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gaze upon tlie Salisbury plains of Dutch metal and stageypaintings than we are set tliinking on the wretched paltrytricks which are termed the " external aids " of the religionwith which they are connected.

How long, we wonder, will it be before Romanists willperceive, that if converts are to be caught like insects byglitter, the very love of the glare which allures them mustultimately destroy them also ? How long will they continue toconnect with the worship of the All-Wise the same trashypageantry as we dedicate merely to the honour of a LordMayor ? How long will they believe that which is an inwardand spiritual grace to be nothing but an outward piece of stageeffect and display ; or that the reverence of mere gewgaw canbe acceptable to Hirn who taught that Solomon arrayed in allhis glory was not comparable to a simple lily of the field?How long, indeed, will the great lesson of Protestantism bewasted on Papists, and priests persist in degrading Religiondown to the muck and mire of the world; or in using thatwhich should serve to wean men from earthly things andtreasures, that "moth and rust corrode," as a showy snareand instrument of mere worldly power ?

Scarcely a Domkirche exists in Rhineland but is halfruins, half scaffolding-poles—the choir crumbling to decaybefore the towers have been built—-and missionai'ies sentbegging from door to door for funds to complete edißcesthat are tumbling to pieces at one end quicker than the moneycan be raised to fmish them at the other. Such is the casewith the Dom at Köln; so it is, too, at Oppenheim; and alike condition qbtains at Speier.

No sooner do we set foot on the planted kind of park thatsurrounds the Kniserdom than we hear the clink of themason's chisel, and find the principal entrance latticed rudely

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