be as "ointment poured forth" on his own soul. Amidst the wreck of sound principles in some parts of the University of Oxford, it is pleasant to find other vessels, of all sizes and classes, with their sails up, and the Great Pilot at the helm, making their way to the port. It is among the excellencies of these discourses, that they are untainted by College pedantry. And the truth is, that, as in ordinary life, men known to be rich can afford not to parade their wealth; so the really learned may keep their learning in their strong box, and leave their hearers or readers to find it out. But the highest recommendation of the volume is, that its one simple object is to exalt the Saviour, and to lead the guilty to seek refuge at His Cross. We think the Author might advantageously change his style of writing for one a little less ornate and figurative; but we trust that he may cleave to the main principles he has here laid down, and may go on from hour to hour to build on them a higher structure of spiritual and practical religion.

Opinions of the Heads of Colleges and Divinity Professors of Oxford and Cambridge on the Theological Colleges. By T. Hill, D.D., Archdeacon of Derby. Rivingtons.

THIS is a reprint from that "Report of the Cathedral Commission" which refers to so many subjects of great interest to the Established Church. The particular topic here treated, is the substitution of Diocesan or other institutions in the instruction of candidates for the ministry, for the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge. To any such change the various authorities here quoted are point blank opposed; and the venerable Author of this pamphlet takes the same side. We must think that the Heads of Colleges are not prima facie the authorities on such a subject, who are most likely to pass a disinterested judgment. They are, to say the least, strongly tempted to put the question, "Who can be so fit to instruct as either ourselves, or those next of kin to us the University Professors?" But even, yielding all the respect due to the distinguished names produced in this pamphlet, and admitting that theory is all on their side, do not our actual circumstances force a different conclusion upon us? In theory, it is impossible to deny that an education for Orders under some special theological system and a particular leader, be he High or Low Church, is liable to serious evils. And we cannot but admit the force of the argument often alleged in this pamphlet, that Cathedral cities are by no means desirable quarters for young men. We are accustomed to think that few strong and healthy plants are apt to grow up under the shade of those vast Cathedral walls. Nevertheless, the necessities of the case appear to lead to the opposite course. Theological educational Colleges already CHRIST. OBSERV. No. 230.

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exist, and are exerting, we believe, a mischievous influence over the candidates for Orders. And it has become, we fear, essential to provide one or more such Colleges, where men of a different class may find a refuge; and where, as we hope, nothing would be attempted but to teach religion in the spirit of our English Reformers, with all their deference to the supreme authority of the word of God, and to the character of the "Church" of the New Testament.

In saying this, we feel ourselves to be assuming that the Universities themselves are not, as at present constituted, adequate to the necessity of the case; and we are not sure that they ever could be. There is no place in which it is so difficult to pursue a new and perfectly distinct object as that in which we have long lived for a different end. Men with the degree of "Bachelor" in the University, are almost proverbially idle men. They have fought, and have conquered or lost; and they seem often strongly indisposed to another effort of any kind. And, besides, the difficulty of conducting parochial visitations, of the instruction of schools, and of the cultivation of other pastoral duties, is very great in an University. A valuable Correspondent, in the opening Paper of our January Number, has expressed his hope that some-and he may, perhaps, especially intend one-of our new Bishops would lay the matter to heart, and create a Theological school which would satisfy large multitudes of impartial but serious minds. Such a school must, of course, be conducted in as little as possible of a party spirit, but yet, with the most rigid regard to great principles. The ends to be mainly sought are Theological learning, familiarity with practical and pastoral duties, and, above all, a simple-hearted devotion of the whole man to the holy and happy service of God. If the University can, indeed, supply such temples for our future Samuels, we shall be delighted to give it a chance of paying up a heavy debt of neglected duties by consigning them to its care. But, if not, we must open new Theological schools for ourselves.

Gotthold's Emblems; or, Invisible Things understood by Things that are Made. By Christian Scriver, Minister of Magdeburg in 1671. Translated from the 28th German Edition, by the Rev. R. Menzies. London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co.

WE cannot tell how it is-and we are sure that it arises from no prejudice against either our Saxon progenitors or contemporaries but it is the fact, that many of those works which make the greatest impression in the "Father land" are far from being as successful here. One reason may be that, however the German language may be able to express English thoughts in words to the full as strong as the original, our own language has not a reciprocal power; and German thoughts, of immense acceptance with their

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own countrymen, fall utterly dead on an English ear. end, for example, to Göethe's admiration of the German Shakespeare; but we find it impossible to yield the same admiration to the Anglicised Goethe. The book before us must, we fear, be classed in the same category. It has gone through twenty-eight editions in Germany; but we doubt whether it will go through a small fraction of these here. The Work is simple and natural in its general character. It is a volume of practical and personal truths deduced from everyday incidents around us. But the incidents seem to us often too trifling, the deductions either too common-place or too fanciful. There are, no doubt, exceptions to this charge; and we cannot question, for a moment, the genuine piety, the tenderness, or the benevolence of the Author. And, moreover, there is a large class in society-not precisely children, for the work is too old for the young-but bigger children in mind, whose chief taste is-and no bad taste, after all-for that which is at once familiar, natural, scriptural, benevolent, devout; and for these the work will have many charms. It may be confidently affirmed of it, that it is likely to do no harm, and much good. And this is more than can be said of half the volumes in the world, which win the highest commendation from the public. Among other things which give value to these "Emblems" in our eyes, is, that they come from Germany; from which we are so apt to receive poison, that we are especially glad to get a portion of wholesome food.

A Large-print Paragraph Bible. With Marginal Renderings, Introductions, Alphabetical Indices, Map, &c. &c. Each Book published separately. London: Bagster.

THE public are much indebted to Messrs. Bagster for a variety of important publications which they have put forth, at great risk and expense, to meet the necessities of the Church. And this "Large-print Paragraph Bible" deserves to stand high in this honorable catalogue. To the man flying along on a railroad as the sun goes down-to the sick and aged-to those for whom the omnipotent Mr. Salomons cannot provide glasses which make "darkness visible" - the work is of the greatest convenience and value. So much for the mere type. The system of printing in "Paragraph" ought also to have its share of commendation. The light often cast by it upon obscure passages is undeniable. The marks inserted in our own authorized Bibles, to point to a new section or subject, appear to have been mostly introduced by Dr. Blaney, or some other self-constituted typographer, almost in sport. Of course the Paragraph system gets rid of many of these strange finger-posts. What is the first duty of man but to learn the mind of God, as far as He has been pleased to make it known to

His creatures? We should be sorry to render the like homage to the Bible with that paid by the Caliph Omar to the Koran; but, if indisposed to "burn" all other books, we unfeignedly desire to see the minds of men far more directed to the devout study of that volume, of which all truths transmitted through a mere earthly medium are but the faint and dim reflexion. If Messrs. Bagster assist in promoting that study they will be no common benefactors to society.

OBITUARY.

THE REV. JOSEPH JONES, INCUMBENT OF REPTON. WHEN directing our attention to the means of collecting such facts as might supply an Obituary of one of not the least remarkable men of his day,-the honored friend of some of the most distinguished dignitaries of our Church, and an object of respect and regard to all who knew him,-a Sermon preached on the occasion of his death, by the Rev. S. A. Pears, came into our hands. And this so admirably expresses what we should wish to have said on the subject, that we give an extract from the Sermon, which we hope may induce our readers to read the whole.

After some statements on the same subject, Mr. Pears goes on to say :

"God has from time to time and in different places raised up many such men to do His work. Such were Pascal, and Cecil, and Vinet-and such in his own kind was he who taught us from this place-who will teach us from this place no more.

"His name stands high in the honored list of those who during the last hundred years have endured and labored in the revival of Evangelical truth in this country. They were endued with different gifts, according to the work which God had marked out for them severally. Few among them all were equal in mental power to him of whom I speak.

That he was loved and valued in this place, I cannot doubt. You have shown it by the marked respect with which you attended his body to the grave. Yet I cannot help feeling, that this honor was paid more to the Man than to the Teacher-to the large heart, and the open hand, and the ever ready sympathy of your departed friend. And though this is good and right, and justly due to him, I wish nevertheless to recall your attention for a few moments to his peculiar value as a minister of the Gospel.

"What I have already said will have prepared you for the view in which I would have you regard him. During a long ministerial life, he presented an instance of the unusual combination of the purest simplicity of faith with the most extensive learning and a keenly inquiring mind.

"Intellectually he was a very strong man-capable of great and sustained exertion. Whether he was engaged in mastering the details of a subject, or in analysing the most subtle passages of thought-sifting out truth-detecting and exposing falsehood, his vigour and his endurance were very great

indeed.

"And he worked from first to last with invincible courage and perseverance. Let not those who labour with their hands imagine that the hours

which such a man spends in his study, are hours of ease or enjoyment. The hardest worker of you all knows no severer toil than that which your late Teacher joyfully and by free choice underwent throughout his life.

"And he was working for us-we reaped the fruit of his labour.

"Some men are called to work in public-their abilities are practical— they counsel they govern-they manage other men-their vocation seems to be to move the springs of society. He was not of this kind. The battle of his life was in his Study. There he met all comers, and waged war for the Truth.

"We enjoyed the result, though we little knew of the process by which that result was reached. Sunday after Sunday we heard errors exposed and Truth confirmed with masterly skill and precision. His doctrine partook at once of the simplicity of his faith, and the clearness of his intellect.

"He never used the Pulpit as a means of working out his thoughts and speculations for his own satisfaction, but always directly for our instruction in godliness. Every new form of doctrine as it appeared (and such appearances are frequent in these days) he intercepted, and examined; and would suffer nothing to pass through the filter of his own pure judgment but what was clear and wholesome for the nourishment of our souls.

"The most learned Theologian, and the most refined Critic, might have listened to him with admiration and delight-yet it pleased God that you should enjoy the treasures of his richly stored mind during all these years.

"I do not stand here to praise him. I should be untrue to his memory if I did. It is the last thing he would have permitted. For you all know how hard it was to force upon him the respect that was so justly due to him. My desire is rather to show how the grace of God was displayed in the rare combination I have described-how his great mental powers were all employed in Christ's service and how too these very powers were tempered and softened by the spiritual life within: for, let me tell you, he had a giant's strength, and but for this influence he might have used it like a giant.

Of those personal qualities, therefore, which made him beloved by many of us, I will not speak further than to point out that they were all such as are the fruits of the Holy Spirit, and not produced from any other source. Had he not lived with Christ, and been imbued with Christ's spirit and temper, he could not have been so humble, and so forgetful of self-so quick to see good in others-so severe in judging himself-so full of love and sympathy for children-for the poor-especially for any one in whom he could trace the least likeness to the Master whom he served.

"Let us leave these things to be treasured up as precious memories in the hearts of those who loved him."

We have no means of knowing who is likely to be Mr. Jones's successor in the living of Repton. It is a consolation to know that his friend Mr. Pears remains there, as the head of a Public School, which he is rapidly raising to be one of the most important in the kingdom.

VIEW OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS.

A MUCH honored correspondent complains that we usually enter on our "Public Affairs" by referring to Spain; when, "in fact, there is nothing to say about her." But surely, if in the horizon of politics, some countries should be used as lights to guide us,