592 Retrofped 
‘ Liebes-Flammlein zu dem Heiligiten 
Hodes Jefu’—A Flammule of Love to 
the moft Holy Heart of Jefus. Certam 
itis, that | light daily more and more gains 
ground over darknefs; end a fmall cloud 
before the fun dane. not conftitute an 
eclipfe. Such a cloud feems to have 
been raifed up by a «¢ Sermon on the Free 
Grace of God,” preached on the feaft of 
the Beratmation by the chief clergyman 
in. Saxony, a man held in the higheit efti- 
mation on account of learning Pan zeal 
for the good caufe, and diftributed 
through all Saxony by order of the Ec- 
clefiaftical Council. It certainly was not 
the intention of the preacher, that an iron 
fymbolical chain fhould be fabricated of a 
quickly-fleeting word, and the name of 
a juft and tolerant prince be made ufe of 
for that purpofe. Very hurtful and un- 
wife, therefore, was the reforming zeal of 
fome of his antagonifts, who poured forth 
bitter invettives againt him, and forced 
him to a new defences as the champions 
who, without being called upon, under- 
took his caufe fought with blunt and 
worn-cut weapons. 
that the controveriy had gone no further 
than the publication of a Faf day Ser- 
mon, and of the ‘* Voriefungen uber die 
Dogmatic, mit Litterarifchen Zufatzen ; 
Lectures on Dogmatical Divinityy, with 
Literary Additions, by Imm. Bercer, 
Sulzbach, 1801: and that the edict again 
Cannabich, a fuperintendent in Sa inder f 
hauien, who publifhed a fermon againk 
Reinhardt’s, and whofe doéirines and 
writings were publicly ftigmatifed as of 
a pernicious tendency, did not give us 
caufe to apprehend fiill feverer fulmina- 
tions of anathemas. 
in Germany, too, a general complaint 
prevails of the emptine!s of the churches 
during divine fervice, which may be 
partly owing to many of theceremonies and 
dogmas being repugnant to the more en- 
lichtened { pin of the Sho times. On 
this fubjeét, two ‘pamphl ets have appeared 
in Beriin “If the want of good pulpit- 
eeleonries be the caufe of this ftriking de- 
creafe of church-going, it mut at leat be 
owned, that there is an abundance of ex 
cellent models for fuch as ftand in need ae 
them in the compofition of their fermons. 
In turnmg over the pages of the Hafter 
Catalogue, one is aftonifhed at the aum- 
ber and copioufnefs of materials for 
preachers; which, from all quarters, are 
offered to the makers of fermons, and to 
thofe who wih to ed:fy themfelves by the - 
Tt were to be withed, * 
7 of German Literature—Eafter fair, 1801. 
fure, we here again behold the names ofa 
Reinhard, a Ribbeck, a Hels, anda Tob- 
ler. Pravitioh has been made in various 
ways for every clafs of readers. There 
is a Magazine for Country Parfons, who 
are overioaded with bufinefs; Journals 
for Preachers; Magazines for Sermons to 
be held at Funerals and Churehings of 
Women. A certain Schulz has eftablith- 
ed a oe ee Magazine for the ufe of 
poor c! lergymen, whofe f{piritual muft 
often give way to their temporal labours 
to obtain a fufficiency of the neceflaries 
of life. 
MEDICINE. 
In this department of feienee, the 
greatett oie! ftill continues to prevail. 
From the violent collifion of old and new 
theories, war-enkindling fparks are dail 
ftruck out, and nowhere has the heredi- 
tary wifdom of the {chools loft its autho- 
tity more thanin Germany. A hundred 
heads, and a hundred pens, are always in. 
readineis to naturalize’ the difcoveries 
made in other countries. Every feparate 
branch of the fcience, and frequenily 
every fubdivifion thereof, has had its pe- 
culiar treafurer, that is, phyficians, whe 
dedicated to it &parate journals and reper- 
tories. ° 
The “ Ueberficht der Arzrietkunde im 
Letztein Jahrhunderte,”” View of Medi- 
cine during the laft Century,” by Kurt 
SPRENGEL, of Halle (Halle, Gebdauer) 
will be received as a molt acceptable pre- 
fent, even by thofe who are not initiated 
into the myfteries of the profeffion ; as 
the intereft which non-profeffional men 
and the public at large take in works 
treating of medical fubjects daily increafes, 
and, by a reciprocal ation and re-aétion, 
partlycalls forth a numerous hoft of popular 
trcatiles andi is partlythereby ftimulated and 
increafed. The above-mentioned ** View 
of Medicine,” written by an eminent 
German payfician, whofe “¢ Gefchichte 
der Medizin,’’ Hiftory of Medicine, in 
3 vols. has already paffed through three, 
editions, and fron whom we are expecting | 
confiderable iliufrations of the feience of 
bctany, is one of the mot: important 
woiks that were publifhed at the Jatt 
Eafter-fair, and certainly deferves to ap- 
ear in an Enelith Grefs. 
The many Ichools and £&s into which 
medical practitioners in Germany were 
lately {plit, feem to be gradually difap- 
pearing, in proport:on as a modified Bru-_ 
nonianifm gains ground. Ste ‘on this 
fubjeét Burpacn’s © Propedeutik zum 
pefulal of fuch pious works. + With plea Studium der gefammten Heilkunft,” In- 
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