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€l)e Cliarcl) mi t|)e fim : 
 
 OB, 
 
 CHRISTIAN LITERATURE 
 THE INHERITANCE OF THE CHURCH, 
 
 AND 
 
 THE PRESS AN ^EDUCATOE AND AN EVANGELIST.' 
 
 A. SERM:oisr 
 
 PREACHED IN EICHMOND, AT ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, OCTOBER 12, 1859 
 
 AT THE 
 
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 C|ttrt|[ §o0fe gocutg. 
 
 BY A. CLEVELAND C^OXE, 
 
 Rector of Grace Church, Baltimore. 
 
 NEW-YOEK: 
 General Protestant Episcopal S. S. Union and Chnrch Book Society, 
 
 No. 762 BEOADWAY. 
 
 1869. 
 
SERMOI. 
 
 "Moreover, because the Preacher jwas wise, he still taught the people know- 
 ledge." EcoLES.xii. 9. 
 
 The policy of increasing religious knowledge 
 by books of human authorship, originated with 
 the wisest of mankind. He was a penman of 
 the sacred oracles. In the dark sayings of his 
 Proverbs, in the melody of his Canticles, and in 
 the sublime morals of his Bcclesiastes, spake 
 the Everlasting Word. But, of his own lofty 
 enterprise, he was the father of the Hebrew 
 literature. As such, he is the source to which the 
 literature of Christians traces its majestic current. 
 His works, as we learn elsewhere, w-ere those of 
 the moralist, the natural philosopher, and the poet. 
 And in the context the Spirit of inspiration sets a 
 seal to the inferior wisdom of his human author- 
 ship, in permitting him to say of it — " th-e 
 Preacher sought to find out acceptable words [ 
 
4 THE CHURCH AND THE PRESS. 
 
 and that which was written was upright, even 
 words of truth." Such words, though uttered 
 only by the written page, he invests with the 
 character of sermons. They are, he affirms, 
 " like goads and nails, fastened by the masters 
 of assemblies ;" like the pointed sayings and 
 tenacious principles, driven into the consciences 
 of great congregations, by masterly orators. 
 Further, he argues, that all good words pro- 
 ceed from the " one Shepherd " and Bishop of 
 souls, the Word of God. Moreover, while he an- 
 ticipates the objection that " much study is a 
 weariness to the flesh," and that " of making 
 many books there is no end," he yet exhorts the 
 young to be instructed by such words as prepare 
 the soul for duty and for judgment. In this 
 way, the royal author seems to vindicate his 
 own title of " the Preacher ;" and we infer the 
 principle that good books are great preachers. 
 The Society which has made me its advocate 
 is the Institiition of a past generation. It is 
 already venerable and historical, as owing its 
 existence to eminent divines and preachers who 
 have passed away. " By it, they being dead, 
 yet speak ;" and " because they were wise, they 
 still teach the people knowledge." I present the 
 claims of a Christian press, of tried usefulness, 
 but entirely unendowed, and not too liberally sup- 
 
THE CHURCH AND THE PRESS. 5 
 
 ported. I shall endeavour to persuade you that 
 it ought to he promoted to the front rank of our 
 aggressive agencies ; that, on a greatly enlarged 
 scale of operation, it should he brought to hear 
 upon the educated mind of our countrymen, 
 and upon the mind v^hich is now in process of 
 education : and first of all, I shall try to show 
 that, for the ■ present crisis at least, while we 
 lack living preachers, we must make the Press 
 a missionary, and trust to it, under God, as our 
 grand resource. 
 
 In urging this consideration, that the Chris- 
 tian press is a missionary, and may be made 
 the instrument of multiplying indefinitely the 
 voices and energies of your existing missionaries, 
 I feel that I have a great advantage in the time 
 and order of my appeal. I follow the stirring 
 addresses and sermons of fathers and brethren 
 who have warmed your hearts, and enlarged 
 them to the vastness and glory of the missionary 
 work. Powerfully have they impressed you 
 with a view of the destitution, the unbelief, 
 the utter irreligion of many parts of our land. 
 Where are the preachers ? Lord Jesus — send 
 forth labourers ! But, till this cry is answered 
 are we to do nothing ? I read that " wisdom 
 strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty 
 men ;" and I urge the counsel of the Preacher 
 
6 THE CHURCH AND THE PRESS. 
 
 to teach Christian knowledge and wisdom by 
 books and tracts. These are the goads and nails 
 which for the present must be pointed and fast- 
 ened upon the minds of our countrymen. I 
 claim, then, for my subject something of that 
 devout interest with which you have listened to 
 appeals in behalf of Missions. I speak in the 
 same cause ; I plead for the means to multiply 
 the energies and the achievements of your pas- 
 tors and evangelists. 
 
 I fear that, as a Church, we have underesti- 
 mated the Press : I am sure we have not suffi- 
 ciently employed it: I feel that we ought to 
 wake up to the wealth of our literary resources, 
 and to the power we might exert by bringing 
 them out, and making them known and felt. 
 True, nothing can supply the place of the living 
 preacher ; the steward of Christ's mysteries ; the 
 ambassador of heaven : and we are justly jealous 
 of those exaggerated eulogies of the Press, ,which 
 are popular, because they flatter souls in the 
 delusive idea that they may spare themselves the 
 pains of communion with the Church, and be 
 scriptural Christians by reading good books, in 
 their own houses. Besides, we have seen, in 
 our day, such abuses of the Press as beget reac- 
 tionary fears. Hence, many seem to have a feel- 
 ing that the Press is a creature which " is not 
 
THE CHURCH AND THE PRESS. 7 
 
 subject to the law of God, neither indeed can 
 be." They tremble at the infidel vaunt, which 
 implies that the invention of the Press was a sur- 
 prise upon Providence itself ; that it is an engine 
 which the Author of the Gospel took not into 
 account ; an instrument which is to undermine 
 and explode the Faith of Ages. And true it is, 
 that the Press of our country suggests cause for 
 anxiety and alarm. It already battens upon pop- 
 ular vice and passion. It is made a tremendous 
 agent of corruption. By night and day, by the 
 untiring energy of steam, and as it were with 
 the very flame of Tophet, it sends forth elements 
 of pollution, the most corrosive. One is tempt- 
 ed to think that the Spirit of prophecy spake of 
 this mechanical tongue, rather than of that 
 which is the glory of our frame, when He said — 
 "It is a fire ; a world of iniquity ; it setteth on 
 fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire of 
 hell." 
 
 But bad as the tongue is, what are we to do 
 with it ? " Awake up, my glory ! I will give 
 praise with the best member that I have." This 
 same tongue which cannot be tamed by man, is 
 tamed by God. His Holy Spirit makes it a 
 flame of Pentecost ; a world of illumination and 
 of blessing. Now the law of the tongue must 
 be the law of the press : for what is the press 
 
8 THE CHURCH AND THE PRESS. 
 
 but an instrument of utterance ? Words . are 
 their common product ; and written words like 
 spoken words, when they are good, are declared 
 by Solomon to be of the nature of sermons. 
 God employs the tongues of good men to con- 
 found the Babel-builders of irreligion ; and so 
 he can employ a Christian press to overpower 
 the printing of the wicked. For there is, and 
 ever has been, a supernatural law as to words ; 
 a law of Providence which restrains those over- 
 flowings of ungodliness, which would otherwise 
 deluge the world. " The fruit of the lips" is a 
 harvest of which God takes care that he shall 
 have the increase. Humanly speaking it would 
 be impossible that the words of a few fishermen 
 should prevail over the words of all the world 
 besides : but the unseen b pirit has made them 
 infinitely superior to all the " enticing words of 
 man's wisdom." And so, while the heathen 
 rage, the words of the gospel go on to perpetual 
 mastery. The servants of Christ may seem to 
 imitate their dear Master, and neither strive nor 
 cry, nor lift up their voice in the streets ; yet 
 says the proverb, " The words of the wise are 
 heard in quiet more than the outcry of him that 
 ruleth among fools." Voltaire and Rousseau 
 make a great noise in their generation ; nations 
 become fools and enthrone them as rulers ; but 
 
THE CHURCH AND THE PRESS. 9 
 
 there is such a thing as " the blasting of the 
 breath of the displeasure of Jehovah." Their 
 words are smitten with anathema ; their tri- 
 umphing is short, for it is necessarily the 
 triumph of destructiveness and blood. The 
 charter of a Christian press runs parallel with 
 that law of God — " The lip of Truth shall be es- 
 tablished forever : but a lying tongue is but for 
 a moment." 
 
 Let us recognize the Press, then, as the gift 
 of God : the earnest of his gracious promise that 
 in the lasfdays "knowledge shall be increased." 
 Take its actual history.* For four centuries it 
 has been yielding its steady tribute to Truth. No 
 wonder that the same enemy that sowed tares 
 with the good seed of the word, has made mis- 
 chief here also : but the harvest is the Lord's, 
 and so is that vintage which this press turns into 
 the new wine of Pentecost. What is called the 
 invention of printing, is rather its Epiphany ; 
 its manifestation. God made it " beautiful in 
 its time." Men understood the principle long 
 before.^ The ancients used seals and dies. The 
 bakers and plumbers of Pompeii printed their 
 names on loaves of bread, and leaden pipes. 
 The major and the. minor were not wanting : but 
 God would not let the active mind of man com- 
 plete the syllogism., till all things were ready. 
 
 » See B"ote A. •> See Note B. 
 
10 THE CHURCH AND THE PRESS. 
 
 The promise was that when many should run to 
 and fro, then knowledge should be commensu- 
 rately increased. At length, this new era was at 
 hand. After long darkness — the dry land of this 
 great continent was abomt to appear. It was then 
 that God said " Let there be light ;" and when 
 thousands took the wings of the morning and 
 fled to these uttermost parts of the earth, they 
 were able to bring with them, in printed Bibles, 
 the blessed assurance that even here His hand 
 should hold, and His right hand sustain. 
 
 Printing was the gift of Q-od to his Church — 
 the angel that knocked off the manacles from 
 the Gospel, and brought St. Peter again out of 
 prison, to feed Christ's sheep ; to feed His lambs. 
 Yet its power for doing evil was foreseen from the 
 beginning. As Friar Bacon is said to have stran- 
 gled the monster gunpowder, with conscientious 
 alarm, in the moment when the flash of his 
 crucible announced its birth, so John Guttem- 
 berg had great searchings of heart, with respect 
 to his portentous discovery. In the cloisters of 
 Arbogasta, a spirit passed before him, and 
 tempted him in the guise of an angel of light." 
 It said — " John Guttemberg, thou hast made thy 
 name immortal, but ah ! at what a price ! Be- 
 think thee, what thou art doing. The ungodly are 
 many more than the good : thy work will but 
 
 = See Note 0. 
 
THE CHURCH AND THE PRESS. 11 
 
 multiply their blasphemies and lies. Thou hast 
 uncovered the bottomless pit. Henceforth a 
 swarm of seducing spirits shall come forth like 
 the brood of Abaddon, and make the earth a hell. 
 Oh, think of millions of souls corrupted by thine 
 exploit : the venom of fiends distilled into the 
 souls of tender maidens, and boys made old by 
 it, in the experience of sin ! See mothers weep- 
 ing over their demoniac sons, and gray-haired 
 fathers hiding their faces . from the shame of 
 daughters. Yes ! even the young virgin will be 
 seduced to read what she would never have lis- 
 tened to ; and thy press shall be the pander of 
 lust. Destroy it, John ! Forget thy monstrous 
 conception : forbear, by multiplying the resources 
 of the wicked, to make thyself, throughout all 
 ages, the partner of their crimes." From such a 
 dream John Guttemberg awoke, and no marvel 
 that he trembled ! He was on the point of burying 
 his secret -in oblivion ; as the genie in the Arabian 
 tale shrank back into its casket, and was engulfed 
 by the hand that had enlarged it. But — " I reflect- 
 ed," says the sublime discoverer, " that the gifts 
 of God, though often perilous, are never bad. I 
 saw that to endow intelligence with such a fac- 
 ulty was to open fresh fields to wisdom and 
 to goodness, both alike divine. I proceeded 
 with my discovery." 
 
12 THE CHURCH AND THE PRESS. 
 
 Thank God, he did so ! First of all, he printed 
 the first Psalm ; a prophecy of success to " the man 
 who hath not walked in the counsel of the un- 
 godly, nor sat in the seat of the scornful." It 
 promised that " his leaf shall not wither," but that . 
 " as for the ungodly, it is not so with them, but 
 they are like thfe chaff which the wind scattereth 
 away." Such was the charter of the Press, in 
 the day when the Lord God created it. He 
 made it very good. He laid his hand upon it, 
 and ordained it : he bade it be fruitful and mul- 
 tiply, and replenish the earth ; and lo ! its first 
 utterance proclaimed freedom to the fettered 
 Scriptures. Its next voice was the Reformation. 
 
 And shall the Church of God fail to recognise 
 His call to use this noble augmentation of her 
 faculties in proportion as ungodly men abuse it? 
 All the evil of which its inventor drea,med, is 
 a practical fact in this land. Mechanical powers 
 and agencies of which he had no idea have 
 made manifold all the mischief suggested by 
 hjs vision. What then? So much louder is the 
 cry to the Church, to confound them by the same 
 machinery. Remember, that Guttemberg and 
 Columbus were men of the same times ; the 
 Press was provided for America ; it was an in- 
 strument absolutely essential to the rapid civil- 
 ization of this continent. And shall the Church 
 
THE CHURCH AND THE PRESS. 13 
 
 fail to use it ? Let no man suggest our scanty 
 resources, in contrast with those of the ungodly. 
 There is a divine machinery working for and 
 with the children of light, of which the men of 
 this world, who are so " wise in their genera- 
 tion," fail to take account. Ezekiel saw it by 
 the river Chebar. The breath of the living crea- 
 ture was in it. It had — 
 
 " Wheel within wheel revolTiDg :" 
 
 "and as for the wheels, they went, every one, 
 straight forward." 
 
 Such are some of our encouragements to econ- 
 omize the Press, on a new and noble scale. I 
 suggest another, by appealing to all who hear 
 me. What do you not owe to impressions re- 
 ceived from printed books ? Where and what 
 would you have been, but for pious reading? 
 What would tempt you to part with your little 
 hoard of precious volumes ? To say nothing of 
 the origin of religious feeling, in thousands of 
 cases, is it not true that books have been the 
 recruiting-sergeants of our Church and Ministry ? 
 Is it not a fact that among the fathers and 
 brethren here present, in this great council of 
 our Church, there are not a few who are in- 
 debted to the silent testimony of books for their 
 first knowledge of her ways of pleasantness and 
 paths of peace V 
 
 ^ See Note D. 
 
14 THE CHURCH AND THE PRESS. 
 
 The important epochs in our progress as a 
 Churcii, have heen those of increased activity in 
 publishing ; of bringing forth our treasures, new 
 and old. For a long time almost our only allies 
 were the booksellers. Schools and colleges were 
 in the possession of others : but men could not 
 reprint nor sell the standard works of English 
 literature without being our helpers ; for that lit- 
 erature is born of the Church, its own begotten 
 child. On this significant and inspiring consid- 
 eration, permit me for a moment to enlarge. 
 
 It is said of Solomon : " God gave him wisdom 
 and understanding, exceeding much, and large- 
 ness of heart, even as the sand that is by the 
 seashore." No wonder then that the text goes 
 on to tell how religion received froin him a hand- 
 maid in Polite Learning, and that he gave Science 
 to be a servant honourable in all her house. 
 At the same time that the mind of Greece, and 
 of her colonies, was turning as wax to the seal to- 
 ward the genius of Homer, and accepting as a sort 
 of Bible those bewitching rhapsodies which recog- 
 nized " lords many and gods many," and which 
 enthroned them as tutelary principalities over 
 woods and streams, and fountains and great 
 deeps, and lofty mountains — this wise Hebrew, 
 barred out, as it were, the contagion of idolatry 
 by creating for his countrymen, a literature 
 
THE CHURCH AND THE PRESS. 15 
 
 which recognized Jehovah, and crowned Him 
 only, as Sovereign of His own universe. In the 
 Song of the Three Children, and in other por- 
 tions of the Apocrypha, I suspect we have the 
 remnants and translations of what originally 
 proceeded from him. He was the greatest au- 
 thor of his times. "His fame was in all nations 
 round about ; and he spake three thousand prov- 
 erbs ; and his songs were a thousand and five j 
 and he spake of trees, from the cedar that is in 
 Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth 
 out of the wall ; he spake also of beasts, and of 
 fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes." 
 
 Ours is a day of godless science, and our chil- 
 dren are constantly exposed to the influences of 
 a popular authorship, which certainly is not 
 devout. The general half-learning of our coun- 
 trymen is singularly inclined to that spirit which 
 would banish God from his own creation, and 
 which would reverse the law — " let God be true 
 and every man a liar." Hence arises the sug- 
 gestion that we owe it to ourselves to create a 
 national literature, in the spirit of Solomon's 
 enterprise. But, I forbear to dwell on this idea, 
 because it is not a practical one. We cannot 
 vote such a literature into existence. God gives 
 genius to whom he will, and it must be his glo- 
 rious endowment if ever the Church? becomes 
 
16 THE CHURCH AND THE PRESS. 
 
 the mistress of the national intellect, and so 
 insures a healthful literature to our country. 
 At present, a sickly sentimentality, a meagre 
 rationalism, a mean prorincialism, threaten to 
 debase what true religion alone can ennoble. 
 American books are too generally made for the 
 million, and pander to the most degrading pre- 
 judices. They flatter Popery and fawn on Infi- 
 delity at the same moment. Beware of such 
 books — " Encyclopaedias," " Popular Libraries," 
 " Family Periodicals." Banish them from your 
 homes. Encourage such authors as have aimed 
 to give a healthful tone to popular thought. 
 Estimate aright what we owe to those eminent 
 popular authors of our own Communion, whoj 
 while they do honour to their country, m anifestthat 
 elevated enthusiasm for the Church, which the use 
 of the English language ought to inspire.^ Let such 
 examples give us hope for the future ; but, mean- 
 time, let us reflect that the stores of English litera- 
 ture are the patrimony of the Church, and that the 
 wholesome supplies, which at this moment are 
 teeming from the press of our mother Church 
 may be lawfully reproduced and appropriated. 
 What a resource is here ! It is our own fault if 
 the youth of the Nation, and our children in 
 particular, are ,reared at the feet of a godless 
 Science, or compelled to learn history and every- 
 
 » See Note E. 
 
THE CHURCH AND THE PRESS. 17 
 
 thing else that is useful to the mind, under the 
 ferule of a rigid Puritanism, or of a Rationalism 
 that is its next of kin, and which, like it, dis- 
 torts and disqualifies and degrades whatever it 
 takes in hand/ 
 
 Let us not forget that the task of Solomon 
 has been taken into commission by the great 
 worthies of our own Church, in past times. Our 
 children may be readily initiated in the study 
 of Nature, in the reverent spirit of Bacon, of 
 Boyle, and of Newton. There have been many 
 like John Evelyn to " speak of trees." White 
 of Selborne discourses charmingly of "beasts 
 and fowl and creeping things ;" and who knows 
 not how the pious Walton, whose every line is 
 baited with a moral, has " spoken of fishes ?" 
 Then for " songs," how rich and various is the 
 pure poetry of our language from that of Spenser 
 and Herbert, to that of Cowper and Southey 
 and Wordsworth ; glittering names in the firma- 
 ment of genius, and stars, I doubt not, in the 
 Paradise of God ! Happy, indeed, is the house- 
 hold where the piety of youth is matured by a 
 genial fellowship with minds like these ; minds 
 of the first order, themselves the nurslings of 
 the Church's breast.^ Shall we fail, then, to make 
 it felt by our countrymen, that such works as 
 theirs are the fruitage of those tough old roots — 
 
 ' See Note F. e See Note G. 
 
18 THE CHURCH AND THE PRESS. 
 
 the Catechism and the Liturgy ? Is it not 
 policy, wisdom, duty, to teach our countrymen 
 that this old wine is better than the new ? 
 And in view of the fact that everywhere a pesti- 
 lent press is multiplying among us a yellow and 
 cadaverous literature which is fit only for Sodom 
 and Gomorrah ; or reproducing that which 
 comes reeking with fumes of stale debauch from 
 France and Germany; is it not time for us to 
 direct attention, in every way, to the sweet and 
 wholesome sources of mental aliment, which I 
 have indicated as our own ? Oh, the delicious 
 fragrance of our old-fashioned Christian literature; 
 the literature of which no gentleman can be 
 ignorant, without disgrace -^ and which, in its 
 secondary forms is as useful to the common 
 mind, as to that which is refined ! An ennobling 
 history which nobody can read without con- 
 scious elevation of thought and feeling, is part 
 of it.' Its poetry and its romance are pure.J Our 
 children may safely enjoy its fragrance, which 
 is as the scent of fields in June, No serpent is 
 coiled under its flowers ; its symbol is Naphtali's 
 " hind let loose ;" a glad creature of God, as it 
 bounds through glade and forest ; whose every 
 motion inspireth, and in that sense " giveth 
 goodly words." 
 
 My argument suggests the inference that in 
 
 >> See Note H. ' See Note I. J See Note J. 
 
THE CHURCH AND THE PRESS. 19 
 
 the formation of Parochial and Domestic Libra- 
 ries, I would by no means limit the selection to 
 our theological literature, incomparable and pre- 
 cious as it is.'' But, I pass to a brief review of 
 the vast benefits we have already derived, from a 
 policy inaugurated more than a century ago, 
 on the banks of the fair river, which, at this 
 moment, seems to mingle the murmur of its 
 waters, with that of our counsels and brotherly 
 debates. Here, in the Old Dominion, and under 
 the hoary walls of Jamestown, were read those 
 inspiring allegories which Spenser' dedicated to 
 Elizabeth as "Empresse of Virginia." Our colonial 
 clergy brought out books with them, and estab 
 lished lending-libraries. Let Virginia remem^ 
 ber the name of Blair. Let the name of Com. 
 missary Bray be uttered with a fervour of grati' 
 tude, for perhaps the largest share of that wis 
 dom and benevolence which founded the " Soci. 
 ety for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge ;" 
 for the zeal which brought him to one of these 
 Southern provinces, laden with gifts and bounties; 
 and for the generous foresight, which endowed 
 us with books of sound divinity and science. 
 Who can tell how much this ungrateful nation, 
 ever forgetful of moral benefits and benefactors, 
 owes, at least indirectly, to him ? Reflect that frona 
 the means which he and his associates supplied 
 
 '^ See Note K. I Sp e Note L, 
 
20 THE CHURCH AND THE PRESS. 
 
 was derived the education of Washington and 
 his illustrious contemporaries."' 
 
 To Bishop Berkeley's policy in sending a noble 
 library to Yale College, may be traced much of 
 the intelligent piety of New England." But 
 books had been missionaries before him, and by 
 their silent preaching had already turned the 
 President and leading scholars of that Puritan 
 university into Churchmen. So, books may be 
 said to have laid the foundations of the Church 
 in New England, the vaunted inheritance of her 
 hereditary foes. In all ages books have won 
 our greatest trophies. Our cause . languishes 
 only when it is in the keeping of dullness and 
 indifference. It invokes light : it challenges 
 investigation. Our great reformers worked the 
 press, as if it had been the artillery of England. 
 Then came Jewel, and Hooker, and Field, with 
 their broadsides against Papists and Puritans ; 
 and when John Milton brought his erratic ge- 
 nius to the aid of the latter, it was with the 
 damaging confession that the Bishops' books 
 were better and more learned than those of their 
 adversaries, who had not been equal to the con- 
 test." This patronizing office of championship 
 involved even Milton in defeat. In his theology 
 the poet is " shorn of his beams." His argu- 
 ment against prelacy is a fit companion for that 
 which he produced in favour of polygamy. 
 
 » Sep Note M- " See Note N. " See Note 0- 
 
THE CHUECH AND THE PRESS. 21 
 
 For a time, and till the dreary tyranny of 
 Cromwell was overpast, it was almost to 
 books alone that we owed, under God, the 
 unquenched coal of the Church, which glowed 
 on English hearth-stones. The "Whole Duty 
 of Man" preached its homely sermons, by the 
 lips of pious mothers ; and in many a cottage and 
 hall, it was for long years the only pastor ever« 
 seen or heard. Then, too, were wrought those 
 apples of gold in pictures of silver — the " Life of 
 Christ," and the " Golden Grove" of our Angli- 
 can Chrysostom: and then how mightily came 
 forth the sun of the Church's strength, and with 
 what redoubled radiance, in the works of those 
 brilliant scholars and divines that illustrated the 
 otherwise gloomy days, extending from the pri- 
 macy of Juxon to that of Sancroffc ! Nor should 
 we forget that when a frigid latitudinarianism 
 had set in, like a cold noon after a fine spring morn- 
 ing, it was to books and masterly tracts, to the 
 works of such as Butler, and Waterland, and 
 Jones of Nayland, and Bishop Home, that we 
 owe, under Providence, the unchanging fidelity 
 of Anglican theology, to the cardinal truths of 
 revelation ; to the doctrines of the divinity and 
 atonement of Christ, and of our justification by 
 faith in His precious blood .^ I appeal to you, 
 venerable fathers and dear brethren in the minis- 
 
 p See Note V. 
 
22 THE CHURCH AND THE PRESS. 
 
 try, is it not by contact, with such minds that 
 many of you first learned to know the love of 
 Christ, and to choose the blessed work of preach- 
 ing His gospel ? Have they not been to thou- 
 sands as the hem of the Saviour's garment, 
 through which virtue went out of Him to heal 
 them? Why, then, do we forbear to bring all 
 intelligent minds in our country into such contact? 
 Why do we leave the hints which experience 
 has given us unimproved ? Why do we not de- 
 velope our vast resources by the Press, and force 
 them upon the attention of the times ? In spite 
 of themselves, men who aim at a high cultiva- 
 tion must know something of our great divines ; 
 and to this fact we owe, in no small degree, the 
 steady influx of educated mind into the ranks 
 of our ministry.* Why, then, I say, is not every 
 college and fireside in our land, forced by our 
 energy and forethought to feel, and pay tribute 
 to such lawful claims ? We have no right to 
 withhold knowledge. Give inquiring men, at 
 least, the chance to understand and reject our 
 theology. But thousands would never reject it, 
 if only they might know of it. Why should 
 they live and die in ignorance of what to us is 
 dearer than life itself? Oh, that I could ade- 
 quately express my convictions of our duty in 
 this matter ! Was ever a church so rich in re- 
 
 9 See Note Q, 
 
THE CHURCH AND THE PRESS. 23 
 
 sources and so slow to use them : so full of light 
 and so cruelly unwilling to let her light shine ? 
 
 Observe, how the policy of our opponents betrays 
 the point in which they feel themselves weak, 
 and in which they dread our power. How in- 
 stinctively the colleges of New England have 
 shrunk from encouraging the study of English lit- 
 erature, sacred and secular! How unconsciously 
 they have conceded that to make young men 
 drink deep of these undefiled wells, would be to 
 disgust them with extemporaneous devotions, 
 and create a longing for the sublime old Liturgy ! 
 How unfortunate has been their alternative, in 
 the importation of German rationalism into all 
 their schools ! And how rapidly the decline of 
 public morals, of the dignity of personal bearing, 
 and oT thought and speech accordingly,' has 
 warned us to beware ; and invoked us to bring 
 forth our candle from under its bushel ! 
 
 Not less instinctively does the Romanist dread 
 the influence of the literature which I am com- 
 mending. Next to the Scriptures, he recognizes 
 it as the most formidable fortress in which the 
 Anglo-Saxon intellect entrenches itself against 
 him. Well he may: for it arose with Wiclif 
 and Chaucer, and stands an enduring witness 
 that " righteousness exalteth a nation." liappi- 
 ly this identity of English literature with pure 
 
 'See Note B. ■ See Note S. 
 
24 THE CHURCH AND THE PRESS. 
 
 religion can never be destroyed. To seduce the 
 youth of England, the Romanists lately founded 
 an university in the sister isle. That baleful ge- 
 nius who led the apostasy from Oxford to Rome 
 tried to show them that if they would make their 
 pupils a match for the scholars of Oxford and 
 Cambridge, they must imbue them, as scholars, 
 with the same literature ; and he urged them to 
 make the experiment, with all the powers of his 
 persuasive eloquence.* But no — his superiors 
 decided that it was too bold an experiment. Eng- 
 lish literature, they argued, must breed Anglican 
 churchmen. They barred their doors against it. 
 Be it so ; but let us learn from the enemy a great 
 secret of successful war ! Yes, my brother 
 Churchman, use what they concede to you ; rec- 
 ognize your superiority ; know your strength ; 
 know that to train your children faithfully in 
 the language which their mothers speak, is to 
 imbue them with healthful religion ; is to make 
 them hate a lie ; is to give them an habitual hos- 
 tility to superstition. Yes — it is to endow them 
 with a mental manhood, to which they must do 
 degrading violence before they can alienate 
 themselves from her whose maternal bosom has 
 seldom lost a child of its nurture, that was not 
 hopelessly ignoble in taste, or fanatical in tem- 
 perament. 
 
 ' See Note T. 
 
THE CHURCH AND THE PRESS. 25 
 
 Considerations such as these convince me, 
 that the Society whose claims I urge may be 
 made by ample support an instrument of good, 
 almost in any degree you may choose. It may 
 be made a voice in the wilderness to prepare the 
 way of the Lord. It will bring in recruits for 
 the ministry, from all parts of the land. It will 
 make its way where the foot of a Churchman 
 never falls ; it will win the sweet confidence of 
 good men, who have found the bitterest disap- 
 pointment in the ministry of other commun- 
 ions ; it will penetrate into the nurseries of 
 children. And when the missionary's visit to the 
 lonely outpost has come to an end, it will ena- 
 ble him to leave supplies of Sunday reading, till 
 after a long time he shall come again to seek the 
 sheep that else would have been lost. Surely 
 our books are needed everywhere in the land ; 
 from Maine, where its good prelate has been 
 obliged so lately to tell them that there is a 
 devil, to Oregon, where its bold apostle has often- 
 times to remind them that there is a God. 
 
 I know that there is a great circulation in this 
 land, of books that are vaguely Christian, and 
 indefinitely religious: but, remember. Church- 
 men, that, without forgetting to be grateful for 
 what is done by others, your books are the only 
 ones that venture to set forth the entire truth as 
 
 2 
 
26 THE CHURCH AND THE PRESS. 
 
 it is in Jesus : the New Testament in its integ- 
 rity : the whole counsel of God. All this, our 
 Mixed Societies do not profess to do : their organ- 
 ization forhids it : they cannot, on their plan of 
 action, even undertake to expound the six " prin- 
 ciples of the doctrine of Christ," as enumerated 
 by St. Paul."" I exhort you then, not interfering 
 with them, to do your own proper work ; to econo- 
 mize your own resources ; to endow and enrich 
 and energize your own Society. Let it no 
 longe drag in the rear; let it go hand 
 in hand with your great missionary agencies : 
 enlarge its gratuitous issues. Take of it 
 for your own families ; but give others also to 
 drink. Thousands are thirsting for the truth 
 that lies in our well. To drop the figure^ there 
 is a turning to our Church, among the most 
 earnest minds in the land, and a longing to learn 
 of us, how to escape from the miseries and dis- 
 tractions of a divided Christianity. Oh, that 
 we may prove ourselves worthy of being thus 
 " sought out — a city not forsaken." Let us arise 
 to the measure of these responsibilities. Let our 
 presses burst out with new wine, of the old flavour ; 
 let our books go everywhere preaching the word. 
 Establish depositories in every city ; open libra- 
 ries in every parish ; send out hawkers ; wake up 
 fathers of families to the duty of providing 
 
 " See Note U. 
 
THE CHURCH AND THE PRESS. 27 
 
 bread for their children's minds ; and let mothers 
 learn not only that book-shelves are the fairest 
 ornaments of a dwelling, but that " through 
 wisdom is a house builded, and by knowledge 
 shall the chambers be filled with all precious and 
 pleasant riches." 
 
 Finally, to fasten in a sure place the rude intel- 
 ligence of your backwoodsmen, supply the fron- 
 tier missionary with these " goads and nails." 
 Do this, and I will venture to sketch in the out- 
 line the results, which facts already established 
 enable us to anticipate as probable.'^ The lad 
 that, in some western cabin, pores over stories 
 that illustrate the Catechism, is the predestined 
 apostle of Utah — the Antipas (the faithful 
 martyr, possibly) who is to reclaim to decency 
 and the fear of God its unhappy progeny of lust 
 and crime. Or perhaps, the intelligent boy, 
 who, of a cold winter night, in Minnesota, shall 
 explore, by the blazing fire on the hearth, the 
 story of Latimer and Ridley, may be leaning on 
 the little hand that is yet to light new candles 
 of Reformation, and wrest back the fairest do- 
 mains of the Mississippi, from the grasp of Ro- 
 mish superstition and imposture. Or it may 
 be, when we too shall have passed away and 
 left our places to others, that the element of your 
 Society shall be found to have nurtured the 
 
 ' See Note V. 
 
28 THE CHURCH AND THE PKESS. 
 
 man — that special gift of God, for whose appear 
 ance millions of prayers are daily sent up to 
 His throne hy Christians of different names — 
 the man who, in these last days, must he raised 
 up, to turn the hearts of fathers to their chil- 
 dren, and of children to their fathers : to gather 
 all helievers in America into the one fold, under 
 one Shepherd; and to unite the now divided 
 Christians of our beloved country into one Sac- 
 ramental host, able to confront all " the armies 
 of the aliens," and to fill this continent with 
 the voice of one triumphant ascription : " Wor- 
 thy is the Lamh." 
 
NOTES. 
 
 At the request of several of the officers and friends of the Ohuroh 
 Book Society, the author appends a series of notes, designed to give 
 a more detailed and practical shape to the brief suggestions of 
 the sermon. He does this, deeply impressed with the importance 
 of the matters on which he touches, hut with no idea that he ad- 
 vances anything which many have not thought of before. He hopes 
 to be serviceable, however, to men of business, fathers of families, 
 and others who will give the Sermon the honour of a reading, but 
 who may have no time to elaborate for themselves opinions and 
 practical operations in harmony with its counsels. 
 
 Hundreds, if not thousands of Churchmen, visit New- York every 
 year, who make the purchase of books for their families part of 
 their errand, but in the excitement of their business and pleasure, 
 they are not able to give the selection of proper books a moment's 
 thought. Naming a few popular authors, they often leave the rest 
 to an incompetent bookseller, with orders to put up a parcel, at a 
 specified price ; as the result, they receive, if not a mass of refuse 
 merchandise, at least an indiscriminate pile of showy but often ill- 
 assorted books, many of them entirely unfit for a Christian's house- 
 hold shelves. The books they ought to possess they never see ; 
 their children never hear of them; and yet even a little money, ju- 
 diciously laid out in books, goes a great way, and a few well-selected 
 volumes give an air of dignity and taste to the humblest home, while 
 even the femiliar sight of their titles does much to enlarge and libe- 
 ralize the minds of the young. 
 
 United action among Churchmen, in behalf of their own literary 
 wants, would soon compel authors and publishers to desist from doing 
 continual outrage to their principles. We need a recognized lit- 
 
30 ■NOTES. 
 
 erary policy. An outline of the kind of reading we require is fur- 
 nislied in these notes, and it seems desirable that, when this outline 
 is properly filled up, the Society should issue a list of such hooks 
 as it is wUliug to procure for parties huying its own publications, 
 with a view to promote healthful tastes, and such habits of thought 
 as coincide with the principles of Churchmen. The Church finds 
 no greater barrier to her progress than the vulgar tastes, preju- 
 dices, and ways of viewing things in general, which are produced 
 by the provincial and low-lived literature that is current in the 
 laud. 
 
 A. 
 
 The Actual History of the Press. Dean Milman, in his " Latin 
 Christianity," says of the era of printing : " Books gradually be- 
 came, as iat as the instruction of the human race, a co-ordinate 
 priesthood." 
 
 B. 
 
 The Principle of Printing always known. The Chinese, of course, 
 claim this invention, and date it before the Christian era. Cicero 
 often uses language and imagery which one would imagine suffi- 
 cient to suggest the art of printing to any one. Thus : " Quid si in 
 ejusdemmodi cera centum sigilla hoc annulo impressero 1" IV. 
 Acad., 85. Again : " An imprimi, quasi coram, animum putamus, 
 et memoriam esse signatarum rerum in mente vestigia ? Quos pos- 
 simt verborum, quse rerum ipsarum, esse vestigia ? Quae porro tam 
 immensa magnitude, quae ilia tam multa possit effingere ?" Tusc. 
 
 I., 25. 
 
 C. 
 
 Guttemherg's Vision. I have taken the liberty to tell this story 
 in my own language, but those who would see it more dramatically 
 drawn out, are referred to the spirited narrative of M. de Lamar- 
 tine. Vie des Grands Honimes, vol. ii., p. 122. 
 
 D. 
 
 Influence of Books. Here, if the preacher speaks feelingly, he 
 speaks from precious experience. To Mrs. Sherwood's Stories on 
 the Church Catechism (afterwards edited by Bishop Kemp), he 
 owes the blessed privilege of having been instructed in the Cate- 
 chism of the Church, while yet a child in the nursery, and in the 
 
NOTES. 31 
 
 tones of a mother's voice. Though familiar with the Services of 
 the Church, from tender years, oiroumstances obliged him to depend 
 upon hooks, in a large measure, for education in her principles. 
 The History of England, and the Lives of her martyrs and great 
 divines, and of Henry Martyn, and Reginald Heher, not forgetting 
 the Memoirs and Correspondence of William Cowper, Hannah 
 More, and Leigh Richmond, served to enamour him with their several 
 types of Anglican character and piety, long before he could imder- 
 stand the importance of doctrinal orthodoxy. To The Records of a 
 Good Man's Life, The Rectory of Valehead, Scenes in our Parish, 
 and several other works of similar spirit, he owed, in a great de- 
 gree, a prevailing reverence and love for our holy religion, during 
 a perilous period of boyhood. In early college-life he was induced, 
 by the advice of a Presbyterian scholar, to study the History of 
 Canonical Scripture, in the learned work of (the Dissenter) Jere- 
 miah Jones — a work which has been thought worthy of publica- 
 tion by the Oxford University Press. To this work he owes 
 his first insight of the Primitive Church, and of the clear truth that 
 the Orders of the Church are derived from the same sources which 
 supply us with the sacred Scriptures. This truth, as. he thus grasp- 
 ed it, he has endeavoured to illustrate in the little brochure entitled 
 " Kxed Principles." 
 
 E. 
 Popular Authors among American Churchmen. It need hardly 
 be said that the works of "Washington Irving, J. Fenimore Cooper, 
 and others, are here referred to. The writings of Mr. Irving are 
 pre-eminently entitled to such commendation. In a striking man- 
 ner they show what English genius naturally becomes, under the 
 influence of the Church in a new country, and imder new institu- 
 tions ; hence they are legitimate and healthful grafts upon the old 
 English stock. They keep up the literary succession between Amer- 
 ica and the old English writers, which, but for Mr. Irving, would 
 hardly be apparent. Hence, a taste for Irving's works leads a young 
 mind up to the sources of the language, and fosters an intellectual 
 habit, which nothing less than the Church and her Liturgy can 
 satisfy. He is the father of Polite Letters in America. Mr. Cooper, 
 though in a less degree, perhaps (yet at times even more conspicu- 
 ously), has woven into his works a large amount of Anglican thought 
 
32 NOTES. 
 
 and expression. As time goes on, the merits of " The Pioneers," 
 and its kindred tales, will be more and more appreciated. The 
 " Kural Hours" of Miss Cooper is a charming work ; and " The 
 American Lady," by Mrs. Grant, of Laggan, should be read with 
 Mr. Cooper's stories, by all who would gain a true idea of some of 
 the earlier phases of life in this western world. 
 . P. S. — This note was written almost at the very hour when the 
 amiable and accomplished Mr. Irving was expiring at Irvington — 
 an event for which nobody was prepared. In the general attention 
 which will now be directed to his writings, Churchmen have an op- 
 portunity to enforce the views here presented, arid which the writer 
 has more fpUy illustrated in the "Church Eeview," vol. iii., p. 344. 
 It may be worth stating that Mr. Irving was much gratified with 
 the view of his influence on Church development there presented. 
 
 F. 
 
 Puritanized Histories. Of this ignoble sort is even tne work 
 (which aspires to be a national one) of Mr. Bancroft. Happily, it 
 cannot be read by youth with any such enthusiasm as will always 
 be inspired by Irving's Washington. A History of America, di- 
 vested of sectional prej udices, and illustrating the rise of our civili- 
 zation, literature, and arts, remains to be written. The colonial 
 period has never been carefully treated ; and the squalid politics of 
 the nation, subsequent to the formation of our constitution, may well 
 be thrown into the shade by some historian who will do justice to 
 the amazing development of society under the Presidents. 
 
 Of the Plymouth colony a fair and interesting memoir has been 
 vrritten by one of our own clergy, the Rev. A. Steele, of "Washing- 
 ton, entitled " The Chief of the Pilgrims." To Professor Eliot, of 
 Trinity College, we are also indebted for a Manual of American 
 History which deserves notice. 
 
 G. 
 
 Suggestion. The popular work. Chambers' Encyclopmdia of 
 English Literature, is worthy of a place in a family library. On the 
 whole, it is an excellent introduction to the noble study here recom- 
 mended, and can hardly fail of inspiring the youthful mind, that is 
 otherwise well trained, with a love of letters. The author takes 
 pleasure in recording a general impression in favour of the similar 
 ■^ork of the Messrs. Duyckinck, on American literature. 
 
NOTES. 33 
 
 H. 
 
 Safe Guides. I teg to direct attention to the writings of the late 
 Professor Reed, of the University of Pennsylvania, as of great value 
 in education, and worthy of the sound Churchman and devout Chris- 
 tian who has left them to us. I refer especially to his Lectures on 
 English Literature, and his Lectures on English History ; the latter 
 founded on Shakspeare. I would also refer the reader to Mr. Hud- 
 son's Lectures on Shakspeare, as full of valuable comment. Nor can 
 I forbear to mention the names of William Oroswell, Bishop Doane, 
 James Hillhouse, Edward Griffin, and James Wallis Eastburn, 
 among those of our benefactors, in forming the literary tastes of 
 Churchmen. Let me not omit Dr. Jarvis, and Bishop "Wainwright. 
 
 Historic Studies. As an introduction to English Church History, I 
 cannot too warmly commend Mr. Southey's Booh of the Church ; 
 but it must be regarded merely as an introduction. He wrote before 
 much attention had been given to many of the more important 
 points of our history, as specialties, and hence allowance must be 
 made for inaccuracies of statement and of expression, of which the 
 correction will be found in such works as Massingberd's History 
 of the English Reformation, Churton's Early English Church, and 
 Le Bas' Lives of Wiclif, Cranmer, and Laud. Besides these, Pal- 
 grave's Truths and Fictions of the Middle Ages, and the same au- 
 thor's Anglo-Saxons, should be read. 
 
 In pursuing this all-important study — all-important, because it is 
 by such studies that character is elevated, and emancipated from 
 what is provincial, contracted, and false — The Church History of 
 Britain, by Fuller, may next be taken up. It will never be laid 
 down for long, by anybody who loves a genuine repast of wit, a flow 
 of good tempered but epigrammatic criticism, a fund of entertaining 
 anecdote, and a genial vein of piety withal, though not unflavored 
 with a tart prickliness at times, ovring to the author's sympathy 
 with the better sort of Puritans. After this one may take up, suc- 
 cessively, Lord Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, and Burnet's 
 History of His Own Times, though it would be better to begin with 
 his History of the Reformation. In all such writers allowance 
 must be made for their prejudices ; in Burnet, for something like 
 misrepresentation, besides frequent inaccuracy. The Biography of 
 Charles the First, by Mr. D'Israeli, is a very valuable work in its 
 
 2* 
 
34 NOTES. 
 
 ■way, but the times of that sovereign must be studied from original 
 sources, by every American who would understand the period to 
 which the history of his own country is most deeply and vitally re- 
 lated-. It is a study in which every jurist and divine, more espe- 
 cially, should be thoroughly well read. 
 
 There are side-dishes to this great feast which must not be for- 
 gotten. Taking it for granted that a youth will have made himself 
 familiar with the historical plays of Shakspeiire, and Chaucer's Pro- 
 logue to the Canterbury Tales, I would advise him- to resort to the 
 Paston Letters, and to read the Colloquies of Erasmus (translated 
 by I/Estrange), in order to get hold of the times preceding the 
 Reformation, in their manners and customs. Then read WoUon's 
 Reliquice, HowelPs Familiar Letters, and Walton's Lives, and the 
 Complete Angler. Sir Thomas Herbert's Two Last Years of Charles 
 the First, though an authentic personal memoir, has all the charm 
 of romance. The Diary and Letters of John Evelyn, and (as a con- 
 trast partly) the Diary of Pepys, are also of great interest ; they 
 supply important facts, and Evelyn teaches us the maimers of a 
 true, old-fashioned, Christian gentleman, all the more forcibly, 
 when set off by the garrulous coxcomb whose life runs so nearly 
 parallel. Puller's " "Worthies," and Burnet's Lives (edited by Jebb) 
 should not be forgotten; nor can I forbear to throw in Sir Thomas 
 Brovm's Religio Medici, and Selden's Table-talk ; the latter because 
 it teaches us to understand and do justice to those of the Puritans 
 who differed least from the Church. After this may be read, as 
 historical works, the Spectator, and then Boswell's Johnson. Hor- 
 ace Walpole's gossip gives a melancholy, but to some extent, a 
 truthful picture of the times, of which Dr. Johnson enables us to 
 see the redeeming features. With those times our own colonial 
 history is closely connected. Dr. Hook's Ecclesiastical Biography 
 ought to be newly edited and re-published, with additions, in 
 America : and this work, with the estimable Dr. Sprague's Annals 
 of the American Pulpit, (vol. IT.,) will materially assist the reader 
 of the works thus mentioned. 
 
 J. 
 English Romance. So constant is the appearance of new novels, 
 and so confirmed appears to be the appetite for them, that it seems 
 useless to remonstrate ; but it may be feared that no good account 
 
NOTES. 35 
 
 can be given to God for mucli time employed in reading them. Yet 
 there are novels in our language which ought to be read, as an ac- 
 companiment to other books. Nearly the whole of them may be 
 named within the compass of this note ; and wisely distributed as 
 helps to other reading, they may be of real service. 
 
 Such a story as Robinson Crusoe cannot be too highly estimated, 
 as tending to open the mind and enlarge the ideas of a growing 
 boy ; and when the study of history is fairly inaugurated, such sto- 
 ries as Ivanhoe, and Quentin Durward, will also have a beneficial 
 influence. When a youth is disposed to read Kenilworih, let him 
 reflect that it portrays the lighter features of the age succeeding 
 the Reformation ; and the Fortunes of Nigel may be safely read by 
 one who sees in it the manners of that epoch to which we owe our 
 common English Bible. Woodstock must be dignified by associ- 
 ation vrith the trials and troubles of the Church of England, under 
 the Commonwealth. The Vicar of Wakefield may be read in ma- 
 turer youth, as a picture of the times which succeeded the acces- 
 sion of the House of Hanover ; and, as it is really important that 
 society in England, in our own times, should be comprehended, it 
 may be well, with books of travel, to read such a work as Ten 
 Thousand a Year, by Mr. Warren. As for the fashionable low-life 
 novels, of the sentimental and cynical sort, it is a pity that they 
 should find any favour with Christians ; and the reading of popular 
 novels of the sensual French school, should be regarded as a posi- 
 tive immorality. 
 
 There are two novels, which need only to be furnished with 
 proper notes and comments, to be of great value to the young 
 Christian who would learn something of the state of society before 
 and after the nominal conversion of the Roman Empire. Each is 
 disfigured by great blemishes, yet they have great merits. I refer 
 to Bulwer's Last Days of Pompeii, and Kingsley's Hypatia. The 
 former is feeble in its attempted portraiture of the early Christian 
 martyrs. The latter does little justice to the nobler features of a 
 critical period in the history of the Church ; yet it shows forcibly 
 the evil of those terrible conflicts of popular feeling which neces- 
 sarily followed the breaking up of old systems and superstitions, 
 while the masses were yet undisciplined by the faith which they 
 had only in form embraced. 
 
36 K0TE8. 
 
 K. 
 
 Theological Literature. To this study we possess an introduc- 
 tion, in an admirable popular form, in the two volumes entitled 
 The Literature of the Church of England, by the Rev. R. Catter- 
 mole, B. D. Though published in England, the work is in the mar- 
 ket, at a very low price, and it ought to be generally circulated. 
 Wilberforce's Five Empires, and also The Manual of Church 
 History, by Palmer (edited by Bishop Whittingham), should be in 
 every library; as also Wordsworth's Theophilus Anglicanus, 
 edited by H. D. Evans, Esq. The work of Dr. Evans on Anglican 
 Ordinations, is not only a refutation of the pretences and imputa- 
 tions of Romish writers, but it also contains much valuable inform- 
 ation, not elsewhere to be found, on many subordinate points. To 
 this, the same author's Essay on the American Episcopate is an im- 
 portant supplement. 
 
 L. 
 
 The Poetry of Spenser. At the well-head of " English undefiled," 
 we have a noble Church-poet, who celebrates, in the Red-Cross 
 Knight, the achievements of Faith. In the artful but foul Duessa 
 he gives a just portrait of Romanism, and in the pure and heavenly- 
 minded Una, he displays the primitive charms of the Anglican 
 Church. 
 
 The Minor Poems of Milton are almost all conceived in the spirit 
 of his Church-education ; and nowhere is Puritanism betrayed in 
 those parts of Paradise Lost which are attractive, and meritorious 
 as poetry. He justly eulogized Jeremy Taylor as the Father of 
 Religious Toleration, and stigmatizedthe Puritans as his persecutors 
 and as the enemies of religious liberty, in his poem on the New 
 Forcers of Conscience, etc. In general, the poetry of our language 
 may be regarded as wholly ours. 
 
 But the young will generally form their taste, in poetry, by inti- 
 macy with contemporary authors. Happily the reigning poets, 
 Tennyson and Longfellow, are such as they may safely read. To 
 the latter we owe a debt for the elevation he has given to the tastes 
 of our countrymen, and for the general harmony of his thought and 
 expression with what is Church-like. In so sacred a task as I am 
 now performing, however, candor compels me to remind parents 
 and instructors that the morality and religion of even Mr. Long- 
 
NOTES. 37 
 
 fellows oharming poetry are not free from somewhat of indefinite- 
 ness and indifferentism, though in a very refined and subtle form. 
 What is picturesque, rather than what is real and truthful, is, no 
 doubt unconsciously, worked into many of his poems, on a principle 
 of eclecticism which is dangerous to the youthful mind. Such a 
 mosaic is not without a pleasing general effect, and has a sort of 
 beauty, tUl one discovers that the undique collata membra belong 
 in parts to Luther, Calvin, and the Pope, and make up the Hora- 
 tian monster — 
 
 - ut turpiter atrum 
 
 Besinat in piscem mulier formosa superne." 
 
 In some of our American writers, what Mr. Longfellow so refines 
 and spiritualizes, usually goes on the ground, and eats dirt without 
 disguise. " Jehovah, Jove, or Lord," is the only creed of many popu- 
 lar authors, and a debased morality is the inevitable consequence. 
 Of this we have an extreme instance in the unhappy Poe, who seems 
 never to have conceived of any such idea as that of the truth. Shel- 
 ley and Byron, whom he imitates in a coarse way, pay tribute to 
 the Church and to the literature of our language, so far as they 
 show that they are quite conscious of their rebellion against a pure 
 morality and a definite doctrinal Christianity ; but of Poe it must be 
 said that he seems wholly ignorant that sin is not virtue, and that 
 blasphemy is not adoration. This is the level to which the nume- 
 rous godless schools and colleges of America are fast degrading us. 
 Oh ! that authors of the nobler sort would — 
 
 " Rise to truth, and moralize their song," 
 
 and so contribute something to the arrest of that national corrup- 
 tion to which all things gravitate rapidly. Or, are we doomed to 
 see a revolt of the minds and consciences of our countrymen from 
 all recognized standards of truth and right ? 
 
 The poetry of Wordsworth and Southey cannot be too freely used 
 in education. The Ecclesiastical Sketches of the former should be 
 read with Southey's Booh of the Church. Bishop Mant's Sonnets 
 are not unworthy of particular mention. 
 
 M. 
 
 Benefactors. The names of these three Christian heroes — Bray, 
 Blair, and Berkeley — would be as familiarly known as those of 
 
38 NOTES. 
 
 Lafayette, Kosciusko, and Pulaski, if our countrymen were wont to 
 estimate moral benefits as justly as they do the services of our mili- 
 tary allies. For the most accessible information concerning their 
 disinterested and self-sacrificing lives, consult Sprague's " Annals." 
 
 N. 
 Berkeley. Among Mr. Tuckerman's mteresting ■" Biographical 
 Essays" will be found one on Bishop Berkeley, well worthy of 
 teing read. Everybody knows his noble verses "On planting 
 Letters in America." May his generous predictions be realized ! 
 
 b. 
 
 Milton. At the early age of three-and-thirty, Milton undertook 
 to match himself vrith the giants of intellect and learning who 
 were then ranged on the Church's side, " being willing," he says, 
 " to help the Puritans, who were inferior to the prelates in learning." 
 But in this attempt he seems to have felt his own failure, for he 
 acknowledges himself " not disposed to this manner of writing," and 
 adds, " wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial 
 power of nature to another task," I have the use, as I may account 
 it, hut of my left hand." In other words, in his Puritanism he did 
 violence to his genius, and made a left-hand inarriage, the fruit of 
 which has been his lasting reproach. 
 
 P. 
 
 Suggestion. We need new editions of The Scholar Armed, 
 Law's Letters to the Bishop of Bangor, Leslie's Short Method, 
 Waterland's Regeneration and Justification, Scott's Christian Life, 
 and other old-fashioned Church-books, which contributed greatly 
 to the forming of our earlier American Churchmen. 
 
 Q. 
 
 Anecdote. An eminent Presbyterian divine once remarked, in 
 the author's hearing, that " nothing but his conscientious convictions 
 could keep him out of a Church which belongs to the hisjory of the 
 race, and which is identified with the Literature of our mother 
 tongue." He felt it to be a misfortune that he could not conform : 
 and in this confession, if he paid a just tribute to the Church, he did 
 honour to himself, not only as making sacrifices to his honest views 
 
NOTES. 39 
 
 of duty, tut as having the elevated taste and mental power to appre- 
 ciate the vast advantages/ which Churchmen possess in this enno- 
 bling inheritance. 
 
 R. 
 
 Resources. The publications of the Christian Knowledge Society 
 many of which are very desirable, may now be ordered through 
 our society. A moment's comparison of its catalogues vrith those 
 of any of our Mixed Societies, will enable any one to see for himself 
 the advantage possessed by it, as being entirely under the control 
 of the Church, and so enabled to reproduce standard works without 
 mutUatiou. The Bible Commentary of ' D'Oyly and Manfc, in three 
 imperial octavos, beautifully printed on linen paper, and illustrated 
 with maps (it contains also the Apocrypha), may be had, at a very 
 low price, from the press of the C. K. S., and it ought to be found 
 in every family library. It would be a good thing if Bishop Ho- 
 bart's valuable additions to this Commentary might be incorporated 
 vrith the English edition. 
 
 S. 
 
 Decline of Morals. The tendency of our popular literature has 
 been to Germanize education in our country, rather than to make it 
 emulate the system of Eton and Oxford, or the Rugby system, so 
 happily illustrated by the author of Tom Brown's School-days. 
 Had Irving's influence been unchecked by that of others, we should 
 have found our yoimg men in colleges taking as naturally to caps 
 and gowns, and cricket and chess, as they now do to the meerschaum 
 and blouses ; and as willing to imitate the May-day hymn on Mag- 
 dalen Tower as they now are to keep up the Gaudeamus igitur, 
 with all the accompaniments of a Heidelberg debauch. The conse- 
 quences of our low college-morals may be seen in Congress, and 
 everywhere else, among those who rank as educated men. Where 
 now do we see the manners of Hamilton and Jay, and of the elder 
 statesmen of Virginia 1 We have every reason to fear that this 
 Germanizing mania will not long forbear to introduce the duelling 
 and other customs of the Rhine-land, by which the bursch is distin- 
 guished from the fuchs. The only resource of parents is to 'be 
 found in our rising Church-colleges. 
 
40 KOTES. 
 
 T. 
 
 English Literature our Own. I quote the author to whom 1 have 
 referred, as follows : 
 
 " Whether we will or no, the phraseology and diction of Shak- 
 speare, of the Protestant formularies' — ^he means the Bible and 
 Prayer-book — " of MUton, of Pope, of Johnson's Table-talk, and of 
 Walter Scott, have become a portion of the vernacular tongue; the 
 household words of which, perhaps, we little guess the origin, and 
 
 the very idioms of our familiar conversation So tyrannous 
 
 is the literature of a nation; it is too much for us. We cannot de- 
 stroy or reverse it English literature will ever have been 
 
 Protestant;'' by which he means Anglican. "Swift and Addison, 
 the most native and natural of our writers, Hooker and Milton, the 
 most elaborate, never can become our co-religionists.''' — ^Newman's 
 " University Subjects," p. 91. 
 
 Let these remarks of one who has sold his birthright, be con- 
 sidered in connection with the principles of this sermon, and let ua 
 do all in our power to make the literature of America " too much 
 for them ;" — I mean Jesuits and Liguorians. It is worth adding, 
 that Mr. Newman's vast superiority to all those who surround him, 
 and who were trained as Romanists, demonstrates the greatness of 
 these blessings of his former lot, for which he makes such ungrate- 
 ful returns to man and to his God. 
 
 U. 
 
 The Six Principles. This has been shown more fully by Bishop 
 Potter, in his remarks on the S. S. Union, published with the essay 
 on "Mixed Societies," by the author of this sermon 
 
 V. 
 
 The Probable Future. If the reading of a youth, in Yale Col- 
 lege, in the year 1720, when the Church had hardly any real exist- 
 ence in the land, has resulted in the founding of such a Church as 
 now exists in the diocese of Connecticut (and that in spite of the 
 strong hold which the Puritans then had upon the whole of New- 
 England), what may not be the result, by the blessing of God, on 
 the labours of this Society, in our West and elsewhere, under an effi- 
 cient episcopate, and with the means we now possess to enlarge 
 our work ? The reader is referred to the Life of Dr. Johnson, in 
 Sprague's " Annals." 
 
NOTES. 41 
 
 This allusion to New-Haven reminds the author that a closing 
 word is due to our periodical literature, and to the claims of the 
 Church Review, published in that city. Considering the great oh- 
 stacles encountered by Dr. Richardson, its editor, in the establish- 
 ment and support of such a work, he deserves very high praise for 
 the length of time during which he has kept it up, and for the 
 amount of ability with which it is sustained. Every family should 
 be supplied, in addition to a well-selected Church newspaper, with 
 such a guide to intelligent opinion upon contemporary subjects. In 
 conclusion, the author would express his hope that the admirable 
 papers of H. D. Evans, Esq., for so many years contributed to the 
 True Catholic, and so commendable for profound thought, as well 
 as for a singular perspicuity and propriety of style, may soon be 
 collected, and made a permanent portion of the growing wealth Of 
 our American Church. 
 
 W. 
 
 iSuGGESTioNS FOR A LIBRARY. — ^With the kind assistance of 
 several friends, I have thrown together a list of the works which 
 are likely to be found most useful in parochial and domestic libra- 
 ries. In country parishes much good might be done by the union 
 of families, each family agreeing to purchase a select portion from 
 this list, (so that nearly all might be found in the town or village,) 
 and to lend mutually, on terms and for times pre-arranged. Those 
 works marked (a) with an Alpha, are such as have been approved 
 by the Committee of General Literature. 
 
 A moment's glance at this list will suggest to the critic many 
 objections. It enumerates some works that are rather professional 
 than popular : some that are liable to censure on this ground or 
 that ; and it omits many that are useful and important to a Parish 
 Library, if not to a domestic one. Further, it is not carefully ar- 
 ranged, much less digested into a plan so as to exhibit comparative 
 merit. All this is true — and it is equally true, notwithstanding, 
 that it is a list on which all the time and thought possible (amid 
 other engagements, and while these sheefa were passing the press) 
 have been expended. There are reasons for omissions and 
 for insertions, which have suggested themselves, but which it 
 would be tedious to express. Suffice it, that a judicious pastor, by 
 
42 
 
 NOTES. 
 
 the use of his lead-pencil, may, with this help; direct the attention 
 of a parishioner in a few minutes, to many books suitable for his 
 reading, which might otherwise be overlooked. Popular books 
 are at everybody's hand, and we need not put them into such a 
 record. Of this class, such as are here specified are those about 
 which there can be no doubt that they supply a popular necessity 
 not otherwise met. It is to be hoped that an approved list, well 
 arranged, and as full as possible, may soon be issued by the Church 
 Book Society. 
 
 I. Biblical. 
 
 a Boyly and Mant's Commentary. 
 a Plain Commentary on the Q-ospela. 
 o " " " Psalms. 
 
 Hall's Notes on the Gospels. 
 
 DngUsh Harmony in Paragraphs and 
 Parallelisms. (Parker, Oxford.) 
 
 Hawkins' Psalter. 
 
 Westcott's History of the Canon. 
 
 Goulbourne's Lectnres on Ihspiraiion. 
 
 Paley's Horje Paulinas. 
 a Conyheare and Howson's St. Paul. 
 
 Anderson's Annals of the English Bible. 
 
 Lee's Inspiration of Scripture. 
 
 Williams' Study of the Gospels. 
 
 Westcott's Principles of the Harmony. 
 
 Jones' Figurative Language of Scrip- 
 ture. 
 
 Bp. Hall's Explication of Hard Texts. 
 
 Sumner's Practical Beflections. 
 a Trench on Miracles. 
 a " " Parables. 
 
 Home's Introduction. 
 
 Nichol's Help to Study of the Bible. 
 
 2. Devotional. 
 
 a Whole Duty of Man. 
 
 Soougal's Life of God in the Soul. 
 a Wilson's Sacra Privata. (Denton's new 
 Edition.) 
 
 Hobart's (Bp.) Christian Manual. 
 Andrewes' Preces Privatae, or Deyo- 
 
 tions. 
 Hobart's (J. H.) Instructions for Lent. 
 Kip's Lenten Past. 
 Sutton's Disce Yivere and Disce Mori. 
 a Taylor's Holy Living and Dying, and 
 Golden Grove. 
 Spincke's Devotions. 
 Law's Serious Call. 
 Sherlock's Practical Christian, 
 Patrick's Parable of the Pilgrim. 
 " Repentance and Fasting. 
 " on Prayer. 
 " Advice to a Friend. 
 a Mant's Happiness of the Blessed. 
 
 3. Theological. 
 
 Mcllvaine's Evidences. 
 Wordsworth's Christian Institutes. 
 Kaye's TertuUian. 
 " Justin Martyr. 
 " Clement of Alexandria. 
 Butler's Analogy. 
 
 " Ethical Sermons. (Passmore*a 
 Edition.) 
 Sewell's Christian Morals. 
 Shut tl ©worth's Consistency of Revela- 
 tion, (Harper's edition.) 
 Leighton's Works 
 
NOTES. 
 
 43 
 
 Taylor's Works. (Several cheap ^edi- 
 
 tlOQS.) 
 
 Barrow's "Works. 
 Home's Works. 
 Tyrrell on the Ritaal. 
 Mant'a Holy-Days. 
 Nelson's Festivals and Fasts. 
 Staunton's Church Dictionary. 
 Hook's " « 
 
 Dorr's Churchman's Uanual. 
 a Browne on the Articles. 
 a Pearson on the Creed. 
 a Brownell on the Common Prayer. 
 a Wheatley « « « 
 
 Humphrey " " " 
 
 a Hallam on the Morning Prayer. 
 Procter's History ef the Common 
 Prayer. 
 a Blunt's Undesigned Coincidences. 
 a Blunt's Parish Priest. 
 Tyler's Primitive Worship. 
 Hind's Progress of Christianity. 
 Burton's Divinity of Christ. 
 
 '* " the Holy Ghost. 
 
 a Faber's Difficulties of Infidelity. 
 
 " ** Bomanism. 
 
 a Moberly's Great Forty Days. 
 a Kip's Double -Witness. 
 Waterland on the Athaoasian Creed. 
 
 (C. K. S. Edition.) 
 Bp. Hopkins' (Vermont) Letters to 
 
 Kenrick, and other Works. 
 Butler's (W. A.) Letters on Eomanism. 
 Scudamore'a England and Rome. 
 Wordsworth on the Apocalypse. 
 Lay's (Bp.) Tracts for Missionary Use. 
 a Morgan on Infidelity. 
 Craik's Search of Truth. 
 Wilson's Church Identified^ 
 Leslie's Short Method with Deists, 
 
 Faber's Primitive Doctrine of Election. 
 
 Macdonnel on the Atonement. 
 
 Jerram on Infant Baptism. 
 
 Wall's History of Infant Baptism. 
 
 Hussey's Rise of the Papal Power. 
 
 Palmer's Letters to Wiseman. 
 
 Theophilus Americanus. (Evans'.) 
 
 Laborde on the Immaculate Concep- 
 tion. (Translation.) 
 
 Jarvis' Church of the Redeemed, 
 
 Gifford's Unison of the Liturgy. 
 
 West on the Resurrection. 
 
 Hobart's State of the Departed. 
 
 Adams' Christian Science. 
 " Mercy to Babes. 
 
 Bp. Bull's Vindication of the Church 
 of England. (Bait. Edition.) 
 
 Vincent of Lerins. ( " ) 
 
 Wilson's English Reformation. 
 ** Church Principles. 
 
 Lawrence's Bampton Lectures. 
 
 Bethell on Regeneration. 
 
 Palmer on Romanism. 
 
 Rome's Moral Theology. (Meyrich. 
 Bait. Edition.) 
 
 Evans' Anglican Ordiifations. (Bait. 
 Edition.) 
 
 Cosin's History of Transubstantiation. 
 
 Beaven's Intercourse between the 
 Church of England and the Churches 
 of the East. 
 Southgate's Syrian Churches. 
 Barrow on the Pope's Supremacy. 
 Wake's Apostolic Fathers. 
 Kaye's (Bp.) Government and Disci 
 pline of the Church. 
 
 Miss Sewell's Readings for Every Day 
 in Lent. 
 
 Miss Sewell's Readings for a Moat^i be- 
 fore Confirmation, 
 
44 
 
 NOTES. 
 
 Daubeny's Guide to the Church,. 
 Jones on the Trinity. 
 Waterland on the Trinity. 
 
 4. Sermons. 
 
 a "VT. Archer Butler's Sermons. 
 Melville's " 
 
 Le Bas' " 
 
 Bp. Armstrong's " 
 
 Monroe's " 
 
 Ninety Short Sermons. 
 Sermons for the Seasons. (Parker's Ed.) 
 Barrow's Sermons. 
 Bp. Sanderson's Sermons. 
 Wainwright's " 
 
 Home's " 
 
 Porteus' " 
 
 Bp. Dehon's '* 
 
 Horsley's " 
 
 Chapman's Sermons on the Church. 
 Eeher's Sermons. 
 Dr. Lewis' Sermons. 
 
 5. History. 
 
 Annals of England, 3 vols. Parker, Ox- 
 ford. 
 a Churton's Early English Church. 
 a Soames's Anglo-Saxons. 
 a Palgrave's Anglo-Saxons. 
 Dr. Coit's Lectures on Early English 
 Church. 
 a Massingberd's B,eformation. 
 a Palmer's History of the Church. 
 Kussell'a History of the Church of 
 
 Scotland. 
 Turner's Sacred History of the World. 
 Will'erforce's I'ive Empires. 
 Cave's Primitive Christianity. 
 a Anderson's Church of England in the 
 Colonies. 
 
 Badger's Nestoriaus and their Bitual. 
 Bates' Christian Antiquities. 
 Bingham's Christian Antiquities, 2 vols. 
 
 (cheap Bungay Ed.) 
 Eusebius' Eccl. History. (Translation.) 
 « Life of Constantine. (Trans- 
 lation. Bohn's Ed.) 
 Miller's Philosophy of History. 
 Tytler's History of Scotland. 
 Smedley's Sketches fromYenetian His- 
 tory. 
 Smedley'sHist. of the Church of France. 
 Neale's Eastern Church. 
 Mouravieffs Kussian Church. 
 Aiyou's (Mason's Translation) Swedish 
 
 Church. 
 Kiddle's Manual of Christian Antictui- 
 
 ties. 
 Blunt's Sketch of the Reformation. 
 a Southey's Book of the Church. 
 a Fuller's Church History. 
 a Clarendon's History of the Rebellion. 
 a Burnet's Own Times. 
 a D'Israeli's Charles L 
 a Evelyn's Diary and Letters. 
 a Oarwithen's History of the Church of 
 England. 
 Coit's Puritanism. 
 Bp. White's Memoirs of American 
 
 Church. 
 Spencer's (J. A.) Reformation. 
 a Robertson's Pirst Five Centuries. 
 a Hardwicke's Reformation. 
 a " Middle Ages. 
 
 Blunt's (J. J.) Five Lectures on the 
 
 Church in the First Two Centuries. 
 Blunt's Study of the Fathers. 
 Poole's Life and Times of St. Cyprian. 
 Russell's Connection of Sacred and 
 Profane Literature. 
 
NOTES. 
 
 45 
 
 6. Biography. 
 
 Cave's Lives of the Apostles. 
 ** " " Patters. 
 
 R. W. Evans' Biography of the Early- 
 Church. 
 
 Hook's Ecclesiastical Biography 
 
 Hose's Biographical Dictionary. 
 
 Chandler's Life of Wykeham. 
 a Le Bas' " " Wiclif. 
 
 a ^'' " " Cranmer. 
 
 « " « Laud. 
 
 Le Bas' Life of Jewel. 
 a Walton's Lives. 
 
 Heber's Life of Jeremy Taylor. 
 
 Nelson's Life of Bp. Bull. 
 
 Patrick's (Bp.) Autobiography. 
 
 Burgon's Life of Sir T. Gresham. 
 'i « « p. p. Tytler. 
 
 JohnsoD's Lives of the Poets. 
 a Boswell's Life of Johnson. (Illustrated, 
 12mo. London.) 
 
 Tytler's (P. F.) Life of Sir Walter 
 Baleigh. 
 
 Southey's Life of Wesley. 
 
 Wilberforce's Life and Letters. 
 
 Wordsworth's " " " 
 
 Hannah More's Life and Letters. 
 
 Prichard's Life of Anselm. 
 
 Prior's Life of Burke. 
 
 Tytler's Lives of Scottish Worthies. 
 
 Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Biography 
 
 Evans' (R.W.) Scripture Biography. 
 
 Caswall's Life of Leacock (Martyr of 
 the Pongas.) 
 
 E. D. Grriffin's Remains. 
 
 B. D. Winslow's Remains. 
 
 T. W. Eaatburn's " 
 
 Wolfe's " 
 
 McTickar's Hobart. 
 a Fuller's Worthies. 
 
 Herbert's Two Last I'ears of Charles JU 
 a Burnet's Lives. (Jebb's Edition.) 
 
 Sprague's (Fifth Volume) Annals. 
 a Heber's Life and Journals, by his 
 Widow. 
 
 Last Days of Bp. Heber. 
 
 Bp. Chase's Reminiscences. 
 
 Life of Bishop White. (Wilson.) 
 '* " Suckling. 
 a " " Headley Vicars. 
 
 Life of Thos. Cole, by Noble. 
 
 Life of John Howard. 
 
 Southey's Life of Cowper. 
 a Life of Henry Alartin. (Thomason.) 
 
 Life of Bishop Armstrong. 
 " Robert Nelson. 
 
 7. Poetry. 
 
 a Herbert's Poems. 
 
 a Keble's Christian Year. 
 
 Lyra Apostolica. 
 a Wordsworth's Works. 
 a Southey's Works. 
 
 Spenser's Faery-Queen. 
 
 Herrick's Noble Numbers. 
 
 Wiffen's Tasso. 
 
 Cary's Dante. 
 
 H. K. White's Works. 
 
 Bp. Heber's Poems. 
 
 Cowper's Poems. 
 
 Mrs. Hemans' Poems. 
 
 Hillhouse's Poems. 
 a Bp. Mant's Sonnets. 
 
 Bowles' Sonnets, 
 
 Mrs. Southey's Poems. 
 
 Lyra Grermanica. 
 
 Christmas with the Poettt. 
 
 Thomson's Seasons. 
 
 Goldsmith's Poems. 
 
 Crabbe's Poems. 
 
 Cleveland Psalter. 
 
46 
 
 NOTES. 
 
 Keble'a Psalter. 
 
 Burgess' (Bp. of Maine) Psalter. 
 Dr. Muhlenberg's Poems. 
 Croswell's Poems. (In press.) 
 Clement C. Moore's Poems. 
 B. H. Dana's Poems. 
 Doane'a Poems. {In press.) 
 
 8. Miscellany. 
 
 Addison's Works. 
 
 Jolinaon's *' 
 
 Bujke's Works, 
 
 Bacon's Essays. 
 
 Beveridge's Private Thouglita. 
 
 Brown's (Sir Thomas) Works. 
 a Walton's Angler. 
 
 Cecil's Remains. 
 
 Edmonson's Christian Gentleman. 
 
 De Poe's Journal of the Plague. 
 
 living's Works. 
 
 Verplanck's Essays. 
 a Kip's Early Conflicts of Christianity. 
 a " Christmas Holidays in Rome. 
 a " Catacombs. 
 
 Lander's Expedition on the Niger. 
 
 Coleridge's Aids to Reflection. (McVick- 
 ar's.) 
 
 Coleridge's (Bp.) Six Months in West- 
 Indies. 
 
 Gleig'a History of British India. 
 
 Jebb's Correspondence. 
 
 Prichard's Natural History of Man. 
 
 Mudie's Birds, 
 
 White's Selborne. 
 
 Russell's Palestine. 
 
 " Nubia and Abyssinia. 
 
 Russell's Egypt. 
 
 Caswall's Church in America. 
 
 " Western World Revisited. 
 
 '* Church in Scotland, 
 
 Paget's Tales. 
 
 Gresley's Tales. 
 
 Feltham's Resolves. 
 
 Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield. 
 a Records of a Good Man's Life. 
 
 Rectory of Talehead. 
 
 Scenes in Our Parish. 
 a Herbert's Coxintry Parson. 
 
 Tracts for the Christian Seasons. 
 
 Palgrave's Merchant and Priar. 
 
 Bloxam's Gothic Architecture. 
 
 Glossary of Architecture. (Parker, Ox- 
 ford.) 
 
 Barr's Anglican Architecture. 
 
 Calendar of the Anglican Church H- 
 lustrated. 
 
 Markland on English Churchfes. 
 
 Cattermole's Literature of the Church 
 of England. 
 a Reed's Lectures on English History. 
 a " " " " Literature. 
 
 a Hudson's Lectures on Shakespeare. 
 a Buchanan's Researches. 
 
 B. Montague's Selections from Old Eng- 
 lish Divines. 
 
 Spencer's Selections from Old English 
 Divines. 
 
 Dean Trench's Works. 
 
 Warburton's Orescent and Cross. 
 
 Luther's Table Talk. 
 
 Neale's Latin Hymns. 
 
 Layard's Nineveh. 
 
 Cattermole's Sacred Poetry of the 
 XVn. Century. 
 
 Mrs, Southey's Chapters on Church- 
 yards. 
 
 Selections from Hooker. 
 
 Bp. Andrewe's Select Workfl. 
 
 Bp. Wilson's " ** 
 
NOTES. 
 
 47 
 
 CoDth's Select Works, 
 
 Bp. Pearson's " 
 
 Jones fof Nayland) Letters of a Tutor. 
 " " Book of Nature. 
 
 Bell on the Hand. 
 
 Roget's Bridgewater Treatise. 
 
 Hervey's Book of Christmas. 
 
 Thomas a Eempis. 
 a Pascal's Thoughts and Provincial Let- 
 ters. 
 
 St. Augustine's Confessions. 
 
 Cooper's (Aliss) Bural Hours. 
 
 ■Willmott's {R. A.) Summer Time in the 
 Country. 
 
 Legion, or Feigned Excuses, by Leakin . 
 
 Legh Richmond's Works. 
 
 Practical ChrLstian's Library. (Selec- 
 tions from Old Divines.) 
 
 Half-Hours with the Best Authors. 
 
 Letters of Wm. Cowper. 
 
 Evans' Tales of the Ancient British 
 Church. 
 
 Maxims of Washington (Schroeder's.) 
 
 The East, Sketches of Travel in Egypt 
 and the Holy Land, By J. A. Spencer, 
 D. D. 
 
 Heber's Journey through India. 
 
 Bishop Wainvyright's Travels. 
 
 Corroborations. — While these pages were detained in the 
 hands of the printer, new signs of the times have been supplying 
 evidence of the views I have endeavoured to support, concerning 
 the mission of the Church, amid the manifold sectarianism of 
 America. The Romanists, by the political manifesto of "nine 
 bishops," have thrown off the mask, and allied themselves, openly, 
 with the spirit of arbitrary power, and confessed that the temporal 
 as well as the spiritual claims of the Pope are virtually part of 
 their religion. On the other hand, the New-York Observer, a 
 prominent organ of popular religion, informs us that ''not a week 
 passes without fresh evidence of a lamentable defection from the 
 truth on the part of some of the ministers and churches in New- 
 England." The late movement among Unitarians shows that a 
 reaction is beginning among them, and that the Church is mani- 
 festing itself more and more to earnest and reflecting minds, as the 
 only resource of a healthful and genuine loyalty to Christ. 
 
 To such minds, therefore, we commend a re-examination of the 
 English Reformation, believing that it may lead them to more just 
 ideas of the true character of that Church from which their fathers 
 broke off in a spirit of rash, though conscientious, experiment. 
 
 And as introductory to such researches, we ask the considerate 
 reading of the following paragraph from Dr. Tullooh, (an eminent 
 divine of the Kirk of Scotland,) on the spirit of the Church of Eng- 
 
48 
 
 NOTES. 
 
 land, as contrasted with the individualism and consequent narrowness 
 of Sect. Although there are expressions in it which mark it as 
 written by a Presbyterian, it is, nevertheless, such a candid and 
 generous tribute to the Church of the Anglo-Saxon race, that it 
 must be read with benefit by any one. 
 
 "From the beginning this Church repudiated the distinct 
 guidance of any theoretical principles, however exalted and ap- 
 parently Scriptural. It held fast to its historical position, as a 
 great Institute, still living and powerful under all the corruptions 
 which had overlaid it ; and while submitting to the irresistible in- 
 iiuence of reform which swept over it, as over other Churches in 
 the sixteenth century, it refused to be refashioned according to 
 any new model. It broke away from the medieval bondage, under 
 which it had always been restless, and destroyed the gross abuses 
 which had sprung out of it; it rose in attitude of proud and suc- 
 cessful resistance to Rome; but in doing all this, it did not go to 
 Scripture, as if it Rad once more, and entirely anew, to find there the 
 principles either of doctrinal truth or practical government and dis- 
 cipline. Scripture indeed was eminently the condition of its revival; 
 but Scripture was not made anew the foundation of its existence. 
 There was too much of old historical life in it to seek any new foun- 
 dation : the new must grow out of the old, and fit itself into the 
 old. The Church of England was to be reformed, but not re- 
 constituted. Its life was too vast ; its influence too varied; its rela- 
 tions too complicated — touching the national existence in all its 
 multiplied expressions, at too- many points — to he capable of being 
 reduced to any new and definite form in more supposed uniformity 
 with the model of Scripture, or the simplicity of the Primitive 
 Church. Its extensive and manifold organism was to be reani- 
 mated by new life, but not remoulded according to any arbitrary 
 or novel theory ...The spirit, at once progressive and con- 
 servative, comprehensive rather than intensive, historical and not 
 dogmatical, is one eminently characteristic of the English mind, 
 and as it appears to us, in the highest degree characteristic of the 
 English Reformation." 
 
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