not now beseeching a blessing for, but imparting one to, the people. He does not entreat it on their behalf-he communicates it to them, by virtue of the authority with which he is divinely entrusted. It is among the most solemn and sublime acts appertaining to the ministry of religion.

Mr. Crowther quotes well from the sacred volume. Whether he aims to establish doctrine or to inculcate practice, he is not of those who sacrifice a scriptural quotation to the perfection of an elegant paragraph, He is not thus taught to shun the truth.

He indeed affords an unexceptionable exemplification of the union of two supposedly opposite characters. As he is an admired popular preacher, so is he an esteemed parochial minister; and while his talents do honor to his church, his life forms a lesson to his flock. The circle of his duties seems even too arduous for the state of his health. He is not the servant who will be found to have hid his talent, but one who, true

to his trust, may look confidently to the great

day of account!

Samuel Crowther is an able and faithful Minister of the Gospel.

PHILIP STANHOPE DODD, M. A.

WHEN finally resolved to lay before the world a series of clerical criticism, incidentally embra→ cing circumstances connected with the actual state of religion in this country, I certainly expected to encounter opposition the most formidable, and hostility the most acrimonious. Pret judices were not to be shaken without an ef fort; interests were not to be assailed with impunity; abuses were not to be exposed without danger. As, however, I entered independently on my sphere of duty, and foresaw the resistance I was likely to experience, it would have evinced something more culpable than folly, on my part, had I omitted to discipline myself for so arduous a conflict. What therefore I have not unadvisedly undertaken, I shall not pusillanimously abandon. Having estimated the im

portance of my commission, I shall still labour

to fulfil it

As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.'

Alas! the day, the hour, is rapidly approaching, whether as to my enemies or myself, when the views of all hearts shall be disclosed when what was devised secretly must be divulged openly-and when men will be estimated not by the fallacious surmises of each other, but by the unerring scrutiny of omniscience. I can leave the hypocritical heart' to him who sees not as man sees; and with him, whose ways are not as our ways, and to whom alone vengeance belongs, I also leave the punishment due' to the offences of his creatures! Here let me leave my foes.

Grateful in itself, I enter upon my present subject with sincere pleasure. I have not now to adjure our spiritual governors to withhold their consecrating hands from

'Sculls that cannot teach, and will not learn.'

It is for me now to speak of one, who, were

I briefly to describe him,

'I would express him simple, grave, sincere!"

After the usual course of preparatory instruction, Philip Dodd was sent to Magdalen College, Cambridge; of which he is still a Fellow. I have not enquired at what time he composed or published his Hints to Freshmen,' an ingenious and meritorious little tract. It possessed such merit, as, appearing anonymously, induced other persons to claim the authorship of it.

Mr. Dodd was long Curate of Camberwell; where he was, at length, so much noticed, as to succeed in his candidateship for Morning Preacher to the Asylum Chapel. He became Minister of South-Lambeth Chapel, June 1803, on the resignation of that situation by the Rev. Mr. Gardner. During the Mayoralty of Sir William Leighton, Mr. Dodd appeared in the character of his Chaplain. Of his two Sermons,