We'll rally around her, by dangers unawed.

The Church of our Fathers-the Church of our God!

The Church of our Fathers! how sacred the name!

How holy, how pure, the devotion she'd claim!

Then shall we desert her? Far, far be the thought

We'll abide to the death by the truths she has taught.

The Church of our Fathers! once sacred and bright,

Illum'd by pure doctrine, shed forth her clear light

Ere popery arose, and her altars debased;
Her purity sullied—her glory defaced.

The Church of our Fathers from that

Stygian night,

Like a giant refreshed, she arose in her might

To the moles, to the bats, superstition they hurled,

And stood forth the envy and praise of the world.

Her Cranmers, her Ridleys, for truth nobly stood,

Her rights and her charters they sealed with their blood;

A Treatise on the Church of Christ; designed chiefly for the use of Students in Theology. By the Rev. W. PALMER, M.A., of Worcester College, Oxford. Two Volumes. London Rivingtons. 1838.

THIS is one of the most valuable works which have appeared for many years, and it affords us much pleasure to hear that a second edition of it is just coming out, because it is good evidence that the attention of the community is beginning to be alive to the importance of the subject of which it treats. "To contemplate the past and present condition of the Universal Church of Christ," as Mr. Palmer justly observes, "must always be full of a deep interest to those who believe that the Son of God came into this world to establish a spiritual kingdom, in which, through His atonement and merits, salvation should be obtained by the faithful of all nations, even to the end of the world." That this grand subject has been too little studied of late years has been matter of regret to the minds of the best friends of the Church generally, and formed the grounds, we believe, for Mr. Palmer's

undertaking this sound, learned, useful, and interesting work. The present state of the Church Catholic, as well as of its particular branches, is here fully considered. The Romish and other dissenters also are all brought under notice; their relation to the Church set forth, and their errors ably confuted. Writing as he does, chiefly for students in theology, the author has thought it unnecessary to give a multiplicity of proofs and quotations, but he has produced what he thought the best, and referred his reader to works where the respective topics are treated more at length. There is scarcely a point respecting Church authority, government, discipline, heresy, schism, and so forth, of which the inquiring Christian may not fully satisfy himself from these elaborate and excellent volumes. To the Clergy, and to the younger Clergy more especially, the work is indispensable, and we trust that it will not only engage their own close attention, but that they will get it into the hands, that its contents may get into the heads, and operate upon the hearts and consciences, of their more intelligent parish

ioners. Infinite good may thus be accomplished; and the Clergy will not fail soon to reap the advantage arising from the circulation of such essential truths. Mr. Palmer deserves, what we doubt not he will receive, the best thanks of the Church for his valuable labours and research. We shall be glad to hear that their lordships the Bishops have begun to adopt this treatise as a standard book for the examination of candidates for holy orders.

The Catholic Church. Five Sermons Preached in the Parish Church of Blackburn, on occasion of the Commemoration of the Reformation, celebrated October 4th, 1835. By the Rev. J. W. WHITTAKER, D.D., Vicar of Blackburn. London: Cochran. 12mo. P. 108.

THE delivery of these learned, argumentative, and able discourses produced so great a sensation in Blackburn at the time, that the excellent Doctor calculates that the fourth was heard in his beautiful church by not less than five thousand persons. We wish that all the five had been heard and understood by five hundred thousand, for they are worthy of being treasured up in the hearts of all true Protestants. The subjects of the sermons are A Free Course to the Word of the Lord; God's Promise to Glorify His People; Popery a Modern Corruption of Christianity; Popery the Patron of Ignorance, Vice, and Infidelity; the Authority of Christ's Holy Catholic Church consistent with the Right of Private Judgment. It is, however, but justice to say, that these heads afford no accurate idea of the closeness of reasoning, the overwhelming power of argumentation, and the triumphant conclusions of these powerful Sermons. We will endeavour to find room for a quotation or two in future numbers, but meanwhile we recommend them entire to the perusal of our readers.

An Appeal of a Minister of Christ in behalf of the Divine Institution of Matrimony, occasioned partly by the New Marriage Act; being a Sermon preached in Cheltenham Parish Church on Sunday Afternoon, Nov. 4, 1838. By the Rev. CHARLES HEBERT, M.A. Published by request. London: Parker. Cheltenham: Wight.

A VERY excellent Sermon, dedicated to the Rev. F. Close, and deserving general reading.

Portrait of an English Churchman. By the Rev. W. GRESLEY, M.A. London: Rivingtons. 1835. 12mo. P. 366.

FOR a Christmas-box, a new-year's gift, or a birthday present to young members of the Anglican Church, we scarcely know of a book which we should prefer to this

admirable volume. Its arguments, spirit, and temper, and the tone of Christian piety diffused throughout, renders it just what one would desire every English Churchman to exemplify. The work is thrown into the form of a dialogue, which varies and sustains the interest it excites. It contains a vast fund of information on the most important subjects, condensed and conveyed in a very pleasing style; and as a matter of duty we think it right to give it here all the approbation that we can express, satisfied that no true Churchman will do otherwise than thank us for having been the means of its being introduced into his library and family.

Practical Observations on the Causes and Treatment of Curvatures of the Spine; with Hygyenic Directions for the Physical Culture of Youth, as a meuns of preventing the Disease; an Etching and Description of an Apparatus for the Correction of the Deformity; and Engravings illustrative of the Cases. By SAMUEL HARE, Surgeon. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co. 1838. Royal 8vo. P. 150.

DISTORTION of the spine is a disease so distressingly painful, and now becoming so common, that any attempt to cure or alleviate it is deserving of attention. And although "we are no doctors," we can understand quite enough of Mr. Hare's mode of treatment to pronounce it both natural and reasonable, and the extraordinary cures which he has performed prove it highly successful, and therefore worthy of the immediate attention of the faculty; and it is written in so intelligible a manner that parents and all engaged in the care of youth may derive much useful and valuable information from it. The thanks of the public are eminently due to Mr. Hare for the labours, anxiety, and expense to which he must have been subjected in the course of bringing knowledge and experience to so successful an issue.

As the subject of Tradition is now beginning to be pretty generally discussed, we cannot do better than draw attention to this little volume, which embraces all that is material upon this agitated point. We shall not now enter into a discussion of it, as it must soon occupy a portion of our pages; but we may just say that the whole thing is so plain that a wayfaring man, though a fool, cannot err therein, after having it distinctly brought before his mind. Like many other disputed topics, it has been misrepresented and mystified, and a scare

crow has been attacked and ridiculed instead of that which all sensible and unprejudiced men understand to be tradition. However, we must not break our word, and so conclude with recommending all those who wish to understand Tradition and its use to purchase the able and valuable work before

us

-the production of a Clergyman well known in the literary world.

Prasca Loupouloff. A Russian Narrative.

London: Burns. 1838. P. 60.

A MORE touching and admirable tiny book we have seldom read. It professes to be a narrative of facts which actually occurred, and gives an account of the banishment of Loupouloff, a Russian officer, into Siberia, with his wife and daughter Prasca, a strongminded and pious girl, who conceived and executed the plan of taking a journey on foot, and without money, to St. Petersburgh, a distance of above 2000 miles, to crave from the Emperor the pardon of her father. After a series of troubles and misfortunes, through all which God delivered her, she accomplished her great object. Her father was released from exile, and the joy of their meeting may be conceived. The constitution of Prasca, however, had been destroyed, and she died young, in the faith of Christ, and with a glorious prospect of eternal joy.

The Book of Common Prayer, with Original Notes and Modern Illuminations. London: Whittaker and Co. 1838. 8vo. bound and gilt.

To speak in terms of commendation of our Liturgical services, would be entirely a work of supererogation; for so highly have they been lauded by those who object to the use of either those services, or any other precomposed set forms of prayer, that, if we were inclined to perform so unnecessary a deed, we could find abundant matter for our purpose in the writings of our adversaries of almost all sects and parties; and of such expressions of praise we should certainly prefer to avail ourselves, as much more likely to convince or silence an objector than anything which we could produce from our own well-stored armoury. What, therefore, we have to say respecting the edition now before us, has reference to its accompaniments, and the style and manner in which it is got up. Besides a considerable number of ornamental or illuminated letters, there are sixteen splendidly illuminated engravings. The decorative parts are chiefly of the old Gothic character, and all beautifully gilt and painted in almost all sorts of colours, and those very bright, and arranged to admirable advantage. The idea has unquestionably been taken from the illuminated missals of the Romanists, and are of a description similar to many very rich

engravings published in France, of which we have some capital specimens. The engravings are illustrative of facts of the life of our blessed Lord, such as the flight into Egypt, his temptation, crucifixion, resurrection, ascension, and so forth, and are truly beautiful. The paper and type are also very good, and the volume most admirably adapted for a Christmas-box, a newyear's gift, or a birth-day present.

The Religious History of Man; tracing Religion and Superstition from their source. By D. MORISON. London : Smith, Elder and Co. 1838. 12mo. P. 370.

SOMEHOW or other we had contracted a little prejudice against this book, and therefore took it up with some eagerness to ascertain its real nature; and are only happy in having it to say that we were never more agreeably disappointed, for it is evidently the result of great labour and research, and displays much learning, ability, and deep study of the Sacred Scriptures, whose meaning in various parts is greatly illustrated by its contents. The style is copious and elegant, and unostentatious piety is manifest throughout the work. We are pleased to see the author so ably combating the infidelity of our new lights' geological philosophers, and sarcastically laughing at the "glimmerings of the Bridgewater Treatises." As our notices must be short, we can only add that this is, in truth, no ordinary work, and the theological student who does not avail himself of an attentive perusal of it does himself much professional as well as really spiritual injury. It is not the smallest recommendation of it that the infidel Radical press has spoken ill of it.

The Order of Baptism, both Public and Private, according to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland: Illustrated from the "Use of Salisbury," the "Religious Consultation of Hermann, Archbishop of Cologne," and the Sentiments of the Compilers and Revisers of the Book of Common Prayer. By the Rev. T. M. FALLOW, M.A., Curate of All Souls', St. Marylebone. London: Burns. 1838. 12mo. P. 250.

THIS is a valuable addition to our works on baptism, and Mr. Fallow deserves great credit for the very able manner in which he has executed his task. The members of the Church have here collected together, within a small compass, documents which ought always to be consulted in any discussion on this sacrament, or any of its circumstantials. The author has accompanied the documents with sound and judicious observations, which enhance materially the value of the work. The title so well expresses its contents, that we need add no more about it.

THE BISHOP OF LONDON AND "THE CITY MISSION."-It is generally known that there was some time ago established in London a society called "The City Mission," whose object was, in the language of "the religious world," to "unite all parties" to attempt the conversion of the profligate portion of the City of London and its neighbourhood,-a good work enough truly, if commenced and carried on in God's way, by God's society, the Church, instead of societies invented by man, and those men certainly none of the best, in a religious point of view. However, this notable society was composed, quite as a matter of course, chiefly of dissenters of the Independent or Brownist sect; but as it was intended to 66 UNITE the MONEY of all parties" and Churchmen are the most liberal, and the least scrupulous in giving to objects professedly religious,-two inconsistent Clergymen were hooked in to give a colourable pretence of churchmanship to the thing, and thus the more effectually to serve the purposes of the dissenters. We need not say that these two inconsistent Clergymen were the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel, and the Rev. Mr. Garwood; for no other Clergymen iu London, or, we hope, in the kingdom, could be found, besides those two gentlemen, to dishonour their sacred calling by such inconsistent conduct. The objects of the society were "not sectarian," it was said; when it is known that its agents have gone about depreciating, and speaking ill of the Church. We say this is known to be the case; and if we are asked for proof, we can say that one of the agents called upon us, and not knowing to whom he was speaking, he abused the Church and the Clergy to our face. We afterwards told him that he was speaking to a Clergyman, and gave him our name; and great uneasiness, with an anxious desire to depart, were immediately evident, and we soon released him.

We

know other facts also; but, at present, we say no more than that we are exceedingly rejoiced that the Bishop of London has called Mr. Garwood to order. This Mission Society has lately had the impudence to send circulars round to all the Clergy of London; and this gave rise to the first question put by the Bishop to Mr. Garwood-that is, if the dialogue has any portion of truth about it, for we must premise that we have taken it from a dissenting and radical paper. His lordship, it is said, sent for Mr. Garwood. Thus the conversation is said to have commenced :"Do you know this circular, sir? Is that your signature?-Yes, my lord.

"By what authority do you send circu lars to my Clergy?—I did not conceive, my lord, that there was anything irregular or wrong in so doing.

"It is very improper, sir; I hope it will not be repeated. Who is Mr. Ainslie, whose name is to the circular?-He is a dissenting minister, my lord.

"I thought so. I have a great dislike to this society, and to my Clergy uniting with dissenters in religious matters.Several very respectable Clergymen have been connected with this society, my lord. Mr. Baptist Noel has taken great interest it.

"Mr. Noel, sir, ought not to be in the Church at all; he is three parts a dissenter, and I wish he was one altogether. I believe the committee meetings commence with prayer?-Yes, my lord.

"Do you engage in prayer?-Sometimes, my lord.

"And then Mr. Ainslie follows sometimes?-Yes, my lord.

"And sometimes Mr. Binney, who says, you know, that the Church destroys more souls than she saves?-I never saw him there, my lord.

"Oh, I suppose he is too high to come among you. You have preached for the society, I believe?—Yes, my lord, I have dedicated some sermons to a prelate.

"Oh! Chester, I suppose.-No, my lord, to the Bishop of Norwich.

"Aye! I have my opinion of the Bishop of Norwich too; but this is not the place to discuss that matter.-Well, sir, if you do not promise not to send circulars to my Clergy, nor to preach for the society, nor to pray at the committee, I fear I must suspend you. I will give you two days to consider the matter. You are at liberty to publish what I say. I wish my opinion

to be known."

And what means does the reader think Mr. Garwood chose for making his lordship's opinion known? Why, the radical organ of the dissenters-the scurrilous Patriot, a paper disgracefully slandering the Church and the Clergy to the utmost of its power. If Messrs. Noel and Garwood would leave the Church altogether, they would do her and themselves infinitely more credit than by their present scandalous conduct.

LOYALTY OF CHURCHMEN.-At a meeting of the friends of the Society for propagating the Gospel, held at the Town-hall, Brighton, on Thursday, December 6th, the Bishop of Nova Scotia stated, as an authenticated fact, that " among the numerous band of Canadians engaged in acts of most