The Christian Review (Volume 1) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE CHRISTIAN REVIEW. No. 1. MARCH, 1836. Akticle I. DR. COX'S ADDRESS. Mental and Moral Preparation for the work of the Christian Ministry; being the Substance of an Address to the Students of the Theological Institution at Newton, near Boston, (Mass.) delivered at the Anniversary, Wednesday, August 19, 1835, by F. A. Cox, D. D., LL. D. [ve have great pleasure in presenting to our readers, as the first article of our Review, the following Address. It was the intention of those who solicited a copy for the press, to publish it in a pamphlet; but it has been thought preferable to insert it in this work, as it will thus be spread before a larger number of readers, and will be more easily preserved.?It has been presumed, also, that this course will be acceptable to the author, who, together with his colleague, expressed a great interest in the proposition to establish this Review, and promised their individual support. May this be the earnest of many valuable articles from able pens beyond the Atlantic. ?The brief Preface was prefixed by the author.] PREFACE. I have been induced to comply with the kind solicitations at Newton to publish this address; not merely, though chiefly, from the hope, that it may, by the divine blessing, accomplish some good,?but also, because the publication of it affords me an opportunity, in the prospect of a speedy departure for Europe, of giving a permanent expression to the deep and growing interest which I feel in the welfare of the Institution within whose enclosures it was delivered, as well as in the kindred institution at Hamilton, New-York state, which I have had the satisfaction of visiting, and the youth in general, who are pursuing a course of education in various seminaries of learning. To these institutions and individuals...