enriched with a framework of practical observation and historical and topographical details. Without being profound, it is pleasant, readable, and often rich; worthy of a place in the Christian's closet library, and on the pastor's expository shelf. VI. The City: Its Sins and Sorrows. By Thomas Guthrie, D.D., Author of "The Gospel in Ezekiel." New-York: Robert Carter & Brothers. 1857. All who have read "The Gospel in Ezekiel," will expect Dr. Guthrie's works to be gorgeous with illustration, and often striking and pungent in remark. His gospel, like that of Hamilton, is sometimes a little too pictorial for our taste; but it is the Gospel, though at times its beautiful simplicity is hidden beneath the flowers with which it has been dressed. The present work is replete with startling pictures of the vice that burrows in the hovels and stalks through the streets of our great towns-of the wretchedness that it engenders, and the authoritative countenance it sometimes finds. The remedy for it is not sought in sentimental or reformatory leagues, but is truly said to be the Gospel carried to the homes, pressed on the consciences, and melted into the heart of the city poor. The work is a brilliant though by no means a complete one. VII. Memoir of the Life and Times of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, D.D., Patriarch of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. By M. L. Stoever, Professor in Pennsylvania College. Semper honos nomenque tuum laudesque manebunt. For the Lutheran Board of Publication. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston. 1856. The Rev. Dr. Muhlenberg, of whom this modest little volume treats, mentioned as the Patriarch of the Lutheran, is one of those whose memory should be kept alive not only in his own division of the Christian Church, but among all Protestant Christians. The delineation of his character, and the account of his labors, are well given by the author, and his name yet lives in the grateful remembrance of the Church for whom he did so much. Coming from Europe at a time when the Lutheran Church in America was in a state requiring such a man as he was, he connects it pleasantly with the Mother Church, and the association in his person with the Orphan House of Halle is peculiarly agreeable. He was a sort of overseer of the Lutheran Church in and around Philadelphia, and his peculiar qualifications were used to arrange a difficulty which occurred in that in Georgia. His evangelical sentiments, his earnestness and deep piety, his ability and his learning, his practical adaptedness to the work, combined, under God, to make him one of those rare instruments whom God honors in the building up of His Church under peculiar circumstances of trial and difficulty. Let the name of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg be dear to those who love to note the manifestation of the Spirit's presence in the soul of man, and to hear of successful labors for the salvation of men, and the extension of the Redeemer's kingdom. This work is well gotten up, with a likeness of its venerable subject, is a pleasant, readable, well-connected book, interspersed with remarks pertinent to the subject, and creditable to the good taste and piety of the author. VIII. Proceedings of a Convention of the Trustees of a Proposed University for the Southern States under the auspices of the Protestant Episcopal Church, together with a Narrative and the Address of the Right Rev. James H. Otey, D.D., Bishop of Tennessee. Prepared under the order of the Convention. IX. Catalogue of the Theological Seminary of the Diocese of Ohio and Kenyon College. 1856-57. X. Forty-First Annual Report of the New-York Sunday-School Union, Auxiliary to the American Sunday-School Union for the Year ending May, 1857, with the names of the Officers and Committees, the Treasurer's Report, and other Documents. XI. The Thirty-Third Annual Report of the American Sunday-School Uhion, presented at the Annual Meeting, May 12, 1857. Published by order of the Board. XII. Third Pastoral Report of Christ Church, Germantown, Philadelphia. Presented to the Congregation by the Rector. Printed by request of the Vestry. XIII. Homœopathy: Its Nature and Principles. By George Gleiwitz, M.D. XIV Journal of the Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Convention of the Protest ant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Texas. Held in the Church of the Epiphany, Austin, May 21, 1857. XV. The Address to the Fourth Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Iowa. Delivered in St. John's Church, Keokuk, on Wednesday, May 27, 1857, by the Rt. Rev. W. Lee, D.D., Bishop of the Diocese. XVI. Sanctification. The Primary Charge to the Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Iowa. Delivered in Keokuk, on Wednesday, May 27, 1857, by the Right Rev. W. Lee, D.D., Bishop of the Diocese of Iowa. Printed by request of the Diocesan Convention. XVII. The Faithful and Wise Servant; or, The Ministry adapted to its Work. A Fourth Charge to the Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Delaware, by Alfred Lee, Bishop of the Diocese of Delaware. Delivered at the opening of the Convention of the Diocese, June 3, 1857. Published by a Rule of the Convention. XVIII. Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Episcopal Missionary Association for the West, for the year 1856-7. Read before the Association at the Annual Meeting, in St. Luke's Church, Thursday evening, May 28th, 1857, together with the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting. XIX. Dr. Van Doren's Institution for treating the Chronic Diseases of Women. New-York. XX. Journal of the Fortieth Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Ohio, which assembled in St. James's Church, in the city of Piqua, on Thursday, June 4th, A.D. 1857. XXI. Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the American Seaman's Friend Society. Presented May 11, 1857. XXII. Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Board of Direction of the Mercantile Library Association, of the city of New-York. May, 1857. XXIII. The Missionary and Benevolent Society of St. Paul's Church, New-Haven, Conn. Proceedings at the Fifth Anniversary Meeting, held on Sunday, May 10th, 1857, together with Reports read at that time; and Constitution and Officers of the Society. XXIV. Journal of the Proceedings of the Sixty-Seventh Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Vermont: being the Twenty-Fifth Annual Convention since the Fall Organization of the Diocese, held in St. Paul's Church, Burlington, on the third and fourth of June, 1857. XXV. Twenty-Fifth Annual Catalogue of the Trustees, Instructors, and Students of Burr Seminary, Manchester, Vermont, for the year ending July 8th, 1857. XXVI. The Great Principles of the Gospel: A Farewell Sermon. By the Rev. J. W. Cracraft. Preached in St. Paul's Church, Peoria, on Sunday, April 25th, 1857. XXVII. Journal of the Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Iowa, held in St. John's Church, Keokuk, May 27th and 28th, 1857. XXVIII. An Appeal in Behalf of the Medical Education of Women. XXIX. Journal of the Proceedings of the Sixty-Seventh Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Delaware, held in St. Andrew's Church, Wilmington, on Thursday, June 3d and 4th, 1857. Published by order of Convention. XXX. Journal of the Proceedings of the Bishops, Clergy, and Laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Assembled in a General Convention, held in St. Luke's Church. in the city of Philadelphia, from October 1st to October 21st, inclusive, in the year of our Lord, 1856, with an Appendix containing the Constitution and Canons, a list of the Clergy, etc. XXXI. Register of Hobart Free College, Geneva, N. Y., for the Academical Year, 1856-7. XXXII. Christian Moderation. A Sermon preached in Rosse Chapel, Harcourt Parish, Gambier, Ohio, on Sunday, Sept. 28, 1856. By Rev. Noah Hunt Schenck, Rector. XXXIII. Confirmation, or Laying on of Hands. Its Authority and Nature. By Rev. Samuel Fuller, D.D., Rector of Christ Church, Andover, Massachusetts. New-York: Dana & Co., 381 Broadway. 1857. XXXIV. Journal of the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, MDCCCLVI.; together with the Constitution and Canons of the Church. 1857. XXXV.-Christ our Helper. An Anniversary Sermon preached in Rosse Chapel, Harcourt Parish, Gambier, Ohio, on the Evening of Easter Day, April 12th, 1857. By the Rev. Noah Hunt Schenck, A.M., Rector. "I have laid help upon one that is mighty." XXXVI. A Sermon preached in St. Paul's Church, Baltimore, at the Opening of the Convention of the Diocese, May 28, 1856. By Henry V. D. Johns, D.D. Published by request. XXXVII. Septennial Sermon, preached in St. Philip's Church, Philadelphia, on Sunday, February 1, 1857. By the Rev. Charles D. Cooper, Rector. Printed by request of the Vestry for the Congregation. XXXVIII.-Correspondence between the Rt. Rev. C. P. McIlvaine, D.D., D.C.L., Bishop of the Diocese of Ohio, and the Rev. James Bolles, D.D., Rector of Trinity Church, Cleveland; with an Explanatory Pastoral Letter to the Members of the Parish of Trinity Church, Cleveland, Ohio. XXXIX. Twenty-First Annual Report of the Managers of the New-York Institution for the Blind, to the Legislature of the State. "Lux oritur." XL. Thirty-Second Annual Report of the American Tract Society. Presented May 13, 1857. XLI. A Discourse delivered in the North Reformed Dutch Church, (Collegiate,) in the City of New-York, on the last Sabbath in August, 1856. By Thomas De Witt, D.D., one of the Ministers of the Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church. Published by order of the Consistory of the Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church. New-York: Board of Publication of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, 337 Broadway. 1857. This is a Historical Discourse, and as such has a local and general interest. INDEX TO VOLUME IV. A A Course of Lectures on the Constitutional Jurisprudence of the United DIOCESAN INTELLIGENCE: Massachusetts, 328; Kansas and Nebraska, 328; |