EDUCATION. CHOOL for a moted number of YOUNG LADIES, con lucted SCH from Dr CARPE TER in the Litera y a 18tific-Culture of the mine ad sise1 Popula eventy Gulueas per Annum; with a deduction of Ten G for a moock Pq from the same family, whie under the age of Twelve. T sade every branch of instruction by Dr and Mrs. Carpente pen Daughters, and all additional eti wi, as much as possible, be a It is believed that all the Extra , including Washing, Books, Mu Drawing Materials, &c., will to --g Ten Guineas per annum. For Young Ladies of a so be received into Society, and partaking of its vantages, the terms be One Hundred fromras. A separate apartment wa appropriated to , and every facility will be afforded for pursuing the higher jects of inte La Culture and general Improvement, and for gaining an acqua ance with the regulation of family expenditure, and other branches of dome aan, Drawing, and Music, will be included in the general course of lusti ten by the Miss Carpenters, or taught by Masters at their respective terins, cording to the wishes of the Parents, The French language forins part of the o nary instruction of the School; and a Native of Paris resides in the family. Great George Street, Park Street, Bristol, Dec. 1829. A LADY in the Neighbourhood of Manchester, conducting a Semin upon a limited Scale, wishes to exchange he. TWO ELDEST CHILDRE who are BOYS, of the ages of 10 and 11, for the DAUGHTERS of a Minister Teacher, with the view of all being forwarded in their peculiar branches of ed tion. If the object be for the Young Ladies to be qualit.ed for Governesses, with that view to be advanced in the various accomplishments taught by the atte ing Masters at 1 Professors of the Neighbourhood, it is presumed the vicinity large town affor Wal opportunities for the acquirement of them, of a superior orde at their own home, if resident in the country, or in a town of ught that an arrangement of this nature might to some br out of economy, and would afford a mutual guarantee for a con of the parental duties. of expose, addressed S. L., to the care of Messrs. Clarke, 30 af så luster, will receive an early reply. Newport, Isle of Wight. THE THE REV. EDMUND KELL, A. M., receives into his House YOUNG GENTLEMEN, for the purpose of instruction in every useful a Lite branch of Education, comprising a course of History, Ancient and Mod. ography, with the Use of the Globes; Writing and Arithmetic, Algebra, metry, Trigonometry, Composition, the Belles Lettres, Natural and Experimen Philosophy; together with such a kanwledge of the Latin, Greek, and Hect nguages, as shall completely fit hi- Pupils for an introduction into any of Universities. 1 TERMS, PER ANNUM: Torty-five or Forty Guineas, according to the Pupil's age. , Dancing, and Music, on the Terms of the respective Masters, Reigate, Surrey. ניי V. W. CHINNOCK is desirous of taking into his H ift the Chistmas Vacation, a few YOUNG GENTLEMEN, to Boari a Instruct. The course of Instruction will comprise Reading, Writing, Arithet Grammar, Eugusti (omposition, Geography, Ancient and Modern History, t Elements of Physical Science, &c. &c. Ternis- £26 per annum. The situation of Reigate is picasant and healthful: it is about twenty om Town. eference may be made to the Rev. W. J. Fox, Dalston; Mr. G. Smallbed, ; and to the Rev. E. Chapman, Greenwich. THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY AND REVIEW. NEW SERIES, No. XXXVII. JANUARY, 1830. NEW YEAR'S MORNING. To him who, in some degree, knows himself, and has learnt to compare his poor attempts at obedience to the Divine law, with that unerring obedience of instinct which characterises the inferior orders of creation, human life must sometimes afford a prospect calculated to make the timid soul start back with affright at the thoughts of those many deviations from the path of duty which may possibly disgrace it in the remaining part of his earthly career. Take up the Christian Directory when and where you will, and look at life at what period you may, it is a mysterious, an awful gift to every human being. The spirit shrinks before its responsibilities, dreading to have been entrusted, in vain, with time, with talents, with sympathies, with affections, with bonds of brotherhood, with all those beautiful outward symbols of divine power and love which find in the human soul a faculty fitted to understand and apply them, with "the glorious gospel of the blessed God;" with the promise of answers to our prayers, and grace to help in every time of need. Who that takes into his contemplations but the half of these blessings, nay, only any one of them, but does not feel that it is a solemn thing to BE, and be one of those creatures, high in endowment and rich in expectation, gifted beyond all power of human calculation, who may yet pervert the glorious and kind arrangements of the Deity to the lowest purposes, love darkness rather than light, and not only forego happiness and honours beyond the reach of our conception, but turn the very instruments of good into just reasons for his own condemnation? And who, when lifting up the warning voice to other men, has not sometimes experienced the sickening thought of possible or deeper failure in himself? He turns from such surveys “A sadder, yet a wiser mau.” He learns more, in a few minutes, from such a view of the responsibilities of human life, than from all the written or spoken wisdom of other men ; and may, if he pleases, dispense more of the true doctrine of Christ in such an hour, than the critical scholar can confer on the world through years of! varied labours, for then it is that just measure is taken of human strength and weakness. The grand object of living stands out in bold relief, and the coming years "Do take a sober colouring from the eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality." The dawning of a New-Year's Day is one of those periods when, if ever, the spirit may be supposed to be awake to contemplations like these. We open our eyes upon a world which looks indeed just as it did yesterday, but to our minds it cannot seem the same. Last night, we think, another of those rolling years which swell the grand account between the world and its Creator was completed. The balance of last year's good and evil was struck. We, too, a portion of God's family, with our own responsibilities to him and to our fellow-creatures, have, each in his individual capacity, fulfilled one more of those portions of time allotted to us for the work he has given us to do. We look behind and before. Either way there are unperishing things. Our memory may trace out many actual delusions in our past pursuits, but, let them have been as empty and unsubstantial in reality as possible, still their traces on the character may be deep and permanent. Though the friends we have loved may be gone from us like a cloud, and experience has taught us that riches take to themselves wings and fly away; though the grand and beautiful of nature or art may have been given to our eyes but for a few hours, yet the feeling has been awakened, the lesson learnt, the memory stored. And again, though the immediate ill effects of many of our faults may have been done away, yet some of the spiritual evil probably remains deep in our hearts. Habits have been contracted which must be broken through,-a weary work for the coming year. Happy for us, if, even from these bitter roots, we learn to extract some nourishment for our better nature, some lesson of self-denial, some fresh convictions of the infinite value of an Everlasting Friend and a Comforter who can neither be unfaithful nor weary. But we look too at the less humiliating sources from whence good has come to us. Kind arrangements of Providence have often rendered duty sweet in all its stages. There have been visitings of cheerful thoughts, . sights of childish happiness and peaceful old age; we have had the evervarying aspects of nature, the view of all that fair progeny which deck our gardens or blossom in our hedge-rows, constantly directing our hearts into the love of him who made them all so beautiful. We have had some pleasant associations with our earthly houses of prayer, some seasons of comfort in approaching the memorials of our Saviour's love, and more than all, if we have duly sought them, "Some source of consolation from above, Secret refreshings, that repaired our strength, These and a thousand other influences have been poured out upon us from us!" But, during this portion of life, we have not been merely acted upon; we have been giving out, as well as receiving influence, through the year that is past. No action of ours has been totally unconnected with the world in which we live; and if we cannot press the ground with our feet without producing some impression upon it, nor move, nor speak, without putting in action the element in which we breathe, far less are our operations upon the immaterial part of creation to be disregarded. Much of the influence we exert over others is indeed direct and designed; but by far the most important part of our agency is that which is less obvious, but constant in its operations. It is by means of this almost imperceptible stream of influence that we may notice the gradual wearing down of a good habit or a once sturdy principle in a family or a nation, the adoption of bad fashions or worldly maxims, a lowering of the standard of morality, a substitution of popular for conscientious judgments: and by it we may also, though, alas! more rarely, see brighter views and kindlier feelings springing up around us; sometimes, but yet more rarely still, a kind of excellence is produced, better than that to which mere imitation of a fellow-creature would ever lead, better than that which is founded on the mere desire to communicate or receive present happiness, a desire to be faithful and true servants to God in every thing. Here, then, is another ground for self-examination. Has our secret influence, the best, the most effectual sort of influence, been of a salutary kind? "Would you wish to be loved by your fellow-creature?" said one of the best and purest philanthropists that ever lived. Begin then by loving him." Would you have your friends reformed? Reform yourself. Would you inculcate religious duties? Be religious. But, alas! seldom as it is that duty has not the homage of the tongue, her best praises do not often come up before us in the loud, consenting, unequivocal language of the heart and life. Happy for us if conscience condemn us not in that which she alloweth! In pointing out thoughts like these as the natural result of meditation at this season of the year, let it not be supposed that we consider them as less incumbent at other times, or wish to countenance that artificial, periodical devotion which gathers together for a few special seasons the solemn impressions which ought rather to be distributed over our whole lives. In fact, with the close of every day the circle of a year is completed, and the natural divisions of time seem to point out to us incomparably better than any others the most appropriate periods for reflection and preparation for the labours of life. It is when the curtain of night falls over the outward creation, and the mind feels its need of repose, that God himself seems to have marked out an hour for balancing our great account with him, "an hour," says Sir Thomas Brown, "so like death, that I dare not trust it without my prayers and an half adieu to the world." And again, when the cheerful sun uprises, and creation is bathed in a new flood of living light, when thoughts of the day's duties or pleasures come pouring upon us, it would seem no easy task to escape from the influences of those hours, prompting us to thankfulness and prayer, did not memory bring us the sad records of insensibility to many a warning of these impressive monitors. But all the past is nothing, if it be not for the improvement of the present. We commenced with the more dispiriting view of human infirmity, let us finish with the better thought of Almighty power. We begun in weakness, let us end in strength. To fix our contemplations on good rather than evil, one would think were an easy task; but experience proves that it is far harder than we suppose. Yet let us only imagine the state of that man's mind whose eye is ever turned towards the Fountain of Good, whose practical DIVINITY SCHOOL מבז habit it is to believe that God is in every pure and noble emotion of the heart, who in fact believes that God and goodness are one, and how is the darkness of this world cheered, and every outward object enlivened by that most reviving contemplation! On this, then, let us fix our eyes; here let our weariness find repose. The cause of the Creator, the Father, the Friend of all, is bound up with that of human virtue and improvement, and we believe that it is not " in height or depth," or any created thing, to separate them. Met Freia Hauery, NEGRO SLAVERY.* IF a spirit from some higher region were moved by curiosity to visit our planet, what, in the circuit of the globe, would most excite his wonder and dismay? There is much in every inhabited clime which to a celestial mind must appear "most strange, most pitiful;" much which cannot but draw down "tears such as angels weep." Here, oppression and answering degradation; there, lawlessness and violence; here, abject superstition; there, rebellion against the common Father. In one country, the heavenly visitant would behold how the natives of the soil are driven back into the wastes to perish, not by destitution merely, but by the vices and diseases imparted by their usurping conquerors. In another, he would mourn to see how the imperishable mind is shrouded in thick darkness, and the immortal soul buried in sensual degradation. In a third, he would wonder at the dominion of an idolatry, whose rites, too impure to meet the eye of day, are lighted by the unholy fires of human sacrifice. But he would remember that these slaves, these sufferers, these agonized victims, have not yet been offered the liberty, the security and the peace of the gospel. He would joyfully anticipate the hour when the announcement of these glad tidings should be the signal for universal emancipation. He would count the days till the influences of Christianity should protect the Indian in his forest glades, spiritualize the relations of savage society, exalt the apathy of the Hindoo into heroism, and tame the ferocity of the Tartar into gentleness. He would expect with confidence that wherever this influence was acknowledged, freedom and purity would prevail. He would expect to see the limbs set free from chains, and the mind only subjected to that mild yoke which was not imposed by human hands. He would suppose that common rights would be respected, universal gifts equally shared, and domestic relations sanctified by the benignant operation of a power adequate to these purposes, and ultimately destined to fulfil them; and with this hope he would turn to Christian lands. would he see there? Much to disappoint, and much to encourage. Much external inconsistency, weakness, and depravity; but also much internal purity and strength; many abuses, but a secret power of rectification; great cause for mourning, but more for hope. But if he should at length arrive at a region where all the degradation, all the cruelty, all the sensuality, all the impiety of the worst heathen lands prevail, notwithstanding the influences of Christianity, and under its pretended sanction, what could he think What The Death Warrant of Negro-Slavery throughout the British Dominions. London: Hatchard and Son, and Arch. 1829. Pp. 38. 1 |