APPENDIX. NOTE A.-Page 175.-LECT. VII. "The whole family in peril as they traverse it." FROM a distinguished thinker of the English Established Church, we copy the following remarks as to the reach and worth of Christian Intercession. As the work which furnishes the ensuing quotation has not been reprinted here, the passage is added, being remarkable alike, as to us it seems, for the breadth of its views, and the felicitous beauty of the language in which they are expressed, and the consolatory power to the solitary and tempted suppliant which they minister. The volume containing it is entitled "THE LORD'S PRAYER; Nine Sermons, preached in the Chapel of Lincoln's Inn, by F. D. MAURICE, Chaplain of Lincoln's Inn-London, 1848." Lead us not into temptation.' O strange and mysterious privilege, that some bed-ridden woman in a lonely garret, who feels that she is tempted to distrust the love and mercy of Him who sent His Son to die for the helpless, should wrestle with that doubt, saying the Lord's Prayer; and that she should be thus asking help for those who are dwelling in palaces, who scarcely dream of want, yet in their own way are in peril great as hers; for the student, who, in his chamber, is haunted with questions which would seem to her monstrous and incredible, but which to him are agonizing; for the divine in his terrible assaults from cowardice, despondency, vanity, from the sense of his own heartlessness, from the shame of past neglect, from the appalling discovery of evils in himself which he has denounced in others, from vulgar outward temptations into which he had proudly fancied that he could not fall, from dark suggestions recurring often, that words have no realities corresponding to them, that what he speaks of may mean nothing, because to him it has often meant so little. Of all this the sufferer knows nothing, yet for these she prays-and for the statesman who fancied the world could be moved by his wires, and suddenly finds that it has wires of its own which move without his bidding; for her country under the pressure of calamities which the most skilful seek in vain to redress; for all other countries in their throes of anguish which may terminate in a second death or a new life. For one and all she cries, Lead us not into temptation.' Their temptations and hers, different in form, are the same in substance. They, like her, are tempted to doubt that God is, and that He is the author of good, and not of evil; and that He is mightier than the evil; and that He can and will overthrow it, and deliver the universe out of it. is the real temptation, there is no other. All events, all things and persons, are bringing this temptation before us; no man is out of the reach of it who is in God's world; no man is intended to be out of the reach of it who is God's child. He himself has led us into this wilderness to be tempted of the devil; we cannot fly from it; we cannot find in one corner of it a safety which there is not in another; we cannot choose that we shall not have those temptations which are specially fitted to reach our own feelings, tempers, infirmities: they will be addressed to these; they will be aimed at the heel or head, at whatever part has not been touched by the fire, and This |