The Life and Labours of St. Augustine [pp. 436-453]

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The Life and Labours of St. Augustine.
JULY,
formed menial offices, in consideration of the opportunities of
study. Hieber, in his life of Jeremy Taylor, (who was in Cambridge a sizar, till appointed by Laud to a fellowship in Oxford
in 1636,) remarks, that instead of that custom being chargeable
with the illiberality of depressing the poorer students into servants, it would be more just to say that servants were elevated
to the rank of students. But now the few Bible-clerkships and
exhibitions which are bestowed in consideration of the poverty
of the candidates, are said to be often given to secure talents to
the College, rather than from real charity.
Having lately devoted an article to the University of Cambridge, (Repertory, April, 1852,) and now embodied facts
enough from this voluminous report on Oxford to enable our
readers to judge of its condition, and the estimation in which
it is held by its best friends, we can readily leave to American
parents to decide whether the English Universities present
much to make them dissatisfied with their own institutions, or
furnish much as a model for their improvement. Let our Colleges be abundantly endowed, so that the highest ability, and
the largest necessary number of instructors, and the fullest apparatus can be commanded, and we shall have occasion to rejoice in the untrammeled vigour of our younger and fresher
institutions.
ART. II.- The Life and Labours of St. Augustine. By Philip
Schaff, D.D. Translated from the German. By the Rev. T.
C. Porter.
ATTAINMENTS in patristical learning are justly expected of
those who enter the sacred ministry. No man who would be
furnished for that responsible work, in a just acquaintance with
ministerial character, as it has been exhibited in different periods of the Church, will be satisfied with himself, unless, in ecclesiastical history and Christian biography, he has studied the
men, and their labours, denominated "the Fathers."
Knowledge of these men ought not, however, to be confined