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JOHN FOSTER ON Missions with an Introductory
Essay by JOSEPH p THOMPSON, Pastor Of the Broadway
| Tabernacle Church. New York published by Edward
H. Fletcher. Washington sold BY Taylor & Maury.
l2mo., PIP. 2O6.
This is one Of the first contributions Of new publisher
who has made grand beginning by printing the mscelaDss
Of Dr. WIN. R. WILLIAMS, and this Esssy entitled by its
author The Glory of the Age !" thing Of great labor.
says Mr. Fosrza 10 his Life and Correspondence. The
closing Paragraph copy not only for its power, but
example Of the cost Of literary labor aiming at the highest
reach Of excellence. In writing to his old friend and nsuc
tor, the Rev. JosEpH HuoHEs he says, fe and Core
spondence, vol. 2, p. }
How many hours Of the utmost effort Of my mind
to put that paragraph into present form What effort
10 reduce the wde and remote and shadowy clement Of
thought to what am willing to believe IS now definite
expression.
This discourse was written in 1915 the beginning Of the
modern development Of the spirit of missions and which has
already attained results the writer had not then anticipated
for the income Of the past year of foreign missionary societies
exceed three millions Of dollars whose missionaries number
nearly two thousand, occupying fourteen hundred sta
ons employing Fifty printing establishments, and about
five thousand native and other assistants exhibiting two
hundred converts in christian communion, and still greater
number Of children and adults in schools.
GAS to US and our period Of tme there is this grand form
of moral evil dolay standing boldly forward in possession
of large part Of world But this is only Of the
forms which that worst enemy evinces powerful and
dreadful presence We must ruined, be kept in
an habi.us and alarming OF that the thing
in the creation which supasses all others object for
hatred is here amidst and all around in many diversites
Of malignant existence and with all of them is voa
ton be at enmy and war. My brethren, were In vain
to seek escape from the condition of place in the do
minons Of God A mind Of wandering and melancholy
thought impatient of the grevous realities Of state may
almost breathe the wish that We had been
different order Of beings another dwelling than this
and appointed different service to the Almighty. In
vain Here still are, to pass the first part Of our exist
in world where it is impossible to be at pesce, because
there has come into mortal enemy to all that live in it.
Amidst the darkness that wells from the state Of the un
verse; we would willingly be persuaded that this world
be the only region Except that of penal usice where
the Of evil permitted TO maintain contest Here per-
hsps may be almost its last encaDpmen where its prolonged
power Of hostility may be suffered in order to give proact
ed display the of its appointed destruction Here
LOT cast, ground awfully pre- occupied, ca
lsmtous Distinction, but yet sublime one IL thus We may
render the Eternal King service Of arduous kind
than it possible the Inhabitants Of any other world than
this render Him and if thus may be trained, through
devotion and conformity the Celestial Chief in this
fare 10 the final attainment Of what He has promised in
many Iustrous FORMS him that cvercomoh. We shall
leave the region whore much is In rebellion against
God but shall where all that pass from our world
present themselves from battle, be denied to min
gle in the eternal joys and triumphs Of the conquerors
LITERARY "REMINISCENCES; from the Autobiography
of the Opium Eater, by THoxAs De QyIrcrr; vols,
Fields. Washington sold by Taylor & Msuy
These highly interesting volumes contain the authors re-
collections Of Charles Lamb, Colerdge, Wordsworth,
ouhey the society Of the LADIES, Edward Irving, Tafourd
&C. &C. Those acquainted with the writings Of De Quincy
need be told how attractive his narratives and anec-
dotes and how admirable bis criticisms. There volumes
Of permanent value and t addition ell libraries whose
shelves enriched with the works Of the great masters Of
modern English literature, who here pass before us sksschsd
by the pen Of master.
FLORENCE, The PARISH ORPHAN; by Mrs. ELIZA
| BucKmIssrER LEE Boston published BY Ticknor,
| Reed & Fields; vol.
This is tale, and illustrates the sid consequences
of unressned anger and Of early discipline Of temper
II followed by Our Village" series Of graphic pictures
Of the village in which Mrs. LEE brn. We have herr
DEPICTED tho dgn6ed father Of the eloquent Buckmnser
II Il among the bright ecoecons Of early days to recall
the delight with which listened 20 the discoures devers
by this noble divine and his CITED The portrait Of tb
father worthy the love Of cnd. To Ct New Fog
land there il peculiar chsfm in these sketches Of ecu
Village" reminding them Of homes and far distant
fast fading away under ehe advance Of modern improvement