God and love to man-; "the only possible way effectually to restore virtue and happiness to any country, is therein to restore love to its ancient sway." Now it is this restoration which the gospel effects, and hence its matchless endowing it with £30,000 a year! Ay, and now hesitating to withdraw this endowment, despite the clearest proof that by its continuance they are only fattening the tiger which thirsts for their blood! In a word, the most free and enlightened nation in Europe foster-power as a remedy for national maladies. ing the worst forms of darkness and despotism; the great patroness of all good, nursing Satan's masterpiece of evil, and the most sagacious of nations continuing to rear the viper just after it has disclosed its deadly designs by making a dart at her bosom." It is this writer's conviction, a conviction for which we believe that there is an adequate foundation, that "it needs to be proclaimed with a trumpet tongue, that the priests have for years been playing a deep game for the re-conquest of perfidious Albion." We believe that there is no exaggeration in the language which he employs on this subject when he says, "Let all Englishmen know assuredly that Rome's deadly eye is on "their faith and their firesides;" and that wherever they meet her clouds of priests, whether heading a mob, horsewhip in hand, or at vice-regal levées in silken hose, whether putting down a school in Connaught, or getting up one in Edinburgh, all-ALL are patiently performing their several parts in this gigantic conspiracy against protestant England. The serpent's great design is on that Eden of protestantism, and he has for years been stealing steadily towards it, and whether he has been now taking a circuitous route to beguile the simple, or again hiding amongst the flowers to elude the suspicious, or, as in the late aggression, making a visible spring, be assured of this one thing that ON HE COMES. The Grand Specific for the cure of Ireland's maladies, Mr. Dill maintains rightly, is the gospel of Christ. Every form of personal and social happiness, he remarks, springs from love-love to While we concur with the author in much that he says on this subject, and gladly receive his testimony respecting the usefulness of that agency which the friends of scriptural religion are employing,-while we unite with him in wishing for the multiplication of schools in which the bible is duly honoured, of readers visiting the peasantry and reading to them portions of the sacred word, and of gospel ministers of every variety of talent, we cannot help wishing that he had adverted to the feeble character of protestantism in Ireland and the causes of its inefficiency. This appears to be one of the most disheartening things which the friends of truth have to lament. Unless we are mistaken, efforts for the conversion of the Romanists to Christ are not very generally made by the native protestants; nor do they enter with much ardour into the plans of others which have this for their object. If the conversion of their Roman Catholic neighbours is to be 1 attempted at all, many of them seem to think that it belongs to English. Christians to do whatever is to be done rather than to themselves. The spirit diffused by popery no doubt fosters among them a feeling of helplessness; among the Romanists nothing depends on the people but everything on the priests-the priests who are themselves dependent on their immediate ecclesiastical superiors-the superiors who are themselves dependent on the higher authorities in Rome. The political circumstances of the island conduce also to this. England being the seat of government, and the wealthier country, the habit naturally arises of looking to zeal of their friend. That a version of the New Testament should represent the emphasis of the original is part of the rule that requires in a version general accuracy. A perversion of emphasis is a perversion of meaning. On that point all competent authorities must agree. The value of the Vatican manuscript again is universally admitted, and any one who calls attention to its reading does important service. But if we erroneously multiply emphasis and so prize any one manuscript as to deem ourselves independent of other human aid (p. 55), we defeat the very end we have in view, and build again the doubts and uncertainty we were seeking to destroy. England for everything. But much of The Emphatic New Testament, according to the authorized version, compared with the various readings of the Vatican Manuscript. The Four Gospels. By JOHN TAYLOR. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, 1852. 8vo. HERE are two good ideas in danger of serious injury through the injudicious Let us illustrate these remarks. It is a common rule of Greek composition that the nominative pronoun of a verb is not expressed, unless it be emphatic. When expressed, such pronouns are generally intended to give force or prominence to the persons or things they represent, and such prominence ought clearly to be given in any version of the passage that contains them. This principle Mr. Taylor applies to the Four Gospels, engaging to apply it with others to the whole New Testament, if he be encouraged in his labours. A single verse will explain this part of his plan. John xvii. 23, he points thus: in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one; that the WORLD may know that thou has sent Me, and hast loved them as thou hast loved Me." The words here printed in Old English are in the Greek emphatic pronouns, and by this type the emphasis is marked in the version. The pronoun Me is also emphatic in Greek from position, and the WORLD is emphatic (in Mr. Taylor's view) from the use of the article. By employing capitals these kinds of emphasis are expressed, and often with happy results. "Could not THIS man which opened the EYES of the BLIND (John xi. 37); "And he whom thou now hast is not THY husband," John iv. 18; for example, express accurately the exphasis of the original. See also Matt. iii. 14; viii. 9. John xix. 6, 7. Unhappily this principle is pushed to an extreme. Six and twenty different cases are enumerated in which it is said that emphasis is expressed, while in many of them there is no emphasis at all. Verbs for example in the infinitive mood and adverbs are made nouns in Greek by prefixing the article, as in Mark vi. 48, Matt. viii. 18, and all such are marked by Mr. Taylor as emphatic. Now the article is employed in such cases to meet the requirements of grammar, and not to give peculiar force to the word. To print such instances as emphatic confounds all proper notion of emphasis, and deprives the ordinary reader of the advantages which the general system advocated by Mr. Taylor is intended to confer. Could the six and twenty rules he gives be reduced to six, and really emphatic words be printed in emphatic type, a great benefit would be conferred, and the reader would be aided as much as by a corrected version. Of course we wish only the emphasis of the original, more than that would be exposition and not translation. The various readings of the Vatican manuscript which are given in foot 66 425 notes will prove welcome to the general reader, especially in the proposed second volume. In the gospels there are no various readings in that manuscript of importance. The type adopted enables the reader to judge very fairly of the general importance of various readings. "JESUS saith," i. e. with the article, is in the Vatican manuscript, "Jesus saith,' i. e. without the article, Matt. xvii. 26. In Mark vii. 36, our received text reads, it." The Vatican reads, "he charged He charged them ... they published them places of the emphatic pronouns being .. they published it." The reversed. this manuscript, may be gathered from The general importance of the fact that ten out of a dozen or thirteen important readings in the New Testament, which are adopted by all the great critics, Griesbach, Scholz, Lachman, and Tischendorf, are found to agree with the Vatican. Unhappily the long standing promise of the Papacy that this text is soon to be given to the world is still unredeemed; and the various readings it contains are known only through imperfect collations. book a useful addition to our stores. On the whole, we deem Mr. Taylor's The idea is a good one, and if his plan be confined to real emphasis and not extended to merely grammatical forms, text. He has found a good horse; but it will throw much light on the sacred let him beware of riding him to death. BRIEF NOTICES. The Pictorial Family Bible, according to the This reprint of the original edition of Kitto's Bible having proceeded as far as the seventh chapter of Luke's Gospel, we renew our testimony, that though it is not equal to the VOL. XV.-FOURTH SERIES. "Standard Edition," we regard its progress with complacency, as it will afford valuable inexpensive work would be inaccessible. It is an struction to multitudes to whom the more excellent family book, and exceedingly cheap. The Bible and the Working Classes; being a Series of Lectures delivered to the Working Classes of Bradford, Yorkshire, in 1851. By ALEXANDER WALLACE, Edinburgh. Second Thousand. London, Hamilton, Adams, and Feeling in common with many Christian The Bible Class Manual of the Life of Christ; or a Harmony of the Gospels, in a Continuous Narrative, with Notes and Questions. By ANDREW G. FULLER. London: B. L. Green. 1852. Pp. x., 181. To reduce the memoirs of the four evangelists into one continuous narrative would seem to a person who had never attempted it a much easier thing than it actually is. Sometimes one of the writers gives a fuller account of a transaction than any of the others, and yet passes over circumstances which they mention, and which must therefore be introduced, though it is difficult to determine to what part of his statement they belong. In many cases there are apparent discrepancies which a more Scripture Teacher's Assistant, with Explana- perience in the instruction of children, and tion that is given is this: "Bethlehem, a city of way in this instance. The very first explanaJudea." to an English child, not to say a London Does not the word "city" convey child-and it is for "London Sunday schools" especially that the author has written-an idea totally inapplicable to Bethlehem? Such an are these: "Kingdom of heaven, explanation is far worse than none. And so kingdom of glory. Eternal happiness." p. 33. Christ's teach." p. 38. Offended in me. Displeased with what I "The holy place. The holy Others are about equal to none; as, “Was the ground round the city of Jerusalem." p. 64. Son of God. I now believe that Jesus was the Son of God." p. 71. The Economy of Prayer; in Principle, Practice, and Result; deduced from the Lord's Prayer. By JOSEPH EDE. Pp. 138. London: Houlston and Stoneman. in its import-more suggestive of thought-or No part of scripture is more comprehensive than that in which our Lord taught his dismore interesting from collateral circumstances ciples the manner after which they were to pray. Hence in all ages of the church it has Expositions of the "Lord's Prayer" however, been considered a fruitful theme for comment. generally failed to impart either profit or inlike lectures on the "Pilgrim's Progress," have terest. Through ignorance of biblical truth or want of sympathy with the exercise of prayer, or general incompetency, writers on this subject have, for the most part, served to illustrate the saying of an old Waldensian, “This prayer can scarce be expounded completely by all the theologians in the world." We have The Course of Faith, or the Practical Believer The deservedly popular author of this volume, Sin Apprehended, Tried, and Condemned; being This ingenious allegory was first published in 1627 and must then have met with great favour as it reached the sixth edition during the year of its publication. Since then it has frequently been reprinted. The present edition has been 427 purged of the coarse imagery and language Letters to a Romanist. No. I. The Doctrine quietly, instead of writing these tracts and never seen. illustrating the abominations of Auricular Confession, to translate some of the quotations from reach of English readers, young and old, is a Dens and Bailey, and place them within the question on which there will be difference of Opinion; argument may be adduced in favour of the affirmative as well as the negative; and but certainly there are many things in these we will not undertake to pronounce judgment; letters for which it would not have been easy to procure the imprimatur of Cardinal Wisething unfair or dishonourable. The author, who man. We have not observed, however, any dates from Scarborough, has cultivated an extensive acquaintance with the writings of Romanists, and he is turning his knowledge thus laboriously acquired to good account. Whether it was discreet or not, in |