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the Gospel, the priesthood roused, and incited the of public authorities institute proceedings against Dr. Kalley, was
Reviews and Notices of Books. Addresses to Medical Students. of the Edinburgh Medical
Edinburgh,
1856.
pp. 266.
Delivered at the instance Missionary Society, 1855-56.
WE have risen from the perusal of this volume with disappointment. The purport of it seems to be, the urging of a belief in the Christian faith by the student of medicine on the one hand, and of its practice through the channels of the Society of Medical Missions on the other. We need scarcely say that the lofty and serious character of the former endeavour is worthy the best strivings of the highest intellects, while the good intentions of the latter will commend it to all who would continue to spread abroad the "Gospel of peace." But with respect to the volume before us, we havemore to do than with its purport; we have to do with its manner, and it is in this we are disappointed. We have a clear and, we hope, enduring impression on our mind of the lucid and manly writing of several of those who have used their best gifts in seeking to influence the more cultivated and intellectual of the youthful generation in favour of the religion of Christ. Arnold of Rugby, John Foster, Archbishop Whately, Maurice, and others we could name, rise before us as we write, and they, with the memories of Sir W. Hamilton, Dugald Stewart, Brown, Chalmers, &c., have made us sensible of the platitudes and truisms on the one hand, and the feeble ratiocination on the other, which the pages before us so abundantly contain. From these strictures, reservation may be taken in favour of the few prefatory words by the Edinburgh Emeritus Professor of Physic, and of Dr. Coldstream’s (rather lengthy) oration, in so far as it deals with what may be termed the Statistics of the Society of Medical Missions. If the Edinburgh Society are in want of a work fit to lay before the minds of the reading students, and through which it may be sought to win them over intellectually (for such, of course, can only be thought of through the medium of paper and print) to a belief in the Christian scheme, let them compound with Mr. Morell for the privilege of using his "Philosophy of Religion." Let the ora’tors of such Society peruse this book, and then let them revert to their own sentimentalism and dialectics. The change must astonish them. It appears to us that Messrs. Wilson, Wood, Bell, and Coldstream, are honourable and Christian men, wellversed, no doubt, in medicine, and properly anxious for the religious welfare not only of their younger brethren, but of the " dwellers afar off." But it is not the less apparent also to us, that to philosophical reasoning they are comparatively
to
which ended in his
incarceration."-p.
249.
Through the interference of the British Government, Dr. Kalley got his liberty, and he received also, as Dr. Coldstream a letter of sympathy" from the Edinburgh Medical tells us, Missionary Society. Dr. Coldstream likewise informs us, "
that " This
at Madeira, has well been of modern missions."-p. 251.
work,
greatest fact
designated
the
In reference to such " mission work" as this of Dr. Kalley and of Dr. Coldstream, we would call the attention of the Edin. burgh Society to the spirit of the following extract from the work of Mr. Morell before alluded to :"
Alas, for the force and habit of association! how simple
to everv one appears the system of truth on which his whole mental education has been constructed ! There is not a man on the face of this earth, for whom a narrow education has marked the whole cycle of his ideas, who does not think his system of truth the most divinely-simple of all, and consequently looks upon every other as encumbered with darkness, sinuosity, and confusion. "-p. xviii......" There may be many variations in detail, many degrees of in the perception of Christian ideas, many dogmatic peculiarities occasioned by education, by temperament, or by other circumstances.; but ......he whose religious life is grounded upon the consciousness of the redemption of tiie world, and consequently of himself, through Jesus Christ, and who exhibits the reality of this life by resignation to the will of God, joyous freedom in serving him, and the expansive spirit of love-this man, be his minor peculiarities what they may, we venture to denominate-a C7t7-istiaii."-p. 120, op. cit.
clearness
FineArts. PORTRAIT
OF
DR. A. H. HASSALL.
A PORTRAIT of Dr. Hassall, of a convenient size,-thirteen inches by about twelve,-has just been completed from drawings by the engraver, Mr. Sydney Marks, and a photograph by Mayall; and is published by the engraver, at 88, Charlottestreet, Fitzroy-square. It represents the doctor seated beside a table, on which a microscope, and the treatises on the " British Fresh-water Algse," and " Food and its Adulterations," In the back-ground, on a pedestal, is a reare conspicuous. presentation of the testimonial lately presented to him by public
subscription. The portrait is
what is termed a three-quarter face. The is the likeness is excellent; and the engraving attitude easy; we should our to whilst assistance such freely give Again, endeavours of the Medical Mission Society as relate to the is possessed of very high merit as a work of art. transplantation of Christianity upon the desolate wastes of heathenism and infidelity, we should oppose to our utmost MEDICAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF BIRMINGHAM.such a method of procedure as was adopted by Dr. Kalley in The thirty-fourth annual report of this Society has just been issued. It was established in Birmingham in the year 1821, the island of Madeira. According to Dr. Coldstreamfor the purpose of affording pecuniary relief to such medical "This gentleman studied medicine, and graduated at Glasgow. practitioners, being members, as may be reduced to indigence He offered himself to the London Missionary Society, and by mental or bodily infirmity; and, likewise, for providing relief for widows and children of deceased members, if left was accepted, with the view of being sent to China. Meanwhile, Mrs. Kalley sickened, and was advised to spend some time in without adequate means of support. Since the commencement, Madeira....... In the course of two or three years, a consider- the sum of ae2364 108. has been administered, in half-yearly able effect was produced on the mind of many previously bigoted grants, most of the recipients being widows with families, and Romanists. Crowds of them came to hear Dr. Kalley expound in four instances practitioners disabled by disease. The value the Scriptures in his own house and garden, and he was and importance of the relief thus granted may be best apprefrequently invited to go to considerable distances in the interior, ciated by the fact, that in two instances, in which fourteen where he was encouraged to proclaim the Gospel in public guineas only have been paid in subscriptions, the sums of .6415 places, and eagerly listened to by large numbers of persons. in one, and in the other .6550, have been granted ; and that He literally went from village to village, ministering to the in the latter case the widow is still enjoying the bounty of the sick as a physician, and pointing all with whom he came in Society; whilst in the former, the assistance was discontinued contact to the only medicine provided for the healing of the by the request of the recipient, in consequence of the amendeel soul’s diseases. When it was obvious that many persons were state of her circumstances. In other cases, sums varying from beginning to question the infallibility of Rome, and were £ 80 to X200 have been granted. The funded property of the disposed to accept as of infinite importance the simple truths Society amounts now to .63600.
strangers.
......
310
Reviews and Notices of Books. Addresses to Medical Students. of the Edinburgh Medical
Edinburgh,
1856.
pp. 266.
Delivered at the instance Missionary Society, 1855-56.
WE have risen from the perusal of this volume with disappointment. The purport of it seems to be, the urging of a belief in the Christian faith by the student of medicine on the one hand, and of its practice through the channels of the Society of Medical Missions on the other. We need scarcely say that the lofty and serious character of the former endeavour is worthy the best strivings of the highest intellects, while the good intentions of the latter will commend it to all who would continue to spread abroad the "Gospel of peace." But with respect to the volume before us, we havemore to do than with its purport; we have to do with its manner, and it is in this we are disappointed. We have a clear and, we hope, enduring impression on our mind of the lucid and manly writing of several of those who have used their best gifts in seeking to influence the more cultivated and intellectual of the youthful generation in favour of the religion of Christ. Arnold of Rugby, John Foster, Archbishop Whately, Maurice, and others we could name, rise before us as we write, and they, with the memories of Sir W. Hamilton, Dugald Stewart, Brown, Chalmers, &c., have made us sensible of the platitudes and truisms on the one hand, and the feeble ratiocination on the other, which the pages before us so abundantly contain. From these strictures, reservation may be taken in favour of the few prefatory words by the Edinburgh Emeritus Professor of Physic, and of Dr. Coldstream’s (rather lengthy) oration, in so far as it deals with what may be termed the Statistics of the Society of Medical Missions. If the Edinburgh Society are in want of a work fit to lay before the minds of the reading students, and through which it may be sought to win them over intellectually (for such, of course, can only be thought of through the medium of paper and print) to a belief in the Christian scheme, let them compound with Mr. Morell for the privilege of using his "Philosophy of Religion." Let the ora’tors of such Society peruse this book, and then let them revert to their own sentimentalism and dialectics. The change must astonish them. It appears to us that Messrs. Wilson, Wood, Bell, and Coldstream, are honourable and Christian men, wellversed, no doubt, in medicine, and properly anxious for the religious welfare not only of their younger brethren, but of the " dwellers afar off." But it is not the less apparent also to us, that to philosophical reasoning they are comparatively
to
which ended in his
incarceration."-p.
249.
Through the interference of the British Government, Dr. Kalley got his liberty, and he received also, as Dr. Coldstream a letter of sympathy" from the Edinburgh Medical tells us, Missionary Society. Dr. Coldstream likewise informs us, "
that " This
at Madeira, has well been of modern missions."-p. 251.
work,
greatest fact
designated
the
In reference to such " mission work" as this of Dr. Kalley and of Dr. Coldstream, we would call the attention of the Edin. burgh Society to the spirit of the following extract from the work of Mr. Morell before alluded to :"
Alas, for the force and habit of association! how simple
to everv one appears the system of truth on which his whole mental education has been constructed ! There is not a man on the face of this earth, for whom a narrow education has marked the whole cycle of his ideas, who does not think his system of truth the most divinely-simple of all, and consequently looks upon every other as encumbered with darkness, sinuosity, and confusion. "-p. xviii......" There may be many variations in detail, many degrees of in the perception of Christian ideas, many dogmatic peculiarities occasioned by education, by temperament, or by other circumstances.; but ......he whose religious life is grounded upon the consciousness of the redemption of tiie world, and consequently of himself, through Jesus Christ, and who exhibits the reality of this life by resignation to the will of God, joyous freedom in serving him, and the expansive spirit of love-this man, be his minor peculiarities what they may, we venture to denominate-a C7t7-istiaii."-p. 120, op. cit.
clearness
FineArts. PORTRAIT
OF
DR. A. H. HASSALL.
A PORTRAIT of Dr. Hassall, of a convenient size,-thirteen inches by about twelve,-has just been completed from drawings by the engraver, Mr. Sydney Marks, and a photograph by Mayall; and is published by the engraver, at 88, Charlottestreet, Fitzroy-square. It represents the doctor seated beside a table, on which a microscope, and the treatises on the " British Fresh-water Algse," and " Food and its Adulterations," In the back-ground, on a pedestal, is a reare conspicuous. presentation of the testimonial lately presented to him by public
subscription. The portrait is
what is termed a three-quarter face. The is the likeness is excellent; and the engraving attitude easy; we should our to whilst assistance such freely give Again, endeavours of the Medical Mission Society as relate to the is possessed of very high merit as a work of art. transplantation of Christianity upon the desolate wastes of heathenism and infidelity, we should oppose to our utmost MEDICAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF BIRMINGHAM.such a method of procedure as was adopted by Dr. Kalley in The thirty-fourth annual report of this Society has just been issued. It was established in Birmingham in the year 1821, the island of Madeira. According to Dr. Coldstreamfor the purpose of affording pecuniary relief to such medical "This gentleman studied medicine, and graduated at Glasgow. practitioners, being members, as may be reduced to indigence He offered himself to the London Missionary Society, and by mental or bodily infirmity; and, likewise, for providing relief for widows and children of deceased members, if left was accepted, with the view of being sent to China. Meanwhile, Mrs. Kalley sickened, and was advised to spend some time in without adequate means of support. Since the commencement, Madeira....... In the course of two or three years, a consider- the sum of ae2364 108. has been administered, in half-yearly able effect was produced on the mind of many previously bigoted grants, most of the recipients being widows with families, and Romanists. Crowds of them came to hear Dr. Kalley expound in four instances practitioners disabled by disease. The value the Scriptures in his own house and garden, and he was and importance of the relief thus granted may be best apprefrequently invited to go to considerable distances in the interior, ciated by the fact, that in two instances, in which fourteen where he was encouraged to proclaim the Gospel in public guineas only have been paid in subscriptions, the sums of .6415 places, and eagerly listened to by large numbers of persons. in one, and in the other .6550, have been granted ; and that He literally went from village to village, ministering to the in the latter case the widow is still enjoying the bounty of the sick as a physician, and pointing all with whom he came in Society; whilst in the former, the assistance was discontinued contact to the only medicine provided for the healing of the by the request of the recipient, in consequence of the amendeel soul’s diseases. When it was obvious that many persons were state of her circumstances. In other cases, sums varying from beginning to question the infallibility of Rome, and were £ 80 to X200 have been granted. The funded property of the disposed to accept as of infinite importance the simple truths Society amounts now to .63600.
strangers.
......
310