The Genius and Design of the Domestic as synonymous terms, which certainly Constitution, with its untransferable they cannot be. Mr. A. asserts that Obligations and Peculiar Advantages. moral obligation does in By CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON. Long-whatever depend on the inclination, or no respect man and Co. Price 10s. 6d.

EVERY one will admit that the subject discussed in this volume is of the highest importance to the present, and to every future generation. And every attentive reader will allow, that the discussion has been conducted by Mr. Anderson, in a manner highly creditable to his understanding and his heart.

the ability of the parent. These words,
or the ability, darken the sense; or if
we understand them correctly, they are
misapplied. For surely, it is evident,
that ability is the measure of all moral
obligation. In p. 338. there is a dis-
tinction, by no means clear, between
natural and spiritual capacity. And,
perhaps, Mr. A. will excuse us,
say that the little word it does not de-
and to be made so emphatic, as it ap-
serve to be elevated to such importance,
pears in p. 295, and several other
places.

if we

We cannot take leave of this volume

The author has divided the work into two parts. In the first of these he explains the constitution of the human family, with its various connexions and sanctions; its moral power, with the danger and vanity of interference. In the second, he considers its untranfer- without presenting our thanks to the able obligations, and peculiar advant-writer for the pleasure we have derived ages. Each of these parts is subdivided from his labour; and we earnestly hope into eight sections. that he may long live to see abundant proof that he has not laboured in vain.

The sentiments are worthy of the enlightened mind of the author, and deeply imbued with the Gospel of Christ. The style is diffuse, generally neat, often rising to elegance, and, in many places, tinged with the sorrow derived from that cup of domestic affliction, of which he has been called to drink deeply.

A few particulars we may notice, with the hope that Mr. A. may be called upon by the public to reprint the work. The title page appears heavy, encumbered, and a little obscure. The book is too large, and, for the sake of more extensive usefulness, we cannot help wishing it were shorter and cheaper. The sketches of Scripture-characters are drawn by a master's hand, and the biographical notices of celebrated men and women in modern times are admirable: we would not have one of them left out. In Section III. of the second part, there is one of the finest specimens of address to the sinner's conscience we have ever seen; but the latter part of it is not so happy, on account of its allusions to modern theological controversies, which to many readers will not be intelligible.

In p. 307. moral and positive are used

which, indeed, runs through all the There is one very important position, volume, and that is, that we seem to have lost sight of the parents, especially of the poorer classes, and to have given them up, as if it were a thing impossible that they should be renewed or reformed; or as if it were absolutely certain, that we had no warrant to expect any blessing on our efforts, to bring them under the influence of the Gospel of Christ. We acknowledge it may be said, "we cannot in many instances get access to the parents but through the children." This must be granted; still Mr. A., we apprehend, is right in the view he has taken; and we heartily wish he may succeed in drawing the attention of the most influential and philanthropic among the great and the good, to a truth of great moment, which he has so elaborately inculcated in his book.

LITERARY RECORD.

New Publications.

1. Original Tales for Children. Two volumes, 18mo. half-bound. Price 1s. 6d. each volume. Some account of these

volumes in our next.

Poems. pp. 48. Pike. Tracts like this we regard as the seed corn of the present generation; let it therefore be dispersed as extensively as possible over the fields of infancy and youth; and, if the divine influence of the rays of the sun of heaven descend upon it, who can tell how abundant and glorious may be the harvest of the fol

In the Press, &c.

Preparing for Publication, Reminiscences of the late truly Rev. Abraham Booth, by William Newman, D.D.

Some of Mr.

Booth's friends, probably, have letters from that venerable man, the whole, or parts of which, might be printed for the edification of many.

2. An Answer to a printed paper, entitled Manifesto of the Christian Evidence Society. Published by the Society for Promoting Chris-lowing age? tian Instruction. London, Holdsworth, Westley and Davis, 12mo. pp. 60. well aud closely printed. Price 2d. It is probable. there never was a " printed paper," which in such a small compass, contained so many audacious and daring assertions to discredit the authority and genuineness of the Sacred writings, as this infamous and blasphemous "Manifesto" of the London Infidels in the year 1827! The answers to it written, as appears from the initials affixed, by the Rev. John Pye Smith, D.D. is a most learned and ample refutation of these abominable falsehoods. It contains a fund of profitable information to the unlearned Christian reader, and is admirably adapted to furnish him with weapons to repel the attacks of scoffers. The very low price at which this admirable pamphlet is sold, will, it is hoped, insure for it a wide circulation.

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4. Memorials of sanctified Affliction: being extracts from Letters written by the late Benjamin Lawson, who died the 20th of August, 1826, aged twenty-eight years. 8d. 5. Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible.

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Dr. N. will be glad to see such letters, and, if sent, post paid, directed for him, to the care of the Rev. John Dyer, Fencourt, Fenchurch-street, they shall be copied, and the originals (if required), shall be speedily returned.

A second volume of "Interesting Narratives from the Holy Scriptures," by the Rev. Joseph Belcher, will soon appear.

Dr. M'Crie has in the press, a work, entitled, "A History of the Reformation in Italy and Spain, in the early part of the Sixteenth Century."

Mrs. Gilbert, late Ann Taylor, one of the authors of "Original Poems," " Rhymes for the Nursery," 66 Hymns for Infant Minds," " Original Hymns for Sunday Schools," &c. &c. is preparing for publication in a cheap form, Original Hymns, adapted to Anniversary and other Public Services of Sunday Schools and Sunday School Unions.

Memoirs, including Correspondence and other remains of Mr. John Urquhart, late of the University of St. Andrews. By William Orme.

The Copious Greek Grammar of Dr. Phillip Buttman, so justly esteemed on the Contiment, is nearly ready for publication, faithfully translated from the German, by a dlstinguished scholar.

The Rev. John Burdsall is preparing for republication a scarce and interesting work, entitled, The Sinner's Tears in Meditations and Prayers, by the Rev. Thomas Fettiplace. It may be expected shortly.

OBITUARY.

REV. J. COX OF HORSINGTON. [doubt, tended to promote. It is, how

Died on Tuesday, January 9th. 1827, aged 81, the Rev. John Cox, 42 years Pastor of the Baptist Church at Horsington, Somerset.

He commenced his ministerial la

bours in the connexion of the late Countess of Huntingdon; but having soon after conscienciously embraced the sentiments of the Baptists, he was baptized by immersion, and continued through a long series of years an ornament of the denomination to which he belonged.

Until within two Sabbaths of his decease he preached faithfully the unsearchable riches of Christ among the people of his charge. During his short, though exceedingly painful illness, his soul was happy in God, and rejoiced in the prospect of approaching dissolution. He felt himself securely fixed upon the foundation which God hath laid in

Zion, and resigned his spirit in peace, "Looking for the mercy of our Lord

Jesus Christ unto Eternal Life."

His remains were interred at the

Meeting-house on the following Lord's day afternoon, when, at his dying request, Mr. Chapman of Yeovil delivered the address at the grave, and preach

ed the funeral sermon from the words

chosen by the deceased, 2 Timothy i. 9, "Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.'

Yeovil.

I. M. C.

REV. JOSEPH HARRIS,

Of Market Street, Herts. MR. Joseph Harris was a native of St. Albans, and was born January, 1774. His youth, a considerable part of which was spent in London, was characterized by a thoughtlessness and gaiety which the scenes of that great city, no

that when he was about the age of 19 ever, a peculiarly pleasing circumstance, or 20, the correspondence of a surviving brother, was, by the divine blessing, rendered productive of that serious attention which issued in genuine and decided piety. He afterwards united with the Church in Prescot street, then enjoying the ministry of the late Rev. A. Booth, where he remained a member till 1802, when he became a member of the Church of St. Albans.

He appears first to have engaged in public as a preacher of the gospel, about the year 1799. From the year 1802 till 1809 he acted as 'assistant to the late Rev. John Gill, then pastor of the Church at St. Albans, and who died in the last mentioned year.

dained Pastor of the Church at Market July 13, 1813; Mr. Harris was orstreet where he laboured, though under many trying and disadvantageous circumstances, arising out of the distance of his residence, and his necessary engagement in secular concerns, yet, with very great acceptance, and a pleasing measure of success -the church and congregation having considerably increased under his ministry.

His death was sudden and unex

pected. Though he had appeared of late to suffer more than usual from an asthmatic complaint, with which he had been for many years afflicted, no very On Friday, January 19, he was taken serious apprehensions were

excited.

worse, was unable to visit Market street as usual on the Sabbath, and on the evening of the following Wednesday expired in his chair, to which he had walked from his bed a little while before.

The remarkable easiness of his dismissal presented a striking instance in addition to many others of the manner in which God often disappoints the fears of his servants.

Mr. H. had often expressed the dread To some enquiries, however, on this he felt of the “dying strife" which he subject, he gave such replies as indianticipated, but the sufferance of which cated, if not an unclouded mind, yet a he was wholly spared. mind stayed upon God;" and a little His death not being anticipated, before his departure, he expressed his there was less said either to him, or by comfortable satisfaction that the loss him, during his illness as to the frame which his family would experience by of his mind, than probably would have his death, which he then felt to be apbeen under different circumstances. proaching, would be "his gain.”

GLEANINGS.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCRIPTURE.

Psalm cxxi. 6.

1

which is smooth and impenetrable, and thus receives the rain-water, and carries it off into the tanks under the house. There is THE effect of the moonlight on the eyes in no want of flowing water in this mountainous On the top this country [Egypt] is singularly injurious: country, as there is in Malta, the natives tell you, as I found they after- of every house is a large stone roller, for the wards did in Arabia, always to cover your purpose of hardening and flattening this eyes when you sleep in the open air. It is layer of rude soil, so that the rain may not rather strange that the passage in the Psalms, penetrate: but, upon this surface, as may "the sun shall not strike thee by day, nor be supposed, grass and weeds grow freely. the moon by night" should not have been It is to such grass that the Psalmist alludes, thas illustrated, as the allusion seems direct. as useless and bad Let them be as the grass The moon here really strikes and affects the upon the house-tops, which withereth afore it sight, when you sleep exposed to it, much groweth up, (Ps. cxxix. 6.) In reference to more than the sun: a fact of which I had the conclusion of that Psalm, I may add, a very unpleasant proof one night, and took that nothing could better express the concare to guard against it afterwards: indeed, temptuous neglect which David there dethe sight of a person who should sleep with scribes as falling on the wicked his face exposed at night, would soon be do they which go by say, The blessing of the atterly impaired or destroyed. -Carne's Lord be upon you: we bless you in the name Letters from the East, p. 77. of the Lord.

Psalm exxix. 6-8.

This evening the season broke. Thauder and lightning and rain came from the west. The romantic valley of Deir el Kamr, and the high ranges of Lebanon, were clothed with maniles of thick mist; and the whole prospect became dreary and cheerless.

riched!".

- Neither

This is, indeed, the land of good-wishes and overflowing compliments. Every passerby has his "Alla ybirakek" - God bless you!" Conversation is sometimes among strangers made up of a very large propor tion of these phrases: for example-"Good morning." Answer, "May your day be en"By seeing you." "You have enlightened the house by your presence."— "Are you happy?" "Happy; and you In the morning of this day-not an hour also?"- Happy." "You are comforttoo soon--the master of the house had lainable, I am comfortable;" meaning, "I am in a stock of earth; which was carried up, comfortable, if you are." These sentences and spread evenly on the roof of the house, are often repeated; and, after any pause, it which is flat. The whole roof is thus form is usual to turn to your neighbour, and ed of mere earth, laid on and rolled bard and resume these courtesies many times. In flat: not, as in Malta, of a composition, Egypt, the Christian Salutation is “Salamât:" among Mahomedans, everywhere, it is "Salim;,' but this is not allowed among Christians. In the Southern half of Palestine, I subsequently found the ordinary

Is Beirout, and many other places, the flat roof consists of a hard cement, although not so good as that which is used in Malta.

salutation, between persons on the road, to | English ears it may sound more appropriate. A person of rank in the East often sits down upon the ground, with his attendants about him. Jowett's Christian Researches, p. 282.