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when the papal aggression had excited universal apprehension and indignation in our land, was laudably offered by the Religious Tract Society for the best treatise on popery, which should forcibly contrast its great leading errors with the pure Christianity of the bible, and by its powerful appeals, clear statements of facts, and simple illustrations, should be especially adapted to the common people. We have read it with much pleasure, and general, if not unqualified approbation, and we think it calculated to awaken an intelligent and wholesome hostility to the most subtle and dangerous enemy of the gospel of Christ: it has also reminded us of some essentially popish features of our own establishment and even of dissenting communities. The writer, several years a resident in southern India, has had ample opportunity of becoming acquainted with the practical working of the church of Rome, and has also availed himself of those writings which elucidate its spirit and operations. The subject is treated first analytically and historically, and then controversially. The characteristic features of popery, the secret of its strength, its leading errors, their incipient forms, and the sources to which they may be historically traced, are marked out with clearness and general accuracy. The conditions of the argument between popery and pure Christianity are well put. The opposition of the infallibility assumed by the Church of Rome to the word of God; of the power of the priest

and the supremacy of the pope to the sovereignty of Christ; of the sacrifice of the mass and the idolatry involved therein to reason and the atonement of Christ; of the sacraments and rites of the Church of Rome to justification by faith alone and sanctification by the word and Spirit of the Lord; and of the maxims and practices of popery as idolatry, deception, and persecution to the moral law, is forcibly argued, whilst the belief and practice of the Church of Rome on these several points are indisputably proved. The accordance of popery with the predictions of inspiration is also shown, and one can scarcely fail to perceive in the fainter developments of popery in the early or Nicene age of the church, the fulfilment of the language of Paul, "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils; speaking lies in hypocrisy, and having their conscience seared with a hot iron; forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats;" or, to recognize in the permanent characteristics of full-grown popery that system of iniquity predicted as the "Man of sin, the son of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God showing himself that he is God. . . . whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness."

BRIEF NOTICES.

Memoirs of the Lives of Robert Haldane of Airthrey, and of his brother, James Alexander Haldane. By ALEXANDER HALDANE, Esq., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-atLaw. London: 1852. 8vo., pp. xvi., 676.

Robert and James Haldane were two of the

most remarkable men of the last generation. Connected by birth with influential families, inheriting property of considerable value, possessing more than an average share of physical and intellectual power, they gave themselves in early life to the pursuit of one object, and in seeking it they co-operated together harmo

niously throughout a long series of years. From
1795 to 1841 it was their constant business and
delight to labour with all earnestness and dili-
gence to promote the interests of the Re-
deemer's kingdom; and though more must
remain to be revealed hereafter, much of their
success was visible to themselves and their
contemporaries. Their hearts were brought
under the influence of the gospel at about the
same time; their judgment was generally coin-
cident in respect both to principles and to
practical measures; and in the changes which
they experienced as increasing light broke in
upon them, they went on in general with nearly
equal steps. Robert, the elder, being by far
the wealthier, and having less routine duty to
perform, was the more prominent of the two,
and was generally regarded as the leader; but
in the council chamber, we apprehend that the
influence of the younger brother was usually
predominant. The history of the senior is
better known than that of the junior, ten
years having clapsed since his death, while the
removal of the latter did not take place till
February, 1851; but the biographer has done
wisely in weaving their stories together, for
they and their exertions were connected in-
separably. They well deserved that an octavo
volume should be published about them, though
they were but fallible men. It seemed to some
of their contemporaries as though a stronger
consciousness of their own fallibility would in
some cases have imparted an additional charm
to their admirable character. Muscular in
body, in mind, and in creed, they were rather
fonder of wrestling than to some of us southerns
seemed pleasant; but the love of the truth was
very strong in them, and they were consci-
entious in all things. The biographer, who is
the eldest surviving son of Mr. James Haldane,
has fulfilled his duty in a manner for which
the public will thank him. We cordially com-
mend the work to the attention of readers of
all classes, but especially to those to whose care
many talents have been entrusted.
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomus
Chalmers, D.D., LL.D. By his Son-in-
Law, the Rev. WILLIAM HANNA, LL.D., Vol.
IV. Edinburgh: Constable and Co. London:
Hamilton and Co., pp. 610.

The complete biography of the kind hearted Scottish giant, whose eminence as a theological teacher was acknowledged while he vet lived by all protestants throughout the civilized world, is now before us. Some who well deserved to be held in remembrance have soon after their decease sunk into oblivion, because their history was never written; and some have suffered greatly in their posthumous reputation through the incompetence or unfaithfulness of those who

undertook to describe their career; but these volumes will transmit to posterity a view of Dr. Chalmers so ample and so correct, that he will be regarded with reverence and affection by thousands who are yet unborn. A full account of the steps which led to separation from the ecclesiastical establishment of those ministers who formed the Free Church, and of the infancy of the Free Church itself, is given of course in this last volume; but there is much else in it which to many readers will be

more interesting. It details the zealous and successful efforts made by Dr. Chalmers on behalf of West Port, a district of Edinburgh, which had been notorious for filth, crime, and ungodliness, but in which now the habit of attendance on public worship is as general as in any part of the city, while it is not known that there is a single child of any family resident in it who is not at school. Pleasing illustrations are afforded also of his domestic habits, and of his peculiarities in social intercourse, down to the Lord's day evening on which he retired to rest, waving his hand and saying, "A general good night." In the morning, "The expression of the face undisturbed by a single trace of suffering; the position of the body so easy that the least struggle would have disturbed it; the very posture of arms, and hands, and fingers, known to his family as that into which they fell naturally in the moments of entire repose,-conspired to show, that, saved all strife with the last enemy, his spirit had passed to its place of blessedness and glory in the heavens."

A Letter of Example, Exhortation, and Reproof to the Seceders from his Church; together with a Brief Notice of Some Passages in the Ministerial Life of his late Curate, Mr. Richard Jones Temple, alias Richard Jones, &c., &c. By ROBERT L. HILL, M.A., Incumbent of St. Barnabas, King Square, London, London: Eglington, 1852. 8vo., pp. 78.

No one should pass over this pamphlet who wishes to study the history of the Rev. Richard Jones, alias Risiart Johns, alias Richard Pritchard Jones, alias Robert K. Jones, alias Richard Jones Temple, who is said to have been expelled from the independent college at Manchester, discharged from the baptist pasbishop of Cashel to a curacy in his diocese, torate at Whitchurch, Hants, ordained by the engaged for a short season at St. Sepulchre, Northampton, and then admitted to be assistant to the writer of this pamphlet at St. Barnabas, King's Square, London. Independently however of those who may be anxious to make themselves acquainted with the life and adventures of this personage, there are two small classes of readers who should peruse it. We recommend it very cordially to all dissenters who imagine that the Church of England is an asylum from those evils which are supposed to arise from the democratic constitution of our churches, and to all bishops of the Ecclesiastical Establishment who are inclined to confer what they call "Holy Orders" on renegade dissenting ministers.

Education for God: or, "The Pure Word of God" A Record of Real Life. The Memorial of A. M. R. R., who fell asleep in Jesus, aged Nineteen. By the Author of "The Morning Visit." London: Seeleys, Fleet Street, and Hanover Street, 1852., pp. 244.

Notwithstanding all that has been written on this subject, there is room for much improvement in the training and education of the families, and especially the daughters of pro

fessing Christians.

should be the manifest aim of every Christian To train them for God parent, and at the same time to produce the impression on their minds, from the earliest infancy, that the conviction of the parent is that thus their present happiness as well as their best interests will be secured. Instead of this, that their daughters may excel in those accomplishments which shall fit them for society and grace the drawing-room, appears the desire of parents generally; and the religious education which is imparted is of that character and holds so subordinate a place, that it has long been matter of astonishment to us that indifference to religion and even infidelity has not been more frequently the result. Vanity, pride, and selfishness are the fruits that may fairly be expected from the mode of training and education generally pursued. We should, therefore, hail with delight any publication in which in a narrative form a purely scriptural education for God was developed. Hoping to find something of this kind, we opened the volume before us; but though it contains much that is excellent we have been thoroughly disappointed. All that is said respecting the subject of the Memorial may be compressed into a very few pages. The writer occupies a much more prominent position. She is an ardent admirer of the Church of England; and though it is evident from her own statements, that her conversion and that of her sister, the subject of the Memoir, was effected in spite of the system she so much admires, rather than in consequence of it, there is through out the volume the recurrence ad nauseam of apologies for the Established Church, book, therefore, is not one the circulation of which we should be anxious to promote. Why are we Dissenters? Three Lectures on the Principles of Evangelical Nonconformity. By EUSTACE R. CONDER, M.A. London: Snow. 1852. 32mo., pp. viii. 126.

The

The first Lecture shows that the Constitution of the Church of England exhibits so wide and essential a departure from the Divine and authorized model of a Christian church, as to render Dissent our solemn and imperative duty. The second shows that we are not guilty of schism in dissenting from the church of England, but that the guilt of schism is chargeable on that church, on account of its terms of communion, and its bearing and conduct towards scriptural churches. The third treats of the Union of Church and State, illustrating the objectionableness of State Control, State Power, ard State Pay. The good sense which pervades this small volume, and the spirit of moderation combined with firmness in which it is written will render its extensive circulation a public benefit.

The Journal of Sacred Literature.
Series.
New
Edited by JoHN KITTO, D.D.,

F.S.A. No. IV-July, 1852. London:

8vo., pp. 272. Price 5s.

The editor and the publisher are doing their utmost to render this work all that it should be, and if they fail it will not be their fault, but the fault of those who ought to be purchasers or fellow-labourers. There is in this number a

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We cannot

great deal of valuable matter.
enumerate the articles: were we to specify any
"The last Blessings of Jacob, Translated from
as worthy of distinction we should mention
the Chaldee Targums of Jonathan Ben Uziel
Resurrection Body," by Dr. Robinson, the
and Jerusalem;"-" The Nature of our Lord's
design of which is to show, "first that the dis-
ciples believed the body of their Lord after his
resurrection to be the same identical body of
flesh and bones which they had seen crucified
and laid in the sepulchre, and secondly that
belief on their minds." There is an elaborate
our Lord took special pains to impress this very
article also on Dr. Edward Hitchcock's Religion
of Geology and its connected Sciences; of
geological discoveries are explained in a highly
which the reviewer says, "The most recent
attractive style, while no other work affords so
complete a view of the bearings of geology on
religion."

A Textual Commentary on the Book of Psalms.
By H. N. CHAMPNEY, Author of an "Index
to Scripture Readings," an "Index to the
Book of Common Prayer," &c.
Bagster and Sons. Square 16mo., pp. 93.
London:
Cloth.

Psalms, illustrating verse by verse, by copious
A convenient companion to the Book of
ferences indicating not merely the place where
each passage is to be found, but also recalling
references to other portions of scripture, re-
it to the memory of any one familiar with the
sacred volume by the citation of five or six of

the words.

ministers when selecting texts on which to disIt will be particularly useful to course, or studying sermons from texts in that favourite portion of the Old Testament. An Essay on the Local or Lay Ministry; as Exercised in the Wesleyan and other branches of the Methodist Family. RICHARD MILLS, Wesleyan Local Preacher, By Rugeley, Staffordshire. London: John Kaye and Co. Small 8vo., pp. 250.

dersfield, offered two prizes, one of £50 and one of £25, for the two best Essays on the local In the year 1849, John Kaye, Esq., of Hudministry as existing amongst the Methodists. To this essay the first prize was accorded. It nistry; shows the origin, and proves beyond enters very fully into the history of the miquestion the great usefulness of the class of preachers to which it refers, and contains many suggestions, which may be pondered with advantage by ministers of all classes.

The Titles and Similitudes of the Lord Jesus
Christ. By JAMES LARGE. With Recom-
mendatory Prefaces by Rev. J. Sherman and
Rev. J. A. James. Vols. I. and II. Lon-
don: J. C. Bishop. 12mo., pp. 163, 164.

by the Christian parent and Sunday school
These volumes will be hailed with pleasure
teacher, as portraying in a most interesting
who is "altogether lovely." They will, doubt-
manner the character and excellency of Him
less, tend to excite renewed delight in that
sacred volume, the spirit and life of which is
the testimony of Christ.

Political Economy illustrated by Sacred History. By JAMES TAYLOR, Author of " The Money System of England from the Conquest," &c., &c. London: Seeleys. 16mo., pp. 77.

The leading principles of this work are that the prosperity which Adam Smith assigns to the earlier portions of the eighteenth century in this country was promoted by the system of political economy which had prevailed; that this agreed essentially with the system taught in the holy scriptures; that a legal provision for the poor is a distinguishing characteristic of this system; and that under the coined money system now prevailing, usury is not inconsistent with the spirit of the Mosaic law, but under judicious regulations quite as beneficial to the borrower as to the lender.

With Numerous London: R. T. S. 12mo.,

A Book for the Sea-side. Engravings.

pp. 275.

At this season of the year many visitors to the sea-side will be glad to carry with them a book replete with information respecting cliffs, plants of the cliffs, fishes, the stones and flowers of the beach, molluscous animals, shells, sea-weeds, and similar marine curiosities. Here they may find one suited to their purpose, and adorned with many wood-cuts.

Wonders of Organic Life. R. T. S. Monthly Series. Pp. 192.

A good sixpenny worth of solid information respecting the vital principle-sleep-hybernation of birds-torpidity of reptiles-migration of animals, and kindred topics.

Tyre: its Rise, Glory, and Desolation. R. T. S. Pp. 188. Price 6d.

This epitome of useful information on a most interesting subject constitutes the eightieth volume of the Monthly Series published by the Religious Tract Society;-a series which we will venture to advise the Committee to prolong indefinitely, and the public to purchase extensively.

The Exhibition Lay. London: Groombridge and Sons. 16mo., pp. 32.

A brief description of the scenes in Hyde Park which distinguished the summer of 1851, in pleasing verse, extolling England also, as

"A land of generous sympathies,

Whose children love to see
Their fellow-men, in other lands,
Free as themselves are free."

RECENT PUBLICATIONS,

Approved.

[It should be understood that insertion in this list is not a mere announcement: it expresses approbation of the works enumerated, not of course extending to every particular, but an approbation of their general character and tendency.] FeSermons to Young Women. Fifth Sermon. By J. A. JAMES. First male Religious Zeal. thousand. London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co. 16mo., pp. 140.

The Glory of Young Men. A Sermon delivered in Pendleton Independent Chapel, on the occasion

of the Death of Robert Needham, Esq.; who died December 20th, 1851, aged thirty-three years. By the Rev. A. E. PEARCE. London: John Snow. 12mo. pp. 22.

Books and Reading: a Lecture delivered to the Young Men's Christian Association, Devonport, on By the Rev. Tuesday Evening, March 9th, 1852. GEORGE SMITH, of London. Published by request. London: John Snow. pp. 32.

The Vicar and His Pastoral. Questions addressed to the Rev. W. J. E. BENNETT, A.M. By One not in Priestly Bonds. London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co. Sco., pp. 32.

The Thirty-Eighth Annual Report of the Baptist Society for Promoting the Gospel in Ireland, for the Year ending March the 31st, 1852. With an Account of the Annual Meetings, and a List of Contributions, Londom: J. Haddon. 8vo., pp. 46.

The Annual Report of the Committee of the Bap tist Home Missionary Society, for the Encouragement and Support of Preaching the Gospel in the Villages and Towns of Great Britain, for the Year ending March, 1852. With a List of Subscribers and Benefactors. Instituted in the Year 1797. London: J. Haddon. Svo., pp. 40.

The Fourth Annual Report of the Weekly Tract Society, especially designed to inculcate Religion, and to promote the Social and Moral Improvement of the Working Classes, by the Circulation of appropriate Tracts. Formed December, 1847. 1851. London, 8, St. Ann's Lane. 12mo., pp. 48. Price 6d.

The Report of the Directors of the Protestant Union, for the Benefit of the Widows and Children of Protestant Ministers of all Denominations. With a Statement of the Receipts and Disbursements, from May 1st, 1851, to March 31st, 1852. London: Reed and Pardon. 12mo., pp. 24.

The Children of the Bible. London: R. T. S. Depreciation of the Bible. 16mo., pp.

76.

Short and simple narratives, done up very prettily in cloth, and illustrated by many woodcuts and six oil-coloured prints.

Passages in the Life of Gilbert Arnold; or the Tale of the Four Sermons. By SULLIVAN EARLE. London: Richard Bentley. 16mo., pp. 146. Cloth, gilt edges.

The external appearance of this small volume is very prepossessing; but we cannot say that the tale itself is to our taste, though it indicates a degree of ability which will probably appear to much greater advantage on future occasion.

some

The Eclectic Review, July, 1852. Contents:I. Farini's Roman State. II. Taylor's Wesley and Methodism. III. Laing's Denmark. IV. Modern V. Lamartine's HisVI. Respontory: Napoleon's Return from Elba. sibility of Joint Stock Companies. VII. Gutzlaff's Life of the Emperor of China. VIII. The UniverReview of sity of London: Recent Movements. the Month. Literary Intelligence. Brief Notices. London: Ward and Co.

The Christian Treasury for July, containing Contributions from Ministers and Members of various Evangelical Denominations. Edinburgh: 8vo, vp. 50.

The Christian Journal of the United Presbyterian Church for July. The Profits devoted to Aged and Invalid Ministers of the United Presbyterian Church. Glasgow: Robert Jackson. London: Ward and Co.

INTELLIGENCE.

AMERICA.

BAPTIST MISSIONARY UNION.

The Annual Report of this Society has just reached us. This month, we must content ourselves with extracting the summary of its operations; next month, we hope to present our readers with interesting details.

The number of missions prosecuted under direction of the board, not including the one to Ava, is eighteen, embracing eighty-three stations and one hundred and four outstations, besides three hundred and fifty places of stated preaching in Germany and France. Connected with the missions are fifty-seven missionaries, of whom fifty-two are preachers, and there are fifty-nine female assistants. Two missionaries and two female assistants have died, besides one missionary under appointment, and two female assistants have joined the missions. The number of native preachers and assistants is one hundred and ninety-seven; total of missionaries and assistants connected with the missions, three hundred and thirteen. Ten missionaries and female assistants are under appointment. There are one hundred and eighty churches, having a membership of 13,733, of whom were added by baptism the past year, 1,280. The number of schools is seventy-nine, including four for native preachers, one normal, and sixteen boarding schools; with about 1,700 pupils. The number of pages printed in three of the missions, Maulmain, Tavoy, and Assam, was 4,392,300.

The expenditure for the year ending March 31, 1852, has been 102,958 dollars; the receipts for the year 102,611 dollars. The balance against the Union, at that date, was 19,894 dollars, 47 cents.

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bible affording a plain precept for, or example of, infant sprinkling for Christian baptism.

Five hundred dollars to any one who will furnish a solitary passage usually relied on or quoted by Pædobaptists to prove infant bapfor the practice by eminent and standard tism, which has not been denied as authority Podobaptist divines.

One hundred dollars to any one who will instance of infant baptism among Christians produce, from standard historians, a solitary fore the coming of Christ) before the third (some heathen nations having practised it becentury.

One hundred dollars to any one who will produce an instance of pouring or sprinkling among Christians before the third century. produce scriptural authority to prove that the visible Christian church, as organized by One hundred dollars to any one who will Jesus Christ, is an institution identical with the Jewish commonwealth (or nation), once called "the church in the wilderness."

One hundred dollars to any one producing scriptural authority to prove that baptism comes in the room or place of circumcision.

passage in the bible in which "baptizo" in One hundred dollars to any one for one the Septuagint, or New Testament is translated in our version by "to sprinkle or pour upon."

scripture to prove that the peculiar form of One hundred dollars to any one producing church organization and government were left to the discretion of Christians in any age or ages after Christ.

One hundred dollars that Christians, as inchange the ordinances or externals of redividuals or as churches, have a right to ligion, as taught in the New Testament, in the least, whether in substance or form, by addition, diminution, change, or substitu

tion.

An impartial jury is to decide the validity of any claim presented; an equal number to be chosen by each party, the authority relied on being furnished to the proposer of the premium one month at least before the trial.

NOVA SCOTIA.

ACADIA COLLEGE.

Halifax June 11th, contains a pleasing re-
The Christian Messenger, published at
of the studies of the young men under their
port from Dr. Cramp and Professor Chipman

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