JACKSON, WALFORD, & HODDER 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD; AND SIMPKIN, MARSHALL AND CO., STATIONERS' HALL COURT. EDINBURGH: W. OLIPHANT AND CO. GLASGOW: J. MACLEHOSE.—DUBLIN: J. ROBERTSON.. CONTENTS OF No LXIX. 2. Revision of the Liturgy. Five Discourses, by the Rev. CHARLES JOHN VAUGHAN, D.D. The Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight, Lady Companion to the Princess Charlotte of Wales. III. 1. Œuvres et Correspondance Inédites d'Alexis de Toc- queville. Publiées et précédées d'une Notice. Par GUSTAVE DE BEAUMONT, Membre de l'Institut. V. 1. An Introduction to the Study of the Gospels. By 2. Historical Lectures on the Life of our Lord Jesus Christ. Being the Hulsean Lectures for the year 3. Observations on the attempted Application of Panthe- istic Principles to the Theory and Historic Criticism of the Gospel. Being the Christian Advocate's VII. 1. Returns for the year ending 31st December, 1859. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by com- 2. Half-yearly Reports of London and North-Western, Great Western, Great Northern, and Midland Rail- ways. Submitted to Proprietors.. B ART. of A Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah.' 2. The Mormons, or Latter-day Saints, in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake: a History of their Rise and Progress, Peculiar Doctrines, Present Condition and Prospects, derived from personal observation during a residence amongst them. By LIEUT. J. W. 3. The Mormons, or Latter-day Saints; with Memoir IX. 1. The Free Churches of England: their Aims and 2. Bills for the Abolition of Church-rates. 1854-61. 3. Bills for Amending the Law relating to Endowed 4. Speech of John Bright, Esq., M.P., in the House of Commons, on moving the withdrawal from the Estimates of the Irish Regium Donum. 5. Bills for Abolishing the Edinburgh Annuity Tax. PAGE THE BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW. JANUARY 1, 1862. ART. I.-(1.) Liturgical Purity our Rightful Inheritance. By JOHN Hamilton. Second (2.) Revision of the Liturgy. Five Discourses, by the Rev. CHARLES JOHN VAUGHAN, D.D. Macmillan & Co. CHRISTIANITY requires that its disciples should rejoice in the truth-in nothing the contrary of the truth. The errors of one Church may be favourable to the growth of another, but if the result in such cases be accepted, its cause should be a grief and not a gladness. We dare not rejoice in anything which brings dishonour on the Christian name wherever that name may be professed. Gains at such costs no truly Christian man will covet. We are about to speak of many things which we account as fault in the Church of England-the fault which has contributed to make half the nation Nonconformists-and to urge that some of the more obnoxious of these errors should be removed. In so doing we are not conscious of having any selfish or sectarian interest to serve. The less exceptional our National Church shall become, the less reason will there be on the side of those who dissent from her fellowship. A wise revision of her Liturgy, and especially of her law of subscription, would not perhaps diminish the ranks of the Nonconformists so much as some sanguine men have supposed. But diminish them it would. We are prepared, however, to abide by that loss, compensated as it would be by a higher reputation of the Christian name. The common enemy would be deprived by this means of a large class of weapons which have been wielded with too much success against the character of Christian ministers, and against Christianity itself. NO. LXIX. B 2 |