25 REVIEW AND CRITICISM. The Jubilee Memorial of Horton College, Bradford. By the REV. B. GODWIN, D.D., and the REV. B. EVANS. Leeds: J. HEATON AND SON, 7, Briggate. London: HOULSTON AND STONEMAN, Pater noster-row. THE Baptists have devoted a great deal of attention to mental culture, and, as a consequence, have reared some of the most intellectual preachers that ever appeared in this, or any other country. Among the academic institutions of this denomination, "Horton College" is not the least distinguished. From hence, at various times, have gone forth no fewer than two hundred ministers, some of whom are justly regarded as among the most devoted and efficient ministers of the community. The Jubilee of such an Institution could not but awaken a large amount of interest: it seems to have been celebrated by the delivery of a sermon, by Dr. Godwin, on Psalm xc. 16, 17: "Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it; as also by the reading of a paper, containing an Historical and Biographical Sketch of the Institution, by the Rev. B. Evans, of Scarborough. The sketch, like everything that proceeds from the pen of its accomplished author, is an able production, and eminently adapted to the occasion. The sermon, by Dr. Godwin, is also of great merit. Our readers will observe the spirit which pervades it throughout, in the following passages: THE NECESSITY OF MORAL QUALIFICATIONS IN THE CHRISTIAN MINISTER. The moral qualifications are genuine and fervent piety, an eminent devotedness to God, a strong attachment to the Gospel, and a deep interest in its success; a tender concern for the spiritual interests of our fellowcreatures, and a predominant desire to "spend and he spent" in the service of Christ, as the most honourable and the most congenial employment. Now, these no learning can supersede; for these no intellectual power, no literary or scientific attainments, can be a substitute. Without spiritual illumination, a renewed heart, a holy life, a consecration of the whole soul to God, and a supreme love to Christ, the loftiest genius, the most brilliant powers, and the highest attainments of learning, would leave a minister destitute of the primary, of the most essential requisites for his office;-a mere 66 sounding brass and tinkling cymbal." But valuable as these qualifications are, they alone are not sufficient. They constitute a man a most valuable member of a Christian church; but other qualities are requisite for the pulpit. What those other qualities are, our readers will learn from the quotation here subjoined. THE IMPORTANCE OF INTELLECTUAL ACQUIREMENTS TO THE CHRISTIAN MINISTER. Qualifications of an intellectual character are needed. Gifts and acquirements are both necessary. Natural gifts are indispensable; the power both of acquiring and im parting knowledge, the capability of fixed thought and comprehensive views, of bringing out in a lucid and impressive manner the thoughts and feelings which work within. Mental acquirements are also requisite to the stated minister. It is highly desirable that there should be such habits of thought as discipline only can produce, such a training as shall give to the mind strength, and vigour, and discrimination,—as shall assist in the close and methodica investigation of a subject, in viewing it in its various relations and bearings, in perceiving where the strength or weakness of an argument lies, in detecting the fallacies by which error is rendered specious, and in extricating the truth from the entanglement in which ingenious devices may have involved it, and such habits of mind can scarcely be obtained without a course of regular study, such as our academical institutions are designed to afford; unless, indeed, a man enter the ministry with such previous advantages as fall to the lot of few in our communities. And how much of acquired and various knowledge should he possess, who, in such a country and such an age as this, occupies the post of public instructor; whose recognised office, whose professed employment, is to explain the sacred writings, and to enforce and defend evangelical truth! Is it not, to say the least, very desirable that he should be able to examine the inspired records for himself, without being obliged to depend on translations, every one of which is, unavoidably, more or less paraphrastic? Is it not an advantage to be able to consult and compare the ancient Versions, which so often assist in determining the true reading, or ascertaining the correct sense of a passage? Should he not have some acquaintance with the manner in which the received text of the Bible has been formed, the authority of the manuscript from which it has been derived, and the value of the various readings which biblical scholars have suggested? Is it not a disadvantage to a minister to be unacquainted, as far as his own reading is concerned, with those ancient expounders of evangelical doctrine called the Fathers? Can a minister dispense with a knowledge of the records and antiquities of the Christian Church,-of general history and geography ;—of modern researches and discoveries which bear on the narratives and the predictions of the Bible? Should he not be well informed as to the nature and modes of the attacks,—both ancient and modern,-which have been made on revealed religion, and the way in which they have been repelled; and with the origin and the results of those heresies, in doctrine and in practice, which have from time to time troubled the Church; especially with the time and manner of the introduction of those innovations which wrought so complete and disastrous a change both in the form and the spirit of Christianity, as to necessitate a thorough reformation, in order to bring it back to anything like the primitive and scriptural pattern? And is it not of importance, not only for the sake of enlarging the mind, and increasing the power of explaining and illustrating the Bible, but also to enable the Christian minister to defend the sacred writings from the attacks of infidelity, that he should have a general acquaintance with the extent and progress of modern science? And should he not also be well acquainted with the powers and faculties of the human mind, with the laws of thought, and the rules of reasoning? We do not say, that without such acquirements, in addition to natural gifts, men cannot preach the Gospel, and call sinners to repentance: but we do say, that such mental training, and such acquisitions, in combination with genuine and ardent piety, must give great advantage to one whose life is devoted to pulpit ministrations, to pastoral duties, and to the maintenance and defence of the Gospel. The Doctor is right in attaching such importance to the combination of high moral and intellectual qualifications in the Christian ministry. There cannot be a doubt, that any body of religious teachers will succeed in their work-other circumstances being the same-in the proportion as they are richly endowed with the light of intellect, and the grace of life. But let it never be forgotten, that these qualities must be combined: clear light in the head, with eminent grace in the heart. Pupil Aids. Vol. V. By the REV. A. WESTON. An excellent volume, and quite equal, in most particulars, to the preceding volumes of this very useful work. We cordially recommend it to the attention of the brethren who may need such “Aids.” Sunday Queries, with Key. Liverpool: HENRY GREENWOOD, 16, Canning Place. THE BOX and the little Book, entitled, "Key to Sunday Queries," are ingenious productions, and well adapted, by stimulating the curiosity of youth, to serve as valuable auxiliaries, to teachers, in the communication of knowledge to the youthful mind. These questions relate to important Scripture facts and characters, and are strongly recommended by the Rev. C. Birrell of Liverpool, that judicious and enlightened friend of popular instruction. It is only right that our readers should know that Mr. Birrell's recommendation is based upon the good effect with which he had, himself, employed the questions in Juvenile Bible Classes. We cordially recommend the work, to the instructors of youth as being well adapted to assist their efforts. The Census and Sunday Schools; Scripture Lessons for Elementary Classes. London: SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, 60, Paternoster-Row. THE first of these works contains a free and dispassionate discussion of the aspects of the late Census in relation to Sabbath-schools, and also of the relation subsisting between Sabbath-schools and the Church. The discussion of these topics is conducted with great ability. The Committee of the Sunday-school Union are evidently penetrated with the conviction, that the time has come, when, Sabbath schools ought to be made, under God, to act much more forcibly on the Juvenile intellect and heart of the community than heretofore. "The Scripture Lessons" for elementary classes are well selected, and adapted for every Sunday throughout the year. Notes on Scripture Lessons. The Child's own Magazine. Bible Class Magazine. London: SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION, 60, Pater noster-row. The "Notes" are so admirably adapted to Sabbath-school instruction, that we hesitate not to express the opinion that they ought to be in the hands of every Sabbath-school teacher throughout the land. They are, not merely explanatory, but practical, and exhibit characteristics of great excellence in both departments. The "Child's own Magazine" is a valuable work for the amusement and edification of Sabbath-school scholars. The "Bible Class Magazine" is a periodical of great excellence; at once adapted to supply the teacher with incidents, the most touching and impressive, and the Bible Class scholar with practical illustrations of the power of the truths and principles contained in the Lessons of Holy Writ. The Preface contains a well-earned tribute to the character and labours of the celebrated" Old Humphrey," who is, now, no more. These works are all eminently adapted, either to assist or to supplement the instruction conveyed in the Sabbath-schools scattered over the length and breadth of the island. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 1. "Religion; its Sources, Character, and Supports." By CALEB WEBB. 2. "Sunday-school Teacher's Class Register for 1855." 3. "Caughey's Revival Miscellanies." 66 4. Ecclesiastical Principles and Polity of the Wesleyan Methodists." By W. PIERCE. OLIVE LEAVES, FROM RICHARD WATSON. 1. THE NEGRO NOT INCAPABLE OF CULTURE. Two descriptions of men have pronounced the Negro so degenerate a variety of the human species, as to defy all cultivation of mind, and all correction of morals. The first is composed of those who have had to contend with the passions and vices of the Negro in his purely pagan state, and have applied no other instrument to elicit the virtues they have demanded, than the stimulus of the whip, and the stern voice of authority. Who can wonder that they have failed? They have expected "to reap where they had not sown, and "to gather where they have not strewed"; they have required more 1 ends without the application of moral means; and their failure, therefore, leaves the capacity of the Negro untouched, and proves nothing but their own folly. In the second class are our minute philosophers, who take the guage of intellectual capacity from the disposition of the bones of the head, and link morality with the contour of the countenance; men, who measure mind by the rule and compass, and estimate capacity for knowledge and salvation by a scale of inches and the acuteness of angles. And yet, will it be believed, that this contemned race can, as to intellect and genius, exhibit a brighter ancestry than our own? that they are the offshoots-wild and untrained it is true, but still the offshoots-of a stem which was once proudly luxuriant in the fruits of learning and taste; whilst that from which the Goths, their calumniators, have sprung, remained hard, and knotted, and barren. For, is Africa without her heraldry of science and fame? The only probable acconut which can be given of the Negro tribes is, that as Africa was peopled, through Egypt, by three of the descendants of Ham, they are the offspring of Cush, Misraim, and Put. They found Egypt a morass, and converted it into the most fertile country in the world; they reared its pyramids, invented its hieroglyphics, gave letters to Greece and Rome, and, through them, to us. The everlasting architecture of Africa still exists, the wonder of the world, though in ruins. Her mighty kingdoms have yet their record in history. She has poured forth her heroes on the field, given bishops to the church, and martyrs to the fires; and for Negro physiognomy, as though that should shut out the light of intellect, go to your national Museum: contemplate the features of the colossal head of Memnon, and the statues of the divinities on which the ancient Africans impressed their own forms, and there see in close resemblance to the Negro feature, the mould of those countenances which once beheld, as the creations of their immortal genius, the noblest and most stupendous monuments of human skill, and taste, and grandeur. In the imperishable porphyry and granite, is the unfounded and pitiable slander publicly, and before all the world, refuted. There we see the Negro under cultivation. If he now presents a different aspect, cultivation is wanting. That solves the whole case; for, even now, when education has been expended upon the pure and undoubted Negro, it has never been bestowed in gain. Modern times have witnessed, in the persons of African negroes, venerals, physicians, philosophers, linguists, poets, mathematicians, and merchants, all eminent in their attainments, energetic in enterprise, and honourable in character; and even the Mission-schools in the West Indies exhibit a quickness of intellect, and a thirst for learning, to which the schools of this country do not always afford a parallel. 2. THE MORAL TEST OF MANHOOD. Our Scriptures have not left us to determine the title of any tribe to the full honours of humanity by accidental_circumstances. To man has been given the law, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart," and to be capable of loving God is the infallible criterion of our peculiar nature. So extensively has this principle been applied by Missionary Societies, that the philosophy which denies to the Negro and the Hottentot the attributes of manhood, is now refuted more by facts than reasoning. They have determined whether the races cast out and spurned by this theory are our brethren, and, as such, entitled to our fraternal yearnings; they have determined who are men, by determining who are capable of that universal and exclusive law to man-the love of God. The Negro through all his shades, the Hottentot through all his varieties, the Indians of America, and the natives of New Holland, have all, in our own days, been inspired with the love of God through the Gospel; and again we see that in Christ Jesus there is neither Jew nor Greek, Barbarian nor Scythian, bond nor free, but that Christ is all in all." Thus have Missionary operations not only en larged the sphere of benevol nce, but extended the vision of a hoodwinked philosophy. 3. THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL ILLUSTRATED IN THE ELEVATION OF CONVERTED NEGROES. George Thompson, the eloquent Abolition advocate, when describing the Negro in a state of bondage, says: "He is an animated hoeing Machine in the Fields; a pampered or a scourged hound in the house; a dumb Chattel in the Court of Justice; a leper in the house of prayer; an outcast even from the Christian Churchyard." But Richard Watson, when describing the power of the Gospel, as illustrated in the moral elevation of converted Negroes, says: "Your Missionaries have gone down into that mine from which, we were told, no valuable ore or precious stone could be extracted; and they have brought up the gem of an immortal spirit, flashing with the light of intellect, and glowing with the hues of Christian graces." A SINGULAR INSTANCE OF GOD'S PROVIDENCE "IN the spring of 1847," says an American clergyman, "I was travelling with a brother minister, on our way to an ecclesiastical meeting in Virginia. Having to pass through a particular district, we purposed going by a village at the court-house, and to call on friends there; but being engaged in conversation, we passed a crossroad leading to the court-house, and did not discover our mistake until we had gone several miles, when it was too late to return. While we reproached ourselves for our inattention, the Lord was guiding us. "We had not proceeded far, when we perceived a house on fire, about |