instructed. The province of Theology in this College, the elements of the Hebrew and Greek Languages, with the office of Second Pastor in the Church of Clausenburg, are committed to my care. The Rev. and Illustrious John Juzi teaches Philosophy and gives Lectures on the History of Literature. The Rev. and Illustrious John Molnos, Lecturer on the German Language, and Rector of the College, expounds History, after the previous studies of Geography and Chronology. The Rev. and Illustrious Nicholas Szekely investigates the principles of Mathematics and Natural History. Six schoolmasters, selected from the youths trained in our schools, and appointed over the inferior classes, teach the boys the elements of learning, and whatever belongs to the trivial schools. The royal Lyceum of Clausenburg, supported by the funds of the Roman Catholics, is open to the Unitarians who enter upon the study of the laws after they have finished their philosophical course. Unitarians have also two Academies in the principality of Transylvania-one in the town of Sz. Keresztur, another in the town of Thorenburg-in both of which the liberal arts only are taught. But the inspection of all our schools is incumbent on the Superintendent.

The

The manner of appointing professors in former times was this-that the most promising youth, after having finished their course in the College, and having been recommended by the professors on whom they attended, to the Supreme Consistory, were sent to foreign Universities to cultivate erudition. Holland was the first instructress of the teachers who preceded us; at length Germany succeeded, especially in the Universities of Jena and Gottingen. But, not long since, it seemed good to our most august Emperor, of glorious reign, and our most gracious Prince, to interdict the liberty of frequenting Universities instituted without the limits of Austria, and to erect a distinct University, upon the principles of the Protestants, at Vienna, in Austria. Our countrymen also, in defect of any public funds, being maintained at their own expense, and by the private assistance of their benefactors, are here educated.

Collections,

A HINT TO MINISTERS.

Cultivate and display christian zeal for the general interests of true religion, both at home and abroad. With all the feelings of PASTORAL solicitude, never let the christian minister circumscribe his desires or his exertions, by the limits of his own peculiar sphere.-Let him sedulously endeavour to excite and to maintain, in full vigour, the same spirit of benevolent activity among the people of his charge. By stimulating them to unite in doing good, he will direct them to the most effectual means of gaining good. He will most assuredly promote their own prosperity, by animating their zeal and liberality in aid of the cause of bibles, and the cause of missions, and the cause of schools, and the cause of tracts, and all the methods of doing good, on a larger or a smaller scale, which fall within the limits of their means and opportunities.-In the midst, however, of all his public engagements, let not the young minister venture to extend, without due consideration and needful restriction, his pledges of personal attendance on the meetings of benevolent and religious societies. A senior minister, whose mind is enriched with ample resources which habit has long progressively facilitated, may, with impunity, make a sacrifice of hours and days, which a junior minister would make at the hazard of his peace, of his health, of his usefulness. TIME, and time in large and unbroken portions, he must secure for the acquirement and communication of scriptural knowledge, unless he would abandon at once all the hope and effort of making progress in the lofty and difficult attainments of pulpit excellence. The habit I recommend,' said Dr. Paley, in his Charge to the younger Clergy, as the foundation of almost all the good ones, is retirement. Learn to live alone.' On the well proportioned upion of retired and diligent study with social intercourse and public engagements, depends, in no small degree, the efficiency, as well as the happiness of a pastor's life.-Burder's Mental Discipline.

Religious Instruction at Geneva.

The Genevese Pastors are reproached by Dr. Smith for preaching moral sermons, but he omits to inform us that they almost always enforce their exhortations to a life of virtue and holiness, by an appeal to the great doctrine of Christianity-a resurrection from the dead to a future state of rewards and punishment.

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Your readers, who have not visited Geneva, would be greatly mistaken, however, were they to suppose, in consequence of Dr. Smith's misrepresentations, that the Pastors confined their public discourses to practical subjects. There are services in two churches in Geneva, La Madelaine and St. Gervaise, every Sunday, which may be regarded as purely scriptural and doctrinal. These services comprise the instruction and examination of the catechumens in the doctrines and evidences of Christianity. The first part consists of what may be styled a colloquial sermon, explaining certain parts of the christian doctrine in a familiar manner; the second consists of a verbal examination of the catechumens. More interesting lessons on Christianity, I think, can scarcely be given, and they are generally attended by adults as well as catechumens. There is also a sermon every Thursday at 9 o'clock, which is confined to an explanation of the Scriptures. Besides this, there is a service every Saturday afternoon, which is entirely devotional and intended to prepare the mind for the duties of the following Sunday morning. The churches are all very fully attended on the Sunday,* and in those where the more popular ministers preach, it is even difficult for a stranger to procure a seat, unless he go half an hour before the service begins. Attention and seriousness strongly mark the countenances of the auditors. And as I do not (like Dr. Smith) presume to see into their hearts, I could discover none of that deadly indifference' which he lays to their charge: sometimes they were evidently deeply affected, and the younger members of the audience were in tears.

The Sunday services for the catechumens comprise a recapitulary explanation of those sections of the catechism in which they have been instructed in classes four days in the preceding week. Young persons do not commence this course of religious

* The hours of public worship are ten, twelve and two; the latter service closes at three, when the city gates are opened for the remainder of the day.

instruction until about the age of fifteen; the course lasts twelve months, but where catechumens appear deficient in their examinations, they pass through another course in the following year. The catechumens all write down in their own language the instruction which they receive verbally in their classes. The writing is carefully examined and corrected by the pastor. The youth of both sexes, rich and poor, are expected to attend this course of instruction: there are evening classes for the tices.-Monthly Repository.

From Robert Hall's Life of Toller.

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Never, says Mr H., shall I forget the pleasure and surprise with which I listened to an expository discourse from 1 Pet. ii. 1-3. The richness, the unction, the simple majesty which pervaded his address, produced a sensation which I never felt before it gave me a new view of the christian ministry. But the effect, powerful as it was, was not to be compared with that which I experienced a few days after, on hearing him at a halfyearly association at Bedford. The text which he selected was peculiarly solemn and impressive: his discourse was founded on 2 Peter i. 12-16 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance: knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has shewed me,' &c. The effect of this discourse on the audience, was such as I never witnessed before or since. It was undoubtedly very much aided by the peculiar circumstances of the speaker, who was judged to be far advanced in a decline, and who seemed to speak under a strong impression of its being the last time he should address his brethren on such an occasion. The aspect of the preacher, pale, emaciated, standing apparently on the verge of eternity, the simplicity and majesty of his sentiments, the sepulchral solemnity of a voice which seemed to issue from the shades, combined with the intrinsic dignity of the subject, perfectly quelled the audience with tenderness and terror, and produced such a scene of audible weeping as was perhaps never surpassed. All other emotions were absorbed in devotional feeling: it seemed to us as though we were permitted for a short space to look into eternity, and every sublunary object vanished before 'the powers of the world to come.' Yet, there was no considerable exertion, no vehemence displayed by the speaker, no splendid

imagery, no magnificent description: it was the simple domination of truth, of truth indeed of infinite moment, borne in upon the heart by a mind intensely alive to its reality and grandeur. Criticism was disarmed; the hearer felt himself elevated to a region which he could not penetrate; all was powerless submission to the master spirit of the scene. It will always be considered by those who witnessed it, as affording as high a specimen as can be easily conceived, of the power of a preacher over his audience, the habitual, or even frequent recurrence of which would create an epoch in the religious history of the world.

Original Poetry.

The water that I shall give him, shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.'

'Twas early summer; and the glare of noon
Shot fiercely down upon the earth. The breeze
Whisper'd in invitation, as it stirr'd

Among the leaves of this deep solitude,
When first I wander'd hither; and the shade
Of lofty rock and leafy covert, wooed
My fainting spirit, and my sinking steps.
The purling waters of a streamlet, too,
Won me to enter here, and breathe the air
That played upon their surface, and imbibe
The coolness of their source. Gladly I turn'd,
And traced the seldom trodden path that wound
Along the bank, holding its tangled way
Mid lowly brier with wild-flower interwoven,
And under the thick boughs of ivied elms.
Here, in the very bosom of the dell,
Amid its wildest loneliness, there stands
A single, towering, moss-grown rock, whose clefts
Shelter the first pale cowslip of the spring,
And, here and there, a slender hyacinth.
Under the grey rock's base, a giant elm

Hath forced his sturdy roots, and upward flung
His broad trunk full upon its flinty breast.