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NEW THEMES CONDEMNED. 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED: 
 
 THIRTY OPINIONS 
 
 NEW THEMES," AND ITS "REVIEWER; 
 
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 1. "SOME NOTICE OF «A REVIEW BY A LAYMAN. 
 2. "HINTS TO A LAYMAN." 
 3. "CHARITY AND THE CLERGY." 
 
 ■ Whoso condemnation is pronounced." 
 
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 " Bring me their opinions of success." 
 
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PREFACE 
 
 If ever a volume was rebuked by the in- 
 dignant condemnation of those best qualified 
 to judge in the premises, "New Themes for 
 the Protestant Clergy," has certainly suffered 
 this punishment. 
 
 If a jury could be empannelled of one hun- 
 dred individuals, whose personal visitation of 
 the poor, and general knowledge of charita- 
 ble operations, peculiarly fitted them to sit 
 in judgment upon the topics discussed in 
 " New Themes," we predict that, not ten of 
 the hundred, in concurring in a sentence of 
 " guilty," would even " recommend" the book 
 " to the mercy of the public." To use the 
 language of the " New York Observer," — 
 when commending the Review — " We can 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 hardly persuade ourselves that any intelligent 
 Christian could be misled by the errors in 
 judgment and fact, into which the author of 
 the < Themes' has fallen." 
 
 Yet we do not deem the present volume a 
 work of supererogation. Unfortunately, " in- 
 telligent Christians" do not compose the 
 whole of the reading public. If intellectual 
 strength, and moral health, and philanthropic 
 vigilance, were the attributes of all, we 
 should not fear the sophistries of " New 
 Themes," any more than we do the subtle- 
 ties of the " School-men ;" but, unhappily, 
 " many are weak and sickly among us, and 
 many sleep." To such, from causes as various 
 as their infirmities, or their errors, "New 
 Themes" will prove a dangerous volume. 
 There are also many, who may be called "&d 
 captandum" readers, who judge of a book, as 
 they do in other cases, from the sign which 
 it displays. 
 
 If the volume be plentifully interspersed 
 with Scripture texts, and sufficiently take to 
 
PREFACE. XI 
 
 task the short-comings of the world at large, 
 and Christians in particular, these excellent 
 individuals conclude, as a matter of course, 
 that a book so recommended must be a good 
 one. 
 
 There is, also, we understand, a small class 
 — very small, so far as our experience ex- 
 tends — of persons, unexceptionable in every 
 respect, who profess to approve of " New 
 Themes ;" but with so many reservations, 
 that the "faint praise" of the poet, imme- 
 diately occurs to our mind. 
 
 There may be some individuals who en- 
 dorse " New Themes" throughout. We have 
 met with none such. We cannot deny that 
 we have heard of such authorities ; but we 
 have too much respect for the author of the 
 volume so endorsed, to give the names of 
 these endorsers. Merchants consider that 
 even an endorsement may, in some cases, not 
 only fail to strengthen, but may entirely de- 
 . the credit of the depreciated document. 
 
 But imt alone for the benefit of the classes 
 
XU PREFACE. 
 
 above enumerated, do we offer to the public, 
 the formidable array of weighty " Opinions" 
 contained in this volume. If " New Themes" 
 should, unfortunately, descend to " our chil- 
 dren, and our children's children," we wish 
 to show them, that their predecessors were 
 not recreant to that solemn duty which 
 called upon them to stamp with their earnest 
 indignation, and heartfelt abhorrence, the 
 manifold errors and evil tendencies of " New 
 Themes for the Protestant Clergy." 
 
 Philadelphia, February 1, 1853. 
 
A FEW WORDS 
 
 RESPECTING 
 
 "some notice of 'a review, by a layman, op 
 new themes for the protestant clergy/" 
 
 In a brief article under the above title, 
 the author of " New Themes" has seen pro- 
 per to take some notice of our " Review." 
 It is properly entitled a " Notice," for reply, 
 it neither is, nor professes to be. For this 
 he is not to blame : for, to use the words of 
 one of the author's intimate friends, — "the 
 Review is unanswerable" We take no great 
 credit to ourselves in this matter; for, 
 indeed, it required but a very limited 
 amount of talent or information to confute 
 " New Themes."* Before we proceed to a 
 
 * So little opportunity had we in the few pages of the 
 far of New Themes" to fully represent the errors, 
 inconsistencies, and contradictions, of that singular pro- 
 2 
 
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 brief Review of this "Notice," let us again 
 remark, what we have been so careful to 
 state repeatedly in the " Review," that we 
 give the author of "New Themes" entire 
 credit for good motives in the publication of 
 — as another of his friends well entitles it, — 
 "that unfortunate production." We op- 
 posed the opinion which has been so often 
 expressed, that the book was the work of 
 an infidel; and, again and again, declared 
 our belief of the contrary. That any critic, 
 then, should charge us with calling the 
 author an unbeliever, argues either such 
 carelessness, or such untruthfulness, as 
 proves his opinion to be of little weight. 
 We say, on pp. 16, 17: "The author of 
 6 New Themes' professes to believe in Chris- 
 tianity as a divine revelation, and we do not 
 doubt his sincerity." Again, on p. 30 we 
 say : " Yet we do not believe the author of 
 
 duction, that we have drawn up a second Review, in- 
 cluding a notice of the preface to the second edition of 
 "New Themes." This we shall reserve for the present. 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 15 
 
 6 New Themes/ to be an infidel. He pro- 
 fesses to believe in the Scriptures, and we 
 credit his profession." Again, on p. 138, 
 we entitle his labour, "well-meaning advo- 
 cacy" in the cause of social reform. On 
 p. 48, we declare : " We are satisfied that the 
 book was written by a Christian, and one of 
 exemplary life and conversation." And all 
 this, we now re-affirm. We believe the 
 author to be a good man, a sincere Chris- 
 tian, a zealous, would-be reformer. Believe 
 him to be a well-informed, clear-headed, 
 political economist, we cannot, so long as 
 the "wild blunders and risible absurdities" 
 of "New Themes," stare us in the face. 
 We shall now, very briefly, review the 
 " Some Notice, &c." We are sorry to observe 
 here, the same careless hand, the same reck- 
 lessness of assertion, the same rambling, illo- 
 gical, cast of mind, which were so painfully 
 manifested in "New Themes." Indeed, it 
 would appear as if our " Review" had been 
 scarcely peruaed ;it all; so remarkable are 
 
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 the misstatements respecting it. Surely, if 
 worth noticing, it was worth reading. 
 
 The "Notice" says: "You will have 
 readily perceived that not all the censure in 
 which it abounds, is due to the critic him- 
 self. It is, in part, a compilation of what 
 has been said and written by others. The 
 i Review' presents itself in two aspects: — 
 Firstly: Its criticisms and their original 
 authors. Secondly : The critic or compiler. 
 The authors of these severe charges demand 
 the first attention." 
 
 Is it possible that the author of the 
 "Notice" can have read the "Review?" 
 The reader will see by reference, that the 
 only opinions of others quoted, are that of 
 one "eminent individual" (p. 30), and two 
 booksellers, pp. 30, 48. What then can our 
 author mean by the above "original au- 
 thors;" and by the remark that, "In regard 
 to them, it would not be difficult to admi- 
 nister severe retaliation, and to deal in sharp 
 retort?" Would he administer "severe 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 17 
 
 retaliation" to the poor booksellers, whose 
 consciences would not permit them to aid 
 the circulation of " New Themes ?" Would 
 he. use "sharp retort" to "this eminent 
 individual" who dared to disapprove of 
 what he thought a dangerous production? 
 He cannot, we imagine, even know who he 
 is. So far from the "Review" being, in 
 part, a compilation of what was said and 
 written by others, no one knew of the 
 writer's intention to review " New Themes," 
 until the "Review" was partly written. 
 The present writer avows the authorship, 
 with all the responsibilities, merits, or 
 demerits, therein involved. We cannot see 
 that, at least so far, our author has gained 
 anything by exchanging the arm-chair of 
 the author, for the tripod of the critic. 
 But we have a still more striking instance 
 of his critical acumen. He says that, 
 the "Reviewer" considers "these English 
 statutes M a discovery of his own." This 
 fc meant to be witty; and there is "some- 
 
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18 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 thing exquisitely innocent" in his clumsy 
 attempts at ridicule; but unluckily, these 
 unwonted gambols prove suicidal; for our 
 author is so inconsistent, as to admit that, 
 we credit these "discoveries" to Wades 
 British History! (He might have added 
 the titles of other works, which we quoted, 
 also.) We are no violent advocates for the 
 " Greek unities ;" but we think that, at least 
 every half page, should be consistent with 
 the other half. We quoted the Poor Laws 
 simply in disproof of his flagrant errors. 
 Happy would it have been for our author's 
 reputation as a political economist, if he had 
 stepped " book in hand" into this discussion ; 
 and preferred the facts of " Wade's British 
 History," to the assumptions and contradic- 
 tions of "New Themes." Many of these 
 assertions are, indeed, " profoundly strange," 
 not only to ourselves, but to the world at 
 large. If our author will exhibit the 
 " breadth of his knowledge," by " pointing 
 out the very statutes, reciting the very 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 19 
 
 words, and quoting" any authorities, which 
 will bear him out in the half of Ms "dis- 
 coveries," we will agree to let the rest pass 
 without challenge. As our author grows 
 jocular, and amuses us with an anecdote of 
 a layman, let us have our turn at tellirig a 
 story : 
 
 "Once on a time," in 1851, a book was 
 published in a certain city, entitled, "New 
 Themes for the Protestant Clergy," &c, the 
 object of which was to urge the duties of 
 Christianity; but so awkwardly was the 
 thing done, that many declared that the 
 avowed Christian was really an infidel ! And 
 his friends could only save his principles by 
 sheltering him under the obscurity of his 
 style; declaring that he had not made him- 
 self understood ! 
 
 He remarks that, "It is no doubt unknown 
 to the Reviewer that the statutes quoted by 
 him so complacently as a complete reply to 
 the statements made by me have been the 
 subject of official comment in England. In 
 
20 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 1834, a royal commission, appointed 'to 
 make diligent and full inquiry into the prac- 
 tical operation of the laws for the relief of 
 the poor in England and Wales, and into the 
 manner in which those laws were adminis- 
 tered, &c, made an elaborate report,' " &c. 
 He says, this is " no doubt unknown" to us. 
 What will the reader think of our author's 
 fairness, when, on turning to our "Review," 
 pp. 120-128, he finds that we have devoted 
 no less than eight pages to this very subject — 
 the royal commission of 1832-34 ? Here is 
 a critic, indeed ! Our author, not in the 
 most courteous manner in the world, calls us 
 " blind." But who is " blind" now ? These 
 are singular specimens of the " lofty ways of 
 Christianity," in which he desires his readers 
 to walk ! We know that he intended no mis- 
 statement, but "charity" has clearer eyesight 
 than is here evinced. And with reference to 
 "charity," we have another misstatement, 
 quite as remarkable as the one just noticed. 
 He says that, " It was an allegation in ' New 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 21 
 
 Themes' that there was no adequate work in 
 the English language on Christian Charity," 
 &c. The Reviewer furnishes a whole cata- 
 logue of works On the Love of God, and on 
 God's Love for Man. The Reviewer is per- 
 haps so imbued with a knowledge of the 
 ancient languages that he occasionally for- 
 gets his English; he knows that the word 
 we translate charity meant also in the origi- 
 nal, love. He merely forgets that our word 
 charity has an English meaning so well esta- 
 blished that not even the Reviewer himself 
 can shake it. Neither man's love of God, 
 nor God's love for man, can be called charity 
 without violence to the English language. 
 How one apparently so well educated could 
 be guilty of such a mistake, seems inexpli- 
 cable. Does the Reviewer call it an act of 
 charity in God to love him ? And if he be 
 willing thus to force his vocabulary, is he so 
 «rent as to go further, and say that it is 
 AN ACT OF CHARITY IN HIM TO LOVE GOD ? 
 
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 Now. what will the reader say, when we 
 inform him, that this choice morsel of criti- 
 cism is entirely gratuitous ? What will he 
 think, when we inform him, that in the 
 whole of the " Review," there is not the 
 slightest reference to this allegation, that 
 " there was no adequate work in the Eng- 
 lish language, on Christian Charity ?" We 
 remark, on page 129 of the " Review," that, 
 " our author inquires, where, in all its range, 
 shall we find a treatise upon the ' Love of 
 God,' which does justice to the magnitude of 
 the subject ?" By reference to page 29 of 
 " New Themes," it will be seen, that we have 
 quoted the passage, verbatim. We then pro- 
 ceed to give a catalogue of works upon the 
 " Love of God," which catalogue is, of 
 course, strictly pertinent to the subject. 
 After this, the less our author says about the 
 " low paths where the blind are prone to go," 
 the better. It is " charity" to suppose him 
 " blind ;" and we willingly relieve him from 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 23 
 
 a less desirable dilemma. But is a writer so 
 careless in his statements, so reckless in his 
 assertions, qualified to be a public teacher, 
 and moral instructor? 
 
A BRIEF NOTICE 
 
 "HINTS to a layman.' 
 
 Mr. Croly, in his Life of George IV., tells 
 a very good story of Erskine and Pitt, which 
 occurs to us forcibly at the present moment. 
 " When Mr. Erskine commenced his maiden 
 speech, Mr. Pitt, evidently intending to 
 reply, sat with pen and paper in his hand, 
 prepared to catch the arguments of his for- 
 midable adversary. He wrote a word or 
 two, Erskine proceeded ; but with every 
 additional sentence, Pitt's attention to the 
 paper relaxed, his look became more care- 
 less, and he obviously began to think the 
 orator less and less worthy of his attention. 
 At length, while every eye in the House was 
 fixed upon him, with a contemptuous smile 
 he dashed the pen through the paper, and 
 flung them on the floor. Erskine never 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 25 
 
 recovered from this expression of disdain ; 
 his voice faltered, he struggled through the 
 remainder of his speech, and sank in his seat, 
 dispirited, and shorn of his fame." 
 
 No one who has perused the " Hints to a 
 Layman," will ask a reason for the quota- 
 tion of this anecdote. We had been advised 
 of the intended publication, and had seen it 
 advertised with "a great flourish of trum- 
 pets." We thought, here, at last, will be 
 something worthy of a response ; now we 
 shall know something of that 
 
 " Stern joy, true warriors feel, 
 Who meet with foemen worthy of their steel." 
 
 Of course, we procured the work with all 
 despatch ; we waited, pen and paper in hand, 
 to find something in the shape of argument, 
 of reason, at least of common sense, to jus- 
 tify us in the expenditure of " stationery." 
 Groping our way, carefully, through the ob- 
 scurity of blundering sentences, rheumatic 
 phraseology, puerile truisms, and personal 
 
26 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 abuse, which disgrace this volume, we have 
 still asked ourselves the question, What is 
 the object of this wasteful outlay of sixty- 
 seven pages of good paper, which might 
 have been so much more usefully employed ? 
 Arrived at the end, with Pitt, we " stick our 
 pen through the paper, and throw both on 
 the floor." We would fain answer, but 
 what is there to be answered ? We know 
 that it is considered rather discourteous by 
 one who aspires to be an author, to be con- 
 sidered unworthy of any kind of response ; 
 but what can we do? "Ex nihil" &c. 
 " Nothing can come from nothing ;" how 
 then shall we find anything in the " Hints" 
 worthy of a grave reply ? To show our 
 willingness to do all that can be expected in 
 this matter, we hereby promise that, if the 
 author of " Hints," or any of his friends, will 
 point out to us a single page, or half a page, 
 of the " Hints," which has the least claim to 
 a serious notice, we will endeavor to give it 
 such consideration. Our critic means to be 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 27 
 
 very severe upon us : this is not the first in- 
 stance of a " man's committing suicide, when 
 he only planned murder." We make no 
 pretensions to extensive literary qualifica- 
 tions, but we are so fully convinced of their 
 value, that when we select a literary teacher, 
 it shall not be the author of such a luminous 
 and perspicuous sentence as this, to which 
 there are many parallels : " Eminent foreign- 
 ers have remarked this intense direction of 
 our life to what is visible and tangible, to 
 what has visible and palpable and measurea- 
 ble results ; and while they have admitted 
 that the general mind of the country is far 
 more alive to questions that range above 
 mere material interests, than is the case 
 among the nations of Europe, they have been 
 justified nevertheless in stating, that, as 
 rda works of profound reflection, there 
 are fewer to appreciate them than among 
 any other civilized nation." 
 
 Was there ever a sentence more " Cicero- 
 nian" in construction, more "Johnsonian" in 
 
28 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 dignity ? But as our limits will not allow 
 us to quote over half a hundred pages, we 
 must desist. A critic says of some of Bos- 
 well's lucubrations : " To say that these pas- 
 sages are sophistical, would be to pay them 
 an extravagant compliment. They have no 
 pretence to argument, or even to meaning." 
 We shall not be so severe on the author of 
 " Hints." But we must treat our readers to 
 one instance of this author's beautiful con- 
 sistency and logical precision. On p. 33 we 
 are told that, the " amount of his [the Re- 
 viewer's] inference from our author's words 
 is, that he speaks of the doctrines of the 
 Gospel with such gross irreverence as to 
 warrant one who did not, from other sources, 
 know the contrary, in setting him down as 
 an infidel;" and yet, on p. 58, this acute 
 critic contradicts his own words in the fol- 
 lowing remarkable style : " He [the Re- 
 viewer] does not prove one defect, nor even 
 refer to our author's theory of doctrine, upon 
 which alone the charge of infidelity could 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 29 
 
 be justly based." "Look first upon this 
 picture, then on this." In one place we are 
 told that, our inference is, that the author's 
 views of doctrine would induce some to 
 think him an infidel. Anon, we are as 
 gravely assured that we do not even refer to 
 our authors theory of doctrine ! No wonder 
 he tells us that, " only a mere verbal logi- 
 cian could object as he does on p. 55 ;" that, 
 " statements and counter statements, affirma- 
 tives and negatives, on the same questions, 
 necessarily prove a loose and inconsistent 
 reasoner !" 
 
 Will it be believed that the author of 
 "Hints" takes our good-humored raillery 
 over the absurdities of " New Themes" for 
 severity? This may be an innocent error, 
 but to charge us, after all our protestations 
 of regard for the Christian character of the 
 author of "New Themes," with calling him 
 ;m /////</' /. can hardly be innocent. His awk- 
 ward attempts at ridiculing our literary ca- 
 pacity for writing the "Review," will not 
 
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30 NEW TIIEiMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 surprise any one who reads his "Hints." 
 We well remember Mr. Patrick Lyon, as an 
 eminent blacksmith, but we never heard of 
 his being called in as an assayer, to decide 
 what was, and what was not, gold. A Lich- 
 field alderman once encountered Dr. Johnson, 
 as they both emerged from the Cathedral, after 
 service. " A fine sermon we have had to-day, 
 Dr. Johnson," exclaimed the municipal wor- 
 thy ; not unwilling, perhaps, to proclaim his 
 acquaintance with the great man. The gruff 
 Doctor, who delighted in rebuking empty 
 pretension, either in aldermen or in parn- 
 pldeteers, unfeelingly responded : " That may 
 be, sir ; but it is impossible that you should 
 know it !" 
 
 Now, " New Themes" may be a very strong 
 book, and the " Eeview" may be a very weak 
 book, — but it is impossible that he of the 
 "Hints" — but we spare the application. The 
 reader must excuse us if we give the opinions 
 of others, perhaps as well qualified to judge 
 — of some of the most eminent men of the 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 31 
 
 land — of the merits of our unpretending 
 " Review." 
 
 The coarse scolding strain in which this 
 author attacks us, we hope to survive. This 
 " violent dealing" will only recoil " on his 
 own pate;" and we congratulate him that 
 blows in that quarter, will be less detrimental 
 than they would be to some other indivi- 
 duals. We presume that an extensive sale 
 is anticipated for the " Hints." An extensive 
 circulation, we have reason to know, has been 
 already secured. But we are all aware that 
 I quick circulation does not always betoken 
 health, or argue long life. One thing we can 
 promise the writer : that, when coarse abuse, 
 delivered in the language of a school-boy, 
 and graced with manners — not exactly of the 
 "old school," shall be preferred to argument 
 and good-breeding, a wide popularity will be 
 < njnijed by the " Hints." Until that time, the 
 unfortunate author must be satisfied to wait 
 for that general depravation of taste, which 
 alone can secure him the favor of the public. 
 
32 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 We said in the " Review," that the author 
 of " New Themes" had sufficiently punished 
 himself in the production and publication — 
 above all, in the extended circulation — of 
 " New Themes." We little foresaw what a 
 sore infliction we were preparing for him by 
 our " Review's" calling to his aid (!) such a 
 champion as this ! Imagine his overwhelm- 
 ing mortification at this unfortunate display 
 of the zeal of his champion, the author of 
 " Hints !" We are not naturally cruel ; and 
 yet how the gentlest of men will, sometimes, 
 have a savage thought dart into his head ! 
 Shall we confess it? We were actually 
 tempted to advise all of our readers to buy 
 and peruse these " Hints to a Layman !" If 
 there are any copies which the author wishes 
 circulated, we promise faithfully to distribute 
 them. But no ! far be such sanguinary re- 
 venge from our hearts ! In mercy to the 
 unlucky author, let the " Hints to a Lay- 
 man" quietly sink into oblivion : let this 
 volume 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 33 
 
 " Hie to the shade," 
 Where, condemned and dishonored, "New Themes" 
 shall " be laid." 
 
 Randolph, of Roanoke, we quote from 
 memory, was once violently assailed by some 
 aspirant for public favor, who undertook to 
 give some " Hints" to this eccentric " Lay- 
 man." To the surprise of all present, who 
 expected that the young orator would receive 
 an immediate castigation, Randolph took no 
 notice whatever of the author of the " Hints 
 to a Layman." Shortly after, however, 
 having occasion to speak of a bill which was 
 originated by the predecessor of his assail- 
 ant, he remarked : " This bill was introduced 
 by the gentleman who formerly filled that 
 seat (pointing to the seat of the assailant), 
 which is now vacant." So with ourselves : 
 we commenced this discussion with the au- 
 thor of " New Themes," who once filled that 
 chair of social reform which is now vacant. 
 
THIRTY OPINIONS 
 
 " NEW THEMES," ETC., AND ITS " REVIEWER." 
 
 Perhaps no book ever took the commu- 
 nity more by surprise, than did the " New 
 Themes for the Protestant Clergy." Its in- 
 sulting attack upon Christian ministers, and 
 Christian men, and its studied depreciation 
 of the operations of Christian charity, were 
 as remarkable for virulence, as were its 
 statements for want of truth, and its " zeal 
 for lack of knowledge." We do not mean 
 that the author intentionally falsified ; but 
 surely there is a responsibility for ignorant 
 censorship, as well as for learned perversion. 
 He who would instruct, must be careful to be 
 instructed. Before the public had recovered 
 from their surprise at the audacity of the work, 
 they were astounded at the discovery of its au- 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 35 
 
 thorship. As the splenetic raving of an avowed 
 unbeliever, it would have been amazing ; as 
 the acknowledged production of an exem- 
 plary Christian, it was incomprehensible. 
 Its reception was exactly that which might 
 have been predicted. It was lauded in quar- 
 ters, where praise should be matter of the 
 deepest mortification;* it was condemned 
 by others, whose approval would have been 
 sufficient reward for greater labor than was 
 bestowed in its production. That some of 
 this latter class did approve of this work, we 
 are not at all disposed to deny. That the 
 vast majority of intelligent opinions are con- 
 demnatory of " New Themes," we most con- 
 scientiously believe. 
 
 * Extract from a letter, just received ; " How much 
 it grieves me to see the triumph which New Themes 
 
 gives to free-thinkers and socialists. Does not 
 
 begin to see the bad company his book has brought 
 around him? If a Christian, indeed, which I cannot 
 doubt, I should suppose he would be troubled by the 
 source from which his praise comes, and the grounds on 
 which it is based, equally." 
 
36 NEW TIIEiMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 Great surprise was expressed, that a book 
 so unfounded in its assertion, so bitter in its 
 spirit, so injurious in its tendency, should be 
 so long unanswered. Believing, in the words 
 of a leading periodical, that this work " aimed 
 a hostile blow at evangelical religion ;" that 
 the author's theory was " wholly indefensi- 
 ble ; his views of Christianity distorted ; and 
 his assault upon the ministers of religion, 
 and existing institutions, without excuse," we 
 felt that the public had a right to demand, 
 that " New Themes" should not escape un- 
 rebuked. After waiting in vain for some one 
 else to assume the duty, we felt it incum- 
 bent upon us to attempt it. Feeling the 
 necessity of brevity, we were obliged to leave 
 many of the errors of the work untouched. 
 Our great care was, to be strictly just to the 
 author; had we been as careful of our duty 
 to the public, our censure would have been 
 doubled, and our pages quadrupled. But, we 
 were far kinder to the author than he was to 
 himself. We declared, — what he certainly 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 37 
 
 left in doubt, in the minds of many of his 
 readers, — that his object was a good one ; 
 we quoted his exact words, that the public 
 might see both sides at once ; and we left 
 many of his objectionable passages entirely 
 unnoticed. Could a u Review" have possibly 
 been more fair, or rather, more lenient ? In 
 addition to this, we undertake to say that, 
 not one of the author's friends has contended 
 more frequently, in social intercourse, in 
 favor of his Christian character, than has the 
 present writer. The "Review" was pub- 
 lished; and truly our reward has been 
 abundant ! 
 
 Testimonials of approbation, verbal, and 
 written, from friends, and strangers, from 
 Christians and others, have endorsed the 
 testimony of our own conscience, that we 
 had done, however feebly and imperfectly, a 
 good work in reviewing " New Themes for 
 the Protestant Clergy." Intimate friends of 
 the author of "New Themes," in several 
 cases entire strangers, and to this day perso- 
 
38 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 nelly unknown to us,* tendered us their 
 thanks for, what one of them denominates, a 
 " seasonable interposition in behalf of true 
 Bible charity." One of these gentlemen, 
 whom we had never before seen, called upon 
 us, and warmly condemning his friend's book 
 remarked, " I had rather, sir, that you had 
 sent me a copy of your ' Review,' than a 
 $500 note. I said, when this book first 
 made its appearance, that it would do more 
 harm than i Paine's Age of Reason.' It is 
 not black-faced infidelity that we fear : this 
 book will be the food of vicious and vulgar 
 minds. If this ' Review' should prove to be 
 the last work of your life, sir, I believe it will 
 be the best." Another intimate friend of the 
 author of " New Themes," equally a stranger 
 to us, expressed himself almost in the words 
 of this paragraph. How completely over- 
 whelming has been the rout of the "New 
 
 * With some of these gentlemen designated as u un- 
 known to us/' we have become acquainted through the 
 medium -of the " Review. " 
 
NSW T1IKMKS CONDEMNED, ETC. 39 
 
 Themes" army, may be seen, from the des- 
 perate plunges of their leader, in his attempts 
 to escape from the quagmire in which he has 
 involved himself [see "Some Notices," &c], 
 from the amusing paroxysms of the brilliant 
 author of " Hints to a Layman," and from 
 the vapid effusions of some newspaper scrib- 
 blers, who, unfortunately for themselves, 
 have got into print, by imposing upon the 
 good nature of indulgent editors. 
 
 Whilst making these remarks, we, of 
 course, admit every man's right to condemn 
 the " Review," as heartily as we have the 
 work reviewed. We ask no quarter; and 
 shall certainly not mistake, as some of the 
 friends of "New Themes" and its author, 
 seem to have done, the freedom of criticism, 
 for want of respect for personal character. So 
 far from having any a bitterness of feeling" 
 against the gentleman whose work we have 
 felt it to be our duty to condemn, or even 
 against our violent assailant, the author of 
 - Hints to a Layman," we profess exactly the 
 
40 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 contrary. We esteem the motives of both; 
 and heartily wish them success in all 
 philanthropic efforts, and every good work 
 which may enlist their zeal. Had the au- 
 thor of " New Themes" been satisfied with 
 urging men to greater interest in the cause 
 of humanity, and omitted that dangerous 
 admixture, which has elicited so much me- 
 rited condemnation, we should have revered 
 the book, as well as (which we still do) have 
 respected the author. 
 
 As the publishers have appended to our 
 author's " Politics for American Christians," 
 (a much better work, by the by, than its 
 predecessor) some notices — approbatory and 
 mixed — of the work reviewed, we have a 
 precedent for our present quotation of opi- 
 nions. Of these, some speak of both the 
 " Be view" and Ke viewed ; some writers have 
 read only the " Keview." Let it be remem- 
 bered in this connexion, that in the " Re- 
 view," we have given not our opinions merely, 
 nor chiefly. We have quoted the exact 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 41 
 
 words of " New Themes :" — words, too, that 
 cannot be neutralized, or have their literal 
 meaning altered, by the context. Many- 
 persons have very indefinite, and, therefore, 
 erroneous, notions upon this subject of pass- 
 ing opinions upon works. We hear the ob- 
 jection made : " You only quote part of an 
 author's work ; the review, therefore, is not 
 fair." But is it possible to quote all of an 
 author's book? We have several thou- 
 sands of volumes of literary Reviews: the 
 "Monthly," 1749-1842; the "Edinburgh;" 
 the " Quarterly," &c. Does any one expect 
 that the whole work of an author shall be 
 incorporated in each, or either, of these Re- 
 views, before an intelligent opinion can be 
 formed of its merits ? Quotations — in some 
 cases, copious quotations — should be given ; 
 and these should fairly represent that which 
 the critic makes the subject of praise or of 
 censure. 
 
 Quotations may be lair or unfair. To 
 give an instance: suppose the critic should 
 
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42 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 object, to the author reviewed, that he un- 
 justly condemns the character of an indivi- 
 dual named, and gives, as a quotation, this 
 phrase : " He is a man of questionable cha- 
 racter ;" this would be an unfair quotation, 
 provided the author reviewed go on to state 
 what he means by a "questionable charac- 
 ter." Then, the context should be given; 
 that the reader may sit in judgment upon 
 the whole subject-matter. But, if the author 
 assert, " Such an individual is a liar," it is 
 perfectly fair in the reviewer to quote this 
 phrase, without the context, as the author's 
 opinion of the individual accused, because 
 this is a direct accusation, which no context 
 can neutralize or modify. The author's evi- 
 dence, indeed, if he give it, might not be 
 sufficient to satisfy you that the lie is proven, 
 but the critic only professes to give the aib- 
 thor's opinion. 
 
 Now, examine the quotations in our " Re- 
 view," on this common-sense basis. They 
 will be found not only unusually copious, 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 43 
 
 • but all of the direct, abstract character re- 
 quired by the above rule. 
 
 Can any context modify the assertion that, 
 " it is rare to find one [minister of Christ] 
 who even comprehends the scope of his 
 teaching who spake as never man spake?" 
 (See " New Themes," p. 214, 215; " Review," 
 p. 34.) Can any qualification neutralize the 
 accusation that, "illustrations of the pure 
 teachings of Christ they find nowhere?" 
 (See " New Themes," p. 28, 29 ; " Review," 
 p. 25.) Assuredly not. The " Keview" was 
 especially careful to state that the design of 
 the work, the motive of the author, was good. 
 Approve of the work itself, the Reviewer 
 could not ; and it appears by the thirty tes- 
 timonials subjoined, that he is not singular 
 in his dissent. These opinions are, in some 
 cases, those of eminent and justly distin- 
 guished individuals, in various walks of life; 
 in ;ill cases they are respectable; and are 
 highly valued by an humble laborer in his 
 Masters vineyard; who thus finds that he 
 
I 1 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 elicits approbation, where he only sought * 
 to discharge duty. Some passages are, of 
 course, omitted ; — not from a want of appre- 
 ciation of the value of such commendation, 
 but from an obvious motive. Yet certain 
 approbatory passages have been retained, as 
 a species of self-defence against assaults 
 (such as are exhibited in " Hints to a Lay- 
 man") charging literary defects, &c. This 
 is a convenient mode of attack ; — a weapon 
 which can be wielded by any weak hand, 
 when the armory of truth and reason is not 
 readily accessible. 
 
 No. I. 
 
 FROM A ZEALOUS PHILANTHROPIST, A FRIEND OF THE 
 AUTHOR OF "NEW THEMES," BUT UNACQUAINTED 
 WITH THE "REVIEWER." 
 
 October 28, 1852. 
 
 Dear Sir: 
 
 I read with painful interest " New Themes," 
 when first published, and longed for an anti- 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 45 
 
 dote to much of its exceptionable matter. 
 
 put into my hands a copy of your 
 
 " Review," which I have perused with much 
 satisfaction and profit. 
 
 I design no unmeaning compliment when 
 I say that your " Review" is both able and 
 interesting. The statistical information you 
 have furnished, touching the causes of pau- 
 perism, both in this country and Great Bri- 
 tain, as well as the condition of the poor and 
 means for their relief, I consider the most 
 efficacious weapon you could have employed 
 in vindication of the truth. For, after all, 
 what the public needed, was rebutting evi- 
 dence. This you have furnished, from the 
 testimony of credible witnesses. And for 
 the service thus rendered, I come to thank 
 you. 
 
 I profess to be a friend of the poor, and 
 desire to get at the best means for ameliora- 
 ting their condition. Were I to take " New 
 Th unies" as my guide, I should despair of 
 accomplishing anything. 
 
46 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC 
 
 You have severely rebuked the irreligious 
 tendency of the book. If you have cut 
 deep, it was because the nature of the wound 
 required the knife. 
 
 Mr. I know well. I esteem him as 
 
 a warm personal friend. So much the greater 
 is my regret, that he should so far have for- 
 gotten himself, as, literally, to wound Christ 
 in the house of his friends. 
 
 Again thanking you for your seasonable 
 interposition in behalf of true Bible Charity. 
 
 I am, &c. 
 
 FROM THE SAME. 
 
 " I took occasion to thank you for service 
 rendered in a common cause. I felt that 
 you had a right to expect thus much from 
 your Christian brethren, in bearing the 'heat 
 and burden of the day/ Your task was not 
 a pleasant one, in confronting a fellow-disci- 
 ple, and that, too, on ground where there 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 47 
 
 ought to have been no difference of opinion.' 
 Yet I hesitate not to say, you have dis- 
 charged a solemn duty, and will meet with 
 your reward. 
 
 " When first I got hold of ' New Themes, 
 and began to read it, I was utterly con- 
 founded. I read on till midnight, hoping to 
 find something, as I progressed, in extenua- 
 tion of the extraordinary onslaught on 
 Christianity. 
 
 " I put the book down, at lb o'clock in the 
 morning, sick at heart. The effect on my 
 nervous system was such that I had but 
 little rest for the night. 
 
 "You will understand, therefore, why my 
 sympathies are with you; and why I come 
 to add my testimony and commendation to 
 the excellence of your book. 
 
 "I ought to recall a word I used in my for- 
 mer note, — ' severity/ — as applied to the 
 tone of your ' Review.' I should have used 
 it in a qualified sense. I do not consider 
 
48 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 that you were unnecessarily severe. It 
 would have been difficult for you to have 
 been severer than i New Themes ;' instance 
 passages quoted in Review, on pp. 25, 26, 
 27. My impression is, that the readers of 
 your volume, will not regard you as having 
 violated the courtesies of the Christian gen- 
 tleman, in anything you have said. 
 
 " Dr. Johnson has remarked, ' Christianity 
 is the highest perfection of humanity, and as 
 no man is good, but as he wishes the good of 
 others, no man can be good in the highest 
 degree who wishes not to others the largest 
 measure of the greatest good/ 
 
 " If this be so, ' New Themes' extinguishes 
 the only source from whence this good can 
 spring — Christianity. 
 
 " With yourself, most heartily can I say, 
 6 1 trust the time of repentance and retrac- 
 tion will yet arrive.' " 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 49 
 
 No. II. 
 
 FROM A FRIEND OF THE AUTHOR OF " NEW THEMES," 
 BUT UNACQUAINTED WITH THE "REVIEWER." 
 WRITTEN TO A FRIEND WHO HAD SENT HIM A COPY 
 OF THE " REVIEW. " 
 
 Oct. 14th, 1852. 
 
 I am much obliged to you for the able 
 and interesting Review sent to me this 
 morning. I had already procured a copy, 
 but I am glad to have another to send to a 
 friend. 
 
 I rejoice that a "Layman" No. 2, has 
 taken hold of this important subject, and 
 answered a A Layman," as "Layman" No. 1 
 will be apt to remember, and I hope profit by. 
 The Review is well conceived, is skilfully 
 written, and in my judgment is unanswera- 
 ble. I have been looking over your copy 
 since I received it, and my former impres- 
 sions are confirmed. The writer has left 
 nothing for any one else to say. 
 
50 
 
 No. III. 
 
 FROM A JUSTLY DISTINGUISHED WRITER J A FRIEND 
 OF THE AUTHOR OF "NEW THEMES." 
 
 Oct. 12, 1852. 
 
 (This writer, after stating what he be- 
 lieved to be the origin of " New Themes," 
 proceeds : — ) 
 
 " This is all theory or conjecture. But it 
 is the only way in which I can solve the 
 mysteries of that unfortunate production. 
 That it contains much sound and seasonable 
 truth, and some important practical sugges- 
 tions, we must all admit. But this only en- 
 larges its capacity for mischief. I think you 
 have done a good work in reviewing it, and I 
 thank you sincerely for your volume, which 
 I have read through with much satisfaction. 
 
 " You have triumphantly vindicated the 
 Christianity of our day, from the aspersions 
 of doing nothing for the poor. I think you 
 might have said with historical accuracy, 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 51 
 
 that the ' Church' in its different branches, 
 
 or Christians as a body (if Mr. prefer 
 
 that), have never done so much for the poor, 
 since the Apostolic age, as they are doing 
 now. 
 
 u * * XKe charges against the Church of 
 England, partake of the extravagance of the 
 work at large. The question of Pauperism 
 in England, is an almost fathomless abyss. 
 We are chiefly concerned in that question at 
 home. And what is specially observable in 
 
 Mr. 's management of this topic is, that 
 
 his premises are British, and his conclusions 
 American. 
 
 " He loads his guns with John Bull's cart- 
 ridges, and fires them off at us. It takes 
 some equanimity to bear this meekly. 
 
 " But I am writing in the utmost haste, 
 with an engagement pressing on hand, and 
 I cannot say all that is in my heart to say to 
 you, about the book, or your able and timely 
 Review of it. Thanking you again, 
 
 " I remain, Dear Sir, &c. 
 
52 NEW TIIEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 No. IV. 
 
 Oct. 25, 1852. 
 
 "I have read your Review of New 
 Themes, with attention. In addition to the 
 fairness of the analysis, I find in it many 
 strong propositions and original sentiments, 
 of peculiar force. The 6 Review' contains, 
 moreover, many valuable and important sta- 
 tistics, condensed into small compass, which 
 must have been the result of great labor, 
 investigation, and research, by the author. 
 As a book of reference of sound ecclesiasti- 
 cal truthfulness, it will contribute to the 
 library of the philosopher, and man of sci- 
 ence, as well as theologian." 
 
 No. V. 
 
 Says of the Review that, " It is calculated 
 to do good, to eradicate evil ; — the duty of 
 every Christian." 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 53 
 
 No. VI. 
 
 " I only got half way through the New 
 Themes, and then gave it up as unprofitable : 
 $UU it contains much that is too true." 
 
 No. VII. 
 
 Oct. 14, 1852. 
 " Your Review of New Themes is interest- 
 ing and satisfactory, and I have read it with 
 profit and pleasure. Christians and philan- 
 thropists, in spite of the New Themes, have 
 always been closely wedded." 
 
 No. VIII. 
 
 FROM A DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC OFFICER, AND 
 LITERARY GENTLEMAN. 
 
 " I have read your little pamphlet through 
 with much pleasure ; somewhat, of course, at 
 a disadvantage, not having seen the New 
 Themes which it reviews. I confess I have 
 no great desire to see it. If my memory 
 does not mislead me, I have heard the name 
 
 6* 
 
54 
 
 of the author — one of our most respectable 
 and intelligent citizens. The pleasure I 
 have in reading your pamphlet, aside from 
 the intellectual gratification, is in the con- 
 sciousness, that there are among us, young 
 men, who not only think seriously, on sub- 
 jects distinct from money-making, but know 
 how to express their thoughts in a scholar- 
 like manner. Unhappily, except in pam- 
 phlets — such is the condition of our press — 
 there is no mode of utterance for such as you 
 and I, and others, who have serious thoughts 
 aside from mere business. 
 
 "I need hardly say, how completely I 
 agree with you ; perhaps go a little farther, 
 and wish that the agency of government, in 
 relieving pauperism, acted only through the 
 Christian Church." 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 55 
 
 NO. IX. 
 
 " From what I hear of the author of New 
 Themes I presume he means no harm by his 
 work ; but the errors and evil tendencies of 
 what he has written, are manifold, and have 
 been strongly set forth in your Eeview. 
 
 " In many points, I think you are pecu- 
 liarly happy in your reply. 
 
 " The New Themes set me to thinking on 
 the subject treated, and I was glad to have 
 read it. It led me to commence a strict 
 scrutiny of my own motives and actions; 
 and though I was compelled to enter a plea 
 of not guilty to the charges preferred, I felt 
 stirred up to more zeal by the onslaught 
 thus made upon Christians in general, and 
 the clergy in particular. 
 
 " Still, in most cases, I think the book 
 would do harm, and harm only ; and I am 
 glad you have so ably reviewed it." 
 
56 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 No. X. 
 
 Nov. 2, 1852. 
 " I have never seen New Themes, &c., 
 and know nothing of the work, but from the 
 extracts which you have given. They are 
 sufficient to show its poisonous nature, and 
 I rejoice that you have found time to furnish 
 such an antidote." 
 
 No. XI. 
 
 FROM A LEGAL GENTLEMAN AND AUTHOR. 
 
 Oct. 25, 1852. 
 
 " I find in the Keview a great deal of in- 
 teresting material, well wrought up ; and I 
 cannot but believe its effect will be admira- 
 ble." 
 
 No. XII. 
 
 Nov. 16, 1852. 
 " It was not until last week I had time to 
 read your Review. It is forcible and just. 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 57 
 
 When I spoke to you about New Themes, I 
 had not seen it, nor did I know its drift. I 
 
 only knew Mr. was a man who had 
 
 read much on the subject. 
 
 "Very unfortunately, many Protestants 
 are blinded by Romish pretence and assump- 
 tion ; and although they well know the ac- 
 tual condition of the Romish Church, they 
 take its exaggerated standard to measure 
 all others by, and never once think to excuse 
 any short-comings in Protestants." 
 
 No. XIII. 
 
 FROM A LEGAL GENTLEMAN AND AUTHOR. 
 
 Jan. 6, 1853. 
 
 "Nothing has come under my eye this 
 many a long day, which gave me so much 
 pain as the work entitled 'New Themes, 
 etc./ having always cherished a high opi- 
 nion of the reputed author, as a scholar, a 
 p //f/cman, a merchant, and a Christian. 
 
 " I could not have imagined that one hold- 
 
58 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 ing the least pretension to such habits of 
 character, could have found it in his heart, 
 or have made the mistake, to put forth such 
 a work. 
 
 "I was more particularly distressed, that 
 one for whom my heart is continually drawn 
 out in prayer, that God's grace may visit 
 him, but whom, alas ! the world influences 
 too much (as who does it not ?) should have 
 referred to it, as stating a good many facts 
 and truths about the clergy. 
 
 " It does, indeed, state a great many facts 
 and truths, to prove that our nature is imper- 
 fect ; and that the best of us, are never 
 wholly free from corrupthm, till we put off 
 this mortal coil. But, as we lawyers say, 
 ' The greater the truth, the greater the 
 libel.' That is to say, a libel which has its 
 foundation in a fact, does the greater injury. 
 Volney, and Voltaire, and Tom Paine, knew 
 well how to avail themselves of this, in 
 their assaults upon Christianity. 
 
 "I only saw the 'New Themes' within 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 59 
 
 this few weeks, and had not then seen your 
 excellent Review" 
 
 This writer then refers to the " tendency" 
 of New Themes, &c. 
 
 No. XIV. 
 
 FROM THE PRESBYTERIAN OF OCT. 30, 1852. 
 
 " We noticed the New Themes on its first 
 appearance, without the most distant intima- 
 tion of its authorship, and we then expressed 
 our opinion of its dangerous character. We 
 regret to say that a subsequent examination 
 only added to the strength of our first con- 
 victions. Whatever may have been the de- 
 sign of the author, his book has aimed a hos- 
 tile blow at evangelical religion. His theory 
 is wholly indefensible, his views of Chris- 
 tianity distorted, and his assault upon the 
 ministers of religion, and existing institu- 
 tions, without excuse. This book has now 
 been reviewed by an intelligent layman, who 
 certainly exposes many of its objectionable 
 
60 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 features, and makes them appear still more 
 objectionable by grouping them together. 
 The tone of the review is very severe and 
 too personal. Handle bad arguments with 
 rough honesty — this may be done effectively, 
 without treating their author with discour- 
 tesy." 
 
 Is it not amusing that the author of so 
 severe a notice as the above, should find seve- 
 rity in our " Review ?" As to the latter's 
 being " too personal," all that is " personal," 
 is highly in favor of the author of " New 
 Themes." Is it too " personal" to speak of a 
 man as a " Christian of exemplary life and 
 conversation" (Review, p. 48) ? Of his 
 " well-meaning advocacy" (Review, p. 138) ? 
 Of his seeming to have " so much at heart 
 the well-being of the indigent, and the moral 
 and social improvement of the human race" 
 (Review, p. 139) ? Surely this is strange 
 "personality !" We shall show that others 
 take a very different view of the spirit in 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 61 
 
 which our " Review" is written. The editor 
 of the " Presbyterian* Magazine" says, that 
 " the Reviewer is full of charity towards the 
 erring author of New Themes." Others — 
 but we shall proceed to quote the letters, 
 &c, in which these views are expressed. 
 
 * These condemnatory notices of New Themes from 
 Presbyterian periodicals, are a good commentary 
 upon the sagacious remark of the author of that most 
 unlucky effusion, entitled " Hints to a Layman f' who, 
 in one of his melancholy attempts at wit, states that, he 
 was unable to " account for the attempted severity of 
 the Reviewer, until I was informed that he was a Lay- 
 man of the Episcopal Church ; and the problem in my 
 own mind is solved, et hinc ille laclirymm." But when 
 Presbyterian authorities thus condemn " New Themes," 
 whose are the " tears" then ? He of the " Hints" may 
 be congratulated that he has got his mind into a condi- 
 tion to solve " problems." 
 
 It is a great thing to be able to "solve problems." 
 
62 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 No. XV. 
 
 FROM AN AUTHOR, THE FRIEND OF THE AUTHOR OF 
 "NEW THEMES," BUT UNACQUAINTED WITH THE 
 REVIEWER. EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN TO 
 AN ACQUAINTANCE. 
 
 Nov. 2, 1852. 
 
 " I am much indebted as well as much ob- 
 liged for your sending me the ' Review,' 
 &c. It came at the very time that I was in- 
 tending to get it. I have read it through, 
 and am greatly pleased with the manner in 
 which our anonymous lay friend has inter- 
 posed his shield, to catch some of the ' fiery 
 darts' that have been aimed at us, by the 
 author of ' New Themes,' &c. 
 
 "The reply is written with vigor, good 
 taste, and (betted than either) with good 
 temper. 
 
 " The Reviewer has successfully shown 
 that, whatever may have been the intentions 
 
 of Mr. (which none who know him are 
 
 disposed to impugn), his language has been 
 
NEW TIIEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 63 
 
 often very unguarded, and his statements 
 widely at variance with the opinions of 
 others, whose judgment he himself greatly 
 respects. 
 
 " The Review is highly creditable to both 
 the Christian and literary character of the 
 author." 
 
 No. XVI. 
 
 Oct. 28, 1852. 
 
 " I have read your Review of New Themes, 
 and in reading it, was constantly reminded 
 of the words, ' The accuser of our brethren/ 
 c which accused them before our God day and 
 night/ Rev. 12, 10. The author, certainly, 
 has placed himself before the public, as doing 
 to the church, what the ' great dragon the 
 devil/ is said in that verse to have done. 
 The Review is admirably written ; the 
 truth, the whole truth, and nothing but 
 the truth, bring told, in a Christian-like 
 spirit and manner." 
 
64 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 No. XVII. 
 
 December 20, 1852. 
 
 " I was particularly gratified with the para- 
 graph on Girard. I have not seen anything 
 from a layman, so bold, conclusive, and so 
 suited to rivet impressive conviction, in re- 
 ference to Girard's infidelity. The clergy 
 owe you a debt of gratitude for vindicating 
 them against an attack the most formidable 
 that could be made, because made on a large 
 scale, by actions, that speak louder than 
 words, and in this case, I fear, will tell with 
 much more disastrous energy. 
 
 " I would that your paragraph could be 
 extensively read." 
 
 No. XVIII. 
 
 November 20, 1852. 
 "The 'New Themes' I have read carefully, 
 notes and all, with the exception of a few 
 notes that I had not courage nor patience 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 65 
 
 to wade through. How the Professors of 
 Princeton can keep quiet, and allow such 
 errors to walk abroad unmolested, I cannot 
 understand. The Review has received such 
 unqualified commendation, that it is not 
 worth while for me to express an opinion. 
 
 I was glad to hear Dr. 's real opinion. 
 
 * Then, again, the false assertions he 
 
 makes, the sweeping denunciations through- 
 out the whole book, are perfectly preposte- 
 rous." 
 
 [We may pause a moment in this quo- 
 tation to state that this writer was not 
 willing to admit "New Themes" into the 
 library, for fear of the injurious influence it 
 might have upon immature minds. It would 
 seem that this caution was not needless, for 
 the writer proceeds to speak of the impres- 
 sion a few passages made upon two juvenile 
 minds :] 
 
 " and heard and I talk- 
 ing over the book. I read some passages 
 aloud ; they became deeply interested ; and 
 
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66 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 they both said afterwards, they did not see 
 
 how it was possible for Mr. to be a 
 
 Christian, and yet to show so little of a 
 Christian spirit in his book. The view he 
 
 takes of Girard, shocked particularly." 
 
 This is not the only person we have heard 
 express the opinion that, " New Themes" was 
 not a book to be left where it might be read 
 without a commentator to refute its errors. 
 
 No. XIX. 
 
 November 1, 1852. 
 "We think the Review does Mr. — 
 
 great credit. Mr. [a gentleman whose 
 
 name is familiar to the nation, for having 
 long served them in a most useful capacity] 
 says, 'it shows a great deal of research.' 
 But, what is better, I think it was called for, 
 and will do good. Some say there are many 
 good things in the book (I have not read it), 
 but this would seem to make it the more 
 dangerous. went to hear last 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 67 
 
 Sabbath, and says that, among other errors, 
 he warned his people against the ' New 
 Themes' of a modern author, who would 
 aim at the subversion of the existing orders 
 of society, and make Christianity to consist 
 in taking care of the poor, or something to 
 that effect ; these are not the exact words. 
 I have no doubt but he was stirred up by 
 the ' Review/ to sound the note. No amount 
 of good can atone for the positive evil con- 
 tained in the book. I am anxious to know 
 
 how Mr. receives it. I fancy he will 
 
 be surprised himself when he gets a realizing 
 sense of the ' inconsistencies' of his book, as 
 they appear in that grouping." 
 
 The gentleman whose opinion is given 
 above (he is not counted, it will be seen, in 
 the " Thirty ;" we give a specific number, as 
 a specimen of many "thirties"), whose Con- 
 gressional experience well qualifies him to 
 judge of works based upon questions of sta- 
 tistics, and political economy, remarked in 
 the presence of the writer, on laying down 
 
68 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 "New Themes," "I have just read some 
 twenty pages, and I never saw such a mass 
 of inconsistency and ignorance in my life. 
 Many good things might be picked out of it, 
 but it is levelled against the whole system of 
 truth." 
 
 No. XX. 
 
 FROM A LETTER TO A FRIEND. 
 
 "I have been very tardy in performing 
 the promise I made of writing you my views 
 
 of Mr. 's Keview. I have read it with 
 
 great gusto. It is most capital. It reminds 
 me of some of the best reviews I have read : 
 they have been always gleaned from the best 
 English periodicals. 
 
 "The author of New Themes must be 
 slightly crazed, or is a monomaniac at least; 
 more extraordinary views were surely never 
 broached by a Christian man." 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 69 
 
 NO. XXI. 
 
 October 14, 1852. 
 
 " I last night sat down to read the Re- 
 view, and did not rise before it was finished. 
 We have heard the * New Themes' spoken 
 of as an able book; but we agree, if you 
 give a fair view of it (and it appears so to 
 be), that it is full of the most barefaced in- 
 consistency and falsehood.* You have com- 
 pletely demolished the author. You leave 
 him not a plank whereon to save himself. 
 He can hardly think of a defence ; and yet, 
 such assertions come from one who would 
 attempt it possibly. 
 
 " I am surprised to hear you assert that 
 the author is a believer in Christianity. I 
 should judge from the extracts that your 
 friend, or the bookseller's friend, who ad- 
 vised him not to sell it, had good reason to 
 call the author either an infidel or a socialist. 
 
 * The author's exact words are quoted. He speaks 
 for himself. 
 
70 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 " Is it known who the author is ? And if 
 known, does he not hide his face in shame ? 
 It 's terrible to risk one's Christian and lite- 
 rary reputation in the manner he has. 
 
 " Your last chapter is very able and con- 
 vincing — some parts of it really eloquent." 
 
 The reference in the above letter, to the 
 gentleman who advised a bookseller not to 
 sell " New Themes," is to pages 30 and 31 
 of the " Keview," which we shall quote : 
 
 " Let us mention an incident connected 
 with the first publication of New Themes. 
 A bookseller, who had the book sent him for 
 sale, glanced over its pages, and being a con- 
 scientious man, saw enough to make him 
 hesitate whether he ought to dispose of it. 
 Not willing to rest entirely upon his own 
 judgment, he sent the book to one of the 
 most eminent men in the United States, 
 whom he considered a suitable judge, with 
 a request that he would give his opinion of 
 the work. After inspection, a written opi- 
 nion was returned, to this effect : c The book 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 71 
 
 must be the production of an infidel or a 
 socialist. I advise you not to sell it.' This 
 fact we had from his own lips." 
 
 This gentleman does not seem to have 
 changed his opinion of " New Themes ;" in 
 illustration of which we shall give extracts 
 from several letters of his to the Reviewer, 
 written before and after the publication of 
 the " Review." 
 
 No. XXII. 
 
 " I have read the * New Themes' carefully, 
 and am glad that you have reviewed it [the 
 Review was not yet published] ; for it is a 
 very bad book, and yet a very ingenious one. 
 Persons, otherwise well-disposed, but igno- 
 rant on religious subjects, will be very apt to 
 think highly of the work; it is so plausible; 
 and being full of the religious notions of 
 6 Young America,' it will abet the cause of 
 infidelity under all its phases. His spurious 
 
72 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 premises about Christian 'love' should be 
 exposed, for it is the cant of his class." 
 
 Again, under date of October 14, he writes : 
 " Many thanks for your ' Reply/ which is 
 just such an one as the book deserves. You 
 tell the truth very forcibly on the top of p. 
 36. Does the author retain his connexion 
 with the P. Church ? I think you said he 
 was a member." 
 
 FROM THE SAME. 
 
 October 28. 
 " I enclose the well-merited approbation 
 received by your Review. I think the style 
 in which it is written is exactly such an one 
 as the author of ' New Themes' deserved. 
 Have you heard what he says about it ? He 
 has done to Christianity what Judas did to 
 Christ, — ' Hail, Master, and kissed him/ and 
 then betrayed him." 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 73 
 
 
 
 FROM THE SAME. 
 
 November 4. 
 
 " I received * * *, as well as a very excel- 
 lent account of the success of your Keview. 
 I am quite out of the way of hearing any 
 news from your part of the world, and shall 
 always be glad to be informed how the au- 
 thor takes it, and whether he does not intend 
 to return your fire. 
 
 " Perhaps he is, even now, shotting his 
 guns — or, rather, loading them with blank 
 cartridge, for of shot he has none, to judge 
 from his last artillery." 
 
 We have noted, here and there, that cer- 
 tain individuals, whose "opinions" have been 
 quoted, are men who are " eminent," are 
 " authors," &c.; not but that we value the 
 approbation of all, but there is, of course, a 
 just weight attached to the verdicts of those 
 whose particular studies, or general intelli- 
 gence, enables them to combine the learning 
 of the judge, with the impartiality of the 
 
74 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 juror ; who are equally competent to sit upon 
 the "law," and upon the "facts." 
 
 We shall now record the decisions of a 
 number more of this class, whose names 
 constitute "a tower of strength, which they 
 of the adverse faction, lack." 
 
 No. XXIII. 
 
 FROM A DISTINGUISHED INDIVIDUAL AND AUTHOR. 
 
 November 30, 1852. 
 " I thank you for the copy of the Review 
 of New Themes, and thank you also for 
 writing it. The production was undoubtedly 
 designed as an attack on Christianity.* 
 There is something very amusing in the im- 
 
 * This opinion we have often heard stated, and as 
 often denied. Indeed, as we remarked upon a previous 
 page, we doubt if any one of the friends of the author 
 of " New Themes," has argued so often and so earnestly 
 in vindication of his Christian character. In conversa- 
 tion (we have not quoted conversations here — only writ- 
 ten opinions) how often have we heard it declared — " He 
 must be an infidel !" — which presumption we have as 
 strenuously denied, and still deny. 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 75 
 
 pttdence of such writers; who, while they are 
 angry if any one undertakes to teach them 
 how to do their proper business, never are 
 prevented by their modesty, from supposing 
 that they are quite competent to instruct the 
 clergy in all that belongs to their appropriate 
 calling. 
 
 "Possibly the writer of 'New Themes/ 
 may call himself a clergyman; if so, his 
 lack of modesty and humility, is equally 
 apparent ; as he makes a sweeping condem- 
 nation of the whole body of the Protestant 
 clergy. He, alone, understands his duty." 
 
 No. XXIV. 
 
 FROM AN EMINENT INDIVIDUAL AND SCHOLAR, AND 
 WRITER UPON POLITICAL ECONOMY. 
 
 "I thank you for your vigorous protest 
 
 against the errors of Mr. 's book; and, 
 
 especially, against its excessively vitupera- 
 Btyle. I trust he meant well. His 
 
 ♦Extract from another writer: — "I thank you for 
 your masterly answer to that most vituperative book of 
 
76 NEW TIIEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 book strikes upon some real evils and 
 defects, but he has missed sadly the tone 
 and qualifications that ought to have been 
 brought to such a work. 
 
 " Yours, faithfully, &c." 
 
 No. XXV. 
 
 FROM A DISTINGUISHED AUTHOR. 
 
 November 30, 1852. 
 "It [the Keview] has pleased me greatly. 
 I think it a fair and candid exposure of a 
 bad book, written in a very bad spirit. 
 Your account of the benevolent labors of 
 Protestant churches in Philadelphia, has 
 interested me greatly. 
 
 " With much respect, &c." 
 
 We shall now give the opinion of an 
 English gentleman, of most extensive infor- 
 mation, the author of a very valuable work, 
 the popularity of which is best proved by 
 the number of editions which have been 
 
 Mr. 's. I read them both, some time ago, with 
 
 great interest, and shall again peruse your Review with 
 renewed pleasure." 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 77 
 
 called for. His letter refers, especially, to 
 that portion of "New Themes," which 
 brings such absurd and "railing accusation" 
 against the Church of England, respecting 
 her alleged neglect of the poor. But this 
 writer ably defends her against our Quixotic 
 knight, who so often descries "Mambrino's 
 helmet," in the ostensible basin of the 
 travelling barber. 
 
 Now before the reader peruses this letter, 
 let him ask himself — who is most likely to 
 know the truth, as to English affairs of this 
 character: — the author of "New Themes," 
 or the author of the letter subjoined? 
 
 No. XXVI. 
 
 " To S. Austin Allibone, Esq. : 
 
 "Dear Sir — I have derived much gratifi- 
 cation from a perusal of your able ' Review 
 of New Themes/ a work which appears to 
 your correspondent to teem with dangerous 
 
 MB, it* not also with infidel tendenci< 
 
78 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 "With regard to one of the errors — an 
 alleged want of practical charity in relieving 
 the physical, and mental, as well as the 
 spiritual, requirements of the poor and 
 afflicted, on the part of the Protestant Epis- 
 copal clergy in England — allow me, as a 
 native of that country, to correct a mistake, 
 which, it is courteous and merciful to sup- 
 pose, could only have originated in mis- 
 information. 
 
 "I can truly say that, there is hardly a 
 village in England, in which some school, 
 poor fund, or institution to encourage indus- 
 try and virtue, and to relieve want, is not 
 to be found connected with the church. In 
 the larger towns and cities, and in each of 
 their parishes, the clergy are, I can almost 
 say to a man, active in originating, pro- 
 moting, and visiting Infant Schools, National 
 Schools, Hospitals, Dorcas Societies, Cha- 
 ritable Unions, Visiting Societies to inquire 
 into the wants of the destitute, with a view 
 to proper relief, and many other institutions, 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 79 
 
 that are an honor to human nature, and to 
 the age in which we live. At the same 
 time, the Poor Law System, as by legis- 
 lation established, may, certainly, be re- 
 garded as a gigantic National Charity, 
 both in England, and the United States; 
 doubly valuable, from the compulsory power 
 which impels even the miserly man of pro- 
 perty to contribute, and the official discre- 
 tion, which discriminates between the idle 
 and industrious, between the truly afflicted 
 and the base and hypocritical. Such laws, 
 and such establishments, are among the 
 glories of Protestant influence, and modern 
 civilization. Dear Sir, truly yours." 
 
 So much for the indictment of the author 
 of New Themes [see "New Themes," p. 147, 
 and "Review," p. 124] running on thiswise: 
 
 " The Church of England turned the poor 
 out of doors, and took possession of their 
 houses and goods; and whilst revelling in 
 the enjoyment of these ill-gotten gains, 
 myriads of paupers, lying at her gates, are 
 
80 NEW THEiMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 suffering the extremities of sickness, naked- 
 ness, and want." Ex pede Herculem ! 
 
 No. XXVII. 
 
 FROM AN INTIMATE FRIEND OF THE AUTHOR OF "NEW 
 THEMES." 
 
 October 29, 1852. 
 " I take the first leisure at my command, 
 for a week or two, to thank you for your 
 good service to the cause of our common 
 Lord and Saviour, by your able and excel- 
 lent Review of the New Themes, &c, and 
 for the copy you did me the honor to hand 
 me. I have read it attentively, and with 
 interest, and deem it just and called for; 
 spicy and piquant, and ad Jiominem, though 
 it be, it is none too much so. The author 
 had no right to expect less, but more; let 
 him feel it, and repent. He is a good man, 
 I trust, but certainly not a profound theo- 
 logian. He went out of his way when lie 
 undertook to rebuke the Protestant clergy, 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 81 
 
 as a faithless and hypocritical class of men, 
 of whom he says : ' It is a rare thing to find 
 one, that follows the example, or compre- 
 hends the scope of their Master's teachings.' 
 What would he think, or how would he 
 feel, if you or I should say, and publish to 
 the world, that it is a rare thing to find an 
 honest lawyer, or a fair-dealing merchant ? 
 
 "Let us have fair play; let there be dis- 
 crimination between the chaff and the 
 wheat. 
 
 " The author of the New Themes attempts 
 to justify Stephen Girard, in his invidious 
 exclusion of the clergy from his college for 
 orphans, by reminding us that the manage- 
 ment of the British and Foreign Bible 
 Society, the London and the American Sun- 
 day-school Unions, is committed exclusively 
 to laymen. Now this is sheer sophistry. 
 Why were the clergy exempted from sharing 
 in the management of these noble insti- 
 tutions.' Was it because they were regard- 
 ed M a dangerous class of men? No, but 
 
82 NEW TIIEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 because tliey moved and advocated the ma- 
 nagement of them by laymen, exclusively, in 
 order to call forth the greater amount of lay 
 talent and zeal, in these simple modes of 
 well-doing. The cases are not at all alike ; 
 indeed, the author seems to have had some 
 compunctious visitings for his note on page 
 275 of the Themes, for in his second edition, 
 we find quite another thing, though still far- 
 fetched, and ill-contrived. 
 
 "But the most offensive feature of these 
 i Themes,' is the indirect tilts they make at 
 some of the fundamental doctrines of the 
 gospel. The author's familiarity with cer- 
 tain writers referred to in his work, has 
 alienated him, I fear, in some measure, 
 from the truth as it is in Jesus." 
 
 We next subjoin a letter from a gentle- 
 man who takes us to task for under esti- 
 mates, in our brief sketch of charitable 
 operations in Philadelphia. 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 83 
 
 No. XXVIII. 
 
 October 27, 1852. 
 
 " I have just read with much pleasure 
 and profit your able Eeview of the book 
 New Themes, and feel that I am perform- 
 ing no more than a Christian duty, in thus 
 returning you my thanks for the prompt- 
 ness of your reply to this, to say the least, 
 injudicious work, as well as to express my 
 delight at the forcible and convincing man- 
 ner in which you have met the author and 
 his subject; though, had your notice of him 
 been less conclusive, or tame, I should have 
 regretted its appearance ; believing it better, 
 as a general thing, to let publications of this 
 unfortunate character, fall ' still born,' or 
 have their day, and be forgotten, than to 
 advertise them by a lame reply. But your 
 i ation of the author's charges is so com- 
 jind overwhelming, that I now look 
 upon it as a favorable circumstance for 
 
84 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 Christianity, and for Christians, that the 
 'New Themes' has been written; inasmuch 
 as in calling forth your ' Review,' the truth 
 has been reached, as well as the right vindi- 
 cated, and much statistical light on the sub- 
 ject evolved, of a character both interesting 
 and useful. Permit me to say that, with- 
 out professing it, you have done more in 
 your work, for the cause of charity, than 
 the author of ' New Themes' has done, with 
 that ostensible object in view, by pointing out 
 in a forcible manner, the causes of Pauper- 
 ism; thus ' laying the axe at the root of the 
 tree !' I, therefore, earnestly pray that 
 your Review may have a wide circulation, 
 and only regret that it is not somewhat 
 fuller, so as to take a place among the 
 standard literature of the day. 
 
 " When my attention was first drawn to 
 the work under review, its pugnacious title, 
 coupled with its anonymous character, led 
 me to think it a catchpenny 6 Monthly;' 
 but a seductive preface, with copious notes 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 85 
 
 by ' the Editor,' induced me to read it with 
 some attention. What was ray astonish- 
 ment, subsequently, to learn that this editor 
 and the ambitious author were one and the 
 same person ! Now this kind of subterfuge 
 to induce people to read an author's book, 
 is, I think, a species of dishonesty, entirely 
 at variance with the spirit that should 
 actuate one who would be a Christian 
 Keforrner! and is altogether unworthy the 
 author of < New Themes !' He should have 
 credit, however, for the maintenance of can- 
 dor as to the main point of his work ; for he 
 leaves no one in doubt in regard to the pur- 
 pose he has in view; which, undoubtedly, 
 is, to administer an indiscriminate casti- 
 gation upon all orders of Christians! and 
 like a skilful executioner, with his mind so 
 intent upon one object, as to be blind to 
 every other! facts and figures, as well as 
 truth and reason, are as nothing to him in 
 comparison to the ' pound of flesh !' 
 "Among other reckless assertions, he charges 
 
5b NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 in general terms, that there is no charity, 
 practical, or theoretical, worth naming, 
 among Christians, at the present day; and 
 comparatively nothing done for the poor, by 
 them ! This you have answered faithfully 
 and effectually; but permit me to say, sir, 
 that in your care to deal fairly with the 
 reviewed, you have come short of the actual 
 truth, in your estimate of the number of 
 charitable societies in our city. Instead of 
 two hundred, as you state, there are over 
 three hundred societies, and associations of 
 Christians, among us, whose sole object is 
 the amelioration of the condition of the 
 poor, and the reformation of vice. There 
 are over two hundred churches in this city 
 and county, all of which, I believe, have 
 their charitable fund, in some shape or 
 another; and most of them, their Dorcas 
 societies; besides which, there is in the 
 Episcopal churches, at least, the communion 
 offerings; which are appropriated to the 
 poor; to all of which, you may add, about a 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 87 
 
 hundred, organized and unorganized, inde- 
 pendent associations, collecting from two 
 hundred, to ten thousand, dollars and up- 
 wards, per annum. Add to which, the vast 
 sums that are expended in the publication 
 and distribution of Sunday-school, and other 
 religious books and tracts, which are pro- 
 perly works of charity, and all of which 
 emanate from associated religious bodies of 
 men and women, and you have a whole 
 of Christian works of charity, the know- 
 ledge of which should put to the blush the 
 author of ' New Themes,' who tells us that 
 more than a moiety of the moneys obtained 
 for Christian purposes, and works of charity, 
 comes from the pockets of non-professors ! 
 
 " So far as I am acquainted with the bene- 
 volent societies of this city, they are directed 
 and supported, either wholly, or in great part, 
 by Christians, it being difficult to get non- 
 professors to undertake any associated work 
 of charity. This fact is notorious ; and the 
 opposite is too absurd to merit any serious 
 
88 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 notice, as it can be disproved by any man 
 who is himself engaged enough in works of 
 benevolence to have mingled with that band 
 (much too small, I admit) of self-sacrificing 
 Christians, whose money is poured out like 
 water, and whose whole lives are spent in 
 'going about doing good!' 
 
 " I fear I have wearied you with so long a 
 note, but could not resist the inclination in 
 passing to endorse your testimony; and I 
 will only add, in conclusion, that you have 
 yourself performed a work of Christian cha- 
 rity in the production of this able review of 
 that unchristian work and bad book."* 
 
 * With reference to the assertion of "New Themes" 
 that charity is neglected in this age, hear the "opinion" 
 of a very celebrated public lecturer : 
 
 " Our age might also be termed the age of extreme 
 benevolence ; no charity had the world ever seen equal 
 to that of our times — so kind, so far-reaching, so encir- 
 cling. 
 
 M The human benevolence of our day was like a Di- 
 vine Providence made visible and made active ; as minute 
 in its agencies as it was absorbing in its character ; for 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 89 
 
 No. XXIX. 
 Editorial from the "New York Observer," of Oct. 28, 1852. 
 
 "A few months ago we criticised with 
 great severity a Philadelphia book entitled 
 'New Themes for the Protestant Clergy/ 
 
 while it encompassed, in its anxiety, the whole circle of 
 mortal sorrow and want, it at the same time labored to 
 relieve every specific ill." 
 
 The author of "New Themes" charges clergymen 
 with neglecting charitable labors, and occupying them- 
 selves too much with theology. Daniel Webster's 
 "opinion" upon this very point has been lately pub- 
 lished : let us contrast it with the above : 
 
 " He expressed the idea that, though the ministers 
 of our day had been quite useful in giving so much of 
 their attention as they have to the various charities, 
 and other labors than those more strictly belonging to 
 their profession, they have lost as students and pastors, 
 and as to their power in the pulpit." 
 
 To be sure, we have another "Daniel come to judg- 
 ment," in the author of "New Themes;" but he must 
 excuse us if we say, with him who preferred the ancient 
 vintage, " the old is better !" 
 8* 
 
90 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 We pronounced it a bad book by a good man ; 
 a well-meant failure; a great blunder; a 
 slander on the Church, by some one who 
 thought he knew what he was about, but 
 was greatly mistaken. 
 
 "Since our review of it, we have been 
 pleased to observe that others have taken the 
 same view of the work [the present Beviewer 
 had never seen the notice here referred to], 
 and now a volume has been issued by the 
 same publishers, Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 
 in which the New Themes are handled with 
 justice and strength,* the errors freely ex- 
 posed, and the great mistakes of the author 
 brought under deserved censure. In our no- 
 tice we said that there was more good and 
 
 * We again take occasion to repeat, that it has been 
 urged upon us as a duty, that some of these commenda- 
 tory notices of the literary character of our " Review," 
 should be retained, as a species of defence against the 
 disparagements of the author of " New Themes/' and 
 his armor-bearer (more ready than was Saul's to hold for 
 him the murderous sword), the author of that immortal 
 production, " Hints to a Layman." 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 91 
 
 more evil in the book than we had ever seen 
 in the same compass, and we are more than 
 ever convinced of it by the rapid perusal of 
 the Review now before us. We trust that 
 this ' Review by a Layman' will be read by 
 all who have perused the original volume, 
 although we can hardly persuade ourselves 
 that any intelligent Christian could be misled 
 by the errors, in judgment and fact, into 
 which the writer of the c Themes' has fallen." 
 [Perhaps this review is rather " severe !"] 
 
 The " Presbyterian Magazine" (see a late 
 author on the classical phrase, Hinc illoe 
 lachrymce) thus noticed the " New Themes," 
 shortly after its first appearance. We have 
 not space to quote it all, extracts from " New 
 Themes" included, but we advise our readers 
 to peruse it in extenso. The quotations which 
 we give, will show how forcibly the editor and 
 ourselves were struck with the same objec- 
 tionable features in the work reviewed. If 
 we had read it at all — of which we are un- 
 
92 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 certain — until within the last few weeks, we 
 certainly had forgotten it when we wrote our 
 Keview. We are pleased to see that we agree 
 so exactly with the learned editor, whose ap- 
 probation may " earnestly be coveted" by all 
 who value the suffrages of the wise and good. 
 But to his review : 
 
 From the "Presbyterian Magazine," February, 1852. 
 
 NEW THEMES FOR THE PROTESTANT CLERGY, ETC., WITH 
 NOTES BY THE EDITOR. 
 
 " It is wise to endeavor to receive instruc- 
 tion from whatever source and under what- 
 ever circumstances it may come. We hope 
 to be benefitted by the perusal of this extra- 
 ordinary book. Was it written by a Unita- 
 rian? So think some. Others affirm that 
 its author is a Jesuit in disguise. Others, 
 with a knowing look, declare it to be a pro- 
 duction of an Old School Presbyterian Elder ! 
 (Spare us so unkind a thought, ye over-cre- 
 dulous critics !) No ; we reckon its author 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 93 
 
 to be one of that small class, whose secta- 
 rianism is of a different kind from that of all 
 other denominations. One of the ill effects 
 of this book will be the confirmation afforded 
 to Socinianism and Atheists on the one hand, 
 and to Jesuits on the other, of their common 
 hatred of evangelical religion. The author, 
 therefore, has incurred great responsibility. 
 He will be mightily applauded by the cham- 
 pions of liberality, such as the Christian Ke- 
 gister, of Boston, the Freeman's Journal, the 
 Tribune, the Mormons of Salt Lake, and the 
 whole army of hostile opposers. 
 
 " That the work contains many thoughts 
 worthy of serious reflection by Protestants, 
 we fully believe. The imperfections, theore- 
 tical and practical, belonging to the prevalent 
 system of religion, should always command 
 grave consideration. Whilst we admit that 
 there is often too little charity in the state- 
 ment of theological opinions, does it there- 
 fore follow that our creeds are ' without cha- 
 rity?' 
 
94 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 " Because the Church does not take care 
 of all the poor by ecclesiastical authority, 
 but leaves them in part to the protection of 
 the state by taxation, is our theology there- 
 fore ' without humanity ?' 
 
 " And if Protestantism has failed in seve- 
 ral, or even many, points, is it right to stigma- 
 tize it as i without Christianity ?' A spirit 
 of unsound exaggeration pervades the work 
 from the title-page to 6 the end.' 
 
 " The author enumerates, among his com- 
 plaints against Protestantism, its method of 
 raising funds to ' preach the gospel to every 
 creature/ The following are his words : 
 
 " ' Whence comes this money f [Then 
 follows a quotation of fifteen lines; after 
 which the reviewer proceeds :] There is, 
 indeed, reason to deplore the necessity of so 
 much machinery ; but the experience of the 
 Church shows that means must be used. Our 
 system may no doubt be improved ; but those 
 who find the most fault with it, are not com- 
 monly those most distinguished for their t hu- 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 95 
 
 inanity.' We trust that public opinion will 
 always compel a Christian to ' contribute 
 liberally' according to his means, under the 
 penalty of a loss of influence and respecta- 
 bility ; and we have yet to learn that the 
 great mass of benevolent contributions are 
 not the ' voluntary offerings' of our people. 
 There are too many evidences in this volume 
 that the author has not those kindly feelings 
 towards the ministry which are commonly 
 entertained by the pious of all denomina- 
 tions. He expresses more sympathy for 
 Stephen Girard, a notorious infidel, than for 
 the ministers of God's word, who are ex- 
 cluded, as sectarians, from his trust. 
 
 " And he insinuates that the clergy brand 
 Iff. Girard as an infidel because they are 
 excluded." [Then follows that most dis- 
 graceful paragraph upon which we comment 
 in the " Review," p. 39, &c. ; " New Themes," 
 p. 275. The Magazine proceeds :] 
 
 " The reader will notice that the author, 
 in the above quotation, exalts Mr. Girard's 
 
96 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 scheme as a sort of evidence of piety ; whilst 
 he insinuates as much against the clergy as 
 he can well condense with decency. 
 
 " This Presbyterian of the Odd School 
 finds fault with the Shorter Catechism as a 
 manual of duty, although a large part of it 
 is taken up with a searching exposition of 
 6 what duties God requires of man.' He also 
 has objections to teaching the Catechism to 
 our youth ; and asks, 6 Is this bringing chil- 
 dren to Christ ? Is this honoring his insti- 
 tutions ?' 
 
 "And, as if not enough to attack the 
 Church of the present day, and its whole 
 system of teaching and practical operation, 
 he assails the Reformers and fathers in such 
 language as this : ' The Reformers, and the 
 successors to their vocation and spirit, always 
 inculcated prayer. They could not rise to 
 the conception of charity, and mercy, and 
 peace, but they could pray devoutly, and 
 loud, and long. They were willing to talk 
 with God, but they could not preach the 
 Gospel to the poor. They could stand up 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 97 
 
 and make long prayers — they could pray in 
 secret, and with earnestness — but the kind- 
 ness of brotherly love was almost a stranger 
 to their bosom.' We deeply regret that any 
 Protestant church should have the discredit 
 of such a volume. If it be a fair specimen 
 of Protestantism, the latter is a failure in- 
 deed. 'New Themes for the Protestant 
 Clergy?' No; themes as old as infidelity. 
 What infidel has not rung changes upon 
 them, from Celsus and Julian the Apostate 
 down to Bolingbroke, Voltaire, and the mo- 
 dem Nothingarians ? ' New Themes ?' Yes ; 
 themes new for a Christian, new for a Pro- 
 testant, new for a Presbyterian." 
 
 Such is the learned editor's opinion of 
 " New Themes;" let us see what he thinks 
 of the " Review." 
 
 From the " Presbyterian Magazine" for the present month, 
 January, 1853. 
 
 " A Layman has taken in hand an author 
 whose ' New Themes,' assaulted Christianity 
 
 9 
 
98 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 in its Creeds, Theology, and Protestantism. 
 • * ^r e understand that the latter gentle- 
 man complains of the severity* with which 
 
 * The idea of the general executioner of New Themes' 
 celebrity, complaining of "severity," is sufficiently amu- 
 sing. A man who stigmatizes millions of Christians, 
 and hundreds of thousands of Christian teachers (for his 
 indictment extends over many ages, and all Christen- 
 dom), as unworthy " of the vocation wherewith they are 
 called," should be prepared to " endure hardness," if he 
 happen to encounter it in his militant onslaught. But 
 the truth is, he has been treated with the most remarka- 
 ble lenity. We have never known an instance so well 
 calculated to prove the value of character. Because 
 known to be a Christian, he has been permitted to escape 
 almost uncensured (by many) whilst " dealing condem- 
 nation" round the world, to all whom he judged de- 
 linquent. He speaks (in " Some Notice of a Review," 
 &c.) of the " complacency" of the present writer. Is 
 there any u complacency" in his assertion (New Themes, 
 p. 215), that "It is rare to find one [minister of Christ] 
 who even comprehends the scope of his teaching, who 
 spake as never man spake ?" He here impliedly asserts, 
 that he himself " comprehends •" otherwise, he could not 
 judge whether they did, or did not? Does this look any- 
 thing like "complacency?" The Church of Rome 
 claims no more than this, for the Pope himself! 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 99 
 
 he has been handled. Far be it from us to 
 add to wounds unnecessarily or unmerci- 
 fully ; but we do not think that he has re- 
 ceived more than his real deserts. Perso- 
 nally, we have the kindest feelings towards 
 him, feelings of the most sincere compassion, 
 on account of his unfortunate position. But 
 a man who denounces creeds, clergy and 
 Protestants in the way that he has done, 
 must expect punishment, for his own good, 
 and that of others, and punishment admi- 
 nistered according to the measure of evil 
 which his book is ambitious to accomplish. 
 His work has passed unnoticed in some 
 quarters where minor offenders have not 
 escaped. An author, unmasking his batte- 
 ries upon the general army of Protestantism, 
 must calculate his risks beforehand. For 
 our part, we shall not hesitate to expose 
 books of a tendency so infidel and untruth- 
 ful ; and, particularly, when the errorist 
 happens, in the course of Providence, to be 
 an Old School Presbyterian. We recom- 
 
100 NEW TUEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 mend all who wish to understand the sub- 
 ject, to read the admirable Revieio by an 
 Episcopal Layman. This Review of New 
 Themes is intelligent and discriminating in 
 its criticisms, full of charity towards the 
 erring writer, and ably defends the truths 
 which ' New Themes' so mistakingly tram- 
 ples upon. The most charitable excuse that 
 we have heard for the author of ' New 
 Themes/ was that of a lady, who innocently 
 suggested, that ' he did not know what he 
 was about.' " 
 
 What do the author of " New Themes," 
 and its advocates, think of this verdict from 
 one of the best authorities in his own Church ? 
 We now adduce the opinion of a distin- 
 guished legal and literary gentleman, who 
 stands in the first order of genius ; and the 
 very drippings of whose pen, casually thrown 
 out, are graphically eloquent; as will be seen 
 from the letter annexed. 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 101 
 
 No. XXX. 
 
 FROM THE HON. . 
 
 Nov. 29, 1852. 
 " I have not seen, probably never will see, 
 the ' Themes' In most cases, it is but 
 rough justice to condemn a book upon the 
 ex parte evidence furnished by a Keview : 
 but your generous extracts afford us ample 
 grounds for a free and equitable judgment : 
 you bring the culprit into court, and confront 
 him; he pleads his own cause, and I feel 
 that I am justified in forming and expressing 
 a condemnatory opinion.* I concur, most 
 emphatically, with every view which you 
 have taken of the book ; and I realize the 
 importance, the necessity, of such a response, 
 
 * In the "Review," the book "New Themes" is in- 
 dicted for certain alleged errors ; the evidence submitted 
 is the /' /// I'liujuage of (lie accused. Can anything be 
 fairer ? The competent authority quoted above, decides 
 that the evidence is valid, and that the crime is proved. 
 Indeed, is not this self-evident ? 
 
102 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 and feel grateful for it. For the theme is 
 popular, and the thesis dangerous. It is a 
 sad truth, that he who objects to the Chris- 
 tian system, will never lack favorable audi- 
 tors. The objections of the author of the 
 Themes, are by no means novel. They min- 
 gle with the slaver that drips from the lips 
 of every infidel. They are to be heard in 
 the highways ; and no smattering and front- 
 less babbler against religion, but is loud in 
 urging the same superficial and absurd in- 
 vective. But it is new, and strange, and 
 startling, to hear such stuff* uttered in the 
 character of a religious enthusiast and re- 
 former. Hence the sensation which it seems 
 to have excited. I know nothing of the 
 author, but I do not consider myself uncha- 
 ritable in concluding — your favorable opi- 
 nion of his character to the contrary notwith- 
 standing — that he is either inimical to Chris- 
 tianity, or that his mind is muddled with the 
 crotchety and insane extravagance, which 
 has, under the name of philosophy, addled 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 103 
 
 the brains of so many half-learned, half-re- 
 ligious, and half-sincere, speculators of the 
 age. This is ' the age of enlightenment !' 
 Is it so ? Look at Mormonism, which the 
 government and the people, you and I, en- 
 courage and protect — polygamy and all — 
 making ' his excellency,' the Arch Impostor 
 and Chief Demon, an august officer of the 
 United States government ; and becoming 
 accessory to, and rewarding, crimes at com- 
 mon law ; crimes the most revolting, openly 
 and boastfully committed. We will soon 
 have half a million of these wretches in the 
 heart of our continent ; successfully defying 
 earth, as they now defy heaven. But this — 
 so we console ourselves — is mere ignorance. 
 Well, then, look at our philosophy, the trans- 
 cendental absurdities, that, in some sections 
 of our own country, as well as abroad, have 
 made religion infidelity, and infidelity reli- 
 gion ; clothing it in sacerdotal robes, and 
 making it a sanctity, a sect; a smooth-faced 
 and canting religion, perfect in all things, 
 
104 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 except the trifling omission of — a God ! And 
 in science, too, so styled ; with animal mag- 
 netism, and its miracles and myths ; with 
 the * knockings,' and a hundred other horri- 
 ble phantoms, all rising to push sacred, and 
 vital, and venerable truth from its throne, 
 and fill the mind with fearful doubts, or be- 
 liefs still more fearful. 
 
 " It is not, my dear sir, that too much 
 hath made the age mad ; ' a little learning,' 
 with an infinite deal of presumption, is the 
 6 dangerous thing.' And your author is an 
 instance of the chaotic confusion, the mis- 
 shapen follies, and frantic extravagance, 
 with which it fills unbalanced and epileptic 
 intellects. Nothing is assured, or fixed, or 
 venerable, with these Bedlamites. They 
 become Socialists in domestic affairs, and 
 piratical propagandists in foreign ; infidels in 
 religion, and agitators in all things. You 
 remember Wordsworth's ' Rob Roy :' he 
 gives their creed to a hair. I quote from a 
 doubtful memory : — 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 105 
 
 " ' Of old things, all are over old ; 
 
 Of good things, none are good enough ; 
 We'll join and make another world, 
 Of new and better stuff.' 
 
 " There are various degrees of insanity ; 
 and how far a mind diseased, is irresponsible 
 for its crimes, perhaps we cannot say ; but 
 we can say that, the criminal act itself, is not, 
 therefore, the less hateful; and no act is 
 more criminal, than a cold, wanton, delibe- 
 rate calumny against religion. Such a ca- 
 lumny is the assertion, that, not only no ex- 
 emplification of the character of a Christian, 
 i but no approach to it can he found' JDhe mis- 
 creant Paine has uttered nothing more reck- 
 less, nor more guilty. I thank God that I 
 know Christians, the daily beauty of whose 
 life would — if a doubt disturbed me — afford 
 me sufficient proof, palpable, living proof — 
 as decisive as a daily miracle — of all the 
 truth of Christianity. I am not young, nor 
 i in men, nor unfamiliar with the 
 examination of testimony ; nor heated by 
 
106 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 fanaticism, in this; nor am I, nor can I be, 
 mistaken in asserting that, the effects of 
 Religion, as I witness it in the life and cha- 
 racter of some Christians now in my mind, 
 are as strange, as miraculous, as triumphant 
 and conclusive evidence, as would be a 
 radiant writing on the firmament, by the 
 visible hand of an archangel. Has the 
 author of the " Themes" been stricken with 
 moral blindness, or is his defect of vision 
 that which Coleridge so gloriously describes, 
 as existing in the Atheist. It is a pet pas- 
 sage — and though familiar to you, I must 
 repeat iU 
 
 " ' The owlet, Atheism, 
 Sailing on obscure wings athwart the noon, 
 Drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close ; 
 And, hooting at the glorious sun in heaven, 
 Cries out — Where is it f 
 
 u ' Where are the Christians, &c.' — ' Themes' 
 
 " But I had intended merely to thank you 
 
 for your volume, not to punish you for it : 
 
 to express the great gratification which I 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 107 
 
 have derived from the soundness of its 
 views, the boldness and vigor of its argu- 
 ment, and the animated elevation and 
 eloquence of its style; and not to intrude 
 upon the discussion. But, since I have 
 been unwittingly betrayed into so serious a 
 trespass upon your patience, let me fill the 
 measure of my presumption, by a sugges- 
 tion, to which I attach some little import- 
 ance. 
 
 "I read with especial pleasure your re- 
 marks on Pauperism, and the topics associa- 
 ted with it. My views on this subject are 
 practical, and have not been lightly nor 
 loosely adopted ; and, permit me to say that, 
 1 have a more assured confidence in them, 
 since I find that they so entirely accord 
 with your own. I regard this portion of 
 your volume as practically invaluable; so 
 much so, that I would be much gratified to 
 see a more general and popular circulation 
 given it, than can be secured for any book, 
 however admirably written. Could not 
 
108 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 this portion of the ' Review,' be detached 
 from the body of it; and, by a slight modi- 
 fication, adapted to publication in one of 
 our journals of high character, and exten- 
 sive circulation, — say the ? 
 
 The subject is so important, the views are 
 so novel, interesting, and truthful, that I 
 know they would be read with pleasure and 
 profit by thousands, who would not other- 
 wise see them. The mode that occurs to 
 me as the readiest, would be a communica- 
 tion, giving the chapters referred to, as an 
 extract, containing facts and considerations, 
 valuable to the community at large." 
 
 From the (Phila.) Pennsylvania Inquirer and Courier, 
 October, 14, 1852. 
 
 THE AUTHOR OF NEW THEMES FOR THE PROTESTANT 
 CLERGY AND HIS REVIEWER. 
 
 Messrs. Editors: — I have recently had 
 my attention called to a late work from 
 the enterprising book firm of Lippincott, 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 109 
 
 Grambo, & Co., entitled " New Themes for 
 the Protestant Clergy," &c., &c. Though not 
 professing to be an infidel production, the 
 tendency of its reasoning is in the direction 
 of Infidelity; for, to carry out its conclu- 
 sion to a legitimate issue, would certainly 
 be to land its supporters there. It is the 
 bitterest tirade that has ever come under 
 our notice against the whole system of 
 Christian charity, but witliout going one step 
 towards providing us with a better one. Had 
 not our inquiries satisfied us that the author 
 was not an infidel, we should certainly have 
 deemed him at best, secretly one; though 
 he professes faith in religious truth. Yet 
 what infidel does not? They all, from 
 Bolingbroke to Paine — if I may be forgiven 
 for employing such names in such a con- 
 nexion — profess faith in what they term 
 " True religion," yet exercise every faculty 
 of their minds and hearts, to sap the foun- 
 dation of the best system of religion — to say 
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110 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 the least of Christianity, that has ever been 
 given to man. 
 
 Like infidel writers, too, our author is a 
 great stickler for wholesale charity ; and the 
 word occurs, at a rough estimate, at least 
 four hundred times in his book. He charges 
 a universal want of it in man, and par- 
 ticularly in Christian men; and best exem- 
 plifies his position in his own case — sup- 
 posing his work to be a fair exponent of his 
 feelings ;— for a more uncharitable produc- 
 tion, taken altogether, it has never been 
 our fortune to meet with. Among other 
 things, he declares that Christian writers 
 have been so derelict in theoretical as well 
 as practical charity, that " there is not in 
 the English language an elaborate work on 
 the subject." We do not know what 
 amount of printed matter he would call 
 " elaborate," or whether he expects a volu- 
 minous work after the style of our modern 
 cyclopaedias, compassing a circle of general 
 religious knowledge; but it would not be 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. Ill 
 
 difficult to prove that charity, as a Chris- 
 tian duty, is as thoroughly taught, as tho- 
 roughly believed, and as thoroughly prac- 
 tised, by the professed followers of Christ, 
 as any other one duty, if it is not the bur- 
 den of nearly all Christian teaching. 
 
 As a proof, that Christians are behind 
 even non-professors, he says that the whole 
 expenditure of Protestant congregations "for 
 every purpose," is derived in a large degree 
 from those who are not Christians; and 
 again, that "a very small portion of moneys 
 collected for Christian purposes, would be 
 received, if allowed to flow in by spontane- 
 ous contribution." Not to notice the mon- 
 strous assumption of this assertion, we will 
 merely remark, that it either proves too 
 much for the author's argument, or nothing 
 at all; for if the great bulk of charitable 
 contribution comes from those who are not 
 Oiristians, it proves nothing against that 
 class, that it does not flow voluntarily. To 
 show, however, our author's error in this 
 
112 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 matter, it so happens that the congregation 
 with which the writer of this article wor- 
 ships, last year abandoned the system of 
 soliciting moneys from the church for the 
 ordinary purposes of charity, as it had been 
 usual to do; and the amount received was 
 thirty-one hundred dollars, more or less; 
 being about a hundred dollars more than 
 usual. But I would ask the author of " New 
 Themes," if his admission of the effort made 
 by Christians to collect moneys for chari- 
 table objects, which he tacitly condemns, 
 does not prove the opposite of his deduc- 
 tions ? 
 
 But the object of my remarks at the out- 
 set, was to notice a review of this work of 
 " New Themes," &c, which has just appear- 
 ed from the same press, entitled a " Review 
 of New Themes" &c. by a Layman, which I 
 have just risen from perusing; and would 
 say that, whatever of pain I may have 
 experienced in reading the first, has been 
 entirely removed by the latter. It is said 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 113 
 
 of Henry Clay, that upon one occasion, in 
 the House of Representatives, when an 
 enthusiastic new member, "in fleshing his 
 maiden sword," had concluded a flaming 
 speech, in which he roundly berated the 
 whole world in general, and the Whig 
 party in particular, the old lion raised his 
 tall form in the air, and pronounced six 
 emphatic words; after which, the new mem- 
 ber disappeared precipitately, and never 
 was seen in Congress afterwards. Now if 
 the author of "New Themes," &c, ever 
 appears again as a caterer for public favor 
 in a published work, we will be greatly mis- 
 taken in our estimate of human character! 
 While the reasoning of a " Layman" is con- 
 el usive, his declamation is scathing, and his 
 sarcasm burning. 
 
 It has always been the fate of such works 
 as " New Themes," &c, that they raise up 
 reviewers, who, in the course of their work, 
 often evolve new lights; sometimes bring- 
 ing in collateral evidence, of great mo- 
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114 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 ment, which, but for this, might have lain 
 dormant ; as in the case before us, we have 
 some interesting and important statistics on 
 the results of intemperance, as a principal 
 cause of pauperism. Watson's reply to 
 Paine, is one of the most valuable works on 
 the subject of which it treats, in the lan- 
 guage, and would never have been written, but 
 for the production of the " Age of Keason," 
 and the other infidel works of that most in- 
 famous writer. The more monstrous the 
 initiatives have been, the more certain has 
 been their fate, and so with the work before 
 us ; but we would advise all who desire to 
 see a conclusive vindication of Christian 
 effort in the work of charity, to procure a 
 copy, and especially those who have read 
 " New Themes," &c. 
 
 Very respectfully, 
 
 L. M. B. 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 115 
 
 From the editorial columns of the Pennsylvania Inquirer, 
 Oct. 27, 1852. 
 
 CRIME AND ITS CAUSES — THE CHARITIES 
 OF PHILADELPHIA. 
 
 We have read with pleasure, and we hope 
 not without advantage, a well-written and 
 powerful work, published by Lippincott, 
 Grambo & Co., entitled "A Review, by a 
 Layman, of New Themes for the Protestant 
 Clergy," &c. The object of the author of 
 the latter work, " New Themes," is to show 
 that he refers to " creeds without charity — 
 theology without humanity — and Protestant- 
 ism without Christianity ;" and we think, on 
 a careful perusal of the Review by a Lay- 
 man, that the work reviewed is not only 
 analysed with critical acumen, but its errors, 
 singular contradictions, and assumptions, 
 rather than arguments, are pursued to demo- 
 lition. In all his points the " Layman" is 
 cogent and clear — sound and logical — fairly 
 
116 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 quoting to the reader, every passage from 
 the " Themes," that he attacks. Although 
 not directly charged, the tendency of " New 
 Themes," is to induce readers to suppose that 
 much of the crime and pauperism of the day, 
 is to be ascribed to the neglect of the Protes- 
 tant clergy — than which nothing can be 
 more incorrect ; and this is fairly shown by a 
 Layman, who not only ascribes the evils to 
 their true causes, but successfully vindicates 
 the clergy from insinuations which are so 
 discreditably untrue. One great cause — in- 
 temperance — is all but omitted by the author 
 of " New Themes" — and " A Layman" after 
 showing by statistics from Bishop Potter and 
 Judge Kelly, the enormous amount of evil 
 entailed upon Philadelphia by the abuse of 
 ardent spirits — -justly demands — " Is it not 
 passing strange that our critic did not think 
 proper to advert to these facts, as accounting 
 for the great increase of pauperism amongst 
 us ?" But the sins of omission are almost as 
 numerous as those of commission, in " New 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 117 
 
 Themes" — idleness, intoxication, evil asso- 
 ciations and dispositions among men, seem 
 to go for nothing with the sophistical author, 
 so that he can but indulge his amiable desire 
 and propensity, which seek gratification in 
 blaming the Protestant clergy of all sects. 
 His attacks upon the clergy of the Church of 
 England, are especially savage — but this may 
 be ascribed to prejudice and the want of ac- 
 curate information — as the said clergy head 
 charities innumerable in every city, town and 
 parish. The inference that little or nothing 
 is done by American Christians for the poor, 
 is finely answered by a few pages devoted to 
 the Charities of Philadelphia alone. A Lay- 
 man says : — " In addition to the vast sum of 
 $189,000 distributed to the poor by the pub- 
 lic authorities in 1851, of which Christians, 
 of course, contribute a large proportion, 
 there are in Philadelphia, upon a mode- 
 rate estimate, two hundred charitable socie- 
 ties conducted by private agency (of which 
 about one hundred and sixty are directly 
 
118 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 connected with Christian churches), whose 
 duty it is to clothe the naked and provide 
 for the destitute. We have reason to believe 
 that at least twelve thousand poor children 
 (we do not include those belonging to the 
 better-off classes) are weekly gathered toge- 
 ther on Sunday, for religious instruction. It 
 is probably much within bounds to say, five 
 thousand five hundred male and female visi- 
 ters are employed, more or less, in visiting 
 the lanes and alleys of our city and suburbs, 
 ministering to the temporal and spiritual 
 wants of the poor. In one case alone, more 
 than two hundred ladies divide the city and 
 suburbs into sections, and appoint visiters, 
 whose self-imposed duty it is, to visit every 
 dwelling where the existence of poverty is 
 known, or suspected." 
 
 u In New York, our largest city, it is com- 
 puted that one out of every seven receives 
 aid from his or her fellow-citizens." But a 
 want of space necessarily limits our notice. 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 119 
 
 We will, therefore, conclude, by stating that 
 " A Layman" admirably defends the attack 
 in the " New Thenfes" on the British Poor 
 Laws, which certainly form the most exten- 
 sive public charity, properly considered, in 
 the civilized world — and the defence is inte- 
 resting to the United States — seeing that 
 our institutions for relieving the poor are 
 similar — while aid is given and industry en- 
 couraged far more efficiently than could pos- 
 sibly be done by individual alms-giving, 
 however well devised. Could the author of 
 " New Themes" provide any effective and 
 eleemosynary substitute for that noble in- 
 stitution, the Blockley Almshouse? We 
 think not. But it would be a waste of time 
 and words to enter into an argument in favor 
 of that great triumph of Christianity and 
 civilization — a public poor law. That it is 
 sometimes abused is no argument against it, 
 for such is the fate of everything human. 
 Before Poor Laws existed, says an English 
 author, the country was overrun by thieves 
 
120 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 and vagabonds. " A Layman" gives an ad- 
 mirable history of these laws — and in reply 
 to the sneering comments against them, we 
 would ask the author of " New Themes" — 
 whether in the ancient Pagan nations — or in 
 modern Mahommedan or Hindoo countries, 
 he can point out hospitals or poor laws for 
 the relief of suffering humanity ? No ! such 
 triumphs were reserved for the beneficent 
 spirit of Christianity, and the refinement and 
 mental elevation which it produced. We 
 will only add that, all who have read the at- 
 tack, should peruse the reply, and thus per- 
 mit the antidote to follow the bane. 
 
 EXTRACT FROM A LETTER FROM THE GENTLEMAN 
 WHO ADVISED A BOOKSELLER NOT TO SELL "NEW 
 THEMES :" HIS OPINION IS QUOTED ON A PRECEDING 
 PAGE.* ALSO, SEE "REVIEW." 
 
 " Circumstances have prevented me from 
 
 * The same gentleman who writes : — " I have read 
 the 'New Themes' carefully; and am glad that you have 
 reviewed it : for it is a very bad book, and yet, a very 
 ingenious one." 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 121 
 
 \ 
 
 thanking you, as every one zealous for the 
 truth ought to do, for the strictures you 
 have lately published upon 'New Themes 
 for the Protestant Clergy.' If more severe 
 than the author likes, they are certainly not 
 more so than the circumstances of the case 
 require ; for the dangerous character of his 
 book could not be sufficiently exposed and 
 proven, without a plainness of speech, that 
 your regard for truth would not permit you 
 to dispense with. 
 
 " A great deal has been said about the pu- 
 rity of motive, and blamelessness of life, of 
 the author of i New Themes.' 
 
 " But supposing it all true, suppose he has 
 only fallen into a ruinous error, and fatal 
 mistake ; — is that any reason why his error 
 should not be exposed, and his mistake rec- 
 ti lied? On the contrary, when people of 
 standing and character in society, embrace 
 and disseminate pernicious opinions, it seems 
 to me * :;: the necessity for refuting them 
 becomes more urgent. 
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122 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 " Must truth be sacrificed to names ? And 
 the worst sentiments to be suffered to pass un- 
 contradicted, on the ground of the character 
 of those holding them ? 
 
 " Unless the author of c New Themes/ be- 
 long to that class of persons who 6 must be 
 trepanned before they can be convinced/ he 
 must by this time, I should think, say pec- 
 cavi. But, however that may be, I sincerely 
 rejoice that a furious attack upon ministers 
 of the Gospel, by a Layman, has been an- 
 swered with so much ability, by one of his 
 own order." 
 
 From the Inquirer. 
 
 A NOTICE OF "HINTS TO A LAYMAN," AND OTHER 
 WORKS. 
 
 Messrs. Editors, — Some time since there 
 appeared in the reading world a publication 
 under the " taking" title of " New Themes 
 for the Protestant Clergy !" It professed to 
 be an exposition of facts going to show the 
 
NEW TIIEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 123 
 
 entire absence of the attribute of cliarity in 
 the present Protestant Christian system, 
 which it calls a system of " Creeds without 
 Charity, Theology without Humanity, and 
 Protestantism without Christianity." The 
 author — himself a professed Christian — 
 leads his readers through a maze of misrepre- 
 sentations, as has been shown, and assump- 
 tions which are self-evident, clothing the 
 whole with an essay on the necessity of Re- 
 form, and spicing it with the severest ani- 
 madversions against the present system of 
 religious teaching ! He denies in set terms 
 the existence of the principle of Charity in 
 the Protestantism, Theology, and Creeds of 
 the Churches. Both in conception and 
 style, his work is of a character such as any 
 professed sceptic might have written without 
 compromising either his position or his dig- 
 nity, (!) and with less evil to the cause of 
 Christ? for, coming professedly from the 
 Christian rinks, it will be extensively read 
 and extensively quoted by every infidel and 
 
124 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 scoffer of every hue. In fact, it will be to 
 them a never-failing spring of bitterness, into 
 which, at their leisure, they may dip their 
 pen of gall to besmear, by authority, the 
 Christian character. 
 
 If the object of the author had been re- 
 form, as his friends assert, the bitterness of 
 his invective, as he ought to have known, 
 would have defeated his purpose ; or, if the 
 motive had been the furtherance of his Mas- 
 ter's Kingdom, a meeker spirit of love, and a 
 closer adherence to truth, would have ac- 
 complished more, and become him better; 
 but if his object were simply to "write a 
 book," from the laudable desire to obtain a 
 name, he has probably succeeded; though 
 not, it is but charity to suppose, as he could 
 have most desired ; but whatever has been 
 the result to his own feeling, it is certain that 
 his work has caused much pain to many 
 right-minded Christians, and to none more 
 than those of the author's own household of 
 faith, and some even of his immediate friends. 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 125 
 
 i 
 
 Of the many expressions which the present 
 writer has heard upon the subject, all, with, 
 perhaps, a single exception, have heartily 
 condemned the work, as unchristian in its 
 temper, and mischievous in its tendency.* 
 But it has been met, and having spared 
 none, has not been spared !• In a brief re- 
 view from the pen of one in the same walks 
 of life as our author himself, his book has 
 been examined in a fair and candid spirit, 
 and in a manner • at once caustic and tho- 
 rough, such as was befitting the subject. 
 
 The reviewer, throughout his book, quotes 
 his author so liberally on each point, as to 
 render it almost superfluous to read the ori- 
 ginal, and then examines each statement 
 ' ri'itim to the end. I undertake to say that 
 no book of the kind was ever reviewed with 
 
 * Note this: this gentleman — a zealous and hard- 
 working philanthropist, and mingling with men like- 
 minded, and alike active in good works — is doubtful 
 whether he has once heard a favorable opinion of "New 
 Themes." This speaks volumes ! 
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126 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 more fairness, as every disinterested reader 
 must acknowledge ; and in proof of the satis- 
 faction it has given to the Christian com- 
 munity, the reviewer, as I am credibly in- 
 formed, has had poured in upon him, from 
 every quarter of the Church, and from dis- 
 tant regions of the country, letters congratu- 
 latory of his efforts and success, many of 
 which, are from gentlemen among the high- 
 est in his author's own Church, distinguished 
 for their learning, their piety, and their 
 Christian works. 
 
 Among the first to hail this " Review" 
 of " A Layman," was the writer of this 
 article, who foreseeing that the "New 
 Themes," because they were 'popular themes ! 
 would be extensively read, heartily accepted 
 the " Review" as a counter influence ; which, 
 though it could not be expected to stop the 
 sale of the other, would yet prevent any 
 pernicious effects upon the minds of those 
 who might read both; not supposing, for a 
 moment, that any one from the Christian 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 127 
 
 / 
 
 ranks would be found to volunteer in de- 
 fence of the book under review. But it 
 seems that I was mistaken, for one has re- 
 cently appeared in the form of a writer, 
 whose book I have just seen, and who signs 
 himself " Episcopus" — though in a note he 
 says " but not an Episcopalian" — which leaves 
 his readers to doubt as to whether he intends 
 it as a sneer at that denomination of Chris- 
 tians, which is but poor argument and foreign 
 to the subject ; or, desires to convey the im- 
 pression that he is a Christian, when he 
 really is not one, and adding the note to 
 allay any issue with his own conscience ! 
 But to give him the full benefit of the more 
 charitable construction, we will allow that 
 he is a Christian, and that he is sincere in 
 his views as expressed in his book. We 
 would also accord him a fair share of learn- 
 ing ; but will all or any of these palliate the 
 gross character of some of his charges upon 
 " A Layman ?" 
 
 In wlint school of ethics, even, or of man- 
 
128 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 ners, to say nothing of Christianity, was he 
 educated, to charge Pharisaical conduct upon 
 his author ? And the following : " A reli- 
 gionist," says he, " who would officially drop 
 a tract at the door where he would scorn to 
 stop, and minister a persuasive word ?" He 
 affects, however, to gather this character of 
 the reviewer from his book ; but further on, 
 acknowledges that he knows who the author 
 is. I would recommend him then, if he 
 would prove his faith, to go just as far as " A 
 Layman" in the work of counselling the un- 
 godly ! So much for his manner. A word 
 for the matter of " Episcopus," whose work 
 is a small book, published in the form of let- 
 ters, and entitled " Hints to a Layman ;" the 
 design of the writer being at once to attack 
 the reviewer of " New Themes," and to de- 
 fend that work, or rather the author of tlw 
 work ; for it is curious to observe that he 
 generally condemns his book : not only in its 
 arrangement and " style," but in its " posi- 
 tions," its "manner," and its "matter !" leav- 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 129 
 
 ing the author only the credit of good mo- 
 tives, which his reviewer has not impugned ; 
 sometimes his condemnation is so decided as 
 to render it doubtful whether he does not 
 intend to be ironical in his defence of New 
 Themes, until, indeed, his attack upon the 
 reviewer removes the doubt ; for instance, on 
 page 20 he says : " There are, we grant, 
 many apparently conflicting positions taken 
 by the author of New Themes, which, did 
 we not know his designs, we would say were 
 irreconcilable :" and again, " The very strong 
 view he takes of a particular truth, does in- 
 deed, at times, savor of a degree of one-sided- 
 ness, which is alien from the true philoso- 
 phical character;" and again at page 34 : 
 " We do not entirely agree with the author 
 as to the full validity of his view on this 
 topic ;" and " we wish that he had used a 
 somewhat different tone on this head ;" and 
 on the next page, " We do not think our au- 
 thor is wholly free from censure as regards 
 the manner in which he has set forth the 
 
130 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 topic in question ;" and again, " In this case, 
 as in some others, we think he has fallen 
 into an error ;" and once more, at page 36, 
 he says : " His views of systematic theology 
 do not answer to what we think can be 
 shown to be its true functions from the Scrip- 
 tures :" and yet " Episcopus" can defend this 
 work! After this we may sagely ask, 
 " what's in a name ?" — and not content with 
 defending it only, he can descend into the 
 arena of personal abuse, to attack a reviewer 
 with whom he seems to agree ; and whose 
 love for the cause of Christ has induced him, 
 as a matter of duty, to defend it against the 
 rambling attacks of our unscrupulous, and 
 therefore, dangerous, writer. 
 
 It is nothing to the purpose for " Episco- 
 pus" to assume that the motives of the author 
 of " New Themes" are good. Who will stop 
 to inquire about his motives, when his booh 
 is dealing out misrepresentations dangerous 
 to the Christian cause ! 
 
 With one more extract from "Hints to a 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 131 
 
 Layman," I shall close this article. On page 
 43, the author says that our reviewer's book 
 " treats its subject as if evidence and argu- 
 ments were no helps to the judgment of its 
 assumed infallibility ; as if he whom it ana- 
 thematizes as an infidel surely must be so;" 
 and on the next page, " Assuming the author 
 of i New Themes' to be an infidel, he tor- 
 tures, garbles, exaggerates and misrepresents 
 his book to prop up his foregone conclusion." 
 Now the author of those quotations knows 
 well enough that the reviewer of " New 
 Themes" does not assume the author to be 
 an " infidel." He knows very well that the 
 reviewer has in half a dozen places in his 
 book admitted his belief that his author was 
 a Christian, and in no place, I repeat it, does 
 -sume him to be an infidel ! though he 
 several times says that he writes lilce an infi- 
 del ; and that had lie no other evidence than 
 his book, he would adjudge him to be one. 
 This is the neatest approach the reviewer 
 ■Mikes to the charge of" Episcopus" that he 
 
132 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 has " anathematized his author as an infi- 
 del P 
 
 I leave you, Messrs. Editors, and the pub- 
 lic, to make your own inferences from what 
 has been said above. Having no interest in 
 the matter myself, except the general one, 
 that the cause of Justice, and Truth, and 
 Charity, should triumph over misrepresenta- 
 tion and a false philosophy, which seeks to 
 fasten, under the garb of love to Humanity, 
 half a dozen more isms upon the age. Nor 
 have I volunteered my services in the expec- 
 tation of aiding our reviewer ; that were a 
 work of supererogation. He has shown him- 
 self abundantly able to defend his own posi- 
 tions, without the help of adventitious aid. 
 Thrice is he armed whose cause is just. 
 Yours, respectfully, 
 
 L. M. B. 
 
 Philadelphia, Jan. 25, 1853, 
 
CONCLUSION. 
 
 At the conclusion of this formidable array 
 of " opinions," sufficient, we should think, to 
 make the most bigoted and obstinate author 
 at least begin to suspect the soundness of his 
 position, we beg to quote a paragraph from 
 our author's " Some Notice of a Review," &c. : 
 
 " As the Review has been favorably re- 
 ceived by some, it becomes matter of regret 
 that, for want of knowing better, or a little 
 reflection, such have chosen, instead of walk- 
 ing in the lofty ways of Christianity, to take 
 for their leader one with whom, if they go 
 far. they will find themselves moving in that 
 low path where the blind, who are leaders of 
 the blind, are prone to go." 
 
 Is not this exquisitely courteous and re- 
 spectful in the author of " New Themes ?" 
 
 Those who do not see as he sees, are "blind ;" 
 12 
 
134 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 those who are suspicious of the safety of his 
 " path," are walking in that " low path," &c. 
 
 We have had a Chesterfield, ere this, to 
 teach us politeness, and a Melancthon to illus- 
 trate charity, — but to find Chesterfield and 
 Melancthon combined, in this age of " bark 
 and steel," is really overpowering ! 
 
 For some instances of our author's clear- 
 ness of vision, and " lofty ways," we refer the 
 reader to the preceding "Few Words" re- 
 specting his " Some Notice" of our " Keview," 
 and to that hydra-headed indictment against 
 Christendom at large, entitled " New Themes 
 for the Protestant Clergy." But, at least, we 
 who are walking in the "low paths," with 
 our impaired vision, are not without solace, 
 derived from that communion in misfortune, 
 which has often lightened the load of suffer- 
 ing, and even made tolerable the gloom of 
 the dungeon. We are no ignoble band, — 
 we " thirty"* who lead, and the innumerable 
 
 * It is perhaps unnecessary to say — but it may be as 
 well to do so for the satisfaction of those who live out of 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 135 
 
 t 
 
 army who follow. Some, at least, of the 
 " mighty," and of the " noble," the good and 
 the wise, the merciful and the charitable, 
 who have taken their philanthropic "de- 
 gree," in the cell of the captive, and at the 
 bedside of the sick and dying — contribute to 
 swell our procession ; to give " ardor 'to vir- 
 tue, and confidence to truth." 
 
 Some authors, in casting a retrospective 
 glance at their attempts to instruct or amuse 
 mankind, have enjoyed the unspeakable gra- 
 tification of reflecting that, they had 
 
 " Writ no line, which, dying, they would wish to blot." 
 
 Can the author of " New Themes," after 
 the heat of authorship and the din of con- 
 troversy have subsided, and Conscience has 
 rendered in its impartial verdict, be able to 
 make this declaration ? " We are persuaded 
 
 the bounds of Philadelphia — that any question as to the 
 authenticity of letters which have been quoted, may be 
 easily settled by application to the publishers, who have 
 the address of the Reviewer. 
 
136 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 better things of him." Believing him to be 
 sincere in good intentions, and sound at heart 
 as a philanthropist and a Christian, we are 
 persuaded that there is in reserve for him a 
 season of regretful retrospection, and the re- 
 morseful chastisement of a spirit wounded 
 by a sense of deplored transgression. 
 
 Oft, in anticipating that solemn hour of 
 honest scrutiny, which, as it "comes to 
 all, shall come to him," we have in imagi- 
 nation heard him bewailing himself (like 
 the penitent of old) over the sad proofs of 
 his error, and the bitter fruits of censure, 
 unsanctified by charity, and of zeal, unin- 
 formed by knowledge. Unless we greatly 
 err, somewhat thus will he take himself to 
 task, amidst the pangs of an awakened con- 
 science, which shall need no prompter, and 
 in the bitterness of a self-condemned soul, 
 which is its own accuser : 
 
 " Was it well for me thus to lift up the 
 voice of accusation against my brethren, 
 children, by spiritual birth, of the same re- 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 137 
 
 t 
 
 conciled Father, participants, in the same 
 mercies, inheritors of the same blessed pro- 
 mises ? 
 
 " When, moved by the gracious invitations 
 of a Saviour's love, I resolved to escape from 
 the condemnation of ' a world lying in wick- 
 edness,' did I not freely cast in my lot with 
 that little band of disciples, whom I found 
 struggling, under many discouragements, in 
 a warfare of trial, of sorrow, and of temp- 
 tation ? I found them, indeed, not exempt 
 from faults ; but was I perfect ; not free from 
 error ; but was I as God, to declare the de- 
 crees of unerring wisdom ? Was it for me 
 to assert, of the ambassadors of the Most 
 High, that it was ' rare to find one who com- 
 prehended the teachings of His Saviour?' 
 thus doing all that in me lay, to bring the 
 character of God's ministers into contempt 
 irith those, who, otherwise, might have been 
 moved by their en treaties to accept of that 
 imitations of love and mercy? 
 it foe me to bring i railing accusation' 
 
138 
 
 against my brethren, that ' nowhere were 
 illustrations of Christ's teachings to be wit- 
 nessed ;' thus hardening the infidel in his un- 
 belief, and discouraging those who had been 
 almost persuaded to join themselves to the 
 people of God ? How many lost souls may 
 rise up, in the Last Day, to reproach me for 
 that infidelity which has proved their ruin, 
 for that neglect of the Gospel, in which my 
 strictures against Christians confirmed them ? 
 Even the faithless Prophet could ask himself, 
 'How shall I curse, whom God hath not 
 cursed ? Or, how shall I defy, whom the 
 Lord hath not defied?' And should I have 
 been more hasty to condemn those whom 
 God hath chosen for His peculiar people ? I 
 am verily guilty concerning my brother, and 
 the children of my Father's house ! Nor is 
 it any excuse for my fault, that I did this 
 thing ignorantly, and with good intent. Is 
 a man to cast about ' firebrands, arrows and 
 death,' and then to say, ' Behold, I knew it 
 not, neither did my heart consider?' I 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 139 
 
 t 
 
 should, and might, have known that, within 
 the bounds of ruy own place of residence, 
 there were many faithful ministers of God, 
 who were wearing out life in devotion to His 
 service. I should, and might, have known 
 that, thousands of zealous Christians were 
 daily employed in the office of ' visiting the 
 widow and the fatherless in their affliction ;' 
 in supplying the necessities of the body, and 
 seeking the salvation of the soul. 
 
 "Ah, how deeply have I wounded the 
 hearts of such exemplars of their Saviours 
 precepts, by my uncharitable censures, by 
 my unfounded accusations! How many a 
 Christian brother, wearied by continued mi- 
 nistrations at the bedside of the sick and 
 dying, lias first learned from my pages, that 
 there were no such illustrations of the teach- 
 ings of Jesus, as his daily labors have just 
 exemplified! How many an advocate of 
 Christian truth has had his mouth closed by 
 the infidel finger triumphantly pointing to 
 my pages, — * There is no such thing as illus- 
 
140 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 tr at ions of the teachings of your Saviour, 
 one of your own number being your judge. 
 Hence your Christianity must be a fable, and 
 your religion vain.' " 
 
 This train of thought naturally suggests 
 some reflections, with which we shall con- 
 clude our volume. 
 
 At all times, and especially in this day 
 of extensive facilities for the diffusion of 
 thought, how great is the responsibility of 
 him who publishes his sentiments to a listen- 
 ing world ! It is not enough that his object 
 be good. The host who carelessly lights a 
 fire to warm his friend, may explode a maga- 
 zine, which shall deal death to his guest : 
 and the prospective author shall hardly be 
 justified, unless excellence of intention be 
 seconded by the most careful scrutiny, and 
 informed by the lights of all accessible know- 
 ledge. He must form his premises with the 
 most rigid impartiality, catechize his conclu- 
 sions in a spirit of self-distrust and diffidence, 
 and weigh his words, as gold, that he neither 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 141 
 
 add to, nor abstract from, the exact standard 
 of truth and justice. Unless he exercise all 
 this care, he may, whilst he seeks to benefit, 
 be the unwilling instrument of wide-spread 
 injury. Instead of propagating truth, he 
 may discover, to his sorrow, that he has 
 been giving currency to error. 
 
 And if error, even in its infancy, be so 
 evil a thing, how much is its malign influ- 
 ence increased, by maturity of growth, and 
 power of reproduction ! If the monster be 
 so venomous in its nature, as to cause us to 
 deprecate its birth, well may we fear its ra- 
 vages, when it has acquired strength to as- 
 sail, and wings to fly. And can it not, by 
 taking the wings of the press, penetrate into 
 every household, and extend its poisonous 
 influence to the ends of the earth ? 
 
 If I must be careful of what I whisper to 
 my neighbor in my " closet," how anxiously 
 must I ponder that which I proclaim upon 
 the "house-top!" Let circumspection pre- 
 vent future repentance : let me pause long, 
 
142 
 
 ere I utter that which I can never recall. 
 Larger information, added experience, ma- 
 turer consideration, may enlarge my scope, 
 correct my deductions, and modify, or en- 
 tirely change, my opinions; — but can I be 
 certain that these advantages will ever occur 
 to him whom I have misled by my ignorance, 
 or perverted by my error ? 
 
 Whilst, " clothed in sackcloth," I may de- 
 plore my mistake, those regretted errors are 
 doing the work of death, in a thousand chan- 
 nels, which I am powerless to close ! They 
 have gone forth, and, circulated by the press, 
 quoted at the bar, perchance sounded from 
 the pulpit, I hear on every side, the echo of 
 that which I cannot disavow, though I would 
 fain repudiate. Ay, I may indeed regret, 
 but recall — I never, never, can ! Nor does 
 the evil die with its author. Centuries hence, 
 men may be the worse for that which I have 
 written; the sufferers by my having pre- 
 ceded them in the great battle of human 
 life. The Psalmist wisely prayed that a 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 143 
 
 watch might be set before his mouth, and a 
 guard at the door of his lips ; how fervently, 
 then, should he who seeks to influence pub- 
 lic opinion by the medium of the thousand 
 mouths of the press, — how earnestly should 
 he pray, that his words may be the words of 
 "wisdom," and his lessons, the counsels of 
 " understanding !" 
 
A NOTICE 
 
 OF A WORK ENTITLED " CHARITY AND THE CLERGY." 
 
 " The little dogs and all, 
 Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see they bark at me." 
 
 King Lear. 
 
 We verily thought that authorship had 
 done sufficient for one season, in the way 
 of demoralizing the community, in the issue 
 of the second edition of " New Themes," and 
 the "Hints to a Layman;" but we little 
 knew what was in store for us ! 
 
 "We have just received, from the pub- 
 lishers, " Charity and the Clergy ;" and we 
 must admit that this volume "out Herods 
 Herod !" To attempt to confront with argu- 
 ment, the imbecility and vulgarity of this 
 precious effusion, would be about as wise, as 
 to endeavor to civilize an Esquimaux, or to 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 145 
 
 deliver a lecture upon logic at the Insane 
 Asylum ! 
 
 The accuracy, or truthfulness, of the au- 
 thor may be inferred from one circumstance. 
 The reader will remember the great blunder 
 committed by the author of " New Themes," 
 in his " Some Notice " of our " Review," in 
 blaming us for remarks upon his assertion 
 relative to the literature of " Christian 
 Charity." (See our " Few Remarks.") We 
 proved that we had not even referred to the 
 subject, for our (presumed) comments upon 
 which, we were so berated. Will it be be- 
 lieved, that, the author of " Charity and the 
 Clergy," actually adopts this misstatement 
 of his leader ; and then goes on with a jar- 
 gon of nonsense, based upon this untruth ! 
 This is a sad beginning for a critic, indeed ! 
 
 As "Charity" is the first word we meet 
 with in his book, we might hope, in what- 
 ever way he may interpret the word, that, 
 at least, decency would be preserved in his 
 instructions. Let us make a few extracts, 
 
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146 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 to illustrate the tone and temper which 
 prevail throughout this extraordinary pro- 
 duction. 
 
 " And the vast majority of those who at- 
 tend the Churches are not influenced by a 
 religious motive. * * A large class go 
 merely to be fashionable ; especially those 
 who are struggling upwards into society, 
 and wishing to bring themselves into notice. 
 Men of business and of the learned profes- 
 sions, and candidates for office, often fre- 
 quent churches on the same principle on 
 which they put their cards in the newspa- 
 pers, and in order to establish confidence, 
 and appeal to congregational esprit du corps. 
 It is sickening to think what infernal 
 [italics are our own] motives bring large 
 numbers of people to our churches." (pp. 42, 
 43.) To show his knowledge of English 
 history, we refer to page 50, &c. Perhaps 
 he will allow us to recommend to his peru- 
 sal, a very valuable digest of facts, entitled, 
 " Wade's British History." He will find a 
 
NEW TIIEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 147 
 
 great advantage in studying it, before he 
 again appears before the world, as an author. 
 Let us see his opinion of the various Chris- 
 tian churches : " The first evidence of this 
 [that the " gangrene of rottenness is creep- 
 ing through our churches"] which we men- 
 tion is a general indifference among the 
 churches to the real solid truth of God — 
 even to that portion of it, which is an ac- 
 knowledged part of their own creed." (p. 
 7G.) As illustrations of elegance of style, 
 we beg to quote a few passages. 
 
 " Look at the issues of our cotemporaneous 
 press, and what are they in the main but a 
 weak, wishwashy, everlasting flood of pious 
 trash ; namby-pamby novels, stupid tracts," 
 &c. * * " shades of Butler, Calvin, Ed- 
 wards, weep overyour degenerate kind! Be- 
 hold your giant robes covering the shoulders 
 of religious milksops" (Italics ours.) (p. 77.) 
 " And then the preacher is warned to remem- 
 ber that * * a certain family from an- 
 other denomination is negotiating for a pew, 
 
148 NEW TIIEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 :;: ::: that a certain lady's aunt sometimes 
 attended the church; all these being of a 
 different way of thinking on some points, it 
 would not do to say anything that might 
 offend them. The preacher must be very 
 careful to avoid interdenominational topics, 
 or the income of the Church might suffer." 
 (p. 80.) Again, " The sweet Miss, as she 
 presses her pearl inlaid Prayer-Book to her 
 heart, little dreams that it was put out by 
 the same house that drives a great trade in 
 Paul de Kock's novels." (p. 84.) Is not this 
 in exquisite taste ? "In a large portion of 
 them [religious periodicals] the great idea is 
 to conduct the journal so that it will pay ; to 
 have a villanous squinting towards mammon 
 while professing to serve God." (p. 85.) Be- 
 stowing another " compliment" upon a " small 
 class of periodicals," he gives us this choice 
 specimen of " English undefiled :" " * * their 
 catholic evangelism means keeping the bulk 
 of the truth of God out of sight, and courting 
 the greatest numbers of Christians who can, 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 149 
 
 by an occasional pietistic whine, be baited into 
 the ranks of their admiring spooneys" &c. 
 (Italics ours.) (p. 89.) 
 
 Speaking of certain critics, he thus charac- 
 terizes their notices of new publications : " * * 
 or show that these notices are like the wood- 
 cut which the ' Western Editor' * * used suc- 
 cessively for a President, an English Lord, a 
 murderer, a parson, and the -'razor-strop 
 man.'" (p. 93.) Keferring to a young minis- 
 ter's difficulties, he represents him as consi- 
 dering " Shall he advertise himself freely in 
 the newspapers, and get up all manner of 
 raree-shows in his church ! Shall he get an 
 organ or band of music in his gallery, and 
 hire stage-singers to do up his God-praising, 
 or shall the Psalms be sung as through coiah- 
 f><(/>. Something must be done, that's 
 
 certain ! But whether it shall be demagogi- 
 cal clap-trap, or esthetical clap-trap is the 
 question ! Tf he determines to be genteel, 
 then the tailor, the toilet, books of etiquette, 
 an occasional slap at the 4 Liquor Law,' and 
 
 18* 
 
150 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 the 'Irish/ goes a great way. If vulgar, 
 then a dash of the free and easy, a sneer at 
 8 up-town,' and a study of the slang-wkcmgi rs 
 vocabulary, soon get him in the way." (Italics 
 ours.) (pp. Ill, 112.) 
 
 Can this be an autobiography, that this 
 " Protestant clergyman" is giving us ? Speak- 
 ing of English bishops, and their families, he 
 tells us, " And throughout society, they are 
 the Tittlebat Titmouses — the i upstart aristo- 
 cracy/ who are the most hyper-lordly and 
 contemptuous towards the poor of all others." 
 (p. 125.) 
 
 But we can pardon a great deal to a clas- 
 sical taste ; and are rewarded for our lenity 
 by the following poetical image, to which we 
 remember no 'parallel even in Shakspeare 
 himself. He tells us respecting the author 
 of " New Themes :" " And although like the 
 bear brushing the fly from the nose of his mis- 
 tress, the author laid his hand rather heavy 
 upon the clerical countenance/' &c. (Italics 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 151 
 
 ours), p. 127. Is not this a most touching 
 comparison ? The author concludes his vo- 
 lume with a self-sufficient, insolent, " Address 
 to the Protestant Clergy of America." He 
 seems very anxious that the clergy should 
 secure the $1000 prize offered for a work 
 upon " Christian Charity." We think that 
 the money could not be better devoted than 
 to the purchase and destruction of the three 
 productions noticed in this present volume, 
 viz., " New Themes," " Hints to a Layman," 
 and " Charity and the Clergy." The literary 
 style of " Charity and the Clergy," defies all 
 criticism ; its tone is eminently ill-bred ; the 
 tendency of it will be, to permanently dis- 
 grace its author, and to elicit compassion for 
 the author of " New Themes," who has laid 
 himself open to such disreputable champion- 
 
 We have said that, the author professes to 
 be a " Protestant Clergyman." This we 
 must be permitted to question. Even he 
 
152 NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 
 
 admits of the character of a clergyman, that, 
 u lie ought to he a gentleman." But we ques- 
 tion the statement that this author is a 
 "clergyman," on the same ground that we 
 should demand proof, of a forger, or burglar, 
 who declared himself to be of some good 
 family of our acquaintance. We should re- 
 ply to him : " If so, you have disgraced your 
 family by your crime; and you promulgate 
 that disgrace, by boasting of your alliance. 
 But I demand, as a friend of your avowed 
 family, that you shall prove your relation- 
 ship." For one thing, we beg to thank the 
 author of " Charity and the Clergy," — for 
 his abuse of ourselves. We are forcibly re- 
 minded of the words of a modern writer: 
 "We, therefore, like his invectives against 
 us, much better than anything else that he 
 has written ; and dwell on them, not merely 
 with complacency, but with a feeling akin to 
 gratitude." Whatever affliction may befall 
 us, by our own misconduct, or by the ap- 
 
NEW THEMES CONDEMNED, ETC. 153 
 
 pointment of a wise Providence, we hope to 
 bear with fortitude, and not without profit ; 
 but spare us from the encomiums of such 
 Ishmaelites as the author of " Charity and 
 the Clergy !" 
 
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