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minds. As the children grow up, they manifest these principles in their hatred of our Church, and in the diligence they use to persuade others to forsake our Communion. The evils that arise from flying for refuge to the Ale-house, are too evident to need much observation here. The streets of our large towns are too often witnesses of the sad effects of allowing Public-houses to be open on the Evening of the SABBATH; and the families of the deluded men who seek to kill the vacant hour in them, are made to suffer the most poignant distress, for want of the money thus expended. Besides this, he who frequents those haunts and nurseries of vice, is soon poisoned with infidel principles, immoral habits, and contempt of all laws, human and divine; and he becomes a burden on that society, of which he might have been an useful member, had he been afforded a proper opportunity of employing the Evening of the SABBATH.

We hear much of a want of Churches, especially in large towns; and it is much to be wished that this were reinedied. But till the LEGISLATURE shall render it as easy a matter to build a Church, as to erect a Conventiele, a remedy cannot be expected. In the mean while let us more frequently open the Churches we have. Let us open them at that season when the Dissenters have found they can procure the most numerous attendance. Let us devote that part of the SABBATH, which is most unoccupied, to the worship of God and the instruction of the ignorant. This is in our own power; and this I am persuaded from observation, will render a most essential service to the cause of Religion, promote the welfare of Society, and frustrate the designs of our enemies.

Wherever EVENING LECTURES have been established, ther have always been well attended. I need scarce remind your GRACE of the crowds that flock to the Church of St. Mary-le-Bow, to the Chapels of the Magdalen and the Asylum, and to all other Churches and Chapels that are opened for evening service in the Metropolis, Bath, and other places. And if Churches in general were opened in the evening, they would be as well attended as those to which I have alluded; or as the Meeting-Houses of the Dissenters are in every part of the kingdom.

"You are aware, MY LORD, that in the country the Sermon is usually preached in the morning; and where there is a second service, it consists only of the Prayers. In that case (not to mention the many frivolous excuses that heads of families so often find for keeping their children and servants, and even themselves, at home) many mistresses of families, and servants, are wholly debarred from hearing sermons, through their attendance to the wants of the family, and other necessary avocations.

"In large towns there is a numerous class of servants, whose employers, either from necessity or other motives, detain them at home during one or both the Services of the Church. Unless something be done by us, for the accommodation of those whom circumstances debar from hearing Sermons, they must either continue ignorant, or be driven to seek instruction in the Conventicle. If our Churches be open in the evening, persons under these and similar circumstances, can spare time to attend; they can, and in many instances will, hear that instruction, which, under the blessing of God, may conduce to their temporal and eternal happiness.

"Were I asked whether an EVENING LECTURE be preferable to an AFTERNOON SERVICE? I would answer, undoubtedly it is. From the increasing luxury of the times, even among the lower orders of society, there is an inactivity and propensity to indulgence after dinner, especially on a Sunday. The mind, as well as the body, becomes averse from exertion; and when the body is in a posture of rest, the mind loses its vigour, and the Sermon is heard with an inattention by no means calculated to imprint it on the heart. By the time of Evening Service this inactivity is removed, and the mind is disposed to attend to that, for which it before was incapacitated. This disposition is much increased, when the Service is by candle-light. The world, with its cares, shut out; the senses confined within narrow bounds, an awful solemnity takes possession of the soul, and the mind is bound down, as it were, to the object of the assembly.

"A Clergyman of the Establishment in a very small village has experienced the superior advantage of an Evening Lecture. Not only is that Service well attended; but his Morning Congregations and Communicants have also considerably increased. The change of duty was begun from motives of temporary convenience, but has been continued from a full conviction of its utility, and has received THE SANC TION AND CORDIAL APPROBATION OF HIS DIOCESAN.

"I might refer to many large and manufacturing towns in which there is not one Church open; and in them we see Sectarism increasing to an alarming degree; as well as that profligacy of inanners, that dissipation and excess, which disturb and threaten to destroy the peace of society. In such places, at least, let the experiment be tried, should the success of a more general plan be a matter of doubt.

"Where there are several Churches, or several Clergymen resident in a town, our Church might, in the first instance, be opened, and the Clergy agree to take the duty, each in his turn. If the plan succeeded, it would be easy in most places to collect subscriptions, worthy the attention of some one individual, to establish a permanent Lecture. Another Church might then be opened, and so on, till the bulk of the people were accommodated with opportunities of public worship in the Establishment."

In the preceding extracts we have omitted a few paragraphs, that did not appear to be essentially necessary to enable the reader to form an opinion of the plan recommended by Mr. Henderick, or to judge of the propriety of its adoption.

The Gospel best Promulgated by National Schools. A Sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of St. Peter, York, before the Hon. Sir Alan Chambre, Knt. one of the Justices of the Court of King's Bench; and the Hon. Sir George Wood, Knś. one of the Barons of the Exchequer ; July 31, 1808. By the Rev. Francis Wrangham, M.A., F.R.S. of Trinity College, Cambridge: Published at the request of the High Sheriff, and VOL. I. зт

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the Gentlemen of the Grand Jury: 4to. pp. 55. York; Wilson and Son.

"Rich as (our empire) already is in reputation for literature and liberatity, and blazing like a star in the forehead of Europe, her lower orders-we must own, if we explore the black pages of her criminal calendar, with the causes, which swell its catalogues, and weigh the facilities furnished by the generosity of their wealthy compatriots, and their own childhood of leisure-her lower orders are yet capable, without any interruption of their indispensable duties, or any disqualification for their discharge, of farther advances in learning and virtue and happiness. A NATIONAL SYSTEM OF RELIGIOUS EDUCĂTION, in short, is still wanting in them: of Education not casual, or partial, or precarious; but uniform, and general, and all but gratuitous."

In the propriety of these remarks, we believe, few in the present day will feel disinclined to acquiesce; for though difference of opinion as to the manner in which the education of the poor ought to be conducted, must necessarily exist, until some system has been put in practice, whereby experience may become a guide to our theories, the expediency of some measure whereby the happiness of that meritorious description of subjects may be augmented, can never be a subject of doubt, or a secondary consideration with the enlightened and benevolent. Previous to entering into the more important part of his subject, the reverend author exhibits two pictures in decided contrast. The first represents the pleasure ensured to a father in attending early to the education of his son: the second, the pain entailed upon the offspring of her who has neglected her duty.

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O if there be a sight above all others adapted to thrill the heart not yet palsied by fashion, or hardened by habit, it is that of an enlightened and pious parent assisting to bring up an ingenuous child in the nurture and admonition of the Lord: now tracing out the more obvious wonders of creation, as displayed in the volume of Nature; now pointing to the still greater wonder of Redemption, as disclosed in that of Scripture impressing upon his tender mind alternately abhorrence of vice and pity for the vicious; at one moment from the dictates of reason, at another from the rules of revelation; and, as a practical illustration of his precepts, uniformly preferring to the low haunts of vulgar debauchery the periodical worship of his village-church, and the patriarchal tranquillity of his own fireside. If he leave that child (as, after such tuition, he probably will leave him) flourishing, he bequeaths a patriot to his country; not a babbler in her senate, or an intriguer in her cabinet; but her real benefactor, alike by his virtuous industry in peace, and by his steady valour in war. If he be doomed to see him fade, as excellence is sometimes tried in the fire of affliction,

he resigns an angel to his God. His natural tears' are wiped away by the hand of faith. He aknowledges, that the Deity has only resumed what He gave; and, soothed and sustained by his Saviour's promises of life and immortality, he humbly but confidently looks forward to a future meeting with his beloved, not to be followed by a future separation.

Short-sighted Mother! Thou, who wast transported at his birth, and rememberedst no more the pain, for joy that a man was born into the world! How are thy fond anticipations falsified! How is that pain exchanged for another far more agonising! Assaulted by temptation without, and betrayed by corruption within; relaxed by the blandishments of indolence, and dissipated by a series of diversions; with eyes closed to the light of the Gospel, and lips untaught to solicit the guidance of the Holy Spirit-thy child gradually sinks under the licentious domination of his own lusts. In his growing depravity, thou and thy wretched partner too late discover your deplorable folly; and what you might once with ease have prevented, you now perhaps anxiously, but vainly, attempt to correct. Restraint, when it cannot curb, stimulates. The soft entreaty, and the stern expostulation, he spurns with equal contempt. You represent to him the charms of integrity, and the comforts of piety; the day of peaceful labour, and the night of sound repose; the respect of man, and the approbation of God. Alas! these are views, which he has not learned the art to appreciate, which he has lost the feeling to relish. The doctrines of a conscience to accuse, a Judge to condemn, and a hell to punish-in his account are the speculations of the idiot, the forgeries of the hypocrite, or the reveries of the enthusiast. And are we surprised that, from these inauspicious beginnings, he proceeds boldly to burst through every mound of civil duty; and exhibits himself successively a refractory son, a profligate husband, a careless father, a factious or a felonious citizen? Do we wonder, that his more ignoble passions hurry him onward with the impetuosity of the torrent, or the cataract; while his better are choked up, or converted into sources of additional violence his friendship lavished upon some brother-vagrant, his love engrossed by some street-pacing harlot,' his compassion reserved for the detected pilferer, and his honour proverbially pledged to thieves? Is it matter of our astonishment, that the loftiest powers of his understanding participate in the ruin, which overwhelms the manliest affections of his heart: that to concert a plot, or to elude a pursuit, form its most vigorous exercises; and that evil to his distempered fancy becomes, but too literally, his good? It cannot be necessary, that I should complete the picture; or I would pass from his excesses to his crimes, from his crimes to his sufferings. I would shew you this neglected boy, in the rank maturity of his manhood, invading the sacred. stillness of the bedchamber. The incessant dread, and the wild alarm, of apprehension should be distinctly set before you. I would lead you to the gloom of his dungeon. You should mark the oppression of his chain. He should stand, pale and ghastly, at the bar of his country. The solemn denunciation of her just vengeance should be urged upon your notice. You should follow him to the hulk, the transport, the gallows, or the gibbet. Having shuddered at the monster, you should weep and pray for the victim. I dare not go on. I leave to the pencilling of his own conscience, at last goaded into terrible activity, and to

the remorse of his self-convicted parents, the unutterable sequel; the outer darkness, which no sun shall ever pierce, the wailing and gnashing of teeth of a hopeless and interminable futurity.

These descriptions are far from being overcharged, and both are the natural results of the opposite systems, pursued by the respective parents.

To ensure to those who possess not themselves the means, or an effectual opportunity, to fulfil this imperious duty of education to their children, Mr. Wrangham proposes the establishment of PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS much after the manner of those recommended by Mr. Whitbread. Whether the education, taught in these schools, should extend only to reading, as recommended by Mr. Weyland, or whether it should embrace reading, writing, and arithmetic, conjunctively; whether the elementary parts of geometry and mechanics should he added, in conformity to the opinion of Adam Smith; or whether the more enlarged system of Mr. Malthus should be adopted, is a question that may very safely be left to the decision of the Legislature. With respect to the religious part of such education, Mr. Wrangham most properly recommends the doctrines of the established church; "that not only the belief, the obedience, and the supplication of christians, as contained in the ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer, may be imprest upon the student's memory, but also the additional articles of our admirable Catechism; the Christian Covenant, and Sacraments, with the History of the Creation; with which should be combined that of the Depravation and subsequent Redemption of Man; the infinite value of the ransom by which it was accomplished, and the promised influences of the Holy Spirit, by which alone it can be applied; as well as an exposition of the several duties arising out of these obligations, and all the social and personal virtues."

A Dissertation on the Propagation of Christianity in Asia, in two parts, to which is prefixed a Brief Historic View of the Progress of the Gospel in different Nutions, since its first Promulgation. Illustrated by a Chronological Chart, By the Rev. Hugh Pearson, M. A. of St. John's College, Oxford. 4to. University Press.

The Rev. Dr. Buchanan, Vice Provost of the College of

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