intendence of the material interests of men, and fear to say that the Bible has no more to do with legislation than it has with a mechanic in making a machine. The voice of Pantheism and of Atheism, which, in various degrees and semblances, is found in the writings of such men as Maurice, and Jowett, and Kingsley, is still felt by many a heart to be the voice of the dragon, however much it may disguise itself under the forms of philanthropy and freedom, and seek to assume the appearance of the lamb. The sentiments of such men, as well as of those statesmen who find in India the sphere in which to manifest their contempt for the Bible and for Christ, are in close accord with the following thoughts expressed, not long before his death, by the late unhappy Archbishop of Paris, M. Sibour, who perished in his blood. In one of his pastoral letters, speaking of the East and of its prospects, he observes: "The Turkish people is no longer the same, and does not belie our hopes of union. Where at the present day is its hostility and animosity against us? It is one of our most faithful allies. It has thrown open its bosom to the influences of Christian civilization. It is beginning to open its eyes to the light of Truth, and to know its father and mother. At bottom, Mohammedanism, what is it but a sect of Christianity?" When the Papists,

* Extracted from The Globe newspaper, at that time one of the organs of the British Government, April 9th, 1856. The

and the Greek Church, and Judaism, and Mohammedanism, and Anglicanism, shall re-echo this sentiment, and when it shall become governmentally adopted by the nations of the Roman World, we shall soon see the "Ephah," and "wickedness" its inmate, established in the land of Shinar. God's hand may indeed for a season restrain the rising waters, and prevent the outpouring of the flood of "lawlessness"; yet there is many an outward, and many a moral sign that the hour of its full supremacy will not long be delayed. How distinctly the eye of the world is fixed upon the Euphratean countries will be seen from the following extracts.

comment of The Globe is as follows: "What will 'The Univers' and Exeter Hall say to this? To what denunciations will this truly pious and sensible view of Islamism not give rise? Fortunately for the Archbishop, his Grace is not one of those whom the βρεκεκεκεξ κοαξ κοαξ of the denizens of the stagnant pools of intolerance and 'Tartuffism' is likely to deter either from expressing or acting upon his opinion." -The Globe. The spirit of those who shall say of Jehovah and of Christ, "Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us" is fully found in these menloving nothing but themselves-hating everything that bears. the impress of God's saving Truth.

Extract from a letter written from Mosul (Nineveh) February 26th, 1854, and published in the "New York Tribune."

"The common idea that Nineveh is in the open desert is very erroneous. It lies in the heart of a most productive region. There is but little soil in the world like that of the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates. It is among the possibilities that a railway will ere long be built from Antioch or Seleucia, along the Orontes, across Mesopotamia to Mosul, and thence down to Bagdad and Busrahthe second short route to India. If this part of Turkey should fall into the hands of England, there is no doubt that such a road would be speedily constructed. The line has been surveyed. These barren fields are too rich always to be idle. They cannot be cultivated by the Turks-such is the curse of Islamism upon nature itself. It produces nothing. It cannot build up; its time has nearly come. The 'star of empire' is not always to move 'westward.' The gospel is at work in Turkey, and why may we not expect that a New England civilization will be one of its results?"

Extracts from a work entitled "Memoir of the Euphrates Valley Route to India; with official Correspondence and Maps." By W. P. Andrew F.R.G.S., &c., London, 1857.

"The substance of the following pages was originally circulated in the form of a memorandum. After having been somewhat extended, it was published with other papers in a volume entitled 'The Scinde Railway and its Relations to the Euphrates Valley and other Routes to India.'

"More detailed information is now afforded, as it is believed to be essential, not only to the vital interests of this country in the East, and the wellbeing of Turkey, but to the peace and progress of the world, to establish, with as little delay as possible, steam and telegraphic communication, via the Euphrates, between England and India.

"The countries on the route to be traversed are the most ancient and most interesting in the world. The greatest and most glorious nations of antiquity arose, flourished and were overthrown on the vast and fertile plains of the Euphrates and Tigris—the theatre of great events, shrouded in the dust of ages, or dimly discerned through the long vista of many centuries.

"But this volume addresses itself to the present and the future, and not to the past, to indicate to

the statesman the political power, to the philanthropist the enlightenment, and to the merchant the profit, that would of necessity accrue from reestablishing this highway of forgotten empires and ancient commerce.

"All scholars, and nearly all mankind, must be interested in the development of the Euphratean territories. All the Scriptural commentators place the garden of Eden somewhere on the Euphrates. The second cradle of the human family was upon that river, or its tributary, the Tigris. The first

city of the new earth was built upon its banks. The tower of pride, erected by the post-diluvian population, cast a shadow over its waters. It intersected the great capital of the Chaldean empire. With Babylon, the names of Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar-of Daniel and Darius, of Cyrus and Alexander, are for ever associated. The grand prophet of the captivity, and the energetic Apostle of the new era, had their dwelling for a season within its walls. Ere even a brick was made upon the Nile, Nineveh and Babylon must have had busy populations. Twice in the world's history mankind commenced the race of civilization on the Mesopotamian rivers. Twice they diverged from their banks to the east, the west, and the north. Arts and sciences made their early and weak steps upon their shores. Very early in history we know that Babylon was a great manufacturing city, famed for the costly fabric of its looms. At a more recent date