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tions which have lately been made in the city and State of New York, to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and in the city where we write, for the printing and distribution of the Holy Scriptures, have been in a style of liberality, far beyond any previous examples in the United States. It really looks as if men of wealth were beginning to feel the obligation they are under, to serve God with the substance which he has given them. The resolution recently adopted in three whole states of the American Union, speedily to place a Bible in every family of these states severally, is a new and a most important measure. The example, there is reason to hope, will be followed in every part of our country, and even throughout Protestant Christendomyea, before the lapse of many years, throughout the world. If this hope should be realized, it will be more decisive than any single indication we have yet seen, that the Millennial glory has begun to dawn. The Christian Advocate would remind his readers and himself, that this glorious era, although it be introduced by the mighty power of God, will be brought forward by human instrumentality; and therefore that each, in his proper sphere, is under very solemn obligations to be incessant in prayer, and to employ all his influence, all his exertions, and all his means of whatever kind, for its furtherance and speedy commencement.

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Heber's Monument, 327.

Hartford Asylum, 327.

Hall's Sermon, noticed, 461.
Hemans, Mrs. F., Notice of, 465.
Heber, Hymns by, 502.

Blanco White's Evidences, reviewed, 25. || Hindostan, 41.

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Lindsley's Address, noticed, 35.
Lectures on the Catechism, 5, 49, 97, 145,
193, 241, 289, 337, 385, 433, 481, 529.
Luther's Account of Himself, 107, 148.
Lay Correspondents, Hints to, 160.
Letter from J. E. Stock, 198.

Letter from Clericus, 225.

Letter, Pastoral, 244, 293, 328.

London, State of Religion and Morals in,
312.

Libraries, Moveable, 374.

Lungs, Structure of, 374.

Liquids, Compression of, 374.

Education of Children, 255, 306, 344, 393.|| Letter from Leipzig, 405.

Egyptian Antiquities, 36.

Female Domestics, 278.

Forget Me Not of the Christian Advo.
cate, 1.

Fitch's Discourse on Sin, reviewed, 136,
162.

Letter from Mr. Goodell in Palestine, 521.

Miller's Installation Sermon, noticed, 35.
Memoir of Mrs. L. Morris, 15.
Missions, General View of, 88, 233.
Mason's Remains, Extracts from, 7, 150,
201, 254, 305, 343.

Missionary Society, Pennsylvania Domes.

tic, 326.

Museum Theologicum, 326.
Magnetism, 327.

Missions of the General Assembly, 380.
Marck's Medulla, translated, 487, 533.
Missions, Board of Foreign, 517.
Missionaries, Arrival of, 521.
Mediterranean, 40.

Russian Commerce, 37.
Reformation, Spread of, 36.
Rome, Population of, 37.

Sprague's Sermons, noticed, 35.
Sunday Schools, 39.

Spiritual Distress relieved, 71.
South America, 38.

Stiles on Predestination, Notice of, 82.

Memoir and Remains of Mr. Joseph Trim- || Sugar from Potatoes, 83.
ble, 548.

National Debt of England, 186.

New Testament, New Arrangement of,
220.

New Publications, List of, 37, 232, 328,
378, 422, 466, 572.

Natural History of the Bible, 326.
Narrative of Religion, 279, 332.
New York Mineral Spring, 375.
Nott's Essay, &c. noticed, 274.

Oriental Writers, 83.
Old Tree, 340.

Obituary of Mrs. J. Downey, 475.

of Dr. Henry, 525.

Notice of Master J. R. Hutchinson,
260.

Philosophy subservient to Religion, 60,
111, 204, 309, 347, 396, 443, 492, 539.
Publick Affairs, 45, 92, 141, 190, 238, 285.
334, 383, 430, 477, 525, 574.
Parry's Voyage, 84.

Plea for the West, 361.

Predestination, M'Farland on, noticed,
464.

Paper, Frauds in, 464.
Physiology, 466.
Platina, 466.

Pastor's Sketch Book, Review of, 507.
Peter, 1st, iii. 19, 20, expounded, 258.
Poor in Boston, 278.

Parry's Expedition, 570.

Roman Foot, 187.

Roman Catholick Clergy, 232.

Report of Theological Seminary at Prince-
ton, 376.

Report of Board of Missions, 1827,--422,
472.

Religion, State of, in France, 283, 449,
499.

Revival at Beach Island, S. C. 522.
Rhodes, Colossus at, 36,

Steam Engine, a new one, &c. 36, 84, 277,
513.

Stewart's Private Journal, 19, 125.

Steele, Mrs. A., Obituary Notice of, 183.
Schmucker's Address, Notice of, 229.
Sandwich Islands, Review concerning, 317,
365, 410, 453.

Slavery, Treatise on, noticed, 328.
Sea Serpent, 512.

Steam Navigation of the St. Lawrence,

465.

Scott and Gourgaud, 512.
Saxon Sheep, 465.

Storm, Lines or a, 503.
South Seas, 578.

Sermons by Noel and Bradley, reviewed,
508.

Shipwrecked, 268.
South Africa, 277.
Sugar in Georgia, 278.
Sculpture, Mexican, 37.
Sabbath Bell, 538.

Treasurer of the Theological Seminary,
his accounts, 92, 141, 190, 238, 284, 333,
382, 430, 476, 525, 574.

Travels in Europe for Health, 8, 65, 153,
211, 353, 401.

Transatlantick Recollections, 13, 69, 157,
358, 536.

Travelling on the Hudson, 84.
Thistle destroyed by Salt, 84.
Tanning, 465.
Timbuctoo, 277.

Tooth-ache cured, 278.

United States Boundary, 513.
University at Gottingen, 328.
Vases, Ancient, 186.
Vineyards in Georgia, 186.
Variation of the Needle, 466.

Water, Compression of, 375.
Worship, Duty of Social, 389, 437, 484.
Wertemberg, Population of, 513.

THE

CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE.

FEBRUARY, 1827.

Keligious Communications.

LECTURES ON THE SHORTER CATE- tonishing the stoop for him who

CHISM OF THE WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY OF DIVINES-ADDRESSED TO YOUTH.

LECTURE XXVI.

The Humiliation of Christ. "Christ's humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition, made under the law, undergoing the miseries of this life, the wrath of God and the cursed death of the cross; in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time."

Christ's humiliation, in general, consisted in his condescending to have that glory which he had with the Father before the world was, veiled for a time; by his coming into this lower world "in the likeness of sinful flesh," to be "a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief." You will be careful to observe, that this humiliation was, in the highest degree, voluntary, on the part of Christ-Ile yielded to it by no constraint. It had no other source but his own, and the eternal Father's self-moved, undeserved LOVE to lost mankind.

Let us now consider the several steps of Christ's humiliation, as they are mentioned in the answer. "He was born, and that in a low condition." It had been an unparalleled condescension in Christ, to assume our nature in any imaginable circumstances. How asVOL. V.-Ch. Adv.

was the eternal Son of God, happy in the bosom of the Father, the Creator and the Lord of all the angelick host, and receiving their profoundest homage-to become the Son of man, and be made, as to his human nature, of a woman! Had he made his entrance into our world with all the state, and pomp, and splendour of royalty, that condescension had still been ineffable. But how are we to conceive of it, when, in place of external grandeur and respect, we consider the low condition in which he was actually born! His mother, as well as his reputed father, were, it is true, of the most honourable descent-They traced their lineage to David and to Abraham; and the descent of Christ, according to the flesh, is particularly recorded in the New Testament, to show that the promises of God to those ancient saints, that the Messiah should proceed from them, had been strictly and remarkably fulfilled. But, at the time of our Redeemer's birth, his mother, although of royal ancestry, was reduced to such a state of obscurity and poverty, that in nature's most trying hour, she could procure no admission to an inn. With the cattle of the stall she was obliged to seek a refuge. The Son of God was born in a stable, and laid in a manger-There it was that he who made the worlds, G

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