cepted in the beloved!" If accepted in yourself, you should not fear. How much less, when accepted in him! If God would honour your own righteousness, had you a righteousness of your own, will he not much more honour Christ's righteousness, now become yours? What if you cannot answer for yourself! Cannot he answer for you? But who is the judge? Is it not Jesus, your advocate? Will your advo cate condemn you? Are you afraid to meet your Saviour? He that summons you to judgment is the same that said, "Come unto me, and I will give you rest.' Would you live always? I know you would not. But you would live longer-perhaps, you say, for the sake of being useful to others. But who knows that you may not be more useful in heaven? Who can say but your death may do more good, than your life? Besides, if God can dispense with your services, should you not be willing to have them arrested? Do you not desire to be freed from all sin? But know you not that only he "that is dead is freed from sin?" If you cannot be perfectly holy until you die, ought you to be so unwilling to die? Is your desire at perfect holiness sincere, while you are so averse to the condition of it? It is strange that you should be so reluctant to realize that which is "gain"-to pass into that condition which is "far better"-to come of age, and to enter upon that inheritance which is incorruptible and undefiled? Have you no desire to behold the glorified humanity of Jesus-to see that countenance that was so marred for you? When one is rescued by another from some imminent peril, he exclaims in the ardour of his gratitude, "Where is my deliverer? Let me see him." And would you not see him who has rescued you from the most dreadful of deaths-the Saviour that loved you and gave himself for you? Is not death, as well as life, enumerated among those "all things" which " are yours," if you are Christ's? If it were an evil-if it were not a privilege, would it be found in that catalogue? Oh fellow Christians, let us be ashamed of this unwillingness to depart and be with Christ. Let us get rid of this aversion to death. And henceforth let us not think it so formidable a thing to "die in the Lord" and to "sleep in Jesus." HYMNS TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN. TRUST IN GOD. Eyes of men! why weep ye Friends in Jesus! grieve not; Doubt not, fear not ye! Know not how to trust; Purest loving-kindness From ourselves we thrust. Never God intended Evil should not end: All will soon be mended If ourselves we mend. Well is thee for ever, Though thou turn to dust, Of all good, thou trust. Can at heart annoy Oh this sleep that closes M. S. And apace it wasteth, Thou shalt reach the goal. When the race is run, Song shall be in heaven, "Child of God, well done!" 66 WHO SHALL SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF CHRIST.' Jesus, I quit thee not! "Tis good with thee to live: Jesus, forsake me never! Jesus, forsake me never. I quit thee not! 'tis good With thee to fight the fight: Though sin, the world, and hell, Stand forth in all their might, Jesus with victory Shall crown my weak endeavour. Jesus, I quit not thee: Jesus, forsake me never! Jesus, I quit thee not: 'Tis good with thee to die; For if thou be with me I faint not utterly: To be with God the Giver. Jesus, forsake me never! FOR GOD'S SUPPORT AND GUIDANCE. Forsake me not, my God, Seeking she knows not what; Of sin to overcome me. The children he begot; My God, forsake me not! Please Thee in all well-doing. I would be thine for ever! In every right endeavour. [Ch. Observer. Miscellaneous. A MISSIONARY'S APPEAL TO THE CHRISTIAN YOUTH OF THE COUNTRY. The following well written article, by a man who, it appears, has past "more than twelve years in the capacity of a Christian Missionary in India," is taken from the Evangelical Magazine for August last. In its reasoning and general bearing it is quite as applicable to "the educated youth of the churches of Christ in the United States," as to those of Great Britain. We have lately much wished to insert in our pages something of a commanding character on this important subject; and we have seen nothing that has pleased us better than the following paper. It seems peculiarly seasonable at the present time, when the Western Foreign Missionary Society of our church are preparing to reinforce our Indian Mission. On the subject of danger from climate, it is also exactly in point, with reference to a reinforcement of our African mission. The thoughts of the writer on that topic are precisely those which our remaining African missionary, Mr. Pinney, expressed to us, when conversing with him on his contemplated enterprise. We very earnestly recommend a careful perusal of this article to all our dear young brethren, who are seeking to know their duty in regard to the important concern of Foreign Missions. To the Youth, more especially to the educated Youth of the Churches of Christ, in Great Britain [and the United States.] DEAR YOUNG BRETHREN-To a very large majority of you, the writer of the subsequent remarks is, of course, totally unknown-to many, probably, even by name; some apology, therefore, might reasonably be expected from me, for coming thus publicly before you; but having spent (however unworthily,) more than twelve years of my life in the capacity of a Christian missionary in India, and, during that period, witnessed somewhat of the deplorable state of the heathen population of that country, as well as of the numerous facilities which now offer themselves for the removal of the moral and spiritual degradation of that people, by the diffusion of the gospel, it is hoped that, stranger as I am to you, you will indulge me with a candid hearing, whilst I endeavour, in a concise, simple manner, to bring this momentous subject to your particular notice." It is a fact, not, perhaps, known to all of you, and permit me to add, not, I fear, duly considered by many to whom it is known, that there is, at this time, under British control in the East, a population of from eighty to ninety millions of human beings, all accessible without the slightest legal or political restriction, to the Christian missionary. For the evangelization of this vast and almost appalling mass of immortal, accountable creatures, there is not actively and efficiently engaged in direct missionary labour, one missionary for every two millions. Here, Christian brethren, is a stupendous and an overwhelming fact! eighty millions of immortal spirits " having no hope, and without God in the world!" all on their way to their unchangeable and eternal destiny! Were we totally unconnected with the scene, so far as accountability is concerned, it might awaken in every bosom emotions of the liveliest sympathy and the deepest and the keenest anguish. But this is not our situation, we cannot escape from our responsibility by saying, “Am I my brother's keeper?" By the providence of God, all this vast ag gregate of human beings is placed in such circumstances as to be accessible by the gospel, and, therefore, as Christians, placed within the range and sphere of our accountability; and, should they perish for lack of knowledge, should they go down to the pit with a lie in their right hand, we have the strongest reason to conclude, God will not hold us guiltless of their blood. As believers in the volume of inspiration, we profess on the authority of "the true sayings of God," to have a specific for the moral disease of that people-a remedy, which, if applied, would heal their maladies; incurable by all other means. If so, why is not the wound of this people healed? why is generation after generation suffered to perish in their sins? Is there any physical barrier, any legal impediment, any political restriction which, like the wall of China, shuts the people out from our influence, however near they may be, to our sympathies? By no means. The land is before us, in the length of it, and in the breadth of it, and may, so far as political influence is concerned, be occupied in the name of the living and true God; and there is not a spot where the prudent, devoted, Christian missionary may place his feet, where he would not find the protecting shadow of the British government spread out over his head. Is there any mental obstruction, any thing in the intellectual character and habits of the people, which renders them incapable of feeling the force or appreciating the value of divine truth? To this inquiry let the words of inspiration reply, words as sublime in poetry, as they are true to nature, to philosophy, and to indisputable fact: "the Lord looketh from heaven, he beholdeth all the sons of men; from the place of his habitation, he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth. He fashioneth their hearts alike." Is there any moral impediment, any thing so decidedly low, so essentially depraved in their condition, as to lead to the conclusion that they are sunk beyond the hope or possibility of recovery? By any other power than the power of God, they are, for it may be said, as the apostle says of the Corinthians, "they are fornicators, idolators, adulterers, effeminate abusers of themselves with mankind, thieves, covetous, drunkards, revellers, extortioners." But he adds, (writing to the Christian church,) "And such were some of you, but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." Of the arm which rescued a Corinthian, of the power which transformed those sons of darkness into children of light, can we ever despair? "The thing which hath been, it is that which shall be." Enough of success has attended the efforts made in India, to show that Christianity has lost none of her strength, that her energies are unbroken, and that it requires, under the blessing of Almighty God, only a multiplication of the same means, as have been employed, to convert the wilderness into the garden of the Lord, and to make that desert blossom as the rose. If little has been done, however, little could reasonably be expected to be done; little has been attempted, compared with the vastness of the object to be attained. "He that soweth sparingly, shall reap also sparingly." We have sowed sparingly: nay, the land is yet to be sowed; the fallow ground is not yet broken up, much less the seed cast into it. "Go to now, consider your ways and be wise; break up the fallow ground, cast in the holy seed, prove me, saith the Lord of Hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it." For the sake of illustration, let us suppose that the city of London, with its suburbs, contains a population of fifteen hundred thousand souls, and suppose that this million and a half of human beings were left as to their spiritual necessities to the labours of one single individual; what, under such circumstances, might be expected to be its moral condition? But this supposition, awful and appalling as it is, does not reach the real state of India at this day. It does not reach it in number's, as my former calculation, founded on indisputable fact, would show. It does not reach it in efficiency of means: a minister of the gospel, in this country, speaks in his own language, in his native climate, and to a people with whose mental habits, and modes of thinking he is familiar; the missionary in India speaks in a foreign tongue, and, therefore, in some degree, with a stammering speech, to a people, whose mental associations and trains of thinking are all to be learned, Ch. Adv.-VOL. XII. 3 L and in a climate, where man seems to live out but half his days, and many of those in weariness, exhaustion, and imbecility. It does not reach it in the quantity of other moral means: in almost every family in London there would be found a Bible, and almost every inmate is able to read it or have it read; besides the other works of a religious nature with which the English language is enriched. To millions in India the Bible is as yet an unknown book, whilst their own sacred books are a misty cloud, a dense atmosphere, which hides, but does not contain-obscures, but cannot reveal, the light of truth. They are destroyed, for lack of knowledge: "there is no vision, and the people perish." Such, my young brethren, is the actual condition of India; let conscience say in the sight of God, whether it has not imperative claims on the Christian church, whether it has not imperative claims on you. I address you as the educated youth of our British churches. The day, I trust, is well nigh gone when superior talents and education are to be considered, if not decidedly detrimental to the missionary enterprise, at least thrown away, when so employed. The churches, there is reason to believe, are coming to truer, more enlightened, and more enlarged views on this important subject: they begin to feel that whilst the sword of the Spirit is of etherial temper, keen in the edge and strong in the blade, it requires something more than an infant's hand, or a stripling's arm to wield it with effect. They begin to see (would they had sooner seen!) that stations where at least one, often more than one, foreign language must be acquired; strange habits, and customs, and modes of thinking, accurately investigated; systems combined in the minds of their votaries with all that is holy, wise, and venerable, subverted; arguments maintained with men shrewd, subtle, and skilful as practised pleaders, are not to be left entirely to the mere novices in our churches. The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. They do not attempt to make a breach in a formidable rampart with weapons of straw; they do not commit the key position of the embattled field to their most undisciplined troops; their veterans do not slink behind their bulwarks whilst the unproved, unpractised soldiers, are thrust forward to meet the enemy foot to foot, and grapple with him hand to hand. God we know can work with any means; out of the mouth of babes can ordain strength; yea, can call things which are not, as though they were: but his ordinary method is to work with instruments admirably adapted for their end. Such was the apostle Paul; such were the noble army of the Reformers of the Christian church, men of deep and fervent piety, men of strong and vigorous intellects, men of accurate and extensive erudition, men who like David's worthies, could go down into the pit, and beard the lion of bigotry and infidelity in his own den; men whose hands were strong for war, and their fingers for fight; and there was no bow which their arms could not draw: and, thank God, such have been our Careys, our Martyns, our Morrisons, and our Milnes. Do you, my Christian brethren, thus come forth to the help of the Lord against the mighty; leave not the forefront of the battle to be occupied by those who have scarcely learned the use of their weapons, and have all the tactics of their moral warfare to acquire when they come on the field; but you who have enjoyed superior advantages, you who have laboured hard, and well earned literary distinction, you who stand high in the esteem and expectations of the churches, I beseech you by the infinite mercies of redemption, and by the boundless inte |