by Dr. Colquhoon of Leith, lately persecution which has been known in published. Dr. McCrie has lately published a History of the Progress of the Reformation in Italy, in the Sixteenth Century, for which he has derived considerable assistance from public and private libraries, in Holland, where he resided some time. He is now engaged in a similar work upon Spain, and it is expected he will derive considerable aid from a valuable Spanish library amounting to 7000 volumes, lately purchased in Madrid, by the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh. Robert Haldane Esq. who has resided for some years on the continent of Europe, has, in a second Review of the conduct of the Directors of the British and Foreign Bible Society, given a full and interesting account of the state of religion in several kingdoms. His account of the state of religion in Holland, corresponds to what was related to us by a friend, who lately visited that conntry. Things have been in a miserable condition there, since the expulsion of the Orange family, and their connexion with the French. There is, however, at present, the prospect of better 'days in the Netherlands. The gospel is now preached in its purity, by some distinguished men, who occupy the pulpits of the churches where our fathers worshipped. There is a prospect of a revival of pure religion there. modern times, from the Socinians of Geneva. According to a late publication of Dr. John Pye Smith, Mon. C. Malan was brought to the knowledge of the truth by the instruction of the Rev. Dr. Mason of NewYork, and others, who visited Geneva in the years 1816, 1817. The learned Dr. M. Russel, Minister of the Episcopal Church in Leith, is continuing the work of Shuckford, on the connexion between Sacred and Profane History. Two volumes have been lately published, which contain, among other important things, a very satisfactory view of the Jewish History, during the government of the Judges, and the early history of Greece. Much light is thrown on several difficult passages of Scripture. In the two volumes which are forthcoming, much important information may be expected concerning the history of China, and India, the author having full access to the books and manuscripts of the very accomplished Editors of Baber's Memoirs. In this collection there are some very rare articles in oriental history, and antiquities. Dr. Chalmers, who has been for some time Professor of Moral Philo sophy in the College of St. Andrews, has been of singular use in promoting the interest of religion in that College. In proof of this, we might refer to an interesting memoir of Mr. John Urqhart, lately a student in that place, edited by Mr. Orme of London. The number of students has greatly increased. And many from genteel families in Scotland, and from the dis The Rev. Mr. C. Malan, of Geneva, has been lately received into Christian and Ministerial fellowship with that distinguished and most ev-senting interest in England, have beangelical body, the United Secession Church in Scotland, who have also given considerable pecuniary aid to the persecuted church in that city.Mons. C. Malan, and some of his brethren have endured the most cruel come pious. The Doctor has been lately appointed Professor of Divinity in the College of Edinburgh; on which occasion the ministers of Edinburgh protested against the conduct of the magistrates. This does not, however, proceed from any opposition to Dr. Chalmers. According to the charter of the College, granted in the reign of James VI. the magistrates have a right to appoint Professors, with the advice of their ministers.On the present occasion their advice not asked, probably because it was judged unnecessary. was We are happy to state that the excellent work alluded to above, [Memoirs of Mr. John Urquhart,] will soon be published by Mr. Haven, of our city. We invite the attention of all our literary youth to it. Mr. Urquhart must have been no ordinary youth, when such a testimony as this is given of him by such a judge as Dr. Chalmers. "He was neither a mere geometer, nor a mere linguist, nor a mere metaphysician; he was all these put together; alike distinguished by the fulness and the harmony of his powers. "" "But his crowning excellency was his piety; that virtue which matured him so early for heaven, and bore him in triumph from that earth, on which he hath so briefly sojourned." Chal. Pref. We have now before us a brief review of this work, in the December Num ber of the London Eclectic Review. The interest of the Roman Catholic Church is improving very much in England, particularly in the neighbourhood of London. Their clergymen are highly respectable in character and talents. Protestants are certainly very remiss in not making themselves more acquainted with the errors of the Romish Church. An admirable work on this subject, in an improved edition, has been published by the Rev. Joseph Fletcher, entitled, Lectures on the Principles and Institutions of the Roman Catholic religion. The Course of Time, (as we have already noticed,) is a Poem, in Ten Books, by Robert Pollock, A. M. It has attracted very considerable atten tion in London and Edinburgh This excellent young man was licensed to preach the gospel by the United Secession Presbytery of Edinburgh, in April last; and died at Shirley Common, near Southampton, England, on his way to Italy, for the benefit of his health, in September, 1827. We have some curious intelligence from Holland, touching the state of literature, poetry, and the living authors of Vadersland. We will try to find room for it in our next number. In a notice of Gregory's Letters on the Evidences, Doctrines and Duties of the Christian Religion, just published in NewYork, by Messrs. G. & C. Carvill, the Editors of the Com. Advertiser state the following interesting fact: "We think the work is one of great val ue; and as one evidence of the correctness of this opinion, we are at liberty to state, that the principal compositor employed in printing it, who was wild and irreligious, began to reflect more seriously from day to day, as he proceeded with this work, and by the time it was completed became hopefully pious." And then methought he lingering stood HONOUR. (From the German of Albert Haller.) Honour! thou well priz'd nothing! thee The idol of antiquity, Men worship now as heretofore; Daughter of vanity---Fools' wish, a sound Whose magic influence reigns around; What is the merit we adore? In young creation's golden times, From thee man caught ambition's thirst, For empire bartering his repose, Can sceptre's weigh such ills as those? Obituary. Died at Albany, Friday morning last, Mr. E. Willet, in the 90th year of his age. For the last two years he was almost helpless, and confined to his bed-yet under all his trials his assurance of hope was unbroken and undisturbed. For more than sixty years, he was a follower of Christ, and enjoyed religion in a high degree. His amiable christian deportment has endeared his name to a large circle of friends. It is worthy of observation that both he and his late wife, became subjects of grace by an occasional sermon of the late Dr. Rogers of New-York, when they were on a visit to that city.The circumstances which marked the hearing of that sermon, were never forgotten, but it afforded Mr. W. great pleasure to recount them to his christian friends. The life of our friend was not much varied by the great and sudden changes, by which the christian character of most is tried-the Lord favoured him with much of the soul's sunshine, "and blessed as he was, it was delightful to see how as he advanced to infirm old age, he was maturing for glory. In his life he was a Nathaniel-in his last days a triumphant Paul. Happy is the man who can refer to the uniform christian tenor of so long a life as his was, as an evidence of the solidity and excellence of his christian hope. He is gone, his prayer is answered, the Lord has taken him home, and while we comtemplate his departure, we cannot but apply those beautiful verses of the author of "Happiness." Say, did ye mark the sun to day, How bursting through the shadowy cloud, He chased the twilight gloom away, And gilded all his sable shroud. To gaze upon the world awhile, And ere he sunk upon the flood To bless it with a parting smile. So when the Christian's day is past, "Tis his to chase the twilight gloom, To shine the brighter at the last, And shed mild radiance o'er the tomb. So when life's well-spent journey o'er, Lies pictur'd in the approving breast, 'Tis his the landscape to explore, And bless the view, and sink to rest. [Albany Ch. Reg. Died at Unadilla, Otsego County, on Tuesday the 25th of Dec. Mrs. Mary Buckley, wife of B. Buckley Esq. in the 54th year of her age. The deceased was a native of Berkshire, Mass. and from her early youth sustained a visible relationship to the Church of Christ. At the place of her late residence she was an exemplary and endeared member of religious society. Her life was a practical comment upon the excellency of religion; and her death-bed scenes, upon the excellency of her choice. The tears of the orphan, the sighs of the widow, and the wants of the suffering, ever found an easy access to her bosom. She had at once a heart to feel, and a hand to alleviate. In the afflictive dispensation of Providence which has removed her, not only have her family and friends sustained an uncommon loss; but long and deeply will the church of which she was a member, and the inhabitants among whom she dwelt, feel that an excellent mother in Israel has fallen. During a protracted sickness of almost unparalleled suffering, Israel's God was her supporter, and her reconciled friend. To her pastor, who visited her during her sickness, she said, "O the importance of being prepared for a scene like this! In every pain I now feel, I recognize the hand of my Heavenly Father; and that renders the affliction light." Again she said, "As it respects myself, if it be the will of God, my choice is to depart. My work is all accomplished. I know I have been an unprofitable servant. But I look to God for pardoning mercy through the merits of Christ, on him alone I fix my trust." Again, "Should it not be the will of God to remove me, with what zeal, if he grant me strength, will I devote the rem nant of my days to his service!" Alluding to her last opportunity of communing with the Church, she said, "It is impossible for me to describe the glories which, during the exercises of that day, were presented to my view. The scene has never left me. It was preparing inc for this hour. It has been a peculiar support, and it can never he obliterated from my mind." To her family and attendants she said, after giving them the most affectionate counsels: Do not shed one tear for me. My work is done-all done-and I am going home." Whoever could have stood around the death bed of this dying Christian, must have been most solemnly impressed with that last thought which fell from her lips-"O the importance of being prepared for a scene like this!" Arminianism-reply to the Christian Advocate Abeel, the Rev. Dr. his Sermon on An old dis- Anniversaries, Sabbath School Union, American Ash Wednesday at the city of Rome, or a Budget, No. vii. civil government, an allegory, Bible Society of the R. D. Church to supply our Baptism of our Lord, by John, discussed, 263. 340. Bethune, the Rev. Mr. George W. installation Boyse's Letter on the death of his father, 376 Children of pious ministers, address to, 207. Carpenter, Mrs. her letter to our Treasurer, 58. Chalmers, Dr. delineation of his preaching, 144. Colonization, the American, 152, 217, 253. Christian Church among the Arabs, Turks, and Children and Parents, solemn address to 268 Coburgh, Prince of, anecdote of him and Dr. Course of Time, View of, 361. 368. his errors on the mystery of the Trinity, 353. Doctors in Divinity, the reason why so few of Davidson, the Rev. Mr. anecdote of, 245. Defernex, the Rev. Mr. late of Geneva, labours 350, "Dutchman in the city," his reply to a commu→ Education of missionaries in foreign tongues, Episcopal Church missionary Society, 250 Eternity, on the intercourses and recollections Fulgentius of Venice, anecdote of him from Dr. Fashionable amusements, impropriety of chris- Fonda, the Rev. Mr. Jesse, obituary of, 96; a Funeral thought, from the Rev. R. Hall, 309 General, or indefinite atonement, the errors of Garretson, the Rev. Mr. his ordination, 281. Heavenly witnesses, the text of the, viz. 1 John Hottentots, specimen of their speeches at a Bible Society, in South Africa, 172 and 216. Holland, a mission to it projected, 123. Hints Horne's remarks on the mysteries of scripture, 360 How, the Rev. Mr. late of Savannah, labours Heyer, Mr. Isaac obituary notice of this excel- Henry, the Rev. Dr. of Charleston, S. C. obit- Incest question, Non Solus's Remarks on, 19. Ireland, Reformation in, 183, 252. 285. Intercourses and recollections of eternity, 332 Indulgences of Tetzel, 368 Johnson, Dr. William his address to Sabbath converted, ordained to the ministry by the Jesuits in Russia, their influence on the Bible Knickerbacker, John, Esq. obituary of, 352 -the Rev. Dr. and Mr. Labagh, depart to Lawson, the Rev. Dr. Anecdote of him and the Labagh, Rev. Mr. Isaac P. ordained, 29 -His first sermon in N. Y. 161 Literary Notices.-Dr. Owen's work on Re- Dutch Church, an appeal Stewart, missionary among the Chickasaws-- Ministers, brief hint to, on the subject of Sab- Mosley, a young Jew, converted and bapti- Missionary harvest, the reward of the faithful Meir, Domine, a memoir of, and Letters on his Monthly Concert of prayer, hints on the, 308 Mystery, errors relative to, 353 Malachi, exposition of the fourth chapter of, 316, Nack, Mr. James, a young deaf-mute, notice of Negro, the pious, 142 Netherlands, the king of the, his donations to Old Disciple, a sermon, by the late Rev. Dr. Ordinations.-Of Rev. Mr. I. P. Labagh, 29- Of Rev. Mr. Van Cleef, 217-Of the Rev. Osages of the Missouri, religious opinions of, Oliver, Rev. Mr. Anecdote of his funeral ser- Olden Dutch times, Specimen of, 275 Primitive character, Van Benschooten, No. VI. Prayer of the Rev. Mr. Adam, when he retired Prayer, on, 360 Precept and practice, an Anecdote, 82 143 |