not imported here, nor even carried to other parts of those countries in which they grow, for they are not worth using except in large quantities, and they would not fetch a price sufficient to pay carriage and other expences. Yet even of these the self-denied Nazarites did not taste. And it was doubtless for partaking of such homely and harmless beverages, that those who rejected the Nazarite Baptist as possessed by Satan, rejected his master as a "winebibber." Christ's opponents, then, were like the children in the market place-objecting to him for the most opposite and inconsistent reasons, and the opponents of abstinence now follow their example.*

We

It is enough for us servants if we be as our Master. know that the abstinence movement has been already a powerful means of pulling down Satan's strongholds, delivering his slaves, and building up Christ's kingdom. The experience of America, Polynesia, Africa, and India, as well as the British Islands, has proved this. Therefore, by the form of prayer which He taught his disciples, we feel bound to work and pray for this great cause, and we call on you to do the same.

Yet trust not to the absence of drinking, as if that were the only bar to salvation. Where one devil was cast out, and the Spirit of God did not take his place, there was room left for seven worse to possess the man. Hear then, and echo the cry of the gospel prophet, "Cease to do evil,-learn to do well." Hear, and echo, and obey it too.

If almost persuaded, do not hold back through fear of being odd. The offence of the cross and the peculiarity of Christ's people are now too little known. The leaven is too like the meal, and the salt too like the world. Reader, inquire, prayerfully and before God, whether abstinence be not one important part of the means by which He intends that His salt shall recover its savour, and that the earth shall be salted. In this and in every other good thing, be a light to those at least who are in the house with you; and if the Lord have set your candlestick in a prominent and public place, then be you the more careful to let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

* Those who wish fuller information and authorities as to the scriptural use of wine, will find these in Tract No. III. of the Free Church Abstainers' Society-" The Wine and Strong Drink of Scripture, the Classics, and Modern Bible Lands." 24 pp. 8vo. very closely printed. Price ld. Johnstone and Hunter, Edinburgh. See also" Ancient Wines " Tract, No. 76, Ipswich Series.

ASSEMBLY OF 1646 AND THE COVENANTERS.

The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, in its best and undivided days, enacted (on 13th June, 1646), "That ministers, in all sorts of company, labour to be fruitful, as the salt of the earth seasoning them they meet with, not only forbearing to drink healths (Satan's snare, leading to excess), but reproving it in others." The inferior church courts were enjoined to see this obeyed.

Whisky was then unknown, or very rare, in Scotland. The prevailing drinks were beer and French wine-liquors which some now speak of as if their use would cure excess, instead of "leading to it. But a great proportion of all the drinking arose then, as it still does, from healths, and the other drinking courtesies and customs which were, and are, practically compulsory, except to abstainers. Mr. Durham, a great divine of that period, says (on the commandments), "There is drinking of healths-by this means forcing, or attempting, or occasioning, drinking in others, although it be willingly done by them. This is one of the highest provocations to drunkenness, and a dreadful perverting of the end for which God hath given meat and drink, neither health nor necessity calling to it. It was a notable saying of a great man, solicited to drink the king's health, 'By your leave I will pray for the king's health, and drink for my own.'

The result of the act showed what wisdom then guided the church. The country soon became like a garden of God, and the old historian made that remark so often quoted, "Nobody complained more of our church government than the taverners, whose ordinary lamentation was, that their trade was broke, people were become so sober." The specific remedy applied had produced the specific effect intended.

Such an act, with its reason inserted in it by such men, should not be allowed longer to lie dormant but unrepealed. Its framers are daily and justly lauded and held up as patterns by the very persons who scoff at those acting in its spirit as if they were introducing novelties. Its strict observance by ministers, officebearers, and others making a Christian profession, would greatly further the objects and facilitate the operations, not only of the abstinence societies, but of all the churches, and all Christian and philanthropic institutions.

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