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pose , tliere is also this to _Tbe said for them , that they often influence and rouse a portion of the _jjublic not otherwise to be got atand
at-, tract their attention to matters which can only be pursued by graver study . The title of one of the chapters in the interesting and truly
instructive book to which these remarks apply will serve to show the class of subjects to which it is devoted : u Scenes in Travel ,
with Conversations on Social Polity , " forming the second chapter of the second volume of the orthodox three , when the plot should
be at its thickest and the narrative at its highest point of interest , will no doubt tempt many a reader to skip ; but it furnishes the
following extracts on subjects of the widest and deepest importance , and which cannot fail to interest the thoughtful and the earnest .
Brotherhoods . doctrin " They I have erequiring had no sympath spent an the Asiatic y , " day said instinct Malvoisin in a monastery , The " with penitence . asceticism of the . It unmixed is an eastern races
, . tion of the , raid western seclusion world . " seeks something beyond fruitless fasts , vigils ,
macera-There are orders in the Latin Church not purely ascetic . All engaged in some act of the imitation of Christ : in ministering to
the sick ; in rescuing the helpless and forlorn ; in raising the fallen by penitence to a regenerate life ; in the care of the young .
ing " " , You These to the have las reme t two exactl dial emerge or y reconstructive expressed from the my palliative thoug power which , " charity said creates Malvoi which a sin new assuages . life " Both . " _suffer the - Eastern and Western Churches have rested too much in the
The revival of letters has indeed owed much to the Latin palliative Church and charity the . c restoration ivilization law the and Greek polity philosop of Greece hy and and poetry Rome , and is a of the history if t to of mankind the arts ,
the benefits , of which , have long ago , in some degree , , reached gg even the vulgar , and unlettered . " refer to all those acts of constructive Christian
" But I understand you to a mass charity of which mankind directl " y tend to better the moral and physical state of the
. the " advance Yes ; and of in civilization this respect . The even revival Latin of Christianit letters broug y has ht not no kept boon pace capable with
of immediate communication to the vulgar . But the discoveries of physical the science work render of a people the illumination and laity of as the well peop read le in inevitable the book , and of nature this oug as in that be
01 revelation . learning " The , education and , in the of Romish the clergy . Church is still conducted too generall in sep y limited arate seminaries to ecclesiastical . The
clergy should be the best educated citizens , even in a civil sense , as well as the best examples of a Christian life . " hilosop " Such h an and education reliion which would took prevent lace the at revival the close of the of the conflict last between century .
p Masters of y colleges g and bishops should p be Christian philosophers ; the clergy in then nature would , as be well engaged as the in the revelation work of teaching of the sp the iritual eternity destiny of law of man and in order the
region of faith . " ... Order " The of L the atin _JBrotJiers Churches of should Goodwill create This a new order ord should er . They be charged should with call the the
. reconciliation with law of and religi order on and . p Obviousl hilosophy— one of of liberty its firs with t duties equality would —of be demo the - cracy y
138 Notices-Of Books-
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 138, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/66/
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