were so inconstant in showing it. 1 tulations made upon me, and the reso formed in consequence, to 'honour my parents in all things in the Lord.' the ties of nature entitled them to and love, how unspeakably were thos heightened by the excellence of their ter, and their unwearied exertions for work in question is Howard Glenville; who is reproved us for our faults, urged us to stated to have descended from pious and re- ber our father's excellent advice, an spectable ancestors. He was carefully edu- many fervent prayers for our welfare cated, and his mind being directed to the Chris-impossible to help loving her, though tian ministry, he left home at the usual time, to obtain the advantage of a university prepa-recollect the deep impressions her kir ration. While thus prosecuting his studies, difficulties connected with entering into the church, presented themselves to his consideration, sufficiently formidable to divert his attention from the pulpit to the bar. On leaving college to reside in the metropolis, he soon became familiar with persons whose sentiments and pursuits were in direct opposition to the principles and precepts of revelation, The influence of their society induced him, for a time, to disbelieve and reject the volume of inspiration. This alarming change in his principles and character greatly distressed his parents, and interrupted a correspondence with Lavinia Randolph, a pious and amiable female, with whom he had anticipated forming the connubial alliance. Out of this state of things arise letters, conversations, journeys and incidents, which by divine power and goodness, are overruled and made effective to restore the wanderer to an acknowledgment of the truth; his union with Lavinia is happily accomplished, and in the conclusion of the work, it is intimated that he sometimes thought of resuming the profession he had formerly chosen, and, like the apostle, he became desirous of preaching the faith he had once laboured to destroy. This outline the author has filled up in a manner no less creditable to the powers of his mind, than to the devout feelings of his heart, and has produced a book which, in our opinion, justly entitles him to the thanks of the religious public, especially its younger branches; among whom particularly, we sincerely hope, it will obtain an extensive circulation and an attentive perusal, and for whose instruction we supply the following lengthened extract. "Our Sundays in particular were religiously employed. We attended divine service both parts of the day, and were afterwards required to give an account of what we had heard. The intervals were likewise occupied in an easy course of catechetical instruction, designed to store the mind with Scripture knowledge, and give us a general view of its evidences and doctrines. But there was nothing burdensome or gloomy in these engagements. It was my father's wish that religion should always be exhibited in a cheerful aspect, so as to make her most solemn duties pleasing. In short, whether he directed our attention to learning or religion, he was anxious that we should act well of our own accord, and not from the mere influence of authority or fear. We had no cause to find fault with his orders, though the levity and waywardness of childhood too often indisposed us to make a right use of them. "In these efforts of parental wisdom and affection, my beloved mother, now receiving her reward in glory, very largely shared. She not only approved and seconded my father's plans, But notwithstanding these early ad and resolves, I must confess that my b even in childhood, was sometimes ve tiful. My propensities soon becan strong, and impetuous, and often betr into mischief. Passionate and selffrequently transgressed what I knew bounds of duty; and by a variety of de cies, incurred the displeasure of my and deserved correction. These fau likewise sometimes aggravated by s of temper, or gusts of resentment, v doubt, caused them many a sigh, and tear. I can now imagine what secre pressed, and inexpressible anguish s rent their feelings, when they perceiv early indications of a depraved heart gan to picture to their fears its remot quences. Alas! how many secret pang the heart of my beloved mother, wh following the impulse of a wayward with all the levity and frolicsomeness hood! How many actions, looks and which have fallen into oblivion, and o I thought nothing at the time, wour tenderness of her feelings, and becan sary to the disease which preyed upo licacy of her constitution and brought maturely to the grave! What then w have felt, had her life been spared to which would have pierced like a dagger reports of my late conduct in the m her bosom! Alas! how little do childr of the effects of their disobedience, dark catalogue of crimes they will ha swer for, in bringing their fond par sorrow to the tomb! Sometimes I felt the force of this se and a seasonable admonition made i the heart. My conscience sharply me, and I became unhappy. For a fe together, at different intervals, I felt of religious impressions, and promised my conduct, and govern my passion was the case when sickness and death 1 in the family, or among the young our acquaintance, which my father improved. My mother's illness and especially enforced these sentiments. me to form many pious resolves. Fo I was scarcely old enough to apprecia reparable loss of so kind a mother. grief on her account was sincere and Her conversation towards the close, an fecting manner in which she embra From the Christian Remembrancer. HE CONNEXION OF CHRISTIANITY WITH HUMAN HAPPINESS. INTERESTS SO varied in their nature, as those 7 Christianity, yet always conducing to one nd, the salvation of mankind; so extensive in beration, affecting the welfare of every age, ex, and condition; so important in their preent effects, as well as their future conseences, can furnish appropriate employment talents of the most varied and opposite deription; and perhaps there is no mode of extion in existence which may not be skilfully rected to promote the benevolent purposes of evelation. Thus the wisdom and goodness of the Alighty are manifested not only in the dispenation of the Gospel, but by the numerous hannels he has provided for the wide distribuon of the sacred streams which flow from this ountain of light and life to a world lying in arkness, and dead in trespasses and sins. The ences too of the sacred vineyard are more efectually maintained, and the foes who would avade and destroy the holy inheritance, are pelled with vigour and success: the great Husbandman, by employing his servants in a iversity of operations according to their seveal talents, causing each to contribute to the erfection of his service and ministry. Hence the religious as well as in the natural world division of labour has been most beneficial to he welfare of mankind. learned and pious and amiable Robert Boyle, I have endeavoured to exhibit the fallacy of so unjust and wicked a representation; and to demonstrate, on the contrary, that an inseparable connexion subsists between the reverence of the Word and the happiness of the Creatures, of God. It has been my aim to embody my reflections in a form that might not deter the young or intimidate the indolent reader from following my course of thought. It has been my wish to give a popular interest to a subject of universal and everlasting importance.-pp. vi. vii. "It is not my object to engage with open infidelity, by again detailing the conclusive evidences by which the Gospel is supported. This has been already done so often, and so well, that no honest heart, or unprejudiced understanding, can enter on the inquiry, without being convinced of the supernatural origin of our belief. My aim is of another nature. It will be my endeavour, by a just and candid statement of the necessity of the Christian revelation to the happiness of man, to awaken the devotion, and arouse the gratitude of those, who look coldly upon the faith, as upon a thing of inconsiderable worth. I wish to inspire my readers with a fair appreciation of those lessons of eternal truth, which have been communicated by the revelation of the Messiah. In this attempt I shall direct their reflections to the following propositions: "1st. That Christian opinions are essential to human happiness. "2d. That those opinions could not have been established by the unaided powers of the rea son. "3d. That, in the absence of those opinions, the reason could suggest no substitutes which could supply their loss. "The first of these heads I shall treat of at considerable length, the other two I shall dismiss more briefly. In the prosecution of my task, it is my intention to support myself, as far as possible, by the authority, the admissions and the examples of those who have been most celebrated among the ranks of unbelief. If I should succeed in establishing the propositions that I have advanced, the conclusion is immediate. Unless all the better feelings of the heart have become extinct, under the over The Honourable Robert Boyle, whose piety, earning, and ability were so constantly exertd for the support of Christianity, felt and apreciated this principle, and provided for the peration of it by founding a lecture, the obect of which should be, the "proving the Christian religion against notorious Infidels." The Author having been appointed to this uty, very judiciously fulfilled the intention of he Founder, by selecting for the subject of his Course of Lectures the Connexion between Revealed Religion and Human Happiness; nd, generally speaking, he has ably and faithully executed the task he had undertaken. The volumes before us do not contain the Lecures in the form in which they were deliver-whelming growth of the worldly passions, it is ed; the texts and original arrangement are uppressed or altered, so as to give the whole he appearance of a connected treatise; yet he materials are the same, and the alterations ire only those which might render the same nstruction which had been useful from the pulpit, more forcible and impressive in the stufy. The plan he has adopted, is thus stated: "In preparing the MS. for the press, so many alterations, both of addition and omission, were adopted, that the work imperceptibly acquired another character; and it became necessary to dispense with the original divisions. My design has been of a general nature; to impossible not to be convinced of the wickedness of that indifferent and ungrateful feeling, with which the revelation of the Messiah is so extensively regarded. And while we learn to love the faith, by contemplating its holy ministrations of joy and peace, we may also derive from the consideration another, and an emphatic testimony to its divine authority and truth. If Christianity has conferred a happiness on man, which he had not the means of creating for himself, it is the strongest internal proof of its super-human origin. It is the good tree that bringeth forth the good fruit. This is one of those indisputable axioms to which threaten others; the rich are afrai am become a kind of tyrant in ti Fame was an object of jealousy: excellence or wealth or reputati with impunity, evertop the level of cracy. The unrelenting people every superiority, as a thing of dan sequence. The same cautious duced the Ostracism of Athens, an lism of Syracuse, and expelled ev whose fame or power overtopped Virtue was an object of jealousy; ceptible was the prudence of the that it instigated them to attack e nourable distinctions which recom rior integrity and purity of life; ar was banished for the celebrity of his p. 85-88. To exhibit a corresponding pic man manners, Mr. H. presents his the observations of a Christian st might have visited Rome in the f after our Saviour's ministry on ear "The door of the house in whic ceived, to the distress of every Ch timent, is opened by a chained sla conducted to the master of the he at supper, and is invited to take a banquet. Instead of that liberal equ has been introduced by the general of the Christian disposition, and smoothed the irregularities of socie dered persons of a more disting lence and rank attentive to the ser the poorer and more humble memb society, he finds the inferior guests reminded of their subordinate en moved to a distance from the luxu of the master of the feast, and ins offensive coarseness of their entert During a scene of the grossest g intemperance, he is opprest, as th the party become elevated, by the that which conduces to happiness is that which cannot possibly deceive?"'—p. 10-13. In the prosecution of this inquiry, Mr. Harness has carefully explored the operation of false principles on the public and private conduct both of states of individuals, contrasting their influence with that of Christianity, and illustrating his discourse by numerous references to facts which his extensive reading readily supplies, and which give a very pleasing interest to his work. The utility of this undertaking, particularly to youthful classical students, is evident. Initiated in heathen morals, and familiarized to their practices before those of the Gospel are sufficiently understood to be felt or approved, their minds are liable to receive a bias very different from that which every pious parent or judicious instructor would desire. The blaze of glory thrown by the Greek and Roman historians and poets over the transactions of their heroes and statesmen, can hardly fail to dazzle youthful readers; and Mr. Harness has rendered them a most important service in thus exhibiting a picture of the boasted liberty of these states of antiquity, their loose morals and corrupt practices, whilst he satisfactorily proves that the religion of Jesus can alone produce true political wisdom, moderation, or patriotic exertion. "It is terrible to contemplate the barbarities to which this system naturally conducted. I would take Athens for the example. It was acknowledged to have been the most lenient government of antiquity. The mind that is refined to gentleness and pity by the spirit of the Gospel, can scarcely bear to dwell on the ruthless exercise of dominion, which is exhibited in the pages of its history. The tyranny exercised by the Athenian people over those who were subject to their control, surpasses description or belief. No accumulations of reproachful epithet, or opprobrious metaphor, could compass their savage abuses of authority. The despotism of one is bad; but the despotismling licentiousness of conversation of many is incalculably worse. Not to mention speaks of the difficulty he had fo their wanton acts of cruelty, of caprice, of ag- suading his wife to the murder of gression, and of injustice, which were as fami- born infant. The young men b liar with them-perhaps more familiar-than successful rapes, their perilous a with any of the most sanguinary tyrants, whose their unnatural attachments. Dis names are infamous in the annals of mankind; these appalling circumstances, th but to confine myself strictly to the enormi- visiter might omit remarking on th ties, which originated in their political morals, sensuality with which his new we shall find, by looking at the conduct of that surrender themselves to the proti brilliant people, that the vaunted democracy of sures of the table,** as if to eat w Athens was animated by all the selfish passions, was directed by all the narrow principles, was supported by all the ignominious arts, and iniquitous precautions, which characterize the dominion of the despot. No Dionysius or Agathocles ever exhibited a more timid and ungenerous suspicion of their subjects, or followed up their suspicions with more of the oppressive vigilance of terror.-Riches were objects of jealousy: they might be made the means of obtaining too commanding an influ ence in the republic; and the wealthy existed therefore, in a state of constant persecution and alarm. While I had riches,' says Charmides, 'I was obliged to caress every informer. Some imposition was continually laid upon me; Xenophon, Banquet of Socrat ther a man was a citizen or a strai that people, it seems, indeed, requ that he should impoverish himself, people should impoverish him, an kill him into the bargain."-Hr Part ii. 11. HUME's Essay on the Balance ivilege of existence, and they had artificially creased their appetites, that they might ngthen their capacity of indulgence. Weaed of such society, he retires to his chamber, t not to rest; for his repose is broken by the ise of whips and lashes, and the cries of the astised slaves, whom the master of some -ighbouring mansion is rigorously correctg.In the morning he prepares to accom-ny his host to the exhibitions of the Circus. s they are departing from the house, an aged d half-starved slave timidly endeavours to ude their observation; he is detected; his aster notices his infirmities, and orders that should no longer be retained as an unprofitble expense and incumbrance to his houseold, but should be exposed to die of starvaon, in recompense for the labours of his outh.-The Christian remonstrates against his act of cruelty: he assures his host that ot a single individual of his own religion would be guilty of such barbarity even to one f the inferior creatures-to the aged hound, the drooping war-horse-if it had been sericeable to his interests, or his amusements. The heathen cannot comprehend his sentients. He informs his guest that this is he usual method of disposing of all superanuated domestics; that some masters suffer hem to starve to death about their houses; hat others leave them to perish of want on an sland of the Tiber;t that others cast them live into their preserves to fatten their fish; hat, in short, the practice was universal mong his countrymen, and adopted without emorse, sanctioned by the example of the ilastrious Cato, and one from which, as it was er and at other times, Suet. Vit. 13. Cic. Phil. 41. romunt, ut edant; edunt, ut romant, Senec. ad Helv. 9. Even women, after bathng before supper, used to drink wine and hrow it up again to sharpen their appetite. Juvenal, 6. 427. * Seneca mentions, Epistle 122, that, reguarly about the third hour of the night, the eighbours of one, who indulges the false reinement of changing night into day, hear the oise of whips and lashes; and, upon inquiry, ind that he is then taking an account of the conduct of his servants, and giving them due Correction. This is not remarked as an instance of cruelty, but only of disorder, which, even in actions the most usual and methodical, changes the fixed hours that established custom had assigned for them. Suetonius in Vita Claudii-" Quelques Romains les faisaient jeter tous vivans dans leurs viviers, pour engraisser des murènes."Mennais states this piece of barbarity, but does not quote his authority. A sufficient proof of the harsh manner in which slaves were used, "we find," says Potter, Book i. chap, 10, " in the famous Roman Cato, a man celebrated in all ages for his exact ; extremely convenient, he could see no reason for departing.-The Christian is silenced ;they proceed to the Theatre. On their way, they pass a company of Patrician youth, one of whom is on the point of exhibiting his dexterity in the use of the broad-sword. A poor wretch, suffering from the deep afflictions of domestic misery, has been bribed, by the offer of a few minæ, to devote himself as the victim of the barbarous experiment, on condition that the necessities of his family should be relieved by the stipulated purchase-money of his murder."-They arrive at the Coliseum.-There is great difficulty in securing situations.Nearly forty thousand persons are already impatiently assembled. It is a day of extraordinary expectation. Many celebrated gladiators are to be brought on the arena. It is anticipated that some hundreds will be slaughtered in the various conflicts which are appointed to succeed each other in the progress of the entertainment; but a more than usual curiosity and interest is excited for those contests, in which the ill-fated wretches are to be exposed in opposition to the wild beasts of the desert or the forest, as on this occasion the lions and the panthers have been fed on human flesh, for the purpose of sharpening their thirst of blood, and stimulating the keenness of their ferocity.t Unable to sustain the sight,-while the first victim is expiring, unpitied and unregarded, amid the thunders of acclamation that reward the exertions of his competitor,-the Christian visiter of the heathen capital hastily withdraws himself from the scene of sanguinary festival. He is immediately followed by his host, who ridicules his compassion on the authority of the most approved philosophers, and interrupts his eloquent lamentations over the departure of the ancient virtue and simplicity of the Roman character, by assurances, that the people have not degenerated; that vice may have varied in its form, but not increased in magnitude; that its ratio has been permanent and equal; and that, whatever enormities may have been engendered of power and luxury and refinement, at all events, those ruder ages could never be deserving of regret, during which a supposed pestilence, that appeared to be depopulating the city, was discovered to be effected by the prevalency of the art of poisoning :-a practice which was s90 accordant to the morals and sentiments of the people, that the prætor, in a single province, after having capitally punished three thou the expense of maintaining them, but either turned them away, unable to provide for themselves, or let them starve to death in his own family."--The anecdote is from Plutarch. * Ephorion de Chalcide raconte (Apud Athen. lib. iv.) que chez les Romains, on proposait quelquefois cinque mines de récompense à celui qui voudrait souffrir qu'on lui tranchât la tête, en sorte que la somme offerte devait être sand persons, for the offence, still complain- | timony, it is utterly impossible to ed of the increasing number of the accusations.* defect by any thing contained in the itself. If the witnesses are found accredited as messengers of God, th their testimony must be abandoned dence is of paramount importance. fully understand and believe as far ternal argument goes, and yet ne nor obey the truth. He may cease fidel, without becoming a believer in tural sense of the term. He may fo “In the above sketch of the private morals of the ancient Romans, I have studiously cast a veil over that horrible and undisguised impu-sible. In other points of view, the in rity which saturated the whole body of society; which haunted the precincts of their temples; which mingled with their religious rites and festivals; which so frequently made the subject of their conversation and their poetry; which addressed the grossness of the public mind in the signs exhibited in their streets, and in the monuments that defiled their gardens, and of which the images were constantly before the eyes, to pollute and to debase the soul, engraved on the common utensils of daily existence, on their lamps and their vases and their drinking vessels."—pp. 11-19. Our readers will have already perceived, that in our opinion the Author has ably executed his task; but one sentence we must notice as inaccurate. It occurs vol. i. p. 193. He speaks of alms as "the only human atonement for the past transgressions of the penitent." This can scarcely be reconciled with the doctrines taught by his Church, not only in her Articles, but in almost every page of her Liturgy. There can be only one atonement for transgressions; and every one who partakes of that will perform "fair deeds of charity" as a part of that practical holiness, without which no man can see the Lord. ner, and Campbell, and Paley, thro steps of their powerful reasoning, ar their conclusions; while of Christ message of reconciliation, he remai bly ignorant, and to its grand desig tem of godliness, he continues irradverse. It is far otherwise with th evidence, which cannot be understo some knowledge of the truth itself, lieved without some sense of its and its suitableness. It is calculat vince the understanding, and at the to reach the heart. It is of vast in leave men inexcusable, and to convi unreasonableness and folly: but i greater consequence to convert the the error of its ways, and to cover tude of its sins. Happily we are not under the nplacing the two classes of evidence tion or contrast. They perfectly ha their design and tendency, and affor other mutual strength and corrobora the parts of the external testimony gible to the genuine believer, and i From Monthly Lectures on the Evidences of of the internal can be made to bear Revelation. THE ADVANTAGES OF AN ACQUAINT- derstandings and the hearts of the n sceptics and opposers. It is the dut rest of every Christian to be thore versant with both. The two leading branches of th department are Miracles and Prop der the former class fall to be con nature and possibility of miracul and events in general, and the natt lity, and probability of those miracl in the Scriptures, by which the div of the prophets and apostles was On these points the works of Ca Farmer are invaluable, and require from me. The consideration of the miracl in the Old and New Testaments ne THE evidences of revelation have usually been divided into two branches, commonly designated the external and internal. This general division is sufficiently accurate and comprehensive for our present purpose; as, under different arrangements, it may easily be made to embrace every thing of moment relative to the subject of evidence. The two divisions are properly adapted to two different classes of persons. The former, that is the external, appeals to men who know and care nothing about the subject of revelation-the contents of the document presented; the latter, or the inter-volves the examination of the testin nal, implies a certain measure of acquaintance contains those miracles, and of th with the record itself. On the external testi-historical evidence by which the mony we make our stand in addressing the count has been brought down throu avowed infidels of the world; on the internal, succession of ages to us. "The or we place our chief dependence in assailing the ers of the message were beings lik unbelief of the human heart, and in our appeals and we can apply our experience to the nominal and worldly professors of the their conduct and their testimony. faith of Christ. the manner and physiognomy of h Was their testimony resisted, and d severe in it? Had they any intere cating the message; or did they su sequence of this perseverance? D fer in such a degree as to constitut ing pledge of their integrity? Was It is obvious that the external ought to take precedence of the internal in these discussions; not that the one is subordinate in importance to the other; but because it naturally presents itself first to view, and because, if there be any obvious flaw or deficiency in the external tes |