REVIEW.

THE PROBLEM OF LI IE

By Samukl Kiioiiit, I!. A

When it was first announced that n volume of discourses by tho Rev. Samuel Edger was in tho press, the intimation evealed a feeling of satisfaction, not only P.Vnong the prsonal admirers of te author, but in every circle in which the ideas of an earnest and original thinker are hold in estimation. It was scarcely toped, however, by anyone, that so complete and valuable a record of Mr Edger's thoughts and works as is con tained in the volume now lying before us would have been preserved. The book was /prepared for publication by the author's •own hand, and it consists of a •series <si oasay - discourses elucidating Ais viows of tho greatest of all problems— fiho Problem of Life. Prepared before his •departure on that last painful journey, ■which ho survived only a few days, the manuscript, as his two daughters (the -joint editors) tell us, was entrusted to them iov publication " in tho event of his not re turning." With tho hand of doatli overshadowing him, tho author ar ranged these last memorials of his search after tho true life. And in a brief introduction he states tfi.it the book epitomises "The results of a lifo study, and probably contains the germ of all I could say through years, however extended." The riponod thoughts of a man who for forty years of maturo ago had directed the whole faculties of a high intel ligence upon a profound study of lifo from its spiritual side, will surely be reverently considered by thoso among us who, amid tho carking cares of business, have little time or opportunity for metaphysical ic seareh.

The book is divided ii>to live parts—the First contains sixteen essays presenting " Life na it Appears in Some of its Pro minent Features." The Second includes twenty-three discourses, exhibiting " Man iv tho Midst of tho Phcnomona of Life." Part 111. treats in eight essays of "Christ's Ethical Thought in Life." Part IV., in eight discourses, ex pounds tho "Banishment of Sin from Lifo." And Part V, dwells upon " The Possibili ties of the Future."

Wo cannot here enter upon an analysis of 4ho gener&l scope of Mr Bdgor's teaching. His conclusions, ho oxplains, wore settled in his mind without consideration for tho current views of orthodoxy or heterodoxy ; and in these days of unsottlod thought, when authority is so little valued, the volume will probably be more widely read becauso it has not been prepared to support a foregone conclusion or received tradition, The passago wisely selected as the motto of the series condenses in a sentence tho whole iessenoe. It ia this: "To attain to the knowledge of tho right and the wrong, to ehun the latter and follow the former, until the love of good and the hatred of evil jbecoraos the very soul essence of tho man —this is the One Great Problem of Life."

The book is incased in an appropriate cloth bindiag, and has been published under the auspices of \V. Isbister (Limited), Lon don. A local committee of tho author's Admirers have established a fund to secure the publication of tho book; but a work wVch meets so opportunely and eloquently the inquiries of thi; age should hardly stand in need of. any aid but i';> own great merit

The Specimen.

The young man who lh"e^ in Philadelphia ventured out alone in the country a few days ago. The young man did not know much Ttboilt the country, and it seemed quite natural that he should wish to carry home a memento of his trip, a specimen of natural history. He saw hanging from n low bush by the roadside a strange object, Tery much like a small balloon, made of coarse grey paper. This singular thing seemed to be just the specimen ho wanted. Ho broke off the branch from which the curiosity was suspended, and went to the station. Ho entered ft well-tilled car, placed his specimen in a hat-rack, and sank into a seat, Tho car was warm. The, warmth seemed very delightful to the younjj man, who had been out in the cold so long. In a short time lie was in a doze. The car grew warmer. The young man slept. Suddenly tho artificial summer atmosphere was rent with an unearthly shriek, and a lady rose convulsively, and just as suddenly fainted. Before the startled passengers had time to discover the causa of the alarm, another lady re peated tho performance. A third, -who began it in the eamc manner, would prob ably, have finished it without any change in the programme had she not received a sudden shock that acted like hartshorn, and saved her from losing consciousness, for just behind her a man began to declaim in a manner truly diabolical. And, as if matters were not already bad enough, a baby set up a yell, and would not bo com forted. Tho passengers soon got into a strange commotion. The men were danc ing, and some of them bellowing; tho women trembling, fainting, and shrieking; tho children scrambling undor the seats, and blubbering and whimpering. The young man awoke in amazement. For a moment ho thought that the people were crazy, and that some of them would do injury to his pre-historic balloon. Then the conductor burst through the crowd, and stood beforo the young man and opened the window. Tho young man was sur prised. The conductor seized tho pre historic specimen, and threw it out of the window with all his strength. "Imper tinence !" shrieked the young man. '' How dare you touch my specimen?" "Your specimen ! " roared the conductor. " Why, you fool, don't you know it's a hornet's neit?" '

The Church Army.

When the proceedings of the Salvation Army first attracted general attention it was remarked that Churchmen were dis posed to treat them with fairness, and in iome instances with favour. The leaders of the Salvation Army, on their aide, dis claimed the intention of forming a new sect Their only cUire, they said, was to reclaim fche outcast, leaving the Church and other religious bodies to tend the converts they had°won. Forces, however, were at work which have made the maintenance of this neutralityimpossible. The Salvationists are ramdlv becoming a distinct religious com munity. To join the Salvation Army is, in fact, to leave the Church. Meanwhile it has been felt by not a few Churchmen that the Salvation Army has done some real work in behalf of religion amongst the common people. The irreverent familiarity of its dealings with sacred things dd, indeed, alienate many who would otherwise have welcomed it; but, notwithstanding this srave defect, it was still true that in many case- wrong-doers were apparently con verted and hearts apparently changed. There must bo something, it was true, m the methods which had obtained so con siderable a success. Was it; really inevitable that this success should belong wholly to outsiders, and that the Church must confess her inability to avail herself of an agency which was so powerful in other hands ? To this question the promoters of the Chuich Army have endeavoured to give an answer. They have adopted the military orgamsa ion and the general tactics of the Salvation ists- but with this important difference, that their converts are reconciled to the Church, and taught to value her sacraments and rites.. The clergy are the friends and guides of the newly-reclaimed, who feel themselves to be admitted afresh into the great society of Christian worshippers, not into a new and exclusive sect. Though the Church Army has been at work for less than two years, it has already some sixty stations, chiefly in our great towns. It appears from parochial reports that in most of these places there has been a large increase both of candidates for confirmation and of com municants. The first annual meeting of the Army was held in London last week, with every appearance of zealous interest in " ro , s on the part of thoso who at end Ped it The Bishop of Oxford, who pre sided, explained that his own connection with it wis duo to his visit to an institution in Oxford, in which the young workers, or '"officers "of the force, are receiving suit abSning under the direction of a clergy manin that city. The speakers appealed for helo to this institution with so much =^iX=n^^£rfi toTustify Ss in making a decided forecast ot te futum The stability of its conversions ha sSi to be proved. The tendenqvto Antinomianism, which seems to bejettfae path of revivalism wherever it appeals, is not wholly absent from the proceedings of those who are working in the new 'force Other perils might be mentioned which must of necessity beset them in their course. For the present, however, we prefer to con eratulate them on their success in finding Spiritual employment for the converts they have made. This is the. one point in which \ the Church too often shows herself infeiioi , to the denominations around her. _n » Church Army should in any considerable measure relieve her from this reproach, we . BkU beajtily Mit God-speed.-<?W<« W ,

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THE WAYS OF CREATION AND THE IMAGE OF GOD.

S&ificm by the Row J. Bayley, A.M., Ph.D., Palace Gardens Church, tho Mall, Kensington, London.

"And C.od said, Let us make, mnn m our image, after our likeness; ami let them have dominion over the flsh of the sen, and over Urn (owl of the aiv, and ovftr the cattle, and over all the earth, and ovor every creeping thing that ercopeth upon the earth. So Clod created Man Hi His own inuiKc; in tho image of God created He him."-Uen. i. '.'I, 27.

J The lessons derived from tho study of the Word and of the works of (iod will undoubtedly harmonise if they bo read aright. This idea reason hails; and with the ideas of science possessed by tho Jews, there was nothing in this history of creation, as understood tx> be related in tli'ii divine, book before us, which wa», feit to be improbable or untrue. Thoy had a very limited Conception of tho extent of tho universe. Thoy supposed the earth to be tho great central body, created some GOOO years ago. The sun, moon, and stars, brought into existence on tho fourth day of creation, wore satellites to tho earth, situated in a vault some few miles above the surface, and tho whole revolving round the nearly flat plane on which \vn live in twenty-four hours. The slln and moon were to illuminate ruifclays and nights ; the stars to add splendour to the scene. They read the Mosaic account of creation in a j week ; and although a little difficulty was felt respecting light appearing before the sun, yet some apparently plausible glosses wore oll'cred, and the whole was considered tolerably clear ; and in this conviction the church reposed. But now science has changed tho scene. Our earth—no longer : conceived to be tho great centre of the; universe—is known to bo only ont of a hundred worlds, which revolve round our sun as their centre. Somo of these worlds are far larger than our own. Jupiter would make nino hundred such worlds as ours. The sun would make twelve hun dred thousand earths, ami shines unceas ingly. He and tho earths and moons of his system enveloped in his light, frvVo we to view thorn from ;t fixed t\£r, all taken together would seen* only like another star. Of such stars, doubtless with thoir atten dant Worlds, there aro millions in our astral system. Nay, all tho jforgoi'Us assemblage of suns and worlds wliuih is visible to tho oyo and bht, telasoope, on a magnificent night) Would appear to a spec tator fifteen on a nebula in far oft' apace, only like a handbroadth of star-dust, of which there are myriads of others sus pended in the sky. Each more perfect instrument brings us acquainted with numbers of these starry masses, so distant as to have been quite imperceptible by former telescopes. Their nuinbor, no doubt, ie finite, but so vast, that tho uni verse may bo regarded ns an ocean of worlds, and each sun as a drop. This ocean is so immense that light, with its inconceivable rapidity, would be hundreds of thousands of years in traversing it. Light has crossed it, to us, from points so remote as to require all thoso years for transit; therefore, thoso stars and systems must haVe existed so long. How sublime is the scene which is thus opened upon us ! How immensely is our idea of Jehovah's government enlarged ! And everywhere there is order, silent majesty, tho reign of law. Everywhere there is infinite intelligence manifested in securing tho attainment, in every portion of the vast whole, of perfect harmony and perfect safety. And what is infinite intelli gence, working unceasingly for benevolent ends, but tho offulgence of infinite love ? Immeasurable benevolence, operating by immeasurable wisdom—this is the perfect sourco of all creation, preservation, and

blessing. Love and wisdom—tho lovo which desires to impart happiness, and tho wisdom by which it secures its aim—theso provide the leaf which forms the joys of the meanest insect's life. Theso pour forth, with inex haustible bounty, all that gives variety, abundance, and pleasure to every living thing. These warm us in tho sunbeam and radiate in all the beauties of the light. Theso wo recognise in the perfect order of the planets, and in tho regular supplies they obtain from the sun. Those are mani fest in tho stability of the whole system : and -wo may follow them into the farthest depths of space, still having their bright evidences flashing back upon us, until— " All thought la lost, anil reason drowned In tlie immense survey ; "We cannot fathom the profound, Nor truer Jehovah's way." When we cannot embrace the incalculable greatness of the universe, wo can yet per ceive everywhere the exhibition of the divine perfections, and acknowledge the evident power and presence of our heavenly Father; and Wo instinctively exclaim :— "These ore thy glorious works, Parent of Good, Thine, tills universal frame! Thus wondrous fair! Thyself, how wondrous then.' But fruitful as tho discoveries of astro nomy are, in suggestions calculated to awaken adoration, gratitude, and humility, we cannot conceal from ourselves that they tako us to contemplations of spaces, and distances, quite inconsistent with the age of the universe, as drawn from the literal account in Genesis. If, as tho astro nomers tell us, many of the heavenly bodies are so distant that it would require hunr dreds of thousands of years for light to come from them to us—which light has reached U3, or we could not see them—then they must have existed for so long a time, and therefore, did not begin to exist on the fourth day of a week some six thousand years ago. This is the first fact we desire not to be forgotten. A sister-science, that of geology, has been found to yield lessons equally enlarging our ideas of the Creator's grandeur, and of His providence, but equally unable to be recon ciled with tho first chapter of Genesis, con sidered as an exact divine account of natural creation.

Geology shows that the crust of the earth, for several mile 3 thick, has been the accu mulation of plants and animals, which have lived and died, and left their remains, as a proof of their existence, in ages long gone by. Beds of rocks lie ono over another, with immense masses of shells, whichshow the ocean lay long there ; then with remains of plants indicating dry land and periods of continued growth : again come masses of sea remains, and these followed by immense layers of land growth, and thus in succes sion to such a number and amount, that the time to form them cannot hare been less than millions of years. During all these periods the sun must have existed, as without ita heat the water would have been all ice, and fish could neither move nor live in it. Plants could not grow without heat, nor light, nor air ; and "therefore tho same general laws of nature which prevail now must have pre vailed then, during the enormous poriods before any traces of man announce that be had.been created. A Ion" lino of animal races has left re mains wfuch have been restored part to part, and form complete skeleton frames, with eyes and every portion of the animal con stitution, indicating that light existed, and in fact, that all those wise arranr,oments which infinite goodness and unerring wis dom sustain now for human happiness, were sustained then. In those far-off ages, when the earth was being prepared, by an unutterably loving and all-wise Provider for the residence, aft'r millions of years, of beings in the full image of Himself, with all the requirements of civilized life; these preparations, in the remote ages of the world's youth, of those incalculable forests, which afterwards became our coal-nWs,_ ot those accumulated remains of shell, which afterwards formed our mountains of lime stone, marble and chalk, in all their va rieties ; [these all speak of laws producing then, as now, beneficent results; of wisdom framing and directing the laws of love, from which such wisdom (lowed, for—

"I cannot go, „ Whore universal love smiles not around. Yet must it be confessed that all this stands irreconcilable with Genesis in its ordinary interpretation. If tho sun were shining, enabling animals to see, and causing plants to grow, millions of years since, what am I to do with the account which states that the sun was created on the fourth day of a week only about six thousand years ago ? If long ages passed, in which life and growth and death proceeded nearly as they do now in the vegetable and animal king doms, before man appeared upon the earth, how can this agree with the account which states that on the third day of this week vegetables first came into being, and which brings man into being six days after the earth itself commenced its existence ? If when we are learning these lessons.ol science, we were reading some other literary production merely human, wo might say we will abide by tho Revelatwn of Moses, for that is divine. But m reading the heavens and the earth, we know they are a divine book also. The knowledge they dis close! from God. " The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showfth His handywork » And the revela- X they make of the divine greaness and Soodnessare.so humbUng and hallowing to |ie. devout soul, we would not, »vet not,

p» it with them—they are divine teaching. All revelation must harmonise when truly understood. What then is to be done ? Let us see.

Somo learned and pious mtmk have sttg: gested that perhaps the days in Cjen'esis mean, not jx'i'imls of twchl.y-fni.ji- hdu'r'i; \'v\i. great epochs p.v^iblv tltfufflndn of years in duniUoh i and iHiHeiilji1 the fact, that a day '« «sfts?rt feud in the Sacred Scriptures in other senses than a scientilic one, ■ have quoted tho passage, " A thousand years, in Thy sight, are but as yesterday when it is past" (Ps, xc. 4). But, if wo try to apply these long periods to the actual account in Genesis, wo shall find the difficulties avo not at all smoothed, What could be meant by the j first great period in which tho Divine Hoing | divided the light from tho darkness, and I called tho light day, While there was sis yet no suil at all? What could be meant by t lie evening and the nioMiinx of siirli iv gi'iiat day ? AVhat can we coHeUiVB of the second of such ivir'ni uays, when the water was d'vjdeli into watorsabove, and waters below the firmament ? Is there such a division In nature? And could (t take a thousand years, or ton thousand years, to Make it ? What could be meant by the thihl of such groat epochs, when the sea Was divided from the lmidi and whnn plant)! first i?ro\V) al though there frafl yet no siln ? Can we con ceive of thts lot ten; or any other number of thousand years V The voter In *"cU rtu absence of the eitn WiUu Hot have been liquid : i'nd ill .stillness, torpor, and cold, th<3 inevitable concomitants of tho sun's non-existence, no movement or growth could be possible. What could bo meant by the seventh of such days, in which (iod is .said to have rested from' His labours, and originated the Sabbath? Could till* boa thousand or ten thousand years long? And docs not the l.Hvino Being still produce and still sustain as actively «s ever? Doom not geology also teach us that, at tho timu when the uiirlioxt strata were formed, thtf plants and animals th'Vi in being IHiiat Itttve lived in such. e'.rciiliVslances as imply undoubtedly that the sun shone, and tho general laws of nature were the same as now ? Besides, all science leads to the conclusion that the earth was formed by the Creator from the sun, and therefore must have existed aftw, nothcforP] that body, Al! thi'sC consider ations show ths't tho mode of solving the difliciilty, by making tho days to be epochs, solves nothing, but creates additional per plexity, Othois have proposed tho ditggiw tionthat, probably, all froologicill | illonoinena should be congidoVed it-? haviti){ takuii place at a period before thai of which the ISible speaks—tUi'.l is, before the beginning. But tills frouUl so denude the divino account of any feasible meaning, that we cannot be otherwise than unwilling to admit a solution which would make divine- revelation pretend to give an account of creation, which was, in tact, no creuiion. If the record in Genesis is to be understood naturally, it is a. history of tho origin of the heavens and the earth. If the heavens and the earth were really in existence millions of years before, and the earth during those years was swarming with life and being, tho six days cannot be called days of creation, in any propor sense what ever, cannot for a moment admit that man can do better than his Maker, in what that adorable Maker proposes to do. If the narration in Genesis is not a model of a scientific history of natural creation, we are persuaded it is because (iod never intended it to be so. If He made a history, it woidd be the perfection of history ; for He dot's all things well. The reason why the divine narrative in Genesis is not a perfectly accu rate description of natural creation is, that it was never intended to bo so understood. It is written in tho divine style, and is a description of spiritual creation, as it took place in the earliest ages of man's exis tence. Tina divine style is peculiar to tho Word of Gud, and underlies it everywhere.

"My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, miiththo Lord. Tor, as the neavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts" (lsa. lv. S, !)').

[n this divine style the outer universe is a grand symbol of au inner universe in the mini!* of men. Each mind is a heaven and earth on a small scale. The development of the principles which conduce to tho per fection of tho soul ii exactly portrayed by the creation of a world. Whether wo speak of one mind or of many minds forming a church, it amounts to tho samu tiling. Creation is the symbol of regeneration. "If any man lie in Christ," says the apostle,

•' ho is IV new creature ; old things have passed away ; behold all thing* hare Income item" (2 Cor. v. 17). "I have put My words into thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of Mine hand, that 1 may plant tho heavens and lay the founda tions of tho earth, and say unto Zion, Tlimi art My people !l (Isa. li. Hi). Honj we have creation, but evidently a mental one, de scribed. We have the exact counterpart of the commencement of Genesis in .ler. iv. 22, ■J;i, "4: " For My people is foolish, they have not known Me; they arc sottish chil dren, and they have none understanding ; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. I beheld tho 'oavtli, and 10, it was without form (imjih/) and void ; and the heavens, and they had no light. 1 beheld and there was no man, and all the birds of tho heavens were fled."

Here the state of mankind is described as reduced to tho darkness of ignorance, and utter emptiness of all that is beau tiful and good, by their obstinate folly ; and this is represented by the empty ing and darkening of a world. When the restoration of a heavenly state is the subject of prophecy, it is spoken of as tho formation of a new universe. Tako as an instance, " For, behold I create new heavens and a now earth : and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create : for, behold I create Jeru salem a rejoicing, and her peoplo a joy " (Isa. lxv. 17, IS). Such is the divine style ; tho outer world is the type of the inner one. The ruin of a church, or of a soul, is represented by the wreck of a world. The restoration of in telligence, order, righteousness, purity, and peace, are symbolized by a new creation.

This principle pervades the whole Word of God. The recognition of it will relieve from many an error which has been held both in relation to what has been taught as to the beginning of the world, and also respecting its end. The ancients knew this well, and they dolighted to know it. Tho oldest writing known except the Bible, says, " All things which arc in tho heavens are also upon the earth, but in an earthly manlier; and all things on the earth aro also in the heavens, but in a heavenly manner." Plato speaks of "all material things being symbols of immaterial," and " pictures of the Divine Mind." When the Lord is represented in Job as .saying, " Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth ? declare, if thou hast understanding. Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened, or who laid the corner-3toue thereof; when the morning stars sang together, and all tho sons of God shouted for joy ?" (Job xxxviii. 4, 0, 7) it is not of the outer earth He speaks, for what aro its foundations? or what its corner stone 1 It is the church, whose foundations ac the divine commandments ; and its cor nur-stone, that which the apostle indicated when he wrote, " For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ" (1 Cor. iii. 11). IJo is the head stone of tho corner, and when His church, His spiritual earth, is built on Him, tho sons of God and the morning stars do indeed shout for joy. It might relieve the fears of many a simple soul, a slave to the " letter thai kill eth," who is ever and anon frightenod with the cry, " The world is going soon to be at an end," to observe, the world has ofton been at an end, according to the scriptural and divine meaning of that phrase. Not God's world. Oh no ! that needs no ending ; that is perfect for God's grand purposes, and will remain so. (Eccles. xi. 4; Ps. lxxviii. 69 ; xciii. 1; xcvi. 10 ; civ. 5.) All wehave to do is to become better acquainted with that, and use it in all its glorious relations as a seminary for heaven. But man's world consists of its worldly prin ciples, habit?, and practices ; society such as he forms it, including the church as visible among men. This state of society, although it may have Btartcd on sound principles, becomes by degeneracy ripe for ruin, and then it falls, and gives place to a better dispensation, a new church, and society. This is the passing away of one heaven and earth, and the commencement of a new one. When David said, " The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved : I bear up the pillars of it. Selah." (Ps. lxxv. 3) j Jie spoke not of tho material, bub of the mortal earth. When he wrote, " They know not, neither will they understand ; they walk on in darkness : all the founda tions of the earth are out of course " (Ps. lxxxii. 5); he would be confined in his ideas indeed who supposed some foundations of the natural world were meant. See also the whole of Isa. xxiv., where the earth is re presented as utterly dissolved and ruined by human iniquity, and the inhabitants burned (v. 6), in language utterly unintel ligible, unless we remember that the earth means the church, and the fires which most fatally burn men are their passions. When in the early days of our race—the golden age—men regarded the world as tha outbirth and the emblom of spiritual things, it was to them a living, ever-teaching book. The sky i» its sublime depths and the

glorious lights there, spoke to them of the grandeur of God and the oltltir of h^aVeili Thn rilcnt. liirtjesty of the mountains told t!:eiU of the i)Ciico which is the dttonclp^i.v of great interior, jirinciji'efi. Tito liedt;, the light; tile <)cw) tlic i'aiil, Were tho types of Utß lovo that warms, the truth which en lightotiß, tlio calm lessons of wisdom and instruction which descends into tho soul, and fertilise it. Each flower wns the type of some- lovely thought, each fruit tree, of those who aro fruitful in gooil works : "trees of righteousness, of the planting of Jehovah " (lan, lxi. 3).

This was a philosophy of a diviner sort than that which simply weighs, measures, and tickets nature, and has nothing further to say. This lod them through nature, up to nature's Clod. Such wisdom was the delight of the early wise ones, with whom hioi'oglypliirt.s, and llioße beautiful myths of the early pools originated. These tilings, so dark to men of severe science now, were well understood then ; and will be once more understood when men will give thom solvns diligently to.loam again the divine ftylo of correspondences in which Ood speaks to nlnii, To men of reverential foiling, and minds enlightenwt V heavenly \VisdOUl, the world hIW ever an iimir as well as an outer side. They feel they aro. inhabitants of two worlds—a natural and aspinlimlone. The outer, Hie.r rem'b) iW t-Hn f;oviiiti;i:r'a i: t of liiC Inliei-, duel alt the movements of the latter are the speaking signs of changes of state within them, and in the spirit world. In tho cloud and in the sunshine, in the storm and in the calm, in all the objects of the mineral, vegetable, and animal worlds, they sou the reflections of principled and states in tho sou!. Through theso they walk, mid lieai1 the Doily speaking to them O\ ely whoro, but chiofiy in lii« Word; and they know what is meant there when it is writtou, "O iMirtli, e'utli, earth ! hear tlio Wuvitoi till: Jjorii. '.

The (iiij'fi of oivation iH'otlinsovoii stages, or givmil' stilltv, oi spiiituul froation, and notnuliual days at all. "Vo mv all tho children uf the day,"."aid tlioapoatlo : " we mo not of the night, nor of darkness " (1 Tliess. v. (>). Th- ,hnj of Christ, Iho dtuj of siilrnlinu, the i'">J of tho Loitl, arc terms common in (lie sacred Scriptures to indicate states of tho church and of man. "The light of tho sun shull be eevolifold, as the li"ht of rovoii days, in Iho day when Jehovah hindoth up tlio breach of His people, and heilk'lll tho Bti'oko of their WoUlld "(I«l. xxx. 20). To be a type of Uioaospiritual days, the week was originally instituted in the most nnctent times, far beyond the Jewish Dispensation, and in allusion to these seven spiritual day.s of regeneration, not to any days of nature, it is said in tho third commandment, "In six days tho Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them." Tho labour the Lord rests from is the labour of regen erating tho soul, bo long as there is opposition there. The rest Ho has, is the peace there is when all within us is con formed to His Holy Spirit: and though we are still ever active for good, tlmro in neither oppression nor weariness in us. All within us is moved by the all-softening, all controlling power of love. This is the sabbath of the soul, the seventh day.

The existence of light befovo the mm, the source of light, came into being, Ims pre sented serious difficulty to the thoughtful. But, in spiritual creation, light, which means knowledge, ever fcomea before the sun, which signifies the love of (loci na unfolded in tliu soul. There is li.uht on the first day, the mm is mudo manifest later. The second day contains the work of dividing Hie waters into two parts—the w-ntora nboVo (Ik! linunment, and the waters below ilto lirniament. So the ignorant .sini()licitv of (ho untaught mind, whwli supposed lain mid raw to coino from hmnenso reservoirs, which (iod had in re serve nbovo the clouds, this uccotilit pre- BAiited nothing tit which it stumbled; but now we arc aware that rain does not come from such celestial storehouses, but is raised by evaporation from the sea. What, then, is meant by this division of the waters? In spiritual creation it signifies the advance of the soid to the discernment I hat the instruction which it ins previously received ax a whole into the memory, likn the general mass of waters, is to bo divided into two grand classes—instruction concerning our duties to Ood, and instruction coiicorninu our duties to man. On these two hang all the law mid the prophets. Instruction con cerning God| heaven, and heavenly things, is llio water above the firmament. Every thing we are taught concerning our duties in relation to man and time, is water below the lirniament. The earth is said in the twenty-fourth Pddlm to be founded upon the seas, and established upon the floods, in relation to (ho same lands of waters us those named in the Divinu Word before us It is the instruction from the Word which covers the mind, >is the waters cover the

The next, day, or the third state, discloses ;i fresh lulvanco—the waters ;rue gathered by themselves, and the dry ground nptKiiw. Thoro are also brought forth grassc, herbs, and fruit-troos. In spiritual things thi» day's work unfolds that great ehango of our states in our mental progress when we per ceive that valuableai instruction and truth are, duty and goodness arc far more ho. "The ijood ;/ round," said thu Lord in the parablo of the sower, " aro thoy who in on honest and {rood heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience " (Luke viii, 15).

When wo appreciate lieartily tlioso snored words, "If yo know theso things, hnppy aro yo if yo do them," then our third state has- begun. In loving and cultivating obedience to the Lord, there grow over the soul quiet thoughts on which the heart can rest, and Bay, "The Lord is my shepherd ; I shall not want. He maketh mo to lie down in green pastures " (Ps. xxiii. 1). As we read the- lottor of Holy Word, blados of consolation springupon every sido. "There is first tho blade, then tho ear, and then tho full corn in tho ear" (Mark iv. 28). Hero, these happy confiding thoughts aro called grass. Tho higher perceptions of heavenly things which enable us to teach others, aro called tho herb yielding seed, and tho perceptions which flow from inward faith arc the trees' yielding fruit: thoso trees of righteousness, branches of the planting of Jehovah (Isa. lxii. 2) ; and when these things are brought forth, tho soul is ready for tlio dawning of a Rtill higher day. The prophet says of the church triumphant "Thy sun shall no more go down ; nor thy moon withdraw itself: for Jehovah shall be thine everlasting light, and tho days of thy mourning shall be ended "(Isa. xl. 20). Divins love and wisdom aro tho sun and the moon of the regenerating soul, as they are of the kingdom of heaven. When they begin to shine more or loss brightly in tho mind, and tho will is warmed by hallowed affection, the lovo of God shed abroad within the heart glows like a little sun there : and the intellect illuminated by spiritual intelligence, like a moon from within. Those luminaries, nobler than those of nature, aro perceived ac signs and foretokens of what we shall be. It is sum mer when holy love is fully felt within us ; it is winter when all is chilled by tho pre sence of harassing anxieties, the result of temptation. It is day when all is bright with us; it is night when our states have become dim. Our whole concern is with our spiritual years ; and when we read the individual verses of Holy Writ thoy shino now with a meaning they never had before : they are like stars in the Ornament. "Wo have also a more sure word of prophecy ; whereunto yo do dwell that yo tako heed,, as unto a light that shinoth in a dark placo, until tho day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts " (2 Pet. i. 19). "Unto him that overcometh I will give tho morning star" (Rev. ii. 28). In the fourth stato, when the soul is conscious of the presonce of divine things, the whole Word becomes a glorious milky way, studded with stars of different magnitudes, but each affording its charming and beauti ful light; and Cod "made tho stars also." When this consciousness of tho'power of lovo and tho light of wisdom in tho soul has been attained and realised, the now creation can make a fresh advance. A heavenly activity of thought is engendered, —ii holy ingenuity is exercised in deducing principles of scientific determination, and of sublimely rational thoughts, on all sub jects. Theso spiritual sciences aro tho fish of tho holy waters (Ezek. xlvii. 10), and of tho fifth day ; while the birds of the spiritual atmosphere are thoso lofty con ceptions which soar up in tho good man's spirit, and gather from the glories of eternity prospects which cheer and encour ago him to bear the burdens of timo. ""They mount up with wings liko eagles ; they run, and aro not weary j thoy walk, and never faint " (Isa. vl. 21). While the intellect is thus busy with new thoughts, and man is confirming in himself ideas of truth and goodness of every kind, it is his fifth day. But now another state arises, when in the will all good affections aro brought forth in abundance. These are represented by the living creatures the ground brought forth. Desires to live in every habit wo have, in harmony with the spirit of heaven, are ever present wirh us. Our lowest creeping things are alive/ All our natural affeotions, the beasts of onr earth, are filled with the spirit and purpose of heaven. Jehovah makes a covenant, as ho say.s in Hosea ii. 18, with the beast of the field, and with the fowls of bsaven, and with the creeping things of the earth, In fact, all things in

us praise the Lordi We delight to be con formed to His. will. We take up the langu age df tho Psalm's to our little spiritual ijniverse {Pat, cxlviii. 7, 10), " P.i'aiso Jeho vah from the earth, j>3 di'afjoiis, tthtl all deeps; beasts, and all cattle ; creeping things, and flying fowl." And whon the whole mind is thus filled with spiritual life we are prepared for tho next grand change to be introduced by the Lord, and an nounced by tho snblime words, l'Lot us make man."

But before we proceed with the consider ation of the sublime idea presented by theso divino expressions, wo will notice the criti cisms which have somotimes been made (in the word Ood, as well as on the plural pro nouns contained in the verse before us—the pronouns UH rind OUK* The word translated God is Elohim, tke plural of El ; and the explanation offered by some is that three persons exist in Ood ; and the same reason will account, say they, for us and ouk In tho t«xti

But these obiMi'vationsi will not harmonise together. If Jillohhil. (God) means three persons, thqn when tho text declares Clod (Elohim) said "Let us make,".if Elohim addressed tiny1 Oitß.ddvlrtl to Himself, He must have addi'os's'ed olilt'r w'SH or six. and thus there., would be six ,or nluo (llV)iie persons. The true rertsoii, liowever, for this plural form arises.from the radical .signilica tiou d Rl, tUB a'nKtildr'. tHo rdot of tlw word. Xl signifies power. iieliec It is used in tho singular number often to express tho highest inmost power of Deity ; the power of Infinite Wisdom flowing from Infinite Love. The Most High (!od is expressed by El Elyon, in Gen. xiv. 18-20, and elsewhere. The singular Xl is joined also with Almighty in tho immc God Almighty (Xl Slmddal), in tho singular. This name I'jl (pov:ei'), in tho Scriptures, occurs two hundred and forty-llvo times. The term Jehovah, (JtJiiOTrtlly ii) tho English liiblo translated Luku, is also always in Uio .singular. From these considerations we may conclude tliat in His own Jibing, Jehovah, or the Divine Love, and El, or the inmost. Divine Truth, tho Ktornal, i.s always singular—one Glorious Divine I'cr son. But wben He proceeds to create, although this end iii one, that of forming an ever-increasing heaven from the liumoii race, yet the means are as multiform as the univorso. "By tho Word of the Lo::d were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth." (l*s. xxxiii. li.) "In tliu beginning was the Word, and the Word was with (iod, and the word was God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made." (John i. 1-3.) This Word, tho Divine Truth, the inmost power of the universe, (lowing from the inmost love of Deity in Him, is one, and is meant by the singular El Elyon, tho Most High God., But as it forma the heavens, and acts through them, iui it creates the earths, and makeu them the footstools of its glorious energies, it becomes innumerable powers, and v expressed by the term Elohim. All tho heavenly influences flowing from the Divino Truth are powers, Elohim. When heaven became [icoplcd with inhabitants, the angels, so far as they were receptive of the divino influences, becumo subordinate Elohim. In the 82nd l'salm it is written, " (jod standeth in the congregation of tho mighty (literally, of Clod, El singular); He judgoth among tho gods" (Elohim), (v. 1). "I havo said, Yo are gods (Elohim); and all »f you are children of tho Mo«t High " (v. 0). Our blessed Lord, in alluding to this passage, said, "Is it not written in your law, Ye are gods? If ho called them gods to whom the word of (iod came." (John x. 35.) Thus, then, all in heaven and on earth who partake of the power of divine (ruth become in a subordinate sense Elollim or gods; and it is to show that all tin? powers of liwiven and earth are, under the Highest, instruments of funning man, of raising human beings up to tho eheiraul cr implied in that exalted appellation nun;. " Are thoy not nil ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them that shall bo heirs of salvation?" (Heb. i. II.) Even the powera within one human being are sometimes called Elohim. " 1 will make thee an Elohim, a god to Pharaoh," was said to Moses (Ex. vii. 1).

Wo need not, therefore, wonder at the uso of tho plural form Elohim, or Iho pro nouns us and our, in relation to the image and likeness of God, but rather adore that Infinite Goodness which works in all tilings, heavenly and earthly, angelic and human, intellectual and physical, to produce that godlike result, a true and real man. " Let' us make man in our image, after our like ness." The Lord, the only Divine Person, Himself, liowever, is the real prime mover of all the operations of creation, natural and spiritual. Isaiah says, "Thus saith the Lord (Jehovah, singularj, thy redeemer, and He that formed thee from the womb, 1 am Jehovah, that maketh till thing*i that stieteheth forth the heavens amjSK ; that sproadeth abroad the earth 11Y MYSKU'" (Isa. xliv. 24). And in tho verse following our text it is written, "So God created man in His own imago, in the imago of God created Ho him ; mnlo and female created Ho them." Ho employs others, to give them the happiness of co-working with Him. Ho needs us not, but wo need the holy employment of being instruments in His hands, of working out Hin divine designs of lovo and mercy, nnd therefore He .»ays, " Lot us inako man." But what is man ? The ready answer of the inconsiderate would be, A porson in human shapo. Our Lord did not judge so, when, speaking concerning Herod, He said, "Go, tell that fox, To-day and to morrow I do cures, and cast out devils, and tho third day I shall be perfected." Herod displayed tho cunning which makes the peculiar life of tho fox, and tho blessed Saviour called him by that name. Animals havo no moral senso, —they obey their instincts. No coiißcienco can bo formed in them, for this involves know ledge, judgmont, decision, choice, and inward determination, to carry out the right. The moral adoption of what is good and true constitutes true manliness. The moro goodness and truth a person adopts, the more is he a man. Infinite goodness and infinite truth form tho ono perfect divine man, the Lord Jesus Christ j and we bocome His imago as we receive from Him theso essentials of manhood.

" Run yo to and fro through tho streets : of Jerusalem, and sco now, and know, and seek in tho broad places thereof, if yo can find a man, if there be any that oxecuteth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it" (Jer. v. 1). Here is the divine definition of a man. Ho oxecuteth judgment. Ho is aware he has a rational faculty, and he uses it. Undotorred by fashion or by folly, he judges for himself. ; He cares little for the decisions of councils, | or for creeds, except as making him acquainted with what other men have thought. He has taith in God, who gavo him the powers of judgment, and who, ho feels assured, expects him to uso them. He has faith in the truth which God thus enables him to see, and the good to which it leads; and he is daily and fearloasly executing judgment, and doing tho truth. This is a man. This will be an angel. He loves the truth abovo his prejudices, abovo his passions. Ho loves it, as the Lord loves it, freely. He is the imago of God. Ho is the child of the light. Ho follows the light: ho rejoices in it. Tho Saviour calls him His friend. "Ye are My friends, if yo do whatsoever I command you" (John xv. 11). A true man asks only, in the require ments of duty, What has tho Saviour com manded ? for what He commands must be the highest truth. What does tho truth teach ? and what lie sees to be true, this ho does. God is his law, and his example. His whole aim is to be an image of God. To raise man up to this state of true dignity and real freedom is what is placed before us as the object of tho Diety, expressed in the sublime words of our text, '■Let us make man." In all the days which precede this, man acts under some sense of restraint or fear; now he is to bo raised to perfoct freedom. " The truth shall mako you freo" (John viii. 32). To sco the subject in its true and real charac ter, we must think of it, not so much as so many spoken words uttered at a particular time, as tho expression and purpose of God at all times. • Ho is forever saying, " Let us make man." To the angels, when he appointed them to watch over the infant spirit, and to lay therein those sweet remnants of holy goodness which form the foundation of heaven in tho soul, ho says, " Let us make man." To parents, when the young immortal is received as a gift from Him, when tho father admiringly regards the babo peace fully resting on its happy mother's lap, and dreams perhaps of possible wealth and greatness, tho Spirit of our Fathor in heaven whispers, " Let us make man." So to teachers, so to friends, so to all society ; all are intended to assist in this glorious work, to produce and train beings be be come images of their Maker: "Let us make man.

For this, heaven and earth have been formed and are sustained ; heaven with its excellencies, and earth with its glories are both impelled to carry out this exhortation of the Divino Creator, " Let us make man.'1

"Let them have dominion," continues the Divine speaker, "over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."

He who has arrived at the liboity of the children of God, who, made free by truth, ia free indeed, haa dominion over all the

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• lower principles of his mind, marshalled here befere us by the various orders of ani hials. He goes to files fee. of knowledge, and there presses into his service ditch prin ciples of science fls h"; erin make truly >'<n- j Viceaiilo iii h's life and conduct. "Tho" kingdom of heaven with him is liko unto a net* (Matt. xiii. 47). He easts his not on | the right side of the ship, by his Saviour's 1 command, and he gathers the good into vessels. Ho takes care to rule his science and makes it subserviant to religion. He does not become, like Pharaoh of old, ab sorbed by it ho as to become a mass of scienti:ic vanity, and nothing else. The prophet called Pharaoh a "whale in his seas" (Ezek. xxxii 2). " A great drngon that lieth in tho midst of his rivers, which hatii s.lid, My river is my own, and I have made it for myself." The spiritual man has dominion over his fish. However numerous they may bo, they must all move in the order of divine truth. "They swim in the river of Ood " (Kzck. xlvii. 10), He has dominion also over tlio fowls of the air. The kingdom of Ood, with him, onco " like a grain of mustard seed, has grown up, and become greater than all herbs, and shot forth great branches, so that the fowls of the tlir may lodge under tho shadow of it" (Mark iv. 32). Or, in dthei; words, his thoughts, however high they may soili', Howler wide and far they may fly, will go only til.Jloek for higher illumination, and greater power for good. " Tlifcy Hirft ■ft' Kit upon the Xiord shall renow their strength ; tlioy shall mount up with wings as eagles ; thoy shaii run arid riot bo weary, and they shall walk and not faint" (Isa. xl. 31). Cattle arc tlio symbols of tlio aflcctionsof .the heart. " When these are dedicated to the Lord, they are sheep which follow the good shepherd, who goes before them, and whose voice they know " (.John x. ■!). i A spiritual man has dominion over his Cattle, and over all tho earth ; over Inn whole natural mind. The Hoop'tre of heavenly 1 order rules (ill iriihhi him, (iveil lila creeping things, lila lowest appetites. "Whether he eats, or whether he drinks, he doe* all to tho "lory of (Jod " (1 Oor. >:. 31). SUch, my beloved hrar.-is, I.<t ur booome. How poleiiin tind how inspiring in tho thought, whon we ait-einblc together, to open our hearts for the divine influences, to niint'le our prayers and praises loguthor, to hear the Divine Word, the innumerable company of angols is with us, to sympathise with us, to aid us, and to rejoice. with us. The Cod of angels Himself has deigned to assure us that Ho, too, is there. 0 let us seek to rise above all earthly cares into the atmosphere of these holy beings. Let us attend to tho sacred suggestions they make. Let us co-opnrate with their inward, breath ings. Let us listen to the voice which is uttered from the eternal Father in Iho Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, And descends through all these shilling ranks, until it whisper* in our inmost consciences,—" Let us make man." Lotus co-operate with tho sacred impulse, and strive at all times to execute judgment and do the truth ; so shall we become true men upon earth and angels in heaven. ___^_____ —

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TjIENDEUS. TJIENDERS. T^ENDERS. •piIREIRONS. jJUREIRONS NINE CASKS OF A ROVE. WELL ASSORTED' ■ REDUCED TRICES. T AMPS. T AMPS. T AMPS JJ JU Jj WITH ANUCAPNIO LOKNM LEADER AND AMERICAN BURNERS. | ; '• NEW STOCK AT REDUCED PRICES. I T\OWNEB'S TTEROSENE. J. & J. D ICKBY' 234, QUEEN-STREET, AUCKLAND. mHE COLONIAL MUTUAL LIFE JL ASSURANCE SOCIETY (Limited). Chief Ofliceß in Now Zealand t HIGH-STREET, DUNBDIN. AU Profits belong to the Mombors. POLICIES UNCONDITIONAL, UNCHALLENGEABLE, AXD INDEFEASIBLE. THK COLONIAL MUTUAL TONTINE INVESTMENT POLICY Combines v Favourable INVESTMENT TOR CAPITAL wi-rn LIFE ASSURANCE, AT ORDINARY RATES. All Othor Forms ol Assurance as usual. H. S. 11. LYALL, Seotetatyi F. J. MOSS & Co.. Local Aaerta. "XT BLBOURNE CUP, 188 4. ADAM BEDE tS NOW FORMING A SEHIBS OF COM PANIES ON TIIK ABOVE GREAT EVENT. 2,000 INVESTORS AT SI BACH, To be divided as follows :— First Horse _ „ - ..«.000 Second Horse _ .. - - f™ Third Horso », •; - - J2S i Other Starters (divided) - .. 800 i Non-etartors (divided).. -. •• iw Total - ..£2,000 It Is riartlcularly requested that early opp'ioft ' tion for shares will be made, as each list will oe drawn as soon as filled. Results will bo for ward ed to Subscribers immediately after draw ing, ana thu next list proceeded with. Any Subscriber drawing a horse in any list will bo allovvc'l. if ho so desires it, to ltivcstin the following list any sum not oxcecdinßTurco Pounds without remitting any further cash, tnis amount to bo ultimately deducted from prize The acceptances for this race are declared in August Before that date, all Drawings will contain tho whole of the horseß entered, and evory horse will receive a prize, but after that date the acceptors only will bs drawn. NO. 1 NOW OPEN. ' Application by Letter only, eno'.osine Two Starapj with oxchanno on Cheques, or by »a Order Bank Notes, or Draughts. Registered Loiters or Toletmims will not on any aououm be r.. rived. If bank notes are sent, pleesw use two envelopes, one sealed and placed insiaa the , other. P.O. Orders preferred when pjogiiMJ* It wiJ greatly expedite business if an addraeaed 1 envelope ia enolosed with apphcaUon. Address- I Care of H. N. ABBOTT, i BOX NQi 9> POBI-PJf K9> AVOKtilW*



wi::gats,burns&oo. > ■ WHOLESALE AND BETA IL JIIOtfMONGEBSt CUSTOMS-STREET, AUCKLAND.' DISINTERESTED ADVICE: BUY YOUR IRONMONGERY WHERE YOU'CAN GET THE BEST VALUE FOR YOCJR MONEY. NOTE.-WingatC, Burns & Co. rigidly adhere to a low standard price list." YOUNG PEOPLE FURNISHDW CALL AND GET PRICES OF HOUSE HOLD IRONMONGERY. COOKING UTENSILS BEDSTEADS FEWDBES EP CRUETS E.P. TEAPOTS and SETS E.P. BUTTER COOLERS E.P. CAKE BASKETS B.P. BISCUIT BOXES E.P. TOAST RACKS E.P. SPOONS E.P. FORKS * E.P..LADLES BLACK TABLE KNIVES WHITE BONE KNIVES STAG HANDLE KNIVES BLACK CARVERS WHITE BONE CARVERS STAG HANDLE CARVERS IVORY TABLE KNIVES IVORY DESSERT KNIVES IVORY CARVERS COUNTRY SETTLERS: VI IS., & Co. KEEP A STOCK OF EVERYTHING YOU NEED, AND THEY CAREFULLY EXECUTE AND GIVE QUICK DESPATCH TO"COUNTRY ORDERS. FIVE PER GENT. ALLOWED FOR PROMPr CASH. new biscuit, ;;: "TJ. 'IS I V■ E R S "A L." ;: SOLD BY ALL GROCEES AT 4d. PER LB. NOTICE, Having almost completed the additions.and alterations of the Bank of New Zealand (which havo ,'i - % for many monthß tied him from public competition and private work), GEORGE RHODES Wishes to intimate to his Patron's In particular, and to the P\ibKc in general that ho is v NW RKADY TO UNDERTAKE ANY. WOKIC roggTOa MORE PARTICULAR , EXCAVATION AND DRAINAGE, STONE AND CONCRETE FOUNDATIONS, | BRICKWORK IN ALL ITS BRANCHES, PLASTERING AND SLATING. ; ; NOTE-S. R. is dosirOTW Of working up a PRIVATE TRADE in tho ABOVE LTOKS, ana. .-• v with that end in view, will give particular attention to private requirements (as hitherto). ■ , j, QUALITY OF WORK A SPECIALITY. G R. has ON SALE a Splendid Lot of HOBART STONE in Blocks of nearly aH sizes, LESS! THAN COST PRICE. ALSO, : ":■■ \ A LOT OF BLUE-STONE ASHLER THAT MUST BE CLEARED FROM ', -■ ,| PRESENT SITE (MILLS' LAKE). Alpo a TRAVELEING-CRANE for GANTRY with RAILS, DOUBLE-CARRIAGE | AND WINCH COMPLETE. .: J MILL-MORTAR SUPPLIED AT CURRENT RATES. TERMS CASH. :; : ; ; YARDS: CUSTOMS-STREET WEST, FRONT OF DOCK. '; PKIM'E SALT BUTTER^ 10d. pee lb. SPECIAL, Is. per lb. -y .CHEESE FKOM WAIKATO AND WAIUKU FACTORIES. V; ,* AT - f \ HOOKER & MORRISONS, GROCERS, TEA DEALERS, AND PROVISION MERCHANTS, 265 QUEEN-STREET. 265 . ;' TAYLOR'S Co-operative Grocery Stores are the only Shops that divide their Profits with % ;- ■ their Customers. ADDRESS KABANGAHAPE ROAD (late Scott) and VICTORIA-STREET, BETWEEN HOBSON AND NELSON-STREETS. ' :* IUJKSA^ m"CHEYLESMORE" .'■ THE SPECIAL " GLU B" WKT.bo WltyK. Patent Vouble Driver. mm £10,000 D R- J-°^oSU? OWNB' s i ' —-' THE ORIGINAL AND ONLY QBNUINB. TUf 20,000 Members at 10s. Ajfl • Wi *!*■ V, Ai)vi(m.TOlN\Ain)S..-K son wish tßoJtata \% T* CL, ouiet refresliini; Bleep, free from headache, ■ g MELBOURNE CUP, 1884 SfeS^^^^i ! ToberunTuesday.Nov.i. , „ -g O . X? youreetfwUithatmarvellousremedydißoovered 0 Will «•« 30th OCTOBER, .884. O b^STV^M? A TT CHLORODYNB. and is admittedtir the • * nn t>t>t7-t?c! u\o U profession to be ttfmost wonderful and 4 R 402-PRIZES —402 -n finable remedy ever discovered. .„„„,„ ,:' SX. CHLORODYNE is the best remedy known tat N* ... -ivt ConKhß, Csnßnmption, Bronchitis, Asthma. ,; 133 Nomination. 2b3 tosh Prizes. JX eHIxiRODYNK acta lik« a tharm ta •C First tsm 4at 100 £100 Tf Diarrhoa. and is tho only spepiflo in Cholera ana * &i« sis S p 2ESs&.«a»a« c p _ *« 5 J2. p aC^fe^& B am M en^al( ? em^. 1 £7005 269 £2905 Medi^aU^nla. WryJ, - Please send P.O. Orders when convenient, thoy E^Dortunitr of congra^atog yoS uponthe . " can at all times be truced if lost, thus protecting £/S?™S rLutS^ this jjwfly esteemed sender. Two stamps requiicd for replies, and Sjf^r J-tomsßrowne'l'Cnloroayne.has One Shilling udded as exchange on country or iteelf not only in HLndosten, but aU cheques, which must be cortiflud to as''Correct." v ™e t he East As a remedy o£ general utility. Each ticket has Nine Chances, the Cup being °\ e m ul O ueitioS wheUier a better is imported drawn first, after which the marbles nro all re- Ynt^ecou^i^ and^velnaU be glad to hear of placed each Uino till the Nine Drawings aro n^^apSe to TeveryAngloSidian home. .;% comploted,.thus(riving one ticket the chance of ggJS, we are happy to cay, are now ' 2 ediliS ESftSF^A'Z SK Kfelffl^-SSWfiJ : taincd by Subscribers ou application. Drawing g« B^wntfs ta Diarrhoja and is attended by tho Prcsß (members of tho Press KiZLtey Spasms Cramps.- Neuralgia, ths can freely inspect Ada's books). Managers of vomHtoKOf Preraancy.'anTasa genoral aeda papers at a distance cf.n appoint a responsible Hve that have occurred under our personal agent in Duncdln, to whom all inCftrmiitionwiU ffi r^uon n during many years. In Cfliolcraio v .. -• /. bl furnished, thus (,'ivintc to Subscribers a JSSS Mderon more terriHe forms of guaranteo of tho bona fide character oE tins g h^era ttsci?. we have witnessed Us «<%>**£e: : M Conßultation,acourßcnoothor"Coiisultationi3t" coX°Kp° wcr- Wo havo n^ TmJnmiXs pursiies in Duncdin. The Cup of 1883 consisted other form of^this medieino totm Colhaßro\me{> 6f 18,000 Subscribers, who contributed £0000. ■* Names of Committee furnished to Press en ap- from a sense of } pUcation. „,„„.. profession an. the public, as we^oo^p^^ ADA MANTUA, that the Btibstitutton oljny o^^ FAITH £10,000 £10,000 |g^S£ ia^^VSLStTag £\ rfnmwltad with tho menlstaimi. Overwhclmingmedicaltestlmonr .; H?hW»MIS*« Great BmaeU-street.Bloomgbnry.U>nd<m.'- ; , diSed when received, and mom .paid to first - • *,**££>> -'. "UDSter: 5 Competitors not restricted to one , : c#MmS&SiiX' wafbutcantryasoftenaßthey?lea9B,^dit -(j^^n^fi' aon^hus^vin^anyone the'cha'nce'of obtaining \[\m APPOrNTMENT T9 HIS KXOKLUtNSnr KB» '-: GOVEESOB* • *; I a^^n^S^oticS^^^b^ riLEDHILL'S GI'NGBB ALB, :; obsexvedthatAdaißdisinterested.fta.BMippJacat \X ™ . : ' . .; Ta^StSr^^-^^t^^r^ PINTS AND QUARTS. PRIOK-U^^ APPLICATION. % aapo IfrttM^DTOEDisff*PleaMl Tkeep cooy of * Q GLKDHILL, Wki,lb«ilSY:BTJWM>•■:.;.'■ tip. Winner must apply tor pryse within one /V' Tdmhoaß 6S. j ' • ' ..... ,i-.i,ii-':,•■ ii:-..u:.i- ' ■~.....",..:ii.:8(i15Hi115l