Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-04-16
NEW BOOK.

lNTEB VIEWS MEMORABLE AND USEFUL, by SAMUEL
ANsoN Cox, ID, Pastor Of the First Presbyterian
Church, Brooklyn, New York. Harper Brothers,
New York Taylor Maury, Washington
The Presbyterian Church. appears is divided into two
sections, the OH School and the NEW. OF the latter
Dr. Cox is the learned exponent and aments in hmne,
the waywardness of many of the Ruling Elders who are
tincured with the doctrines of the Old School These
Ruling Elders who originally created helps the
Minister have gradually it appears assumed co-ordi-
nate position and have encroached the peculiar
province Of the Pastor OF the nterrogatoes, for in
stance to candidates for admission into the Church. the
following specimens given by the Doctor PROFOUND
ed by the Lay Elders TO the bewildered neophytes:
Have you any disinteresed benevolence" 81 it self
that you love - Are you willing to be damned for the
glory of God? " DO you believe that God does all
things" Is this the best possible system" "When
you converted and how and you sure you are
converted 7" Have you thought what il means 10 hare
hoty Diingness 10 snP Suppose you are one of the
non-elect y If God you into HE'LL would
you still love him 7" Did you read Emmons or
do you think you viii understand any thing until
you do 7? BY the beard of the Prophet, but these
hard questions
On visit to CHALMERS, in Glasgow, the Doctor was
somewhat mystfed by the Fifeshre brogue of the Scot
fish apostle " Q Lard, guide blessed thang ut az
to live an to sarve tha better bitter thang
to san against tina" We are RECALLED with numerous
samples of this Babylonish dialect; but they do APP
pear Of harmonious cadence shall inict them on
our readers.
The Scotch divine it seems suggested the advantages
which would result from union of the Church Presby
erian) and State in North America This policy
pudated by Dr. Cox, who in exhorted Chalmers to
embrace the temperance and the ranks of
the coldwaer army unavailably however At the Exc
me in Dr rxr;fh ell
the other Americans presents grossly insued on the
subject of slavery The Doctor subsequently, by way Of
reprsa Eliminates awful yaticinaon which the
chants of London shall yet read the foreign files of the
Royal Exchange England shall pass through scourg-
ing and revolutionary purgaon from which neither her
proud science her profound craftsmanship her
might of armies and naves and colonies nor her self
graduating and selfish security shall begin TO be able
defend her,"
The Doctor discourses somewhat reyereny of the lay
heads Of the Church of England Henry VIII is perse
cutor pedan and brute the present gracious
ecclesiastical ruler he styles Mr.. Cesar BY the head
of Confucius it is well that the broad Atlantic rolls be-
tween Dr. Cox and Queen Victoria In page 1O5 the
Princeton Platform is condemned, and the schismacal
Old School is taxed with having seized and monopozed
the common funds of the Church, valued the round
sum of three hundred thousand dollars!
On visit to NATHANIEL EMMoSs, the Nestor of New
England Presbyters, who lived and died an approved
minister of the Gospel author, in edifyng discus
sion, ecits from that aged Pastor the reluctant adms
sion that he had been all along unconciousy the oracle
Of error to the members of his fock embracing three ge
neratons. This concession, indeed, is triumph of the
Doctors logic but what sad and painful subject for
contemplation We have laws against malpractice in
medicine but what statute reach the prisoners of the
soul? +
The polemics with President Adams on his Northern ]
our produced no results. Mr.. Adams a o. cold
epulsiye manners, and emnently undemonsrative. On
me occasion only have him reused to ardor by
my public speaking. When Archbishop HUGHEs of New
FORK the request of the National Legislature pro-
ouneed his Grafton in the Capitol Washington amongst
he Senator's who crowded around the Speakers chair
the prelate the conclusion his discourse
remarked the exPresident graspng with both hands
the hand Of the orator. and expressing with emphasis his
unqualified appreciation.
Frutess the visit of the "Latter-Day Saints" with
the view of converting the Doctor to Mormonism; and
ingenious the device by which the divinity of their
mission tested The condition of reading and ex
pounding in the Greek Testament proved poser,
and put fight the false prophets Such is the virtue
Of Greek
To conclude we have been much amused with the racy
anecdotes related by the Doctor in his inmitable
1t to be wished however, for the sake of
he outsiders that he had been exact in his English
composition which, sooth say sins often against gram
mar and idiom With regard his Latin quotations,
which superabound, tolerate the poets as they
heather and knew better Style but must
against the orthodox Latin manufactured for home
and therefore call the Doctors attention
the samples exhibited in pages 90 g. y, l03 216
06 &C. 1t may be well polish up these rough gems
10 as TO sparkle in a second edition. O.. =