Sometimes a short syllabus is useful to those who want to have a scriptural and experimental summary of the truth in a short and readable form. This was the reason why our reformers drew up in their time many Catechisms, that the people might be instructed in the truth in a simple compendious way. Great ignorance prevails amongst our people in many places, for very few ministers are now able to set forth the truth with clearness, and thus, like children, they are tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine.

J. C. PHILPOT.