titles of ecclesiastical office. "Thou canst not bear them which are
evil: thou hast _tried_ them which say they are apostles, and are not,
and hast found them liars."[8] I believe, "not to bear them which are
evil" pastors, evangelists or apostles, is as commendable in England
as in Ephesus in the eye of the Head of the Churches. Is there a
syllable in the Bible to lead us to suppose that these liars were
detected by any other means than those which Paul had already taught
the Church? "Though _we_, or an angel from heaven, preach any other
gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be
accursed." As for the ordinance, such passages as Titus i. 9, make
_selection_ a part of that ordinance: the bishop is to be one "holding
fast the word of truth as he hath been taught." Now, on what authority
shall this part of the ordinance, viz. selection, be omitted, and no
flaw follow: while the presence or omission of a manual act in certain
hands is to constitute the reality or absence of Divine ordination?

A. J. SCOTT.
_Woolwich, Aug. 16th, 1832._

[1] Page 155.

[2] Page 169.

[3] Page 122.

[4] Page 146.

[5] See "Narratives of two Families exposed to the great
Plague of London, 1665; with Conversations on a Religions Preparation
for Pestilence," and "God's Terrible Voice in the City," by Vincent;
both republished by Rev. J. Scott, of Hull.

[6] And yet what security is afforded by a present abatement
of the visitation? In Glasgow, cholera was regarded as departing, and
all but departed. The number of cases has since risen, for some time,
to above 300 at once, and the deaths not seldom to between one and two
hundred a day, in a population small compared with that of London.

[7] Chap. xxiv. ver. 5.

[8] Rev. ii. 2.

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JOURNAL
OF A
RESIDENCE AT BAGDAD.

_Bagdad, April 2, 1830._

We begin to find that our school-room is not large enough to contain
the children, and we have been obliged therefore to add to it another.
We have now fifty-eight boys and nine girls, and might have many more
girls had we the means for instructing them; but we have as yet no
other help than the schoolmaster's wife, who knows very little of any
thing, and therefore is very unfit to bring those into order who have
been educated without any order. But I h