for the moment in which the arm of the Lord should be revealed. Twice had the sun gone down upon the earth, and all, as yet, was quiet at the sepulchre. Death held his sceptre over the Son of God; still and silent, the hours passed on; the guards stood by their post, the rays of the midnight moon gleamed on their helmets, and on their spears : the enemies of Christ exulted in their success; the hearts of his friends were sunk in despondency and sorrow; the spirits of glory waited in anxious suspense to behold the event, and wondered at the depths of the ways of God. At length the morning star arising in the east, announced the approach of light: the third day began to dawn upon the world, when, on a sudden, the earth trembled to its centre and the powers of heaven were shaken; an angel of God descended, the guards shrunk back from the terror of his presence, and fell prostrate on the ground: "his countenance was like light ning, and his raiment was white as snow." He rolled away the stone from the door of the sepulchre and sat upon it. But who is this that cometh forth from the tomb, with died garments from the bed of death? He that is glorious in his appearance, walking in the greatness of his strength? It is thy Prince, O Zion; Christian, it is your Lord: He hath trodden the wine-press alone, he hath stained his raiment with blood; but now, as the first born from the

womb of nature, he meets the morning of his resurrection. He arises a conqueror from the grave; he returns with blessings from the world of spirits; he brings salvation to the sons of men. Never did the returning sun usher in a day so glorious; it was the jubilee of the universe. The morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted aloud for joy; the Father of mercies looked down from his throne in the heavens; with complacency he beheld his world restored; he saw his work that it was good. Then did the desert rejoice; the face of nature was gladdened before him, when the blessings of the Eternal descended as the dew of heaven for the refreshing of the nations.

"Now we know that our souls are independent of death; and in the same scene we may discover the pledge of God, that they shall be again embodied. The desolation which sin introduced into the kingdom of God is destined to meet entire redress from him who finished transgression.

The revocation of the doom of death, the reunion of the spiritual substance with its material organ in the glories of perfection and immortality, is that final restitution of all things which the majesty of God seems to require, and of which he hath given assurance to men, in that he hath raised Jesus from the dead."

"The Resurrection of Jesus," Thomas Hardy, D.D.

THE original article CONNECTICUT is more correct than articles of American geography usually are in this work. Additions containing useful information are made; and the statements are generally accurate. In the account of the courts of law, we are informed that the supreme court of errors has "two stated sessions annually, viz. on the Tuesdays of the weeks preceding the stated sessions of the General Assembly." This is incorrect. The supreme court of errors sits but once a year, viz. on the first Tuesday of June, after the spring session of the Assembly. It would have been desirable that more knowledge should have been obtained, and inserted, in this article; but if we compare it with what has been inserted on similar subjects, there is more occasion for praise than censure. Under the word CONTAGION, the American editors have insert ed a considerable addition, in which they attempt to shew that the yellow fever and the plague are not contagious diseases. They seem to take it to be established beyond all question, that their theory is correct. We only say, that it would quiet the fears of many of our countrymen could they be made to believe in this doctrine.

From the article COOPER, Lord Shaftesbury, thoughwholly original, we take the liberty of citing a few passages, which shew in a clear point of view, how those who call themselves liberal

and candid writers, endeavor to pervert the minds of their readers, in those miserable daubings of character, which they call biography. It is scarcely necessary

to mention that Lord Shaftesbury was an active infidel through his whole life, that he was guilty of the vile hypocrisy of professing great friendship for christianity while attempting to overthrow it, and that his principles tended to the destruction of all virtue. Notwithstanding all this, when his life comes to be written for the Biographia Britannica, by a minister of that gospel on which he had cast systematic contempt, and when it comes to be transcribed and abridged for this Cyclopædia by another minister of the same gospel, nothing is said to warn the young of the snares spread for their souls by this artful destroy. er, nothing of the flimsy sophistry and glaring contradictions which he has endeavored to conceal under splendid language and elab. orate composition, and nothing of the guilt attending the man who labors to disseminate false. hood and error among his fellow men. On the contrary he is praised as a disinterested patriot and a sincere inquirer after truth and virtue. Take as samples the following passages :

ment, lord ASHLEY" (his title at that time) "was indefatigable in the promotion and support of every measure in favor of liberty, without regard to the person by whom it was introduced, influenced unquestionably by an attention to the

"During the remainder of that Parlia

from the disadvantages (i. e. the punishments) of vice:

That those are censurable, who represent the gospel as a fraud (or imposition ;)

That he hopes the discourses of Dr. Whichcot will reconcile the enemies of christianity to it, and make Christians prize it more highly than before; and

That he hopes Christians will be secured against the temper of the irreconcileable enemies of the faith of the gospel; and yet

He represents salvation as a ridiculous thing; and insinuates, That Christ was influenced, and directed, by deep designs of ambition, and cherished a savage zcal and persecuting spirit; and

That the Scriptures were a mere artful invention to secure a profitable monopoly (i. e. of sinister advantages to the inventors :)

That man is born to religion, piety, and adoration, as well as to honor and friendship;

That virtue is not complete without piety; yet

He labors to make virtue wholly independent of piety:

That all the warrant for the authority of religious symbols (i.e. the institutions of christian. ity) is the authority of the magistrate :

That the magistrate is the sole judge of religious truth, and of Revelation:

That miracles are ridiculous; and

ought to be received when estab. lished by the magistrate; yet

He grossly ridicules it, where it was thus established:

That religion and virtue appear to be so nearly connected, that they are presumed to be inseparable companions; and yet

That atheists often conduct so well, as to seem to force us to confess them virtuous :

That he, who denies a God, sets up an opinion against the very well being of society, and yet

That atheism has no direct natural tendency to take away a just sense of right and wrong:

That atheism is greatly deficient in promoting virtue; and That the natural tendency of it is to take away a just sense of right and wrong.”

VOL. X. P. 2.

THE account given of St. Paul's two Epistles to the CORINTHIANS is selected with great propriety and judgment. The pertinency of the topics which the apostle introduces, and the evidencewhichthese epistles afford in support of the Christian religion, are very clearly exhibited. Wegive this approbation with more readiness, as many articles relative to the Scriptures, and the truths they contain, are written in a manner which we are far from approv. ing. The authors cited are Doddridge, Whitby, and Paley. No additions are made to the original article.

We were much surprised to find that the article COTTON has received no additions whatever

That ridicule itself must be brought to the test of reason:

That the Christian religion

subjects so interesting to this country, as the cultivation of a staple commodity, it surely is not too much to expect that some

labor and expense should be cheerfully bestowed by the publisher of an edition so important in itself, and so abundantly profitable to him, as the work under review. We beg leave to remind him of the following sentences in the advertisement, which accompanied the first number.

"As, however, all European publica tions are susceptible of amendment and addition in those parts, at least, which relate to the United States, the American

editor has engaged, in the various

departments of science and literature, the assistance of gentlemen, whose talents and celebrity do honor to their country, and will essentially enrich this great and important work.

To the article American Biography, which has been very greatly not to say entirely neglected in all preceding works of the kind, a proper attention will be paid in the present."

These promises we could not but recollect with pain on finding that nothing is said on the culture of Cotton, a subject which might undoubtedly be treated satisfactorily by many gentlemen in the southern states; or on the cause of the astonishing increase of our exportations of this article within the last ten years, a cause not only honora ble to Mr. Whitney, the inventor of the machine for cleaning cotton, but amazingly productive of national wealth. According to the tables from the English edition, it seems that in the year 1799, there were im. ported into London and Liverpool from the United States, about 24,000 bales of cotton of 300 pounds each; and that in 1806, these importations had increased to 105,000, more than half of all the cotton brought to England that year. The great cause of this increase is the possession of Mr. Whitney's ma

chine by the planters in the southern states. So important is this invention, that, as we are informed from good authority, four times as much cotton can be raised now, in many parts of Georgia and the Carolinas, as could have been raised with the same labor before the invention. In a cause decided in the circuit court of the United States, between Mr. Whitney and the violators of his patent, judge Johnson, in giving the opinion of the court, declared, that this machine had added one hundred millions of dollars to the value of the single state of Georgia; and that he could prove this assertion to any man's satisfaction by arithmetical cal. culation. Yet this invention almost unparalleled in its conse. quences, is not even mentioned by the American publisher. Nor have we found any reference to any other subsequent article, for further information. The least that a regard to propriety would have required in this place, is, we think, an authentic and full ac count of the culture of Cotton, of its preparation for market, and of Mr. Whitney's machine, with a delineation of it on a plate.

Under the word COVENANT, in Theology, the English editor seems to deny that "a constitution, such as that which some divines have supposed to be the covenant with Adam, whereby all mankind should become ob. noxious to eternal misery for the transgression of one common head, is consistent with divine justice." The denial is not di rect in terms; but the whole paragraph taken together a mounts to a denial. The Amer