Think not so meanly of your soul as to repose your faith upon another; nevertheless, remember that there is a mad independence. Let none contemn his fellows, or refuse their reasonable aid. There are who fail to discern between the budless and the blooming ensigns of authority, and defy Jehovah's earthquake and lightning. God teaches reliance on our fellows to a certain extent. There are limits within which the child must look to the father, and the youth to the tutor, and there is a point where reason must yield to faith. Nature is prone to extremes. Voltaire, prince of infidel darkness, long blinded by authority, bursting the brazen fetters with which his peerless powers had been bound, rashly seized the pillars of truth, and said, "I will be avenged for my two eyes." He was to be pitied; but not more than he who, in consideration of some authority he courts or dreads, bars the truth that struggles in the prison of his conscience.

5. Imagination has had much influence in perverting the truth. Men seek to introduce the fine arts into the house of God. Because Athens had her Jupiter, Rome must have her Peter-because Asia had her Diana, Europe must have her " "Mary." The fine arts have their sphere, and it is great and gorgeous. Let the Athenian mold Apollo with his curling locks, his wreathed brows, and his armed hands-let Polycletus shape Juno with her broad forehead, and her large eyes, as she holds in one hand the pomegranate, and in the other, the cuckoosurmounted ensign of royalty-let Phidias hew Jupiter crowned with olive, seated on his throne, with his sceptre and his eagle-or frame Minerva full armed, and carve battles on her buckler, a sphynx and a griffin on her helmet, and a Medusa on her ægis; let him sculpture even her golden sandals with conflicts, and represent a score of deities beneath her feet, we will not complain, nor shall we wonder, if on asking the poor Pagan, "For what intent?" he should reply, "To add new feelings to the religion of Greece." Nor will we curse him should we see

represent the burning bush before which Moses unbound his sandals, and the mount that burned amid blackness, and darkness, and tempest, even the glory that passed by when the Mediator of the covenant was hid in the cleft of the rock-it would lend color{ing to the Invisible, and relievo to the Eternal-it would make a show of the Father, and lead us to love him by apparitions of his son. Restrain not that image of God which Scripture presents, and which because unlimited, admits of expansion for ever.

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Many, from a laudable desire to make the truth attractive to the tasteful and the fashionable, have attempted to ornament it. Ornament! What! would you tie ribbons to the sun? The characters of Scripture have been made the interlocutors of the drama, and even represented upon the stage. Disgusting profanation-like administering baptism to a dog. The oracles which God hath immured with dread by putting into them his holy name-that name which rends rocks, shakes hell, emparadises heaven, have been borne on the shoulders of giant genius up the steeps of Helicon, to be the sport of fantastic wanderings through illusive groves, and by intoxicating fountains. And poetry hath apologized for her daring, by assuming that the divine Being needed the aid of fantasy "to justify his ways to man." absurdity married to recklessness! Poetry justify— argue-investigate? Poesy has her walk. She possesses wit, imagination, and sensibility. Bring folly and she can satirize-beauty and she can paint-vice and she can declaim; blow a trumpet, and like Achilles in Scyros, she'll rattle the armor; close all her senses, and she'll plume her wings for boundless flight. But in investigation she hath ever been as Polyphemus, one-eyed or eyeless. What of sacred poetry? That is an exception. David, Isaiah, &c., like the angel that appeared to Manoah ascended upward in the altar's flames. I may be thought to despise what all the world worshipeth. Milton had an eagle genius, and its flights were of surpassing sublimity, but better had it perched in other garden than that guarded by cherubic sword-better spread its wing of light on other darkness than the "blackness of darkness"-better performed its gyrations in other firmament than that irradiated by the Eternal throne. I know he is considered steady in the main, and it is a wonder how his inflated spirit, in her sightless flights, could so well baffle the sportive winds. We will continue this subject in the next number.

NOTICES. PHILANTHROPY; or, My Mother's Bible. New York: Harper & Brothers.-This is an interesting and well written little work, designed to impress the heart with the duty of aiding the poor and afflicted. It is said to be founded on an incident which happened in New York, and we have no reason to doubt the statement.

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JOURNEY TO ARARAT. By Friederich Parrot, Professor, &c. With Map and Wood Cuts. Translated by W. D. Cooley. New York: Harper & Brothers.Great interest attaches to Ararat, and to its first ascent. The volume before us is full of instruction as well as interest. The result of the late M. Parrot's scientific investigations are here given complete; but the figures and formula with which they were accompanied have been retrenched, so that this part of the work is reduced to one-fourth of its original bulk. On the determination of one physico-geographical problem of great importance the relative level of the Caspian Sea-M. Parrot exercised, by observation and discussion, the greatest influence. His papers on this subject are, therefore, given at length, and a short account of the definitive settlement of the question is added in the appendix."

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We do not call in question the motives of the Harpers in publishing the trash which now and then issues from their press. Perhaps if we had their optics, and occupied their stand-point, we should see that such things are right; but we confess, with our limited powers, and means of information, we could not publish such works as Criminal Trials, Mysteries of Paris, Wandering Jew, &c., for the reason contained in the following:

"Vice is a monster of such hideous mien,
That to be hated needs but to be seen;

But seen too oft, familiar with his face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." How much better were the world if our literature, instead of holding up before the young exhibitions of human frailties and vices, presented only pictures of excellences and virtues for their admiration and emulation.

GARDINER'S FARMER'S DICTIONARY. New York: Harper & Brothers.-This is not only a vocabulary of the technical terms introduced into agriculture and horticulture from various sciences, but also a compendium of practical farming. It seems to have been compiled with great care and ability, and it must be a valuable if not indispensable book in the library of every intelli

THE HISTORY OF JOHN MARTEN. A Sequel to the Life of Henry Milner. By Mrs. Sherwood. New York: Harper & Brothers.-We have not read the work, but presume it is a good one. The subject, we understand, is the trials of a young minister.

MEMOIR OF THE LATE ALEXANDER PROUDFIT, D. D. By John Forsyth, D. D., Minister of Union Church, Newburg. New York: Harper & Brothers.Dr. Proudfit was a man of great excellence and useful

ness.

The record of his inward and outward experience, and the exhibition of his self-denying labors, are calculated to promote the edification of the Church.

NARRATIVE OF REMARKABLE CRIMINAL TRIALS. Translated from the German of Anselm Ritter Von Feuerback, by Lady Duff Gordon. New York: Harper & Brothers.-The Harpers publish a great many good books, and not a few bad ones. Of the latter we consider the one before us an example. Ifvished to produce crime, we would seize upon such works and scatter them broadcast over the world. We should anticipate, from such sowing, a harvest of thefts and murders with as much confidence as we should expect a crop of wheat from sowing that grain upon good soil. Familiarity with crime diminishes our abhorrence of it, while it increases our facilities and temptations to its commission. He who associates with criminals generally becomes a criminal. So contaminating is vice that, even in prisons where the inmates are forbidden to speak to each other by day, and are confined in separate cells by night, few men remain long without becoming confirmed rascals. Even the guards and keepers of chain-gangs and prisons often acquire both aptitude and inclination to deeds of daring criminality; for they lose all commiseration for the suffering, and all terror of the law. We generally pass over in disgust all accounts of crime, duels, executions, criminal trials, confessions, &c., with which our papers are crowded, and we usually burn, without reading, all pamphlets and books filled with such matter when they come into our possession.

cannot be fully understood by the general reader without such a work as this. Where, for instance, would he find an explanation of the term, "eremacausis?" Neither in the common dictionary nor the encyclopedia. By referring to the Farmer's Dictionary, he will learn that it is derived from erema, slow, and kausis, combustion; that it was invented by Liebig, to express the moldering or dry rot of organic matter freely exposed to the oxygen of the atmosphere, and merely moistened with water, &c.

It is folly to object to the introduction of new terms: they are the necessary results of advances in science.

The farmer should, therefore, acquaint himself with them, in order to keep pace with the progress of agricultural information, and to be prepared to communicate to others additions to the stock of knowledge. In studying his vocabulary, he will find himself introduced into various departments of science, where he will be capable of giving as well as receiving light.

We rejoice to see attempts to establish a suitable nomenclature in agriculture, as it will bring into communion the scientific and the practical farmer, and greatly promote their mutual advantage. The author of the present work has availed himself of the works of Rham, Loudon, Low, Stephens, and others; but he has the merit of originality in arrangement, and he has done service by so modifying the essays he has introduced as to make them of increased practical value in this country.

A GRAMMAR OF THE LATIN LANGUAGE. By C. G. Zumpt, Ph. D. From the Ninth Edition of the Original. Adapted to the Use of English Students by Leonard Schmitz, Ph. D. Corrected and Enlarged by C. Anthon, LL. D.-This is an elaborate and philosophical work, better adapted to the college than the academy-the scholar than the pupil.

A UNIVERSAL PRONOUNCING GAZETTEER. By Thos. Baldwin, assisted by several other Gentlemen. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blackiston.-We are disposed to think this a very valuable book. In regard to orthoepy, the rule adopted in the work is to give the pronunciation

of all geographical names as they are pronounced by the well educated people of the respective countries to which they belong, with the exception of those wellknown foreign names which appear to have acquired a fixed English pronunciation. In cases where the native pronunciation of other countries cannot be given by means of English letters, an approximation to their sound has been attempted. The patrials are generally given in the work. Some attention is devoted to the signification of names, particularly of those derived from the Greek or Latin. In regard to spelling, as names of places in oriental countries are often variously spelled, owing to the various modes in which the western nations respectively pronounce them, an attempt has been made in this work to give the true orthography.

In relation to descriptive, statistical, and historical matter, the work appears to have been carefully compiled from the latest and best authorities. "A great number of the latitudes and longitudes have been taken from the Connaissances des Tems, published by the Bureau of Longitude, Paris, in which work they are generally stated with extraordinary accuracy. The confusion into which many works have fallen, in stating distances, by giving measure, sometimes English, sometimes foreign, has been avoided in the work, in which measures are all stated according to the English standard."

EDITOR'S TABLE.

Near Dayton, O., March 30. In the March number of the Repository, Professor Larrabee requested any of his readers who had a copy of a beautiful poem, commencing,

"My native hills, far, far away,

Your tops in living green are bright," &c.,

to send him a copy. As I happen to have one in my scrap-book, you would probably confer a favor on him, and, at the same time, delight many of your readers, by inserting a copy in your excellent Repository.

ESTHER J. MATTHEWS.

THE EMIGRANT.

My native hills, far, far away,
Your tops in living green are bright;
And meadow, glade, and forest gray,

Bask in the long, long summer light;
And blossoms still are gaily set
By shaded fount and rivulet.

O, that these feet again might tread
The slopes around my native home,
With grass and mingled blossoms spread,
Where cool the western breezes come,
To fan the fainting traveler's brow!
Alas! I almost feel them now.
Would that mine eyes again might see
Those planted fields and forests deep-
The tall grass waving like a sea-

The white flocks scattered o'er the steep-
The dashing brooks-and o'er them bent
The high and boundless firmament!
Fair are the scenes that round me lie,
Bright shines the glad and glorious sun,
And sweetly crimsoned is the sky

At twilight, when the day is done:
And the same stars look down at even
That glitter in my native heaven.
On wide savannahs, round me spread,

A thousand blossoms meet mine eye;

The red rose meekly bows its head,

As balmy winds go dancing by;
And wild deer on the green bluffs play,
That rise in dimness far away.
Majestic are those streams that glide

O'ershadowed by continued wood,
Save where the lone glade opens wide-
Where erst the Indian hamlet stood;
But sweeter streams with sweeter song
In home's green valley glide along.
And there, when summer's heaven is clear,
Sweet voices echo through the air;
For children's feet press softly near,
And joyous hearts are beating there,
While I, afar from home and rest,
Thread the vast rivers of the west.
Oft, in my dreams, before me rise

Fair visions of those scenes so dear—
The cottage home, the vale, the skies-

And rippling murmurs greet mine ear,
Like sound of unseen brook, that falls
Through the long mine's unlighted halls.
As down the deep Ohio's stream

We glide before the whispering wind,
Though all is lovely as a dream,

My wandering thoughts still turn behind-
Turn to the loved, the blessed shore,

Where dwell the friends I meet no more.

THE EDITOR'S RESIGNATION.-Having received an appointment from the Trustees of the Ohio Wesleyan University, and having been requested by the North Ohio and Ohio conferences (explicitly by the former and indirectly by the latter) to accept it, I not only feel authorized to resign the editorship of this periodical, but I do not feel at liberty to do otherwise; more especially, since, by retaining it, I should seem to consult my comfort and pecuniary interest more than what my brethren deem the interest of the Church. A more pleasant post than my present one could hardly be assigned me.

As my brethren in the itinerancy are laboring under many cares, responsibilities, and burdens, when they ask me to assume my share of toil and trouble, I must do so without reluctance. I have not taken my pen in hand to write a valedictory; for I shall edit at least two numbers more; but to advise my readers and correspondents in due time of the change which will occur in this office. Professor Tefft, of the Indiana Asbury University, will succeed me; and, I have no doubt, will not merely sustain, but elevate the work. His habits, his taste, and his scholarship, all admirably fit him for the editorial chair.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.-C -Our correspondents are not, perhaps, aware that, owing to our arrangements with New York, we are obliged to anticipate the issue of the work. The number for June is made up, and that for July is nearly so. It is not probable that we shall be able to use any matter which we may receive after the issue of the present number. Correspondents may, however, be assured that whatever they may send will be preserved and handed to our successor.

TO READERS.-Our readers, we think, will find this number good-better than usual. Bishop Morris' article will not only interest the reader, but will suggest many useful reflections. "Parental Duties" is from a skillful pen, and expresses the result of much experience in the training of youth. The Exile is thrilling. But read through and judge for yourselves.