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their own invention.”*

It will readily be conceded that this celebrated reformer had more head than heart; but had he lived in the present day, when the principles of civil and religious freedom are better understood, he would not have consented, we may charitably hope, to the burning of Servetus. In this, alas! he adopted the most odious practice of a church that has slaughtered her millions. Blessed be God for liberty to worship Him according to the dictates of our conscience. "Where we see piety," says J. A. Froude, "continence, courage, self-forgetfulness, there, or not far off, we know is the spirit of the Almighty; and as we look around us among our living contemporaries, or look back with open eyes into the history

* "Thou beginnest at the wrong end if thou disputest first about thine election, prove thy conversion, and then never doubt of thy election: or, canst thou not yet prove it? Set upon a present and thorough turning......... 'Tis just (as one well said) that they who will not feed on the plain food of the word, should be chok'd with the bones."-ALLEINE'S ALARM, p. 21.

of the past, we see we dare not in voluntary blindness say we do not see-that God is no respecter of 'denominations' any more than He is a respecter of persons. His highest gifts are shed abroad with an even hand among the sects of Christendom, and petty distinctions melt away and become invisible in the palaces of a grander truth."

You will think, perhaps, that I have dwelt quite long enough on this subject. I will, therefore, simply add that Calvin was born in 1509, and died on the 27th of May 1564, at the age of 55, after twentythree years of uninterrupted power. He was elected, you are aware, president of the Consistory. When will foolish persons cease to suppose that the doctrine of election was unknown until John Calvin came.

"His style is grave and polite. Independent of his spiritual pride, his morals were exemplary; for he was pious, sober, chaste,

laborious, and disinterested." (Encyclopædia Britannica) Barring spiritual pride, even if that allegation be founded in truth, what stranger in the earth would desire a better testimony after he has accomplished, as an hireling, his day. Peace to his ashes, and blessings on his memory.*

The principal occupation of the Genevese is watch-making, which, with its branches, employs 7,000 persons. So early as 1478, there were printers at Geneva. It has produced a multitude of eminent scholars and writers, and the celebrated painters Bonnet, Petitot, and Arland. Among the living there is the author of

In the popish Catechism of Perseverance, and especially in Keenan's Controversial Catechism, are to be found atrocious calumnies against Calvin, and, indeed, against all the reformers. But what else is to be expected.? The curious reader will find the malignant, mendacious, and nefarious charges referred to in this note at pp. 316 and 30 of the respective authors. How greatly to be pitied are Roman Catholics who have only access to such books as these, and to the pestilent prophetic almanacks of Ireland.

the History of the Reformation. It contains 32,000 inhabitants, (9,322 Roman Catholics), or, including its suburbs,37,724.

We visited the junction of the Arve with the Rhone. I visited it twice: and it is mortifying to think that the muddy Arve, which is fed by the snows and glaciers of Mont Blanc, at length gains the mastery. I have never seen waters so blue as those of the Rhone. Sir Humphry Davy attri, buted it to the presence of iodine.

22nd, Wednesday. At 8 45 a.m. we left Geneva for Vevay by steamer, where we arrived at 1 p.m. The day was beautiful, and the villas, surrounded by gardens, on the margin of the enchanting lake, might be taken for English country houses. The Lake of Geneva is the largest in Switzerland, being 55 miles long, 6 miles wide at the broadest part, and its greatest depth 900 feet. In the evening we visited the castle of Chillon, in which Bonnivard was

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confined for six long years by the Duke of Savoy. Byron wrote the sonnet on Bon

nivard. We were rowed there and back in a boat belonging to the hotel, Trois Couronnes, where we passed the night. The scenery about this part of the lake is exquisitely beautiful. It has been accurately described by Rousseau. How sweet it is to sit by the side of this lake at the close of the day, and, among other subjects, to meditate of God and his goodness. The Christian, and only he, "calls the delightful scenery all his own."

23rd, Thursday. In the afternoon we left Vevay, and after steaming about four hours, we arrived at Geneva at six in the evening. The heat was great. There was also some lightning, with a slight shower of rain. I and Mrs. H. called to see Dr. Malan who, unfortunately, was at his summer residence in the mountains. We saw, however, one of his sons who had just ar

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