for there its author uttered the wish, and gave the direction, that his manuscripts should be gleaned for its materials. Yet there are not wanting in it many genial, cheerful sympathies for the world of life and health, of action and joy, of youth and hope. Human life as it is here shown, all penetrated with piety, controlled by faith, warmed by love, made venerable with the dignity of duty, made bright with the sunshine of charity, - how fair and noble and blessed it would be! The work belongs to a class that, in our day, is far too small. Books that are really devotional, and are written from the loftier plane of spirituality, are not many now, and in the eager, external, ethical propensities of modern society find only a qualified and timid welcome when they come. Let us prize every approach to a fragrant, adoring, sacramental literature, lifting us up with the litanies and anthems and prayers of the old Church. It is encouraging to see such republications as those of "The Life and Sermons of Tauler," "Theologia Germanica," "Lyra Germanica," "The Words of Christ, the Faithful Promiser," Fénelon, Madame Guyon, and Catherine Adorna. Nor is it less encouraging to see a cordial reception of writings proceeding from elevated and calm souls of our own day, dwelling with God while they dwell on earth, and doing all their kindly and faithful offices to man with a look ever fixed heavenward, and thoughts conversing solemnly with the Unseen. Another desirable effect of such a book as this before us is, that it attaches greater interest and importance to the ecclesiastical year. It helps to connect our common habits of religious thinking and feeling with the great epochs of the New Testament story. It strengthens the tendency, which we rejoice to find growing and gaining on every side, to mark and keep the feasts and fasts of the Church in a wise and truly catholic observance. If anything in laws of association and veneration is clear, it would seem to be clear that the time of Christendom ought to be all measured, notched, and consecrated by the leading events of our Divine Lord's experience while he wore the form of our humanity, and thus the atmosphere of our ordinary existence be kept within the august influence of the supernatural age. It would nourish religion, sustain Christian order, enrich preaching, aid private devotion, and shed fresh beauty over the hard and practical aspects of our study and our work. As Dr. Peabody's years increased, his style of composition grew chaste and guarded. There are large fields of Christian truth not travelled in these meditations of his pure mind. There were always qualities of his nature which prevented his bringing a ministry to meet persons of strong passions, of rapid intuitions, of vivid and turbulent encounters with the world. The Augustinian element was not in him. 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Born in New England, adopted and cherished by the centre of Southern spirit and manners, trained chiefly without books or a very careful intellectual and spiritual discipline, a religious teacher with very little theology, quick in feeling, broad in sympathies, ready in address, showing the courage of a martyr in his ministrations to pestilence and contagion when good men about him ran from the infected climate, defending negro slavery and the doctrines of Universalism at the same time, he is a type of an unsettled, ardent, impulsive community. Such a character shows how much may be done by a man of quick parts and honest purposes, without rare balance of mind or a thorough education, and suggests, with equal force, how much more for truth, for permanent effect, and for the Church of Christ may be done with them. 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