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The organization, the numbers, the character, and the influence of the Presbyterian Church in the United States have justified the expectation of a noble effort by her in the cause of foreign missions. She has not met this reasonable hope. She has not acted on this subject in a way worthy of her avowed allegiance to God, of her professed love to man, and of her pure and powerful witness to the truth at home. disregard of foreign missions has been in singular contrariety to the promptitude and effect with which she has sustained each great domestic enterprise in behalf of Christianity, as they have in succession presented themselves before her. this moment every Presbytery in the Church (and they amount to almost one hundred) ought, on a general average, to provide one foreign missionary, and then to sustain him in the field of his labours. Whether our lethargy on this subject result from the want of missionary organization in the bosom of the Church, or from the still more distressing and criminal want of a missionary spirit, we have all a great public sin to confess and to forsake. The Church has sinned; and we her ministers have sinned still more. It is high time that we had all repented of this sin, and evidenced the soundness of our repentance by a due and deep reform. Then let every minister awake, and let every member awake, at the call of the divine Redeemer, to regard the claims of the dying heathen.

To the youth of our Church are we especially to look for that Christian enterprise, which, under God, shall rouse the energies of the Church; shall rescue her venerated name from reproach among men, and bear her heavenly charities to heathen lands.

To these young brothers in the Lord, who are standing on the threshold of the most elevated and most awful of human trusts, we would most affectionately say, "take not your standard of action from your fathers and elder brethren in the ministry. Shame covers our faces when we turn them towards the continents, where darkness and death eternal reign. Pause before you select a field of future labour, and survey these wide and awful desolations of many generations! Listen to the groans of dying millions as they ascend to heaven! Count not your own lives dear to you, in comparison of their eternal good! Come forth from your sacred shades of study and devotion to kindle our hearts anew in this great service! Come! not only to point us, but lead us to that field to which the finger of God directs you, and the wail of perishing nations calls you!"

Select List of Recent Publications.

BIBLICAL.

Gulielmi Gesenii Lexicon Manuale Hebraicum et Chaldaicum, in Vet. Testamenti libros. Editio Latina post Germanicam tertiam denuo pertractata et pluribus locis locupletata. 8vo. Leipsic.

Gesenius's Larger Lexicon to the Books of the Old Testament, including the Geographical names and Chaldaic words in Ezra and Daniel. Translated into English by Christopher Leo, formerly Teacher of German and Hebrew in the University of Cambridge, late Professor of German at the Royal Military College, Bagshot, &c. &c.

[Beautifully printed in two volumes, quarto, at the Cambridge University Press.]

Parkhurst's Greek and English Lexicon to the New Testament. A new edition, comprising the more valuable parts of the works of some other writers. By Hugh James Rose, B.D. of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Novum Testamentum Græce. Textum ad fidem testium criticorum recensuit, lectionum familias subjecit, e Græcis codicibus manu scriptis qui in Europa et Asiæ bibliothecis, fere omnibus, e versionibus Antiquis, Conciliis, Sanctis Patribus, et Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, quibuscunque, vel primo vel iterum collatis, copias criticas addidit, atque conditionem horum testium criticorum historiamque textus N. T. in Prolegomenis fusius exposuit, præterea Synaxaria codicum K. M. 262, 274. typis exscribenda curavit Dr J. Martin. Augustinus Scholz, Vol. I. (IV. Evangelia Complectens) 4to. Leipsic. 1830.

The book of Psalms, newly translated from the Hebrew, and with explanatory notes. By W. French, D.D. and G. Skinner, M.A. of Jesus College. Cambridge.

THEOLOGY.

Die Rationalisten sind doch Christen. Von C. F W. Clemen. 8vo. Altenburg.

Essai sur le Christianisme, envisagé dans ses rapports avec la perfectibilité de l'Etre moral. Par Edouard Diodati. 8vo. Ge

neva.

The Entire Works of Martin Luther. Edited by Ammon and Elsperger. 30 vols, 8vo. Erlangen.

The Works of Philip Melancthon, selected for popular use. By F. A. Köthe. 6 vols. Leipsic.

A Series of the most esteemed Divines of the Church of England, with Lives of each Author, Arguments of each Sermon or Discourse, Notes, &c. By the Rev. S. S. Hughes, B.D. (published monthly), London.

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The Christian Sabbath its Institution and Obligation, in a letter occasioned by some recent publications. By Richard Mant, D.D. Bishop of Down and Connor.

Popular Lectures on the Prophecies Relating to the Jewish Nation. By the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, Chaplain to the Archbishop of Dublin.

A Scriptural Answer to the Question, How may I know that I am an Adopted Child of God. By Nathanael Dwight. M.D. Norwich. Pp. 208, 12mo.

Select Practical Theology of the Seventeenth Century; comprising the best practical works of the great English Divines, and other congenial authors of the age, connected and arranged with biographical notes. By James Marsh, President of the University of Vermont. In 5 vols 8vo. Burlington.

BUCK'S THEOLOGICAL DICTIONARY, New American from the latest London Edition. Revised and improved by the ad"dition of many new articles, and the whole adapted to the present state of Theological Science and of the Religious World, by the Rev. GEO. BUSH, A.M. Philadelphia: James Kay, Jun. & Co. Library Street. Pittsburg: John J. Kay & Co. No. 95, Market Street.

[We name this edition a second time that we may find an opportunity to recommend it as a great improvement upon all preceding editions of the work. The numerous editions and extensive sale of Buck's Dictionary sufficiently prove how well it is adapted to supply the want of the Christian public. Whatever the defects of the original may have been, it was the only compilation of the kind, and could be replaced by no similar book in the English languge. The additions made by the American Editor are numerous and satisfactory, and the neatness and cheapness of the work place it within the reach of every family.]

Letters to Rev. Nathaniel W. Taylor, D.D. By Leonard Woods, D.D. Andover. Published by Marle Newnan.

BUNYAN'S HOLY WAR. With Explanatory and Practical Notes, by the Rev. George Burder, Author of Village Sermons, Notes on Pilgrim's Progress, &c. In 1 vol. 18mo, and in 12mo.

A new Stereotype Edition, with Plates. Philadelphia: James Kay, Jun. & Co. Library Street. Pittsburg: John I. Kay & Co. No. 95, Market Street,

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.

The Life of Reginald Heber, D.D. Lord Bishop of Calcutta. By his Widow. With Selections from his Correspondence, unpublished poems, and private papers; together with a Journal of his Tour in Norway, Sweden, Russia, Hungary and Germany, and a History of the Cossaks. London. 2 vols, 4to. New York. 2 vols, 8vo. 1830.

The Correspondence and Diary of Philip Doddridge, D.D. Edited from the original MSS. By his great grandson John Doddridge Humphreys, Esq. Vol. III. London. 1830.

A History of the Augsburg Confession (German). By F. W. M. Hammerschmidt. 8vo. Elberf.

History of the Russian Church (German). By P. Strahl. 8vo. Halle.

Histoire Universelle de l'Eglise Chretienne. Par J. Matter. 8vo. Dictionary of the History of Christianity and the Church. By Dr A. N. Niemeyer. 3 vols, 8vo. Leipsic.

The Life and Correspondence of Bishop Horsley. By W. P. Lawson, M.A. London.

The Life of Archbishop Cranmer. By Henry John Todd. London.

Narrative of a Second Visit to the Waldenses of the Valley of Piedmont, with an Inquiry into the Antiquity and Purity of the Waldensian Church. By W. S. Gilley, Prebendary of Durham. London.

Elements of Dogmatic History. By Wm. Muenscher, S.T.D. Translated from the second edition of the German, by James Murdoch, D.D. New Haven. Pp. 203, 12mo.

Memoirs of Rev. Levi Parsons, First Missionary to Palestine from the United States. Second edition, with additions. By Daniel O. Morton. Burlington. Pp. 408, 12mo.

Memoirs of the Life and Character of the Rev. Samuel Hopkins, D.D. By John Ferguson. Boston. 18mo.

The History of the Old South Church in Boston, in four Sermons, &c. By Benjamin B. Wisner, D.D. Pastor of the Church. Boston. Pp. 122, 8vo.

SERMONS AND ADDRESSES.

Religion and State; not Church and State. A Sermon on Psalm ii. 10-12. Delivered July 4th, 1830. By Andrew Wylie, D.D. President of Indiana College. Bloomington.

A Series of Sixty Manuscript Sermons. By a Doctor in Divinity. London.

[This is a species of publication, to be forever unknown, we trust, in this country. It consists of sermons lithographed in imitation of manuscript, so arranged as to be used separately; by means of which a preacher may very safely impose the compositions on his hearers as original. The present compilation is said to be better adapted to their avowed object than any previous attempt of the same kind.']

An Address delivered before the Peace Society of Exeter, N. H. at their annual meeting, April 1830. By Oliver W. B. Peabody. Exeter.

Ordination by Elders Vindicated. A Discourse delivered May 12, 1830, at the Dudleian Lecture at Harvard University. By William Allen, D.D. Boston. 1830.

Six Lectures on the Parable of the Prodigal Son, delivered in the Parish Church of Bradford-Abbas, Dorset. By the Rev. Robert Grant. London.

EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY.-A pocket volume comprising a number of the most popular and able Treatises in defence of the Christian Religion, will shortly be put to press by the Publishers of the Biblical Repertory.

At the present day when strenuous and united efforts are made throughout our land to disorganize society, prostrate the institutions of Christ, and impugn the divine claims of our holy religion, nothing can be more seasonable than a manual which may afford to every man who is able to read, a complete panoply against the fiery darts of infidelity. The work will be beautifully printed in a volume of about 500 pages, 18mo. or 12mo. and will be sold at such a price as to place it within the reach of every Christian reader in the country. It is intended to comprise the following works of established reputation : 1. Watson's Apology for Christianity. 2. Watson's Apology for the Bible. 3. Jenyns's View. 4. Paley's Evidences. 5. Leslie's Short Method with Deists.

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