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SUBSCRIBERS Who are in arrears will please take notice that the recent change in the proprietorship of this Magazine renders it of the utmost importance that all the outstanding claims should be liquidated as early as possible. The business of dunning is equally unpleasant to all parties, and we trust this notice will make all further and more direct application for the small amounts due from each wholly unnecessary. Please remit by mail to S. HUESTON, 139 Nassau-st. Entered, according to the act of Congress, in the year 1848, BY SAMUEL HUESTON, In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York. It is not the most common thing in this age to meet with men in the pulpit who know how to be serious without severity, simple without insipidity, humble though dignified, at once firm and modest, courteous without fawning and without affectation, full of energy and grace. Such an instance, however, we deem the experienced and beloved pastor of the Charles-street Baptist church in Boston. In him, face and figure, mental traits and moral character, unite whatever we have conceived of manly and ministerial worth, equally poised between ignoble vacillation and arrogant self-esteem. We think that in this divine there is a rare combination of dignity, simplicity and practicalness, which attributes, as they are habitually employed by him in sacred functions, produce and exemplify permanent power. We will briefly develop these several points. In the first place, Dr. SHARP is by nature uncommonly dignified in character and appearance. This is not something put on, but is inherent in every faculty of his mind, and in every fibre of his body; it is part and parcel' of his nature, has grown with his growth and strengthened with his strength.' GOD made him a perpendicular gentleman, of the noblest class, and we never expect to see him voluntarily assume, in any sense, the air and attitude of a curved and sycophantic charlatan. But Dr. Sharp's dignity is not stiffness. Trees the most inflexible are generally hollow, so that their stubbornness results mainly from the want of heart. Such do not represent our friend. The mantle which invests him as a prophet covers no cold and apathetic spirit, indifferent to popular aspirations and unprompted to great and redeeming deeds. There is doubtless much in the old Hebrew prophets that is exceedingly beautiful; many portraitures drawn with a powerful hand, many denunciations fitting to arrest the attention of the unthinking and alarm the careless. Every thing that can arouse the feelings, terrify the imagination, or startle the torpid conscience, is marshalled by them in rapid and formidable array. But this resulted not from an arrogant or hollow profession; it was the product and proof of a powerful possession. There were heart and soul in them. All adventitious circumstances and acquired resources would have been of little avail, had not each one, with a live coal on his lips, symbol of the flames within, been himself the most powerful of prophecies. What is a minister at GoD's altar good for, if he is not the living example, the manhood, the mighty individuality of his race, that goes forth conquering and to conquer ? Dr. Sharp is dignified, but not with that sleek and pompous 'animality' that limits its entire activity to the satisfaction of selfish desires, and never acts strenuously save to obtrude itself upon the magnanimous to wound their sensibilities and oppress their rights. It is rather of that stamp which leads the unconstrained contemplator to feel himself elevated by what is noble, warmed by the presence of the heroic, charmed and made happy by the sight of purity and loveliness. In him, as in the majestic marbles of Greece, there is a severe and dignified grandeur, attained without affected sentiment or arrogant display. It is the simple reflection of native integrity and the lucid excellence of unostentatious worth, verifying the saying that'a great river, in its ordinary state, is equal to a small one when swollen into a torrent.' Accessible to all, and dictatorial to none, the conscious possession, and yet extremely modest exercise of this grand quality, impels him to say to every young man through his example, if not by more direct paternal advice: 'Be grave, be majesty thy constant aim, Simplicity is another trait intimately connected with dignity in the mind and demeanor of Dr. Sharp. His language and intention are both clear, and flow in the same channel; there is no cant or equivocation, one current passing through regions of holiness, harmony, and frank joy, the other along the hidden districts of pretension, falsehood and hypocrisy. He seems to have gathered from the descriptions of the Apocalypse, and other similar sources, the idea that it is not dissembling but plain, honest living, purity of intent and not fickle protestations, that fit a soul for a place in heaven; as the river of the water of life, that proceeds out of the throne of the LAMB, is clear as crystal, and the pavement of the city is pure gold, like unto clear glass. Such characters are not only luminous, but forcible; they are well lighted throughout, and armed even in their left hands, because they are fitly symbolized by the lamp of fire within the earthern pitcher. To dignity and simplicity, as prominent traits in the character of Dr. Sharp, practicalness is associated and indissolubly allied. Dean |