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O"pearl of price!" when life's last feeble ray
Is just expiring, and the monster near,
Thy radiance cheers the dark and gloomy way,
And whispers," Jesus died, Oh do not fear!"
To none dost thou thy lenient aid deny;
When sought aright, thou ne'er art sought
in vain;

The mournful prayer, the broken-hearted sigh,

These are the calls which thou canst not disdain.

Oh when shall all by thee be rul'd and sway'd! When shall the isles afar off feel thy power! Oh when shall war and strife in peace be laid! Hasten, O Lord! the glorious happy hour. Ripon.

TIME.

P. P.

(By Mr. G. HERRING, Grimsby.)

O TIME! all but immortal! how thy wings O'er nations sweep-despoiling human art! Thy circling wheels, in one perpetual round, Vast changes bring to Empires,-Realms,-and States.

The massy piles of marble monuments,
The stately dome,-the towering pyramid,
And statues nicely wrought, though long
design'd

To mock thy peerless reign, and to mankind
Transmit the deathless fame of mighty men ;
Alike to thee resign imperial sway,
And crumbling fall, by atoms, to the ground.

The blooming virgin, jealous of her charms, As though thy hand could ne'er impair their worth,

Or mar her beauty,-sinks beneath thy care, Scath'd by thy breath,-or withering, like a flower

Cropp'd off the stem, from whence it lately

drew

The vegetating fluids, through the tubes
So fitly form'd by an Almighty hand,
In symmetry surpassing human skill,
The vital current stagnates in her veins,
And down she sinks in ruinous decay;
A lifeless clod deform'd, she falls to dust.
The vigorous youth, who lately tripp'd the

green,

Agile and strong, and of complexion fair;
In feats athletic he could far excel
The rustics of the village where he dwelt :
81.-VOL. VII.

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The toil-worn peasant, bending o'er the tomb, And tottering on the verge of life, he stands, Counting thy moments off,--and feels a joy, In bless'd anticipation, that ere long His soul shall launch away beyond the power Of thy corroding blast,-and find a rest, Where grief expires,-where truth and good. ness reign, And virtue, in eternal vigour, blooms.

But when thy last swoll'n wave shall surge on shore

Back shall it roll, and in stagnation sleep
The latest atom of the general wreck,
On the still bosom of Eternity.

PART ING REMINISCENCES, (By G. Y. HARRISON.)

"Joys of my early hours!
The swallows on the wing,
The bees among the flowers,
The butterflies of spring;

All light and lovely as their moments flew,
Were not more gay, more innocent, than you,
Joys of my early hours!"-

MONTGOMERY,

I LEFT my father!—that eventful night
Upon my thoughtful moments oft intrudes;
And with it brings the countless tears I wept;
The many times I turn'd to view the hills,
As all along I linger'd to his steps,

And thought they ne'er had been so beautiful.
For, ah! they look'd unto my moisten'd eyes
The night's dark robe had just begun to shade
As though no spot of earth could equal them.
Mountain, and valley with its fraitful scenes,
And indistinct their fading outline seem'd,
While his discourse was on my future life,
Which seal'd our separation, then my heart.
I smil'd and answer'd, till he gave the word
Was nearly breaking,-I could utter nought.
His sorrowing sigh I heard,-and could have
died!

Life, how insipid were thy dazzlings then l

Gazing upon his slow retiring form,
The envious trees envelop'd it in shade,
And left their spreading branches in return,
I looked in lonely silence on the wood,
And thought on seasons that were far away;
Years that remain in memory's book alone
Again were pictur'd in their vivid hues ;

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I sketch'd the painting brighter than it was,
Like strains of music which the fancy feigns:
Days of delight!-I conjur'd up your shades,
And talk'd of all their cherish'd incidents.
When on the sabbath's smiling morn I took
My father's hand, to loiter through the fields,
I saw the cowslips bordering the stream;-
The noble turret of the antique church,
Look o'er the willows, in its gothic pride;—
The veins of gold across the lofty sky
Seeming as holy as the sacred day:
While I, unconscious that the passing hours
Would e'er give place to grief and parting wo,
Dreamt that the world was like the sylvan
sight

Of hill, and rock, and vale, with all their charms.

My father's voice broke on my fancying ear, Which told of journeys o'er thy dismal wild, Hoge Hambleton; whose ever-frowning front, And bosom'd lake, shall be remember'd still. In him I found a doting mother's care; For she had known the solitary tomb, And pass'd the Jordan with its swelling tide. Consumption, blaster of domestic joys, Assail'd her frame, and bore it to the dust.

Why did I leave thee, father?-but for this,
"Chill penury" commanded me to go:
Yet though I labour to sustain the spark
Of dying life, far from my home and thee,
Though sorrow's night oft clouds my blissful
day,

Sweet hope and memory mitigate the pain;
And to their shrines I offer up my song;
Sincere and feeble, like my flatt'ring heart.
Great Surrey-street, April 2d, 1825.

Of gentle manners, and affections kind,
His actions spoke his purity of mind.
The child of want, whene'er he could, reliev'd,
His foibles pitied, and his tale believ'd;
His unsuspecting bosom ne'er surmis'd
That fraud in others, which himself despis'd.
meek adorer at fair friendship's shrine,
When once his heart confess'd the power
divine,

He scorn'd to quit, when needed most to save,
A brother sinking 'neath oppression's wave.
Endear'd to all, by social bands allied,
He liv'd respected, and lamented died.
In him his widow lost a husband kind :-
Where can his children such a parent find?
Where find the man in whom such virtues
blend,

So good a neighbour, so sincere a friend?

As shines the sun in yonder sky serene, With genial warmth, to nourish this terrene ; Bids on its surface ev'ry flow'ret bloom, To please the sense with nature's rich perfume; So Scarbrough shone with mildest lustre bright, His native valley own'd his cheering light; He bade contentment, love, and friendship And spread their fragrance through his lov❜d reign,

domain.

But call'd by death, relentless death,
,away,
He wing'd his flight to realms of endless day;
And, left to struggle here awhile below,
With cares, and troubles, sickness, pain, and

wo,

His hapless widow, children, brethren, friends,
Till life with them its transient tenure ends.
Then, then, we hope to join with him above,
To taste those pleasures he is gone to prove,-
To spend with him, when broke the wheel of
time,

ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND. Eternal ages in a happier clime.

As blooms the violet 'neath the hawthorn's shade,

Emblem of worth, in modest garb array'd,
So oft, retir'd within his native dell,
The man of virtue does unnotic'd dwell;
The world unknowing, by the world unknown,
He dares be good, regardless of its frown.
The gilded front ambition's fabric wears,
(The ignis fatuus of six thousand years,)
Ne'er lures his feet from virtue's path aside,
He shuns the danger when he shuns the guide:
Well knows 'tis vain, what others seek to find,
In paths of vice a calm contented mind.
His happy days glide smoothly to the end;
A foe to none,-to all mankind a friend.
Such was the subject of my humble song,
Belov'd by all, his native scenes among.
Glad sings the muse, when worth and merit

claim

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Bridge-hall, Doncaster.

SONNET.

T. IRELAND.

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"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"--Matt. xxvi. 46.

REVIEW.-The Apostate's Progress respective parts in the drama, or diafrom the Kingdom of Christ to the logue, that meets our view. The reDominion of Satan; under the Simili-ture of human life; of the insinuating presentation furnishes a faithful picaddress which temptation assumes, and of the steps by which apostasy finds its way to eternal misery. The work is written in plain language; but though the paper is common, the price (2s. 6d.) is not high. It is also with pleasure we add, that we think every one who peruses its pages, will repeatedly pause, and ask how far the portrait is a likeness of himself.

tude of a Dream. 12mo. pp. 178. Whittaker. London. 1825. THIS is, in its construction, a humble imitation of Bunyan's Pilgrim, or rather, of his Holy War. Nearly the same allegorical machinery is employed throughout; and we hail, as old acquaintances, several, with whose names and characters we have been long familiar. When we say, that this imitation is humble, we only mean to intimate, that in its arrangements, this work can lay no claim to originality, and that, in its execution, it can bear no comparison with Bunyan's masterly production. The ground, indeed, on which he took his stand, is so fully occupied, as to allow no competitor any reason to hope that he shall ever become a successful rival, or share this celebrated author's fame. But although this is a disadvantage under which the book before us labours, it is by no means destitute of valuable instruction. The writer has furnished convincing proof, that he was well acquainted with the human heart; that he knew how to trace its movements from piety to wickedness; to detect it in those refuges of lies to which it had retreated; and to expose to public scorn, the plausible fallacies by which thousands have been undone. The scene may be delineated in a few words.

Allapsus, the hero of the piece, flees to the City of Refuge, and engages with zeal in all the duties of the establishment, in which he is instructed by Evangelus. Spiritual Pride, at length, makes his appearance, under the name of Emulous, and after a few visits, introduces Love-Praise and Boastful, who make him acquainted with Smoothtongue and Lukewarm. Declining in zeal, he is betrayed by Carnal-mind, enters on the broad-way, associates with Hatelight, Lovejoy, and Infidelus; falls under the influence of Anger, Malice, Hatred, and Superbia Vanitas; becomes intimate with Love-the-world, Fleshly-mind, and Love-life; has an interview with some Infernals, is terrified with surrounding horrors, and dies at last in awful despair.

Many subordinate characters make their appearance, as we proceed through this piece, and sustain their

REVIEW.-An Historical Defence of Experimental Religion, and the Doctrine of Divine Influences, from the Authority of Scripture, and the Testimony of the wisest and the best of Men. By Thomas Williams. 12mo. pp. 498. Westley. London. 1825. To prove that the Bible is the word of God, forms no part of the author's design, in the volume before us. This is a point which he presumes will be readily conceded by all for whose perusal his book is intended, and, as a natural consequence, infidelity claims no part of his attention.

But while he presumes that the divine authority of the Scriptures will be admitted by his readers, he is less sanguine respecting their admission of its peculiar and distinguishing doctrines; especially those which relate to the influence of the Holy Spirit upon the heart, as the genuine foundation of all experimental religion. To the establishment of this fact he devotes his talents, and his book enables us to appreciate the result of his researches.

In the support of this doctrine, he quotes upwards of one hundred passages of scripture, many of which are so plain and unequivocal, as to furnish direct testimony; while, from others, the same fact is established by fair and legitimate inference. From these he turns to human authority, and brings forward about one hundred and sixty names, many of which are universally known, and highly celebrated in the scientific and literary world. In the concluding part, he states some objections, which have been raised against the doctrine that he defends. These he combats with strong and convincing arguments, and thus throws a rampart around experimental religion.

In the introductory chapter, the au- | efficacy of divine grace; and from the thor distinguishes between the extra- spiritual acquirements of Thomas ordinary and ordinary influence of the Halyburton, we learn the exalted priHoly Spirit, and defines the terms vileges which all Christians are invited which he uses to express those graces to enjoy. that are produced by the divine operation. His quotations afterward, throughout his book, range along on the whole stream of time, from which it appears, that in all ages, and in every region in which religion has been known, the doctrine of divine influence has been cherished, as one of its distinguishing characteristics.

From a perusal of this book, the following inference is obvious, that if experimental religion be abandoned, the whole system of Christianity, robbed of its brightest ornament, descends from its dignified station, and takes its stand on a level with the morals of Seneca or Epictetus.

REVEW.-Memoirs of the Rev. Thomas
Halyburton. With an introductory
Essay by the Rev. David Young.
8vo. pp. 369. Whittaker. London.

1824.

REVIEW. The Miscellaneous Works of
With a
the late John Fawcett, D.D.
Memoir and Portrait of the Author.
12mo. pp.246. Jones. London. 1824.
DR. FAWCETT was a celebrated divine,
of the Baptist persuasion, who flou-
rished towards the conclusion of the
last century, and in part of the pre-
sent, as he finished his course in 1817.
In the theological world he is well
known as the author of many reli-
gious publications, but more particu-
larly so by his devotional family bible.

Prefixed to these miscellaneous works, is a well-written memoir of his life, and this is followed by a summary of the evidences of Christianity, dences which might rationally be exarranged in the following order: "Evipected in favour of Christianity; the evidence arising from the credibility of what is contained in the scriptures, and from the characters and qualifications of some of the writers of them; the evidence arising from the concur

THE name and character of the Rev. Thomas Halyburton are well known throughout the various provinces of Christianity. He was greatly distin-ring testimony of heathen writers; the guished for his learning, usefulness, and personal piety, while living; and in their combined effect, these qualifications have shed a sacred perfume round his memory, of which the fragrance still remains, although more than a century has elapsed since he finished his probationary career.

The memoir before us was partly written by himself, and partly by his friends. It consists chiefly of his devotional feelings, his spiritual conflicts, the deliverances which his soul experienced, his progressive advancement in the divine life, and final triumph in the hour of dissolution. These, together with his ministerial labours, form the distinguishing characteristics of the volume before us; and so long as the memory of the just shall be deemed worthy of respect, this memoir will merit preservation.

We are not aware that any striking passages or remarkable incidents offer themselves immediately to our notice, as specimens of the work; and it would be useless to transcribe what can be expressed in a general character. It stands as a monumental record of the

evidence arising from the prevalence of the cause amidst great opposition, though promoted by means that might in themselves appear inadequate; and finally, the evidence arising from the persecution which the primitive Christians endured for their religion."

In this summary, the author does not pretend to advance much that is new; on the contrary, he has consulted the writings of others, "and in addition to his own, has adopted, without scruple, such thoughts and expressions as appeared to him most striking and conclusive." The evidence thus collected throws a fortification round Christianity, and leads us to this conclusion, that—

"What none can prove a forgery may be true; What none but bad men wish exploded, must.'

In the subsequent essays, particularly those on anger, its causes, manner of operation, effects and consequences, much talent and ingenuity are displayed. The author has contrived to enliven his positions with an appeal to facts and incidents, and confirms his statements by embodying bis positions in fictitious characters.

less serviceable, than to one who has made some progress in his acquirements. The latter may read the author's observations with advantage, as he will find many judicious remarks on several points which most other grammarians have passed over in silence, but which, to a mere Tyro, would be unintelligible.

Whether the modifications adopted by Mr. Allen include any real advan

On the certain efficacy of the death of Christ, the author's amiable disposition appears to much disadvantage, being shackled with the misanthropy of his creed, which makes him hesitate to avow the benevolent dictates of his heart. Over its uncomely parts his charity draws the covering of concealment, and his ingenuity prudently throws into shade those portions of the picture that cannot well bear the light. He places his premises, how-tages over the arrangements which ever, in such an attitude, that his have been so long in use, may perhaps readers may draw conclusions which be doubted by many, in which list we he hesitates to avow, conducts them include ourselves; yet it is highly proto a precipice from which they must bable, that with some, this may prove inevitably fall, and then congratulates a strong recommendation. By such himself with the thought that he did as have time and opportunity to exnot push them over; and finally, when amine what has been or may be said implicated as an accessary, pleads on the elements of language, a perusal not guilty to the charge. of this book ought by no means to be omitted; and although we think he begins to pore over its pages, that the novice will be disheartened, when reader must have made great proficiency in the philosophy of language, who can find nothing to reward him

REVIEW.-An English Grammar, with
Exercises, Notes, and Questions. By
the Rev. W. Allen, M. A.
pp. 180. Third Edition, Whittaker.

London. 1824.

18mo.

We are not much surprised that this grammar has undergone three impressions, since it contains great novelty in the arrangement of its materials, and places the subject before the learner in a light to which he has not been much accustomed from reading other elementary books. When a student encounters difficulties, selfesteem tempts him to think, that the fault lies rather in the source of his information, than in the dulness of his own apprehension. Hence, whatever flatters his vanity, by promising additional aid, and a diminution of his toils, brings a note of admission that is not easily resisted.

The writer of this grammar gives proof that he is well acquainted with his subject, and his independence shews, that he disdains to walk upon crutches which he does not want. To those who have adopted the arrangement and rules of Murray, this book will, however, hold out no very tempting aspect. Nearly every part of speech is new-modelled, the rules of syntax appear without any specific enumeration, and the parsing examples are unaccompanied with perspicuous directions. To a youth, who, without a master, wishes to make himself acquainted with the rudiments of his native tongue, this work will be

for the examination.

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THIS is an instructive book for children, and what increases its value, is, that it blends amusement with information. A work somewhat similar to the present, passed under our inspection in col. 94, of the present year. That, indeed, referred to such beasts as are noticed in scripture, while this is confined to birds, reptiles, and insects, mentioned also in the sacred volume. In most respects, the plan of the former is followed in the latter; and so great is the similitude, that it is not unlikely both publications are the work of the same author.

In this little volume, upwards of forty distinct creatures are introduced to our notice in the following manner. First, the natural history is given; this is followed by some anecdotes, when they can be obtained, illustrative of their character; these are succeeded by the parts of scripture in which they are mentioned; and each article concludes with some suitable reflections. A wood-cut, which gratifies the eye, is prefixed to each description; so that while the history

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