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man, that as the tribunal of heaven is most august and imposing, and the others extremely liable to be forgotten or contemned, a deep sense of obligation to One above is the safest principle of fidelity on which we can depend.

So even the savages judged, who trusted the venerable Swartz, when they would trust no one else. So we all judge, in preferring the word of some men to the bond of others. Apply this principle to the case of him who holds some station of high importance and weighty trust. He feels himself responsible, not only to men, but to God. He knows and remembers that he is the servant of God for good, to the people. This remembrance and impression is the sheet anchor of his steadfastness. Other principles might hold him amidst the storms and commotions of the popular sea, and of his own heart; this must. With what care will he watch the precious trust, which comes to him under the seal of heaven! How sedulously will he guard the doors of the temple of liberty, when he perceives within it the altar of God, and finds his sentinel's commission countersigned with the hand-writing of Jehovah! His heart, too, will be filled with the purest and most exalted sentiments.

The fountain from which such a man daily drinks, sparkles with the elements of all that is grateful and refreshing.

The purest patriotism, the sweetest charities of domestic life, the most expansive and wise benevolence, all spring up in the heart together, the consentaneous and harmonious fruits of the love and fear of God. It was in the same school that Wilberforce learned to love the slave-Howard to love the prisonerWirt to love his country-and all to love the world. They feared and obeyed God—and all noble and generous emotions grow spontaneously in the soil of the heart thus prepared and enriched.

Nor is the effort less marked or less salutary upon the mind. Its thoughts are loftier, and its purposes deeper and more steadfast, for being conversant with the great subject of divine obligation. No man can think much of the Deity, and realize strongly His constant presence and inspection, without an elevation of views, and a growing consciousness of that mental power, for the right use of which he is accountable to Him who bestowed it. We were not made to inhabit a godless world, and we cannot make it so, in speculation and in practice, without a deterioration analogous to the dwarfish tendency of emigration to a region colder than our native clime. "God is a sun," to the mental as well as to the moral powers; and in the frozen zone of practical atheism, both degenerate and die. The noble motto, " Bene orásse est bene studisse,” applies with hardly less force to secular, than to sacred studies.

With what energy must it arm the soul of the patriot statesman, struggling against wrong counsels, and discredited dangers, to know that the God of truth and of right sees and approves his course! With what new power does his mind grasp a difficult and embarrassed subject, when he feels that the Former of that mind, now demands from him an exertion of its highest powers! What exciting power, to call forth the most thrilling eloquence, can be found in the crowded senate-chamber, compared with the consciousness that for every word he must give account to Him, whose applause, if he fulfils his high behest, will surpass in value the shouts of an enraptured universe besides!

Our remarks have, almost in spite of ourselves—so true it is that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh-assumed in many parts a bearing so specific towards our own beloved land, that unwillingness to make a larger demand upon the patience of our readers, need not be our only apology for dismissing the subject with but a few words of reference to the peculiar responsibilities of our rulers, both to God and man. If any man even needed all the good influences which the sense of obligation now described, or any other principle can impart, such are those who in any manner or measure have power and influence in our national and State councils. Our fathers justly regarded the plan of a Christian republic as new and promising. It was tried. And now for more than sixty years, we have been a spectacle to the world. Despots have gnashed their teeth at our prosperity.

The tools of despots have sought to charm away the evil spirit from their masters, by predicting our downfall; while the free and the enslaved have together looked upon our grand experiment with wonder and joy. The thought

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of liberty has sprung up in the heart of the Russian serf, as he has heard of the yeomanry of New England. The crushed and enslaved millions of Asia, have almost smiled with hope as they heard of our governing ourselves. The fragrance of this free atmosphere has infused the spirit of liberty like leaven into the mass of European subjects. Our religious character, too, is known abroad. Our system of diffused education has awakened the attention of wise and good men in almost every nation under heaven; and it is yet an interesting inquiry among those who think, whether by the aid of the Bible, the village church, and the district school, this last of the republics shall be able to stand. It is not too much to say, that the hopes of the lovers of liberty throughout the world hang in a great measure upon our success. Neither France, nor any part of South America has ever been so valuable in their eyes, as our example, or awakened such hopes.

The downfall of this nation, by whatever means, would be the signal for a jubilee in every despotic court in the world. We might imagine a shout of triumph in hell, at such a prostration of human hopes, and such a retardment of the peaceful kingdom of Christ. If these remarks are correct—and that they are not less true than trite, our readers will unitedly admit-then we have a partial measure for the actual responsibleness in the sight of Heaven, of those by whom this country is mainly known abroad, and on whose character and doings our political salvation, under God, depends. And is this high and solemn relation to the Supreme Being, this responsibleness to his ultimate and august tribunal, both for private and public acts, generally and adequately realized by those who occupy the high places in our civil community?

That there are but few among them who are avowed infidels of the Wright and Owen school; few who have disgraced the journals of Congress by causing the name of a female foreigner, which we are ashamed to repeat in such a connection, to be recorded on the list of candidates for the chaplaincy of the house; we are happy to believe ;-while as Americans, we are ashamed and humbled, that the recklessness of party strife, or a forgetfulness of our dependence on God, or the prevalence of loose principles, should have caused even one man, who contemns and defies Jehovah, to be thus elevated.

But is not the number far greater, of those who forget God's supremacy, and their own obligations to Him? Are not many of them ready to acknowledge, that He "is not in all their thoughts?"-And who are scarcely more conscious of allegiance owed to Him than to Louis Philippe ?

For such, let the aspirations of all devout worshippers in this land, daily ascend to heaven, that they may speedily possess that noble preparation of mind and of heart, for their great duties, both as public examples and as public officers, which has been described in these pages; viz. a constant, deep, practical sense of religious obligation!

Might we breathe another fervent wish of our hearts, without giving offence to those for whom it is most sincerely and constantly cherished, we would express the earnest desire we feel concerning many, whom we, with the people, delight to honor, and who already come up to the standard of moral and religious feeling which we have now described, that they should learn to appreciate and to reach that higher standard which the gospel discloses. We would that they might come to understand in their own consciousness, the happy influence of deep piety, upon the heart and mind, and the transforming and beatific power of that hope which is by faith on the redeeming Son of God. There are high places in the moral, as in the civil world. As they have, by their own merits, been elevated to the latter, may they aspire to the nobler distinction, conferred through the merits of Jesus Christ, of attaining to the former, which lie within the atmosphere of heaven, and afford an earnest of higher pleasures and more desirable honors, than any, even the noblest and purest, which this world can afford.

COLLEGIATE ADDRESSES, AND OTHER DOCUMENTS.

We have recently received a large number of pamphlets from various literary institutions in the United States. The most important of them, we shall briefly notice. We begin with the

Annual Report on Harvard University, 1833-34.

The property of the college, not producing a direct income, and to which no valuation is attached in the college books, comprehends ten buildings with the land under and adjoining; college, law, medical, and theological libraries; pictures and statuary; philosophical, chemical, and anatomical apparatus; minerals and fossils; botanic garden estate; divinity hall estate; matron's house, furniture, &c. The balance of stockaccount, the common fund of the college, amounts to $151,898 75; the funds towards salaries and grants, $180,977 37; library fund, $6,000; funds accumulating for various purposes, $7,774 12; funds for theological purposes, $35,814 96; funds for law department, $17,943 63; funds in trust for various purposes, $68,353 66; funds for indigent scholars, $28,164 45; for prizes, $24,058 72; funds received from Christopher Gore's legacy, $48,475 23; funds in reversion to the college, (John McLean's donation, $25,000, and James Perkins's $20,000,) $45,000. The whole amount of the property is $617,340 19. However, after the funds in reversion, funds in trust for various purposes, law and theological departments, income pledged to salaries and professorships, &c., are subtracted, there remains but $151,939 39, for the ordinary expenses, and keeping up the standard of instruction. The value of the pamphlet is much increased by the insertion of all the charters, laws, &c. which have emanated from the legislature, touching Harvard College. The report is in all respects very satisfactory. The salaries of the instructors are reasonably low, and some of them, we should think, incompetent.

Bishop McIlvaine's Charge.

This charge was delivered to the seventeenth annual convention of the Episcopal church of Ohio, on the 5th of September last. Two editions of it have been published. It is replete with sound and evangelical views on the right method of "preaching Christ."

Seventeenth Annual Report of the Baptist Education Society, of the State of New York.

This Society has under its charge the seminary at Hamilton. A building for this institution has just been completed at a cost of $6,000. Owing to the voluntary disuse of tea and coffee on the part of the students, the price of board in commons has been reduced to ninety cents a week. Professor Sears, now in Europe, is intending to purchase at Leipsic, a theological and classical library for the seminary. The institution, in sixteen years, has educated 140 young men; 150 are still pursuing their education. It is surrounded by 600 Baptist churches, containing 60,000 members.

First Report of the Missionary Education Society of the New England Conference.

This Society, attached to the Methodist Episcopal Church, has 2,787 members, who are formed into societies on the condition of paying fifty cents annually. The number of beneficiaries under the patronage of the Society is 8, at an annual expense of from 85 to 100 dollars each. The object of the association, as expressed in the second article

of the constitution, "is to look up, and bring forward, such young persons of both sexes as may be judged suitable for home or foreign missions, and to furnish them with the means of an education suited to the peculiar duties to which they may be respectively called." All, who are received as beneficiaries, hold themselves obligated to serve in the field of missionary labor, assigned to them by the constituted authorities of the church, for at least six years.

Constitution of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South Carolina and adjacent States.

This synod has under its charge the Theological Seminary at Lexington. A full account of the rules and by-laws of the synod is given.

Laws of Mount Hope College, Mł.

The charter of Mount Hope College was granted in 1832 by the legislature of Maryland. Frederick Hall, M. D., is president and professor of natural philosophy, chemistry, and mineralogy. Rev. Charles B. Dana is professor of rhetoric and belles lettres. The whole number of instructors is 7. Many testimonials are given by gentlemen of Baltimore and elsewhere, in relation to the high character of the institution.

President Humphreys' Address, St. John's College, Md.

This address was delivered at the annual commencement of St. John's college, in February, 1835. It urges the claims of the college on its patrons, and on the people of Maryland, with great earnestness. Many facts in the history of the college are also stated. "The college was founded by men of various Christian creeds, who gave it a character decidedly Christian but catholic. No individual can sit in her board of trustees who does not express his unqualified belief in the Christian religion, and the principle is carried to its proper extent in the government of the college." Rev. Hector Humphreys, D. D., is president and professor of moral science; J. T. Ducatel, professor of chemistry, &c.; E. Sparks, M. D., of ancient languages; T. E. Sudler, of mathematics; W. B. Leary, of grammar; and C. T. Flusser, of modern languages. About $10,000 have recently been subscribed for the college.

General Theological Seminary.

This institution, located in the city of New York, has educated, since 1821, about 80 students. The present number of students is 81. Volumes in the libraries, 3,880.

East Windsor Seminary.

We have received the inaugural address of Dr. Tyler, and the addresses of Dr. Perkins and Mr. Riddel, on the laying of the corner stone of the Theological Institute of Connecticut. The corner stone was the step stone of the door of the house of the Rev. Timothy Edwards, father of the Rev. Jonathan Edwards. The various addresses explain the reasons for the establishment of the Seminary, and the hopes which its friends indulge of its future usefulness. The professors are Rev. Messrs. Tyler, Cogswell, Nettleton, and Thompson.

Condition of Washington College, Hartford, Ct.

This college has received, since it was founded, about 90,000 dollars from private munificence, and 11,500 dollars from the legislature. The average number of students has been about 60, and of salaried officers 6. About three fourths of the pupils only have been in circumstances to pay their bills in full. Measures are now taking to raise $20,000 to endow a Hobart professorship, $20,000 for a Seabury professorship, and $20,000 for a general fund. A large part of the first named has been raised, and a considerable portion of the others.

Rev. Dr. John Ludlow's Address.

This address, delivered on occasion of the inauguration of the author as provost of the university of Pennsylvania, is mainly employed in considering the question, How can the most be made of mind? or in what way can youth be most successfully trained to enjoy the greatest amount of happiness, and to qualify them for the greatest usefulness in society? The address is well written, and contains many valuable suggestions.

Professor Eaton's Inaugural Address.

Mr. Eaton is professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in the Hamilton Literary and Theological seminary. The main purpose of this address is to point out the connection of the study of the mathematical sciences with a thorough education, and especially the value of them to the Christian ministry. They constitute a vast storehouse of illustrations. It is only by an acquaintance with these sciences, that the minister is able to refute the opinions, and counteract the influence, of infidel philosophy. The character of educated mind at the present day is scientific rather than classical. The address is written in a highly glowing style.

Inaugural Address of Rev. Dr. Hazelius.

Dr. Hazelius is professor of divinity in the theological seminary of the Lutheran church, Lexington, S. C. The subject is "the usefulness of theological seminaries." In proof of the position, he mentions that in 1812, the number of Lutheran ministers in the United States did not amount to 100. The number of pastors now amounts to 250. This great increase has been owing very much to the establishment of three or four theological seminaries.

LIST OF THE MINISTERS OF THE REFORMED CHURCHES IN FRANCE, SEPTEMBER, 1834.

We have compiled the following lists from a supplement to the Archives du Christianisme, of the 27th of September, 1834, politely lent to us by the editor of the Boston Recorder. The number of consistories of the Reformed churches is 110, seventeen of which are in the department of Gard. The consistory has charge of all ecclesiastical affairs throughout a particular district or province. It is intimately connected with the civil government. To the consistories belongs the examination of candidates for the ministerial office, the disposal of vacant livings, etc.

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