lined with a cloth of purple color; and must gird the body above the inner gown with a sash of crimson-colored silk." The head must be covered with a black cap, and the hair be allowed to grow long, and hang about the shoulders, in the common manner of the Greek clergy. Numerous rules are also given for the conduct of the students, and some cautions are administered, which indicate a sad state of morals among the people. An exclusion from society is enjoined, that has an air of monastic rigidity, but probably it is no greater than prudence requires.

The student ordinarily remains five years in the seminary, At the end of that time, if his age be suitable, and he has obtained the different degrees, he may receive orders as a deacon, or presbyter. If a student renounce his clerical profession, and retire from the seminary without sufficient reasons, he is required to refund the expenses incurred by the government on his account, and may be debarred from all public employments; and the remaining students are forbidden to have intercourse with him.

'The statutes define the studies of the seminary to be theology, and whatever goes to illustrate theology, together with the ec clesiastical services and ceremonies. From other sources we learned, that the summary of christian divinity, by Platon, late metropolitan of Moscow, translated into modern Greek by Coray, with some additions by the university professor of divinity, is at present used as a text-book; and we have the authority of Professor Bambas for saying, that Platon's work gives a faithful representation of the doctrines sanctioned by the highest uninspired authorities of the Greek church. The theological students may attend the various lectures of the university; and if they have a taste for music, they are instructed in that which is practised in their churches. In their vacations, they are required to be taught the theory of agriculture.

'Twice a month, on the Sabbath, the professor of sacred hermeneutics and the principal of the seminary, who is also professor of ethical theology, are expected alternately to preach a sermon before the students, adapted to the gospel of the day; and they are to discuss, and to enforce upon the attention of their pupils, all those religious virtues, which are so indispensable to the sta tion for which the beneficiaries are intended, and all those virtues which are designed to bless man in his numerous social relations. The students, also, are to be exercised in preaching, at the discretion of their professors; morning and evening they must at tend prayers in the public hall, with the principal and tutors; and frequent confession is enjoined upon them. When they have completed their studies, the general committee of education,

say the statutes," being assured of their talents and morality, shall give them the preference in the nomination proposed to government of teachers and assistants of secondary and primary schools. All those, however, who may be distinguished in the exercise of pulpit eloquence, shall be appointed as preachers in the different islands; and according to the conduct of the students, the reputation they shall have acquired, and the information and evidence in possession of government, they shall be preferred in the filling of vacancies, which occur in ecclesiastical dignities."-The number of students in the Theological Seminary, in the early part of 1829, was about twenty.'—pp. 254-7.

Our limits forbid our making any extracts from the interesting chapter on the Greek Church, which closes the book. With one passage in this chapter we were somewhat forcibly struck. Mr Anderson has been stating the well known fact, that the religion of the Greeks consists very much in external observances, and that the common people are apt to hold in light estimation the christian character of Americans, when they are told that they eat meat in their fasts, and do not make the sign of the cross, nor confess to the priests, nor invoke the saints. He then adds, 'Yet must it not be understood, that the Greeks believe there is no salvation out of the pale of their church. They estimate the dignity and privileges of membership in their church very highly, but they set up no such arrogant claim as this.'

Do they not? So far we honor them. But if they did, would they be wholly unsupported by the example of Protestants, American Protestants, and at this very day and hour? Are there none among us who set up this 'arrogant claim?' Are there none who undertake to deny salvation to multitudes of their neighbours, whose faith, to say the least of it, is as honest, and whose works are as good as their own? Let them go abroad, among a strange people, bigoted like themselves, and then they may learn how it feels to be denied salvation. Poor humanity! Thus it is that rough experience must teach it, slowly and painfully. Thus it is that the blind must often be made to see, and the deaf to hear.

Whether this volume does, or does not afford a complete exposition of the views of the missionaries with regard to Greece, we are not qualified to say. We have no right to suspect that it does not. With Mr Anderson's opinions, as therein expressed, we are ready to agree, almost word by word.

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We believe that it is a good work to establish schools, and to distribute school-books and the sacred scriptures among the Greeks. We believe that money spent for these and similar purposes, is much better laid out than in getting up childish processions, or fancy balls, or subscription dinners, professedly in honor of a revolution or a victory, but really for the amusement and gratification of the vulgar and the vain.

NOTE.-I cannot close a five years' connexion with this work, which, for that period, has been the object of my thoughts and cares to which all other objects have been secondary, without recording on the last page for which I shall be in any way responsible, an expression of the gratitude I feel towards those who have cooperated with me in its management. My obligations, at different periods, have been to each so signal, that to make distinctions or exceptions would be invidious. I therefore beg them, all, to accept this public testimony of my thanks. FRANCIS JENKS.

Boston, Dec. 31, 1831.

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