For myself (and I can without hesitation say the same of those with whom I am connected), I have no wish to see the downfal of the venerable fabric of the church, though in its patronage, often improperly used, and in some of its formularies, particularly the baptismal service and others connected with it, I think I see much that calls for alteration. Many of its ministers and members I respect, and wish to consider them as fellow-Christians. To this however, in the estimation of the Rev. A. Gathercole, I have no right to lay a claim, and must not therefore presume to subscribe myself by any other name than that with which he designates every Dissenter,-- A HEATHEN MAN AND A PUBLICAN. ON THE PROPRIETY OF INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC IN DISSENTING CHAPELS. _To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine._ I trust your candour will permit me, through the medium of your excellent publication, shortly to reply to some remarks that were made, and I think rather hastily, in your last number, relative to the introduction of instrumental music in dissenting places of worship. Your correspondent, Mr. Wilkin, I am fearful, was not in the most composed frame of mind when he sat down to pen the communication alluded to. The sounds of the instrument which he states to have "greeted" him with its "hideous tones," must have been vibrating in his ears at the time, or he could not have expressed sentiments bearing so close an affity to those _discordant_ notes with which he professes to have been so much annoyed on his entering some Baptist chapel.