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A GREAT impulse has lately been given to the cause of national education, and energetic measures are in progress to carry on the work. The nature and extent of those measures may in some degree be understood from the fact,First, That there are in Great Britain 4660 apprenticed pupil teachers, who are preparing to become masters and mistresses of schools for the poor. And Secondly, That numerous Training Institutions have been provided for com pleting the education of these pupils. It may be safely stated concerning this body of young persons, that as regards intellectual qualification, and powers of teaching, they will be vastly in advance of the great majority of those who are now engaged in that work.

What the result of such teaching power will be, no human foresight can predict. Many indulge in bright anticipations. The thoughtful Christian, however, cannot but feel uneasy when he considers who and what these pupil teachers are. They are not young persons who, under the influence of religious principle, and as the effect of grace in their own souls, have consecrated themselves to serve the Redeemer in this department of his vineyard. They have, with scarcely one exception, been chosen at thirteen or fourteen years of age, as well conducted boys and girls, to be trained for this particular work. In many cases they will not, during their pupilage, have enjoyed the benefit of evangelical instruction. How small is the number that under such circum

stances we can expect to be truly spiritually-minded teachers.

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One bad consequence arising from this plan of pupil teachers is, that it is likely to deter other persons who have not received similar advantages of early and systematic training, from attempting to become masters and mistresses. They will feel that they cannot compete in our Training Institutions with these pupils. There are, however, many pious and intelligent Sunday school teachers who may from time to time desire to become teachers of day schools. them not be discouraged. If they cannot obtain the highest government certificates of merit, they may obtain those of a lower degree, which will be sufficient for every practical purpose, and affect but little their emoluments. It is of the deepest importance that a large body of such persons should come forward to assist in the great work of national education. We want teachers who have experienced the converting grace of God in their own hearts, and who are influenced by the constraining love of Christ. Intelligent young men of such a character will meet with every encouragement to enter such Institutions as that which has lately been opened at Highbury, the particulars of which will be found in the Report annexed to this number of our Magazine.

Let those Sunday school teachers who find in themselves an aptness to teach, who delight in the work, and who have some taste for study, give the subject their prayerful consideration.

Ir is a remarkable fact, that at the very time when, on the score of poverty, Government endowed Maynooth, Ire

land was remitting about £8000 a year to Paris, for "the Propagation of the Faith": a missionary institution, which,

according to Roman Catholic profession, was soon to boast of an annual income of £600,000. Just at that period also the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin succeeded in opening the Roman Catholic Missionary College of All Hallows, Drumcondra, Dublin, "a splendid building (says the advertisement), standing in a demesne of twenty-four acres, in the immediate vicinity of Dublin, and capable of accommodating 200 students."

The Nation, Irish newspaper, at that time contained an advertisement of nearly four columns of subscriptions to this Roman Catholic Missionary College, amounting to £1126, in which sum the English and Scotch subscriptions are not included. The Directors of the College addressed their supporters in the following terms, in which a brief account is rendered of the operations of the College:

"It is a source of great pleasure to them, as it must be of satisfaction to the supporters of the Institution, to reflect that All Hallows, though not yet established five years, has been, under Divine Providence, instrumental in rendering great assistance to the Propaga tion of the Faith, and in supplying very many priests to the Foreign Missions, Already have fifty-four clergymen, educated in the College, gone forth to preach the Gospel, and bring the consolations of our holy religion to those countries where "the harvest, indeed, is great, but the labourers are few."

"We give the stations, and the number of Missionaries at each.

"There are, at present, over seventy students in the College, destined as well for several of the Missions above mentioned, as for the Mauritius, Jamaica, Van Diemen's Land, Texas, U. S.; &c., &c.

"A subscription or a bequest of £10 annually, to the College, establishes a free place for one student; twelve such places have already been established by the charity of a few pious Catholics.

"The holy sacrifice of the mass is offered up every morning for all the subscribers and benefactors, living and dead, and for their intentions. They will, moreover, be entitled to a participation in the merit of the apostolic labours, conversions, masses, prayers, and other good works, which may be the fruit of this Institution, throughout the world, to the end of time.

"Subscriptions, donations, and bequests, no matter how small, also presents of vestments, books, pictures, &c., gratefully received and acknowledged."

The above statement will sufficiently show that great exertions are being made by the Roman Church to proselytise the nations; and, as we shall now show by a few extracts from various sources, their zealous efforts are directed to proselytise converts from heathenism to the Roman Catholic faith. We shall first instance the case of Tahiti, and lay before our readers a few extracts from an able pamphlet entitled "Tahiti," by the Rev. M. Wilks, in which the operations of the Papacy in that island, and in the Protestant missionary stations in the South Seas, are lucidly exposed.

THE CHARACTERS THEY ASSUMED.

"M. Rouchouse, Bishop of Nilopolis, soon after his arrival at the Gambier Islands,the seat of his diocese, determined to send the missionary Columban to the Sandwich Islands; but, carrying out the original system of deception, he was to

pass some time at Tahiti as a spy, in the disguise of a carpenter. He arrived accordingly, looking like anything rather than a priest. He was clad like a man before the mast, was unshaven, smoked a short pipe, and at first was mistaken for what he appeared to be."—Wilks' Tahiti, p. 14.

THE INTENTIONS THEY AVOWED. "Protestant missionaries of different sects, Anglicanor Wesleyan, took possession, by degrees, of all the most important islands of the ocean. The Sandwich Islands fell to the lot of the Wesleyans; Tahiti, Tonga, and New Zealand to the Episcopalians. They founded churches, built chapels, and gradually substituted their influence for the authority of the chiefs. This state of things was perfectly settled, when the missions of France determined to oppose Church to Church, creed to creed. We must do justice to the efforts of the Catholic priests; never was greater disinterestedness allied to greater courage. The French Government has watched with interest the progress of this propaganda." Quoted from "Polynesia and Marquesus, by M. Louis Reyband."— Wilks' Tahiti, p. 8.

THE ARGUMENTS THEY USED.

"The Roman Catholic priests, Caret and Laval, announce, as an interesting fact, that 'in these two islands (Akena and Akamaru) the natives knew already the difference between them and the Protestants, and prefer the Catholics to the others.'

When a dissolute man said'the missionaries are coming,' our two chiefs declared they would separate from them, and that they would do the same in the other islands. They know very well that our powers and our mission come from God. This is the chain. My Lord Etienne, Bishop Rouchouse, has given them to us; Pope Gregory gave them to him; St. Peter gave them to that great missionary; and Jesus Christ gave them to Peter, of whom he is the

us; 'when a missionary comes here I shall ask him who sent him.' If he says, 'Not Gregory,' I shall say, 'Go away, you are not a missionary of Jesus Christ.' I shall ask him then, 'To whom do that woman and those children belong?' He will say, 'To me.' 'Very well, then go about your business, for you are not a missionary. God has no wife; Jesus Christ had no wife; Tareta (Caret) has no wife; Tarava (Laval) has no wife. Ours are from St. Peter, and you are only a common man.' "— Wilks' Tahiti, pp. 13 and 14.

HOW THEY MADE CHRISTIANS--BAPTISM.

The priests Caret and Laval write, "We have gathered our first ear, and the first fruits of the harvest in the Gambier Islands. From this moment, the peace of God seems to descend on the island of Akena. A child a few days old, at the point of death, was regenerated, and sanctified by the water of baptism. It was the feast of the assumption of the Holy Virgin, and, of course, we named the child Mary. We buried the child according to the prescribed ceremony of the Catholic Church, and raised a cross. At the foot of the cross, we pray that infant to become the patron of her country, and to obtain for it the gift of faith and the graces that follow it.

At Akamaru, we observed that the children had diseases of the skin. We cut the hair of some of them and washed their head; we did this that we might the more easily baptize them when dying, without their parents perceiving what we did."

On the 27th December they baptized another babe. "The infant uttered some faint cries, and seemed about to breathe its last; it has, however, regained its strength; but the infant that we baptized in so much haste, because it appeared to be at the last grasp, died the same evening, to our great joy, because death has ensured its happiness."-Wilks' Tahiti,pp.1213. "Father Bataillon writes from Wallis,