effort, altogether, were to be, and do, and bear, and not to seem. The monument her people rear to it is scarcely less her monument than his to whom it rises. What changes shall roll round it with the rolling seasons; whether it shall survive the free institutions of which Taney was the worshipper and champion, or shall see them grow in stability, security, and splendor; whether it shall witness the development and beneficent expansion of the constitutional system which it was the labor of his life and love to understand and to administer, or shall behold it,

"Like a circle in the water,

Which never ceases to enlarge itself,

Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught "

are questions which men will answer to themselves, according to their hopes or fears-according to their trust, it may be, in the mercy and providence of God. But Maryland has done her part for good, in this, at least, that she has made imperishable record, for posterity, of the great example of her son. She has builded as it were a shrine to those high civic qualities and public virtues, without which, in their rulers, republics are a sham, and freedom cannot long abide among a people. 'It was, I was about to say, the sad mischance - but, in a higher though more painful sense, the privilege and fortune of Chief Justice Taney to fill his place in times of revolution and unparalleled convulsion when blood boiled in the veins. of brethren till it was red upon a million hands. In such a crisis, no man so conspicuous as he, and yet so bound to shun the rancor of the strife, could hope for freedom from distrust and challenge. A soul, brave and tenacious as his was so sensitive to duty, and so resolute to do it provoked injustice not to be appeased, and dared reproaches which he might not answer. His constitutional opinions were already part of the recorded jurisprudence of the country, and he could not change them, because the tempest was howling. It was the conviction of his life that the Government under which we lived was of limited powers, and that its Constitution had been framed for war as well as peace. Though he died, therefore, he could

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not surrender that conviction at the call of the trumpet. He had plighted his troth to the liberty of the citizen and the supremacy of the laws, and no man could put them asunder. Whatever might be the right of the people to change their Government, or overthrow it, he believed that the duty of the judges was simply to maintain the Constitution while it lasted, and, if need were, defend it to the death. He knew himself its minister and servant only not its master-commissioned to obey and not to alter. He stood, therefore, in the very rush of the torrent, and, as he was immovable, it swept over him. He had lived a life so stainless, that to question his integrity was enough to beggar the resources of falsehood and make even shamelessness ashamed. He had given lustre and authority, by his wisdom and learning, to the judgments of the Supreme Tribunal, and had presided over its deliberations with a dignity, impartiality and courtesy which elevated even the administration of justice. Every year of his labors had increased the respect and affection of his brethren, and heightened the confidence and admiration of the profession which looked up to him as worthily its chief. And yet he died traduced and ostracised, and his image was withheld from its place in the chamber which was filled already with his fame.

'Against all this the State of Maryland here registers her protest in the living bronze. She records it in no spirit of resentment, or even of contention, but silently and proudly-as her illustrious son, without a word, committed his reputation to the justice of his countrymen. Nor doubts she of the answer that posterity will make to her appeal. Already the grateful manhood of the people has begun to vindicate itself and him. Already, among those whose passion did him wrong, the voices of the most emiment and worthy have been lifted in confession of their own injustice, and in manly homage to his greatness and his virtues. Already the waters of the torrent have nearly spent their force, and high above them, as they fall, unstained by their pollution and unshaken by their rage, stands where it stood, in grand and reverend simplicity, the august figure of the great Chief Justice!'

Governor Whyte, in his eloquent and touching 'Reply,' beautifully said:

Maryland has already reared a stately column to him who was "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen," and it was the duty, as it has been the pleasure of the State, to hand down to posterity, as in this memorial of molten bronze, an enduring tribute of affection and regard for her own illustrious son, upon whose shoulders the judicial ermine lay stainless as the virgin snow.'.

Such being the character of the great judicial magistratethe impersonation of gentleness and justice - do we not hear in advance, as we seem to hear afar off, the final verdict of history, in his decision of the great questions by which the passions of the people were so profoundly agitated? When the Lord removed his restraining hand, and gave up the people to their passions, then was his awful voice hushed, and the multitudinous roar of the Pit only was heart. He was not in the mighty, rushing wind of fratricidal strife, nor in the earthquake shocks of the on-coming revolution, nor in the devouring flames of 'flagrant war,' but was he not in the still, small voice' of the august tribunal, over whose calm and dispassionate deliberations 'the great Chief Justice' presided. If so, then will the cause of the South, though now fallen, be ultimately seen, by all men, to have been worthy of the sublime devotion of a Jackson and a Lee. Then will the angry passions of men, however they may have raged for a season, and roared for the blood of victims, pass away, and truth regain her rightful ascendancy over the reason of mankind. 'The Lord God Omnipotent reigneth; let the whole earth rejoice.'

2. CHRISTIANITY AS TAUGHT BY ST. PAUL. By William J. Irons, D. D., of Queen's College, Oxford, etc., etc. London: James Parker & Co. 1872.

This volume belongs to the series of 'Bampton Lectures,' which, from year to year, have supplied the Christian world with learned, able, and eloquent works. Having learned the reputation of the volume before us, as one of the most able

and eloquent of the series, we procured it at once, in order that we might notice it for the benefit of our readers.

It appears to us fully equal to its great reputation for learnThe theme-Christianity as ing, eloquence, and ability. Taught by St. Paul-is a grand one, and, for the most part, it is grandly treated. It sets before us the continuous sense of the Speeches and Epistles of St. Paul;' that is, not according to their arrangement in the Common Version, but according to the order of time in which they were written. This arrangement of the Speeches and Epistles possesses a great advantage for the study of Christianity as taught by St. Paul. Again, the great career of the Apostle, as well as his doctrine, is exhibited in chronological order, and with the aid of a good map. Thus, the reader is enabled to contemplate the life and teaching of St. Paul, not confusedly and darkly, but clearly and satisfactorily, through the two eyes of historychronology and geography. Hence, although the volume is a costly one, we can cheerfully recommend it to the judicious reader, as full of matter for devout meditation and spiritual improvement.

We must, however, mark one sad deficiency in the book. The grand and distinctive peculiarity of the Christian system, as taught by St. Paul, is omitted by the learned authornamely, the doctrine of 'justification by faith only.' Hence it fails to set before us that sublime system in all its freedom, and fullness, and glory, and transforming power. If it does not exhibit that system without its sun and centre, which is Christ, it certainly exhibits that sun and centre involved in clouds and darkness. By the superstitions and shadows connected in the scheme of Baptismal Regeneration, 'the Sun of Righteousness' is obscured and shorn of much of its glory as 'the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth'a melancholy and deplorable obscuration, which is observable in nearly all the great productions of the Oxford school of divinity. It is Christianity as taught, not by St. Paul, but only by Irons, Liddon, and others of the same school, who seem to read the Everlasting Gospel' with a veil over their eyes. The humblest Christian may, however, read the book before

us with advantage, especially if the Gospel has already opened on his soul in all its full-orbed splendor, and penetrated its very depths with all its transforming power. He will mourn its deficiences, but he will exult in its illuminations. He will miss the clear and all-cheering light of the centre, but he will admire the constellations of the zodiac.

BOOKS RECEIVED.

Sermons. By Rev. C. D. N. Campbell. New York: Hurd & Houghton. Cambridge: Riverside Press. 1872.

Memorials of Methodism in Virginia, from its Introduction in the year 1772 to the year 1829. By Rev. William W. Bennett, Editor of the Richmond Christian Advocate. Richmond Published by the Author. 1871.

Agreement of Science and Revelation. By Rev. Joseph H. Wythe, M. D. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. London: Trübner & Co. 1872.

Christianity and Positivism. A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics. By James M'Cosh, D. D., LL. D., President of the College of New Jer sey, Princeton. New York: Carter & Brothers. 1871.

Introduction to the Study of the Scriptures. Nicholls. Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, 1122 Chestnut Street. New York: 599 Broadway. 1872.

Memoir of Roger Brooke Taney, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. By Samuel Tyler, LL. D., of the Maryland Bar. Baltimore: John Murphy & Co. 1872. Deus Homo. God-Man. By Theophilus Parsons. Chicago: E. B. Myers & Chandler. 1868.

Ecce Ecclesia. An Essay showing the Essential Identity of the Church in all Ages. New York; Blelock & Co. 1868. The Land of the Veda: being Personal Reminiscences of India; its People, Castes, Thugs, and Fakirs; its Religions, Mythologies, Principal Monuments, Palaces, and Mausoleums; together with the Incidents of the great Sepoy Rebellion and

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