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Hints to Parents on the Early Religious Education of Children. By GARDINER SPRING, D. D., Pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church, New-York. 18mo. with a steel engraving. Price 37 cts.

From the New-York Weekly Messenger and Young Men's Advocate.

Dr. Spring's Hints to Parents.-One of the prettiest little works of this class that we have ever met with, is just published; it is called "Hints to Parents on the Religious Education of Children. By Gardiner Spring, D. D." The author has been long and favorably known to the public as a chaste, powerful, and popular writer. The subject of the present work is one of great moment-one in which every parent has a real interest. And we commend this little volume, not only to pious parents, but to all who desire to bring up their children in such a manner as to make them an honor to themselves and a blessing to their fellow-men.

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From the Commercial Advertiser.

Hints to Parents, on the Religious Education of Children. By Gardiner Spring, D. D. This beautiful little volume, coming out at this time, will be peculiarly acceptable to the congregation of the able and excellent author, and will have the effect of a legacy of his opinions on a most important subject, now that for a time they are deprived of his personal instructions. It is a work that should be in the hands of every parent throughout our country, who has the temporal and eternal interest of his offspring at heart. The few and leading maxims of the Christian religion are plainly and practically enforced, and the parent's duties are descanted on in a train of pure and beautiful eloquence, which a father's mind, elevated by religion, only could have dictated. We believe that a general knowledge of this little volume would be attended with consequences beneficial to society, since a practice of its recommendations could scarcely be refused to its solemn and affectionate spirit of entreaty.

The Ministry we Need. By S. H. Cox, D. D.,. and others. 37 cents.

From the Literary and Theological Review.

This neat little volume comprises the inaugural charge and address which were delivered on occasion of inducting the PROFESSOR OF SACRED RHETORIC AND PASTORAL THEOLOGY in the Theological Seminary at Auburn. The friends of Dr. Cox will not be disappointed in his inaugural address. It bears the impress of his talents and pietyhis enlarged views and catholic spirit. To analyze it would convey no adequate idea of its merits. His theme is the ministry of reconciliation-"the chosen medium by which God conciliates men-the mighty moral enginery that accomplishes his brightest wonders-the authentic diplomacy of the King of kings working salvation in the midst of the earth.” The manner in which he treats his subject, in relation to the importance of the Christian ministry, and the kind of ministry needed in this age and nation, we need hardly remark will amply repay the perusal of his brethren, if not be interesting and instructive to the church at large.

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Error scenting notoriety" may not altogether like the

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odor of this little book; and the "lynx-eyed detecters of heresy" will not be forward to approve a work in which they are handled with unsparing severity; but by "all the favorers on principle of a pious, sound, educated, scriptural, and accomplished ministry in the church of God, and throughout the whole world, as the MINISTRY WE NEED, to whom this little volume is most respectfully inscribed," it will be read, and, we trust, circulated.

The Christian's Pocket Companion.Selected from the works of JOHN ROGERS, Dr. OWEN, DAVID BRAINERD, PRESIDENT EDWARDS, and others, with an Introduction by Rev. JOHN BLATCHFORD, of Bridgeport, Conn. 25 cents.

The following is from Mr. Blatchford's Letter to the Publisher:

I am happy to learn, through your letter of last evening, your design of publishing the little work containing the private rules by which the lives of such men as Edwards, and Brainerd, and Rogers, and Mason, were regulated.

That little volume (which is the only copy that I have ever met with) was, for many of the last years of his life, the pocket-companion of my honored father, the late Samuel Blatchford, D. D. of Lansingburgh. This circumstance alone would give it a value in my estimation-as also with the many who were associated with him as a father in the ministry, as well as those who were permitted to receive "the message of salvation from his lips."

But in addition to this, who is there that loves the cause of Christ and the souls of men among the ministers of the Lord Jesus in our day, that has not often, amid the toils and discouragements and anxieties which so thickly beset their path, turned away to such men, and inquired the secret, if any there was, by which they accomplished so much for the Church, and secured to themselves a character for such eminent holiness? This little book answers these questions, and introduces us to these "men of God," in the closet, in the family, in the social circle, in the labors of the pulpit, and in the discharge of their multiplied parochial duties; and I am confident that no one can rise from its perusal without being incited to more prayer and more diligence in their varied efforts to adorn the "doc

trines of Christ their Savior" themselves, and in preaching Christ and him crucified to others.

Wishing you all success in your undertaking, I would most fervently commend it to the blessing of God, believing that in giving it to the public, you will greatly subserve the best of causes, and in a very acceptable manner.

JOHN BLATCHFORD.

From the New-York Observer.

Christian's Pocket Companion. This very small but neat manual, just published, is a compilation of some of the purest sentiments and holiest aspirations of such men as Owen, Rogers, Brainerd, and President Edwards. We venture to say that no Christian can make it the familiar companion of his heart, as well as "pocket," without becoming evidently a holier and a happier man.

Practical Thoughts. By the late Dr. Nevins, of Baltimore. 50 cents.

Thoughts on Popery. By Dr. Nevins. 50 cts.

From the New-York Observer of April 9th, 1836.

The Practical Thoughts consists of forty-six articles on prayer, praise, professing Christ, duties to Sabbath Schools, the monthly concert, the conversion of the world, violations of the Sabbath, liberality, man's inconsistency, the pity of the Lord, Christian duty, death, &c.; the last of which are Heaven's Attractions" and "The Heavenly Recognition," closing with the words, "By the time we have done what I recommend, we shall be close upon the celestial confines-perhaps within heaven's limits."

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There the sainted author laid down his pen, leaving the article unfinished, and went, none can doubt, to enjoy the blessed reality of the scenes he had been so vividly describing.

These articles combine great simplicity, attractiveness, and vivacity of thought and style, with a spiritual unction scarcely to be found in any other writer. Thousands of minds were impressed with them as they first appeared: they reproved the inconsistent Christian, roused the slumbering, and poured a precious balm into many an afflicted

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bosom. While writing them, the author buried a beloved wife, and had daily more and more sure indications that the hour of his own departure was at hand; and God enabled him, from the depths of his own Christian experience, to open rich fountains of blessing for others.

The Thoughts on Popery are like, and yet unlike, the other series. There is the same sprightliness of the imagination, the same clearness, originality, and richness of thought, with a keenness of argument, and sometimes irony, that exposes the baseness and shamelessness of the dogmas and superstitions of Popery, and that must carry home conviction to the understanding and heart of every unprejudiced reader. Piece by piece the delusion, not to say imposition, of that misnamed church are exposed, under the heads of the Sufficiency of the Bible, the Nine Commandments, Mortal and Venial Sins, Infallibility, Idolatry, Relics, the Seven Sacraments, Penance, the Mass, Celibacy of the Clergy, Purgatory, Canonizing Saints, Lafayette not at Rest, The Leopold Reports, Supererogation, Convents, &c. We know of nothing that has yet been issued which so lays open the deformities of Popery to common minds, or is so admirably adapted to save our country from its wiles, and to guard the souls of men from its fatal snares.

A View of the American Slavery Question. By E. P. Barrows, Pastor of the First Free Presbyterian Church. 31 cents.

From the New-York American of March 26th, 1836.

A View of the American Slavery Question, by E. P. BARROWS, Jun. Pastor of the First Free Presbyterian Church, New-York.-JOHN S. TAYLOR. In this little volume is embodied the substance of two discourses, preached, as we learn from the Introduction, "by the Author, in October, 1835, with particular reference to the condition of his own church." "Their result was a spirit of harmony and good feeling in the church." Such will not, we apprehend, be the result of their publication; for they maintain modestly, but firmly and conscientiously, the right and duty of reasoning and remonstrating with our