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• 3ECITTED CHRISTIAN* MAIDEN TO TIER
APOSTATE LOVER.
.1.111,T111, Alzahor of Me Exiles of PiAinsont;

2arew. kpostate !—see, Ido not curse thee
I give thee but the name thy sin until given.
Oh I had hope's 'midst ransom'd crowds to hail thee,
And enter with thee to the gates of heaven.
But never there
Shalt thou appear,
And all my hopes for thee are riven.

430!—g0--Apostate!—from my heart I cast thee ;
In turning from thy God thou turrest from me.
Never, as long as reason's empire lasts me,
Shalt thou receive the approving smile from me.
Where, traitor, where
Shalt thou appear,
When Christ despised shall summon thee ?

Yet deem not, recreant, morning's sunny hours
And evening's calmness wait thee through the day;
The heart's deep anguish and the bitter tear—
Remorse and ruin shall assume their sway;
And thou shalt be
In misery
Deep a thy guilt—without one cheering ray.

WOMAN.

Shall I, wastynge in despaire,
Dye because a womans faire '
Shall my cheeks look pale w&ttl care,
Because anothers rosie are'
Be she fairer than the day;
Or the flowery meads in 'Ms*,
If the ethic not-well of me,
What care I hew faire she 14 I

Shall a woman's goodness. more
Me to perish for her love

Or, her T•ortilie nze its kimown,
/Ake me rule. for of mine orone !
ti she kiiictf;: rieeker, than
The turtle (Nye or pelican ;

I f 31; be not so to me,

What care I how kind she be I
lln site kind; or meek, or
will ne'er the more dispaire:
4f she love me, this beleeve;
I will dye, ere she shall grieve

If she slight me when I wooe,
I will seorne and let her go.
If she be not matte for me,
What•eare I for whom she be ?

G. VViTitaas.-16•41:

- THE CHURCH.
Kerctisii J&errer.)

are_notlikely to he t!..-pected.of partiality for any
thing belonging to the Grey family.. But the sermon
preached by Bishop Qrcy. 1-,.:fore the Society for Promot-:
mg "stianKnOwletlge is well worthy of a bishop of
our .4ot:l:lent and we will .not withhold, even
from a Grey. praise where praise is due. The following
ea.tract will. requireno apology. We are sure it must
accord with the sentiments of our clerical readers. Let
any churchman read his observations, and then say whe-
the. he ought or ought not t raise. hii lv:hice against the
spirit of innovation and ..ititudinarianisrn which is
abroad :

" And it is inait requisite taat they who would be stedfast
and inatnaieable themselves and 1:N.60 would preserve the true
whole and undefiled, in the coicrnui)ity to which they be-
long, should take heed that they be not deceived by heretical
opinions, by plausible bat false displays of zeal and usefulness,
41r SCHEMES OF INNOVArION, danger: 4a to order, and calculated
to weaken more arid More the foursecrtson of ancient and approved
. " Were I called on to particularise a single source of more
especial danger to Christians of the present age, I should not
hesitate to fix on that love of change, that spirit of innovation,
I,Vhieh militates so pOWerfullY against a steady continuance in
'the faith. It is a false arid lying spirit, promising more than it
can peiforM deceiving many who ought to have been wiser, shak-
ing many who ought to have been firmer; seducing many who
ought to have been _ safer. All classes are assailed by
it; and there is nothing too high, nothing too holy, nothing
too well sanctioned by time or by authority, for its meddling
and baneful interference. Against that spirit I would lift up
my voice, however feeble; and I would entreat ail who can
hear me to take most earnest heed that they be not seduced
from the true faith by new and specious doctrines—or new and
unguarded expositions of old doctrines—that they be not
drawn aside from a practice suited 'to the true faith, by novel
ideas of a Lancied expedieng, of a spurious liberality, or of im-
provement falsely pretended, in our religious worship and moral
system.
improvement must be at all times desirable, and
the wise fillet virtuous will not fail to desire- it ; but when int-.
provement is propaied, let us be sure that it is improvement._
4..;i&a.7,.;e. if it bring not improvements .is evil; and where religion
is eeneerne4.!, if change uring not considerable, as well as de-
eida improvement, if the ifoprovement be not vital and essen-
tial, tending beyond douht, to the glary of God and the good
of man—LET rHE PROPOSED CHANGE BE SUSPECTED, LET IT
aoz orscauktacEn. A desire for change in spiritual matters
must; be an evidence of a- t..rnal mind, and a too ready ac9ui-
eseence in prailositione of change relating to our religious
profession is a proof of an infirm or a careless ha.bit, and marksandifference to that constancy of principle-and pre.etice which
belongs to truth.-
These are maxims ,vhich every serious churchman will
acknowledge, and feel it solemn duty to sanction,_ by
his public testimony, in the present clay. Bishop Grey
deserves the thanks of all sincere Christians for his
manly avowal of them. We hope _Lord Grey reads his
brother's sermons.