regard to moral courage and entire devotion to the cause of truth, the answer is obvious. The amount of grace, which warrants the soldiers of Christ in seeking the high office in view, will secure both these traits of character. In other words, those who have such views of the Christian ministry, as to feel their absolute need of these qualifications, will readily find means to attain them. Those who enter the ministry as a worldly profession, will not need them. Their aims being no higher than such as prompt the worldling in any sphere; they seek no higher ground in preparation for their work.

În reference to intellectual attainments of the self-furnishing kind, there is more to encourage all persons in their pursuit, than many imagine. It appears to us, that the human mind has seldom, perhaps never yet, comprehended its own susceptibilities. The intellectual powers depend much for their development upon the greater or less development of the active powers. The high pressure stimulus under which Bonaparte or Alexander acted, might have developed as much fertility of device, might have favoured as much independency of thought and judgment in ten thousand other minds as in their own. Or, to take a case more obviously parallel to that of the Christian minister: might not a similar press of motive make thousands of men, who are now unknown, as truly great as Martin Luther? Suppose, then, an individual of only common talents enters the Gospel ministry at the present moment, there is surely as much to enlist his whole energy in the cause of Christ as ever can press upon a human being. Almost the whole human race is as really going down to death as in the days of the Apostle Paul. Every well directed effort is as visibly crowned with success as at any period of the world. No single man could, in our estimation, have ever hoped to win more souls to Christ, by an unreserved consecration of all his talents to the work of the Lord. Let this vast pressure of motive be felt in all its power, as it is by some individuals. We cannot suppose a case more favourable for the development of the highest powers belonging to the human mind. Those who have felt their own intellectual powers improving by each step of their advance in holiness, can easily conceive, that were any tolerably gifted and cultivated mind progressively freed from sin, till less remained than has polluted the best of our race, he might as far surpass the common mind in true mental attainments as in moral worth. Here it is interesting to remark one of the ways in which moral attainments

favour intellectual advancement. Deficiency in power of attention is one of the main obstacles to our progress in knowledge. This depends upon the occupation of the mind by other things than the subject before it. Those other things are often uneasinesses of mind or body which result from sinful affections and practices. Suppose then, an individual has moral strength to treat body and mind in all respects as nature, experience and revelation require. The body would lose its power to clog the soul and hinder the free play of its powers. The mind might be concentrated with almost an Angels force upon each subject of thought, and thus produce results above any which the mind can ever reach in less favoured circumstances. There can be little doubt, but the perfect peace of mind which attends an almost overwhelming desire to glorify God, may so far favour this concentration of mind, in the case of men now living, as to bring forward great minds in the place of those most common in their powers. In heaven we may expect these results will be universal; and it, perhaps, remains to be seen how much of heavenly purity and angelic thought may yet fire the bosom of man. It seems perfectly within the reach of all Christian Students, by proper attention to the rules for the promotion of health, and the production of intellectual vigor, when favoured by the love of God filling the whole mind, to rise above any attainments which the world has seen. That such will be a common case, at no distant period, we firmly believe.

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Select List of Recent Publications.

BIBLICAL.

Scott's Family Bible, revised and corrected by the Rev. Josiah Pratt, B. D. Vicar of St. Stephens, Coleman street, London. 3 vols. imperial 8vo. London, 1831.

Outlines of Scriptural Geography, with an Atlas, by Joseph E. Worcester. Second edition, revised and corrected. Boston, 1831.

A Key to the Revelation of St. John the Divine, being an analysis of those parts of that wonderful book which relate to the general state of the Christian Church, through all the times since it was written, and to the peculiar signs of those times. By the Rev. Philip Allwood. London. The Greek Testament, with English Notes. By the Rev. Dr. Burton, Regius Professor of Divinity. In 2 volumes. London.

The Book of the Prophet Isaiah, translated from the Hebrew text of Vanderhooght. London, 1831.

Van der Palm, Ueber die Mosaische Erzahlung von der Schopfung der Welt. Wesel.

Die Funf Bucher Mosis; verstandiget von S. Paulus. Cassel,

Reply to Professor Stuart's Energetical Essays on several words relating to future punishment. By Walter Balfour. Boston. pp. 238.

THEOLOGICAL, &c.

The whole works of Edward Reynolds, D. D., Lord Bishop of Norwich, now first collected, with a Life of the Author. By Alexander Chalmers, Esq. 6 vols. 8vo. London.

Divarication of the New Testament into Doctrine and History. London, 1831.

[This is a work of the noted follower of Kant, Thomas Wirgman, a mechanic of London, who has for many years fruitlessly endeavoured to engraft the German metaphysics upon the sturdy stock of British common sense. He now applies his system to Theology, "by attempting to prove on the solid basis of Reason, the undeniable fact of the Divinity of Christ, from the evidence of the doctrine he promulgated to the world, whose absolute purity and perfect sublimity show at once that it could not be

earth-born, but must have descended from those effulgent regions of never ending bliss-heaven. This desideratum (he adds) once accomplished, Church Union fol lows of course: for where the doctrine is universal, the community who adopt it cannot fail to be the same."-This work may possibly be approved by such as have digested the transcendentalism of Mr. Coleridge.]

Illustrations of the Practial Power of Faith, in a Series of Discourses on the first part of the Eleventh Chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews. By B. T. Binney. London.

Errors regarding Religion and Thoughts on Prayer at the present time. 1 vol. 12mo. Boston. [Containing the rise of Polytheism and Pantheism-Early Corruptions of Christianity-Popery-MysticismHeresies after the Reformation-Infidelity-Present State of ErrorsUniversal Christianity.] By James Douglas, author of Hints on Missions, &c.

The Theological Class Book. Containing a System of Divinity, in the form of Question and Answer, accompanied with Scripture Proofs, designed for the use of Theological Classes, and the higher classes in Sabbath Schools. By the Rev. William Cogswell, author of "The Assistant to Family Religion." 1 vol. 18mo. pp. 196. Boston.

The Christian Ministry, with an Inquiry into the Causes of its Inefficiency. By Rev. Charles Bridges, B. A., Vicar of Old Newton, Suffolk. 2 vols. 12mo. Boston and New York, 1831.

A Brief Statement of the Doctrine of the Holy Scripture concerning the Second Advent of our blessed Lord. By P. Bathwick, Esq. London. An Inquiry into the proofs, nature and extent of Inspiration, and into the authority of Scripture. By Samuel Hinds. London.

Biblical Notes and Dissertations, chiefly intended to confirm and illustrate the doctrine of the deity of Christ. By J. J. Gurney. London. The Errors of Romanism traced to their origin in human nature. By Dr. Whately.

Miscellaneous Writings of Rev. Matthew Henry, Edited by J. B. Williams.

Select Practical Works of Rev. John Howe and William Bates. Collected and arranged with biographical sketches. By James Marsh, President of the University of Vermont. Burlington, 1830.

Benjamin Constant. De la Religion, considérée dans ses sources, ses formes & ses developpements. Tomes 5, 8vo. Paris.

Doddridge's Miscellaneous Works, with an Introductory Essay by Rev. T. Morell. Complete in one vol. royal 8vo. Boston.

Infant Baptism a scriptural ordinance, and Baptism by sprinkling lawful. By William G. Hamilton, A. M. Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Newark, N. J.

Lectures on Universalism. By Joel Parker, Pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church, Rochester.

The Works of the Right Rev. John Stark Ravenscroft, D. D. containing his Sermons, Charges, and Controversial Tracts, with a Memoir of his Life. 2 vols. pp. 471 and 573. New York.

A Practical Exposition of the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Mark, in the form of lectures, intended to assist the practice of domestic instruction and devotion. By John Bird Summer, Bishop of Chester. London. Essays, adapted to the understanding of young persons, on the Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion, the Immortality of the Soul, &c. By R. Ainslie. London.

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY AND POLITY.

A Chart of Ecclesiastical History from the Christian Era to the present day. On the plan of the "Stream of Time." London, 1831.

History of the Church, published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. London, 1830-31. 8vo. Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, and other works; with his Life by Isaac Walton, and Strype's Interpolations. To which are now first added, the "Christian Letter" to Mr. Hooker, and Dr. Covel's "Just and temperate Defence" in reply to it; accompanied by an Introduction, a Life of Thomas Cartwright, B. D., and numerous notes. By Benjamin Hanbury. London.

The Book of the Priesthood. An Argument in Three Parts. Part I. The Christian Ministry not a Priesthood. Part II. Christ the only, but all-sufficient Priest of the Christian Church. Part III. The Levitical terms employed in the New Testament, which do not apply exclusively to Christ, belong equally to all true Christians. By Thomas Stratten. London, 8vo. 1831.

Observations on the History of the Preparation of the Gospel, and its early propagation, from the dedication of Solomon's Temple to the end of the first Christian century. By Rev. J. Collinson.

[This work is said to contain "a summary of the leading events relating to the preparation which was made by Providence for the establishment of the New Law, and for its early propagation among the Gentiles. The author's object is to assist those missionaries who are too often sent out with but a very imperfect knowledge of the mode in which Christianity was propagated by the Apostles and their companions."]

An attempt to ascertain the Chronology of the Acts of the Apostles. By Rev. Dr. Burton.

J. K. Korner. Julian der Abtrunnige, oder die traurigen Folgen der Veranstaltung des reinen Christenthums. Schneeberg.

D. Ritter. Handbuch der Kirchengeschichte. 2tes. B.-Bonn.

F. Fiedler. Tabula Ecclesiastica Historiæ, Seriem XIX. sæculorum chronistice exhibens. Leipzig.

Memoirs of Augustus Hermann Francke. American Sunday School Union.

NARRATIVE.

Memoirs of John Frederick Oberlin, Pastor of Waldbach, in the Ban de la Roche; compiled from authentic sources, chiefly French and German. First American Edition, with a Dedication and translations. By the Rev. Luther Halsey, Professor of Theology in the Western Theological Seminary. 1831. Boston.

The Life and Times of the Rev. Richard Baxter, with a critical examination of his writings. By the late Rev. William Orme, author of Memoirs of Owen, Bibliotheca Biblica, and one of the Secretaries of the London Missionary Society. 2 vols. 8vo. Boston, 1831.

Journal of a Tour to Malta, Greece, Asia Minor, Carthage, Algiers, Port Mahon and Spain, in 1828. By Samuel Woodruff, Esq. Agent of the New York Greek Committee. New York, 1831.