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tributing to such an object. the question of pa-
tronaite is a eery difficult one. As tar as concerns
the testimony of H ply Scrirure, it will he found
that the system which places it in the hands of the
Bishop has most of scripture warrant. We read in
Titus,•" For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou
Shonlilest set in order the thing., that are wanting ,and
ordain elders in every city as I had appointed thee."
There is here no mention of any other tieing con-

cerned in the selection of those elders hut Titus. In
the same manner, in Acts 14. 23, we read of Paul
and Barnabas. " And when they bad ordained them
elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting,
they commended them to •he Lord on whom they
believed." These are the principal, if not the only,
passages in the new Testament which give us any
direct information on the subject of the ;election of
ministers for a particular congregation. While they
do not command us to restrict patronage to the bi-
shops, they yet are abundantly sufficient to remove
our scruples as to the lawfulness of confiding a por-
tion of i:, at least, to episcopal selection. The Go-
vernors being heathens when the new Testament
-was written we could not expect to find anything in
it on the stNect of royal patronage. But in the
Old Testament we find +hat King '.'olomon removed
Abiathan from being High Priest and put in Zadok
In hiir,room. Ist Kings, 2 : 26, 35. David also re-
plated the courses of the priests in the temple ser
vice in which he was imita7ed by the uninspired,
ahhough pious King Idezckian, of whom we read—
" He set the Levites in the Elou4e of the Lord with
cytnhols, with psalteries, and with harps, according
to the commandmenr of David, and of Gad, the
IKing's seer, and of Nathan the prophet, for so.was
the commandment of the Lord by his prophets."
fid Chronicles.. 2j : 25. HFz kiah did not consecrate
Nests and Levites, (this was the ruinini sin of the
Kinis of Israel. Ist Kings, 13 : 33, 34,) but he as-
eigned to the c insecrated 1112f1 their pubis and du ies
in the Lord's temple, litre again, thetefote, as; far
Ss concerns :scripture testimony, we are •not without
foundation for royal patrona2.e. The system of po-
pular e'eclion is altogether without Scriptural war-

Thecase of Matthias w.ts not that of a con-
gregation choosinz its pastor; still less can the elec-
tion -o: the seven deacons he cited, for they were
expressly chosen to serve tables. The • method of
patrOnage most approved of, that of five trustees.
Las 'much to recommend it; but its advocates should
remember that it has net the shadow of Scriptural
authority, at least directly. It is altogether a mo-
dern invention.

Another consideration is worthy of notice which
113, that the various forms of patronage in this
kingdom have greatly contributed to the correc-
tinn of: the evils incident to each. In how
many instances has lay patronage been the means
C introducing godly and devoted men into
dioceses, where otherwise they would not have
been tolerated ? We could name, also, • many
examples in which the patronage of the Gown has
been.the means of b!es;:ing many districts with men
Of eminent piety. On the o; her hand, a painful list
Of failures, in the exercise of trustee patronage,
could he made out ; although, as a whole, it has
been succesatnl in providing good ministers. Under
all these considerations, we are mgt as.uming too

much in hoping,►, that no scruples, on dh ! subject of
e, w►ll deprive thiriv-two tholvand of our

parronag

townsmen of chu

The bPershop, and places of will more abandoned
Chdracter, are now destroying' their tens of thou•
sands. Let Christian liberality p rivide the house
of clod, and send the minister of Christ to bring the
Vurifyinl power of his gospel to homes and hearts
long left by to he the prey of the destroyer. We
appeal especi illy to the activity of the clergy. We
know the exlent of their influence, and we respect-
fully and earnestly call upon th,m to s'ir up-their
vangregations to assist in 116; most important. effort.
The Rev. Jonathan Brooks hrs been laboriously oc-
cupied in callintt personally upon tna,iy contribu-
tors, and has 'bus set a berom'-og example as one of
the rectors of the parish of Liverpool. We hope to

duo, of this tuwn

The cry of Iwo ant

thoustind souls perishind at our very doors will
surely not he heard in vain. We truqt we shall soon
ire ihe subscription list amount to the sum required,
end that it, shall not he said of Live.plol that she

earthly prince, than in providing for the wants of
her ilestitnte children, and for the honour of her
heavenly Sovereign and Saviour.

We have given ekewhere tut abbreviated report of
the proceedings at the dinner, flivin at Lynn, to the
prittectionist leader, d G2orge lientinek, with
that part of hi, address, n witch the future policy
rind objects of hiA party is laid before the country.
His lord-hip pr()pw,es to enter upon a great consti-
tutional stro,z4le tor the restoration of a system of

nroiection to native industry•, and of encouragement
to our colonies, as the' only means by which the
traffic in slaves can be put down and the commer'e
of-:the empire placed upon a secure and sound ha.is
To enable them to effect this, he calls for the,exer-

ciSe of energy and determinatii n, on the part of the
fainters and the whole agricultural community,' in
the'effort to return at the generaLeleCtion, which

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cikitly large to defeat the united strenti h of the
Whig Radicals under Lord John Itur4sell, and the
feW nondescript worshlppers of expediency, who
may enrol themselves rind 0r the banners of Sir
Robert Peel—i majority which he calculates will

enable his party to reverse the policy of the tote and
nd U) l.rocu►e for the
and the lab/hirer, a fair

the present government.
agriculturist, the colonist

cccm,c,mi. q, preference in the home tn:o .
'We. are behind none in our adtri.a ion of the
manliness and the great ability disp.a:e I by Lord
George, during his recent stand in iihtif of his or•
tier and of the tine interests of all classes of the
Community. He has earned well the honor paio
him by the noblemen, gentry, farmers, and others,
assembled at Lynn. But we cannot overlook the
fact that
we are en itled to regard his speech and
the profession of his views of public policy, upon
this occasion, as a hid for power on-the behalf of a
ministry, proposed to be erected noon the wreck of
the Peel Conservative and the R'hix and Radical
{parties. His Lordship reminds us that himself and