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contemplate the actual advent of Him, ' the Desire of all Nations,'' with awe 

 and admiration, we shall behold the means verified and lost in the fulfilment; 

 prophecy completed ; the shadow vanishing before the substance ; the time, 

 the place, the character of the Messias distinctly marked ; the page of the 

 Old Testament visibly and literally fulfilled in the New ; the attestation of 

 miracles ; the calling in of the Gentiles ; the out-pouring of the Holy Spirit ; 

 and the triumphant spread of the Gospel. Each and all of these circum- 

 stances contribute to prove the connexion, the harmony, the wisdom of de- 

 sign, and recrularity of plan, which evince a wholeness, a oneness in the Holy 

 Scriptures. " Thus' has my purpose been accomplished, in establishing the 

 Literary Benuty of the Bible. Its two Testaments unite harmoniously to 

 form one grand Epic; they concur in one transcendent uniform view; and 

 come equally from the same divine intelligence. The Sentiment, accordingly 

 is of such wisdom and purity, the Diction is so varied and well-suited, the 

 Plan so consistently conducted, and the Object so glorious and momentous in 

 its fulfilment, that they cannot but be prized by every mind alive to lite- 

 rary perfection. Yet this is not the only excellence or the best fruit of 

 sacred studies. Taste and beauty do not here, as on other subjects, merely 

 satisfy the judgment, soften the manners and delight the imagination : here 

 it is, that the heart is led captive to virtue, the weightiest motives are sup- 

 plied, the life is made holy, the hope becomes mimortal, the elegances of 

 literature and the graces of religion go hand in hand, the man of science is no 

 longer deceived by ' philosophy falsely so called,' and the scholar is completed 

 m the Christian." 



With a most praise-worthy discretion. Dr. Jones has carefully 

 and successfully, throughout his eloquent and persuasive Lecture, 

 avoided the discussion of an exclusively theological subject ; he has 

 faieddled with no sect ; he has touched upon no doctrines except 

 those which constitute the foundations of general Christianity. In 

 his own words — 



" He has led you to the Scriptures, as unto a fount of pure and living 

 water, to cheer and recruit you in your pilgrimage through this weary world. 

 Our courage does become holier, and our intellects do become brighter from 

 a dailv studv of the divine page. O, he fervently exclaims, " it is a paltry 

 earth-born a'mbition which urges us on if, in Literary and Scientific Institu- 

 tions, we seem ashamed of naming the name of God and of tracing up to one 

 sole good and perfect Cause, the wonders, the mercies and the wisdom, cling- 

 ing and clustering around our path, at every fresh step into the phenomena 

 of Nature. Let us hurl back, with holy denial, the imputation — that this 

 Institution must, in time, become a school of infidelity ; that bterature and 

 science infallibly deaden the mind to sacred studies and the lite to pious 

 deeds and gentle charities. Let us then, in refutation of the charge, niiike 

 Christianity the basis of all our endeavours to diffuse mental illumination. 

 Knowledge, without religion, is power ; but it is power which may be, and 

 too often has been, employed banefully and ruinously. Let us remember, 

 and justify, and courageously avow our Conviction, that ' righteousness ex- 

 altet'h a nation,' and that ' the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.' 

 "We arc not afraid of facts, or the science which developes them; but we do 

 resist and deprecate every unfair treatment of Holy Writ. Be as scientific 

 as you please, but leave Scripture to its own evidence. Christianity is the 

 Ciuecn of Knowledge, the nursing-mother of all that is great and good. 

 Wherever the Gospel, in its purity, is realized, there do learning, science 

 and the arts take root and fiourish. Let us not deify reason, for our idol will 

 not avail us. Was a motto to be placed over this rostrum, I should choose, 

 TiiAii Goi> AM) Honour the Quekn — On the subject of I'opulai- Kiilif/hl. 

 cnmcnt, I am perfectly convinced that it is easily and delightfully iiraclicablc, 



