The archangels taught the angels — the angels the spirits ; and •spirits left thoir summer-land homes to inspire c smd impress us. All would ultimately progress to peace and happiness. But what' were the oc cupations of the so-called dead? Spirit life was one of intense activity. Action was- the soul's highest pleasure ; re&t was change-'of'employ ment, None gat down by murmuring" streams to sing psalnjs and serenade Jehovah, but eaoh foupd. employment puit»ble to fys needs aad as*

The above formed the subject of a very able lecture, delivered on the 4th inst., in tfte First Church, by the Rev. J. Nish, of Sandhurst. Considering the very insuffi cient notice given, and the number of counter attractions elsewhere, the attend ance was good. The lecturer spoke on the 3ubject for over an hour and a half, and succeeded in interesting his hearers, as was evidenced by their frequent ap plause. In introducing the subject, Mr Nish wished to observe that he appeared be-, fore them not as a theorist, but as a j reviewer. He did not profess or under take to fix the antiquity of man, or, in other words, to tell the date of his creation. There was a difference ot nearly 2000 years between the dates fixed by some of our most able and most reli able authorities on this matter. The pro gressive discoveries of science may in due course of time enable us to arrive at a proper solution of this difficulty. Eth nologists and philologists pretend to have discovered that man has existed not merely for GO 0 or 8000 years, but for thousands of centuries. His object was to examine what foundation there was for such a statement. He would address himself as a humble enquirer after know ledge in this branch of science. The work -which he would undertake to re view in relation to this subject was the great Sir Charles Lyell's celebrated trea tise " The Antiquity of Man. " To review this work thoroughly would supply mate rial for a long series of lectures, but he would confine himself to reviewing those parts which more immediately bore upon the present lecture. The peat bogs and mosses of Denmark were pointed to as strong evidences of the great antiquity of man. 