an advertisement, in which, among other things, I said that the New Testament was the only guide to salvation. I also ordered numbers of the same advertisement to be struck off in the shape of bills, which I caused to be stuck up in various parts of the town. I had great hopes that by means of these a considerable number of New Testaments would be sold. I intended to repeat the same experiment at Valladolid, Leon, St. Jago, and all the principal towns which I visited; and to distribute them, likewise, as I rode along. The children of Spain would thus be brought to know that such a work as the New Testament is in existence; a fact of which not one in five hundred were then aware, notwithstanding their so frequentlyrepeated boasts of their catholicity and Christianity."Vol. ii., p. 35.

And in this is the only cure of the evils which distract and degrade this fine country. At first, the ignorance of the people, and the opposition of the Priests, may occasion temporary evils, but eventually truth will triumph, and along with truth, social blessings will be developed, never found in separation from it.

SENTENCES FOR REFLECTION.

[UNDER the head of Monday Morning Reflections we for some time inserted a variety of moral sentences, calculated to benefit the thoughtful reader: but, wishful to give variety, we have hitherto, this year, discontinued them. It has been suggested to us, however, that at all events some of our readers received them with pleasure, and read them with profit; and disappointment has been expressed at their omission. As, therefore, the space they occupy is not large, we will, at least occasionally devote half a page, or a page, to their insertion. And thankful shall we be if our plans be such as meet the wishes, and promote the benefit, of our readers. We are not satisfied with merely filling up a given number of pages, monthly, with miscellaneous articles. We have the improvement of our readers at heart. Perhaps they will allow us to say that we labour under a disadvantage not known when "The Youth's Instructer" was first projected.

There are now far greater numbers of periodicals soliciting acceptance. We venture to say, that for religious families, wishing to promote the spiritual and moral benefit of the young, in connexion with their advancement in useful knowledge, there are not many works better deserving recommendation, in order to an extended circulation among the young, than "The Youth's Instructer and Guardian." —ED. Y. I.]

TAKE care that thou growest not vain-glorious, and set not thy heart too much upon reputation. Thou oughtest, indeed, to use all fidelity and honesty, and see it be not lost by any default of thine: but if, notwithstanding, thy reputation be foiled, as it easily may be, because it is in the keeping of others, who may be ignorant, mistaken, or malicious, then patiently bear it, and content thyself with the serenity of thy own conscience.

Give no entertainment to the beginnings, the first motions and secret whispers, of the spirit of wickedness, especially of sensual wickedness. For if thou resolutely shuttest it out, it dies: but if thou permit the furnace to breathe, it smokes, and flames out at any vent; it will rage to the consummation of the whole. This cockatrice is most easily crushed in the shell: if thou give it liberty to grow, it turns to a serpent, a dragon, a devil.

Whether young or old, think it not too soon or too late to turn over the leaves of thy past life, and be sure to fold down where any passage of it may affect thee: and bestow thy remainder of time in correcting all faults in thy future conduct, be it either in relation to this or the next life. And what thou wouldst do if it were to be done again, be sure thou do as long as thou livest, upon the like occasions.

When thou hast resolved what to study, advise what are the best books on that subject, and procure them as for indifferent ones, I would not have thee throw away any time or pains on them, if thou canst get better. A few books well chosen, and well made use of, will be more profitable to thee than a great confused Alexandrian library.

In loving God, thou must not hate thy neighbour. The

observation of the second table in the decalogue must be joined with our keeping the first. He keepeth no commandment truly that wilfully breaketh one.

MISSIONARY FACTS AND PRINCIPLES.

In the "Missionary Register" for July, 1842, amongst the 'Proceedings of the Church Missionary Society" in India, there are some interesting extracts from the Journal of the Missionaries. One of them, the Rev. S. Hobbs, says, (under date of Oct. 16th, 1840,) that, being on a visit to a certain village, favoured with the teaching of a Christian Catechist, "on our way thither we saw the devil-temples still standing, notwithstanding we have no reason to believe they are frequented. The Rev. E. Dent remarked that he hoped to see them demolished to-day. In his sermon he asked them whether they would give this proof of their obedience to Christ, and it was soon evident they had resolved to do so. They got their digging instruments, and, after prayer, all went out, and began with great zeal to destroy the signs of their former superstition. The boys especially were in high glee; and one of them, when an image of earth was knocked down, said, 'I always thought they would cry out and curse any one who should attempt to spoil them; but here they are all gone to dust, and not even the corpse of a swamy' (one of their names for them) 'left.' Another addressed the image he was striking, 'You worthless thing! you good-for-nothing thing! You have been frightening us all this while, and what is come to you now?' Some of the men desired that the roof-boards should be used in enlarging the church, or making stables for Mr. Dent, or any thing he wanted. They dashed some stone images of the Cobra, found in every devil-temple, to pieces, against each other. One representation of the demon was found to be made of a kind of red earth, with which they smear their arms and

* Juvenile Collectors, mark this. How much better to have the youthful mind occupied from the first by Christian truth, so that there shall not be the difficult task of putting down old and obstinate prejudices!

necks at the time of worship. One of the children happening to get a little on his breast, while playing with it, his sister said, 'You are a Heathen;' and the child seemed to think it quite a reproach, and hastened to clean it off. We went on rejoicing in what we had seen, as the first-fruits of a promise yet to be fulfilled, 'The idols He shall utterly abolish.""

ANECDOTE OF A RELIGIOUS TRACT.

Ar the last Anniversary of the Religious Tract Society, one of the speakers (the Rev. Mr. Hanson, proceeding as Chaplain to the Gold-Coast) related the following anecdote :—

"I once heard on an American platform, in the city of Boston, a gentleman say, that facts were God's arguments. We learn from the annals of the Episcopal Church in America, that, about eighteen years back, an unpretending Clergyman, at that time a Presbyter, but now a Bishop, in the Church, held the post of Chaplain to the Military Academy at West-Point; and that after labouring in that capacity for many years without seeing his ministry crowned with any visible fruit, suddenly there appeared to be a great awakening in the hearts of the cadets and officers of the establishment. One evening, he heard a gentle tap at the door of his study, and to the invitation, 'Come in,' there presented himself before him a young man with whom he was personally unacquainted. He found the young man exceedingly agitated; and when he invited him to unbosom himself, it was with great difficulty he could utter, 'I am come about my soul: tell me what I shall do; where shall I go?' They spent some time together in prayer and reading the Scriptures: the result was, that God was pleased to pour his blessing on that exercise, and the young man went on his way rejoicing. The Chaplain was led to make some inquiry with reference to this young man; and he understood that he had, a few days previously, picked up within the door of his chamber a little tract; he had read that tract; and, thinking on what he had read, he had been brought to this state of mind, in which he was led to go to this man of God, and make these inquiries. But further. It appeared that about a week previous to this occurrence which

I have related, another cadet, who had recently heard of the death of a pious father, came, in accordance with the dying request of that father, to introduce himself to this Chaplain. He prayed with him, he talked with him; but the young man did not appear to be at all affected with what he heard. Before he went, however, the Chaplain drew from a drawer two solitary tracts: one he gave to him for himself; the other he gave to him with this request, 'Let go of it anywhere in the barracks: it may be I shall hear from it.' And the way in which he heard of it was the way which I have already related. This was the very tract which the cadet had picked up in his room; and by that tract he had, by the blessing of God, been led to embrace the Saviour's cross. But further. Thirteen years passed by: the then Chaplain had, as I have already told you, been promoted to the Episcopate. One of these cadets, the one who was first in Christ, had been permitted to graduate at the Military Institution, and to enter on a course of theological study; he had been successively admitted Deacon and Presbyter in the Church to which he belonged; and after the lapse of thirteen years, the Chaplain (then Bishop) had the unspeakable satisfaction of meeting in the house of their God and Saviour that cadet who had picked up the tract issued from his study; and the consecration sermon of that cadet he had the privilege to preach. That cadet was Dr. Poke, the now Missionary Bishop of Arkansas; and that Chaplain was an individual whose name, I doubt not, is known and revered by many present, Bishop M'Ilvaine, the indefatigable and pious Bishop of Ohio,—a name which will go down to posterity, a terror to all that is heterodox in the Christian faith."

NOT SLOTHFUL IN BUSINESS.

MATTHEW HENRY, in his Life of his Father, the Rev. Philip Henry, relates the following instructive anecdote. He gives it for the purpose of illustrating the advice contained in a letter which his father wrote to two, persons, then servants in a gentleman's family, at Worcester. The advice and the anecdote deserve the most serious attention.