The Portland daily press., 1875-04-28
Recent Publications.


body, Professor of Christian Morals in Harvard
University. Published by Roberts Bros. Boston.
For sale by Loring, Short 8 Harmon.
The sermons, full of.rpe. sweet wisdom. that
make up this choice volume, were not written
or publication, but simply with view to their
delivery in the Sunday service of the college
chapel. ali ~ JOS
Ii is perhaps hardly possible to overestimate
the importance of the post held by DR., Pea
body at Harvard, in view of the fact that it
must be the aim of his influence and teaching
to present the dignity and the loneliness of the
christian life with attractive power to success
sive ranks of those who are largely to make
or to mar the near future of our land Chill
dren turn naturally to the highland the disci-
pine of late years will prove both the need
and the worth of Christian faith-but during
that period which finds within the college
walls so many of our finest youths, full with
the ferment of the new, strong wine of life, for
them is need indeed of special provision, that
they may be taught how the faith of the child
can be adjusted to the needs of the self re-
specting man. Coming, moreover. as these
students do, from churches of differing credes
their teacher must be one who chiefly rests in
those essential truths, taught of Christ, and on
which is founded the Church-Broad and High
in the only true sense Of these words His
mental powers and cultivation must command
their respect, since this is the season for the
rapid growth of theirs His sympathies must
be keen, for their life is Astounding and their
temptations strong. Also, since their posi-
bilities are vast, should the compliment of high
expectations and reliance on honor be paid
them-yet held within limits that experience
and charity have set How fully DR.. Peabody,
meets the requirements Of the situation this
volume OF sermons, delivered at Harvard Col
lege. affords new testimony And since their
directness and simplicity are very marked fea'
lures of their strength, and their spirit an an
swer to human needs, they fully appeal to all;
and many a load will be lifted, and many way
be made clear, through the help given in this
little volume 5l5 g. ~ @
THE INTERNAL MISSION OF THE HOLY GHOST. By
Henry Edward, Archbishop of Westminster. New
York d. g. j. Sadlier. g Co. For sale by T. p.
MCGOWAN. .-aLI5L
The utterances of Cardinal Manning, who is
confessedly the best dialectician in the Catho-
lie church, and one of her purest, ablest and
fairest- prelates, are always of great interest.
The scope of the present volume cannot be bet.
ter set forth than in the words IF the author:
SIT deals with the universal Office of the Holy
Ghost in the souls of men. The special office
dates from the Incarnation and the Day OF
Pentecost; the universal Office dates from the
creation and at this day still pervades by its ope
ration the whole race of mankind. The opera
tions of the Holy Ghost have always pervaded
the whole race of men from the beginning, and
they are now in full activity even among those
who are without the Church. have therefore,
in this present volume spoken of the universal
office of which every living man has shared and
does share at this hour; and have tried to
draw the outline of our individual sanctifca-
ton My belief is that these topics have
special fitness in the nineteenth century. They
are the direct antidote both of the hereticai
spirit which is abroad, and OF the unspiritual
and worldly mind of so many Christians. The
presence of the Holy Ghost in the Church is
the source of its infallibility; the presence of
the Holy Ghost in the soul is the source of its
oonctihcafion