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readers; the vial of vengeance had been poured out upon a people whose iniquities were full, and the angel of destruction descended upon the magnificent but sinful city until not one stone remained upon another, and the searcher in after years looked in vain for the relic of a single column of one of its tens of thousands of palaces. The prodigious and terrible scene of its destruction has been well imagined by Mr. Martin. He has chosen the moment when the sea becomes an invader, rends the thick walls, and leads the triumphant conquerors through the enormous breach. Sardanapalus is in the act of proceeding to the funeral pile-an enormous cavern formed of the richest and costliest objects that had been collected together from all parts of his capital-and conveying with him his numerous wives, whom with himself he has devoted to death, as a fate preferable to that of falling into the hands of his enemies. It is, however, in the backgrounds of his pictures that Mr. Martin is unequalled. A fine example of this peculiar excellence is to be found in this work ;it requires no great effort of imagination to conceive the millions that attack the millions who are subdued. In truth a more splendid effort of art has never been within the reach of those by whom art is loved and appreciated; and whether we regard its merits in this respect, or the appalling yet warning nature of the subject,

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we strongly recommend the print as one that may well grace the drawing-room of all classes by whom it can be procured.

We have occupied so much space with this notice, that we must postpone to some other opportunity some comments on the work "The Destruction of Babylon," more recently published.

WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED.

1. The Museum. By CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH. 2s. 18mo. pp. 187. The fair author of this little volume is already advantageously known to the religious public as a writer of unusual energy and piety, and the present effort of her pen will well support her reputation with the young people in our respective families.

2. A Brief Memoir of the late Rev. Isaac Mann, A. M., Pastor of the Baptist Church, Maze Pond, London. By JOSEPH BELCHER, Author of "Interesting Narratives from the Sacred Volume." 12mo. This is a sketch to the life. No one who knew Mr. Mann can doubt his biographer's acquaintance with him. To many friends this cheap pamphlet will be a great treasure.

3. Sermons, addressed to Children. By JOHN BURDER, A. M. 18mo. Tract Society. This is a new and neat edition of a volume which all children will read, because all children can understand it. The author has much of his reverend father's simplicity and sterling good sense in his mode of writing.

4. Remember Me: a Token of Christian Affection, consisting of entirely Original Pieces in prose and verse. With a Portrait of the Rev. William Marsh. This small but elegant volume has been evidently got up with care, and with a due regard to Christian truth. It is very suitable as a present from one Christian to another.

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

HIGHBURY COLLEGE.

The annual examination at Highbury College took place on the third and fourth of July. On the former day, the students were examined in the classical department from a statement of the books which have been read during the session. Passages were selected by the Chairman from Sallust, Virgil, Horace, Tacitus, Xenophon, Herodotus, and Thucydides. On the latter day, several essays were read, and a series of questions proposed on Rhetoric, Biblical Criticism, and Theology. A class expounded a portion of the Greek Testament, and another read selections from the Bible. The following report was furnished by the examiners :

66 We, whose names are undersigned, cheerfully bear our testimony to the very scholar-like and admirable manner in which the young men have acquitted themselves; and whilst we congratulate the tutors on their success, and the students on their varied attainments, we indulge the hope that an institution so highly favoured will continue to enjoy the blessing of the Redeemer, and the increasing support of the churches."

J. BERRY.

JOSEPH FLETCHER, D.D. RALPH WARDLAW, D.D., &c.

On the evening of July 4th, the annual meeting was held at the Congregational Library, Moorfields. After an Essay on the Incarnation, delivered by the senior student, the report was read and adopted, and the usual resolutions proposed. We regret to learn, from a passage in the report, as well as from the statements of the Treasurer, that a considerable defalcation has occurred in the annual subscriptions. Some liberal subscribers have been removed by death, and others, through commercial difficulty, have been obliged to relinquish their assistance. notice of this deficiency will be quite sufficient to induce the friends of this most important institution, and especially the ministers who have been educated under its patronage, to come forward immediately with their influence and support in its favour.

NEW BROAD STREET.

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The Meeting-house in New Broad Street, which has been shut up for repairs, will be re-opened on Sabbath day, the 5th of August next, by the Rev. N. M. Harry, of Banbury, who will on that day commence his stated services as the pastor of the church and congregation assembling in that place.

DISTRIBUTION OF PROFITS TO WIDOWS

Of Evangelical Ministers, voted at a Meeting of Trustees, June 27, 1832.

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BLACKBURN ACADEMY.

unvoted, because the applications have not been made.

The anniversary of this institution was held on Wednesday, June 27th, and the following day when the examination of the students took place, and the general business of the academy was transacted. The following is the Report of the committee of examination, which we are happy to lay before our readers.

"It has afforded us much pleasure to observe the great proficiency which has been made by the students, in all the branches of study to which their attention has been directed during the past year. In the classical department, they read to us such portions of the Latin Delectus, the Eneid and Georgics of Virgil, and of the histories of Tacitus, as the Chairman at the time selected; and they did the same also in the Greek Delectus, the Odes of Anacreon, Cyropodia of Xenophon, and the Medea of Euripides; and very strictly and satisfactorily explained the grammatical structure and peculiarities of the respective authors. In the Hebrew they read and analysed, in a similar way, part of the first Book of Samuel. They were also examined, by a series of questions, on optics, as a branch of natural philosophy; in mental philosophy, on the nature and advantages of metaphysical studies; and in theology, on the

origin of evil, and the standard of moral duty; in all of which they evinced an accurate acquaintance with the subjects under consideration, and thus reflected the highest credit on themselves and their tutors, whose most efficient services we would gratefully acknowledge. Nor can we deny ourselves the pleasure of recording our perfect satisfaction with the general appearance and promise of the students, at present under the able and fostering care of their devoted tutors.

"Signed on behalf of the
examining Committee,

"J. CLUNIE, LL.D. Chairman." On Wednesday evening, the venerable Mr. Parsons, of Leeds, delivered to the students a most appropriate and impressive address; after which, Mr. Ely, of Rochdale, preached a very interesting sermon from Revelations xxii. 20. On Thursday, after transacting the general business of the institution, and admitting one candidate on probation, the Rev. D. B. Hayward, formerly a student in the academy, and who had, for the last quarter, discharged the duties of the classical tutor, to the entire satisfaction of the committee, was fully appointed to the vacant chair. It is with much satisfaction that we announce also, that the academy now occupies very suitable and convenient premises, lately fitted up for the purpose-a circumstance which,

it is presumed, will greatly contribute to the future comfort of the students, and the best interests of the institution.

FOREIGN.

REMARKABLE EVENTS OF THE DANUBE MOSS, IN BAVARIA.

THE attention of pious Protestants in Germany, Switzerland, and France, has been greatly interested by the recent events at Carlshuld, on the Danube Moss, in Bavaria ; the majority of whose population have relinquished the Roman Catholic religion, and openly embraced the Protestant. A more astonishing work of God is scarcely to be found in the whole compass of Ecclesiastical history. We are possessed of very ample statements in several of the German and French religious periodical and other publications. An excellent narrative appeared in the Paris magazine, the Archives du Christianisme, for April last; of which a translation or epitome was given in the Christian Observer for the last month; but our most copious information lies in the original documents themselves, published by the late vicar, the Rev. John Evangelist George Lutz, viz: "Historical Notices upon the Civil and Religious Circumstances of the Colony-parish of Carlshuld," in four parts; Augsburg. "Words of Advice, Entreaty, and Consolation, to my late Parishioners on the Danube Moss." "Confession of the Doctrines of Christianity, as acknowledged and believed in the Parish of Carlshuld, with an Appendix" Neuburg: all published in 1832.

Even the most abridged account, if it were to aim at preserving all the facts with their connexions and consequences which are detailed in these publications, would far exceed the space in our power to afford. Yet the great importance and interest of the affair would make it unpardonable in us to pass it by without notice. We shall endeavour to

give a very brief statement.

The Danube Moss, lying wide of Neuburg and Ingoldstadt, is a tract of country about twenty English miles in length, and nine or ten in breadth, which had for ages been the seat of barrenness, unwholesomeness, and danger. Persons attempting to cross it have been swallowed up; while the insalubrious atmosphere, and the cold produced by evaporation, were sources of extreme injury to the surrounding country. About forty years ago the government adopted measures for draining and delving the Moss land; and invited persons to settle upon it as colonists and cultivators. Some speculators bought allotments on low terms, and let them out to undertenants in wretchedly small portions, and at rents which proved far above the ability of the actual occupants to pay. The evil was increased by the influx of settlers from all parts of Germany, in number far beyond the capacity of the land to support; and many

of them ignorant of agriculture, worthless, idle, and abandoned characters. In a few years the district became an awful scene of vice and misery; the very chosen abode of famine and nakedness, destitution and disease. Various settlements, or colonies as they were called, were formed, the principal of which is Carlshuld, which was formed in 1796; but was, after a fallaciously prosperous commencement, ruined by the ignorant or unprincipled proceeding of the primary landholders, who, expecting to make enormous gains by unrestricted underletting, covered the land with seven times the number of occupiers that it was capable of supporting. At the same time, from want of skill, want of capital, want of machinery, in short, want of every thing but physical and moral evil, the draining and removing of the mossy beds, and other operations necessary to the creation of a fertile soil, was very feebly carried on.

To such a height did wretchedness

of every kind arise, that the most terrible consequences were apprehended from the despair and recklessness of the people. To prevent a servile war, the government interposed, and, in 1825, the late king, Maximilian, determined to buy back the groundproperty, though at a great sacrifice; and he formed a plan of measures to be adopted for raising the unhappy population of the Mosses from their deplorable state, remedying their indigence, and providing for them schools and religious instruction. These beneficent intentions were frustrated by the death of the king, in the October of that year; and financial obstructions arose, which have not yet been overcome by his son and successor, Lewis.

The moral condition of this people had now sunk to the lowest point. While dying of famine, nakedness, and marsh-fever, they were brutalized by licentiousness; and savage manners, bloody affrays, and the grossest superstition of witchcraft and ghost-stories, reigned among them.

A few years before, two successive priests of Weichering, about four miles off, had laboured very earnestly for the instruction and reformation of the Moss people. A wooden hut was built for a church, and a school was set up, but the attempts were unsuccessful; and the buildings, if they might be so called, fell to decay, or sunk into the Moss.

In 1826, the bishop of Augsburg, Di von Riegg, visited and examined this forlorn part of his diocese. He collected around him, at Carlshuld, about nine hundred persons, and addressed them in a manner which deeply affected the rude hearts of his audience: they fell upon their knees, and, by their sobs and cries, drowned his pastoral voice. Here we must beg our readers to recollect what we have said in a former Number (May last, p. 189,) upon the Evangelical Catholics of South Germany. Tears flowed down the

cheeks of the venerable bishop. Many voices cried out,-"Oh, have pity on us poor creatures! We beg for a clergyman.'

Then the whole multitude, still kneeling, holding up their clasped hands and loudly sobbing, repeated, "We pray for a clergyman! We pray for a clergyman! We will not rise up till you give us your promise."

"Yes! you shall have one. Ye shall no longer be sheep without a shepherd, the prey of every calamity, and exposed naked to the wolf. I will send you right soon a clergyman, who will preach to you the word of life, and administer the Lord's means of grace. But will ye receive him with love and veneration?"

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"And will ye believe the gospel which he shall preach to you, and be led by him in the way of life and salvation?"

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Yea, we will, indeed!" they cried, in floods of tears. The bishop then prayed and pronounced his blessing upon them, and hastened away. That same night he wrote to the king an affecting account of the transaction.

The impression which this truly apostolical visitation made upon all present was, beyond description, great; and it appeared to have an abiding blessing. To this day the people relate it with tears. The unusual scene made a deep and indelible impression upon the right reverend bishop's noble heart. He often spoke of it with strong emotion; and the benefits which, from that time, he conferred upon poor Carlshuld have been very great, and will be richly recompensed in heaven." (Historical Notices, P. I. p. 31.)

The bishop fixed upon Mr. Lutz, a young clergyman, who had been in orders about two years, and was then vicar-priest of Grimoldsried. At this very time, Mr. Lutz had been longing and praying for a station that should be a true Mission-post. We must pass over many interesting circumstances in this part of the history. He hastened, as soon as the laws and usages permitted, to Carlshuld. There was no place tenantable as a church; but he got a few boards nailed together for a pulpit, and, on Aug. 27, 1826, preached his inaugural sermon in a farmyard, from 1 Cor. ii. 2.-"I had resolved with myself to know nothing among you, but only Jesus Christ, and him indeed the crucified." (We give it exactly as in the version which he used.)

Next he preached in the church-yard five sermons on," CHRIST the only Saviour for sinners of every sort, even the vilest of the Moss people." The necessity of a change of heart, true repentance, and living faith." "The work of the Spirit in sanctification, both the mortification of all sin, and the practice of all holiness.""That every man, woman, and child, must personally turn to Christ-none can do it for another.". Every hand to the work."

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Thus he went on preaching and chatechis

* He was born, March 12, 1801.

ing every Sundy and saint's day. Twice or three times a week, and afterwards almost every day, he said mass; and, at the close, always read and expounded a portion of the New Testament. This awakened a desire to possess the holy book, and he laboured to procure copies for the most extensive supply of his parishioners.

We must hasten to a close; but how can we compress the heart-touching matter before us, occupying above three hundred pages? Soon a great change appeared in the outward morality of the parish; gross wickedness became less common, civility and decency were better observed, and the attendance on religious services was numerous and, apparently, earnest; yet this did not satisfy Mr. Lutz. For a long time was his faith tried, and his hope deferred. Two brothers, and one or two persons beside, were brought to deep convictions, and to find peace in Christ, within the first year; gradually more persons in the second year; and the increase proceeded without noise, or attracting much observation, till, in 1830, it became manifest that a great number of persons of all ages were brought under the influence of the truth, and many families became models of industry, frugality, domestic comfort, and consistent religion. It is observable that this, so laborious, faithful, and exemplary priest, in detailing the means and instruments which divine grace made use of in this work, lays peculiar stress on the public expounding, and the private reading, with prayer, of the word of God. In providing Bibles and New Testaments for his parishioners, Mr. Lutz gratefully acknowledges the liberal aid afforded by our country's blessed institution, the British and Foreign Bible Society.

It is an instructive fact, that, in 1828, Mr. L. was troubled by what he calls "the enemy sowing tares among the wheat ;-blind work of Satan, or the birth of fancy; -" alleged visions of Christ, the droppings of his blood, angels, devils, and the souls of the departed. The persons who asserted these things, as their own experience, he treated with moderation and kindness, and in due time weaned them of their error. He taught them that "the Scripture saith not, he that hath a vision of this or that shall be saved, but he that repenteth, that with the whole heart believeth on Christ, loveth him above all things, and in dependence on him leadeth a pious and holy life."

Histor. Not. P. II. p. 54).

In the meantime, he accomplished a wonderful work upon the external condition of his parishioners, similar to the celebrated labours of Oberlin at Waldsbach; only with this difference, that he had incomparably worse materials to work upon, both natural and moral. The dreary flats of the Moss, where scarcely a tree or even a shrub was to be found, could bear no resemblance in capability of improvement to the romantic variety of Oberlin's parish; and the Moss-settlers were really, to a great extent, the very off

scouring of the streets of the large cities of Germany. Some of the German papers say, that the improvements in the land and in the condition of the people would appear absolutely incredible to those who had not seen them. For these benevolent and patriotic services the king, in 1831, made Mr. Lutz a Member of the Order of Civil Merit, and conferred upon him the gold medal.

Now the enemy began zealously to bestir himself. Envy at Mr. L.'s civil honour led to complaints against him for holding private religious meetings, for teaching heretical doctrines, for dispensing with the cross and the holy water, for hindering the Moss people in their work, and the like allegations, which sufficiently speak for themselves. Yet the clergymen and persons of influence who were active against him gave this remarkable proof that his character was unimpeachable: that they succeeded in gaining their end, his removal from the Moss, only by inducing the king to present him to Bayersoyen, a rich living! In vain did he and his poor people (185 families), in October, 1831, petition their sovereign. The decree was gone forth, He was compelled to depart, and his successor has taken possession of Carlshuld, O that we could find room for his farewell address to his broken-hearted people! As for the new living, the bait of temptation, he has declined it, and has OPENLY SEPARATED from the Church of Rome. So also have the great body of the Moss people, of whom NINE HUNDRED are, in the judgment of Christian charity and caution, the fruits of his ministry-genuine converts to Christ and holiness.

Mr. Lutz has been put under arrest, and has (according to the monstrous laws of Bavaria and Austria) to go through a year of trials, disputations, and examinations, before he can be legally entitled to profess himself a Protestant. The new Protestants of the Moss district have determined to form themselves into a Lutheran church. They have many oppressions to endure; nor is it at all probable that they will be allowed to have their beloved pastor, Lutz. Indeed, we learn from the Bergedorfer Bote, June 30, that a Lutheran clergyman, Mr. Paechtner, described as a well qualified man, and adapted to the station," has been appointed by the government (for such, alas! is the allmeddling vice of the continental government) to be pastor of the Carlshuld Protestants. But they have to support him, and to build a chapel and a school for their children. Their poverty is deep; ten or twelve families among them, including forty to fifty children, are literally destitute of food and clothing, and would think themselves rich with a scanty supply of rye bread and bad potatoes, such as English paupers would throw away, They have not wood, nor building materials, nor money; but every kind of labour and workmanship they will perform with the

utmost joy. For eight months they have been deprived of the public means of grace. The pious people of Germany, who are in general of the poorer classes, are taking up their cause, and making contributions. Should Britain, happy and privileged Britain, be backward on so interesting an occasion?

The following announcement appeared in the Hamburg "Stauts und Gelehrte Zeitung" (Journal of Politics and Literature), a highly respectable but not a religious paper, for June 28th last.

"At Carlshuld, in Bavaria, six hundred* persons have been brought to the knowledge of evangelical truth. Being for the most part very poor, even destitute of the most common necessaries of life, they turn their eyes to the Christian sympathy of their Protestant brethren, supplicating for help. They have not a school room, nor a place for worship upon the humblest scale possible. Their destitution is extremely great. Not a few families are in want of daily bread. We cannot seriously reflect upon the merciful freedom which from our childhood we have enjoyed, without participating in the happiness of those who now acknowledge no other Master than Him who is of God made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption; without giving thanks to God for the illumination which he has granted them, or without beseeching him, by his grace, to carry on the work thus begun. If we follow the intimations of duty which he himself gives us, we shall be not only the happy witnesses, but also the blessed instruments, of his fatherly care; and though we cannot be immediately active for the saving benefit of Christians more than 100 miles (German, equal to about 580 English miles,) distant from us, yet we may be efficient, by our acts of beneficence, in promoting their outward welfare, and thus, by the divine blessing, advance their spiritual benefit. The undersigned earnestly hold out their hands to their brethren of the Lutheran confession to receive their gifts of beneficence, and be answerable for their proper application. Here, most certainly, is a pecu liarly forcible application of our Redeemer's precious declaration: What ye have done to one of these my least brethren, ye have done unto me!'

"E. G. A. BöсKEL, D.D. Pastor,
G. C. J. VON HOSSTRUP,
"M. H. HUDTWALCKER, Juris D.
Senator,

"PERTHES and BESSER,

"L. C. G. STRAUCH, Pastor." Contributions for this object will be received at the Banking House of Messrs. Hankey; or by Dr, Steinkopf; by Dr. Pye Smith, Homerton; by Dr. Morison, Hans Place, Sloane Street; or by the Rev. John Arundel, Mission House, Austin Friars.

* Other accounts say expressly nine hundred.

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