year 1675, 4to pp. 76. An historical discourse concerning the prevalency of prayer, 4to pp. 19; Renewal of Covenant the duty of decaying and distressed churches. 1678, Pray for the rising generation. 1679, A call to the rising generation. 1680, The divine right of infant baptism, 4to; The great concernment of a covenant people; Heaven's alarm to the World, 12mo, second edition was published in 1682. 1681, Animadversions upon a narrative of the Baptists. 1682, The latter sign, 12mo; Diatriba de Signo filii Hominis, 8vo; Practical truths, tending to promote godliness in the power of it; The church a subject of persecution. 1683, Cometographia, or a discourse concerning comets; with two sermons occasioned by the late blazing stars, 12mo. 1684, Remarkable Providences; The doctrine of Divine Providence. 1685, An arrow against profane and promiscuous dancing. 1686, The mystery of Christ; The greatest of sinners exhorted; A sermon on the execution of a poor man for murder. 1687, A testimony against superstition. 1688, De Successu Evangelii apud Indos Epistola ad J. Leusdenum, 16mo, London. 1689, The unlawfulness of using common prayer, and of swearing on the book. 1690, Several papers relating to the state of New England; The revolution justified. 1693, The blessing of primitive counsellors; Cases of conscience concerning witchcraft, 12mo; An essay on the power of a pastor for the administration of sacraments; Election Sermon, 4to. 1695, Whether a man may marry his wife's own sister; Solemn advice to young men. 1696, Angelographia, a treatise of angels; Ein Brieff von dem glücklichen Fortgang des Evangelii beg den West Indiern in New England; aus dem Lateinischen, 12mo, Halle. 1697, A discourse on man's not knowing his time; The case of conscience concerning the eating of blood. 1698, David serving his generation, a funeral sermon on Rev. John Baily, 16mo. 1699, The surest way to the highest honor; On hardness of heart; The folly of sinning. 1700, The order of the churches in New England vindicated. 1701, The blessed hope. 1702, Remarks on a sermon of George Keith; Ichabod, or the glory departing from New England, in two sermons 16mo; Election sermon, 24to; The Christian religion the only true religion; The excellency of public spirit. 1703, Soul-saving gospel truths. 1704, The voice of God in stormy winds; Practical truths to promote Holiness. 1705, Meditations on the glory of Christ. 1706, A discourse concerning earthquakes; A testimony against sacrilege; A dissertation concerning right to the sacraments. 1707, Meditations on death; A disquisition concerning right to sacraments. 1708, A dissertation wherein the strange doctrine of Mr. Stoddard is refuted. 1709, Dissertation on the conversion of the Jews, confuting Dr. Lightfoot and Mr. Baxter, 4to, London; Sermon to a religious society of young men, 16mo; Sermon against cursing and swearing, 16mo. 1710, Concerning faith and prayer for the kingdom of Christ; Artillery Election sermon, 16mo; Discourse on courage, 16mo; Awakening truths tending to conversion. 1711, Meditations on the glories of the Heavenly world; A discourse concerning the death of the Righteous; The duty of the children of godly parents. 1712, Burnings bewailed; Remarks on an answer to a book against the common prayer; Meditations on the sanctification of the Lord's day. 1713, A plain discourse, showing who shall, and who shall not enter into Heaven; A funeral sermon for his daughter-in-law, 16mo. 1714, Resignation to God on the death of his consort. 1715, Jesus Christ a mighty Saviour, and other subjects. 1716, A disquisition concerning Ecclesiastical councils; There is a God in Heaven; The duty and dignity of aged servants of God. 1718, A sermon at the ordination of his grandson; Sermons on the beatitudes; Practical truths plainly delivered with an ordination sermon. 1719, Five sermons on several subjects, one of them on the author's birth-day; Duty of parents to pray for their children. 1720, Seasonable testimony to the order of the churches, 16mo. 1721, Advice to children of godly ancestors, a sermon concluding the Boston lectures on early piety; Several sheets in favor of inoculation of the Small Pox, 16mo. 1722, A dying pastor's legacy; Elijah's mantle.

Dr. Mather was married in 1662 to Maria Cotton, daughter of the celebrated John Cotton, of Boston. She died in 1714, and her husband preached a sermon on occasion of her death. His children were 1. Maria, who was admitted a member of her father's church in 1682, married Capt. B. Green and afterwards Capt. Fifield; 2. Elizabeth, who married Capt. Greenough and afterwards Josiah Byles, and was mother of the celebrated Dr. Mather Byles; 3. COTTON, born February 12, 1662, who was his father's colleague; 4. Sarah, who married Rev. Nehemiah Walter, of Roxbury; 5. Nathaniel, born July 6, 1669, graduated at Harvard college 16—, and died August 17, 1688; 6. Samuel, born in 1674, graduated at Harvard college 1690, went to England and was minister in Witney, in Oxfordshire; 7. Abigail, born 1677, married Newcomb Blague or Blake, and afterwards Rev. John White, of Gloucester; 8. Hannah, born 1680, married T. O. (See Peabody's life of Cotton Mather, in Spark's Biog. vi. 307,) and died young; 9. Jerusha, born 1684, married and died young. Cotton Mather, Remarkables of his Father. Ibid. Magnalia, i. 12, 413. Ibid. Sermon on his Father's death. MS. Records of the Old North Church. Peirce, Hist. of Harvard University, 51-69. Ware, Hist. of the Old North and New Brick Churches, 6, 14, 46, 49, 59, 60. Wood, Athena Oxoniensis, ii. 428, 429. Neal, Hist. N. E. ii. 114, 115. Nonconformist Memorial, ii. 245-249.

1837.]

TABULAR VIEW OF THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, ANDOVER.

375

Hutchinson, Hist. of Massachusetts, i. 346-349, 359-366, ii. 305. Eliot, N. E. Biog. Dict. Art. I. MATHER. Allen, Amer. Biog. Dict. Art. I. MATHER. Lord in Lempriere's Univ. Biog. ii. 297. Holmes, Annals of America, i. 533. Blake, Biog. Dict. 621. All these authorities have been consulted, excepting the third. Many others, which contain notices of him, might be added.

TABLE,

Showing the number that finished their studies at the Theological Seminary, Andover, in each year since it was founded, and designating the Colleges at which they were graduated.

[Furnished by C. BUTLER, of the Theological Seminary, Andover.]

During the first ten years of its operation,

34

6

Harv. Yale. Brown. Dart. Will. Midd. Union. Bowd. Nassau. Vermont. No. of Graduates. 7 43 17 18 33

1

4

7

6

* Jefferson College.

† Glasgow University.

Ohio University.

| N. Carolina University.

Ohio University. Penn. do. Dickinson Coll. Center Coll.

UNITED BRETHREN'S MISSIONS.

THE Synodical Committee, in their Annual Circular, dated Bethelsdorf, (Germany,) May 28, 1836, give the following details of the Missions :

THE earliest book, properly so called, is now generally believed to be the Latin Bible, commonly called the Mazarin Bible, a copy having been found about the middle of the last century, in Cardinal Mazarin's Library at Paris. It is remarkable that its existence was unknown before; for it can hardly be called a book of very great scarcity, nearly twenty copies being in different libraries, half of them in those of private persons in England. No date appears in this Bible, and some have referred its publication to 1452, or even to 1450, which few perhaps would at present maintain; while others have thought the year 1455, rather more probable. In a copy belonging to the royal library at Paris, an entry is made, importing that it was completed in binding and illuminating at Mentz, on the feast of the Assumption, (Aug. 15,) 1456. But Trithemius, in the passage above quoted, seems to intimate, that no book had been printed in 1452; and considering the lapse of time that would naturally be employed in such an

undertaking, during the infancy of the art, and that we have no other printed book of the least importance to fill up the interval till 1457, and also that the binding and illuminating the above-mentioned copy is likely to have followed the publication at no great length of time, we may not err in placing its appearance in the year 1455, which will secure its hitherto unimpeached priority in the records of bibliography. It is a very striking circumstance, that the high-minded inventors of this great art tried at the very outset so bold a flight as the printing an entire Bible, and executed it with astonishing success. It was Minerva leaping on earth in her divine strength and radiant armor, ready at the moment of her nativity to subdue and destroy her enemies. The Mazarin Bible is printed, some copies on vellum, some on paper of choice quality, with strong, black, and tolerably handsome characters, but with some want of uniformity, which has led, perhaps unreasonably, to a doubt whether they were cast in a matrix. We may see in imagination this venerable and splendid volume leading up the crowded myriads of its followers, and imploring, as it were, a blessing on the new art, by dedicating its first fruits to the service of Heaven.-Hallam's Introduction.

CONTRAST OF FORMER SCARCITY AND PRESENT ABUNDANCE

OF BIBLES.

ABOUT 1,500 years ago, the emperor Constantine addressed a letter, which is preserved by Eusebius in his life of that emperor. It was addressed, indeed, to Eusebius himself, and required him to select some well-qualified scribes, and employ them in preparing, elegantly written and handsomely put together, fifty copies of the sacred writings, of which the emperor speaks with great reverence. The word which he uses leads us to suppose that they were to be made portable copies; for he speaks of the grouping together of the parchments into three or four, making what we should call quarto or octavo volumes; so that this mode was then come into use. These fifty copies were to be completed and brought to the emperor and it appears, from a single sentence in the letter, that they were intended to be placed in churches.

EVIDENCE OF THE WANT OF SCHOOLS IN MANY PARTS OF

ENGLAND.

THERE are 117 places with a population of 500 souls and upward, 603 places with a population of between 200 and 500, and 2,306 places with a population below 200, which are reported, by the overseers, in their answers to the parliamentary inquiries, not to have any schools; and out of this gross total of 3,026 places without any schools, only 316 are reported to afford opportunities for the children to attend the schools of some other neighboring place. This account proves the need of continued exertion of the most energetic kind: for, although a large majority of these places have a population of very small amount, and although most of them are not parishes, but townships and hamlets, yet it must be inferred, from the overseers' returns, and the remarks with which they are often accompanied, that, in general, these places do not possess even the advantage of common dames' schools.

NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

1. Memoir of the Life and Character of Ebenezer Porter, D. D. late President of the Theological Seminary, Andover. By Lyman Matthews, Pastor of the South Church, Braintree, Mass. Boston: Perkins & Marvin. 1837. pp. 396. In the first number of the ninth volume of this work, is a brief memoir of Dr. Porter. It is, therefore, unnecessary for us, in this place, to repeat the prominent incidents of his life, to analyze his character, or record the proofs of his great usefulness. We only wish to call attention to the biography by Mr. Matthews, as one which does great credit to the skill, judgment and taste of the biographer, and good justice to the estimable character and eminent public services of Dr. Porter. Mr. Matthews resided, for a considerable period, in the family of Dr. Porter, and faithfully improved his opportunities for gaining an accurate knowledge of the habits and feelings of his revered friend and instructor. He also had access, we presume, to all the principal manuscripts and correspondence which Dr. Porter left. So far as we have given the memoir a particular examination, we find great accuracy in dates, and in the statements of facts. The biographies of such men as Mr. Cornelius, Drs. Porter, Worcester, Spring, Mr. Evarts and others of their contemporaries, will be of great value in relation to the early history of benevolent efforts in this country. When are we to have the memoirs of Dr. Worcester and of Mr. Evarts?

2. The Young Man's Aid to Knowledge, Virtue and Happiness. By Hubbard Winslow, Pastor of Bowdoin Street Church. Boston: D. K. Hitchcock. 1837. pp. 408.

This work embraces a consideration of the following topics: prospects of our country, knowledge, means and uses of knowledge, principles, early habits, religion, Bible, New Testament, inspiration of the Scriptures, dangers of young men, retribution, moral power of young men, various topics relating to completeness of character, and conclusion on Christian balance of mind. "It is the design of the following pages," says the author, "to contribute something in addition to what has been already done, to aid that noble class of young men who are disposed to forego the allurements of dissipation, and are seeking intellectual and moral improvement. The reader will find that I have not entered on preoccupied ground. This work is not a repetition, in a new form, of what is contained in other books for young men; it embraces, in the main, other topics, or presents considerations in addition to those embraced in previous works." So far as we have had opportunity to examine this work, we think that the author has exemplified the precepts of the last chapter of the volume;-it is a well-balanced exhibition of the various topics adduced. He stops short of that Ultima Thule, on whose rocks so many shipwrecks are suffered. While we should not, probably, assent to every sentiment contained in the volume, we can conscientiously commend it to our readers as eminently calculated to do good. We are not surprised at the rapid sale which it is said to have experienced.

3. Meditations on the Last Days of Christ: consisting of ten Sermons preached at Odessa and Constantinople. By William G. Schauffler, Missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Boston: William Peirce. 1837. pp. 380.

Mr. Schauffler has a very characteristic preface: "As to form, I have moved unshackled by the rules of pulpit composition. I hate the stiff, undeviating rules of all the rhetorical schools in the world alike. They are so many mummeries, each rep