nothing dies, though everything changes. "The dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it."-New York Independent. 66 IRISH REVIVALISTIC SCENES. During the next week, the work broke out still more gloriously at Priesthill, about two miles distant from Broomdhedge. On Sunday evening,' says the Rev. J. Shuttleworth, I was much depressed, when Mr. James Carlisle came in and said, 'Good news, good news; God has saved one soul to night.' I replied, 'Brother that is the best news you ever brought me.' We thanked God together and took courage. On the third of August I felt the Lord very precious, while directing the congregation to the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. The Lord's Supper followed, and during the service God set another soul at liberty. In the evening the subject was, ' To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.' After preaching, we invited those that were seeking mercy to come forward for special prayer in their behalf. A few came, and soon the cry for salvation became loud. Some obtained peace, and many more were in great distress. On my way home I called at Mrs. Carlisle's, and there I found a number of persons who had been at the meeting in deep anxiety about their spiritual state. We went to prayer, and God spoke peace to their souls. At the same time brother Larmour, one of the class-leaders, was engaged in prayer with a number who had called at his house in distress. Glory, glory to God. This was the happiest night that I ever spent in Ireland.' ' The revival still went on, became itensified in power, and spread through the entire neighbourhood. It occurred about six years before the great and general revival which extended over the north of Ireland, and many of the united States of America, and it was equal to that in its intensity and blessed results. God seemed to touch the hearts of the people in almost every house. They flocked in hundreds every night, not excepting Saturday, to the house of prayer. And such was the intense anxiety to gain admission, that often about the hour for commencing the service the people were seen running from all directions that they might get inside; or, if that was impossible, that they might get near the door or one of the windows. "The chapel will not accommodate more than about two hundred adults, and yet it is calculated that often, during these meetings, there were from six to seven hundred inside and around the building. A camp-meeting was arranged to be held on the Sabbath in the open ground around the chapel, but nearly half the congregation appeared to consist of penitents, so that no one could preach; but all the people joined in prayer; and in praying, singing, and exhorting one another, they spent the whole afternoon. Some appeared to But how shall we describe the effects of the power of God which fell upon the people? Every soul seemed to be bowed under His mighty hand. There were no mockers, no scoffers. Proud unbelievers trembled in the presence of the Lord of Hosts. realize what David meant when he said, 'The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me.' Their groans and agonizing cries no pen or tongue can describe. It seemed to resemble what our imagination pictures to itself of the sorrows of the lost. Some struggled in this agony for hours, until their physical nature became so exhausted that they had to be supported in the arms of the brethren. Yet they would not give up. When God lifted the light of His countenance on these souls the effects were overwhelming. They clapped their hands, and uttered the most rapturous exclamations of glory and praise to their great Deliverer. Their brothers and sisters and friends would rush to the happy individual, and, with abundance of tears, clasp him or her in their arms, and shout victory. At the same time the mourners around knew nothing of all this, so deep and awful was their distress. Another remarkable feature in this work was,-that when a soul found peace, as soon as the first gush of joy was over, the new convert began immediately either to comfort other mourners, or to search out in the congregation for some relative or acquaintance to bring them to Christ. This glorious work was not confined to any age or any class of the community. The educated and the illiterate, the moralist and the notorious sinner, the strong man and the delicate maiden, were all bowed down before the God of heaven. And night after night, for three weeks, was the mighty power of the Holy Ghost shed upon the people. We could seldom close the meetings until eleven or twelve o'clock; and even then the penitents who remained without comfort were unwilling to leave.-Memoir of the Rev. Thos. Carlisle, by the Rev. Wm. Cooke, D.D. I. H. S. THESE three letters, which in many of our churches may be seen in the form of a monogram, contain the creed of Christendom in the smallest possible compass. JESUS HOMINUM SALVATOR-JESUS SAVIOUR OF MEN. For between the faith that only receives Christ as a teacher, and that which acknowledges him as a Saviour, there is a gulf as wide as between the Nicodemus who came by night for instruction, and the thief upon the cross who cried out for pardon, and received the gift of eternal life. The gospel of Christ is not merely a higher, purer law. It does not come as God came to Moses with tables of stone to say, "Thou shalt and thou shalt not." Not the Mount of Beatitudes, but the Mount of Calvary is the consummation of Christ's work; not the sermon but the sacrifice. A physician has written a popular treatise entitled, "How not to be sick." It is a useful book for those who are not sick already. But he that is struggling with death needs cure, not prevention. Moses told how to avoid sin. Christ brought healing to those already sinstricken. Moses told how not to wander from God. Jesus came to awaken in the heart reminiscences of home that might call the prodigal, famine-stricken, and in a far country, back again. Moses built the wall of the sheepfold. Jesus came to call to himself those that had wandered beyond these walls, and were lost and dying in the wilderness. Moses warns of the fiery serpent. Jesus is the brazen serpent lifted up, that whosoever, bitten and nigh to death, looks on him, need not perish, but have everlasting life. Christ, as the The Delphic There be many, too, who offer a qualified homage to interpreter of the mystic language of nature and of life. oracle must have its priest to interpret its blind sayings. oracle whose revelations only the true poet comprehends. Belshazzar, startled by the mystic characters traced by a living hand upon the wall, "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin," demands some one who shall read the enigma to him. Nature is written all over with hieroglyphic language. Jesus gives to the unknown words their true significance. There never was such an interpreter as he. But Jesus is more than a Daniel to reiterate the warning which life and nature are perpetually intruding on our festal hours. He delivers Babylon from the doom that threatens it, erases with his blood the sentence, "Thou art weighed in the balance, and found wanting," and writes in lieu thereof, "There is now no condemnation to him that is in Christ Jesus. The gospel of Jesus Christ is more than a second law, more than a prophetic interpretation of the religion of nature. The cross of Christ is the hand of Almighty God outstretched in answer to the despairing cry of man, already sinking beneath the tempestuous wave: "Lord, save, or I perish!" To accept Christ as an interpreter only, is not to accept him at all. He only receives Jesus Christ who receives him as his personal and only Saviour. In contrast with that ritualism which proffers man a priest and a ceremonial for his Saviour, and that rationalism which declares that every man must save himself, we put at the head of our columns this epitome of our faith: I. H. S. JESUS HOMINUM SALVATOR-JESUS SAVIOUR OF MEN.-Christian Weekly. ACTIVE RELIGION. Christianity is a religion for the world, and not for the cloister. "I pray not" said Jesus, "that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil." The busiest life on the common plane of every day duty is that which most imperatively demands and most richly illustrates Christian principle and character. The true disciple shuns not the scenes or avocations, in themselves lawful, in which men of the world are engrossed and immersed, but rather seeks and covets them, that in them he may test, vivify and deepen the traits of his Master's spirit, may turn the tide of worldliness and evil example, may infuse the sanctifying influence of the Gospel and may thus level upward the great sunken plane of the working-day world. The active merchant, the skilled and enterprising mechanic, the housewife crowded with incessant cares, the mother whose little flock demands perpetual vigilance-these, and such as these, occupy the very position in which they most need the guiding, elevating spirit of the Gospel, and in which the Gospel needs them to show its highest power, its most winning beauty, its purest glory. As in our communion service Christianity takes not rare and far sought emblems, but the staff and refreshment of daily life, for symbols of the redemption sacrifice, so does she rejoice to make all the parts, functious, utilities and charities of a faithful and vigorous Christian career, tokens and pledges of the inward reception and working of that sacrifice in the soul. of her disciple.-Religious Magazine. THE FARMER'S FAITH, A PEASANT of singular piety, being upon a particular occasion admitted to the presence of the King of Sweden, was asked by him, "what he considered to be the nature of true faith?" The peasant entered fully into the subject, and much to the king's comfort and satisfaction. When the king was upon his death-bed, he had a return of his fears as to the safety of his soul, and still the same question was repeatedly put to those around him. "What is real faith?" The Archbishop of Upsall who had been sent for arrived, and entering the king's bedchamber commenced in a learned, logical, and scholastic manner a definition of faith which lasted an hour. When he had finished, the king said with much energy, "all this is very ingenious but not comfortable-it is not what I want. Nothing but the farmer's faith will do for me." It is to be regretted that many persons in their endeavours to explain a subject, render it more difficult to be understood, in consequence of their abstruse mode of treating it. Simplicity is the best guide— adhering to this the learned will not be offended, and the poor will be instructed. Selected by T. W. THE SHELL. AS AUGUSTINE was walking by the sea-side, meditating on the doctrine of the Trinity, he observed a child pouring the water of the sea into a shell, which had a hole in the middle of it,-" What are you doing?" said Augustine. The child answered, "I am putting all the the sea into this shell." "Thou playest the child, indeed," said the father, "can a shell, thinkest thou, comprehend all this sea?" "And so do you sir," rejoined the child, "who would by reason comprehend the Trinity."-Selected by T. W. "I AM THE WAY." THERE is a path no vulture's eye hath seen, O seek this path and never from it stray; -Selected by T. W. |