not that he
has written much, but that what little he has done has been well done.
His chief performance is, 'Religion and Business, or Spiritual Life in
one of its Secular Departments.' The _Spectator_--a journal not much
given to theology, especially that of Dissent--was compelled to confess
it was a 'series of able and thoughtful lectures on the union of
Christianity and business, addressed apparently to a Nonconformist
congregation. The topic is treated forcibly, without the mannerism
frequent among dissenters, and the rules of life enforced are not
impracticably rigid.' He has also published several sermons; 'Christ,
the Spirit of Christianity,' is one. A 'Review of the Year 1850' is
another; and another is the 'Roar of the Lion,' which, as it was
suggested by the papal aggression, and was praised in the _British
Banner_, was, I should fear, an inferior production. His last work is,
'Glimpses of Great Men; or, Biographic Thoughts of Moral Manhood,' a work
intended to illustrate, by the examples of Oberlin, Hampden, Luther, Fox,
Bunyan, Cromwell, Milton, Moore, De Foe, Knox, Whitfield, Foster, Irving,
Christian heroism in its beauty and power. The sketches are short but
practical and to the point, well worthy especially of the attention of
the young, for whose benefit they were more especially designed.

The Baptist Denomination

THE REV. WILLIAM BROCK.

In the times of Robert Hall, when the talents of that rather over-rated
orator gave the Baptists a lift in public estimation, and made them
respectable, save in the eyes of gentlemen of very strict Church
principles, the Rev. Mr. Kinghorn, a strange spare man, a keen debater,
and a great Hebrew scholar, presided over a select Baptist congregation,
at St. Mary's, Norwich.

Norwich at that time was very literary. William Taylor, the first
Englishman to sound the German Ocean, and to return laden with its spoils
of heresy and erudition, lived there; as did also Wilkin, the Editor of
the best edition of that rare light of Norwich, Sir Thomas Brown, and
William Youngman, a severe critic, though a writer little known beyond
the city in which he so long resided. At that time Norwich drove a
considerable trade in logic as well as in woollens. The whole city had a
disputatious air. The weaver-boys--and William Johnson Fox, now M.P. for
Oldham, was one of them--learned to dispute and define and doubt. There
Harriet Martineau philosophised in petticoats,