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WORKS BYTHE REV. DR. SPRAGUE.
TRUE AND FALSE RELIGION.
L«ctures Dlustrating the öontrast between True Christianity and various other Systems. ByWilliam. 8. Sprague , D.D, 1 voi. I2mo.
LECTÜRES ON REVIVALS IN RELIGION.
By W» B. Spragtte, D.D. With an. Introductory Essay by Leonard Woods, D.D. 1 voi. I2moLBTTBRS TO A DAUGHTER,
On Practical Subjeots. By W. B. Spragae, D.D. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged.1 voi. 12mo.
LECTÜRES TO YOUNG PEOPLE.
By W, B. Sprague , D.D. With an Introductory Address. By Samuol Miller, D.D. Fourthedition, 1 voi. 12mo.
The writings of Dr. Sprague are too well known, and too highly estimated by the Christian Com-munity generally, to require any other encomium than is furnished by their own merits ; for this rea-*on it is thought unnecessary to subjoiu the favourable testimonies borne to their Utility and exceJ-lonce by the whole circle of the periodical press of this country, and the fact that they have eachpassed through several editions in England, sufficiently attests the estimation in which they are heldabroad.
WILLIAMS ’S MISSIONARY ENTERPRISES.
A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises and Triumphs in the South. Seas, with Remarks uponthe Natural History of the Islands, Origin, Language, Tradition, and Usages of the Inhabi-tants, By the Rev. John Williams , of the London Missionary Society .
Numerous plates. 1 voi. large 12mo.
u We have been greatly delighted with this work. And if asked, why 1 we answer, because itfurnishes the most full and satisfactory account of Polynesia , the isles of the Pacific, we have anywhere met with. 2. Jt relates facts, occurrences, and incidents, of which the author was eye and earwitness, 3. It incidently gives a full-length portrait of the missionary character of the present age ; aportrait that even Satan must admire, thongh ‘ he cannot love.’ 4. It fairly developes the true Bpiritof the Christian missions, and the principles on which they are successfully conducted. 5. It exhibitsthe astonishing power of the gospel in the transformation of the most degradedclass of human beings.6. It evinces the inseparable connexion between Christianity and civilization; between the gospel re-ceived, and man’s present happiness, 7. li illustrates the grace of God , as displayed in the triumphantdeath of healhen converts. 8. It exposes the iguorance and wickedness of those who misrepresent thedesign and operations of Christian missions. 9. It demoustrates that the ‘ isles of the sea’ are waitingfor God ’s law, and that God ’s time has come for their conversion. 10. It urges powerfully to greatlyenlarged effort for the ‘ immediate emancipation ’ of all the slaves of Satan from the bondage of thou-sands of years.
“ Besides these, we might state many other reasons for our high satisfaction with this transatlanticvolume. It is written in a style of great simplicity, in a spirit of great meekness, in a tone of o.andourand modesty, that we much admire. It conveys no small amount of valuable geographical and geolo-gical Information ; much of it new to us, and probably to others. It is replete with distinct referencesto the hand of Divine Providence, and with devout reflections, that render it valuable, even as an 4 aidto devotion.’ It is throughout highly attractive for the variety of its matter, for the fairness of itsoccasional discussions on some mooted questions of natural history, &c., for the light it throws on thesocial condition of different tiibes of savages, and their intellectual character, and for the coiuiuuityof the whole story,
“ Other minds may not be affected like our own. Butif the practised reader of novels and romancesfinds the charms of fiction working as powerfully to withdraw bis mind from all things aronnd him, aswe have fbund the charms of these authentic ‘ Missionary Enterprises ’ working on ourselves, we wo»*der not at his attachment to them, however unjustifiable it may be. After once entering fairly intothe spirit of the narrative, it is hardly possible for us to conceive of a pious mind that can ‘ let it go *tili it shall have been ‘ devoured.’ ”— Evangelist.
By the Rev. John Williams , author of “ Missionary Enterprises,” &c.
1 voi. 18mo.
THE MARTYRED MISSIONARIES.
Memoirs of the Rev. Samuel Munson and the Rev. Henry Lyman, late Missionaries to theIndian Archipelago, with the Journal of their Exploring Tour. By the Rev. WilliamThompson. 1 voi. 12mo.
DISOOITRSES ON THE NERVOGS SYSTEM,ßelect Discourses on the Functions of the Nervous System , in Opposition to Phrenomgy,Materialism and Atheism ; to which is prefxxed a Lecture on the Diversities of the HumanOharacter, arising from Physiological Feculiarities. By John Augustine Smith, MD.
J voi } 2mo,