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Mr. ED1roR The following extract is from
The preface of IA late work of fcelebrty:-"D' 'Aubig-
ne's History of Reformation in Germany and SwiIz-
erlsnd' 1t has already been translated from the
French into several Languages and in England three
rival rausations have alread appeared, some of
which have gone through several edtons "No i'r-
eign tognue" says the Edingburg Review "conlan1
s., complete and impressive narrative of The events
of the great Reformation of the sixteenth century"


I.


"And vet there is prime iple Of movement emanat-
ino from God himself in all the changes among ma
tons God looks upon that wide stage on which
the generations Of men successfully meet and srug-
Ole Ie is there il is true an invisible God; but II
the protane multitude pass before him without no.
Iicinp him. because he is God that bldeth himself,
-lhoughtful spirits, and such feel their ueed OF
the principles Of ther being, seek him with more
earnes1ess-aud their search is richly rewarded
For from the heights to which they are obliged to
climb to meet their God the world history, IN
stead of offering, as 10 the ignorant crowd coninS-
ed chaos, appears IA maestic temple. which the IN
visible hand of God erects, and which rises TO tins
glory above the rock of humanity. shall We not
acknowledge the hand of God in those great men,
or in those mighty nations which arse-Come iorth
as it was from the dust Of the earlhand give new I'M
puIsea new form or a uew destnyto human atfais'
But what superior uslre does the ruthlhatGod Is in
history acquire under the Christian dspensation
What il Jesus Chr is,- but Gods purpose IN the
worlds history. 1t the discovery of Jesus
Christ. which adm;;ed the greatest ofmodeTn his
,ormns( John Won Muller)to the just comprehension
OF his subject "Ths gospel says he ''s the full
G,ment of II hopes the perfection of all philosophy
the interpreter of all revolutions, the key OF all the
seeming contradictions Of the physical and moral
world,-it is life it is Immortality, Since have
known the Saviour every thing clear with nun
there is nothing cannot solve" Thus speaks TINS
distinguished historian md in truth, IS not the
keystone of the arch is il not the mysterious bond
which holds together the things Of the earth, and
connects them with those of heaven,- That God has
appeared in our nature; What God has been
horn INTO this world and we asked to think and
write, as if He were not every where working out
his own will in its history Jesus Christ the true
God of human history the very !owness OF his
appearance may BE- regarded as one proof of 1t. II
.nan designs shade or n shelter upon earth, we
look to see prepat atoms materials, scatoIdng and
wurkmen But God when he will give shade or
shelter takes the small seed, and deposits it IN the
bosom of the earth and from that seed, uperceptibe
in its beginning, he produces the majestic tree 10
achieve great results by mperceptibe means Is the
law of the divine dealings. The Reformation re-
eognised the same law of Gods operations"