Mr. Paterson laboured in the daily demands of his cure, without any very particular occurrence until January, 1836, when the state of his health, impaired by exertion, led him to exchange duty with the Rev. William Holt, minister of Laura Chapel, Bath. Here he gave so much satisfaction in the space of a few months, that the congregation presented him with a priest's gown and cassock, and a pocket sacramental service.

On the 10th of November, 1836, Mr. Paterson married Cordelia, third daughter of Edward Cranston, Esq., of East Court, Grinstead. He well needed the sympathies and support of such a "help meet for him" as this lady appears to have been. Disease of the heart had made rapid inroad on his constitution, and, after severe sufferings endured with exemplary submission, and in calm and well-grounded hope of eternal life, Mr. Paterson expired on Sunday, January 22, 1837.

We must repeat our protest against the modern custom of publishing private journals. We feel so strongly on this point, that we are in astonishment how men who on all ordinary occasions are governed by the rules of integrity and honour, can bring themselves to do what appears to us so totally at variance with those principles. A journal (if not written for publication by a hypocrite anxious to parade his modesty and humility) is a record, for mere personal and individual purposes, of the most secret thoughts and emotions of the writer. Who, without that writer's permission, ought to divulge these to one human being?-much less, to the world?—And what sincere journal writer would ever give such permission? For our own part, we would as soon break open a private drawer as publish a private journal. Whether the practice, however, be consistent or otherwise with honour and rectitude, we are sure its tendency is evil. Sincere men are afraid of putting their thoughts on paper, lest some officious friend should make them the property of the public; while the hypocrite and the egotist are encouraged to write lying self-debasements, that the world may see what virtuous characters it has lost. Let the practice go on a few years, and every coxcomb in literature and Tartuffe in religion will have written an autobiography of this laudatory self-defamation.

We will conclude our remarks with Archdeacon Hoare's concluding paragraph, which admirably and feelingly depicts the anomalous position in which, thanks to the piety of dissent, the Clergy of our Church find themselves at present; and only add that we concur fully in his feelings, and give a hearty Amen to his prayer.

Happy were it for us if the circumstances of the christian church allowed, indeed, of an exclusive attention to those most appropriate of all christian topies, to tasks which might win the soul from earth, and speed it on its flight to the realms of heavenly light and joy! it is or ought to be, our disap pointment, when we are forced from these to other efforts to stem the over

whelming tide, or watch the undermining sap, which threaten the walls of our spiritual Zion; and when our fear is, that the retired pursuit of active pastoral duty, will be made the opportunity, and even the plea, for meddling with the temporalities of the Establishment, and throwing down the pillars and outworks of our spiritual and invisible sanctuary. In the midst, however, of every outward discouragement, and in spite of all temporal inconveniences may we be "followers of them who through faith and patience" have at length inherited those promises, which are beyond all power of change! And God grant, that in following their faith, we may profitably and gratefully "remember the end of their conversation, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever!"-Pp. 94, 95.

ART. III. Obligations of the National Church. A Charge delivered at the Visitation in Hampshire, September 1838. By W. DEALTRY, D.D. Chancellor of the Diocese of Winchester. With an Appendix, consisting chiefly of Extracts from an Article in the Fourth Number of the New York Review, "On The State of the Church of England." London: Hatchard, and Parker. Pp. 92.

THIS Charge contains much valuable and useful information, on what the Church has of late effected, is now effecting, and is capable of effecting, for the spiritual welfare, not only of this country, but of all within its reach. Few persons, if any, appear to have a greater facility in collecting materials with this object in view than Dr. Dealtry, or of placing them before his hearers or readers in a more agreeable style and form. Our limits forbid our transcribing the various statistics and remarks, which appear in these pages, respecting "the christian education of the young;" the supply of "suitable places of public worship," by the building of new churches, and their "endowment;" the increase of clergy; the "sending out ministers of the Church, and diffusing, as opportunity allows, the benefits of its system, in foreign regions." Respecting these important subjects, we must refer for the details to the Charge itself. But perhaps the part of the work which will appear most interesting to many, is the large portion of the Appendix which is occupied by the extracts from an American Review, "On the State of the Church of England." The writer, it appears, is a member of the Episcopalian Church in America, and is known to Dr. Dealtry. The tone and character of his observations may be inferred from the passage with which the Charge commences.

It is the remark of an able writer in America, that in point of spiritual prosperity and usefulness, the Established Church of England has of late years exceeded all parallel in her former history;" and yet, "that since the Revolution in 1649, there has been no example of so much combined and earnest zeal against her, as these times are displaying." These two facts he represents as "singularly associated;" and it must be confessed, that, in a country avowedly christian, this is a state of things which may reasonably call forth an expression of surprise.-P. 1.

And again :

It is highly gratifying to receive from a candid and competent judge, living in another quarter of the world, and although an episcopalian, placed beyond the reach of those party conflicts which disturb us here, the favourable testimony just adduced.-P. 2.

One general remark we must make on Dr. Dealtry's Charge, which is, that it would be more agreeable to our feelings, if he spoke rather less often of "the Established Church," and "the National Church."

ART. IV. The Social Bearings and Importance of Education. By J. ANTROBUS. London: Longman & Co. Pp. xx. 302.

THIS work, upon a subject of the deepest interest, is based upon the most correct principles, and is written with an especial view to the present aspect of society. A tone of moderation, and a comprehensive knowledge of human nature, characterise every part. Mr. Antrobus is not an Utopian; he is not a partisan; however any reader may dissent from his conclusions, none can complain of want of candour and fairness-none can invalidate his claims to respect as a writer, who is evidently a cordial advocate of the best interests of mankind.

This work is divided into six Essays. The second and the fifth perhaps deserve the greatest praise; but there is scarcely a page which is not directly dedicated to the service of religion and learning; and of these, the latter is everywhere held up as subordinate to the former. "When the comparatively trifling things of time manifestly engross the first attention, it amounts to a tacit declaration that they hold the leading place in our estimation, notwithstanding professions to the contrary. Hence the indispensable means of certain and endless good are deferred till we have secured, as we fondly suppose, the accommodations of the present time, by those common-place acquirements which absorb the time and faculties of children during their prime, and which have avowedly but a temporal aim. This can hardly be deemed the wisdom befitting a responsible being. If one thing be confessedly needful, and incomparably more so than all other things together, it consists with the soundest reason to make it the first acquisition." (P. 28.) This is substantiated by very copious proofs and illustrations in the last section of the work, from p. 277 to the end. In the same spirit are the following excellent remarks, in p. 41: "That there is education enough, may be true, while it by no means follows that it is wholly of the right sort. As it is obviously easier to make a people knowing than to make them virtuous, it is evident where the main stress ought to be laid. The widest diffusion of knowledge will not alone suffice for the great ends of social existence; for beneficial as its agency unquestionably is, in furthering

the noblest objects, and on the most extended scale, yet modern experience has shown that, in corrupt hands, it is no less active and mighty for the propagation of the most baneful and destructive crrors."

The second Essay, entitled, "Parental Responsibility," is such as every judicious parent must approve. Too much care cannot be taken to make domestic education, the training of the habits, and the regulating of the tempers of children, a daily and a progressive work, untouched and unmolested by our own neglects and inconsistencies. The mind and disposition of that parent must be under constant self-management, who would see in his child the gentle and the gradual growth of whatever can adorn the heart; or who would endeavour, with God's gracious blessing, to purify the early taint, and give a right direction to the faulty bias of nature. "Every day gives birth to manifold deplorable consequences, which, from seemingly trivial neglects during the earlier stages of life, have invaded the peace of society."-P. 52.

There is little doubt but that many a parent may trace back to his own thoughtlessness,-the not thinking it worth while to study the temperament and constitution of the mind of his child, and to adapt his own treatment of his offspring to the peculiar circumstances and character of those whom God has given him,—both his own and their subsequent unhappiness. In nothing is daily self-examination more requisite to a parent, than in the point of his domestic management. If we think that any thing can be so important as to excuse the neglect of this sphere of our duty, providence will probably visit our criminality in this respect by making us feel, in the course of years, that the whole order of life is confused by inattention to the unostentatious duties of home. In the work before us are several admirable remarks upon the unhappy extremes of austerity and indulgence. It may be added, that both are often ascribable to this common source of thoughtlessness; thoughtlessness taking a summary course with children to be rid of the trouble which a more rational mode of treatment implies. Parents need constantly to keep in view, that, on the one hand,

Those chidings of anger, which assume the character of austerity, invariably tend to excite a feeling of irritation and disgust, which, by taking possession of the mind, exclude for the time every better consideration; and, when strengthened by an inherent spirit of obstinacy, become often the provocatives of those very mischiefs which they were intended to prevent.-P. 52.

And, on the other, that—

To indulge children merely because, as helpless and dependent creatures, they claim our sympathy, is to increase their natural weakness, and multiply their wants: it is because their reason is weak, they require the guidance of those whose reason is strong; and if the will of the child be not submitted to the superior judgment of the parent, while it is yet pliant, it is contrary to reason to imagine that it will bend more readily when time has added to its strength. Nor will half-measures of obedience suffice, commonly as they are adopted, and convenient as they may be on certain occasions: anything short

of an entire submission creates indecision; and if inclination be permitted to plead against duty, it is easy to predict the fate of conscience in so unequal a struggle.-P. 55.

Mr. Antrobus is against the "fill and cram" system, and has in this essay some very excellent remarks upon the folly of this unnatural coercion of the mind. "Fill and cram the infant mind with knowledge seems to be the order of the day; whether it have power to digest it aright is another and after consideration: the child must read as soon as it can lisp, and must, of course, learn every thing it is able to read." -P. 66.

- We would also recommend to our readers his remarks upon the benefits, which arise out of the diversity in tastes and talents which Providence has allotted to mankind, and the bearings of this subject upon that of education.-See p. 78, et seq.

The latter part of this highly valuable portion of his work presents some very excellent observations on the folly of the principle, that a parent's chief object should be to make his children heirs of a plentiful fortune.

The third Essay is partly taken up by a review of the state of our parochial charity schools, and of the infant-school system.

There is, (says Mr. Antrobus,) perhaps, no medium of public education less open to objections than the parochial charity schools; nor does their simplicity constitute their least perfection. Nothing is taught but what is deemed indispensable; and one valuable feature which they have in common, viz. schools where the children are lodged and boarded, is the exclusion of evil from outward contamination-a negative merit perhaps, but combined with more solid advantages than many a prouder system can confer. But this is their least praise; religion is properly taught and attended to, forming a prominent part of the daily routine, and is thus made the solid and consistent basis on which the whole moral and social superstructure is raised. — Pp. 118, 119.

We cannot sufficiently commend the sequel of this essay, which is devoted to the consideration of the infant-school system. Our author, justly, as it appears to us, deprecates its adoption as a system to be alike applied to all classes of the poor, and to the agricultural as well as to the manufacturing districts. We are not of those who deal in wholesale accusations of the poor as spendthrifts, without natural affection, and incapable of fulfilling their domestic duties. Such representations are, no doubt, very favourable to that novel and decidedly antisocial system which our New Poor Laws are introducing amongst us; but it is sufficient that poverty should have its own natural probation of suffering, without its being charged with an utter incompatibility in regard of the essential duties of life. We do not believe that the best education for the children of the poor is within the walls of a workhouse, or that the infant school is a better mode of training than one which leaves the child more under the eye of the parent, and with better opportunities of learning, through the heart, those pure filial VOL. XXI. NO. III.

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