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4. What texts would you cite in a case of one depressed by alarming views, which have been produced by fanatical guides?

5. How would you reply to a sceptic-not through vice, but through an obliquity of mind—who should say, in the language of Lord Byron, "I cannot make myself believe?"

6. Write out a prayer for such a sceptic.

7. How would you conduct yourself to a leading man in your parish, who is decent and charitable, and from whom your family have received many favours, but who is yet addicted to some irregularities, e. g. Sunday entertainments?

8. You will meet in company with men of the world who make light of doctrinal points, and, on the score of liberality, allow no distinction in the favour of God between a virtuous Socinian and an orthodox believer : how would you address such a person?

9. Write a letter of consolation to a parent bereft of his only child.

10. How would you soothe the alarms of a parishioner about to undergo a dangerous operation?

11. What line should a clergyman draw for himself in amusements, and in things called indifferent? Write your sentiments on self-denial in a minister, and on the appetites. What difference, in such matters, should there be between a clergyman and a decent layman?

12. What sacrifices ought a minister to make to avert litigation? and how far may he compromise the interests of his successor? Write an essay on worldly prudence as opposed to the duty of promoting the glory of God.

13. What are fundamental doctrines and duties?
14. To what extent is the imputed righteousness of

Christ to be stretched with reference to wide personal aberration from the right path, together with incomplete or late repentance, as distinct from pardon to the less heinous sinner and thorough penitent through Christ as a sacrifice? On degrees in future rewards and punishments. 15. On concessions towards Sectarists, and co-operation with them on common or neutral grounds.

16. On lay and ministerial dissenting baptism.

17. On the comparative advantages of savings-banks and benefit-clubs.

18. On the choice of visitors in district-visiting societies. Duties of a district-visitor, and the danger of injudicious counsel. On zeal and fanaticism in a visitor.

19. What definite ideas do you attach to the terms― grace, regeneration, faith, looking to Jesus, coming to Christ, communion with God, and God's changing the heart ?

20. On preaching intelligibly and methodically.

21. On delicacy in preaching, and the difference between hints and plain speaking, and between remote allusions and homely figures, in a refined and in an ignorant congregation.

22. What influence may an unguarded exposition of the doctrines of free pardon and imputed righteousness exert on by-standers and relations of a person counselled or solaced on a dying bed?

23. What advice would you give when parties - man and wife — consult you as to their different religious persuasions, and as to the education of their children?

24. How far does the spirituality of the Gospel allow a relaxation in religious ordinances?

25. Sordet in conspectu Judicis, quod fulget in conspectu operantis.

26. Ought a minister to act as a magistrate?

27. How far ought a minister to take part in parochial concerns?

28. On ministerial interference in domestic differences or parochial squabbles. On peace-making and intermeddling.

29. On cottage and prayer-meetings.

30. On the moral effects of pauperism.

31. On mendicity. On alms-giving and advice obiter. 32. On the vices peculiar to the lower orders, and their causes, remote and proximate, with the best preventives or remedies.

33. "Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers. Be all things to all men." Write a comment on these passages.

34. On living in and above the world.

35. On the Lord's supper as a viaticum.

36. How would you reason with a thoughtless, rash, headstrong youth, as to the influences of his conduct on the cause of God, on his parents, on society, and on himself?

37. What is the duty of man with respect to sanctification, as a moral agent?

38. What is the meaning of the opus operatum ?

39. What ground would you take in an argument with a Roman Catholic who should challenge you to a conference?

40. How do you overcome the geological difficulties as compared with the Mosaic dates and narrative? Are not the institution of the Sabbath, the doctrine of original sin, and universal redemption, dependent on the literal meaning of the Mosaic account?

41. On a personal God, as opposed to the anima mundi.

42. Defend a particular providence.

43. The intermediate state, against Whately's "Scripture Revelations."

44. The inadequacy of natural religion to give information on many important points, proves the necessity of revelation, and of ascertaining the truth of Scripture, as the only rock of reliance.

45. On recognition.

46. Topics of advice to the sick and dying.

47. Topics of consolation for general mourners.

48. On merited and unmerited loss of character. Arguments to sufferers.

49. On loving the creature more than the Creator.
50. On guardian spirits.

51. On constant references to particular Providence ; and on giving a religious turn to ordinary conversation.

These suggestions are thrown out, not to cast blame on the questions usually proposed, but in the hope of blending with them matters of a more practical tendency, in regard to which many who pass a brilliant examination in scholarship are often wofully ignorant.

Under-graduates in the universities are now in the habit of devoting part of their time to assisting the parochial ministry in their occasional duties; but this is an office in which youths, having the most zealous intentions, may both alarm and soothe injudiciously, and exceed moderation, without a discreet guide; and thus do more harm than good.

That the finishing part of a clerical education should consist in a year passed beneath the roof of a laborious parish-priest, whose sphere of duty is wide and multifarious, would be far more advisable. The student would

here accommodate and habituate himself to the regular hours, and sober habits, and family devotions of a religious household; and would learn, by accompanying the minister in his daily progress through his parish, a practical lesson of discretion, delicacy, and fidelity in the discharge of those occasional duties, which hardly any theoretical instructions in an university-course can be expected to convey.

One of the following questions relates to the geological theory of the creation; and, unhappily, or happily, not being convinced by the fashionable topics, I have leaned to the literal and old explanation of the first chapter of Genesis. The case is very different from the Copernican system, inasmuch as on this point, an important doctrine, a moral precept, the warrant for the strict observance of the Sabbath, depends. "And the evening and the morning were the first, second, third day:" and "in six days" -not six thousand years-" God created the heavens and the earth, and rested the seventh day, wherefore God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it."

On this subject, let it not be forgotten, that all proceedings with which the Socialists desecrate the Sabbath, and outrage revelation, invariably open with a lecture on geology, in which the concessions of philosophers are triumphantly re-echoed, as if the foundations of revealed truth were shaken, and the authenticity of Scripture given up. Now, what are ingenious, and, to the geologists themselves, satisfactory explanations, are infidel sneers to the Socialists, and disheartening alarms to the great body of believers. Hence we are tempted to tremble for an edifice where the supporting pillars are thus shaken, and to exclaim with the Psalmist (Ps. xi. 3), " If the FOUN

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