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despair. It is theirs often to behold, and to be instrumen-
tal in producing that moral and spiritual change in the im-
mortal spirit, which is as life from the dead, and compared
with which the discovery of a new planet will hereafter be
el nom ari an nnimnnrtant avant It mow rirs+ I,a +lArsm.l,.

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to touch upon another matter, not altogethe

out of place, in writing the memoir of suc
Tattershall

unconnected with the foregoing reflections. The writer
believes that a very inadequate estimate is formed by the
bulk of mankind, of the amount of learning and talent

cause in w
prehension
to the cat
here to be

connexion with•th
to the thinking mi

ministers of Christianity to the sacred
are employed. The prevailing misap-
subject are productive of serious injury
th. No formal correction of them is
d. But there are two considerations in
:object which recommend themselves
d. The public
_labours—we mean, of

course, in the pulpit—of the preachers of the Gospel 'are
exposed to the danger of being undervalued, from their
frequent and periodical occurrence. No other class of
mental workmen so often present themselves to scrutiny
and observation. Their work is never done : the stream

of their toil knows no interruption. —Ler con-
sideration which will find a place in the estimate of a
candid observer of the intellectual character of the
Christian ministry is, that even if the necessity of unre-
mitting appearances in public be of itself likely to deterio-
rate the quality of the productions of the speakers mind,
the inferiority is rather assumed than demonstrated. It
may be asserted, without hesitation, that any one in the
habit of frequenting the places where the minds and
thoughts of men fly forth upon the wings of words,' the
Senate House and the Courts of Justice, will as frequently,
in proportion, have to complain of meaningless or undi-
gested declamations, long speeches, winch owe their very
length to the unwillingness or inability of the speaker to
exercise previous thought, and the other qualities which
make up the complement of the most wearying of all
things, a tiresome oration, as he would deplore the same
trial of his patience from the occupants of the seats of
religious instruction and appeal." *
We commend, in justice to the clergy generally, these
considerations to the careful attention of our readers.
Of Dr. Tattershall he adds, further on, " It was his lot,
and he never repined it, to pursue his work without the
worlds favour, and with little of what men call remunera
tion. His income from his church never, exceeded, I
believe, two hundred pounds. Like the great Apostle,
he might almost say " these hands ministeredt o my
necessities ; " for during almost the whole of his married
life he was engaged in preparing young men for the Uni-
versity." With reference to this necessity, Dr. Bvrtb
had said before in his prin te
and the

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his strength have been expended in the preparin4 young
men for the Uniiersitiei. It is well that the youth of the
higher classes should be committed to the care and in-
struction of the clergy. But the latter cannot be at once
writing books and teaching others to read them."
The details of Dr. Tattershall's ministry amongst us
are so recent and familiar, that in the memoir before us

less needful tha further mention should be made of them
here. The account of his funeral is taken from one of
our local contemporaries, with (may we say) a deserved
eulogy on the periodical press of Liverpool. We have
already so far exceeded our usual and intended limits,
that we must forbear for the present from any notice of
• the subject matter of the admirable sermons that com-
prise the body of the work. At some future time we may
possibly return to it. Enough, however, has been done
in calling the attention of our readers to the publication
itself. We speak as to wise men, and are in nowise ap-
prehensive of their verdict upon what we have written.

* We have hear(
from his own lips. I

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