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Ifermons, chiefly Practical. By the late Rev. R. P.
Buduicom. London: Hatchard and Son; Liverpool:
A. Newling.
These two volumes have been published in compliance
with a very generally expressed wish by the friends of the
*uthor to have some memorial of one they so highly es-
'Seemed and valued. A propo%ition was, we learn from
the preface, submitted to the relatives of the lamented
deceased, that a memoir of his lite would be very accep-
table to all who knew and loved him ; but this intention
was not persevered in, because "it militated against the

most sacred wishes of deceased

-..e sermons betore us were preached at Everton and
lit.'Bees, and we are persuaded that the members of
those congregations will be glad to avail themselves of
an opportunity of possessing so appropriate a memorial

departed minister. The sermons are. as the
title indicates, chiefly of a practical tendency ; and whilst,
It many instances, they contain scriptural arguments on
the constitution and discipline of the Church 01 Christ,
they abound with searching and affectionate appeals to
the members of that Church to '• walk worthy of their
'ugh vocation." The last sermon in the series—which
consists of no less than tifty-one—was the last which Mr.
Buddicom preached i • and the subject of it, " The Pro-
tress and Blessings of the Gospel," was ever near to that
•

food man's heart. ,
The following extract from a discourse, entitled,
" Worldly solicitude Rebuked," and preached the Sun-
slay after the distressing death of Mr. Huski.son, is as
iipplic.able at the present m.ment as it was men : ...

To satisfy the eager and restless cravings of a spirit
sf luxury, prise, and self-indulgence, which, like the two
daughters of the horse-leech, is continually crying ' Give,
the acquirement of wealth is considered as the
To turn every thing we touch into
ancient fable speaks, or to

;old, like him of whom t
realise the dre

lehymists, is regarded as the
perfection of human wisdom. Hence the avidity with

is of d,

which th,

:old and caiculati

;chemes of political eco-

nomy, however ter
be

ucilabh; ealiong themselves, have

promulgated and received. I call them cold and
calculating scuemes, because they app,ar to regard every-
thing within the land, whether matLrim or moral, as food
for the crucible, to be changed into wealth. And 0,
how many precious moral and material realities, which
ye disappeared in the experi-
illy little richer than we

wealth could never buy

sal spirit of traffic, t

wide-spread contagion of speculation, which, iu its eager
regard of the end, overlooi.eu all the reasonable probabi-

s, and made tins country a ►ew years ago
wonder, and almost the mockery, of the world.
ce that unsanctified pressure of business, Satan's

power.ul as well as
men from seeing ti

most secret device, which Inn-
le things which belong to their
tm increasing numbers of those
lay house to house, and field to
re. * * * The true divinity
place ; and worse than atheism,
t empty, has the love of wealth

ndeavounng

tro

his
. •
h throne. Covetousness,
inordinate desire and so

macs of

tatuing

ith arise, offers

been y

said, ' a more daring and positive
ht and territory of Almighty God
self. The latter would desolate the

a infidelity ii

,oly place."

'rofiress

Improvert,

tof Human Society. By
London : Nisbet & Co.

Ilexander

a address delivered to the Manchester Scotch

Society, on the pro,

Tess and urn-

aided by the providence,
he Supreme God ; with

s propounded by Mr. Emerson.
eloquence and precision, and

incingly establishes the 1

is he maintains ; and as

at industriously argued

k for himself on one

ration, he say

Writers and lecturers some-

%in minds by verb
derided the tern' Inspiration

hem it meant nothing : the infidels of the present
s any
3peare

h these it we

iney
spired ;
v body w

Jean Jacques is inspired;

what is this

:erm out of its proper

ntous dis

action be-

stamping them with