The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-06-17
NEW BOOK.

GUY oil New iuft IN Two VOLUMES y ott o.
Now York Published by NJ W. DOdd Washing
ton: Sold by Taylor 4 Maury.
The Glory Of Christ is alike the theme Of
angels and Of men which things the angels
desire to look into Aud said the two disciples
of Emmaus. did not our hearts burn within
Us As he talked 10 Us by the way, how Christ
ought to have Suffered and To enter into his
glory" It i, this browning theme Of Chris
tian ministry that DR.. Spring, like the yeaera-
BILE Owen. has taken for his last labor of au-
thOrship and none more appropriate, none
more worthy Of the ripeness Of a life spent in
preaching the Gospel, could have been select
ed. The topic. discussed in the first volume,
are The Pre-eminsnee Of Christ. The Glory
Of Chrias Diriae. Nature Chria Glorious
an Has Incarnation The Human Character
Of Christ Glorious. Christ as a Preacher The
Glory Of Christs Hiracles, The Glory of Chrisfs
TRANSPORTATION The Glory Of Christ IN Has
Humiliation Christ Glorious an HIS Resurrec-
hon ; Chria's Glorious ASCENSION In the Sec
ond volume, the chapters are devoted to the
following topics: The Glory Of Christ az the
Emission Of the Holy SPIRIT, The Glory Of
Christ on the Character Of HIS Followers; The
Glory Of Christ Spiritually Discerned Christs
Glory the Wonder Of Angels; The Glory of
ChridS Miilenniai Reign on Earth The Glory
of Chria as the Final Judge Christ Himself the
Glory Of Heaven
I'm will hat h., Boa. s,,l
by one so emnently gifted as the author, and
whose life has been devoted to the enforcing
these great questions and their relations to
man. cannot fail to make this work one of gen
raj interest to the Christian public The style
is clear and ielicitOus. There is no attempt at
eloquence. not naturally arising out of the sim
plest statement of the subjects under consider
alton. We select as a specimen of the authors
method, the following from his chapter on the
TRANSPORTATION Of Christ, II subject of interest
and mystery
Mountain scenery makes strong. if not
the strongest appeal from the world of nature
to religious emotions. IL is not the valley nor
the plain, where all il sweetness and tranquil
sentiments within us that are walked up either
| by the sublime or the beautiful 1t is not the
ocean, now breathless, now swelling under the
soft breeze, and now tossed by storms. 1t is
not the crowded city, nor the lonely desert
skirtcd though it may be with rock and tower
and many memorial Of bold adventure. II
is rather the mountain range, rising above
plain and city, desert and ocean; sometimes
crowned with clouds and sometimes brilliant
with light while here and there some bold and
lofty peak shoots upward, glowing in azure
beauty, clothed with majesty, and struggling
for ages with the lightnng's blast and the fury
of the hurricane.
Mount Tabor stands alone. lt is a lofty
mountain nearly three miles in height, in the
northern border of the plain of Esdraelon, and
not far frpm fifty miles north of Jerusalem
| Both ancient and modern travellers speak ol
| the view from the summit as one of the most
beautiful in Palestine "A late writer says OF
! it. From the summit of Tabor, the eye wan.
dered over the whole glory of the Land Of
Promise. To the south extended the mountains
of Samaria their peaked SUBMITS glowing in
the sun with the colored brilliancy of chain
of gems. To the east, lay the lake of 'libcrlas
long line of purple Northward, like d
thousand rainbows, assembled, lit by the west
ern flame the mountains of Gilboa, where the
spear of Saul was broken, and the first curse o.
jewish obduracy was branded upon Israel III
the blood of their first king. Closing the su
pcrb circle ascending step by step the south
eastern chain of the mountains of Lebanon
were seen soaring into the very heavens Oh
| this mountain Barak encamped with ten thou
sand of the men of Zebulon and Naphthali, OF
the eve of the battle with Siscra, in which
Israel were the conquerors, and sang that song
so let thine enemies perish, Lord; but lie
them that love Him be ~ the sun when h,
gocth forth in his strength Ii was from thu
mountain, that in our own day that great con
queror that made Europe tremhe, descended
upon the fierce Turk, and routed his arm,
on the plain below. And here on this loft,
emnence if uncontradictcd tradition may b.
relied on, WAS the wonderful scene of Christ
TRANSPORTATION This scene is the subject O
the present chapter; it is THE GLORY o
CHRIsr's rRANsrIcuRArIoN"
Il
awe may well approach this scehc with re
ligous fear and holy admiration Nine of tn
chosen apostles were prohibited from beholdin
, it; the three who did behold it are long sine
fallen asleep; and it were presumption in "a
now, ut the distance of eighteen centuries. ;
hope to draw aside the veil and disclose all it
wonders. 1t suggests to us the four following
thoughts
"Ot all the great realities which this seen
discloscs, the first is The giorg of the God Ma
MEDIATOR The low and abased condition @
! the Son OF God, during theperiod of his lncar
: nation, was an unnatural condition. IL was
! humiliation voluntarily assumed stoop from
, his original dignity descent from his previ
Gus elevation condescendng resignation o
his superior claims; aud announcement Of tin
pre-eminent station which he had before occu
pied Heaven was his primeyal residence, an,
there he possessed the glory Of his Father be
fore the world was No being was more ex
allied, for he was in the form of God III
|, made h,m@J of no reputation, and took upol
him the form Ola servant, and was made in tn
likeness OF men. He was emphatically trans
{ formed and trdnGgured by his assumption O
{ our nature. and in tho scene before us he
, transformed dgdm he lays ASIDE for a Will
/ his eonde@ension and humiiidtioa and rises B
some faint exhibitions of the majesty wit
I which he was originally invested. The fulnes
! Of the Godhead which dwelt in him, for littl
. time shines forth in his humanity.
"When the prophet Daniel in vision behel
: Kim, his garment was white ~ snow, and tn
. hair OF his head rs pure wool Of such eA
l ceeding Wilderness, that no fuller on Garth coul
, whitcn them That glory which had bee
, covered and hidden, now for the first time wa
: manifested TO men, rs II is Ia the blessed !
, heaven That visage, marred more than an
g mans and his form more than the sons
= men, was luminous and shone ~ the s,ll
v ! and his raiment was white AS the lighk' II