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throughout, to come nearer to the publications of the lamented author of the "Decision," &c. (the late Miss Kennedy,) than almost any thing we have seen. reader, we think, will be able to peruse this Work with indifference, the death-bed scene, in the last chapter in particular, is sketched with the hand of a master.

6. Otaheite; or, a Narrative of the Progress of the Gospel in the South Sea Islands; to which is prefixed a Short Account of the former Religion and Customs of the Natives; chiefly intended for the use of young People of Sabbath Schools. Price 1s. Waugh and Innes, Edinburgh; M. Ogle, Glasgow; R. M. Tims, Dublin; J. Nisbet, and Frederick Westley and A. H. Davis, London.

This work might very properly have been titled Otaheite Pagan and Otaheite Christian compared. The author has given a short account of the state of that island, in Captain Cook's time, and has very properly contrasted it with the state of both this and the neighbouring islands under the influence of the gospel. The religious history of the South Sea Islands is brought down to the present date. This work seems admirably adapted for a present to the scholars in Sabbath Schools. It is much fitted to excite a Missionary spirit among them.

7. Practical Observations, upon the Views and Tendency of the First Report of the " Commissioners of Irish Education Inquiry." Hatchard and Son.

The fatal bearings of the plan of education proposed by the Commissioners render a prompt exposure of it exceedingly desirable. The entire spirit of the Commission is indicative of erroneous views on the great national question to which it relates. The able writer of the Pamphlet before us has shewn, with great force of argument, the fearful hazard of the measures recommended. In so doing, he has done a great service to the Community, and especially to Ireland. We hope more fully to notice this Work.

8. Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible. Vol. IV. 4to. pp. 738, plates 68, price 21. 8s. Charles Taylor. As the contents of this volume have already passed under our notice in reviewing the fourth edition of this work, of which it forms an integral part, we shall only introduce it to our readers, for the purpose of stating, that when the late Editor was revising that edition for the press, he had a few extra copies printed of the volume in question, which consists of the additional matter introduced into that reprint, for the purpose of completing the sets of the former editions, which were in three volumes. This fourth Volume, contains the Fragments, Nos. 501 to 750--The attempt to arrange, in a systematic order, the Integral History of the Sacred Scriptures, and Explanations of the accompanying Plates.

LITERARY NOTICES.

We are happy to be able to state, that Memoirs of the late Rev. John Townsend, written by himself, are now in a state of great forwardness, and may be expected by his numerous friends in the course of six or eight weeks. Subscribers' names will be received by Messrs, Nisbet and Hatchard.

In the Press-In 1 vol. 8vo.-The History of the Crusades against the Albigenses, in the Thirteenth Century. Translated from the French of J. C. L. Simonde de Sismondi. With a Introductory Essay by the Translator.

The Mosaic Precepts elucidated and defended; by Moses Ben Maimon or Maimonides. Translated from the More Neyochim;" and accompanied with Notes and Dissertations, and a Life of Maimonides. By James Townley, D. D. Author of " Illustrations of Biblical Literature," &c. &c.

Several Ministers, in and near the County of Essex, have agreed to publish, in succession, ouce a fortnight,

a small work, entitled, the "Essex Congregational Remembrancer," being the substance of Sermons recently delivered to their own congregations.

Sovereignty; in which is contained an Examination of the Scripture Evidence for the Doctrines of Calvinism. By Robert Wilson, A. M.

The Rev. John Whitridge, of Manchester, is preparing for the Press, a selection of the most interest. ing Papers, left by the late Rev. J. B. Jefferson, of Attercliffe. The Volume will consist chiefly of Lectures on Prophecy, Biblical Criticisms, New Translations of Scripture, and Lectures delivered at the Monthly Meeting at Sheffield. The price will be about 58. Subscribers' Names must be forwarded to Mr. Leader's, Bookseller, Sheffield; Mr. Bragley's, Rother ham; and to the Chapel at Attercliffe.

SELECT LIST.

A Comparative View of Christianity, and of the other Forms of Religion which have existed, and still exist, in the world, particularly with regard to their moral tendency. By W. L. Brown, D. D., Principal of Marischal College, Aberdeen. 2 vols. 8vo. 18s.

Doddridge's Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul. With an Introductory Essay, by John Foster, Author of "Essays on Decision of Character," &c. 12mo. 6s. bds.-Royal 24mo. 38, 6d, bds.

Mead's Almost Christian Discovered. With an Introductory Essay, by the Rev. David Young. 12mo. 38. bds.-Royal 24mo. 2s, bds.

Baxter's Call to the Unconverted-Now or Never and Fifty Reasons why a Sinner ought to turn to God this day without delay. With an Introductory Essay, by Thomas Chalmers, D. D. 12mo. 4s, bds.

The Third Volume of the Christian and Civic Economy of Large Towns. By Thomas Chalmers, D.D. 8vo. 9s. bds. This Volume concludes the Work.

Old English and Hebrew Proverbs explained and illustrated. By William Carpenter. Beautifully printed in 32mo.

The Greatness of the Love of Christ. A Sermon, by D. E. Ford, Lymington.

Biblical Researches, and Travels in Russia, includ ing a Tour in the Crimea, and the Passage of the Caucasus, with Observations on the State of the Rabin. nical and Karaite Jews, the Mahomedan and Pagan Tribes inhabiting the Southern Provinces of the Rus sian Empire. By Dr. Henderson, Author of " A Residence in Iceland," with Maps and Plates, 8vo. Izram, a Mexican Tale, with other Poems; by the Author of " Osric." 12mo. 68. bds.

Pastoral Bereavement Improved, including a Funeral Oration, delivered at the Interment of the late Rev. P. S. Charrier, of Liverpool. By W. M. Walker. And a Funeral Sermon, preached on the following Sabbath, to the bereaved Church and Congre gation. By W. Roby.

Memoirs of the Rev. Andrew Fuller, of Kettering. By. J. W. Morris. A new and improved Edition, 8vo. bds.

The Spirit and Manners of the Age, Vol. I., with a beautiful Portrait of William Wilberforce, Esq. 78.

Part I., Richard Baynes's Select Catalogue of Books, Ancient and Modern, in every Department of Literature; comprising an extensive and popular collection of Works in Divinity, Foreign and English-Sermons-Classics-History, &c. with a few choice Books of Prints, Astrological Works, and many curious and uncommon Articles, interesting to the Divine, the Scholar, and the General Reader: the whole selling at unusually low prices, by Richard Baynes, 28, Paternoster-row, where Catalogues may be had, 23. each.

LONDON.

PROTESTANT UNION:

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF DECEASED MINISTERS OF ALL DENOMINATIONS.

AT the Annual Meeting, held on the 15th of May, the following resolutions were adopted, and now constitute a part of the laws of the society:

1. That the Widow of every member who has paid twenty-four Annual payments, shall be entitled, from the 25th of Dec. 1825, if of the first class, to £30.; if of the second, to £24.; if of the third, to £19. per annum.

2. That the sum to be paid to the child, or children of the deceased Members, who have no Widow, and who have paid twenty-four Annual payments, be at and after the same rate and proportion as specified in the present rules, but that the additions proposed and now adopted, are to be understood, as only prospective, and do not refer to the present

annuitants.

are to be limited, confined, and restricted, to the Members who belonged to the Society prior to May, 1825; and such as may have joined from that date, or may hereafter join the Society, shall not be entitled to any benefit or benefits, further than prescribed by the original rules, until the year 1832.

5. That every ministerjoining this Society, be immediately entitled to all its present benefits, on his being admitted a Member, and having paid his first Annual premium.

6. That for the future, the forfeit shall not be charged for non-payment of the subscription until two months after they become due. But if not paid within that time, the rule respecting the forfeits must be rigidly observed.

7. That the certificate of health be in future signed by medical men of acknowledged respectability; and if practicable, by a Member of the College of Physicians or Surgeons.

Apply to the Rev. W. F. Platt, 1, Hoxton Square.

CONTINENTAL SOCIETY.

We regret to find that in publishing, in our April Number, a paper relating to the operations of the Continental Society, some persons have been named as its agents who are only in correspondence with it, but who themselves have never received any pay from its funds. We hope that no inconvenience will result to those respectable individuals in consequence of this error.

EDUCATION IN CANADA.

We rejoice to hear that the Society which was formed, last summer, for the promotion of Education and Industry in Canada, has been kindly noticed in different parts of the United Kingdom. Several auxiliaries have been formed, and money has been collected to the amount of 10007. Mr. Osgood, who has been travelling as the agent of the Society, is expecting soon to return to the field of his labours; and we understand it is the design of the Society to send with him one or two approved teachers, with such books and apparatus as may be required in establishing schools and libraries. Books and tracts, suitable for country libraries and distribution, are received at Mr. Nisbet's, Mr. Hatchard's, and at 56, Paternoster

row.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM HAMBURGH,

HAMBURGH, May, 1826, The English reformed church in this city; to the erection

The numerous persons who have been relieved and refreshed under their sufferings, by the affectionate benevolence of British Christians, deeply feel their obligations, and pour out the prayers of gratitude and holy love for their generous benefactors. For the money not yet appropriated, we have sufficient reason to believe that a most excellent use will be found in assisting one of the banished ministers and a part of his flock, in transporting themselves to New Orleans. In that populous and commercial city a great number of French reside; the government of the United States is the most certain earthly protection for liberty of conscience, and the field of usefulness is very extensive and important.

I now trust that it is not an undue liberty to submit, that any future contributions, which generous persons may destine to this cause, will be applied to great advantage, and entirely in the spirit of their pious intention, by being added to a sum which the Rev. H. F. BURDER is collecting, in order to erect an humble dwelling for Mr. COLANY NÉE. of Lémé, in Picardy, one of the most laborious and useful ministers in France. He labours over a population extending nearly fifty miles in length, and on an average about ten in breadth. His usefulness is delightfully great. By his ministry, more

than 300 persons have been brought, there is good reason to hope, savingly to the knowledge of the truth, of whom about 100 had been Roman Catholics. To schools, the distribution of Bibles and Tracts, and the aid of the Missionary Society of Paris, this indefatigable pastor and his simple-hearted people render the greatest aid in their power, while some of them deny themselves salt to their herb-soup; and he lives in a very poor cottage, quite unsuitable for his character and station, and inadequate to the necessary accommodation of his family. If an humble, but substantial and sufficient, dwelling can be erected, it will be the Parsonage-house of the Protestant Pastor of that district, in perpetuity. One of the Exiled Swiss Ministers, now usefully employed in Paris, and who has not received any part of our donations, has shown his value for Mr. Colany Née's character, and his own liberality of mind, by taking one of his children and giving her board, clothing, and education.

Messrs. HANKEY will kindly receive contributions for this purpose, as they have for the conscientious Swiss sufferers. J. PYE SMITH.

THE APOCRYPHA CONTROVERSY : A Letter to the Editor of the Edinburgh Christian Instructor, occasioned by his recent Strictures on the Evangelical Magazine, &c. &c.

SIR, Accustomed as I have been to respect your talents, and to admire your zealous attachment to the cause of our common Lord, I should gladly have shrunk from meeting you in the character of a direct opponent; but the unsparing abuse you have recently heaped upon the conductors of the EvangeHical Magazine renders it necessary for me to attempt their apology, and to remind you, at least, that you have as little reason to impugn their integrity as you have to suspect your own.

In order that the public may judge be.. tween us in this matter, I shall endeavour, as briefly as possible, to lay before them an outline of the charges you have preferred against us, which I shall do fairly and candidly; after which I shall not scruple to test, with becoming Christian fidelity, both their temper and their justice.

In two successive numbers of the Edinburgh Christian Instructor we have been held up in the most odious lights to your intelligent readers. You have spoken of us as dealing" in angry and unsupported charges against the Edinburgh Committee's Second Statement ;”. Apocryphal Distribution;"---as guilty of apologists of silly and gratuitous misrepresentations;" ---as not qualified either by knowledge or candour to discuss the subject;"---as dis.

---as

posed to indulge in personality if we durst;" ---as never having" wielded our pen against the propagation of (Apocryphal) error ;". 85 I courting concealment, and fearing exposure;"---as " preferring the quiet and cunning way of going to work ;”---as 66 a species of trimmers, not approving in our conscience of the London Committee, and yet loth, very loth, to condemn them ;”--as mean and despicable," holding neither "the language, nor the dealing of honest men;"---as "speaking shyly of the London Committee, who are the authors of all the mischief, and railing against the Edinburgh Committee, by whom, along with others, that mischief has been brought to light;"---as 'incapable of judging on the (Apocrypha) questim, with either temper or accuracy;" "prejudiced, interested, time-serving conductors of the Evangelical Magazine;" ---as allowing that to "find its way into our pages," which was "concocted" in Edinburgh ;---as "disseminating over the country," our small-ware of absurdity and abuse;"---as "pretending to criticise what we never read;". "---as praising Dr. Gordon for qualities he never possessed ;---as "Daniels in judgment ;".--as justly to be "disregarded both for our weakness and our malignity."

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But when shall we reach the last count in this nauseating indictment? Is not this enough to exhibit against any poor set of culprits? Not, Mr. Editor, in your opinion; for, in reply to what we ventured to advance, in reference to the spirit or temper manifested in the Edinburgh Committee's second statement, you observe-" this is mere assertion: it is worse; it is fulse; it is worse still---its authors knew it to be false."

Now, Sir, although this unhesitating mode of writing may be gratifying to those who are deeply implicated in the indulgence of party-feeling, I cannot help concluding that impartial men, of all churches, will hesitate somewhat both as to its truth and temper.

Surely, Sir, you were bound at least to adhere to truth, in simple matters of fact; but this, I am grieved to say, you have not by any means done.

You have said that we are apologists for Apocryphal distribution, and that we have never wielded our pen against the diffusion of Apocryphal error. In direct opposition to both these statements, I beg leave to refer your readers and our own to the September Number of the Evangelical Magazine, in which it will be distinctly seen, that we considered the London Committee as prohibited, by the express LAW of the Bible Society, from circulating the Apocrypha,that we cautioned them against opposing themselves to the will of their constituents,and that we gave it as our opinion, that they ought completely to exonerate themselves

from the responsibility of giving the Apo crypha to the continental nations of Europe. To these views we still adhere; and do most heartily rejoice, that, in future, the London Committee will afford no direct sanction to the adulteration of God's most holy word.

I am fully aware, Sir, that you are not of this opinion, and that you are disposed to demand much more than has been conceded; but I most firmly believe, that considerably more than nine-tenths of the Christian Public would have censured the London Committee, had they proceeded one step further in compliance with the wishes of their brethren in Edinburgh.

Allow me, also, Sir, to express my surprise at the confident, and even insulting, manner in which you have asserted, that the article which appeared in the Magazine for May, on the subject of the Dissentients' Pamphlet, was concocted in Edinburgh, I assure you, Sir, with all your penetration, you are completely mistaken. No one connected, in the most distant way, either with the London or Edinburgh Committee, bad any hand in producing the obnoxious paper. But where, Sir, is your consistency, in having taken such a venture in the dark? Is it not unpardonable, in a professedly Christian writer, to indulge so wantonly in the spirit of misrepresentation? To this moment, Sir, the conductors of the Evangelical Magazine stand upon the most independent ground, are identified with no party-interests either in Scotland or England, and are ready to defend any line of conduct which they may deem consistent and scriptural, by whatever body of men it may be pursued.

And now, Sir, one word as to the temper you have displayed towards us. Here however, I find I am in great difficulty; for you seem to be of opinion that there is no such thing as a bad spirit, if a writer but adheres to what he considers to be truth. What, Sir; and may not the truth be disgraced by the unholy temper of its advocate? I will venture to assert, that there is not a more scornful or aggravating list of epithets to be found in the most worldly part of the press, than the one with which I have ventured to refresh your memory. Had we been infidels, or Socinians, or professed believers in all the follies of the Apocrypha, you could have found no terms of greater severity to apply to us. The vocabulary of derision and abuse you have well righ exhausted. But this is not all; you have given us the lie, in the most positive terms, where opinion merely, and not fact, was concerned. In the Evangelical Magazine for May, we ventured to characterize the second appeal of the Edinburgh Committee, as "a statement partaking as much of the spirit of the world, and as little of the spirit of Christ, as any one we ever read, on a similar subject," This you say,

"is false; it is worse still-its authors knew. it to be false." Now, it is true, our opinion may be false, or rather, incorrect, but how could you, or any man, obtain conviction that its author's knew it to be fulse." Its authors, sir, did not know it to be false; on the contrary, they still hold it, conscientiously, to be true;-in short, their opinion is unaltered, and I may add, unalterable. The general principles of that statement are, beyond doubt, in many respects, valuable-they are the very principles for which we have all along been the temporate advocates; but the misrepresentations and special pleadings of the pamphlet in question, are lamentably numerous, and the indications of an uncharitable disposition are but too obvious to every one whose mental vision is not jaundiced by prejudice. What can be more erroneous than the pervading representation of that work-viz. That the Members of the London Committee are, with few exceptions, strongly attached to the Apocrypha ? They are not so, and they

never have been so.

And now, Sir, having said thus much, I hope without any violation of Christian de

In the evening, the Rev. T. Adkins improved the death of the late highly respected and beloved father of the Association, Dr. Bogue, from Heb. xi. 4, "He being dead yet speaketh." An affectionate memorial of departed worth and usefulness. Rev. Messrs. Goulty and Griffin, engaged in prayer; Rev. J. Reynolds preached on the preceding evening, from 1 Pet. iii. 21. "The answer of a good conscience towards God."

The next Meeting of the Association is appointed to be held at Christchurch, on Wednesday, the 11th of October, when the Rev. Mr. Mann is appointed to preach, on "the power of Christ in the administration of the affairs of his kingdom.”

The Annual Meeting of the Kent Independent Association will be held at Deal, on Wednesday, the 5th of July. On the same day will also be held the General Meeting of the Kent Union Society, for the relief of the Widows and Orphans of Gospel Ministers in that county.

NEWPORT PAGNELL EVANGELICAL INSTITUTION

ever this angry contest. Indeed, unless absolutely compelled, I hope never to resume it, To you, and to all mankind, I wish to entertain feelings of the most perfect benevolence, and will, notwithstanding all that has passed, cordially pray for your success in the good work of the Lord. Pity it is that Christians cannot differ from each other in the spirit of their common faith. If we cannot, in all things, see eye to eye, may we not at least strive to be of one heart. But if Christians bite and devour one another, wherein do they distinguish themselves from the enemies of the Cross? That we may all, in future, study more the meekness and gentleness of Christ, is the sincere prayer of,

Sir, your obedient, humble Servant,
THE EDITORn.

PROVINCIAL.

ASSOCIATIONS.

THE half-yearly Meeting of the Hants Association, was held at Ryde, on Wednesday the 26th of April, when the Rev. D. Ford, preached on the given subject,-" The greatness of the love of Christ," from John xi. 36. "Then said the Jews, behold how he loved him." The Rev. J. Griffin presided at the administration of the Lord's Supper; addresses to the communicants and spectators were delivered by the Rev. Messrs. Hunt, Bishop, and Reynolds; and the Rev. Messrs. Mann, Scamp, Adams, Eastman, and Jefferson, conducted the devotional exerCines

Christian Ministry.

The Annual Meeting of the Friends of this Institution, resident in London and its vicinity, will be held at the King's Head Tavern, in the Poultry, on Wednesday Evening, July 5, at Six o'clock, to receive the Report, &c.

The Anniversary of this Institution was held at the Rev. T. Bull's Meeting-house, at Newport Pagnell, on Wednesday, May 25, when two appropriate Sermons were preached by the Rev. T. Lewis, of Islington, and the Rev. J. Morison, of Brompton. The lively interests evinced by the numerous and respectable congregations assembled, demonstrated an increased conviction of the importance and utility of this long-established seminary, which has for its object, by the combination of solid and useful learning with genuine piety, to improve natural talent, and thus instrumentally to augment the number of able ministers of the New Testament.

ORDINATIONS.

Sept. 14th, 1825, Mr. Lewis Lewis was ordained over the Independent Congregations at Henryd and Salem, in the county of Caernarvon; the Rev. A. Jones, Bangor, commenced the service by reading and prayer. The introductory discourse was delivered by Rev. D. Roberts, Denbigh; the questions were asked by Rev. W. Jones, Horeb; the ordination prayer was offered up by Rev. O. Thomas, Llanfechell; the charge to the Minister, by Rev. T. Lewis, Pollhelly; and the Rev. D. Griffith, Bethel, preached to the people. The hymns