companions! You are the chief of sinners; others are little, when compared to you. May God pardon all your sins for Christ's sake! Amen." V. ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES.-Rowland Hill some time ago published the following account of the English universities. "During my residence at this seat of learning, drunkenness and whoredom were deemed less exceptionable practices in a candidate for the ministry than visiting the sick, and expounding scriptures in private houses. For these last offences, I met with six refusals before I gained admission into the ministry of the established church. Rome herself, in her most rotten and corrupted state, kept up her spiritual game, by boasting of the learning and purity of her clergy. The like gorgeous boast we have repeatedly from Oxford and Cambridge, respecting the young bucks and blades they send forth for the service of the church.' VI. PRESENTATION TO LIVINGS.-The following fact corroborates Mr. Howitt's statement. A gentleman of large fortune, who controlled a living of great value near London, had a son, little superior to a natural idiot; and for him the living was destined. After residing at Oxford the allotted term, and receiving the graduate's diploma, A.B. and A.M. as a matter of course, he presented himself to one of the bishops for ordination. The bishop was apprized by his father of his son's commanding genius and astonishing attainments, and acted accordingly. So, after the usual preliminaries, he thus proceeded to examine the erudite collegian : Bishop.-Mr. P., can you inform me how many sons Noah had? Mr. P.-Indeed, my lord, I cannot. I never heard the gen tleman's name before. Bishop.-Well, Mr. P., Noah had three sons, named Shem, Ham, and Japhet; cannot you tell me their names now? Mr. P.-Indeed, my Lord, I know nothing of Mr. Noah; and I don't believe that any man in our college has any acquaintance with that gentleman. Finding it was a hopeless case, the bishop sent the candidate back to his father, who despatched him to the bishop the second time with an additional hundred pounds-upon which the bishop laid his hands upon him, saying, "Receive thou the Holy Ghost committed unto thee by the imposition of my hands." In which Holy Ghost the bishop did not believe, and of whom the young rector had never heard; but he went to the church, rang the bell, receives the tithes, employs a curate, and spends the proceeds of his parish in riotous living. THE END. Cranmer, 171. Creed of Athanasius, 174. Curates' stipends, 210. Cush, 18. Cuthism, 24. Dandolo, 130. Deceptions of priests, 74. Deluge, 20. Derry, See of, 186. Devil at Oxford and Cambridge, 212. Drottes, 34. Druids, 20, 33. Ecclesiastical courts, 219. Edinburgh Review, 201, 224. Edward VI. of England, 169. Egyptians, 45. Evils of chu ch and state, 181. Evil principles, 15. Evil systems, 16. Excommunication, 128. Fees of consecration, 222. Festivals, 64, 127. Greece, 58. Greeks, 59. Gregory VII., Pope, 111. Hacon, 37. Hales, John, 258. Hall, Robert, 256. Hebrews, 93, 253. Henry IV. of France, 152. High Commission Court, 180. Hindostan, 25, 76. Historians, 14. Howitt, a Friend, 12. Human sacrifices, 35, 46, 63, 78. Huns, 100. Idols honoured, 82. India, 42, 80. Indians in America, 38. Infallibility of the pope, 101. Institutes of Menu, 86. Invocation to Truth, 4. Ireland, 185. Irish Church, 185. Isidore's decretals, 125. James I. of England, 197. Januarius, 125. Jesuits, 142. Jetzer's fraud, 120. Jews, 95, Jezebel, 25. Kingcraft, 16. John of England, 133. Orgies, 38, 56. Original population, 17. Knowledge kept from the people, Orobio, the Jew, 159. 56. Lahore, Rajah of, 83. Languedoc, 139. Latin worship, 177. Lord of the universe, 130. Lyndsay's satire, 116, 220. Maid of Kent, 123. Massacre at Paris, 135. Mendicants, 117. Metempsychosis, Methodists, 175. Orosmades, 43. Osiris, 20, 53. Oxford university, 215 Pagan priestcraft, 76. Papal dominion, 108. Penn, William, 176. Persia, 19. Peruvians, 38. 73, 92. Phallis, 64, 79. Phocas, 110. Pilgrimage of Grace, 124. Pilgrimages, 126. Plowman's prayer, 107. Pluralities, 210. Ponsonby, Bishop, 186. Pope, lord of the universe, 130. Popery, 98, 107, 254, Popish arrogance, 130. Prelatical despotism, 224. Pythian oracle, 66. Reformation in England, 168. Revenues of bishops, 188, 201, |