glorious Reformers, if their teachings had not been placed upon record? Whether, therefore, the dictum be inspired or uninspired, it cannot with any certainty and authority be transmitted through the medium of tradition. God, therefore, not only spoke from heaven, but commanded that the Scriptures should be “_written for our learning_.” But the passage before us not only speaks of a record of the teachings and commandments of God, it also informs us that in the absence or neglect of that record men will be not merely ignorant of God’s character, but corrupt themselves, and fall into idolatry. It therefore seems to teach with great force the tendency of our nature to some religious system, and to us it appears plain that whether we trace that tendency to traditions of the past, to some law of the mind, or to the “light which lighteneth every man that cometh into the world,” the fact itself is indisputable. Man every where seems to feel a need of something beyond himself to which to look, on which to lean—the object of his hope, or the object of his dread. And where is it that men do not realize the warning of the text, that without the Word of God they will corrupt themselves and set up images, the likeness of male or female, or some other thing. Perhaps, indeed, no age of the world, and no portion of the human race, could more fully verify the fact than the times in which we live, and the men whose conduct is the occasion of these remarks. They have not thought it needful to consult the Word of God to remember his TEN commandments, and have therefore forgotten that God is not represented by any similitudes, and have made to themselves images, the likeness of male and of female. There is, indeed, so striking a discrepancy between the text and the worship of images that it can surprise no one that those who practise the one should renounce the other. No one can be pleased with that which bears testimony against conduct he is not prepared to abandon. “_Every one that doeth evil hateth the light_, _neither cometh to the light_, _lest his deeds should be reproved_.” But since the right course is to abandon the practice, not to insult the witness, this discrepancy is not a mitigation but an aggravation of the conduct of which we complain. We need not say that we refer to the burning of the Holy Bible in open day, very near the place in which we are met, and under the eye of Roman Catholic and Protestant. We are aware that from policy or shame the deed has been denied, and, therefore, our first business will be to place before you the evidence upon which our charge rests. On Monday last, about half-past ten o’clock in the morning, having heard that Bibles were being burned in the yard of the Roman Catholic Chapel, we proceeded to the spot; there, at the lower end of the chapel, and in sight of every one that passed up or down the street, we saw a large heap of cinders from books or paper. Around the edges of the heap there were patches of