THE PULPIT.*
THIS is a cheap religious periodical, of which several numbers, and at last a whole volume, have been sent to us—for the purpose, we believe, of challenging our approbation. Its object is to diffuse a relish for Pulpit eloquence. It professes to furnish to the public two sermons a week ; some of them being reported during delivery, like Parliamentary Speeches; others being supplied by the preachers, and polished and curtailed, if necessary, by the editor. The Pulpit, however, aspires to be something more than a series of sermons. It lays claim to the functions of criticism ; and decides on the merits of the discourses which it ushers into the world, and on their fitness for the occasions Which called them forth. It has contributors, too, and miscellanea, after the manner of the old magazines. The sermons seem to be culled from the stores of men of all sects. Dissenters, Methodists, Dignitaries of the Church, Evangelicals, Moderates, Old and New
* Published by Harding.
Lights, are laid under contribution ; and the result has been a collec- tion of sermons on a vast variety of subjects, most of them respectable, and some really of great value. The plan, of course, implies great va- riety of style, and, perhaps, diversity of views. We are disposed to approve of the system of reporting sermons. Its tendency, were it more common, would be to render sermons less soporific than they commonly are.
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