That hallow the land and the labour of men, Who, lonely and cheerless, despite all dejections, We look on thine ancient and wonderful story, We look for thy new and thy swift-rising glory, When Peace shall have broken the sword and the lance; And blood flow before thee, The Olive is weaving her wreath in the grove, The Prince of true Peace shall come and restore thee, Thy fetters are broken, And man, who hath sighed o'er thy bondage in vain, That China shall never be Satan's again! Though the Minstrel may seem too boldly to sing, Undoubted the issue if holy the spring, The sign of the time who runs may discern: The wave on its ocean, In vain seek to rival true Liberty's speed; Thy sons shall obey with Christian devotion, As freemen of Christ and freemen indeed! * Morrison, Milne, &c. How great is the harvest, how few are the reapers, Their portion resign To Him who hath given so freely to all; O Britain make speed, that the praise may be thine, Land of the millions, O soon may thy fountains Freedom hath found thee; Free as the breezes and broad lands around thee, O ye who set light by man's supplications, And cry, "Will the Being Omnipotent heed?" Of China's war story Is due to the Saints who would not despair; Prize, children of Faith, though the world may ignore ye,- Review of Religious Publications. A MEMOIR OF THE LIFE AND LABOURS OF THE REV. ADONIRAM JUDSON, D.D. By FRANCIS WAYLAND, D.D., President of Brown University, U.S., and Professor of Moral Philosophy. 2 vols. 8vo. James Nisbet and Co. denial never surpassed, immured himself in the thickest darkness of Buddhism, and there continued to toil in hope, amidst discouragements that would have quenched an ordinary spirit, until he was enabled to give the word of God to the people of Burmah, and saw multitudes awed and subdued by the power of the gospel. THE name of Dr. Judson has been associated, for nearly forty years, with the Crucified,” says his eloquent biographer, literature, the heroism, and the poetry of "to every desire for human applause, the missionary enterprise. The memory God has given him a name that is spoken of one who laboured so devotedly, suffered of with affectionate reverence by every so intensely, and left behind him such household in Christendom. Driven with indubitable tokens of the best kind of indignity from British India, he lived to success, must be fresh and fragrant for receive the thanks of the Governor General ages to come. In the East, he will ever in council, for the services which he be remembered as the Apostle of Burmah, rendered to the Government. That his who, with a zeal, and courage, and self-motives might be purified from every trace of ambition, he destroyed every line within his power that might minister to posthumous fame; and God has indelibly inscribed his name on every tablet of the future history of Burmah. He left behind him all that he loved in his native land, and only asked, as his reward, that he might gather a church of a hundred members from the worshippers of Gautama, and see the Bible translated into their language. All this, and more than this, was granted, and the Karens also were given to him-a people, of whose existence no Christian had heard,-whom he beheld by thousands flocking to the standard of the cross. He asked that he might redeem a few immortal souls from eternal death, and it was granted to him to lay the foundations of Christian civilization for an empire. When the kingdoms of the world shall become the kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ; when every pagoda shall have been levelled, and every hill-top, from the Bay of Bengal to the foot of the Himalaya, shall be crowned with a temple to Jehovah; when the landscape shall be thickly studded with schools, scattering broadcast the seeds of human knowledge; when law shall have spread the shield of its protection over the most lowly and the most exalted; when civil and religious liberty shall be the birthright of every Burman-then will the spot where stood the prison at Oung-pen-la be consecrated ground; thither will pilgrims resort to do honour to the name of their benefactor; and mothers, as they teach their children to pray to the eternal God, will remind them of the atheism of their forefathers, and repeat to them the story of the life and labours of Adoniram Judson. Such honour doth God bestow upon HOLY, HUMBLE, SELF-DENYING, AND LONG-SUFFERING LOVE." pp. 334, 335. master difficulties marked his course, from its dawn to its close. His natural powers, when brought under the all-pervading influence of Christianity, fitted him for arduous and successful service. We cannot read these volumes without feeling that he had a mission to Burmah 'from the adored Head of the church. No man ever less intended than Dr. Judson to invest himself with a poetic halo; and yet no man's life, in modern times, partook more of the qualities of a magnificent poem. His quenchless ardour in the service of his Lord; the astounding vicissitudes through which he passed; his literary triumphs; the moral supremacy which he acquired over the heathen mind; the touching tenderness and pathos of his domestic relations,may all be regarded as a beautiful poem, to be read and pondered, by men of sanctified taste and feeling, while the world stands. We welcome these Memoirs with peculiar satisfaction. They will tend to enhance missionary qualifications of the highest order, which we fear are exceedingly scarce in our day. We must have men of marked enterprise for this work; and the church must know how to value them, and to distinguish them from second and third-rate agents. It is well if we can have men of genius and original power; but, failing this, let us have men of seraphic piety, of self-denying devotion to the interests of the perishing heathen, of undivided and indomitable purpose, willing to offer themselves as a sacrifice upon the service of the Gentiles. Dr. Wayland has performed a high service to the Church of Christ, in giving us this spirit-stirring Memoir of the immortal Judson, "whose praise is in all the churches." A COMMENTARY ON THE GREEK TEXT OF THE EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE EPHESIANS. By JOHN EADIE, D.D., LL.D., Professor of Biblical Literature to the United Presbyterian Church. pp. 510. Dr. Wayland's Memoir, which is written with great vigour, is worthy of its subject. He has brought back on our minds, with great vividness, our early reminiscences of this distinguished missionary; and added greatly to the stores of our information respecting both his early and subsequent career. He was no ordinary schoolboy. The tendency to ancient or modern times, of British, Richard Griffin and Co. We are aware of no commentary, in American, or Continental origin, answering, in all respects, to the one before us, or even exhibiting its general plan. With inimitable modesty, the learned author describes, in the following terms, his own undertaking, claiming for himself no originality of design, and no pre-eminence of execution:-" My object," observes Dr. Eadie," has been to exhibit the inind and meaning of the Apostle, not only by a scientific analysis of his language, but also by a careful delineation of the logical connexion and sequency of his thoughts. Mere verbal criticism, or detached annotation upon the various words, by themselves and in succession, is a defective course, inasmuch as it may leave the process of mental operation on the part of the inspired writer wholly untraced in its links and involutions. On the other hand, the sense is not to be lazily or abruptly grasped at, but to be patiently detected, in its most delicate shades and aspects, by the precise investigation of every vocable. As the smaller lines of the countenance give to its larger features their special and distinctive expression, so the minuter particles and prepositions give an individuality of shape and complexion to the more prominent terms of a sentence or paragraph. In this spirit, philology has been kept in subordination to exegesis, and grammatical inquiry has been made subservient to the development of idea and argument. At the same time, and so far as I am aware, I have neglected no available help from any quarter or in any language. The Greek fathers have been often referred to, the Syriac, Coptic, and Gothic versions are occasionally quoted, and the recent German commentators have been examined without partiality or prejudice."-Preface, p. 3, 4. If we might venture to characterise Dr. Eadie's method of bringing out the sense of Paul, in this Epistle, we should say that, with all the German precision in critically sifting the meaning of terms, by the exercise of a most discriminating philology, he evinces more than equal skill and power in detecting the main currents of thought, and never smothers the masculine theology of the inspired writer in a heap of learned and feeble criticisms. We have felt no weariness in examining his most elaborate passages, just because we have never found ourselves impeded in the effort to discover the mind of the Spirit, but most materially aided by every fresh critical light thrown on the text. One thing is very marked in this splendid sample of critical commentary on an inspired Book,, that the author never brings a theology to the text, but educes one from it; and leaves upon the mind of his reader a strong impression, that he never forces a meaning upon the Apostle's words which he would have rejected. Then, there is a fine glow of religious warmth pervading those parts of the Commentary in which the philological ability, and the exegetical acumen of the author, have been most felicitously displayed. Unlike most German works of the same class, there are no transcendentalisms in this volume. It is as sober and trustworthy as it is ingenious and elaborate. We find no passages inconsistent with each other; no crudities bespeaking a vain or conceited mind; nothing to breed scepticism, or stumble weak faith ;-but a manly, well-informed scholarship, accompanied with a theological precision seldom equalled, perhaps never surpassed, in the writings of any author in the present age. Dr. Eadie's work on the Ephesians has many things in common with the recent Commentaries of Dr. John Brown. They resemble each other in their thorough dissection of texts, in the rich vein of Biblical illustration in which they abound, in the sound views of Christian doctrine which they exhibit. But still, in other respects, they are very dissimilar. There are no dissertations, no pulpit exercises, in the volume before us. It is strictly critical,-devoted to the two great questions of philology and exegesis;but yet sustained by the most terse and elaborate defence of great truths, when once they have been fairly shown, on critical grounds, to lie in any particular text. The article at the commencement of the volume, entitled, with great significance, "THE Literature OF THE EPISTLE,” is a most interesting and instructive docu- | verb before us, with its cognate forms, ment, written with singular vigour and beauty. Its topics are: 1. Ephesus and the Planting of a Christian Church in it. 2. Title and Destination of the Epistle. 3. Genuineness of the Epistle. 4. Relationship of the Epistles to Ephesus and Colosse. 5. Place and Date of the Composition. 6. Object and Contents of the Epistle. 7. Works on the Epistle. A reviewer who has only our space to work upon feels oppressed, with such a work before him as Dr. Eadie's, at the thought of the utter impossibility of doing it anything like justice, and is only relieved by the consideration that such a monument of Biblical learning cannot fail to work its way to public favour, and to secure for the author the highest rank among the theological scholars of the age. We must content ourselves with one extract, which will show at once the critical power and the accurate theology of the author. is used frequently to indicate the origin of that peculiar relation which believers sustain to God, and it also assigns the reason of that distinction which subsists between them and the world around them. Whatever the precise nature of this choice may be, the general doctrine is, that the change of relation is not of man's achievement, but of God's accomplishment; that man does not unite himself to God, but God unites man to himself, for there is no attractive power in man's heart to collect and gather in upon it those spiritual blessings. But there is not merely this palpable right of initiation on the part of God, there is also the prerogative of sovereign bestowment, as is indicated in the following pronoun, nuas-' us,'-we have, others want. The Apostle speaks of himself and his fellowsaints at Ephesus. If God had not chosen them, they would never have chosen God. Chap. I. "(Ver. 4.) Kalws žeλégaтo "Ev auT@-'in Him,' for such is the quâs ¿v avtŵ—'According as he has genuine reading, not autŵ, or in ipso, as chosen us in him.' The adverb, kalús, the Vulgate has it, and some commendefines the connexion of this verse tators take it; nor to himself,' as the with the preceding. That connexion is Ethiopic renders it. The reference is to modal, not casual; kas may signify Christ, but the nature of that reference sometimes because,' but the cause has been disputed. Chrysostom says, specified involves the idea of manner. 'He by whom he has blessed us, is the Katus, in classic Greek Kalá, is the latter same as He by whom he has chosen us;' form, and denotes, as its composition but afterwards he interprets the words indicates, 'according as.' These spiritual before us thus, dià Tĥs els avtdy níσtews, blessings are conferred on us, not merely and he capriciously ascribes the elective because God has chosen us, but they are act to Christ. Many, as a-Lapide, Estius, given to us in perfect harmony with his Bullenger, and Flatt, translate virtually, eternal purpose. Their number, variety, 'on account of Christ.' But the Aposadaptation, and fulness, with the shape tolical idea is more definite and peculiar. and mode of their bestowment, are all in The èv aur seems to point out the posi exact unison with God's prætemporal and tion of the nuas. Believers were looked gracious resolution; they are given after upon as being in Christ when they were the model of that pure and eternal Arche-elected, as the Jewish nation was chosen type which was formed in the Divine mind. “E§€λégato.—The idea involved in this word lay at the basis of the old theocracy, and it also pervades the New Testament. The Greek term corresponds to the Hebrew of the Old Testament, which is applied so often to God's selection of Abraham's seed to be his peculiar people. (Deut. iv.37; vii. 6, 7 ¡ Isa. xli, 8; xliv. 1, &e.) The in Abraham. To the prescient eye of God the entire Church was embodied in Jesus-was looked upon as 'in Him.' The Church that was to be appeared, to the mind of Him who fills eternity, as already in being; and that ideal being was in Christ. It is true that God himself is in Christ, and in Christ purposes, and performs, all that pertains to man's redemption; but the thought here is not |