distribution of them is the main object of both Societies, that Society must clearly be the best, which affords the largest opportunities of doing it. Thirdly, It is the best, because it provides Bibles which are more useful. It has been before observed, that there are passages in the Bible which may admit of doubtful and different interpretations. Surely, then, that Society is to be esteemed the best, which affords the best comments on those difficult passages. The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge furnishes Bibles with these notes and comments. And there is now publishing by that Society, a most useful and explanatory Family Bible, under the management of Dr. Mant and Mr. D’Oyley, which is furnished to the subscribers at a very cheap rate; and which, if it were possible, it would be desirable so far still to be reduced in price, as to allow it to be in general circulation. For, the more the Bible is explained by fit and able commentators, the more useful it is rendered. Bibles, therefore, with notes and comments, are the most useful; and as that Society provides them, it is clearly the best channel through which a churchman would wish to distribute a Bible. Fourthly, It is the best, because it provides Prayer Books and Religious Tracts. When we consider that there is at present hardly a town, or even a village, which is not visited by illiterate teachers, who expound the Bible with more confidence than the most able theologian, it surely becomes doubly necessary, if we would preserve the poor of the Establishment in the religion of their fathers, to provide them with a safeguard against false interpretations. At one time it was argued by the advocates of the Bible Society, that the Bible alone was the religion of the Protestant, and ought to be alone distributed. But those persons who were desirous of preserving the present Church Establishment, and amongst those, particularly Dr. Marsh, made every effort to increase the distribution of the Prayer Book. And when we consider that it contains devotional exercises in the true spirit of the Scripture; that it is heard constantly at church; that it is designed equally for the closet; and that no churchman can join in the service of the church without it; surely it must be confessed that the Society which provides these is the best. It may be said, that there is a Society formed for the distribution of Prayer Books and Homilies, and that a churchman, subscribing to the British and Foreign Bible Society, may procure Prayer Books to accompany his Bibles from that; but surely the Society which unites both in one must be preferable to that which provides only one. Great benefit is also to be derived from Religious Tracts. They are useful helps, and sure and certain guides. That is, certain as far as human intellect can guarantee them, as to the doctrine of the Church of England. For no Tract is allowed to be issued by this Society, without