with your practice. The more we disbelieve you, the more we are led to see that we ought to believe him! He is the free Saviour of his people; you, an oppressor and a destroyer. He taught us to bless those who curse, and to do good to those who hate us, to pray for those who despitefully use us and persecute us. (Matt. v. 44.) He was given by God not to condemn the world, but that the world by him might be saved. (John iii. 17.) He declares that he is not come to destroy, but to seek and to save that which was lost. (Luke xix. 10.) You began by cursing those who, to the last, had blessed you; by hating those who had done you good, and by despitefully using and persecuting those who had prayed for you. You, who alone might have saved our country, and redeemed it from its lost condition, have joined yourself to her enemies to condemn and to destroy her."

PROTEST OF ITALIAN RESIDENTS IN LONDON AGAINST POPERY.

"Last evening, Aug. 5, 1849, a meeting of Italians resident in the metropolis was held at the Western Literary Institution, Leicester-square, for the discussion of the religious questions involved in the present state of Italy, and of urging the Italian people to protest no longer against the Pope merely, but against the system of Popery itself.' The proceedings were conducted according to the rules of public meetings in Italy, and were throughout of the most remarkable character. The speakers addressed the audience in the Italian language. The ladies, of whom a large number were present, took an active part in the discussion of the questions brought under consideration, many of them rising to make observations on the respective addresses. Signor G. T. Vignati took the chair, and the meeting was addressed by the Cavalier Fenzi, Signor Raffaello di Roma, Professor Gabriele Rosetti, Signor Boccalossi, Signor Sussanni, and other gentlemen. Signor Mappei thought it was no longer of any use to oppose the Pope as an individual or as

a temporal prince, for he believed that the whole system of Roman Catholicism tended to degrade the people, and obstruct the progress of their political independence. They wished to be unfettered in their acknowledgment of one faith, one Lord, one baptism.' In fact, they wanted to get rid of the whole political machinery of the Church of Rome. Signor Mappei enlarged upon these topics amidst constant interruptions. So great indeed was the disturbance, that the police were frequently called in to quell it. Several gentlemen (zealous Roman Catholics and advocates of the present system) were forcibly expelled. In the midst of the confusion the following resolution was adopted: That this meeting, highly condemning as tyrannical, infamous, anti-evangelical, and impious, the conduct of Pope Pius IX., invites a the Italian patriots to follow the true Religion of Jesus Christ, as followed by their ancestors, throwing aside their Papal Church, which is conspiring against the liberties of the people.'-A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. This is certainly not one of the least significant of the signs of the times.""

Thus events thicken; the foundations of Babylon are being undermined, freedom is finding access to its dungeons, and its own children, weary with their bondage and its crimes, are rising up against her.

"I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead."-REV. iii. 1.

HAD we to appear at the judgment-seat, and to receive the sentence of doom from the lips of an imperfect and erring man, we could have little encouragement to seek by well-doing, glory, honour, and immortality. We take up such misapprehensions of the actions and motives of other men ; we are so liable to be deceived by outward appearances, and thence to deduce erroneous conclusions,-that we all feel convinced that our lives never can be judged correctly, nor our actions justly weighed, nor our appropriate condition in eternity assigned us, by any one who has not the omniscience of Godhead to discriminate and weigh, and the sympathies of manhood to feel and to commiserate. The perplexed woof of human life in its simplest estate is composed of threads so chequered and intermixed, that none but he unto whom the essence and the structure of all that constitutes the moral and the physical world are thoroughly open, can separate the good from the bad, and determine what is fit to be burned and what is worthy of being preserved. What consolation ought it then to administer to them who have chosen that better part, that Christ their Saviour, who is soon to be their judge, needs not to be told what is in man, because unto him all hearts are open and all desires known-that he is by them to strengthen their good resolutions, and to assist their weak attempts to