volved in the direct performance of duty. No mercy, no grace, no compassion of God is revealed to authorize continuance in sin. Each passing moment of prolonged probation, should indeed be hailed as more auspicious to his conversion, than any future moment can be; and should, as such, be consecrated, with instant and decisive effort, to the very act of giving his heart to God and his soul to Christ. And not only so; but all future moments of life, instead of being viewed as bright with hope, and cheered with the prospect of successful effort, should be regarded as overcast with that uncertainty, apprehension, or even despair, which may be necessary to destroy all reliance on any future effort and to concentrate the whole energy of the soul in one present act of duty. True, delightfully true it is, that God is now on the mercy seat, and with the call to life, wears the smile of inviting love, to allure the sinner to return to Him by penitence and faith. But along with this attractive influence by which He draws, with "the chords of love and the bands of a man," He pours on the way of the sinner, who would persist in determined sin, the tempest and the fire of His indignation. In that path stands death, with which the sinner has made no covenant. In that path, even at the first step in it, a sin-avenging God may meet him—or, a reprobating God may say of him, "he is joined to idols, let him alone."

To right moral action-to duty-to compliance with God's terms of salvation, be the form of describing it what it may, and to this only, is the sinner to be exhorted by him, who comes with God's commission, to reclaim a sinful world from ruin. We need not say, how diverse from the other, this view of the subject must be in its practical influence, both on those who hear, and those who bring the message of salvation. The former instead of believing, that they are to take simply the attitude of passive recipients, and like statues to wait for a divine blessing, would feel themselves to be agents pressed and urged to instant action, by the moving message of wrath and of mercy. The later, instead of comforting themselves in the unfruitfulness of their ministry, by referring it to the counsels of irresistible grace, would find the way open for the summons of heaven's high sovereign to the conscience and the heart of his rebellious subjects, and would wield the weapons of their warfare not with a faint heart and palsied arm, but with the skilfulness and vigor of men who would expect and whom the world would expect, to produce results. These weapons, would thus become mighty through God, and the prayer of the church, thy kingdom come,' would sooner be answered. Oh! when shall the day arrive, when the plain truths of the bible-the awful and enrapturing truths of the bible, shall thus become the power of God unto salvation? When shall the gospel be preached and heard with the impression, that it is designed to be a cause of present efficacy? When shall this conviction possess the mind of its preachers, and rouse them to that zeal and strenuousness in effort, which become them as workers together with God! And when, by relying on Him without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy,' shall their labors be crowned not merely with the occasional conversion of a sinner, but with the results of Apostolic days!

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INDEX

TO THE

FIRST VOLUME

OF THE

QUARTERLY CHRISTIAN SPECTATOR.

Atonement, view of, 145, 147.

Barber, John W. his pamphlet on Methodism, 509.
Beaumarchais, claim of, 90.

Boston, Rev. Thomas, Memoir of his life, time, and writings, 583: tender-
ness of conscience and humility, 586: his views of the duties of a min-
ister, 593, 595.

Canada, religious state of, 268: its discovery and history, 269: division
into seigniories, effect of, 270: its cession to England, 271, 274: reli-
gious denominations,-state of religion, 275, 232: opposition to Mr.
Christmas, his valedictory address, 283, 285.

Capo d'Istria, John, his proclamation, 197.

Cause and effect, inquiry concerning, 352, 354.
Christian charity, 457, 462.

Christianity, a scheme of restoration, 293.

Christmas, J. S., his residence in Canada, 268.

Clarke, Rev. Adam, his discourses, 553: the mercy and foreknowledge of
God, his views of, 559, 565: omniscience, 566: freedom of the will, 571:
fall of Adam,-original sin, 573, 576: perfection,-assurance,―perse-
verance, 577, 580.

Commentary, Stuart's, on the Epistle to the Hebrews, 112.
Connection of mental process with regeneration, 481.

Correspondence with the Editors on their review of Taylor and Harvey,

530.

Cromwell, Oliver, his character, 385: King and Parliament, parties, the
Puritans, misrepresentations of history, 385, 388: James I.-Charles
I.—his trial, 390, 400: religious disputes,-Cromwell, Protector,-his
government, character, and death, 403, 424.

Dana, Richard H,, his poem, entitled Thoughts on the Soul, 674: charac-
ter of the work,-extracts, 675, 678.
Depravity, review of Taylor and Harvey on human depravity, 343: defi-
nition of sin, by Dr. Taylor,-by Mr. Harvey, point in dispute, 346,
348 former theory, 349,352: cause and effect, 352, 354: sin, volunta-
ry action, 357, 364: sin, definition of, by Dr. Woods, 364: authors cited,
371: infants, 373, 375: depravity by nature, 376, 378: Dr. Taylor's
Sermon, note to, 378, 384.

Dickinson, Rev. Austin, his National Preacher, 235.

Dunallan, 247: religious novels, their character and tendency, 247, 258.
Dwight, Mr. Henry E., his travels in Germany, 635: libraries,—universi-
ties, 636, 662: common schools, 663: religion, 665

Earth, works on the structure of, 464; geology, theories of, 465, 468:
Hutton and Werner, 469: Cordier and Scrope, 471, 479: Silliman, Pro-
fessor, his Outline of geological lectures, 480.

Economy of Methodism, Barber, John W. his pamphlet, 509: Wesley,
Rev. John, his system and views, 510, 513: Conferences, general and an-
nual, their power, 514, 517: temporal concerns,-book concern, 518,
520: three orders, their power over the whole body, 523, 525.
Epistle to the Hebrews, Commentary on, 112: character of the work,—ar-
rangement and result of investigation, 123, 128: author of the epistle,
-its import, 128, 130; writings of Paul, 131: quotations from old tes-
tament, 136: accommodation, 138: comparison of the new with the old
dispensation,--atonement, 140, 147.

Erskine, Thomas, (Advocate,) on 'the Gospel, 289: pardon, faith, atone-
ment, salvation, his views of, 239, 292: objections to his scheme, 292,

306.

Evangelists, the employment of, in the older settlements, 425: disadvan-
tages of, 427, 431.

Exercitation on the second Psalm, 100: its author, occasion, scope, struc-
ture, 101: a scenic performance, 102: translation, 103: critical notes,
103, 111.

Fellenberg, Establishment at Hofwyl, 625: motives of the founder-de-
scription of the institution, 626, 627.

German universities, 636, 662.

Greece, works on, 178, 313, 322: Howe, Dr., his history,-Millar, Col.,
his journal,--newspaper at Egina, 179: ancient Greece, 180, 313, 322:
Hetaria, 185, 183: Turkish empire, its oppressions, 192, 194-313, 322:
relief from America, 195: Capo d'Istria, John, his proclamation, 197:
schools, missions, 332, 339.

Gridley, Rev. Elnathan, his character and labors, 331.

Harvey, Rev. Joseph, on human depravity, 343: definition of sin, 346.
Hebrews, epistle to, 112.

Herttel, Thomas, 447, 449.

Hooker, John, Memoir of, 307.

Howe, Dr. Samuel G., 178.

Infidels, exclusion of, from judicial oaths, 438: law of England.—of the
several states, 440: oath, nature of, 443: objections against their ex-
clusion, Thos. Herttell, the Demurrer, 445: Spencer, Chief Justice, his
decision, 449: no intolerance in the exclusion, 450.

James, Rev. John Angell, on christian charity, 453: character of the work
and contents, 454: christian charity, nature of, 457, 462.

Kent, Chancellor. his discourse before the New York Historical Society,
340.

Knight, Jonathan, M. D., his Eulogium on Professor Smith, 204.

Lindsley, Rev. Joel Harvey, his Lectures to the middle aged, 41: subjects
of the lectures, 43: parents and masters, duties of, 44: education,-in-
fant schools,--instruction in the scriptures, 45,51.

Millar, Col. his Journal, 179.

National Preacher, the value and character of the work and its contents,
235, 247.

Oath, nature of, 443.

Paley, William, D. D. his Natural Theology, with plates, 341.

Pitkin, Timothy, LL. D., his political and civil history, 78: the Colonies,
their literary and religious institutions,--the clergy, 80, 88: Beaumar-
chais, claim of, 90: motion and remarks of Dr. Franklin, in the Conven.
tion, 97: Washington, President, his testimony in favor of religion and
morality, 98: State papers, 100.

Pond, Charles, Memoirs and Select Remains of, 526.
Psalm second, exercitation on, 100.

Regeneration, means of, 1: explanatory remarks, 18: using of, the means
of,-what acts do not coustitute, 22: the term in a restricted sense, lan-
guage, use, and interpretation of, 210; using of the means,-what acts
do constitute, their tendency,-the mental process, 210, 234: connec-
tion of mental process with regeneration,-proved by testimony,-by
the nature of voluntary action, 481, 508: examination of objections,
practical utility of these views, 692, 712.

Religious novels, their character and tendency, 247.

Religious state of Canada, 268.

Remains of Rev. Carlos Wilcox, his character, 52: familiar correspon-
dence, 54: poetry,-the Age of Benevolence,-the Religion of Taste,
55, 64: Sermons,--their character,-extracts, 64, 78.

Silliman, Professor, his Outline of geological lectures, 480.

Smith, Nathan, M. D. Eulogium on, 204.

Spencer, Chief Justice, on nature of an oath, 449.

Sprague, Dr., his Letters, 267.

Spring, Rev. Gardiner, on the means of regeneration, his views, 10, 11.
Stewart, C. S. his journal of a residence in the Sandwich Islands, 176:
for sabbath schools, an edition of, 176: Queen Keopuolani, her baptism
and death, 177.

Stuart, Rev. Moses, on the Epistle to the Hebrews, 112.

Suliotes, 184.

Sunday Mails, Reports concerning, Memorials, Mr. Johnson of the Senate,
and the Post Master General, their reports, 150: religion necessary to
our political existence, 159: the character of magistrates is formed by
the character of the people, 160: civil institutions depend upon public
morals,-upon the observance of the sabbath, 161, 162.

Taylor, Rev. Nathaniel W., his sermon on human depravity, 343.
Traveller on the continent, his letters, 200.

Tyler, Rev. Edward R. his sermons on future punishment, 598.

Universities in Germany, 636, 662.

Washington, President, his testimony in favor of religion and morality,98.
Wesley, Rev. John, his system of Methodism, 510.

Wilberforce, William, his Practical View, Wilson's edition, 679: low
state of religion at its appearance, 679: its immediate effect, 680: de-
votional character, 681: benefit to spiritual religion, 682: importance
of spiritual religion, 686.

Wilcox, Rev. Carlos, his Character and Writings, 52.