take leave to guess, that we are indebted for this courtesy to a clergyman of the establishment, and that the direction on the wrapper was by the delicate hand of his wife. It is a masterly work, original, profound, rich in thought and illustration, and, withal, exceedingly scriptural and evangelical. How refreshing to listen to the godly and learned Prelate in this simple and unanswerable exposition of cardinal Christian doctrines, after the stale rehashes served up in "Essays and Reviews," and "Tracts for the Times." We rejoice to know that there are many faithful men in the English establishment — clerical and lay—who are valiant for the truths delivered by Jesus Christ and his apostles, and fully competent to grapple with all the sophistries by which the truth of God is assailed in these latter days, as it has been in all the days gone by. The particular motive for this reprint is thus stated in a brief introduction: "This discourse is reprinted with the view of contrasting the preaching of the clergy of our church two hundred years ago with that which prevails among them in the present day. The testimony of a man so orthodox, and of such high standing and authority in the Church of England, so soon after the great war of the Reformation from Popery, furnishes a model for comparison entirely unobjectionable, and free from sectarian prejudices. "As the preaching in both cases cannot be right, it is well to inquire how this important matter stands; or we may unwittingly be allowing Christianity so to fall through, as to be going on without it." The Ecclesiastical History of New England; comprising not only Religious, but also Moral and other Relations. By JOSEPH B. FELT. Vol. II. Boston: Published by the Congregational Library Association. pp. 721. 1862. WE have been much interested in reading this second volume of Dr. Felt's very valuable history. It covers the period from 1648 to 1678. What attracts so much is the minuteness of important detail of facts which are furnished in the most simple and transparent way. There is no attempt to charm the reader by style, or draw attention to the writer; but to furnish in the most comprehensive manner possible the ecclesiastical history of this most important period and people. No Christian, or inquiring mind that looks into this volume will turn aside from it until the end is reached. There is much significance in that part of the title which reads, "not only religious, but also moral and other relations." The church and the world will long have occasion to thank Dr. Felt for the great amount of labor which he has so wisely and ably expended on this work. In its department it leaves nothing to be added or desired. Here is a specimen of the very many subjects which come into view: Way of Congregational Churches, Salaries, Assembly's Confession of Faith, Witchcraft, Synod, Temperance Measures, Fashion of Long Hair, Levellers, Deaconesses, Fraud in Bread, Arms at Worship, Cotton's Address to Cromwell, Cromwell's Answer, Excess in Apparel, Slaves, &c. The Sunday-School Prayer-Book. By J. TREADWELL WALDEN, Pp. 112. A LITURGY made on the plan of the Prayer-Book of the Episcopal Church- a Child's Prayer-Book. The idea is new, and offers advantages to those who feel a difficulty in conducting devotional exercises for children. There is often trouble in interesting them in these services, which may be to some extent obviated by engaging their attention to the responses here set down. Persons who have used this little work in a former edition have expressed much gratification with it. We have heard of its successful use in other communions than that for which it was written. It has a service, short and easy, for opening and closing the school, including a Psalter, an excellent collection of Hymns, the recitation of the Commandments, or of the duties of children, and short, simple prayers which they can underderstand. It is a great improvement on the former edition, and is neatly, yet not expensively, printed at the "Riverside Press." ARTICLE X. THE ROUND TABLE. "A HANDFUL OF CORN IN THE EARTH." We find on our Round Table a miscellany of Pamphlets, classed under the general heading of African. We group them for a little Round Table talk. Lord Macaulay has somewhere in his Miscellanies a playful prophecy of an illustrious University in Timbuctoo, to which noble youths of every land will be attracted by the eminence and worth of its professors. The prediction is in a fair way to be fulfilled. A College with the usual appliances and appurtenances has been inaugurated at Monrovia, Published by order and the account is before us in "Proceedings at the Inauguration of Liberia College, at Monrovia, January 23, 1862. of the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia." The idea of such an institution is not new. In 1836, Capt. Ross, a Mississippi planter, left by will an estate, estimated at $100,000, for this purpose, and to settle his freed slaves in Liberia. But litigation wasted the estate. In 1850, a Board of Trustees was incorporated in Massachusetts for the gathering and holding of funds for this object. The first donation was made by Amos A. Lawrence, Esq. The estate of Samuel Appleton, Esq., furnished $10,000. In 1855 the funds amounted to more than $22,000. But there were other donors and channels. The late Anson G. Phelps, Esq., gave conditionally, $50,000. Mr. Bloomfield of Rome, N. Y., left about. $25,000 to be used in the College more especially for the benefit of candidates for the Christian Ministry. Other sums, large and small, and through various channels, have much increased the general fund. The institution was formally inaugurated January 23, 1862. The edifice itself is seventy feet by forty-five, and three stories high. Prof. Crummell, one of the Faculty, has been in this country during the year procuring books for the Library, and has secured the donation of several thousand volumes. Harvard College gave about six hundred volumes. A good cabinet of minerals has also been obtained, and a fair beginning for a collection in conchology. The outline of study is of course simpler and more immediately practical than what is common in this country. Thus the six hundred miles of Liberian coast, with its vast and indefinite interior, is lighted up. "The morning cometh" for Africa. New England had her College before the first child born here was old enough to use it, and Liberia is almost as prompt. The beginnings are small, yet more ample than were those of Harvard. The Faculty are to be obtained entirely within the limits of Liberia, and so we are in a fair way to see what the African can do in the matter of education. The exercises of the inauguration give good promise. The actors show a consciousness of their humble origin, and are modest but hopeful and courageous. The literary execution of the several addresses on the occasion is good. We have seldom read a better plea for the study of the ancient classics than Prof. Blyden furnishes in his inaugural, as Professor of the Greek and Latin Languages and Lit Thus another element is contributed for the solution of the one great American question—the future of the negro. With a Republic in Africa, wholly under the control of Africans, enlightened, culti seminary notes on the topic. The formula is very simple, being an ultimate analysis, and stands thus: = a (1)+zi to s, inclusive, +"Xe w orthodoxy. But on this formula we must remark: a. That it is made up with specific reference to the doctrine of sin, and is not a universal formula for a complete creed. b. That e, as here used, is used in the sense of e ecbatic, and not e telic. ment c. That x indicates the unknown quantity of progress and improvean essential element in any sound and fixed orthodoxy. d. That x raised to the n" power indicates the height of improvement one may attain in a progressive orthodoxy. The n" or unknown power is used because no one can tell how far a man has gone or may even yet go in improving orthodoxy. e. That the result in the solution may be varied more or less in its mere phraseology, as one may be wishing to attach himself as a disciple to a master, or be wishing to attach disciples to himself and constitute a sect. But revenons a nos moutons, ou cakes. Where it says, "Ephraim is a cake not turned," Ephraim is a collective word for the people of God. In it we shall find all varieties of good men, from the least to the biggest; and they are all set forth under a figure, as if a cake. Now cakes may vary in two ways: (1) In their composition; and (2) in their cooking. In these divisions will we speak of them, and so analyze and exhaust the topic. 1. Cakes in their Composition. a. Some are made of the finest of the wheat. They are of the shock of corn fully ripe, and are ground out by a divine power between the upper and the nether mill-stones of the law and the gospel. Such were Eli, Anna, Simeon, and Paul. b. Some are made of the tares and the wheat in offensive mixture. The fan of the Lord did not thoroughly purge the threshing-floor whence these came. Such were Naaman in the house of Rimmon, and Demas, and certain Galatians whom the apostle stood in doubt of. c. Some cakes have in them little or none of the leaven of the kingdom, which spreads and works till the whole is leavened. These never rise, but do lie flat and solid, and are exceedingly unseemly to look upon. They are much as unleavened bread. By this it is said, in a figure, that grace has but little affected or changed them, so that one would say: all men have grace, or these have none. d. Some cakes have but a human leaven. Such are those that are raised only by the heats and fumes of a human excitement. They fall from the grace they have when the man who gave it is gone. e. Some cakes are made wholly of buckwheat, instead of the genuine Palestine wheat. These cakes, despite the grinding in the Lord's mill and the leaven of the kingdom, do always retain a strong original flavor, and have a crusty, brittle, and buckish quality. Rem. The ultimate analysis of this part of our subject would protract our free remarks to q (7), but we forbear. 2. Cakes in their Cooking. z. These are those to whom the time was well appointed, and the heat well tempered, and the turning judicious. Ephraim was a cake not turned. But to these there is an evenness and a congruity of part with part. None is overdone, and none under. The loaf is equally good on all sides, having no burnt surface, or soft centre. This meaneth, in the figure, that they are good Christians on all sides, and in all things and every time. Their piety has neither moods nor tenses as some verbs. Rem. There are some Christians who are always in the subjunctive mood and future tense, and some there be whose good experiences are as inceptive verbs and preterite tenses. y. There are some cakes that are baked under a flashy and sudden heat. The fires of such ovens are as the crackling of thorns under a pot. These cakes may be known by being very broad and thin. They have more surface than substance. x. Some are soured before or in the cooking. The leaven is not timely given, or it is not gracious and heavenly enough to correct the natural acids and evil vapors and humors of the grain. So these evil qualities are left in the loaf. Such cakes do always cast reproach on the grain, and the oven, and the baker; and when they use them men will say they do not want divine cakes. So is the religion of some men, full of acids, bitterness, and a puckering taste. Men will not have it, they say, for that it is morose, or angular, and has a grit in the grace, and is hostile to good cheer among good men. w. 66 And some cakes are baked only on one side. Ephraim is a cake not turned." On this side a burnt crust, on that, dough. He has a Sunday side, and a Monday side. The one is over-done by long prayers and boisterous piety, and the other is but dough as yet in the kneading-trough of a carnal nature. His religion never gets into his business, though his business does sometimes mix itself up with his religion. He says grace very graciously, and makes bargains with you after meat most nippingly. He seems very good on his pious side, and has a dexterous way of keeping that side toward pious people. But as he was not turned in the baking, so he will not bear turning in the life. A clean cut through the loaf is neither this nor that, so that one shall say, this man should be better or worse, one |