If they were to be placed on the same platform, and an equal latitude be claimed for tlie admission into praise for as much of the human element as is admissable into prayer and preaching, then it must follow that the preacher must be held at liberty to extemporise, or pre pare a hymn or hymns each Lord's day for his congregation, in the use of which it would be a somewhat difficult matter to secure that the congregation should join, so as therewith to praise the Lord. Phis arrangement had recommended itself to Mr Kirkland, who had, in the course of his speech, expressed his desire that it were permissable to him to throw the substance of his discourse into verse, and have it sung at the close of his sermon. It might be that Mr Kirkland had a greater poetical talent than had yet been discovered by him. But he (Mr Bannerman) doubted whether such a scheme of praise was practicable ; but ofthis he had no doubt, such a scheme Avould not be profitable. It would result, he believed, in the congregation becoming "dumb dogs." If anything could shew the folly of introducing human hymns into the public worship of God, such a proposal coming from one who had so strongly supported their introduction must exhibit that folly, affording, as it did, to how ! great a length men will t>;o when they lift their anchors from the sure holding ground jof divine truth, and drift away on the ocean of human fancy, or commend them selves to the unsafe waters of mere expedi ency But, apart from the absurdity of such a mode of praise, those who claim that praise, prayer, and preaching are to be regarded as standing on a common platform seemed to forget thit, if this lie granted, and a book of hymns allowed, it must necessarily follow that a book of common prayer for all their congregations might be prepared, as aiso a book of homi lies. He could not understand how any could object to a book of common prayer, or a book of sermons, who maintained that a hymn book might be prepared for the use of congregations, on the ground that the same freedom was granted in the matter of prayer, preaching, and praise. 