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t# i2 Owen Sourd people, aivhough of a rotund corporation, and @@psequrntly possessed cf rather excitable feelings are remarkable for thoir goud seuse and british stubbornâ€" We are happy to be able to announce to our readers that, so far as heard from, the elections for the Local Assembly of Quebec, which touk place yesterday, have resulted in a signal triumph for the Liberâ€" al party. The figures are, Lileral 34, Conservative 25. Majority for the Liber. als, 9. We have to congratulate our felâ€" lowâ€"citizens of Quebec in acchieving so great a vietory in the eause of good govâ€" ernment. ‘There are six constituencies yet Reform â€" Trinmphant in ux}-x::uxt:;j : .:],:;:;“;;-â€"I;:; :(rd;'eu Shomâ€" missionâ€"to gentlemen 10 cents; ladies Qu_e_llec' selves to the practioal part of their work. free. x c We are happy to be able to announce| Let them cultivate on the pgrs of their J“L"'Euw“‘"o“'â€"’rh° examination to our readers that, so far as heard from, | memrabers those secred principles of shrigâ€", "’,fi”‘.“.‘.’ff‘“’ for secondâ€"class certificates for the elections for the Local Asseimbly of| tian charity without which all professions Grey will commence at OW?“ Sound on t.lle (Q1ebee, which touk place yesterday, have | of religion are vain and meaningless. . In | 8th of J uly, and that of -flll.fd.',cl.l*“ .i’flfifl' resulted in a signal triumph for the Liberâ€" | our day there is an extraordinary tenden. | cates on ‘!" 15th. !'.‘““dms candidates al party. The figures are, Lileral 34,| cy among many, who should know better, | should notify the Pfosu.ilng Inspector, Mr, Conservative 25. â€" Majority for the Liber.| to mistake momentary impression for conâ€" Wm. Ferguson, Priceville, not later than als, 9. We have to congratulate our felâ€"| viction,and zeal is the outward observanc. | the 1st of June. ; lowâ€"citizens of Quebee in acchieving so | es of religion as the best evidence of the Smmor going to press we are requested great a viectory in the cause of good goyâ€"| pussession of yeligion . itgelf. There are | to state that the Rov, Mr. Bethune, of ernment. ‘There are six constituencies yet | many . persons who â€" are . exceedingly | Chessley, will (D. V.) lecture in the Town to be heard from. o | zealous and at the same time. exceedingly | Hall on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mm uertarn Aieris t L e D | intolerant ; so much so, indeed, that were | next, on the subject of Baptism, and that The losth Huson ioclormr COnYeDUQN)itg not for the wholesome check of public| the Rev. Mr, Torrance, who lectured here met at W.ughata last wook, and unau‘~ h s s monsly electA. Drr. S.~+n stanJardâ€"bearer bOPMm‘® they would, we fear, have no comâ€" | ‘ast week on the same subject, has been of the party at the clection for the Com.. Punction in resorting to thumbscrews and ‘ asked to meet the rev. gentleman on the muns, | the rack and other ingenious instruments | platforng. wess in guing witu & will into any matter taey take in hand, whother it be in differâ€" ing among themselves or uniting as a body to profect the County Towms interests as against the County or any other party or parlties.â€" There is much â€"more that could be said about the Souud, but I‘m afraid, Mr. Lditos, that you are out of all patience, so for the present, as the lawyers say, we wpon the high position attained by the University ; but that much had yet to be done in the way of providing suitable btuldings, spparatus, books, &c. â€"For these purposes not less than $150,000 would be requi:ed, and We had no doubt but that the friends of the Institution would be as hhoral in the future as in the past. The honorary Degree of D. D. was conflerred upon the revds. Wardrope, of Cuelph; Sedgwick, Nova Seotia; Baxâ€" ter, Montrcal, and Frazer, Bondhead. Mr. Editor, that so for the presen wiladjourn the Owen Sound. €ce. M utherford, 41. M. Middleton, Archibuid Thome, Thes. Nichol, Agents for the Grey Review. â€"The Session of 1877â€"78, at Queon‘s College, Kingston, was closed on the 24th inst. «There was a large concourse of graduates and visitors on the occasion. From tho report presented it appears that the University has nover been in so flourâ€" ishing a condition cither as to the attendâ€" ance the c with stron stone mad THE; REVIEW. of as they w and thim} to turn evants w minds of emigran:s on romie to West with gloomy forebodings ships that would certainly bofa that desolate conntry, and a time laying bofore them rosca of the verdant pastnres and sun Towa and Missouri. By morn â€"The coloured pepulation of the Southâ€" ern States are beginning to turn their eyes to the land of their forefathers. Fretting under a eruel social tyranny they naturalâ€" ly look for a conntry where at all events they will not be esposed to the insolence of the white man. A short time ago two hnndred left Charleston, Sonth Carolina, for Liberia, Africs, and many more are ready to go so soon as the means can be obtained. unsern} nersons have been ling into â€"Tag Ottewa Free Press has lately boen impruved in style and appearance. Public and social questions are fully and ably discassed. Great attontion is paid to Home aua woreign News, and the fact of its being published at the Capital is of itself a guarautee that it will contain carly and reliable intulligonce in reference to all poâ€" litieal matters. Subscription for the Daily editiou, $6 per an. ; Weekly edition, $1.50 per an. per Durham, May 2, 1878. 1€ questic On the Wost rounld ut h war mld t s men n JY *hEX q nipan v ) We April 28rd, 1878. t1 » observe that the large klinding cstablishment of Ison, at Edinburgh; was by fire on the 10th inst. ated at ©750,000, which is vored by insurance. 1t Stat rell t tion still contu ues ercfore an unsatisâ€" multary preparaâ€" ;land and Russia, early settlement imord that a preâ€" ) be held shortly in nd at the same roseate pictures d sunny skies of h1 ngs of the hardâ€" bofall them in the at roughne departments. ing address, the senators aploy agents to Mnnitoba, e to fill the to the Northâ€" irren waste unsu ind it nding oniâ€" agninst falâ€" land sharks pickpocket Miax well. M en the ccting dueed There is trouble in the Conservative camp in East Grey. For some time variâ€" ous signs of ominous import have been observed, but now the disorder has reachâ€" ed its height and war, intestine war, is deâ€" clared. At a meeting of the Conservative Association held a few weeks ago, Dr. Sproule was chosen candidate for the Comâ€" mons, and Mr. A. W. Lauder for the Local Assembly. It appears, however, that these nominations were scecured by ‘ wire pulling and other base means which were exceedingly disgusting to the party generally, so that the friends of purity and fair play have risen in their might and are determined to have no other but Joseph Rorke, Esq., as their eandiâ€" date for the Local Provincial Legislature. They have not signified their intentions as to the candidature for the House of Comâ€" mons, but the probability is that the sitâ€" ting member, Mr. Flesher, will be again the choice of the party, although several candidates are montioned. We are nct surâ€" prised at the turn things have taken. Why, reject Mr. Flesher from a conservative point of view is simply inconceivable. No During the pas months the subject of baptism has been so fully and ably discusâ€" sed by the ministers of the various denomâ€" inations in this g4own ghag qur neople can« not fail to be well acquainted with the viows held by the differen} churches on this matter, and will bo able to aprive at an intolligent conclusion as to which tegch> ing is most in accordance with Scripture. Further discussion would seem to be therefore 3 uscless waste of time, The discussion on Baptism which, as mentioned in our last issue, was mboup to take place, has boen postponed to some more convenient time, owing to the indisâ€" position of the Rev. Mr. Magahy. This announcement will be reccived with regret by some of our readers, but we trust with satisfaction by m still larger number. ‘The public discussion of religious subjects selâ€" ’.L,.m, if ever, tend to edification. On the, other hand, it tends very strongly to foster a spirit of jealousy, hatred and recriminaâ€" tion. Instead of being a means of removâ€" ing what wo may consider to be error, it the rather confirms opposition to doctrines which we may consider to be cleag and indisputable. Differences of opinion on veligions subjects will exist. The wildest visâ€" ionary cannot expect in the present state ‘ of the world, that all men will adopt a uniâ€"‘ {orm standard of faith,. All that can be reasonably expoegted is that every one who embraces any syuem of dving mh yill do so intelligently, and be able to give & reason for the "hope that is in him." one could have been a more devoted folâ€" lower of his party, and, io his praise be it said, no one could have less obstructed the business of the House of Commons than the worthy member for East Grey. Howâ€" ever, the position of Mr. A. W. Lauder is somewhat different. In his own way he is a pronounced obstructionist. His funcâ€" tion in the House of Assembly seems to have been to furnish trumpery charges against the Government of the day, and to make baseless insinuations against Mr. Nathaniel Dickey. Bad as the represenâ€" tative of Eat Grey is, his constituents have very serious charges to bring against him. On the 18thinst. the Conservative rgan in that Riding, the Thornbury Standard, says :â€""Mr. Lauder‘s political inconsistencies, his duplicity respecting the setting apart of the South Riding of Grey for registration purposes, and indifâ€" ference to the interests of his constituents in thoir efforts to obtain a reâ€"union of the County, the violation of personal pledges to his quondam friends together with the strong feeling in favor of resident candiâ€" dates, have completely destroyed all hopes of his election in East Groy." And no wonder. _ Political inconsistency marked his entrance into public life, and aecording to the Standard, has been m prominent characteristie of Mr. A. W. Lauder from that time till the present. On the other hand, Mr. Rorke is a new man, and has been a member of the County Council for ten years, and has thus fully | sorved the apprenticeship which is considâ€" THE CONTROVERSY OÂ¥ BAPTISM to regard their interests with indifference. Of course our Thornbury contemporary does not argue in favor of ehoosing a resiâ€" dent candidate as & pringiple which should always influence the electors, for wore this principle always acted upon the country would hbe deprived of the services of some of our ablest publec men. All that is conterded for is that Mr. A. W. Lauder has proved himself recreant to the trust reposel in him, :n‘ that his course in parliament has not been of that disinterested and usefyl gharâ€" acter as to warrant the electors of East (irsy in continuing him any longer as their representative. ered by some Consorvative organs to be necessary to occupying a seat in Parliaâ€" moent. â€"Moreover, he has boen a "consistâ€" ent Conservative"â€"a very portant qualâ€" ification, and further, "he has taken an active interest in all political and social quostions affecting the futerest of the peoâ€" ple," _ Most surely Mr. Rorke‘s claims canâ€" not be ignored ; and when to all this is added the fact that he has been "a resiâ€" dent of the riding for thirty years," ho is most likely to be well requainted with the wants of his constituents, and least likely +4 D + in Wing with those who chonestly differ with thom in opinion. MHowever, now that the excitoment is over, men‘s minds will have the opportuâ€" nity of indulging in a little calm reflection. | They will be able to see that there is such a thing as zeal without knowledgo : that the most excellent of all the christian graces is char‘ty, and as a help to the pracâ€" tice of this virtue we will submit for their consideration the following beautiful apoâ€" logue which Bishop Taylor quotes from the rabinnical writers in his Holy Living and Dying :â€""As Abraham was sitting in the door of his tent. then came unto him a wayfaring man ; and Abraham gave him water for his feet an 1 set bread before him, and Abraham said uoto him, ‘Let us now worship the Lord our God before we eat of this bread.‘ And the wayfaring man said unto Abraham, ‘I will not worship the: Lord thy God, for thy God is not my God, but I will worship my God, even the God of my fathers.‘ But Abrahrm was exceeding wroth ; and he rose up to put the wayfaring man forth from the door of his tent. And the voice of the Lord was heard in the tent,â€"‘Abraham, Abraham ! have I borne with this man for three seore and ten years, and canst not thou bear with him one hour ?"" Jury Exaxgxartioxs.â€"The examination of candidats for secondâ€"class eertificates for firay' will commence at Owen Sound on the 8th of July, and that of $hirdâ€"class gertifiâ€" cates on the 15th. Intending candidates should notify the Presiding Inspector, Mr. Wm. Ferguson, Priceville, not later tbal,z the 1st of June. Wx haye pleagure in acknowledging the fraternal gresting of the Roscommon Piâ€" oneer. This is a weekly journal published in Michigan, by our late fellowâ€"townsman, Mr. Matthows. It abounds in lively noâ€" tices, choice extracts, and gives due promâ€" inence to local and general news. ans soon as the potatocs are planted, No doubt they are agquainted with right time. Orex Mzrtmno.â€"The monsbers of Drcâ€" movre Lodge, I. 0. G. T., will have an open mecting in their hall, on Wednesday ovenihg, May 15th. Good Vocal and instrumental musie, and a number of diaâ€" logues, recitations, etc, will be giyen. Adâ€" missionâ€"to gentlemen 10 cents; ladies WE notico that some of our exchanges say that the potato bugs do not appear so numerous this spring as formerly, and that many that are dug up are dead. ‘The live bugs will certainly put in t,ho'h' appearance Ox Thursday evening last Mr. Thomn* Byers, who lived near here, was intowu making pyrchases. He went home, and taking inflamation died on Friday evening. The funeral took place on Sabbath last, and there is much sympathy for the family i their sudden bereavement. ) Lasx week a collision occured between a freight irain and a mixed train on the Toronto, G@rey & Bruce Railway, about three miles from Mono Road. The engines and cars werq hadly wrecked. Nobody was hurt. It took abceyt Zhree hours to clear the track. f * A patey mail is talked of between Flesh erton and Heathcote. At a greors; yEEfING of the Town Council held on Wednesday last week a byâ€"law in aid of the Geoxgian Bay and Wellington Railway to the extent of $25,â€" 000 was submitied. The voting on the same fakes place op the 25th inst, The Canada Methodists, in Thornlury, intend building a new church. s Mr. Mowat has opened out an immense stock of hardware. â€" §¥0@ittx, d Mr. William Vogan, of Flesherton Staâ€" tion, and Mr, A, Kenedy, of Artemesia, own the very fine heavy draught staliicn, ««Young England," This horse has cnly to be seen by the farmers to be admired. It is a fine dappled black in color, Trour fishing commenced yesterday The mosquitos are on hand ready. Prof. J, Lewis has opened a barber shop, opposite Middaugh‘s Hotel, Durham. See Mn. James Brown has commanced the erection of a handsome brick dwolling, «long side his store, and intends to make & numâ€" ber of improvements in the store, as M as his house is built, Ts Rev. Mr. Magahy, who has been very ill for several days, we are glad to hear is recovering. inst., Tex sale of the valuable houschold firmiturc, etc., of Mr. Adam Cochrene, wili take place on Wednesday next, the 8th Treg annual picâ€"nic of Grey Division Gaange is intended to be held at Meaford, on the 4th of June. & Tus Rev. Mr. Greig has removed from this place to Yorkville, having resigned hi7 charge in E gremont. F4" Mr. Cameron would call the attenâ€" tion of the Ladies to his new stockâ€"Esâ€" pocially snow finke dress goods, silk Windâ€" sor Tics, and also choice designes in Wall Paper. ‘ Mrs. Wheatly, near Thombury, was the fortunate victim of a legraey of $10,000 the other day, from England. K Mx. T. Devimm has removed into the new dwelling just erected by him, in front of this offlce. The new dwelling is a neat frame $wo story house. T. 8. Enurott‘s ruaxtsxc racrory, Guelph, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday evening last. Loss $5,000; insurance $2,000. Mr. Eowar»p McCtockuI®, has left the British Hotel, Durham, and removed to Hamilton. The Hotel is now to rent. 4 Local and Other Items. SPRING this year is full three weeks ea than usual. ‘The trees are all out in the grass is six or seven inches long, things generally in advance of for Tux Prixtsrs Misceucaxy for l(uch.l from St. John, N. B., is to hand. We are glad to welcome it to our office, as we have not received any numbers, from some cause or other, for several months past. The Miscellany is neatly printed, and full of useful informition, and although the office was des‘royed during the great fire at St. John, this interesting monthly is as \fresh and vigorous as ever. Every printer in the Dominion should have it. In the Jewish dispensation cireumecision was the rule whereby children were conseâ€" rated to God, and which was supplanted hy ouy Sn‘, jouy 'n bluptism by water. When the Jews aecused hbizy of jntroducing inâ€" novations, he toid them that he had 2% come to destroy, but to fulfil, Baptism by water, therefore, has its origin in the teachâ€" ing of Jesus Christ, and from Lim only is the power transmitted to his Apostles and their successors to baptize, St. Mark, c. 28, v. 19. The Rev. gengleman prplained that he had taken much trouble to ascesain the meaning of the word "baptism," which in the Greck means "to wash, to cleanse, to purify ;" hence the natural inference to be deduced from the language, in reference to baptism, is immersion. He refered to John the Bapiist baptizing Christ, "when he was baptized, went straightway up out of the water," &c.; that Christ baptized Peter and the other Apostles, and it was evident, from all that he could learn from modern and preâ€"christian authors that the: ancient mode of baptism was immersion, and which had been practised in the Catholic Church for twelve hundred years ; and even at this day some of the Catholics in enetern countries practised immersion. The custom may have derived its origin Snomarrrox.â€"The â€" Hamilton _ and North Western R. R. Co., are endeavorâ€" ing to get a bonus for their road to be extended from Glencairn via, Glen Huron to Collingwood. They want a bonus from Osprey and Collingwood Tps., and an additional one from the Tp. of Nottawsaga and Town of Collingwood. Farmers are well ahead with their spring work,. There was & heavy fall of rain every day last week and still it rains. Horse trading and racing is the order of the day. Good time made on Fridayâ€"one half mile in about ten minutes.â€"NIX. Last Monday evening, the 22nd inst., a lecture was delivered on ho ghove subject by Rev. Father Walsh, in the R. C. Church, Priceville. B Oraxazviuur.â€"The store of J. Kearns was recently robbed of about $250 worth of silks and clothing. The work did not appear to have been done by novices.â€"â€"A horse last week and one of his arms was fractured just above the elbow. The acciâ€" dent would never have happened had not 1e animal been frightened by some misâ€" fhievous boys.â€"â€"dJoshua Wilcox, was killed on Friday last by a large stone rolling on him, while engaged tn underâ€" mining it for the purpose of burying it. He only lived a few hours after the nccident. He leaves a wife and family. After a few introductory remarks, ""- formed the audience that after careful inâ€" vestigation of the subject dming the past six weeks, he had only commenced upon the subject, so far as the various w;ho'ru arp concerned; but as a Catholic Priest his views were already matured. TL Form, marks obftainable 800, Senâ€" i)rs‘:â€"any Anderson 283, Margaret A, Collioe 261, Â¥jlen McNally 247, Elien Kenny 283, Isabglla Busnelt 230, Auna D. Moffat 106. _ Juniogsâ€"Joseph W. Firth 2588, Jane Anderson 446 Faupy MeNally 212, Duncan MeDonald 187, John Timmins 112, Isabolly Strythers I. Form, S8x., Fsil MeArthur, Hugh MeDonald, Robert Btrutheys. Jr,, James Willougham, William Timm‘ps, {ames Banks, Margaret B. Struthers, 109. IiJ. Fornt, marks obtainable 600. â€" Sonâ€" iors :â€"William D. St..'\plcs 4290, Patrick Kenny 851, Wiilam Anderson 251, Mary Aune Strutiors 220, John McCorâ€" mack 148, Isabolia Junesor 145. Juniors â€"Emeline J. Ritchie 440, Pairiok Morâ€" rison 489, Catherine 8. Collier 402, Mary Aun Eator 896, Elizabeth Fallizvgham 317, Harriet J. Banks 207, William Mecâ€" Cpacken 204, Angeline Greenwood 286. Tus New Garr Acr.â€"For the benefit of our local sportsmen we publich the amended Game Act. The following are the different dates within which the game mentioned must not be killed :â€"Dcer beâ€" tween Dec. 15 and Sept. 15 : Partridge, beâ€" twoen Feb. 1 and Oct. 1; Quail, between Jan. 1 and Oct. 1; Woodeock, between 'Jan. 1 and August 1; Snipe, betweon May 1 and August 15; Ducks, such as Mallard, grey, black, wood ducks, and teal between Jan, 1 and Sept. 1. Heres or rabbits, beâ€" tween March 1 and Sept. 1. Honor RoH of 8. 8. No. 3, Public School, for the month of April. J. A. eacon, Teacher. IV. Form, marks obtainable, 700. ipniors :â€"Margaret A. Ritchie 495, Minâ€" ie H. Banks 471, 8. Maria Edge 442, Thomas Morrison 424. Juniors:â€"Leade 'A. Banks 410, Elizabeth E. Monison and Henry P, Moffat 409, Johanua Kenâ€" 117 815, Catherine MeNally 258, George Ritchic 224. Srraver sy Lromrntno.â€"Tho Tribune says that on Friday night of last week, during one of the most temific thunderâ€" storms for many years, a stable owned by Wm. Page, 11th con. Minto, was struck by lightnivg, and in a moment the whole structure was in flames. There was in the stable at the time one yoke oxen, three ealves, and about thirty fowls, boesiles a largo quantity of hay. So rapid was the destruction that, although Mr. Page saw the fire as soon as it was struck, he only succeeded in saving one ox anl one calf, the rest perishing in the flames. Lecture on Baptism. Horor Roll. to baptismal regeneration, and that baptism by infusion was considered by the mort epinent ecclesiastical authors in the Church to comprise the true meaning of the Divine command of our Saviour to His Apostles: "Go ye," &c. That under the influence of Peter‘s first sermon, over three thousand were added to the Christian Church, and consequently could not have been baptized. Mothers could not permit their infants to be immersed: their tender age rendering it almost certain death. Unless we ignore the fact that children have souls to be saved. Every child born has the taint of original sin, and requires regeneration to render it fit for the presence of its Creator. The Scriptures tell us that man must be born again before he can enter the Kingdom of Heaven, or become purified from original sin, even had he never commiited imputed |sing; hence the infant stood in the same |relation to its Creator as the adult. from the lack of water in many places. The Catholic Church never looked upon immersion of the body as being necessary It may reasonably be asked, why is a man not baptized until he is 20 or 21 years ? Is baptism an Ordinance? Or is it the effect of original sin that this sacrament was ordained by its Divine Author, If so, why are youths of fifteen years of age exâ€" cluded from its regeneration influence?â€" who not only require to be purged from: original sin, but sins of imputation, for at that age they are morally responsible to God for acts of omission and commission. There were none who escaped the penalty of this law, except in the case of Jeremiah who was sanctified in his mother‘s womb, and that of John the Baptist, henee to shut out children and those of tender years from the ordinances of baptism is to expose them to the risk, in case of death, of being shut out into eternal darkness. The first lecture was taken up in an effort to show that the word Baptizo means to dip, to imnterse, &¢; but never to sprinkle or pour. Wel!, gentle reador,i have you not heard the annaâ€"Ba; tists‘ again and again appoaling to God‘s \\'urdi as their only guide, their only stnndnrd.‘ ‘Turn your eyes away," they exclaim, ifrom the diversified, and often mr"ing practices of mon, to the Word of G}!."( And what, now, is the meaning of the word baptize as set forth in God‘s Word $ , Why, our "professor" "overwhelmed" uq with qqzolations from God‘s word to show the myeaning of iho word ? No, no, but t‘rnp;" lexigons and amihors]]! _ Now, if ‘ they believe the word to mean "dip, Lc | arply, why did they go to the trouble and expense to get omg n versiqn of the Scrip. tures of their own? For baptise they have ‘"immerse;" for baptism “immg,r-l s‘on ;" and tor "John the Baptis!," "John | the Immerser." §l_‘\.rm:go men, to go tol all the trouble to put in the word "imâ€" moerse" instead of "baptism," lfL_Ue word meant to "dip" only, why not be satisfied with the word as it is, if they are so sure it means to immerse? â€" But whom the gods would destroy they first make drumk and so our Baptist friends were so deter| mined on this water question that nothing would do them but a new Baptist version of the Scriptures, which has turned out 19 be a eomplete fizzle. Now, I might fill your sheet with quotations from Greek writers to show that they froquently used the word baptise in :? k‘enq'ca in which it could not possibly mean to dip, bu} [ will not fall into the error of our Baptist| friends, I accept the Bibie as my guide in 't‘m matter. And by e%t_miuing the Sorjpéures we will see by giving even one instance of the plain ihnpogu:bj,';'_ty of its meaning immerse, will prove it to belong to that numerous glass of words in wlhiech the transfer to Christian institutions has changed the meaning from its classic use. And we are thankful to God that upon this subject ho has not loft the unleagned brother at the mercy of heathen poets and ‘ learned lexicons. ‘The Bible is its own dictionary ; the Spirit is his own interprotâ€" er, He has made the thing visibleâ€"so visâ€" ible that he that hath eyes to see may see. Logicians tell us that the best, nay, the only real definition of a word, is to point to the okject, gpd Apply the name, Reference was mrde to the change made in the form of baptism in the Catholic Church from immersion to infusion : under what Pope or under what deeree the change was made he could not say, but it was eviâ€" dently done with a view that childron: should receive the same benefits from bapâ€" tism that all Christian Churches maintian it possesses. We are all born in sin, and must be regenerated before we can reasonâ€" ably expect to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. There are three baptisms menâ€" tioned in Scripture: water, fire, and blood, each of which was lucidly explained. Bapâ€" tism pardons original sin in the Catholie }Churcll, and he who attempts to reâ€"baptize is guilty of sacrilege. | Sim,â€"The Purham world waited paâ€" tiently to hear these cclebrated leeturos. We were to be thoroughly enlightoned on the subject of Baptism. New light was to be thrown on obseure passages, oftâ€"quoted texts were to be so illuminated as not to leave a shadow of doubt on the minds of any but that the "dipping" theory was Scriptural baptism. Well, "the Profesâ€" sor" has come, said his piece, and disapâ€" peared, yet, strange to say, there are a fow :pcdo-lmplista to be found in this Durkham still. â€" Surely the heads of the people here: aroe very thick, and their hearts very hard, as not to immediately accept the "dipping"‘ theory from the "overwle‘ming" arguâ€" } ments that they listened to. Oh, yo Durâ€" hamitos, ye are surely a stiffâ€"headed race! ‘ The rev. gentleman closed the address with an eloquent summary of the entire subject, and although it occupied near‘y two hours in delivery, it seemed searcely half that time, so insensibly were the audience carried along from one point to another by the speaker‘s easy, conversaâ€" tional tone, and finency of select language, which caused the writer to regret that it was finished.â€"Com. Professor Torrance‘s Lecâ€" tures. To the Editor of the Review. TORONTO COMMUNICATIONS. «+ + Ind I will put my spirit within y waited paâ€"| Tites 2:5â€"6, "IHe saved ns by tuo was d leetures.| of regencration, and the renewing of htoned on Holy Gho:t, which He sked on us a glt was to| dantly." Passages like these tencl oftâ€"quoted | that in both disponsations, the sanetif Point to a chair, and say "I call that a chair," ard the word is uncontrovertibly defined. Now God has thus defined the word in question. Take aâ€"cwalk with us | to the Jordan.> Behold Jesus. He stands by the river to ®receive the supcrior bapâ€" tismâ€"the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Now watch, reader, how God baptizes. "He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire," Mat. 8:11, Luke 8:16. Now, to see how God bantizes, how God shows the meaning of the word, read Mat. 8:16. "And, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descendâ€" ing like a dove, and lighting upon him." Mark, it was in bodily shape like a dove, and lighting upon him." Were, then, we have the word | arti m defined. He pourâ€" ed out his spirit visibly and really: it was pouring, He calls it baptiem ; and it was | not immerson. ‘The "Professor" did not refer to this definition of baptism nor mention it at all. Of course it would not | suit the dipping theory. And so on the day ol pentccost, Acts 1:5, "But ye shall | be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many | days henes." Turn we now to the fulfilâ€" | ment of this prophecy, Acts 2:23, "And : | suddenly there came a sound from heaven , | as of a rushing, mighty wind, and it filled â€"\all the house where they were sitting. â€"\ And there appeared unto them ecloven ) | tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them" ‘Tnese two verses completely |! overwhelmed the "Professor." o told|© us that the wind and the sound were the | emblems of the spirit, and that they were | \ immersed in these. But the tronble is |! Luke does not say they were baptized in | the "emblems" of the spirit, but ye shall }f be be baptized with the Holy Ghost. The | element was no larger in size than an orâ€" | / dinary tongue, and how could a man be | iminersed in a tongue? But look at the}| verse 17, and you will see the mode of| baptism. *And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out | my spirit upon all flesh * * and on my| servants and on my bandmaids 1 will pour out in these days of my spirit." Here, then, we have a pouring visibly and really, He ealled it baptism ; but it was not immersion. Hoere, then, are iwo cases placed plainly before our minds of real baptisms in which the word baptize cannot possibly mean to dip, &c. Surely the Froâ€" fossor went to the wrong books to have| the word baptise defined. | We turn again to eur Bible Lexicon to find the meaning of the word hbaptize, Look into your Bible, examine for yourâ€" self, and you will find that the removating and sanctifying disponsation of God‘s spirit, which is ever ca‘led baptiin, is alâ€" ways exprossed under the c nee tion of| the spirit‘s descent upen the sulject. In | the Old Testsment both the s:\l!."tlf_\'ing{ descent, and its representation by t!.p!, symbol of water affasicn are al-nm!:mfl_\'l | assorted, Is, 44:8 : I will powr water upon | him that is thirsty, and floods upon the| dry ground, I will pour my spirit upnn{ thy sord, and my blessings upon thy of%â€" spring." Ezek. 86:5: "Then will I} {sprinkle clean water upon you, and you! shal! be clean, from all yo in fi‘thingss and | all your idols will I cleanse you, * and | Ird I will put my spirit within .\'un."l‘ Titus 2:5â€"6, "He saved ns by tao washing | of regencration, and the renewing of the I Holy Gho:t, which He sAcd on us abunâ€"| _â€"_._~.~â€" ++ B ore â€" During an Orange and Croen rict in the Griffiintown quarter of Montreal last Thursâ€" day night a young min namod| Jimes Harney was bad‘y w u led. 11. alloged acsailant has nuuje 1is cucane. Plaase, Mr. Professor, stick to your bible to find God‘s definition of the word baptize, and never mind your Greek lexiâ€" eon and heathen philosopheors. we." Acts 10:44â€"47. The holy spritual baptism is here said to be received, and is just called a "gift poured," which must cortainly le not by imimersion, but by affusion, To "receive" the "poured" out ‘gift," and to be baptized by water, aro made ncecessary parellcls. If they had Sreceived" the one nobody could "forbid" €all up your heathon poets and Grock lexicons, and in the fraee of thom all, 1 say with the Bille in my havd, that the word baptize means to sprinkle, pour, shod forth, recejvp, $o fal on ; and will any pet son point ou'[ to me in the Bible where it clearly and ymin‘siazably moing to immerse or to dip. . Now, wafer baptism is the symbol of the real baptism. A syn bol in its very form must be like its roalâ€" ity or it is b‘g gymbol. "See that thou make all things aggeording to the patiern shown to thee in the Mount." And whait was the pattern shown them at the Pentoâ€" cost, and ng the piver where God himself baptized 2 With God‘s word in my hand, and against an opposing world, I were forsed to reiterate,â€"It was pouring and it was not immersiqn. This is the way Christ baptizeth ; and the Christian may well answer, whon told that pouring is not baptism, "This is the way my God bap. tized me, and this is the way my minister Search every case of Holy Ghost bap. tism, and you will always see that where God baptises it is the descent of the spiritâ€" ual clement on the subjectâ€"not tho desâ€" cent of the subject into the wpiritual cleâ€" ment. Thus we read that when Pcter was addressing the company of Cornelins "the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard ; and even on the Gentiles were poured out the gift oA the HWoly Ghost. Then answered Poter, can any man forbid water that these should be baptised, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as Fae other. This Peter affims. The Holy G»s&fcfl on them as on us at the beginâ€" ning. Then gemembered I the word of, nol:.‘tlohn. but of the Lord, John indeed baptided with water ; but ye shall be bapâ€" tized with the Holy Ghost. Acts 11:16, Thus Poter expressly pronoun>ed the outâ€" youriag and the falling of the Holy Spirif to be baptism, that in both dispensations, the sanetifying disponsition of God‘s spirit eristed, idioâ€" matically expressed by descent, as indicatâ€" ing its origin from "God most high," and most appropriately represented to the eye under the symbol of water, us abunâ€" teach us GUS _ What is Plyfibuthim. Ma. Eptror,â€"I have read, with interest, the various communications that have apâ€" peared in your paper, in reference to the Galt preachers, their ways and theolo‘y, There did, indeed, issue from Galt, as your readers remember, some time ago, prerch. ers who drew much people after them, but who turned out to be Jewish imposters of the very worst type. Such, I am glad t believe, is not the character of the men from Galt who have been holding meetâ€" ings this winter in Paisley, Owen Sound and Durham. The layâ€"preachers of thi; winter from Galt are, J bolieve, all of them men of respectable standing in the com. munity ; members, some of them at least. men, further, entitled to some praise for their zealous endeavors to do good and to spreac abroad their views m the Counties of Grey and Bruce. It is not with the personal character of these men that 1 have to do in this letter, but with their way of working and their doctrinal opinâ€" ions. In uitering, even one word of eaution or distrust on this point, 1 know that | may incur the displeasure of good people who are carried away with the belief thay the Galt men are good men, and that therefore everything they say and do must be good, and never, for a moment, to be ealled by any ome in question. Byp Christians are warned by John in these words :â€"*Beloved believe not every spir. it, but try the spiriis, whether they be of God ; because many false prophets are \goue out into the world." It is the duty and right of Christians to bring to the test [uf the Word of God the teaching even of *Breihren, as they preier to be called, leaving it with them to say feach for himâ€" self) wnether they found anything like *hbese views in the teaching of the Galt Â¥Gonds. ‘Tho Plymouth Breflren, your readers aro aware, have never issued any Confession or Exlobition of their Faith, #g that we cannot at ones got hold of their doctrines and know where he is : tus their Igaders are fertile writers, and from the books, srarts, and sermons published by them, we can, with ocnuirler.uLle certainty, know their church prineiples and doctrinal teaching. That I might do them no in justice, I yulled while in Toronto a few days ago at their Tract Depository on Yonge Streot and asked the man in chargo to put into my hands such publications as v‘v‘m&ld give me an ba.'l:‘lkorituirr statement of the prineiples © by them. Mo did so with various remurks, and whese publâ€" cations now lie on my table, some !lnm. in -uhcm!r :s'dhsr letter, ns soon as time Iny before your read ors in a spirit of faimess, and {nn.lim to wavd nous, the doctrine of Plymouthiem and lesro it with thom, es a jury sitting on the ease, to say whether any of that leaven open or emnesaled can be found in the way and tecching of the preaches from Gajt. [â€" our settled pastors whose ereed and conâ€" duct is known to the world, anuch more the teaching of men who are strangers, who have no authority to teach from any church and whose opinions are, many: of them, of an anseitling and startling char neter, as all must admit. "This trving of bition â€"of "Brethren assurance ol saivation. All that is tm and christians of all denominnsions v rejoice, and sto rejoiee, that these doetri1 are preached, I beZeve tint settied m isters should hold up these doctrines m than they do. But let me sugger$ to yâ€" ronders, Mr. Editor, that as the hum face divine is not correctly delinerted magnifying one femture and diminishi «nother, so to give # eorrect picture of t Gospel and our Lord Jesus Clanist, its va ous truths must be held up before men their {4H harmony and beautiful rlai p ecortion â€" (or analogy) <f fuith." _T danger arising from presenting a matil: ed, distorted gospel, the tendency to pa from truth unto heresies by presenting f half truths what are "whole lics," is : doubt the reason why Clmst spent thr Iaborious years in putting his apost! through the theolgizal college before th were commissioned to go unto all t wor‘ld to preach the gospel to every ere ture. of all their parts, This Paul calls divid ng the word of truth," and is er place "prophecying recordin; It would be wrong to a%irm that C« Galt mon belong to the Plymouts Brot ren, for they deny the impeachment, bn it is for all that a frir qmestion to ask d/ these men preach Plymouth doctrins‘ They may preach Plymonth doetrine an{ yet be mombers of Mr, Smith‘s Church, f0 since the visit of Carroll, Russcll and Need ham, Plymonthism linzers in Galt. As duty wh the & sider thems ers spiritless f But, say ethers, these men and there doctrmes must be from God, or else they would not draw such crowds nor excite so much interest in the minds of eareless proâ€" ple. â€" It is not before the majority of votes, I reply, but before the majosty of truth that men ought to bow. Great crowds are often signs of great unsonndness : an, often in the great debate between truth and ervor truth has but a poor and feeble following, while error rides on the wave of popular applause, In religous questions the voice of the people is no? always the i the whole, better for me to gi w@ers, in my next letter, a sho tion of the distinctive views Grethren," as they prefer to 1 wing it with them to say feach f If) wnether they found anyth naLOn CJ n Sain belongs to every age ly when many set u BAVS mincine ther urs s full of th a moden w Heupe Liné t4 Church there, and the G.dt prexshers ollant doetrine. They ) to the priesily of o apon sinners im mutters of religien, ho duty of seekin; . All that is truc. ed t ‘y age and coun set up thc pre spirit, and con sptrit and oth Oup Pate g that there their teachâ€" . I think it. ) give yor short exh: m w trying [.9 of the called, PAGS it T t log Mr. Young Committee on the M After enquiries were ment in reference to the establishment of 1 on the Frazer River, & moved for a report 0 ence lumb plied the table, a new order sidizing the Canada C« Pembroke to Lake Ni the C Bay n t 108 H pl al Â¥anls th noutt to ta 6 erinl Parliamertary M Hon. Mr Oy My Mr The 1 M rd 11 U vees and Lrovernt entienst H wl tere Mac draw hron. T the House adjour er trad that t Ma rt For the benefi would prescribe p hard times, and t work for the une q\lm an old 60 between a Seo danghtor, whie} feet nrotection tt its ultimate the danghter warld were « she figh :" Carri 1J Dr HOUSE OF t d M H M M M nte hnis & U Ma U t« P} 4860 N P t 1c3