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    guilt , lie sheds none but what Is Innocent , and what he knows to be so . It is not by forms of prayer that the militaryprofession and the Christian profession can be harmoni 2 ed .

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    Art . V . — The We&tmimter Review . No . XIX . After considerable delay , and many ominous reports and surmises , the Westminster Review has at length reappeared , and in a form which demands the warm greetings of its old friends and supporters , while it bids fair to increase their number extensively and rapidly . Whatever nray be the precise nature of the new arrangements which are announced

    to hare taken place , we may , judging by their fruits , augur from them most propitiously for the success and utility of the work . It seems as if temporary retirement were sometimes good for books as well as meu . The Westminster Review , at least , has improved marvellously during its seclusion from the public gaze .

    It has the same political character and principles , but they are combined with an ainenity of manners in which it used to be deficient . It has lost nothing of the fortiter in re , but gained much of the suaviter in modo . It pursues the same great objects of Utility and Reform , but pursues them in a more benignant spirit . Another alteration for the better is the

    infusion of more literature and variety in its contents . It now as far surpasses all the other Quarterly Journals in this particular as it used to be surpassed by them . The light reading of the Westminster is a joke no longer . Its severer articles were always no joke . There is one other

    feature which we advert to with strong gratification . The Number just published affords no indication of the adoption of a party theology , but it does indicate , by the critique on Dr . Channing ' s last Sermon , the occasional notice of religious publications , and the respect which is due to divine revelation . We shall not

    diseuss the merit of particular articles , but it was incumbent on us to point out to our readers these material improvements in a work which always had great claims , and has now greater claims than ever , on the support of the friends of truth , freedom , and improvement .

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    Art . IV . — The Character of a Good Servant : a Funeral Discourse on occasion of the Death of Ann Mayo , delivered in the High-Street Chapel , Warwick , on Sunday Evening ' , 30 th November , 1828 . Sharp e , War wick ; Simpkin , London .

    Although the name of the author does not appear on the title-page , there is no doubt of our being indebted for this useful Discourse to the worthy minister of the chapel in which it was preached , the Rev . W . Field ; and it is pleasant to behold the friend and biographer of Dr . Parr iu what the world may deem the more humble character of the funeral eulogist of departed merit in one of the lowlier walks of social life . There is no

    inconsistency , but there is much that is really honourable and useful , hi this employment of the pen that has so recently been occupied by a topic of so much more literary dignity . The death which occasioned this Discourse was , literally , that of a Servant , and as literally , judging from the delineation of her character

    which it contains , that of a Good Servant . The author addresses himself chiefly to persons of the same condition iu life as the deceased ; inculcating , and recommending by her example , the duties of diligence , fidelity , frugality , kiuduess , and

    religion ; and displaying their appropriate recompence , here and hereafter ; at the same time not forgetting to demand for that example , as a just tribute , " the admiration of all who , in every station , are capable of admiring and honouring moral worth in humble life . " The

    Sermon is indeed an excellent Christian Tract ; and it well illustrates the rule for estimating character laid down in the motto from Dr . Young : ** Who does the best that circumstance allows , Does well , acts nobly ; angels could no more ! "

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1829, page 199, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2570/page/47/