triumviri to the notice of such of our readers as are lovers of christian biography; assured that they will readily affix Mrs. Lowrie's name to the list of those illustrious females in the Missionary cause, who, both by their lives and their deaths, have promoted the interest of the Redeemer's kingdom in the world.

The Foreign Protestant Pulpit, 8vo. No. I. London. Simpkin and Marshall. THIS new periodical is commenced for the purpose of introducing to English readers the pulpit compositions of the more celebrated defenders of our common faith on the Continent. Without making any critical remarks at present, we venture to bespeak for it the attention of our readers, as calculated to extend the range of their christian sympathies. The present number contains four discourses, two by Krummacher, one by Dr. Malan, and the fourth by J. Grandpierre.

An Apology for Millennarianism. London: Nisbet; and Hamilton, Adams, and Co. 1838.

THIS is at best a modest and well-written exposition of the author's sentiments on this contested point. Whatever may be the opinion of readers in general respecting the doctrine advocated, we are persuaded that all will concede that the author has declared his opinions with clearness and even with ability, and that he merits very unusual praise for his general temperance and liberality of mind towards opponents.

THE EDITOR'S TABLE.

God's History of Man. Sermons preached in Eaton Chapel. By the Rev. J. E. Sabin, B.A. Minister of the Chapel and Rector of Preston Bissett, Bucks. London: Hatchards, Piccadilly. 8vo.

Floreston; or the New Lord of the Manor. London: Joseph Bickerley. The Second Advent of Christ. By W. Urwick, D.D. Dublin: J. Robertson, 3, Grafton Street. London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.

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Authenticated Report of the Discussion between the Rev. T. D. Gregg and the Rev. T. Maguire. Dublin: W. Carson, 92, Grafton Street. 8vo.

Elegy, written in a Country Church-yard. By Gray. Illustrated. Polyglott Edition. London: John Van Voorst, Paternoster Row. 8vo.

The Christian Ministry Contemplated. By J. G. Pike. London: Ward

and Co. 12mo.

Truth made Simple: being a System of Theology for Children. By the Rev. J. Todd. London: Ball, Arnold, and Co. Paternoster Row. 12mo. Post. Seals of the Covenant Opened: or the Sacraments of the Church considered in their Connexion with the Great Doctrines of the Gospel. By J. J. Cummins. London Seeley and Burnside, Fleet Street. 12mo.

The History of Christianity in India, from the Commencement of the Christian Era. By the Rev. James Hough, M. A., F.C. P.S., late Chaplain to the Honourable East India Company, at Madras. In two Volumes. London: Seeley and Burnside, Fleet Street. 8vo.

Hindoo Female Education. By Priscilla Chapman. London: Seeley and Co. Fleet Street. 8vo.

History of the Huguenots from 1598 to 1838. By W. S. Browning. London: W. Pickering, Chancery Lane. Paris: Girard, Brothers, Rue Richelieu. 8vo. The Dukes of Normandy, from the Time of Rollo to the Expulsion of King John by Philip Augustus, of France. By Jonathan Duncan, Esq. B. A. London Rickerby, Sherbourne Lane. 8vo.

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Early Religion, enforced by Anecdotes and Narratives, representing its Importance and Excellence. By J. G. Pike. London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 12mo.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

In the Press, The Voluntary System: or the "Purposes of the Heart"-not the Enactments of Law-the Rule of Christian Devotedness. By Joseph Angus, M.A.; being the Essay to which the prize of 100 guineas, offered by the Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty, has been awarded.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES, AT HOME AND ABROAD.

TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CONGREGATIONAL UNION OF SCOTLAND.

Abridged from the Scottish Congregational Magazine.

THE Annual Meeting of this Institution was held this season in Edinburgh on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, the 7th, 8th, and 9th of May. There was a feeling of much cordiality and brotherly love amongst those who assembled; and we have no doubt they returned to their churches refreshed, and with renewed determination to devote themselves more unreservedly to the work of the Lord.

Widows' Fund.

The Annual Meeting of the Subscribers and Friends to the Scottish Congregational Fund for Widows and decayed Brethren in the Ministry was held in Albany Street Chapel on Wednesday at eleven o'clock, Mr. Robert Kinniburgh in the Chair. From the Report of the Committee, which was read by Mr. Cullen, the Secretary, it appeared that the grants for 1838 amounted to £132, and were paid to seven Widows and five Brethren having claims on the Fund. It is difficult to estimate the benefit arising from the regular, though very limited, allowance thus secured to the twelve families of aged and otherwise comparatively destitute brethren or of widows, for whose relief this Institution makes provision. By having an Equitable and a Charitable Account, with a corresponding division of the Stock, the Society meets all cases, and if generally supported, must become a very great blessing to the churches.

Let it be considered how much anxiety is removed from the minds of many of our brethren, during their labours, by the existence of this Institution. Let it be kept in mind that it supplies a provision which cannot consistently be given from the Home Missionary funds of the Congregational Union, or be expected from the weaker churches, for the support of the families of their deceased pastors or preachers; and it will be acknowledged that this association is well worthy of the zealous support of all who desire the prosperity of the Congregational Body in Scotland.

The statement of Accounts was very satisfactory, and showed an increase of of the general stock since last audit of £153. 2s. 24d.

The Report was adopted on the motion of Mr. John Kennedy, seconded by Mr. Black.

Mr. Frazer, Alloa, moved, and Mr. Tait seconded, a vote of thanks to the Committee, Trustees, Treasurer, and Secretary, for their services during the past year, and their re-appointment, with the substitution of Mr. J. S. Blyth as a Trustee, in the room of Mr. Lethem, deceased.

Theological Academy.

A General Meeting of the friends of the Glasgow Theological Academy was held on Wednesday evening, in Albany Street Chapel Adam Black, Esq. in the chair. After praise and prayer, the Report was read by Mr. Cullen, the Secretary. This Institution is to furnish a suitable education, and in some cases,

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the means of support, to such young men from among the Congregational churches as appear qualified for the work of the ministry. Great care is manifested in the selection of those who are admitted to the Academy. The expenditure last year has exceeded £600. The number of students has greatly increased of late, but is not sufficient to meet the still more numerous applications for supply of preaching from all parts of the country. Some of the students have offered their services to the London Missionary Society, and been accepted. The Report concluded with an intimation that the Committee were engaged in making important arrangements, which they confidently hope will render the Academy more efficient and more extensively useful than ever.

Mr. Campbell of Montrose, moved the adoption of the Report, which Mr. Fordyce, from Newry, seconded.

Mr. Watson, of Musselburgh, moved the cordial thanks of the friends then assembled to Mr. Ewing, Dr. Wardlaw, and Mr. Mackenzie, the tutors, for their services during the past year. Mr. Watson said it was impossible for him adequately to express the obligations under which the churches were laid to their distinguished brethren who continued unto this day,-two of them having, since the formation of the Academy, twenty-eight years ago, most honourably and successfully filled the chairs which they still occupied. He stated, that but for the Academy some of the churches, in all human probability, would have been dispersed, and it would have been impossible to have occupied many stations which are now in a flourishing condition.

Mr. Russell, of Brown Street Chapel, Glasgow, Son of Dr. Russell, of Dundee, who has lately left the Academy, said, "The motion which I have been requested to second, is one that will not require me to say much in support of it. Cordially agreeing, as I do, with the preceding speaker, that we cannot express our gratitude to the Tutors of our Academy, in too strong terms-the duty devolving upon me is one, the discharge of which is easy and agreeable. The senior Tutor, Mr. Ewing, is unable now to meet the students, except once a week, when expositions of portions of Scripture are delivered, and skeletons of sermons read. His presence is always hailed by the class. Though his eye be dim, and his energies failed, yet whenever, either in an exposition or discourse, the grand doctrines of the gospel are introduced, his eye is lighted up; and the thoughts of a heart cheered by his Master's love, are poured forth with the warmth of a veteran in the service.

"Dr. Wardlaw's department is Systematic Theology, for which, all who have read his writings, will. at once admit him to be eminently qualified. His lectures to the class possess that felicity of arrangement, accuracy of thought, and beauty of language, for which he is distinguished. Such lectures are of inestimable value to students of theology. They are trained to think closely, and sift and explore the depths of a question. Some, indeed, who have never made the metaphysics of theology a study, may look upon this part of the course with little interest, and tell us it is of no use. I admit that it would be wrong on every occasion to introduce metaphysics in the pulpit; but they are of essential service in the closet. Inquirers have been satisfied in conversation with a minister, who would not have been so, but for his being able to meet them on their own ground.

"Mr. M'Kenzie's department is Biblical Criticism. During the present Session he has entered very thoroughly into a critical examination of the epistle to the Galatians-tracing in every case the meaning and the use of the important words-and pointing out how beautifully strict exegesis illustrates and throws light upon the argument. This department cannot be too closely attended to, and I know not an individual better qualified for it than our Tutor.

"Mr. M'Kenzie, during the present and succeeding month, is to give lectures on Church History and Geography. At the present day, the study of Church History demands our greatest attention. We appeal, as all denominations do, to the Bible as our ultimate standard; we believe the principles of Congrega

tionalism to be in accordance with that standard; and we with confidence appeal to the history of the Primitive Church, in corroboration of our distinctive peculiarities. We owe it to our God-we owe it to our brethren in other bodieswe owe it to ourselves, to be prepared with an answer to every one that asks us, why are you an Independent? A preceding Speaker, too, told us of the rapid advance of Popery, and of the means employed to further its progress. What more fitted to prove the Pope not infallible, than the demonstrative evidence to the contrary, Church History affords. And the moment his holiness' infallibility is undermined, we meet him on equal terms-" the law and the testimony."

"With then, Sir, the mature and mellowed piety-the heart full of feeling-the calm and placid temper of the venerated man beside me, with the distinguished talents of one not now present, but pursuing an honourable course in the British metropolis, and with the high biblical acquirements of the other Tutor, you can form some idea of the advantages enjoyed at our Academy; and the Meeting, I am assured, will express their gratitude to each, and all of them, for their valuable labours.

"But however estimable a feeling gratitude undoubtedly is, and however much the Tutor may rejoice at the heartfet expression of it, forget not, Sir, that the emotion of gratitude will never give us a supply of ministers. It is a pleasing emotion arising in the bosom for favours conferred; but in the present case, these favours are not small. There is a still more pleasant emotion in the bosom of that man who experimentally can say, gratified as I have been at the proofs afforded me of the labours of the Tutors; gratified as I have been at the prospects of our denomination; gratified as I have been to learn, that so many at present enjoy the high advantages of an Academy; gratified as I have been by reflecting on the good to souls they may be the means of doing; I do feel in increasing my subscription ten-fold to the Institution, that it is a more blessed thing to give than to receive. The Union and the Academy are essentially one. The Academy furnishes the labourers-the Union employs them. Many churches do not consider this, otherwise they would do more for the Academy. Without it, or some other equally appropriate means, the operations of the Union would speedily come to a close. We have long endeavoured to maintain purity of fellowship in our body. It has cost us many a struggle. It is up-hill work even now. We are, therefore, most imperatively called on to keep our posts. Men's minds are awakened. Inquiry has been excited. Our principles will be soon more before the public. Let the churches feel the importance of having teachers qualified for times of excitement. Teachers who, by previous study, have well furnished minds, and who will enter on their ministerial career, laying down their talents at their Saviour's feet. Extraordinary exertion may be called fortimes of refreshing have come-they may be placed where protracted meetings are held for a fortnight unceasing toil is required-they will find how necessary mental stores are-their excitement will be rational-it will not be the mere burst of momentary feeling, but that excitement which, based upon knowledge, continues to deepen and to rise to the high and hallowed elevation of the land of perfect knowledge and never-dying praise."

The Chairman, in presenting the thanks of the meeting, referred to the engagements of Dr. Wardlaw in London, and said, though they might regret his absence from this meeting, they could not but rejoice in the good service he is at present rendering in the South to the great cause of truth and righteousness. He also referred, in a very interesting manner, to his early recollections of Mr. Ewing's labours in Edinburgh many years ago, when he could have had little expectation that he should ever be called upon to discharge such a pleasant duty as that which now devolved upon him.

Mr. Ewing returned thanks,-described the nature of the work in which he had been formerly more actively engaged,―his high satisfaction in the labours of his colleagues, and the very great encouragement they have received from the

support of the Committee, and the promising appearance of the present class, of whose progress he gave a very favourable testimony.

Mr. Massie, of Perth, moved the appointment of the Committee, which was seconded by Captain Hamlin, of Greenock.

Thanks to the Chairman and other office-bearers were moved by Mr. Kennedy, of Aberdeen, and seconded by Mr. Knowles, of Linlithgow.

After praise and the benediction, the meeting dismissed.

On Thursday morning, a meeting for prayer was held at seven o'clock, in Argyle Square Chapel, which was numerously attended. In the forenoon, at eleven o'clock, an eloquent and most appropriate sermon was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Pullar, of Glasgow, from these words: "Glorious things are spoken of thee, O Zion, city of God," to a large and attentive audience. The ministers and other members belonging to the Union, to the number of about a hundred and sixty, dined together in Robertson's Hotel, Waterloo Place, at two o'clock, on which occasion Mr. G. D. Cullen, Secretary of the Theological Academy, was presented with a handsome Silver Coffee-Pot and Salver, as an expression of gratitude from the friends of the Academy and Widows' Fund, for his invaluable services to these institutions. A similar token of regard was presented to Dr. Paterson, from several of the brethren connected with the churches both of the Congregational and Baptist denominations, in and about Edinburgh, as an acknowledgment of the valuable services rendered by him in the way of supplying these churches when required. It was also moved by the Rev. J. W. Massie, of Perth, seconded by George Thompson, Esq., supported by Dr. Paterson, of Edinburgh, and W. Alexander, Esq. of Leith, and carried with only one dissentient voice,

"That we sympathize with our christian brethren in Jamaica, now exposed to the hostility of an unfavourable Legislative Assembly, and are grateful for the efforts made by Sir Lionel Smith, Governor, and by her Majesty's late Ministers, to secure for the Negro and the Missionary, protection and religious privileges."

ORDINATIONS.

On Wednesday, April 10th, the Rev. J. S. Pearsall, late of Highbury College, was ordained pastor over the congregational church assembling in East Street, Andover. The Rev. W. Lucy, of Bristol, commenced the service with reading suitable portions of scripture and prayer; the introductory discourse on the constitution of a christian church, was delivered by the Rev. Thomas Adkins, of Southampton; the Rev. C. Howel, of Alton, proposed the usual questions; the Rev. James Wills, of Basingstoke, offered the ordination prayer; the Rev. John Campbell, of the Tabernacle, London, delivered the charge, founded on 2 Tim. iv. 5.-"Do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry." In the evening, the Rev. John Jefferson, of Stoke Newington, (formerly pastor of the church,) addressed the people, from the words, "Who is for you a faithful minister of Christ." Col. i. 7. The other parts of the services were conducted by the Rev. Messrs. J. E. Good, of Gosport; W. Thorn, Winchester; D. E. Ford, Lymington; J. Watts, Curwen, Borney, W. Ford, Jennings, Mudie, and other ministers.

The ability of the discourses, the number and respectability of the congregation, and the numerous attendance of ministers of different denominations contributed much to the pleasure felt on this interesting occasion. An immediate enlargement of the chapel is contemplated.

The ordination of the Rev. Thomas Mann, of Highbury College, took place in Trowbridge Tabernacle, on Tuesday, April 23d, 1839, in the presence of a crowded assembly. The Rev. J. Atley, of Frome, commenced the solemnities with reading the scriptures and prayer; the Rev. R. Elliott, of Devizes, delivered an introductory discourse on the constitution of a christian church; the Rev.