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should it be at all improbable that instances of great piety and excellence should subsist beyond it. If this could be fairly established, every required condition would be provided for. Strong as ever would remain the duty to abide by the appointed form; strong as ever the duty to abhor and reject any erroneous teaching sheltered under that form; strong as ever the duty to admit and rejoice in the reality of true piety, under whatever form; strong as ever the duty to withstand and censure those very men who contribute the influence of their piety to discountenance the appointed form;—all, duties consistent with each other, and with the ordinary course of divine Providence.*

And with this Irenicum, to which, however, we can now only allude, we close our comments upon existing British theology; in which we claim only one characteristic of decided originality, the novel attempt to be tolerably just to all parties.

Our earnest desire is, to see the right-minded and sincere searcher for truth withdrawing himself, as far as possible, from Persons and individual statements to Doctrines and the real problems of the controversy. Never was there a time in which it was more needful to warn the student that he must be nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri; that he must rigorously scrutinize reasoning with utter indifference to the reasoner. Unfortunately he will too often find the task a sinecure. In lieu of the steady syllogizers of old times, we seem to have become a generation of declaimers. In the adversaries of the Church theory there is a world of clever and forcible denunciation, shrewd detection of inconsistencies, effective exposure of exaggerations; but the smallest possible portion of distinct and definite counter statement. In the Oxford writers, though abounding with brilliant and acute disquisition, the case is, if possible, more unsatisfactory.

There never lived a body of menif we must take them as a body, and make all liable for each-with whom any sober-minded Churchman should, in our humble judgment, more carefully avoid identifying himself. In extracting some of the main points of the old theory from their statements, we have given the reader little idea of the unpardonable blemishes which are mingled with their representation of it. Precipitate, intemperate, imaginative, they attack the indifference to disunion which, it will be confessed, does abundantly characterize our popular Protestantism, with a sort of petulant sensitiveness that, in its eloquent impatience, reminds us of no style so much as that of the wild and dreamy Rousseau; and which is quite as remote from the simplicity of steady ratiocination. Like him they put forth alternately, truths that would honour a sage, and extravagancies that would disgrace a child; and even the many curious and striking views that are to be found in their writings (as that remarkable investigation of our Lord's practice of suiting His discoveries of Himself to the dispositions of His hearers-perhaps the most beautiful theological speculation of the day) they too often spoil by exaggerated deductions and applications. With such a temptress as Romanism in their neighbourhood, with a Schehallion of such powerful attraction beside them, they trifle with the danger in a tone of (to say the be of it) very absurd affectation. They seem to think it the function of faith to be resolutely blind to all possible practical consequences; and though we would not encourage the fears that some entertain of mischiefs to come, we would earnestly admonish our young students to beware how they pin their faith to dealers rather in the poetry than the prose of theology. Abjured be all sentimentalisms about "our erring Roman sister;" all chimerical visions of her reforma

It would take us into too wide a compass of discussion to enter fully upon this topic, which we had at first some intention of doing. Some outline of the reasonings which are principally in our thoughts will be found in a sermon published at the close of last year, under the title of "Primitive Church Principles not Inconsistent with Universal Christian Sympathy," by the Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University.

tion or our concession! Let men be well convinced that there is no possible improvement of the Church of England that could compensate for the admission of the minutest error of Rome; possible improvements are for the future and precarious, the avoidance of error is an obvious, urgent, and immediate duty; a stationary church may be without glory, a retrograde church is with disgrace. In this spirit, and with this cautionary provision, let them proceed-undeterred by party virulence, and gladly accepting light

from whatever quarter it springs-to consider as it deserves the momentous question of the real Nature and Constitution of THE CHURCH of Jesus Christ.

We had intended, as the title of our article proclaims, to contrast these tendencies of religion in England with its condition in Prussia, and the adjacent regions of Northern Germany. This curious instance of opposite contemporary development we must however, we now find from the length of our present sketch, defer to another number.

ROSALIE. TWO SONNETS.

1.

She comes,-like some young Sibyl, when the beams
Of inspiration kindle on her sight;

Her dark eye flashing rapture till it seems
The mind embodied in material light!

Now-now-
v-a gush of silent ecstasy

Swells through her soul,—and in these softer hours
She broods o'er quiet thoughts, as bees on flowers
Linger and chaunt their slumberous melody.
But lo!-as 'twere a trumpet-tone from far
Pierced to her inmost soul, she rises now;
Again the glory vests the Enthusiast's brow,
And eyes as twilight soft, burn like its star.
Wild, wondrous Rosalie! what mystic birth
Gave our cold world to see Thee glorified on earth?

June, 1827.

II.

The Pilgrim of the Heart, with visage pale,
Wildered and weakly stumbles on and weeps;
He eyes through tears each churchyard marble's tale,
To gain the turf where lost Affection sleeps;
Poor mourner among graves! Oh, Rosalie,
'Tis thus, perplexed and sad, I gaze on thee!
My young-eyed Sappho wore a joyous brow,
And Thou-wan, tottering relic-who art Thou?
-Once lovely-ever loved! Thou canst not alter
To aught I cannot love. Thy spirit still

Is wreathed in mine, and though thine accents falter
They are but sweeter for it; though the chill
Of Death be gathering on thy wasted frame,

Memory shall sighing smile, and whisper thee the same!

June, 1835.

B.

OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY.NO. XXXIII.

THE LATE PERCIVAL BARTON LORD, ESQ. M.D.

PERCIVAL BARTON LORD was born at Mitchelstown, in the county of Cork, December, 1807. His father, the Rev. John Lord, was chaplain to an institution established in that town by the Kingston family, for the support of decayed gentry; he was a sound classical scholar, and therefore educated his sons at home until they were prepared for entering the Dublin university. Percival Lord obtained several classical honours in his college course, but his constitu. tion could not support the fatigues of severe study; symptoms of something like incipient consumption began to appear, and he was obliged to suspend his course for a year in order to enjoy the benefit of country air. On his return to Dublin he chose the medical profession, and, without abandoning the literary and scientific courses of university education, devoted the greater part of his time to the study of anatomy and physiology. A few students at this period had associated themselves together for the purpose of cultivating general literature, without however formally organizing themselves into a society. Lord was the youngest member of the circle, but not the least esteemed of his associates; he was particularly remarkable for the cultivated delicacy of his taste, and for insisting on a purity of diction which amounted almost to fastidiousness. The writings of Sir William Jones were his favourite model, and the preference originally formed for the manner in the course of time extended to the

matter.

While Lord was yet a student his father died, after having lost the greater part of what he had saved from a limited income by the failure of a bank. Thus thrown in a great degree on his own resources, Lord went to complete his medical education in Edinburgh, where the polish of his manners, the easy flow of his conversation, and his ardent desire to acquire information soon procured him a valuable circle of acquaintance. When the cholera broke out he volunteered his services to take charge of an hospital; they were immediately accepted. While that plague raged he attended to the onerous duties which he had thus gratuitously undertaken with a zeal and assiduity which excited universal admiration. Some years afterwards, when walking with the writer of this memoir in London, he was addressed by a poor Scotchman in terms that obviously came from the heart, who declared that he owed his life to the care and attention bestowed upon him by Lord in the cholera hospital. From Edinburgh Lord came to London, where he soon became connected with the literary press. His articles on professional subjects in "the Athenæum" and Foreign Quarterly Reviews excited considerable attention in the medical world; especially two papers on consumption in "the Athenæum," which were re-published by the principal medical journals on the Continent and in America. At this time he published his Elements of Physiology, which, though a popular treatise, has continued to hold its place as a text-book in the library of medical students.

He was always desirous of visiting the east; and having reason to believe that there was a chance of his wishes being gratified, he resolved to prepare himself for the change by a course of oriental studies, and particularly to attend to the circumstances most likely to elucidate the Mussulman character. The conquest of Algiers by the French, and the vast mass of publications which issued from the Parisian press while the colony had the freshness and interest of novelty, directed his attention to the physical and social condition of Northwestern Africa. The results of his studies were given to the world in two volumes published by Whittaker and Co., which still continue to be the most complete and authentic account of Algiers that exists in our language.

In the latter part of the year 1834, Dr. Lord was appointed an assistant surgeon in the Hon. East India Company's service, and in the interval between

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