light and glory the mutilated fragments which the worm and corruption have left! To the "whole creation travailing in pain and groaning," waiting for the redemption of the body, it said in accents sweeter than ever yet fell on mortal ears, "Be still, that babe shall open the portals of death, and lead captivity captive."

To the heavens above, it also spoke a language it solved the mystery of redemption-showed how mercy and justice could be united, and revealed the length, and breadth, and depth, and height of the love of God—a length that reaches from everlasting to everlasting, "a breadth that encompasses every intelligence and every interest, a depth that reaches the lowest state of human degradation and misery, and a height that throws floods of glory on the throne and crown of Jehovah."

Two great events mark the long history of the earth-one is the coming of Christ in a human form as the "Babe of Bethlehem," to save and redeemthe other is to be his coming in the plenitude of his divinity to judge the world. A single star arose and beamed on his birth: at his second appearance, the stars of heaven shall be quenched, the sun be "turned into darkness, and the moon into blood."

MADRAS MISSIONS.

[THE following address will be read by many with interest and emotion. Fourteen years ago Mr Anderson left Scotland, as a missionary, for Madras, where he has since laboured with great assiduity and earnestness. The state of his health, however, having rendered it necessary that he should return for a time to his native country, he left Madras on the 13th of April last.

On the preceding day a deputation of the teachers, converts, and pupils of the Institution and its branch schools, waited on Mr Anderson, and presented him with an address and the sum of nearly a thousand rupees, raised almost entirely among themselves, to procure his portrait, if spared to reach Scotland, with a view to its being placed in the hall of the

Institution.

It was a scene (says the Madras Native Herald) | very solemn and deeply affecting. There were our faithful East Indian teachers, Messrs Whitely and Huffton, who had laboured side by side with Mr Anderson for twelve years. All the male converts, including the three native preachers, P. Rajahgopaul, A. Venkataramiah, and S. Ettirajooloo, and the candidates for the ministry, were present, together with the native monitors of the Institution and Triplicane branch school. Several old pupils also came, whom we have seen little of for eight years, but who cheerfully gave their subscription for the portrait of one who had done so much to teach them to think for themselves, and, if possible, to lead them to Christ Jesus. More than one of these at one time seemed

to have his foot on the very threshold of life, and then fell back.]

After the address and testimonial had been presented, Mr Anderson said, I will find it rather difficult, my dear friends, to speak to you; however, you know what I would say if I were able. By the help

of the Lord I will control my feelings, which, owing to the weakness of my body, I cannot easily govern, nor any one in the circumstances in which I am now placed. I do not require to make an eloquent speech to you, but only to express the great things which you already know. The Lord Jesus Christ found me in Scotland in a Sabbath school, and there implanted in my heart the incorruptible seed that liveth and abideth for ever. It lay a long, long time in me, until it sprang up, and I was prepared in a remarkable way for coming to this country. I was made to bear the yoke in my youth. I was made to go through many wildernesses, but the Lord always was with me. After passing through many troubles I got a single eye for his glory, and went forward in my college education until my course was nearly finished, when my health gave way, and I was broken down and laid aside. But from the beginning I always had much love for the young; and this was not a mere sentiment: it came in course of time to be a part of my nature. I always tried to work on the affections of the young by the word of God. A way for me was opened at last, after lying two years on the brink of the grave. I was as weak as I now am; I was weaker when the message of the Lord came to me. It came to me through a friend, when I was lying on my back, broken down as I now am by study, trials, and diffi culties. I thought that if I was spared I would spend and be spent for Christ; but I knew that God would not work a miracle for me, and that if it was consumption, as they said, that was upon me, I would die. If I lived, my heart was fixed to come to you. I was kept a whole year in darkness and difficulty, and the great obstacle was my health. But all at once the hindrances disappeared, and I was carried and there was no difficulty. I can say with a good as it were with the speed of lightning to India, conscience, that, though Scotland is my own native land, and there is many a warm bosom there, I have not the same desire to go back as I had to come to you. However, the Lord's will be done; I will go in distresses; but I return to my native land in the his strength. No doubt I must expect difficulties and hope of this body being repaired, and without such a hope I certainly would never have left you. The praise be not to me, but to the grace of Christ in me. It is very true the Lord took one of the base things when he took me, and put his word in me, and brought me out. Though I do not despise any other kind of learning, I have been taught that what the word of God teaches is the highest and best kind of learning. This is the great power by which you are to bless your country, by which you are to be saved, the word of God which liveth and endureth for ever. One of the things which made it so easy for me to Lord had tried me. do and to suffer for you was the way in which the I felt no difficulty in any thing in which it was clear to my conscience. What struck and pierced me was when the work was struck at, or any connected with it. Throughout the whole progress of the Mission, I did not feel any difficulty as to the course to take; the Lord made it plain in all the great steps; he made it as plain as if it was written with a sunbeam; and it was always a path of trial and cross-bearing.

And now there is a native church, with both males and females in it. O what a blessed thing it is that the word of the Lord has not returned unto him void! experienced. What power in saving, and in keeping What grace, what deliverances some of you have you! You know it, and have been yourselves the subjects of it. But you will never know till the day of judgment what anxious labour some of you have cost us. It is by the help of Christ that some of us are not in our graves.

Do not think that I say this to blame you. Ah! little do many know what a native convert has to bear. But Christ knows sufficiently well what he has to endure, what to forsake, what temptations assail him, how his spirit is pressed, how to preserve him from the fiery darts of that wicked one when attacked by him and wellnigh destroyed. But the Lord has helped you up to this day. You are the living monuments of the grace and long-suffering of Jesus Christ, and of his ability to save. I do feel that he will keep some of you, I trust all of you, till the day of redemption. I understand that promise better than most people, because of the many attempts made to take you out of his hand, "He that is in us is greater than he that is in the world." My heart cannot express all that I feel. You are written there, and I trust that you will testify your love to me by cleaving fast to the Lord Jesus Christ to death. I trust that when this token of love is sent back to you, if ever I am spared to reach Scotland, you will not look upon it without having it flashed on your memory that that was the man that spoke to you the word of life, and rejoiced in your faithfully obeying the Lord Jesus Christ. O save me, I beseech you, me a poor redeemed sinner, from being a witnes against you at the day of judgment, whether as idolaters now, or as called out from the heathen and baptized! The God of the Bible is he whom I wish to be honoured: to him I wish you to come that you may be saved, and that I and the brethren who have laboured in the ministry with me may rejoice over you. O dear friends and children in the gospel! I beseech you to consider that if God takes the missionaries away from their work, if he takes them away out of this world, he will take you also. I can say, and it may be some encouragement to you, that the Lord has given me great peace, and I wish he would thus make me always to praise him and adore him. I have sorrow and pain in parting with some as dear to me as my own soul; yet why do I leave them? Is it not as pledges that I love your souls? These little ones that I leave behind,-death is not so awful that the thought that some of these little ones should perish; that some of them should die for want of nourishment to preserve their souls. And therefore understand that the gratitude I expect is a thing of power,-making you not only to remember me, but to do and to suffer in a way in which you have never yet been called to do and to suffer.

I was a child of Providence, and the providence of God has worked in a very remarkable way with me hitherto. He has made the wrath of man to praise him; the very difficulties he has made the means of causing our roots to spread: even that great affliction of souls drawing back has, by the grace of Christ, only deepened my desire to save souls, and that I may prove to some a savour of life unto life. We will leave these poor unhappy creatures in the hands of him that judgeth righteously, in the hope that He may yet save some of them as by fire.

Dear friends, these tender girls are there inside; they lie near my heart. I feel I cannot express my gratitude to you. I am grateful to you for all you have done for the work of Christ. I know you love me mainly on that account, so that if you are grateful to me, it is because you have love in your hearts to Christ. But there are some here who do not understand the love of Christ. I know you are not deficient in natural affection; you would suffer something for me. I would be grateful to you, if only you loved the Lord Jesus Christ. I feel you have a claim on my heart that nothing can remove. This portrait will rejoice me just in proportion as you remember, when you look at it, that the Lord Jesus Christ sent me here to proclaim his gospel that you

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might be saved. Oh! do not pacify conscience by mere natural affection, lest this very gift should rise up against you, because you refuse my gift,-the salvation of Christ, sent unto you through me and my brethren. Be always cleaving to the word of God, brethren, that so you may have strength to watch over our native sons and daughters. The Lord has blessed us with much unity in our work together. No doubt we have had little differences and troubles; but they have been like light clouds on the face of the morning sun. And now may the Lord lift up your hearts, and help you to endure in his work. And yon, our native sons in the gospel, you have had in us an ensample of the way in which brethren ought to love one another and to labour together for you, for your country, and for souls. Our example will rise against you in the judgment, if you fail in love to one another. Our principal and anxious desire has been, that you may all grow into the Lord Jesus Christ, and in love to him and to one another. This is one of the great marks by which you will make it known that you are his: this will be the glory and strength of this native church. My dear young friends, I was taught in my youth to endure all kinds of difficulties, and therefore I never felt it hard to sympathise with the Hindus. The Lord knows our motives in regard to all that we have suffered for you; and you will be without excuse if you do not deny yourselves for your own country and people. If you cannot understand our watchings for you,our long-suffering, our willingness to be despised for you, you will be guilty of great sin. I beseech you, therefore to follow us, as we have followed the Lord Jesus Christ in this.

Now my heart's desire for you is, that as many of you as have put on the Lord Jesus Christ, may walk worthy of him, and not be ashamed of him at the day of his appearing. I do not mean only natives; the Lord has taught me to love other souls, and to rejoice to see grace in any of you, whither among Europeans not simply showing love to us but to Christ, or among those dear fellow-labourers of this land who are one with us in spirit. This work is much nearer to his heart than to ours. Though we die, the Lord Jesus Christ will never cease to care for it. I pray that all your relatives may be saved, and get the blessings of this gospel. I trust that some present, who have long withdrawn themselves from this word, will yet be saved. It is for you who believe to bear the cross, and to wait until the Lord show mercy to those whom you love and pray for. Those of you who have wives, may the Lord grant that you may be enabled to love them in him, and to teach them early to deny themselves for the Lord Jesus Christ! Better that they should have some pain to their natural feelings, than that the Lord Jesus Christ and his cause should suffer loss.

I pray also that my dear East Indian friends may have the greatest blessing that God can confer, of seeing their beloved wives rejoicing in the same hope with themselves, loving the same Saviour, washed in the same blood; and that the dear children of you all may be jewels in the crown of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I have now spoken much, not to exalt myself, but, the Lord, who has broken and redeemed me, to exalt the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. He taketh the beggar from the dunghill, and maketh him sit among princes. I have confidence that my sons in the gospel will follow in the footsteps of Christ, and that the Lord will cause your work to prosper. I have confidence in the power of the instrument, and in the power of that Almighty Spirit whose instrument it is. This is the grand lesson which I have been taught"Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts." I will say to the people among

whom I am going, that if any of you doubt the necessity of the converting energy of the Holy Ghost, let him be sent to India and he will be cured of this delusion. The Lord will not withhold his Spirit: wherever his word is faithfully made known, he will not withhold his Spirit.

Some of you I will not again see till the day of judgment. Oh! may our meeting be one not of grief, but of joy. It will be so, if you will only love the Lord Jesus Christ. That you have not loved him is my pain, and your loss.

Just because you have received instruction from the man who speaks to you, I will never be satisfied till you forsake your dumb idols, and believe the true God, and find mercy in that Saviour whom you already know.

May the Lord bless you all, and his work! May he make his grace sufficient for the dear brethren who are left behind! I tell you surely that my heart is more in India than in Scotland. This is to me my native land, my country: I wish to live and die here. My heart is behind me, in connection with those whom I love, who are willing to prefer the Lord Jesus Christ to me, and to separate me and every thing from their heart when the work of Christ needs them.

THE DOOMED MAN.

THERE is a time, we know not when,
A point, we know not where,
That marks the destiny of men
To glory or despair.

There is a line, by us unseen,
That crosses every path;
The hidden boundary between
God's patience and his wrath.

To pass that limit is to die,

To die as if by stealth;

It does not quench the beaming eye, Or pale the glow of health.

The conscience may be still at ease,
The spirits light and gay;

That which is pleasing still may please,

And care be thrust away.

But on that forehead God has set,
Indelibly, a mark,

Unseen by man, for man as yet
Is blind and in the dark.

And yet the doom'd man's path below,
Like Eden, may have bloom'd;
He did not, does not, will not know
Or feel that he is doom'd.

He knows, he feels that all is well,
And every fear is calm'd:
He lives, he dies, he wakes in hell,
Not only doom'd, but damn'd.

O where is thy mysterious bourne,
By which our path is cross'd;

Beyond which, God himself hath sworn,
That he who goes is lost?

John.-What's the matter this morning, brother George? You look pale and haggard.

George. Let us abandon this California expedition, brother John. We have a good trade; let us stay at home and live by it: we are well enough off, if we have not millions.

John. Why, what has come over the man? You must have seen a vision.

George.-Ay, and a dreadful one-a dreadful dream, I mean.

John.-A dream! nonsense! I thought you did not believe in dreams.

George. Not in ordinary dreams, but this dream is extraordinary. It is a dream which carries with itself the evidence of its truth.

John. Well, what is it? I am curious to know what the dream can be that has frightened you so terribly.

cane.

THE VOYAGE AND TEMPEST.

George. I dreamed that you and I were on our way to California, and O how long the voyage seemed! The wind was against us, and it blew a hurriThe waves broke over our frail bark-the masts were sprung-the sails torn; every thing was against us. The captain talked of putting back, and this filled me with distress, for to reach California was all my desire.

John.-I thought that it would turn out so. The idea of a sea voyage has made you nervous.

THE APPARITION AND ARRIVAL.

George.-Hold, John, hear me through. In the midst of the darkness and tempest, a dim and shadowy form glided by me and whispered in my ear, "Which will you do-go on, or go back?” “Go on," I answered immediately. "You shall have your wish,' he replied, "and at the end I will meet you again." This mysterious visitor, and his mysterious answer, gave me no little uneasiness. What can he mean? I asked myself. I almost wished that I had said, “Go back." But presently the wind lulled, and a fresh breeze sprang up from the opposite qaurter, which wafted us quickly to our long wished-for port.

In an ecstasy of delight I sprang ashore, and made my way directly to the gold region. Thousands were busy all around me, digging up the glittering dust, washing it, and filling their bags with it.

* A dream this, which may do good to many, besides those bound for California. All who "make haste to be rich," are going in the same direction.