of print, and a new edition is called for. With such improvements as the continued reflections of the author will enable him to make, this new edition, will, we doubt not, be highly deserving of public patronage. Mr. Sullivan's is a new work, just from the press, whose claims to patronage are yet to be tested.

Mr. Sullivan, we have already said, is a practical man; and the more practical parts of his book, as might be expected, are decidedly the most valuable. What he says, for instance, of cleanliness and health, of the use of spirits and tobacco, and of most of the relative duties, is excellent. Some of his speculations, though well intended, we do not think of so much value, and in a reading book for schools might better have been omitted. The following is a favorable specimen of his manner:

"Let us look in upon a gay company of young persons, around a table, and half concealed by tobacco smoke. What sort of air are they breathing; what sort of substances are they casting into their physical system, already bursting with excess: what sort of thoughts have they in their minds; and what sort of words are flowing from their lips? We could, but will not answer these questions for them. Let us pass by this revel, and go to the next day's morning. We might then propound some other questions. Are not their heads heavy, hot and throbbing? Are not their eyes thick and burning? Are not their tongues white and parched? Do not the nerves tremble? Is not the mind muddy and confused? In what condition are they to perform duties to themselves, to those they serve, to instructers, to affectionate parents? Is not this dear bought pleasure? How long can nature bear to be pleased in this manThis matter does not stop here. The same scene is repeated again and again. Soon, habit asserts its awful dominion; and then the scene must be repeated. The craving cannot be resisted. From social drinking, the step is an easy one to solitary drinking. There is no resting place for habit; everything in this system of being must keep on, or end."

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2. A Letter to the Candid; occasioned by the Publications of REV. BERNARD WHITMAN. By ELIPHALET PEARSON, of Waltham. Boston: Peirce & Parker. 1831, pp. 36.

The object of this publication is thus stated by the author in his introduction : "I shall not attempt to notice the numerous imputations and aspersions scattered through Mr. W.'s pamphlets, but only such facts as I have a personal knowledge of, and can therefore speak with perfect confidence of truth. I have resided in Waltham longer than Mr. Whitman, have been a member of the second church in this town, from the time of its formation in 1820, and have been present at its meetings and known all its doings from the beginning. I have also been present at many meetings of the Second Religious Society, and have surely been placed in circumstances more favorable to a knowledge of the history of affairs in Waltham for twelve years past, than Mr. W." It will be seen, that Mr. Pearson is qualified to speak with confidence of whatever he proposes to speak, and it is not too much to say that, by all who know him, his statements will be believed. They relate chiefly to affairs in Waltham, and, as far as they go, are entirely confirmatory of what has been published on the same subject in our pages.-Mr. Pearson contradicts several stories in Mr. Whitman's "Letters on Revivals"—a work which we have not yet thought it necessary to notice. The following is Mr. W.'s account of a case of mental derangement which occurred some time since in Waltham, and which he attributes to religious anxiety.

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"The person was a young and modest female from a neighboring state. became alarmed for her soul's welfare, and exposed her health while attending evening meetings. Insanity followed. I cannot recall the unpleasant circumstances without extreme pain; for she was the stay and staff of aged, and infirm,

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and indigent parents; and it was truly melancholy to see one so young and fair and promising, exhibiting the most malicious behavior, and repeating the most horrid oaths and blasphemies."

Hear now Mr. Pearson's contradiction of the story.

"I speak advisedly, when I say, that Mr. W.'s conduct in making such a statement ought to be exposed in terms of the most unmeasured rebuke. This young female is first misrepresented, and then held up before the community to prejudice the whole public mind against revivals of religion, and against the most numerous denomination in the commonwealth. The statement is false. This young female had not for a long time attended meeting any where, or of any kind. One rainy night when in feeble health, she went out a shopping, wet her feet, and took a violent cold, and the next day was sick with a brain fever, and her mind perfectly deranged. She now thought and spoke of almost everything, and religion among the rest. As yet, notice, she had attended no Orthodox evening or day meeting in connexion with this sickness and derangement. Notice too, that she was heard to say nothing on religion till after she was sick and deranged, and then read again Mr. W.'s statement, and notice his regret at what Orthodox views and Orthodox evening meetings had done!!

"I shall not make a single comment. I shall only say that I am ready to prove all I have stated by responsible witnesses. The man who made this statement has been publishing pamphlet after pamphlet of statements of pretended facts which go to asperse the characters of the most worthy men, and the most worthy measures. And Unitarians have professed to believe him. It is time for the candid to pause and consider."

Most cordially do we wish the Letter before us a general circulation, and an attentive perusal. It is written, as a serious, honest man in common life might be expected to write; and is the production of one who speaks from "personal knowledge,” and whose reputation for integrity and candor Mr. W. will in vain attempt to injure.

3. An Appeal in behalf of the Illinois College, recently founded at Jacksonville, Illinois. New York: D. Fanshaw. 1831. pp. 16.

In the brief notice which our limits permit us to take of this Pamphlet, we despair of being able to present anything like an adequate view of the impor-tance of the subject of it. The facts in the case are briefly these: The inhabitants of the Mississippi valley-such are its extent and resources, and the unexampled rapidity with which it is filling up-are soon, beyond question, to sway the councils of this nation. It is as important, therefore, as the continuance of our institutions, and even of our political existence, that they be prepared to give a right direction to that mighty influence which they are destined ere long to exert. But they cannot be thus prepared, without education; and they cannot be educated, without colleges and schools.

There are two difficulties in the way of colleges and schools being established in the Western country by the people themselves, in sufficient numbers, and of a character, to meet their necessities: In the first place, they are scarcely able to do this, if they were disposed; and, in the second place, although there are many who deeply feel the importance of the subject, there is not that universal sense of the value of the higher schools, and especially of colleges, which is necessary to induce vigorous and united endeavors for their endowment. The consequence is, those who are disposed to act must receive assistance, or the work will not be done; and if the work be not done, the whole land must suffer for the negleet. But the work will be done,-if not by Protestants, by Catholics! The Jesuits, in large numbers, are already on the ground, and are doing their utmost to fill it with their institutions and their doctrine.

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"Not an hour, then, is to be lost. The tide of population rolls on, obstacles inand the work neglected becomes yearly more difficult. Neglect it fifty, or even twenty years more, and it may be too late. The golden opportunity may be forever gone. A crisis hastens on, more important than this Union or the world has ever seen. And before the present generation has passed away, the fate of our free institutions will in all probability be decided forever.

The state of Illinois is itself nearly as large as New England, and is probably capable of sustaining quite as numerous a population. Owing to its extent and local situation, it must ultimately be a community of great power, and will exert a commanding influence on the destinies of the West. The new college at Jacksonville-the only one in the state-is favorably and pleasantly situated, near the centre of Illinois. It has grown out of the united exertions of the friends of learning and religion there, and in New England, and will be likely to engage the best feelings of the intelligent and benevolent in both sections of the country. "One college building has been erected, and a President and two Professors have been appointed. The number of students has already increased, so as to render enlarged accommodations necessary; and nothing but an increase of means seems to be wanting to insure the establishment of a flourishing institution." The present, it is very evident, is a most important point in its history. Its necessities are urgent. Vigorous efforts, well applied, may in a few years put it into complete and successful operation; but without such assistance, it cannot meet the exigencies of the times.

The subject, we think, speaks for itself, and pleads its own cause. We earnestly invite our readers to make themselves acquainted with the facts in the case, and we cannot doubt they will feel that it demands all the efforts which they can make, and that its ultimate success will repay them all.

4. The Daily Scripture Expositor: Containing a text of Scripture for every day in the year, with explanatory Notes, and brief Reflections. New York: H. C. Sleight. Boston: Peirce & Parker. 1831. pp. 280.

The work before us-a beautiful miniature volume-"consists of three hundred and sixty-five selected verses of Scripture, one for every day in the year, and each is followed by a brief exposition, taken from some commentator of good repute." Among these commentators, it is sufficient to mention the names of Scott, Henry, Doddridge, Burkitt, Gill, Leighton, Horne, Lowth, Owen, Calvin, Clarke, and Burder. "The selections are brief, but exceedingly judicious, comprehensive, and profitable." The volume will be found convenient for the pocket, the parlor, or the closet.

QUESTIONS.

The following Questions have been received, and are entitled to solemn and prayerful attention :

1. What relation do baptized children sustain to the church of Christ?

2. Are church members, in general, under any peculiar obligations to baptized children?

THE GLORY OF GOD, MANIFESTED BY THE CHURCH.

THE infinite perfection of God constitutes his essential glory. The display of this perfection forms his declarative glory. Many of the perfections of God are displayed in the works of nature, and in the operations of his common Providence. But the brightest display of them all is made through the church, which is "the pillar and ground of the truth."-By the church, I mean the whole body of real believers-all who love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity, and manifest this love by obeying his commandments.

1. The glory of God appears in the selection of the church. An illustration of his procedure in the choice of those who shall love and serve him is furnished by Ezekiel in his description of the Jewish church. “Her birth and her nativity is of the land of Canaan"-a land filled with wickedness and devoted to destruction. "Her father was an Amorite, and her mother an Hittite". idolaters, lying under the curse of heaven. "In her nativity, she was cast out into the open field, to the loathing of her person". filthy and offensive. "When God passed by her, and saw her polluted in her own blood, he said unto her, Live! He made a covenant with her, and she became his." Nothing in the original character of the Jews, then, led to the choice of them, as God's peculiar people. The same is true, of all who compose the Christian church. When God looks down on the children of men, to see if there be any that understand, and fear his name, lo! they are all gone out of the way; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. What shall be done? Shall the world be swept with the besom of destruction? Shall deserved and undistinguished ruin come upon all men? No! 'I will raise up a seed to serve me,' says Jehovah, 'even from among these mine enemies, and with that seed, I will establish an everlasting covenant, and they shall live before me.'-Here is self moved and discriminating mercy. 'God has compassion on whom he will have compassion. None deserve his love. None desire his love. All are saying with a loud voice, 'We will not have thee to reign over us;' and justice

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demands that all be bound hand and foot, and cast into outer darkBut sovereign mercy interposes, and plucks a part of them as brands from the burning. How clearly is the benevolence of God displayed, in thus creating a people for himself from the vilest materials, and converting vessels of wrath into vessels of mercy.

2. The glory of God appears in the continued purification of the church. He makes her righteousness to go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burneth.' The ornaments with which grace invests her render her beautiful as Tirzah, and comely as Jerusalem, and the renown of her beauty is spread abroad among the heathen. Purity is her essential characteristic. Her members are styled with emphasis, "a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation." And whatever visible church fails to distinguish itself by this mark, by separation from the pollutions of the world, is thereby known to be not a church that the Lord has planted. Hypocrites are found in the true church. "The Door," is not the only way into the sacred enclosures. But do individual hypocrites give to the church her character? Did the treachery of Judas fix its stigma on the whole brotherhood of the Apostles? Judge of the church from her acknowledged principles are they not holy?-from her laws-are they not pure?from her spirit-is it not benevolent and kind? She is not indeed perfect, but perfection is her aim: she is not without spot, but her prayers and efforts are directed to entire conformity to God; and though she be black, she is comely, her enemies themselves being judges, and this comeliness is derived from the Lord, her Redeemer. It is the work of his Spirit—a work that declares him to be, "a God of righteousness and without iniquity"-a God "glorious in holiness."

3. The glory of God appears in the preservation of the church, in the midst of dangers and difficulties. She has fightings without, and fears within. She is "troubled on every side, yet not distressed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed." And her safety arises from the fact, that "the Lord her God in the midst of her is mighty"— that he has sworn to afflict all that afflict her to save her when she halteth-and to get her praise and fame, wherever she has been put to shame. Instead of breaking the bruised reed, and quenching the smoking flax; he increaseth strength to them that have no might, and feeds the flickering flame of love with the oil of grace. "Fear not thou worm Jacob, I will help thee, saith the Lord. Thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small; thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, and glory in the Holy one of Israel. When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, then the Lord opens rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of vallies; he makes the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water," that "they may see,