The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-03-13
VOL. x.

ises, and hence may dissent from his conclu.
sions; for it would be strange indeed, if he, like
all other men, did not fall into mistakes. His
opponents, however, must respect his earnest
seriousness of manner, and the solid show. a,
least, which the fortress they attack, while he
is its defender, offers to their view. The present
volume discusses, but most reverently, themes
OF high import, and those on which there is a
heaven'wide difference between belief and dis.
belief. The work, too, is Suggestive charac.
teristic of book, by man who thinks and
wishes his readers to think. While he main
tains what we believe to be the scripturaI view,
of good and evil angels, satanic agency and in.
fuences, of demoniacs, &c, he ct the sams
time rebukes the foolish ideas which have bas,
preached and believed, and that no doubt sr.
still, to some extent, superstitiously maintained
of compacts with the devil and evil spirit, il,
reyy person, at the present day. The subiao,
of temptation Of our Saviour, which of coYrs.
has its peculiar characteristics. aud Of his ca
lowers, is ably treated. There is a deep seriops.
ness of appeal in the few words which, in mss.
ing, on almost every page, he directly or n5;.
rectly brings home to the conscience: al
though but a small volume, it has the coDde,soJ
power which many larger ones cannot boast If
One word, however, to our good friends tla
publishers; and we entreat them to throw in At
least one or two blank leaves between the iplev
or end of every book, and the advertising lis,
1t is quite an eye-sore in good book to So.
such proximity to the mental, of the mar-
commercial, however useful for trade it may T.
to affix such catalogues to their books. 5.
THE GOSPEL EzKKrEL. Illustrated in Series q, D.
courses. BY the Rev. Thomas Guthrie. ID D. I...
burgh. New York: Robert Carter 4 Brothers T.,
sale by Gray Baantyne, Washington. d. c
We have sometimes been ready to ask o.-.
selves the question, Has the mantle Of D.,
Chalmers fallen on any Of his associates ort,4
Free Church Of Scotland? Has there be-,
an Elisha to succeed to that Elijah whose fin,
bore him upward, as on the chariot sent to him
from God2 And we say not double portion.
but has an equal portion to his glorious sriri,
been given some other who now leads. as h.
once did, the devoted and selfsacrifcing SEP.
wants of his Lord, in founding a new and Re-.
formed Kirk in the land of John Knox and O.,
rutherford? We know of none; and vet, from
time to time new names meet our eve. and va
are permitted to hail the first appearauc.
among us of products of minds of rare exec.
lence, if we may be allowed to estimate then
by the sterling qualities with which they enrich
their writings. DIR. Guthrie is one of thesa.
We have never before had our attention called
to his name or his authorship; though, sine
the issue of this book, we have seen him term.
ed the greatest and most eloquent living preach.
er Of Scotland. The title of his book is Or.
of promise. The latent spirit Of the Ncic in
the Old Testament, as it is developed by ore
and another, who from the fuller light of the
Christian dispensation can see and rejoice in
what broke but dimly on the earnest gaze Of
patriarchs and prophets, helps US better to
perceive the symmetry of the whole, that, as
time rolls on, will stand forth i'll all its majestic
and before unimagined proportions. The stern
old prophet, in whom we have often noted the
seer of visions of wondrous grandeur-those
"living creatures" those wheels Of mysterious
involutions, those cherubim, and the whole Of
that imagery which awe us, and make US hold
our breath to let them pass, SO graphic is the
description. Ezekiel here comes to us, too az
messenger Of God, with the "glad tidings"
that after ages heard pealng down from heaven
on the plains of Bethlehem, and pouring forth
from thence by Apostles and the Church Of
Christ to every land. We are much pleased
with DR. Gnth-;A's .-.oIe OF handling his sub
ject. He mingles finely the doctrinal with The
practical. He is man earnest for the truth
lie knows how to probe the conscience, and
make bare the guilt and turpitude of sinh
man. He lays no fattering JUNCTION to healup
the old sore, while he leaves poison still enyen.
oming there. He has no words of peace, peace,
when there can be no peace but is ever really
with the true balm Of Gilead, when. and not
till then, it can do good. His discourses are
not critical expositions. They are downright,
urgent applications Of Bible truths TO the pres.
emit wants of dying men. Without any evident
seeking for them, admirable illustrations seem
% present themselves unbidden, and enliven
every page. 1t is book, from which, as yon
turn over the leaves, it would be easy to ez.
tract nu~ beriess Passages, which, thus culled,
would form rich collection of tboupbts. and
often marked witt much frtsbness and s;,nIe
beauty of language. We hope this hook will
have a wide circulation. II deserv.s :, and
the trophies which through. the author NAV
bear up to the throne Of the ,reot .Iudco -
All, as it becomes more and NOR, kno,,n oon.
not be few. If be breaches in tp,rv resnoct
as well as he writes, they who envy DR.. Gptb.
rie's ministratiOns are favored peple. 3.