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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827. Excerpt: ... THE ECLECTIC REVIEW, For OCTOBER, 1827. Art. I. Notice sur Jean-Frederic Oberlin, Pasteur a Waldbach, an Ban-de-la-Roche; Mortle I"-Juin, 18&5. 8vo. pp. 80. Paris, 1826. fT'H£ memorials of the good constitute one of the most sacred possessions of the Church of Christ. Next to the Scriptures and the promises which they contain, we may be permitted to estimate the living evidences of Christianity which such records serve to perpetuate, and to make the common property of the Church catholic. "Whose are the Fathers,"--whose, too, are the apostles, the martyrs, the evangelists, the pastors, of every age and of every communion; for the Christian Church has succeeded to the inheritance and prerogatives of ancient Israel, among whose peculiar "privileges this was not the least. Modern biography has been, perhaps, too busily and curiously employed in enrolling and blazoning names which will scarcely outlive the records of the grave-stone. But, on the other hand, it is not easy to estimate the loss which is sustained by the Christian community, when an example of eminent sanctity and heroic zeal is defrauded of its just honours; when a living epistle of apostolic piety is suffered to perish; or, to change the figure, when the lamp kindled by a holy life, which might have shone to posterity, is suffered to go out. Oberlin was a man whom the Church of Rome, if it deserved the name of Catholic, would have canonized. Not that his piety was of the spurious kind which that Church delighteth to honour. He embraced a life of privation and poverty, but he was no mendicant; his habits were as austere as those of the cloister, but he was no monk. He wrought miracles, very different ones from those of St. Paris or St. Hohenlohe, but undeniable ones: they changed the face...
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