Our advice, at present, must be brief.

1. Where Ministers have joined the Arians, let the Orthodox portions of their congregations continue to send Elders regularly to the Orthodox Presbytery.

2. If any case occur where all the Elders have turned Arians, let the Orthodox choose new Elders, and have them ordained by the Presbytery.

3. No matter how small the number of the Orthodox, let them apply to a Presbytery for preaching. "Fear not, little flock; it is your Father's good will to give you the kingdom." Luke xii. 32.

4. Let them, under advice of Presbytery, claim the use of their Meeting-house for preaching. Let them consider themselves as the original and endowed congregation; and, by preserving their congregational form, continue to assert all their congregational rights. But, in asserting their rights, let them avoid every word, look, and action of offence. If reviled, let them not revile again;-if insulted, let them return blessing for cursing;-if robbed of their congregational property, let them commit their cause to God, and the just laws of the land. The Lord judgeth righteously; and the law will give them protection.

5. If their Minister, or the Arians of a congregation, propose to separate from the Synod of Ulster, let the Orthodox members prepare, sign, and read, in the congregation, a public, solemn protest against it. The protest of the Orthodox members of the congregation of Clough, in the second number of The Orthodox Presbyterian, will serve as a model.

6. Let the Orthodox members collect their usual stipend; put it into the hands of a treasurer, and be ready to dispose of it in payment of all arrears to the Arian Minister; or, otherwise, as the Presbytery may direct.

7. Let them hold their seats in their Meeting-houses, from which no man can dispossess them, so long as the stipend is ready to be paid; and in this way they will bid defiance to all the quibbles by which it might be attempted to deprive them of a right to vote.

8. Should any voting be proposed, as to withdrawing from the Synod of Ulster, let not the Orthodox members stay at home for fear, or favour, or an imaginary love of peace. Let them attend to a man. Let them speak out like Presbyterians. Let them assert their rights; and let them, at least, by their firmness, give a public testimony to the truth as it is in Jesus. It was not by staying at

home, while the enemy was abroad, that our forefathers saved the Church of Scotland. Every man was at his post; and the time of danger was the time of their greatest activity and zeal.

There are congregations whose Ministers have not yet openly avowed Arian sentiments; but whose Arian hearers, however few, are trying, by various schemes, to form a party to carry away the congregations from the Synod of Ulster. The scheme by which, the Arians attempt to seduce the people from Orthodoxy, or "Old-Light," is this: they draw up resolutions, complaining of the Synod's Overtures of 1828 against Arianism-and call upon their Minister, to separate from the Synod of Ulster, and carry these papers about, privately, from house to house, to obtain signatures.

To congregations in which these attempts are in progress, we offer the following advice:

1. Look at the men who are carrying these papers through your congregations, and ask yourselves-" Are these godly men ?" "Are they men of prayer?" "Are they the men who would visit and pray for us in our sickness?" Should some of these men be called Elders? Ask yourselves— "Are these the men of prayer; Elders in heart, as well as There were churches, in the days even of the Apostles, who "had a name to live, and were dead." So are there Elders, in the Presbyterian churches, who have a name of office, without heart or hand for the duty. Trust not such agents: they cannot be about a good work. It is not in the nature of an evil tree to bring forth good fruit.

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2. Many who have been deceived into signing clandestine papers, have, no doubt, done it in ignorance, and under deception; and are now ashamed of what they have done. And well they may be ashamed of having been made the dupes of an Arian conspiracy. But it is good for them to be ashamed, and repent. Let them, then, openly declare they were deceived; and by a firm and faithful testimony to the truth, retrace the steps into which they have been betrayed. Hear us, Presbyterians! The Arians deceive you, by telling you that the Synod of Ulster has departed from the code of discipline of 1824.* This assertion is not fact.

*A work drawn up by a Committe of the Synod, approved by another Committee, composed of delegates from each Presbytery, and finally adopted by the Synod, in 1824. It is a work similar to, and chiefly extracted from the "Form of Church Government in the Westminster Confession of Faith," "Stewart's Collections," and the "First and Second Books of Discipline," adopted by the Church of Scotland.

The Synod of Ulster stands by the code, and confirms the code, which the Arians evaded, and rendered of none effect.

The Arians deceive you, by telling you that they leave the Synod till the Synod returns to the code. The Synod cannot return to what it never forsook. We defy them all to show that the Synod has forsaken the code. The Synod, by the Overtures of 1828, adheres to the code, and renders it effectual.

The Arians deceive you', when they tell you the Overtures of 1828, were the works of a few; but the code the unanimous production of the whole Synod. The Overtures were the production not of a few, but of nearly all the Orthodox members of the Synod. The Overtures were confirmed, we believe, with the exception of three Ministers, by every Orthodox member of the Synod of Ulster. That they were opposed by the Arians, we admit; for they were direeted against Arianism, and every such erroneous doctrine.

The Arians deceive you, when they tell you that the Orthodox will not allow you to elect your own Ministers. This accusation is utterly unfounded. The best answer we can give, is an appeal to facts. We defy them to produce an instance in which we have infringed upon the right of election; and we have already recorded one in which they themselves did notoriously violate this Presbyterian right. Look at any of our vacancies, and ask them do we not allow them the most unhounded liberty of choice. We tell you plainly and without fear of contradiction, that the Orthodox have defended and enlarged the right of election for the people, as the privilege which every vacancy enjoys of obtaining any probationer or Minister as a supplier, without the formality and trouble of a trial and a poll, abundantly and practically testifies. Now, who obtainedwho defended this enlarged right of the people. We tell you they were the Orthodox, to whom you are indebted for the restoration of this original and undoubted privilege.

Lastly, we advise: wherever there are papers carried about by the Arian party, let the Orthodox bestir themselves. Let them draw up a plain memorial to the Presbytery; let them get it signed by Orthodox Elders, and such persons, especially, as have refused to sign the Arian documents; and let them tell the Presbytery what is going forward underhand; and let them call upon them to meet and hold a Visitation Presbytery in the congregation, and explain to the people the true nature and object of the Synod's Overtures, which the Arians misrepresent, and

of which they complain. Let the people act thus, in the spirit of meekness, peaceableness, steadfastness, and prayer, and the Lord will yet stand by his church, and build again the ruined walls of our Presbyterian Zion.

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GREY-ABBEY CONGREGATION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ORTHODOX PRESBYTERIAN.

SIR, As there has not appeared any correct and full account of some late ecclesiastical proceedings in this place, of an extraordinary character, and with which it is very desirable the public should be acquainted, I hope you will allow me a page or two of your widely circulated periodical to narrate them. My statement, I wish to observe at the outset, is made partly from the testimony of others, and partly from my own observation. On the whole, however, I believe I may pledge myself for its accuracy.

On Sunday, the 10th inst. Mr. Watson, the Presbyterian Minister of this place, announced, I am informed, to the congregation, that, on the following Tuesday, the Remonstrant Ministers of the Presbytery of Bangor would attend there, and that a poll should be then taken to ascertain whether the members of that congregation would adhere to the Synod of Ulster, or join with the Remonstrants. Some members of the congregation, alarmed by this announcement, and considering the plan to be a scheme for removing them, without a fair poll, from the Synod, waited on members of the Presbytery the following day, to beg their counsel and protection. It was deemed most ad. visable to call a meeting of the Presbytery at Grey-Abbey, on the following day. And, accordingly, the members of the Presbytery of Bangor, and the Remonstrant Ministers, met here at the same time. The first step taken by the Presbytery was to request an interview with Mr. Watson. This was obtained; and on his being asked, by the Moderator, whether it was his intention to proceed with a poll of the congregation that day, he replied that it was. Mr. Watson withdrew, and the members of Presbytery resolved to attend at the Meeting-house, to prevent, if possible, so unfair a poll of the congregation, as they saw was about to be attempted. The proceedings there I witnessed, and will, therefore, describe them accurately.

The exercises of the day were commenced with a sermon by the Rev. F. Blakely, which purposed to treat of liberty,

and the tendency of which was to make the people consider themselves in the furnace of persecution, so that had a stranger happened into the assembly, ignorant of the civil and religious advantages enjoyed by them, he must have concluded they were under the galling yoke of an oppres sive government, and a tyrannical priesthood. The sermon being ended, Mr. Mulligan, of Moira, was called to the chair, and acted as Moderator for the remainder of the day. Mr. Montgomery rose and stated, that the object of the meeting was to constitute themselves into a Presbytery, to be called the Remonstrant Presbytery of Bangor, and to transact any business which that congregation might re quire them to do. On this announcement, Mr. Morgan, of Belfast, begged leave to ask of the Moderator, whether the members of the Presbytery of Bangor would be allowed to express an opinion on the proceedings of the day. It was answered in the negative, the Remonstrant Ministers contending that those of the Presbytery had no right to interfere, while Mr. Morgan insisted, that while he disclaimed all interference with their liberty to constitute themselves into a Presbytery, if they pleased, yet when under that title they virtually came there to tamper with a congregation under the care of the Presbytery of which he was a member, he had a right to be heard. A plain man would have wone dered how a reason could be found why he should not be allowed to speak, but he was bullied down, and he took his seat. The Remonstrants having their way so far cleared, Mr. Montgomery rose, and read three resolutions, of which the substance was, that the Ministers then present, who acted with him, should form themselves into a Presbytery separated from the Synod. He took occasion from these to address the meeting at great length. His address I do not wish to describe. It was distinguished by bitterness and cunning. The description given of the Synod of Ulster was truly appalling. The spirit infused by it, he said, into the public mind, was that of the infernal regions; and he related a number of anecdotes illustrative of this charitable declaration. One was, that when an Arian Minister's horse was, by accident, suspended in the cart, an Orthodox stranger passing by, refused to lend his aid to extricate the suffering animal. Another was, that a neighbour of Mr. Glendy's, refused to carry a parcel to him from the coach that passes his house, saying, "I wish he were in hell-it will never be full till he is there." One would have thought that such a style of address was beneath: