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a ball, a mysterious package. He opens it. It is a letter are by no means confined within the limits of his own persuasion. His short, but searching, examination of the Cath“Le docteur dit que je mourrai avant trois jours. Je olie faith and practice, as they now exist, is singularly imveux te dire adieu avant de perdre mes forces. Oh! si tu partial; while he points out and condemns what is perniétais là, je vivrais ! Mais c'est la volonté de Dieu. Je te cious, he seems to rejoice in acknowledging all that is parlerai bientôt et toujours du haut du ciel. Aime mon tion. More than this, he combats vigorously the enmity praiseworthy, and in holding it up to Protestants for imitaâme! Elle sera avec toi toute ta vie. Je te laisse mes and prejudice, too generally entertained and manifested in cheveux, coupés une nuit pour toi. Consacre-les à Dieu dans une chapelle de ton pays pour que quelque chose de this country, against the Roman Catholic religion ; and enquires, with much force, why it is less an intolerant persemoi soit auprès de toi !" cution, than the display of the same spirit by Catholics in other countries towards Protestant missionaries. He laughs to scorn the apprehension that a true religion can have any thing to fear from competition, among such institutions as our own; and urges upon the members of the Protestant churches, male and female, that they should meet the CathOur readers will naturally ask what excuse Mr. Lamar-olics with their own weapons, and win proselytes by the tine tenders for his conduct-for the hours of madness-same means: by self-denial and sacrifice-by works of the lingering suffering-the despair, the death of this charity and love-by succoring the poor and the rich-and young girl. We will furnish it in his own words t

With this letter was all her beautiful hair, which Mr. Lamartine apparently displays even now, with the same grim satisfaction that an ancient Mohawk contemplates some scalp highly prized as a trophy of youthful cruelty and

bloodshed.

"Je n'étais que vanité. La vanité est le plus sot et le plus cruel des vices, car elle fait rougir du bonheur !..."

Such was Mr. Lamartine at eighteen,—nothing but vanity. Such he is now at sixty,-nothing but vanity. Are we harsh in saying that we have risen from the perusal of these "Confidential Disclosures" with disgust?

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Livre Dixième XXVII.

by manifesting the goodness of their faith in the excellence of its fruits.

We think its perusal will do nobody any harm.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION. By J. D. Morell, A.
M., author of the "History of Modern Philosophy," &c.
New York: D. Appleton & Co. Philadelphia: G. S.
Appleton. 1849.

A work of this sort is not to be judged of without care

Nineveh and its REMAINS: With an Account of a Visit ful reading and reflection. A hasty glance at it, however, to the Chaldean Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezi- has impressed us very favorably, as to its merits. We dis, or Devil-Worshippers : and an Inquiry into the Man-quote some paragraphs, which seem to us fraught with ners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians. By Austen sound sense and liberal feeling; qualities, which do not alHenry Layard, Esq., D. C. L., in 2 vols. Geo. P. Put-ways exercise their proper influence, in theological discusnam, New York. 1849.

sions

"Whilst, however, the mass of uninstructed minds abThe letter of our New York Correspondent, contained sorb the theological system, in which they are educated, as in our last number, pronounces this to be the great puba whole, those, who are more reflective, soon detect in that lication of the season: and we can say that it well deserves his commendation. The execution of his work by the pub-sciousness is, for the most part, awakened by the differences system an element of mere human reasoning. This conlisher is every way worthy of the subject: and that subject is nothing less than the resurrection of a mighty city which of opinion which exist around them. It might be imagined, was destroyed 2,500 years ago, and of which the very site has been until recently, a matter of uncertain conjecture. We are familiar with the traditional glories of Babylon and Nineveh, and with their utter ruin and desolation, from our earliest years. The prophecies of sacred writ, and the pages of profane history, attest their magnificence and their annibilation. The vestiges of their former splendor had

been so completely obliterated, that the descriptions of ancient writers seem to resemble the fabulous creations of Oriental fancy. But it has been granted to us, in this cen

perhaps, that the comparison of their formal theology with Holy Scripture, as its acknowledged source, would in some cases naturally lead to such a result; but, seldom, comparatively, is this the case. Where a given system of theology has completely preoccupied the mind, the Scriptures always appear to speak in exact accordance with it; so much so, indeed, that the system is regarded, more commonly than not, as being the pure reflection, into human phraseolOgy, of the distinctive statements of inspired truth. When, however, a mind once gets out of the circle of its own traditionary ideas; when it finds other minds, having a differtury, to discover some traces of their long-buried great-ent religious consciousness awakened in them, equally earnness-to disinter some of the stupendous monuments of Assyrian art and labor-and to interpret records which still est with their own, and equally appealing to Scripture exist upon many of them, fresh and uninjured as if chisel-proofs, the thought soon begins to suggest itself, that there led but yesterday. Mr. Layard's book, with its numerous and beautiful illustrations, will prove to be a rich contribution to our knowledge of the past; notwithstanding the vast and valuable accession which that knowledge has received, and is still daily receiving.

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THE GOOD AND THE BAD IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC
CHURCH: Is that Church to be Reformed or Destroyed?
A Letter from Rome. By Rev. Henry M. Field. New
York: G. P. Putnam. 1849.

must be some human element, which gives their varied directions and tendencies to these different systems, and which mingles up insensibly with the whole mass of our theological faith. So general has this conviction now become amongst the thoughtful of all parties, that there is a disposition every where apparent, to tolerate various theological differences; to acknowledge all within a certain boundary, as equally entitled to the Christian name; and to Single out only a few great points, which are to be regarded as essential to the validity of a theological creed."

He then proceeds to analyze the nature of Christian theology, and to point out the manner in which the "human element" enters into, and modifies, its different forms. And thus he explains the phenomena of change that appear in

This little pamphlet of some 34 pages is an admirable production. The author, if we mistake not, is a clergyman of the Presbyterian Church; but his views of Christianity the history of Christianity.

"The theology of an age naturally embodies itself in as a waif upon the tide of letters to be taken by the first books, catechisms, or Church symbols, where of course it person that could lay his hands upon it? Or did he simply remains stereotyped and fixed; in the meantime, however, forget by a lapse of memory to append to the publication the living consciousness of the Church ever unfolds, as the words--" From the Mirror of the Times' "? We are age after age rolls on, and adds new experiences of the bound to believe that the latter supposition is the true one. scope and the power of Christian truth. The inevitable We had no disposition certainly to injure the Literary result of this is, that those who take their stand pertina-American in the eyes of our readers; on the contrary we ciously upon the formal theology of any given period, re- have heretofore sought an opportunity to commend it, but main stationary, as it were, in the religious consciousness the editor must surely understand how his omission to of this period, while that of the age itself goes so far be- credit the paper from which he took the story, led us to beyond them, that their theology is no longer an adequate ex-lieve that the plagiarism was his own. We are glad to be ponent of the religious life of the times, and can no longer satisfy its just demands. Since the time of the Reformation, the religious consciousness of Europe, unfolding the principles then started, has been advancing more and more towards the religious conception of Christianity; and in consequence of this, we find the dogmatic theology of the earlier portions of this era, unable to satisfy the moral and spiritual requirements of the present age."

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assured that it was not. As for the "Mirror of the Times," we were not aware of its existence until the paragraph above quoted met our eye, but we doubt not that it belongs to a class of literary weeklies, whose notions of the right of property are somewhat of the loosest, and whose columns are filled with poetical pilferings and prosaic pettylarcenies. The editor of the American will probably be cautious how he borrows from it in future.

These views are just in themselves, and clearly expressed; however they may conflict with the opinions of those, Our thanks are due to Messrs. Harold & Murray, of who elevate "authority" above the "right of private judg-this city for the "Church Polity" of Rev. J. L. Reynolds. ment," in matters of religious faith. How far the author is pastor of the 2nd Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., for the disposed to extend the circle of charity and toleration, we "Mirror of Nature," a book of instruction and entertainare not advised. How far it ought to be extended, is a ques-ment, from the German of G. H. Schubert, by William H. tion which, from the causes which he has explained, will Furness-and for "Mitchell's Intermediate Geography," be perpetually shifting its ground: the heretic of to-day be- an excellent school-book. coming orthodox to-morrow, and being called on, in his turn, to admit others within the pale. But there is little danger, to judge from the past, that the doctrinal requirements of Christianity will be too suddenly relaxed or diminished. The conservative principle operates, (perhaps fortunately,) tored to that public confidence to which its high character Our State University, we are pleased to see, is fully reswith a greater and more constant force in matters of theol-so justly entitles it, but which was in a measure withdrawn ogy, than in those of politics.

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A BOOK OF THE HUDSON; Collected from the various works of Diedrich Knickerbocker. By Geoffrey Crayon. G. P. Putnam. New York: 1849,

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