring of a fond-a devoted— mother, an influence which at length led to the sacrifice-in the most barbarous way of that mother's life, ought to excite at least some degree of inquiry into the nature of that influence; and if, as in this case of the De Praslin family, all were of one creed-all were Romanists -how much more dangerous the collision of a poor unsuspecting girl. a thoughtless, open-hearted boy-the offspring of Protestant parents - with lightsome but at the same time crafty, desiguing, proselyting Romish instructors, whose every act and movement is not only periodically disclosed to their priestly inquisitors, but whose very brains are ransacked to furnish replies to the multitudinous inquiries proposed at the Confessional. Tell us not that the principals of Romish scholastic establishments are under bond to prevent the exercise of such an influence. As true Papists, they can make no such engagements. Popery will not admit of concessions. Its adherents, therefore, must be false either to their priests or their patrons: and they are too firmly bound by the Papal yoke, to be untrue to the former. And equally would we distrust the opinions of professedly Protestant Principals, who, employing Romish teachers, would attempt the assurance that no hazard was incurred thereby. The contact is a dangerous one. Popery is too ensnaringits professions too plausible-its arguments too subtle-its advocates too wily; to throw poor heedless youth in its way. "Can a man take fire in his bosom," says Solomon, "and his clothes not be burned?" Popery "hath cast down many wounded; yea, many strong men have been slain by her." And if men once apparently firm in principle, and rigid in practice, have been overtaken-ensnared-and devoured by this blood-thirsty foe (Rev. xvii. 6), what may we expect from those whose principles are as yet scarcely formed, and who know not their right hand from their left in what are termed religious matters ? We repeat, the position is most hazardous. To know what Popery is, and what its crafty workings, persons must live in the midst of it; and then indeed will they know but a part-and that a very small part -of its doings. Its advocates will fondle with the babe-set about deluding the youth-and thrust the crucifix before the dying gaze of the hoary-headed though professedly Protestant sinner, if so be they can but swell their ranks thereby, and merit indulgence for services thus rendered. We subjoin an extract from the Irish Evening Herald, that has casually fallen in our way, where the Editor, speaking of foreign education, says: We cannot now pursue this branch of the subject; our object at present is to warn parents, that, setting aside patriotic and pecuniary considerations, there is a higher motive which should make them pause before they send their sons and daughters from Ireland to be educated. There is no danger of children returning from an Irish school with their religious belief perverted-that the child sent from home a Protestant will return a Roman Catholic-but that such danger is incurred by sending children to foreign schools, sufficiently appears from the following extract which we take from the Morning Herald: We received the following from a respectable English gentleman, resident at Paris, some weeks back; but laid it aside under a pressure of other matters, until another circumstance, nearer home, recalled it to our memory: "English parents, desirous of sending their daughters to be educated in any of the schools of Paris, are earnestly requested to consult one of the Protestant ministers residing there before they make their arrangements. Many of the establishments for young ladies are accurately described in the words employed by a friend who has experienced the danger, with regard to one situated in a part of Paris where most of the English reside:-The governesses (themselves strict Roman Catholics) feel it their duty to draw their Protestant pupils into conformity to their creed; the young English ladies breathe an atmosphere poisoned by Jesuitism; the lessons, generally, have a decidedly Popish cast: no opportunity is neglected by the teachers of ridiculing Protestantism; while Romanism is presented to the inexperienced girls under every attractive form. The English teacher, Miss who was herself drawn over to the Romish doctrines by one of the ladies and by the confessor of this establishment, before she entered it, is now actively engaged in making proselytes. Her efforts have been successful in several instances. The last illness of Mrs. D., the youth of Miss D., and the vacillating mind of Mrs. B., have all been turned to account, and the result has been, that three English Protestants have been added to the Church of Rome. No one can calculate the mischief done to youthful minds in some of these establishments. So far as the Papists themselves are concerned, they are but acting consistently, and no blame can attach to them, if their efforts and intentions are but openly and candidly avowed. But it is highly necessary that Protestants should be made aware of the dangers to which their daughters sent to Paris are frequently exposed, by the extensive system of allurement which the Roman Catholics are now practising with much shrewdness, and more than ordinary zeal. Popery is decidedly losing ground in France, and the knowledge of this stimulates to these energetic attempts to proselyte the English to the Roman creed.' Several Protestant schools exist in Paris, and all the information needed respecting them could be easily obtained by application in suitable quarters. If no better mode suggests itself, the names and addresses of a few of the Protestant clergy of Paris (whether English, French, or German) might be procured by applying at the Protestant Library, No. 2, Rue Tronchet, Paris.” We say this caution was brought to our memory by the following paragraph, which has recently gone the round of the London papers: "Considerable surprise has been occasioned in consequence of its having become known that the eldest son of the Hon. Mr. Norton, who is heir presumptive to the title of Baron Grantley, became a convert to popery, while an 'Eton boy,' during his short stay in Paris, at Easter last. A French priest with whom the youth became acquainted during his visit to France with his mother, is the party by whose means his renunciation of Protestantism was effected." THE EDITOR. Since the foregoing was written, the annexed has appeared in the Standard: man. To the Editor of the Standard. SIR, Having gone to Paris for the purpose of placing a daughter at school I saw, in Galignani, a paragraph copied from the Standard, on the subject of the proselytising going on in French schools, and recommending parents, be fore making choice of one, to take the opinion of an English Protestant clergyThis emboldened me to call on one of the most active and respected of the English clergy in Paris; and it may save other parents some trouble to be informed, that this gentleman objects equally to all French schools, i. e., in which the teachers or pupils are Roman Catholic. Supposing the Principals not to interfere, or sanction interference on the part of others, with the religious opinions of their Protestant pupils, it is thought (having no personal knowledge, of course, I express no opinion of my own) that they must be exposed to the influence of the example of their Romanist fellow pupils, who, for instance, pass their Sunday evenings in card playing, dancing, and similar |