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mished reputation," and hedged in
)1T circumstantial evidence of the most incon-

tr avertible natu e ; one, in short, of those logical cul de
sacs ,which afford no exit, but by unceremoniously kick-
ing down the opposing barrier. It was Sir Walter Scott,
we believe, who was thus driven to extricate himself from
a similar dilemma, when, on being asked " how he ac-
counted" for some strange tale he had related, on no less

than th

andmother,

he was

forced to reply, after some deliberation, " Aiblins my
grandmither was an awfu' leear."—Memoir of the Rev.
R. H. Barham (, Thomas Ingoldsby"), in the third se-

8 of the IngadBby Leger

British .1

ng work called " The Lost
ion of the deaf and dumb
mgth. The author of the
tor of the Pictorial Bible,

nic itself is Dr. Kitto, edit
having been deaf from the

ze of twelve years, de-

n society. Amongst the pas-
It will surprise many

tails his own experience. _
sages quoted are the following :
readers to know that few persons speak in my presence
concerning whose voice I do not receive a very distinct
impression. That is, I form an idea of that person's Voice
which it becomes to my mind as distinct from the
of others as, I suppose, one voice is distinct from
to those who can hear rri- hus

impression t
conveyed is produced from a cursory, but probably v

.ccurate observation of the person's general physical con-
stitution compared with the action of his mouth and the
play of his muscles in the act of speaking. I form a
similar idea concerning the laugh of one person as dis-
tinguished from that of another ; and when I have seen a
person laugh, the idea concerning his voice becomes in my
mind a completed and unalterable fact. The impression
thus realised would seem to be generally correct. I have
sometimes tested it, by describing to another the voices of
arsons with whom we were both acquainted ; and I have
sown an instance in which the impression described
by me has not been declared to be remarkably accurate.
This faculty must be based upon experiences acquired
during the days of my hearing, and cannot be realised by
the born deaf, seeing that it is impossible for them to have
any idea of sounds produced by the action of the vocal
organs, and still less of the peculiarities by which one
voice is distinguished from another."
THE THEOLOGY OF ROME,—What, we ask, is the
theology of Rome, stripped of its accidents and unimport-
----;a. Is it not this ?—SALVATION BY MEANS OF

EFFECTUAL BY PRI

STS, W}lo ARE

essence of Romanism

SUBSTANCE, THE ESSENCE OF

ibsolute Ref
FONT by means of the Pri(

OXFORD TEACH IN(

~,,eneration at the
-pardon for sin at the
.LTAR, by means of bread and wine transformed to Di-
vine Humanity, by the magic of a Priest—Ws is the es-
sential faith of ROME—this is the faith of. ORFORD, ex-
pounded, without reproof, in the earliest Tracts for the
^mow passionately affirmed and persevering)
lit. by hundred-

Times, ar

)f the younger Clergy, and diffused
through the land by incredible activity in every depart-
ment of literature. If it be so, and who will venture to
deny it ?—may not Rome well hope exultingly in the
thought of fully subjugating England to her authority ?
That there are many who hold these essential doctrines
of Rome, who have not the remotest idea of joining that
community, is perfectly true ; they have fine distinctions
between the essential doctrines of Rome and some of the
popular opinions and practices in Catholic countries.
They enlarge, too, on the undue authority usurped by the
Bishop of Rome; they enlarge, too, as might a Turk or
a Jew, on the duty of remaining in the Church in which
they were born, and plead the duty of enforcing Catholic
doctrine and Catholic practices within the Church. Thus
we find Dr. Hook, venturing to tell his Bishop, that
though he fully admits " the extreme of High Church
doctrine and practice is Popery ; he will at the same
time maintain that this is no reason why that doctrine
and practice should be renounced." The audacity rather
than the logic of this declaration might be admired, and
Rome would see little to depress her hopes in the excuses
of those who would be Romanists outside of Rome, and
so be preparing the unsuspecting people to receive " all
Roman doctrine ;" thus accomplishing that which ten
thousand of Rome's acutest agents would fail in attempt-
ing.— Oxford Magazine.