conjugal affection, which we find the Saviour afterwards enforcing by a reference to these very words, (Mark x. 7.) and also in like manner, His Apostle Paul: (Eph. v. 28–31.)—so that if Moses on the one hand, on account of the hardness of the hearts of the Jewish people, appeared to tolerate even by law, a practice which was opposed to the original law of man's creation, (inasmuch as at the first only two were to constitute one flesh, and polygamy destroys this original divine intention) so on the other hand, Moses distinctly announces here that the true conjugal union consists in its assimilation to the first marriage, leaving without any real excuse those who should violate this original law, although at the same time they might comply with the enactments which he devised for the better protection of the female sex. But whoever may be the speaker here, the lesson taught is the same, and the authority of the precept alike binding; and truly it should come home to our hearts with peculiar power, because, as before observed, we find the divine Saviour, and also the Apostle Paul, quoting these very words, when they would enforce the duty of man to woman in connexion with the conjugal state.

PALESTINE.

No. V.

THE Bishop of Jerusalem, now quietly settled down in his interesting Diocese, has commenced those acts of an episcopal kind peculiar to his high office in the Church. "You will have learnt," under date of May 12, 1842, he writes, "that on the 17th ult, I held my first ordination," (of Mr. Mühlieson belonging to the Church Missionary Society, who had come from Egypt to Jerusalem to be ordained, under the direction of the Committee of that Society)" and on Sunday next, (Whit-sunday) I hope to baptize a Jewish family, whom Mr. Ewald has been preparing for some time for that sacred ordinance, and whom he is to present unto me on Friday for further examination; and if Mr. Nicholayson had been here, several baptized Israelites would have been confirmed on Whitsunday." The Bishop has appointed Mr. Ewald and Mr. Nicolayson his honorary Chaplains, the former to prepare the candidates for baptism, and the latter those for confirmation: while Mr. Williams prepares and examines those who are candidates for ordination.

On occasion of the ordination above mentioned, Mr. Nicolayson observes, "The absence of that increased sense of solemnity on such occasions in England, from the number of those thus solemnly set

apart for the Christian Ministry, was richly made up for, on this occasion, by the thought that it was the first time that, since a period of full 1700 years, this sacred ordinance had been performed in the Holy City, by a son of Abraham. It is interesting to reflect," he continues, "that this, the ordaining of deacons, is the first on record of the specifically Episcopal functions exercised by the Apostles on that very same spot." Acts vi.

PSALM CXXXIV.

Behold, ye servants of the LORD.
Bless ye JEHOVAH'S holy Name;

Ye that by night his house attend,
His power, His grace, His love proclaim.

Lift up your hands with pious zeal,

And bless the LORD, our Israel's God:
Such praise His service should inspire;
Such glory should be spread abroad.

The LORD who made both earth and heaven,

Bless thee from Zion's holy hill:

The LORD confers His richest grace,

On those who do His holy will.

The Bishop adds, in the same communication from which the above is partly extracted :-" If nothing unforeseen occurs, we may reasonably hope, in a year or two, to have a beautiful little Church on Mount Zion, to testify of English generosity, and English love for Jerusalem." This may remind us of the touching words which commence the 132nd Psalm:

"Lord, remember David and all his afflictions: how he sware unto the LORD, and vowed unto the Mighty GOD of Jacob; surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed; I will not give sleep to mine eyes or slumber to mine eyelids, until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the Mighty GOD of Jacob."

Remember, gracious Lord,

Thy servant David's zeal;
Which by thy name adored,

His vows and oaths did seal:
Remember his affliction sore:
Regard its motive evermore !

To Jacob's mighty God,

His earnest vows were made:
Nor shall my house afford
Its shelter to my head.

Nor will I to my couch ascend,
Till I accomplish one great end.

No peaceful sleep shall seal
My ever watchful eyes;
Nor softest slumbers steal

My moments by surprise,

Until I find a resting-place
For Jacob's God, the God of grace!

An habitation meet

For his Divine abode;

And lo! we found this seat

For Jacob's mighty God.

In famed Ephrata's fields of wood,
Where once the warning angel stood.*

We'll enter now with joy

His tabernacle fair ;-
And at his footstool bow

With lowest reverence there.
And Israel's God with awe adore,
Who gives us rest for evermore.

N.

* Bishop Patrick's Paraphrase of this passage, Psalm cxxxii. 6, throws great light upon the general sense and meaning. "And now, behold, the Lord himself, to our great joy, hath told us the very place where He will fix His habitation, 1 Chron. xxi. 18-26; in the territory of Bethlehem Ephratah, Gen. xxxv. 13, 19; in the fields of that forest, where the angel stood and directed David to build an altar to the LORD."-1 Chron, xxi. 18; xxii. 1.