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    he holds its benefits to be predominant ; and , as the main remedy of most of its attendant evils , recommends that we provide useful moral reading for a population whom we first teach to read . "

    Every person who can appreciate soundness of Scriptural criticism , true elegance of style and manner , accuracy of thought and reasoning , and ardent , yet well-tempered zeal in the cause of Christian truth , will place a very high value on this sermon of Mr . Kenrick ' s . We are concerned

    that we were unable to introduce it at a much earlier period to the notice of our readers . N .

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    scarcely excepting , the best , in the legitimate English style : f Intellectual improvement is a sou re * of enjoyment . One of the most efficient means of pleasure in the mind is its havinginteresting' object * of attraction , which keep

    it steadily and cheerfully in action . Such objects that mind has constantly in view , which is progressive in knowledge and wisdom . At every advance , it discovers new beauties which delight , and fresh treasures which reward and enrich . As it

    ascends higher , it has a more extended prospect , and a clearer atmosphere . And what enjoyment can be equal to that which a mind experiences in the consciousness of surmounting ^ the mists of ignorance and error , and prejudice , and in ascending * towards the regions of pure intelligence and perfect wisdom ?

    " If intellectual progress had relation only to tire present state of being , it would be valuable as an important means of enjoyment ; but how much more important must it appear if considered as havihg relation to eternal progression ; if the ^ mind shall take all its store of intelligence with it into a higher state of existence 5 if it &hall

    start from the same point hereafter at which it leaves off here , to run an endless career of discovery and intellectual delight ! In this view , mental improvement is so much preparatory fituess for the heavenly state ; and the pleasure flowing from it is but a foretaste of that ethereal felicity which is to be enjoyed in nearer approaches to the great Fountain of Intelligence . ' *—P p * 11 , 12 .

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    Art . VI . —An Essay on a Future Life . By Richard Wright , Unitarian Missionary . 12 nio . pp . 72 . Eaton . WE have borne a willing testimony to the merits of Mr . Wright ' s tracts , and can

    conscientiously recommend this as a clear summary of the argument and evidence on the momentous subject of a life to come . The Essay is pervaded by a serious and devotional spirit :

    " Feeling" the approach of the evening of life , and expecting ere long to become a tenant of the grave , the writer has been very anxious to get this Essay on u Future Life ready for publication . It contains his most mature thoughts on a subject .

    which has long engaged his closest attention ; exercised his deepest thought ; and been the object of his most serious inquiries and uledjtations . On no subject on which he has written , has he felt a deeper interest ^ indeed , all other subjects appear

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    Art . V . —The Importance and Means of Intellectual Improvement . A Sermon preached before the Annual Assembly of General Baptists , at the Chapel in Worship Street , June 1 , 1819 . By James Gilchrist . 8 vo . pp . 32 . Eaton and Hunter . Is .

    REGULAR critic would quar-A rel with this pamphlet considered as a sermon , and he might be right according to the most approved rules for sermon making ; but under what class of works s 6 ever it be

    placed , it may be confidently pronounced to be worthy of perusal , and , if the reader be young and above all if he be destined for the ministry , of study . Mr . Gilchrist considers I . the Importance , and II . the Means of Intellectual Improvement .

    It is important , he argues , as it raises in the scale of being , increases the power of doing good , is a source of enjoyment , and is a preservative from mental idleness and listlessness , vicious indulgence and its train of evils .

    The means of it which he considers are , learning , reading , observation , conversation and study . Under all these heads , occur observations which mark a superior mind , and a mind too conscious of its own

    powers to be retained in the beaten track of thought . The following passage has none of the author ' s peculiarities , but it shews that he is capable of competing ( if we may be allowed a Scottish term ) with other writers ,

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    Review . —GUchrisVs Sermon . —WrigUfs Essay an a Future Life . 575

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1819, page 575, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1776/page/51/