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 In conclusion, this volume of Olney Hymns ought to be for ever dear to the Christian public, as an unprecedented memorial, in respect to its authors, of the power of Divine grace, which called one of them from the negro-slave market, on the coast of Africa, to be a burning and a shining light in the church of God at home,— and raised the head of the other, when he was a companion of lunatics, to make him, (by a most mysterious dispensation of gifts,) a poet of the highest intellectuality, and in his song an unshaken, uncompromising confessor of the purest doctrines of the Gospel, even when he himself had lost sight of its consolations.

J. M.

SHEFFIELD, January, 1829.