effects of the faith delivered to the saints which we have noticed: these, all of them, are found associated still, with the evangelical system; and none of them with the liberal system. Is, then, the liberal system, the faith once delivered to the saints? Why does it not produce the same effects which that produced? Has the Gospel changed its nature, or lost its power; or has human nature changed, or is the liberal system, another Gospel? Ponder well this subject, for the judge is at the door; and the day will burst upon us soon, that will try every man's faith, and heart, and work. pp. 263-265. The sermon on the resources of the adversary, &c.-is less finished than any other in the volume. The plan is worthy of the author; but in the illustration of some of the parts there is less copiousness of thought, and power of argument and persuasion, than we were prepared to expect. Still there are passages conceived in his happiest manner. The following sentences in the introduction are multum in parvo, and worthy of being read again and again by all the Sadducees of the age. I am aware, that with some, the doctrine of fallen angels is but an eastern allegory; and the idea of a conflict between the creature and Creator, ridiculous and unworthy of the divine supremacy. I can only say, that if there be not an order of sinful intelligences above men, the Bible is one of the most deceptive books ever written. The entire history of the world shows, that human depravity, though operating in accordance with the laws of mind, is yet methodised and wielded with a comprehension of plan, wholly inexplicable upon the principle of accidental coincidence among men. That there should have been a system of well constructed opposition to the Gospel, varying with circumstances, and comprehending the great amount of bad moral influence which has existed with out some presiding intellect, is as improbable, as that all the particles of matter which compose the universe, should have fallen into their existing method and order by merc accident, and without the presiding intellect of the Deity. And as to moral competition between the creature and the Creator, it exists, even if there be no fallen angels. It is a matter of fact before our eyes-a matter of experience too-that the carnal mind is enmity against God: and that God, in Christ, is reconciling the world to himself. It should be remembered also, that when God has formed moral beings, even he can govern them, as such, only by moral influence, and in accordance with the laws of mind; mere omnipotence being as irrelevant to the government of mind, as moral influence, would be to the government of the material universe. Nor must it be forgotten, that an alienated world requires more moral power for its restoration than that of simple law, which proved insufficient to maintain its allegiance. It troduced and applied, as to corroborate requires a new moral influence so inlaw, and strengthen the loyalty of all the good, while rebels are reconciled and pardoned. The reconciliation, through Christ, of such a world as this, in opposition to the rooted aversion of every heart, the concentrated power of social wickedof mighty intelligences, principalities, ness, and the ceasless counteraction and powers, does not seem to us an achievement unworthy of that Being, who numbers the hairs of our head. By prophets and apostles, it is represented as exhibiting the heighth and depth, and length and breadth, of the wisdom, and goodness, and power of God. pp. 268, 269. We will add only two other passages from the same sermon-the former a striking statement of a common argument, and the other a suggestion which we fervently wish to see regarded in a manner corresponding to the importance of the subject, by all the parents, and teachers of youth in our country. We have no authority for saying, what said, that God, if he pleased, could some, without due consideration, have doubtless in a moment convert the whole heathen world without the Gospel. It might as well be said, that he can, if he please, burn without fire, or drown without water, or give breath without atmosphere, as that he can instruct intellectual beings without the means of knowledge, and influence moral beings without law and motive, and thus reclaim an alienated world without the knowledge and moral power of the Gospel. It is no derogation from the power of God, that to produce results, it must be exerted by means adapted to the constitution of things which himself has established. God has no set time to favor the husbandman, but when he is diligent in business; and no set time to favor Zion, but whon her servants favor her stones and take pleasure in the dust thereof. From the beginning, the cause of God on earth has been maintained and carsied forward only by the most heroic exertions. Christianity, even in the age of miracles, was not propagated but by stupendous efforts. And it is only by a revival of primitive zeal and enterprise, that the glorious things spoken of the city of our God can be accomplished.pp. 280, 281. Special effort is required, to secure to the rising generation an education free from the influence of bad example, and more decidedly evangelical. The atmosphere which our children breathe, from the cradle upward, should be pure. Instead of this, it would not be difficult to find common schools, in which ignorance and irreligion predominate. Even where the intellect is cultivated, the heart not unfrequently is corrupted, and the child made wise only to do evil. In a great proportion of the higher schools, to which Christians send their children, little exists of a decidedly religious tendency; while in some, a powerful influence is exerted against evangelical sentiments and piety. And though in many of our colleges there is a salutary religious influence, and repeated revivals of religion are enjoyed, in none is the influence of religion so decisive as it might be ; while in some, to which pious parents send their children, the influence is directly and powerfully hostile to religion. I am aware, that not a few regard religious influence in our colleges as already too great, and that an effort is making to separate religion from science, during the progress of a collegiate education. And those who choose to rear colleges, and send their offspring where the power of the Gospel shall be excluded, have, doubtless, a right to do so-answerable for their conduct only to God. But no Christian can do this without violating the vows of God which are upon him, to train up his child in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. And, instead of a compromise in the evangelical colleges of our land, there should be, as easily there may be, a more decided tone of religious influence. Our colleges should every one of them be blessed, not only with preaching, but with kind, discreet, and assiduous pastoral instruction and care. Why should these precious communities of inexperienced youth, separated from parental inspection, and exposed to peculiar temptations, be deprived of the watchful eye and parental voice of pastoral exhortation and advice? What parent would not pray with more faith, and sleep more quietly, if he knew that some one, acquainted with the youthful heart, and appointed to watch over his child, had gained his confidence and affection, and was praying and laboring for his salvation? There is no period in life when the heart may be more sucessfully assailed, than that which is passed in a college. And there is no class of human beings, among whom revivals may be promoted, by proper pastoral attention, with greater certainty, or with greater power and glory. Nor can it be expected, that the church will ever look forth fair as the morning, until effectual care is taken, that in her higher schools and colleges, her children shall be induced to consecrate to God the dew of their youth.PP. 287, 288. Address to the Public, by the MANAGERS of the Colonization Society of Connecticut: with an Appendix. New-Haven. THE Colonization Society of Connecticut was formed a year since, and held its first anniversary meeting at New-Haven, on the 6th of May. In place of its first Report, it sends forth this appeal in behalf of the cause of African Colonization, in the hope of increasing and giving efficiency to that interest in the object which is known to exist, but which exists, we fear, too much as a passive affection of the mind merely, among the benevolent of this State. It is remarked, that while our benevolence in regard to every other public object is active-while we give liberally to the cause of Missions, Education, the Bible, the Greeks, &c. and read their journals and talk of their operations and second their appeals, our benevolence in regard to this one great object, among the greatest which could engage the zeal of the Christians of this age and country, as a future age will show, is apt to rest in a more inoperative sympathy: we give little and do little for the millions of the degraded children of Africa-our own millions and hers. And yet this cause more than most others needs in its infancy, friends and funds, and the favoring influence of the public voice-we say, in its infancy, because it is a consideration in favor of the Colonization Society, that while other enterprises must continue to draw more largely on the funds of public benevolence, as they advance in their operations, this will draw less. The cause will soon support itself, and like a grateful beneficiary, it will pay back into the treasury of Christian philanthropy, through various channels, and with large interest all the charities which shall have been bestowed upon it. We hope therefore that this Address, and the Society which, pub lishes it, will have the effect of adding action to our sympathy for the Africans. The Address is well calculated to produce this effect, being a forcible exhibition of the condition of the blacks in this country, and of the claims, and objects and bearings of the American Society. We make one or two extracts. The first respecting the prospects of the Afri cans in this country. It is taken for granted that in present circumstances any effort to produce a general and thorough amelioration in the character and condition of the free people of color must be to a great extent fruitless. In every part of the United States there is a broad and impassable line of demarkation between every man who has one drop of African blood in his veins and every other class in the community. The habits, the feelings, all the prejudices of society-prejudices which neither refinement, nor argument, nor education, nor religion itself can subdue-mark the people of color, whether bond or free, as the subjects of a degradation inevitable and incurable. The African in this country belongs by birth to the very lowest station in society; from that station be can never rise, be his talents, his enterprise, his virtues, what they may. In consequence of this it is that they are what they are. The wonder is that in such circumstances, they are not far worse. And so long as they must be deeply and incurably degracontinue in these circumstances they ded. We have only to compute the extent, the variety, the power of the motives which are brought to bear upon the mind of every man who is truly a freeman, and at the same time recollect how few of these motives speak to the mind of the black man bond or free; and we see that the colored population of this country thus degraded by circumstances and degraded in public estimation, must be, as a mass, degraded in spirit, degraded in all their habits, degraded by ignorance and indolence and want of thrift, and degraded by vice. What motive has the black man to cultivate his mind. Educate him and you have added little or nothhim for the society and sympathies of ing to his happiness-you have unfited his degraded kindred, and yet you have not procured for him and cannot procure for him any admission into the society and sympathy of white men. What motive has the black man to be industrious? He can supply all his physical wants without industry; and beyond the supply of his immediate physical wants, he has little inducement to look. Would you set before him the prospect of wealth as a motive to industrious enterprise? But of what value is wealth to him? Wealth can secure a sort of respectability for the ignorant and rude, and even for the vicious; it can half atone for crimes against the happiness of society; but it can do nothing for the black man. Would you urge him to frugality and diligence by the prospect of making provision for his children? But if neither education nor property can do any thing for him, education and property can do as little for his children after him. Would you set before him the importance of a good character? But of how much value is character to him who stands now, and must always stand in the lowest order of society? It is this degradation of the condition of our free colored population dition of our free colored population which ensures their degradation of character, and their degration of character re-acts to make their condition still inore degraded. They constitute a class by themselves a class out of which no individual can be elevated, and below which, none can be depressed. And this is the difficulty, the invariable and insuperable difficulty in the way of every scheme for their benefit. Much can be done for themmuch has been done; but still they are, and in this country always must be a depressed and abject race. pp. 5, 6. It is plain enough that the Africans can never rise to any tolerable condition in this country. Neither affluence nor character, can be theirs on this side of the waters which divide them from their native land. Most of them do not even think of respectability; or if they do, they think of it only with that despair which an almost venerable old slave expressed, who still lives, or lately lived, on one of the islands along our Southern coast. He was a prince in his own country, and was by education, as well as by birth, much above his countrymen; he spoke the Arabic language, which he still retained, along with his adherence to the religion of Mahomet,—— knowing only Allah and his Prophet in his "house of bondage," where indeed his experience of the influence of the Christian religion was little calculated to win him to a better faith. Being asked if he did not desire to return to his own land and claim again the honors which were his birth-right, he sorrowfully replied, surveying a form bent down and degraded by many years of servitude, "No,--me somebody no more!" No, there is no congruity between servitude and honor; the frame that is bowed down to the one, cannot lift up itself to bear the other; the spirit that droops beneath it, cannot breath a more generous atmosphere. There is nothing in a condition uniVersally and indiscriminately abject which is compatible with either social or intellectual or moral worth. There is indeed, neither happiness nor hope for the African in this country. He must be restored to his own land, or what he is now he always will be. You may call him free, you may protect his rights by legislation, you may invoke the spirit of humanity and of Christian benevolence to bless him, but still he is degraded. A thousand malignant influences around him are conspiring to wither all that is manly and noble in his nature. But in Africa he becomes a member of a community in which he is not only free but equal. There he stands up to be a man. There he has a home for himself, and his children. There he looks about him on a soil of unrivalled and almost incredible fertility, on the dark forest already beginning to fall at the approach of civilization, on the varieties of mountain and valley and stream, already known by names dear to freedom and benevolence, on all the magnificence and luxurience of that tropical land, he can feel that there is his home, the land of his fathers, the refuge of the exile, and that there his children through succeding ages shall enjoy a rich and noble inheritance. There he finds himself moved to industrious and honorable, and virtuous enterprise, by all the motives that inspire and quicken the freemen of our own New-England. Every man of color who removes from the United States to our African Colonies, removes from a land of degradation, from a land where his soul is crushed and withered by the constant sense of inferiority, to a land where he may enjoy all the attributes of manhood and all the happiness of freedom. The successful establishment of these colonies will not only bless the colonists themselves but will react to elevate the standing of those who remain behind. From beyond the Atlantic there will come a light to beam upon the degradation of the negro. known among the colored population Let it be of this country what Africa is, and what advantages it offers to the emigrant; and soon the self same spirit which now lands thousands of suffering Irishmen every year upon our shores, will be yearly landing thousands of our free blacks upon the shores of Africa. p. 8. It is not the establishment of colonies merely which should alone be contemplated in connection with the Colonization Society. There are other interests of not inferior magnitude intimately concerned in the enterprise. Nay we doubt not that it will appear, when the last page of the history of these States, and of Africa, shall have been written, that the benefits resulting to the hundreds or thousands of the emigrants, even if all the oppressed should be removed from among us to a land of freedom and happiness, were among the least of the immeasurable interests which, in the providence of God were involved in the enterprise of African Colonization. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL INTELLIGENCE. Education of Beneficiaries at Yale College. An individual makes the uncommonly munificent offer of paying the tuition of one hundred Beneficiaries at Yale College-amounting to $3,300 a year, for four years. The following Circular is issued by the Connecticut Branch of the American Education Society. The Directors of the Connecticut Branch of the American Education Society, having been employed, for some months, in making arrangements for affording more efficient aid to their Beneficiaries, are enabled through the engagements of Auxiliary Societies and benevolent individuals, to offer the following assistance to their Beneficiaries of Yale College. 1. Any number of Beneficiaries not exceeding one hundred, who shall join either of the classes during the College year commencing Sept. 10, 1828, and ending Sept. 10, 1829, shall receive their tuition, during the whole of their College life free of expense. A similar arrangement it is hoped may be made for future classes. 2. Libraries are provided, from which Beneficiaries and other indigent Students, may enjoy the use of all books studied in College free of expense. 3. A considerable number may have their washing provided for by families in town, without expense to the Society. 4. Aid in clothing may be expected, to a greater or less extent, from the Female Education Society. 5. From sixteen to eighteen hundred dollars a year may be earned by Beneficiaries or other indigent Students, by sawing wood during the hours of exercise; by rendering assistance during the meals in the Hall; for their care of recitation rooms; and for other duties, which will interfere in no degree with the prosecution of their studies. 6. Opportunities are often presented to Beneficiaries of providing in part for their support, by giving private tuition, or by rendering other literary services. At the present time, particularly, five Beneficiaries may receive one hundred dollars each, for occasional assistance of this kind. 7. In the view of the Directors, it is not expedient for their Beneficiaries to become Instructers of schools for a support during their Collegiate course. But to those who qualify themselves for these duties by sound scholarship, frequent opportunities are afforded after they have taken their degrees, of obtaining lucrative and useful stations as Instructers in the higher class of Academies; as very frequent applications for such Instructers are made from time to time to the Officers of the College. By order of the Directors, Ecclesiastical Statistics. The Quarterly Journal of the American Education Society, a work which is very valu |