with a familiar, much-loved friend, she
said, "My dear Redeemer." That name
which was so precious to her in life,
was the last on her dying lips. A few
moments afterwards, she merely said,
"I am faint," and lying back on her
pillow, in a short time exchanged the

cross for the crown, and earth for heaven.
"Softly her fainting head she lay
Upon her Maker's breast,
Her Maker kissed her soul away,
And laid her flesh to rest."

Thus was this aged disciple, like a shock
of corn fully ripe, gathered into the
heavenly garner.

Her death was improved by her highly-esteemed pastor at Trinity-street chapel, on Lord's-day evening, Dec. 15, from those words so exemplified in her experience: Heb. ii. 15; "And deliver them who, through fear of death, were all their life time subject to bondage."

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out of doors. He hath altered the pri-
mitive institutions, and adulterated God's
sacred laws. He steals the hearts of
subjects from their sovereigns, by steal-
ing fidelity from the hearts of subjects,
and would steal the crown from the
queen's head; and all under the shadow
of religion. This is a thief-a notable,
notorious thief; but let him go. I hope
he is known well enough, and every
true man will bless himself out of his
way." Remaining yours in Christian
affection,

JOHN MILLs.
Humer-place, near Rochdale,
Jan. 11, 1851.

WHENCE COME PERSECUTIONS? DEAR SIRS,-I enclose a paper which I sent to the "Western Times," on the papal question; should you deem it worthy a place, and have room for it in your next number, it is at your service. I am, yours very truly,

robbed them; and doth not the Pope, | not do? Judas was nobody to him. think you? Are there no alms-boxes He hath stolen truth's garment, and put rifled, and emptied into the Pope's trea-it on error, turning poor truth naked sury? Our fathers say that the poor gave Peter-pence to the Pope; but our grandfathers cannot tell us that the Pope gave Cæsar-pence to the poor. Did not he sit in the holy chair (as Augustus Cæsar on his imperial throne) and cause the whole Christian world to be taxed? And what? Did they freely give it? No; a taxation forced it. What right, then, had the Pope to it? Just as much as Judas had to his Master's money. Was he not, then, a thief? Yet what need a rich man be a thief? The Pope is rich, and needs must, for his comings in be great. He hath rent out of heaven, rent out of hell, rent out of purgatory; but more sacks come to his mill out of purgatory, than out of heaven and hell too; and for his tolling, let the world judge. 'Therefore,' saith Bishop Jewel, he would be content to lose hell and heaven too, to save his purgatory.' Some by pardons, he prevents from hell; some by indulgences, he lifts up to heaven; and infinite by ransoms, from purgatory. Not a jot without money. He sells Christ's cross-Christ's blood-Christ's self-all for money. Nay, he hath rent from the very stews, a hell above ground, and swells his coffers by the sins of the people; he suffers a price to be set on damnation, and maintains lust to go to law for her own; gives whoredom a toleration under his seal; that lust, the son of idleness, hath free access to liberty, the daughter of pride. 'Judas was a great statesman in the devil's commonwealth, for he bore four main offices. Either he begged them shamefully, or he bought them bribingly, or else Beelzebub saw desert in him, and gave him them gratis for his good parts; for Judas was his white boy. He was, first, an hypocrite; second, a thief; third, a traitor; fourth, a murderer. Yet the Pope shall vie offices with him, and win the game too, for plurality. The Pope sits in the holy chair, yet a devil. Perjury, sodomy, sorcery, homicide, parricide, patricide, treason, murder, &c., are essential things to Popery. He is not content to be steward, but he must be vicar; nay, indeed, lord himself; for what can Christ do, and the Pope can

E. H. B. Dartmouth, Jan. 13, 1851.

When there is such an outcry that the church and all true religion is in danger, it becomes the duty of every one to examine the ground of alarm. In reply to the enquiry, Where is the danger? we are told the "Pope has invaded the Queen's supremacy, and his newly-appointed bishops have sworn to persecute all heretics and schismatics to the utmost of their power;" including, of course, our beloved sovereign, and her Protestant subjects. Now, supposing this to be true, how is the threatened persecution to visit us, except from the quarter whence it always proceeds? Who can read ecclesiastical history and not perceive that this evil by no means necessarily arises out of any religious system, or is peculiar to any class of professors. If we read of bloody Rome, and her persecuting Bishop Bonner, remember we also read of bloody Eng land, and her persecuting Archbishop Laud; and even Cranmer imbrued his hands in the blood of the excellent Joan Boucher and John Van Paris, causing

them to be burnt to death for their religious opinions. If Catholics have used prisons, tortures, flames, banishment, confiscation, &c., as instruments of persecution, they can point at Protestants who have inflicted the same cruelties on innocent victims. That good man, John Calvin, caused poor Servetus to be burned to death, because he differed from him on theological questions, while Melancthon approved the cruel deed.

sacre and crusade of blood and burning, would have been prevented, if the kings of the earth had not lent their power to the beast; but, alas! the whole history of persecution is a display of tyranny and murder, exercised by the party who had this power, towards those who had it not. How could it be carried on by priests of the present day, in the milder form of demanding tithes, church rates, &c., with the power, in case of refusal, to imprison the person, to seize goods, and other things, if the state did not sanction such injustice? Or could a priest, at this season of the year, when entrusted with blankets, clothes, bread, &c., for the parochial poor, keep back from his shivering, starving fellow creature, things so necessary for him, with the brutal remark, “You do not come to my church," except from the same cause? In order to prevent these cruel oppressions, let the church and state be separated; break that unnatural connection, which produces this monstrous evil. The state will be delivered thereby from a heavy burden, which has too long injured it, while the church will thrive far better, and rejoice in her liberty.

At this very time, while in England we are talking of withholding from our Catholic fellow-subjects the enjoyment of their full religious liberties, in Protestant Sweden the Lutheran authorities are denying the same privileges to the Baptists, who have there opened places of worship, preached the gospel, and administered baptism, by immersion, to professing believers only. And what then? The dominant priesthood, knowing these sentiments, if generally received by the people, would cut up national churches, root and branch, have taken the alarm-have compelled the king to imprison many of the ministers and people-one of the former being just now banished for ever from his native country. Parents are commanded to take their infants, before they are The Pope having taken his first step, eight days old, to be sprinkled by the which appears to be simply spiritual, parish priests, who, in order to this, and confined to his own church, with have, in some cases, with the assistance which, therefore, we have no right to of the constable, forced them from their interfere, may proceed to grasp at temmother's arms; and all this, notwith-poral power; and would it not be our standing the government has been ap-wisdom, in order to check this farther pealed to in behalf of these poor sufferers, progress, for the state to declare it will by the British Baptist churches, the no longer favour one form of religion petition bearing the signatures of a more than another; all must henceforth thousand ministers. Now, with these stand on a level, perfectly independent facts before us, who can fail to perceive of state control or assistance, while the we must look deeper for the root of law will cast the broad shield of propersecution, than to any particular sys-tection over all alike. This would stop tem; all these are harmless, even the all the cruelty, and consequent hatred Roman Catholic, only keep them in and malice, which now disgrace Christheir proper place, by allowing every man to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, his fellow man having no power to hinder him, or even to tolerate his opinions. Look at the names and parties mentioned above, perhaps in their private character, kind, amiable, benevolent, could they have perpetrated such sad cruelties on their fellow creatures, if the state had not put the weapon into their hands with which they committed them? Many a mas

tianity; and who would need to fear, let the Pope exercise what power he may in the Catholic church, or what would then become of the oath taken by his bishops? This measure would infuse vigour into every branch of Christianity; and in proof that religion would flourish amongst us without a state church, we have only to refer to America, where it does not exist; but we confidently ask, Where does religion flourish more?

Should it be said this cannot, or shall

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ites was called spiritual because it was his people to the end of their journey. a type-it had a spiritual meaning. Some suppose that the same stream of "That rock was (represented) Christ." water did not accompany the Israelites And just as the stream from the rock through the desert, but that the rock followed (or accompanied) the ancient is here said to have followed them, Jews for the supply of their temporal because the supply of water was, by need, so Christ, in the application of his repeated miracles of the same kind, blood and righteousness, accompanies continued.

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