all our evils as outgrowths of Protestantism, sick of the clamor of the mob, the superficiality of every thing, the unblushing impudence and puffery and undeniable vulgarity of the age, he sighs for the "good old times;" a quiet cloister, a cathedral so vast as to keep out the garish light, reverence for something, and settled opinion even if enforced by the strong hand; in short, he wishes to revive his fancy of the pre-Popish times. Isaac Taylor has attacked all this in one very conclusive way in his “Ancient Christianity;" "Hypatia" holds the mirror up to it in another and very wonderful manner. Suppose the Puseyite's dream realized. God, in wrath, gives him his desire. Where are we now? At Alexandria, under Cyril, in the year 415. A series of pictures, almost equal to Scott in graphic power, and with an interest drawn from a part of human nature vastly deeper than any to which he usually appeals, fairly oppresses the spirits and appals the heart, until the Christian, the lover of mankind, feels like the prophets of Israel in her decay, or like the Master on Olivet when he paused to gaze upon Jerusalem. The moral is, that the disease is bad, but that Puseyism would be worse than the disease itself. All these turbulent, political, fierce, fanatical, outside, upholstering, unnatural, sentimental methods only aggravate the difficulty, and fill the inquiring and agitated heart with despair. What is the remedy? Ah, ask Naaman the Syrian. It is too simple to be understood. It is too obvious to be scen. Men are "ascending up into heaven, and descending into the deep" to find it. But it is only this: to stay quietly where God has put you, and make yourself and every one you know, Christ-like. If you will do that, God will care for thrones, principalities and powers, and the "great things" after which He has told us "not to seek." vii. c. 15. Suidas, Art. Hypatia, tom. iii. p. 533. Tillemont, Memoires, &c., a l'Histoire Eccl. tom. xiv. p. 274. Menage, Hist. Mulier. philosoph. 2 49, &c., p. 494, &c., and Brucker, Hist. Crit. Philos. tom. ii. 351. ARTICLE. I. THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT AND THE NEW TESTA- II. THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS. PAGE. 529 1. Lardner's Hand-book of Astronomy. 2. Plurality of Worlds. 3. Brewster's More Worlds than One. 572 III. DR. HILL'S SKETCHES. REV. NASH LE GRAND. 601 IV. TIMOTHY'S ORDINATION AND CHARGE. 1. Ministry and Worship of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 616 V. OLD AND NEW THEOLOGY. 1. Wood's Old and New Theology. 2. Rice's Old and New Schools. 3. Chalmers' Institutes of Theology. ATONEMENT. 4. Discourses and Sayings of our Lord. 5. Exposition of Epistle to the Galatians. VI. SPIRIT OF AMERICAN PRESBYTERIANISM. DIVISION, No. II. 1. Minutes of General Assembly. 2. Presbyterian Magazine. 3. Lathrop's Case of the General Assembly. 4. Miller's Report of Presbyterian Church Case. 630 THE 648 |