Good Books. SAMUEL T. ARMSTRONG, No. 50, Cornhill, Boston, KEEPS for sale on liberal terms at his Theological Bookstore, a general assortment of valuable works but particularly RELIGIOUS BOOKS. Ministers and Students, will find it advantageous to call at this store, designed particularly to supply the most approved Theological Books. S. T. A. has published Smith on Prophecies Christ is Precious Codman's Hymns Watts on Communion of Harriet Newell 'Fanny Woodbury David Brainerd Abigail Bailey Henry Kirk White And has in Press A new edition of CHRISTIAN PSALMODY, This he would offer to the attention of Ministers, and all concerned in Singing Choirs. Also, SCOTT'S FAMILY BIBLE, Armstrong's Second Edition, the most neat and handsome edition ever printed, with LARGE TYPE for aged of people. This edition is greatly preferred to any the many editions, which have been printed, for elegance, accuracy, and cheapness. S. T. A. proposes to publish LECTURES ON THE MILLENNIUM, by Rev. JOSEPH EMERSON. Price 88 cents. Also, a new and improved edition of BUTTERWORTH'S CONCORDANCE, to sell at about $2:00 bound and lettered. Copy right. The PANOPLIST is published every month by 9. T. A. of whom may always be had complete sets, or any volume of that interesting, popular, and excellent work. Price to Subscribers is $2:40 per annum. PRINTING in all its variety executed at ARMSTRONG'S PRESSES for Cash or Credit with despatch and accuracy. All who purchase Books at this Store will be entitled to one copy gratis for every five copies of any work purchased: that is for all Books sold here EVERY SIXTH COPY is given GRATIS A VIEW OF THE CHARACTER OF THE REV. RICHARD CECIL. IN depicting the PERSONAL and MINISTERIAL character of my departed friend, while I shall communicate occasionally the impressions made by him on my own mind, most of which were recorded at the time they were made, I shall endeavor to render him, as much as possible the pourtrayer of his own character, by detailing those descriptions of his views and feelings which I gathered from him. NATURE, EDUCATION, and GRACE combine to form and model the PERSONAL CHARACTER of every Christian. God gives to his reasonable creature such physical and intellectual constitution as he pleases: education and circumstances hide or unfold, restrain or mature this constitution; and grace, while it regulates and sanctifies the powers of the man, varies its own appearances according to the varieties of those powers. And it is by the endless modifications and counteractions of these principles that the Personal Character of a Christian is formed. It might have been expected from Mr. Cecil's earliest displays of character, that he was formed to be an instrument of extensive evil or of eminent good. There was a DECISION-a DARING-an UNTAMEABLENESS in the structure of his mind even when a boy, combined with a tone of authority and command, and a talent in the exercise of these qualities, to which the minds of his associates yielded an implicit subjection. Fear of consequences never entered into his view. Opposition, especially if accompanied by any thing like severity or oppression, awakened unrelenting resistance. Yet this bold and untameable spirit was allied to a NOBLE and GENEROUS disposition. There was a magnificence in his mind. While he was scrupulously delicate, perhaps even to some excess, on subjects entrusted to his secrecy, and on affairs in progress; yet he would never lend himself in his own concerns, or in those of other persons, to any thing that bordered on artifice and manœuvre: for he had a native and thorough contempt of whatever was mean, little, and equivocating. That "honesty is the best policy" may be a strong, or the prevailing motive for uprightness with men of a lower tone of character, but I question if it at all entered into calculation with my great friend. His mind was too noble, to have recourse to other means or to aim at other ends, than those which he avowed; and too intrepid not to avow those which he did entertain, so far as might be required or expedient. His temptations were to the sins of the spirit, rather than to those of the flesh: and he possessed, all his life long, a superiority to the pleasures of mere sense not often seen. He was, indeed, TEMPERATE in all things-holding his bodily appe, tites in entire subjection. SYMPATHY WITH SUFFERING was an eminent characteristic of Mr. Cecil's mind-a sympathy which sprung less from that softness and sensibility which are the ornament of the female, than from the generosity of his disposition. He would have had all men happy. It gratified his generous nature to ease the burdens of suffering man. If any were afflicted by the visitations of God, he taught them |