24th verse. There is therefore, in none of these periods any such correspondence as Mr. Miller claims.

We have not thought it necessary to attend at the same length to Mr. Miller's representation of any other than one portion of this geological history-"ex uno disce omnies ;" and indeed one of them being shown utterly to fail of the required conditions, it is of little consequence what judgment a close examination would compel us to pronounce concerning the remainder. But before we close it may be well to inquire into the origin of so singular and anomalous a failure on the part of a man so able in every respect for the successful accomplishment of the task which he had assigned to himself. We should be sorry indeed to charge him as some critics have done with ignorance either of Geology or Theology and still less should we with another set of critics, assign these strange lapses to an incipient insanity (for such inhuman and shocking criticisms have been uttered) inasmuch as the most important part of the book was written and published years since, but rather to the obliquity of vision and the perversity of judgment, which a dominant idea, will, indulged and cherlshed till it becomes an idol, produce, in the purest nature: and in Mr. Miller's case, this sinister influence has been aggravated by the false position in which he has been placed partly by his own acts, partly by those of others, as the Christian Apologist "par excellence" in the conflicts of the church with Geologists and we think this a fit occasion on which to declare our earnest conviction, that the cause of Christ has no more foolish friends in these days than those who with insufficient knowledge of Geology, and the subsidiary sciences, spurn it and its advocates from court as though it had no cause worth a hearing, unless it be those who weak in faith and knowledge, are ready to admit any gloss and submit to any perversion of the word of God, to silence the pretentious bluster and bribe away malignant and puerile assaults of its enemies. On some future occasion we propose to shew what is in our judgment the strength and the weakness of Geological speculation, and the inexpugnable position which the church may take and ought to take in relation to it. This much only, we add now, that Mr. Miller's attempt and all similar attempts, are simply efforts to accomplish, what in the present state of our knowledge is an impossibility. If any man was fitted by knowledge, by genius, by piety for this attempt, then Hugh Miller was that man-" Could Tory have been defended by any right hand, then this one had done it." Meanwhile we shall see scheme after scheme of reconcilation involving more or less perversion of God's word and ignorance of his works, spring into rank luxuriance, wither and die in a day, until the handwriting of the Lord in his living word and in the tablets of the everlasting rocks, better deciphered and more truly expanded. in the light of a larger knowl

edge and in the glory of a clearer vision, shall reveal the eternal unity of him by whom are all things, and for whose glory they are and were created.

CRITICAL NOTICES.

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The Reviewer Reviewed, or a Reply to a Critique in the Southe byterian Review for April, 1857. By THEODORE S. GOURDIN, Past Master of Landmark Lodge, No. 76, A. F. M. Charleston: Printers, No. 125 East Bay, up stairs. 1857.

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We need say but a few words in answer to Mr. Gourdin. He represents us as making an attack on Free Masonry, whereas we only attacked his address on that subject. It is not modest in this writer to insist that Free Masonry and his exhibition of it are identical. Nor is it the part of a good and valiant Knight Templar, as he claims to be, thus to thrust in his brethren between his adversary and himself. The Free Masons, we had always understood, are an Association of men of various religions for purposes of charity and benevolence. Mr. Gourdin perverts the society into a teacher of religion, and that religion, in onr judgment, Infidelity. Free Masons themselves condemn his address. They have to us personally and directly repudiated him as any representative of their association. We think they owe it to themselves to do this publicly and officially. Such advocates as Mr. G. do them no credit.

Addresses Delivered at the Inauguration of REV. LEWIS W. GREEN, DD, as President of Transylvania University and State Normal School. Nov. 18, 1856. Published by order of the Board. Frankfort, Kentucky: A. S. Hodges, Printer. 1856. pp 40.

Morrison College was formerly the name of the Literary Department of an Institution to which were attached two professional schools, Law and Medicine all included under the general charter and title of Transylvania University. The buildings, grounds, endowments and other proper

ties of the College have been transferred to a Board of Ttrustees appointed by the Legislature, and the Institution has been re-organized so as to include five distinct schools; vix: I. A School of Moral Science, including all the branches usually embraced in that department, intellectual, moral and social; II. A School of Physical Science with a like extent of meaning attached to the term; III. A School of Mathematics; IV. A School of Ancient Languages and Literature; and V. A SCHOOL FOR TEACHERS, including the theory and practice, the science and art of TEACHING. This last named School has two Professors exclusively devoted to this department, and in addition to these the President of the University (who is also Professor of Moral Science) together with the Professor of Physical Science give special instructions to the Normal students.

The address by Dr. Green is a vigorous and eloquent production, from which we should like to make several extracts did

space permit.

The idea of a State School for Teachers is indeed a noble one. The plan of organization, according to which it is not merely attached to a college but is incorporated with it as one of its component and essential parts, yet retaining its own distinctive character, strikes us as very judicious. The advantages are not all on the side of the Normal School. We can well conceive that, as Dr. Green states, the College itself enjoys advantages from its connection with that School. The infusion of so large an element favorable to study, to morality and to order; the presence of so many full grown men, sober, discreet, studious and decorous in all their demeanor, must tend to render Transylvania University, a place peculiarly well adapted to the education of youth.

The Constitution of the Society for the Relief of Indigent and Superanuated Ministers of the Presbyterian Church and their Families. Charleston: Steam Power Press of Walker, Evans & Co., No. 3 Broad Street. 1857. pp 12.

This Society was incorporated by the Legislature of S. C. in December 1854. Its officers are THOMAS C. PERRIN of Abbeville, President; JAMES GILLAM of Greenwood, Vice President; JOHN P. WATTS of Laurens, Secretary; and JOHN F. LIVINGSTON of Abbeville, Treasurer.

The Certainty of the Final Triumph of the Gospel. A Sermon preached by appointment before the Synod of Mississippi, by the REV. J. A. LYON, D. D., of Columbus, Mississippi. Published by request. Natchez: Printed at the Daily Courier Office. 1857. pp 21.

This discourse exhibits considerable ingenuity and skill in argument. The design of it is to show that Reason and Providence accord with Scripture in testifying that the world shall eventually be evangelized. But we question the value of any proof from Reason upon a question which depends as this does, absolutely upon the will of God. The Providence of God and yet more the Word of Promise of God are the only grounds of any confident reliance, where every human probability seems adverse to our desires.

Three Changes in Theological Institutions. An Inaugural Address delivered before the Board of Trustees of the Furman University, the night before the Annual Commencement, July 31, 1857, by JAMES P. BOYCE, Professor of Systematic and Polemic Theology. Greenville, S. C.: C. J. Elford's Book ând Job Press. 1856. pp 48.

This is the production of a gentleman (originally of Presbyterian stock) who with unsparing liberality and zeal, is devoting his large property and the powers of his strong, original and independent mind, (both inheritances from his father, the late Hon Ker Boyce of Charleston), to the interests of our Baptist brethren. It is a production full of evangelical sentiment earnest feeling and manly thought, expressed in clear, strong, simple language. Mr. Boyce advocates three changes in the Baptist Theological Institution with which he is connected, viz:

I. To dispense with College education as the prerequisite of Theological education.

II. To extend the course of Theological training.

III. To require a certain declaration of doctrine from all who become Theological Professors.

It is not for us to express our opinion upon the merits of these recommendations. We have a great respect for any thing uttered by such a man as Mr. Boyce. We earnestly desire also the success of the Baptists in their scheme for building up at Greenville a first class Theological Seminary for their whole denomination of the South. We wish this for their sakes

and also for our own. Every thing done for Theological education by any church must help the cause of Theological training in every other church.

A Sermon on the Equality of Ministers of the Gospel, preached December 14, 1856, by REV. H. MANDEVILLE, D. D., Pastor of the Govern ment Street Church, Mobile. Mobile: W. W. McGuire & Son, Book and Job Printers. 1857. pp 42.

A well-reasoned, and well written sermon on the Presbyterian Doctrine of Ministerial Parity, in opposition to the Prelatical theory of three orders in the Ministry. The Government Street Church, Mobile, has done a good service to the cause of Scriptural truth and Christian freedom by publishing this able discourse. Dr. Mandeville has enriched his sermon, as published, with many valuable quotations from the Fathers, in the form of Notes. We hope he may give us yet other products from the pen of which this is, so far as we know, the first fruits since his settlement at Mobile. Let him go on and discuss, for his people and the church at large, some of the other points of Church Government. "The influence of a form of Church Government, though less direct on those who adopt it than that of the doctrines of grace, is yet powerful, (as Dr. Mandeville says,) and the grounds on which we adopt any such form as Divine, should be occasionally at least, dispassionately stated."

An Exposition of the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Phillipians. By the Rev. JEANE DAILLE, Minister of the French Reformed Church at Charenton, A. D. 1639. Translated from the French by the Rev. JAMES SHERMAN, Minister of Surry Chapel, London. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication. pp. 479. 8 vo.

Daillé will be recognised by our readers as one of the most honored names in the French Huguenot Church. His most celebrated work "De l'Usages des Peres," has already been issued in an English version by the Presbyterian Board. This exposition of the Epistle to the Phillipians was delivered from the pulpit of Charenton, and is marked with those qualities of clearness, candour, boldness, masculine vigour, eloquence, and piety which gave him so much influence among Protestants, and won the reluct