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m I Selfishness , » f Intoxication . J > / "Vanity . _ S Mammon-service . p > I Deceit . > - Hero-worship . g \ Suspicion . ? * / Uncleanness . := s Gluttony . * s Lust . " g Covetousness . g Prejudice . fl vMalice . pq I Idleness . Q . What is sin ? A . Sin is the character of any action , word , or thought that occasions the condemnation , of conscience . Q . What is the opinion , of Antichrist on the Bible ? A . The opinion of Antichrist is , that " Bible " is a word which signifies " The Book , " and is a name used to denote the volume which contains the revelations of
prophets to mankind . The Bible is divided into three parts , viz .: —The Testament of the Prophet Moses , the Gospel of the Prophet Jesus , and The Koran of the Prophet Mahomet . The Testament possesses three distinct characters , viz ., History of the Past , Evidence of the Present , and Prophecy of the Future . In the History of the Past , we read of a ( 1 ) nation called ( 2 ) Jews , the ( 3 ) children of ( 3 ) Israel , and the ( 4 ) chosen people of God , who are instructed in the worship of ( 5 ) One True God .
In the Evidence of the Present , we read of the Jews being ( 8 ) scattered in all the kingdoms of the earth , to be a curse , and an astonishment , and a ( 6 ) hissing , and a ( 7 ) reproach , among all the nations whither they are driven , which is to continue until the ( 9 ) redemption of ( 9 ) Jerusalem , and the coming of ( 10 ) Shiloh , unto whom the ( 11 ) gathering of the people shall be . In the Prophecy of the Future , we read predictions of the coming of two distinguished beings—the first in ( 13 ) humble circumstances , resembling the ( 12 ) Son of Man ; and the second with great ( 15 ) power , ( 14 ) honour , and ( 15 ) glory , as a ( 16 ) Prince called the ( 17 ) Messiah . The Gospel also possesses three distinct characters , viz ., History of the Past , Evidence of the Present , and Prophecy of the Future .
In the History of the Past , we read of the rise and progress of Christianity , with the ( 18 ) genealogy , ( 19 ) birth , ( 20 ) life , ( 21 ) teaching , ( 22 ) crucifixion , ( 23 ) resurrection , and ( 24 ) ascension of the founder , who upholds the ( 26 ) worship of ( 25 ) One True God . In the Evidence of the Present , we read of many ( 27 ) remarkable events connected with the dissolution of Christianity , which are to be followed by a rising and spreading of the opinions of ( 28 ) Antichrist , and at last
succeeded by the ( 29 ) Son of Man receiving unto himself his full power and ( 30 ) reigning over the whole world . In the Prophecy of the Fztture we read predictions of the reappearance of the ( 29 ) Son of Man with great ( 15 ) power , ( 14 ) honour , and ( 15 ) glory , accompanied by his holy ( 31 ) angels , who will gather together his ( 31 ) elect from every quarter of the globe to live and ( 32 ) reign with him for a ( 32 ) thousand years , not , however , until the times of the ( 33 ) Gentiles be fulfilled .
In reference to the moral principles , their apparent impracticability is not a satisfactory argument for disregarding , but it is an excellent reason for the attempt to be made to elucidate them . Antichrist .
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A PROPOSED PRIZE ESSAY . September 19 , 1850 . Dear Sir , —We have recently had published to the world a series of writings named •* Latter-day Pamphlets , " which have not failed to produce considerable effect upon many of the numerous readers in whose path they have appeared , both on account of the captivating style of their composition and the very prophetic title which has introduced them into circulation . My curiosity has been excited by them , and they have occasioned me anxiously to expect a " Last-day Pamphlet , " which might possibly be followed by Tracts for the Millennium , or , perhaps , some great work upon the approaching inevitable and eternal Future . Hoping to be a humble instrument
in aiding the progress of human happiness , and desirous to be instructed of coming events , which we are told cast their shadows before , induces me to trespass upon your notice , and request you to advertise for Essays in elucidation of verse * 18 in the 2 nd chapter of the first general Epistle of John , and to award a prize to the author of the Essay selected by competent judges as most deserving of public attention ; the successful Essay could be published in connection with your newspaper , and be very appropriately called the " Last-day Pamphlet , " especially if published upon the 31 st of December , 1850 , that being the last day of this eventful half century . Enclosed is my contribution toward a fund for the proposed prize . I am , dear Sir , yours truly , A Constant Knadeu .
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Critics are not the legislators , but the judges and police of literature . They do not make laws—they interpret and try- to enforce them . —Edinburgh Review .
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Englishmen have reason to feel a pride in their Press . It is not only the great organ of public opinion on public matters ; but every private grievance , in anyway likely to affect the public , gets a voice , and angry travellers , or repentant dupes , " write to the Times , ' as to the great arbiter and avenger of private wrong . The amount of good which results is incalculable . Every abuse is brought to light ; and if , unhappily , it is not enough to remove an abuse to expose it , yet one may confidently say that were it not for the
exposure it never would be removed . Among the many excellent papers which have appeared in the Household Words , there is one this week bearing the unmistakeable signature of the editor in every sentence , which unveils an abuse so ancient and so monstrous , that we cannot think the exposure will be unavailing : public attention thus called to the matter some steps must be taken towards rectifying it . The subject is that of the shameless neglect of Wills by the Cathedral Registrars , who enjoy princely incomes for conserving them , and whose
pecuniary interest it is not to do their duty . The paper graphically describes the visit of a gentleman to one of these Registrars , with the hope of inspectirg a will ; and among the rubbish of a limebasket he finds , in the very place where it should have been preserved with religious care , no less a document than the Charter of William the Conqueror—the identical instrument by which the See of Dorchester was transferred to Lincoln ; and appended to it was the counterpart of the only seal extant ol the Great Conqueror ! Yet this was thought of
" no consequence , " and left to rot in a limebasket . Other discoveries of a like nature were made , and the writer sums up his expose by saying , " Thus are documents involving the personal property of seven English counties allowed to crumble to destruction ; thus is ruin brought on families by needless litigation ; thus do Registrars roll in carriages and Proctors grow rich ; thus are the historical records of the great English nation doomed by an officer ,
whom the nation pays the income of a prince to be their conservator , to rottenness , mildew , and dust . " More revelations are promised ; we await them with anxiety . The nation pays twelve hundred a-year in pensions to its benefactors in Literature , Science , and Art , and it pays seven thousand a-year to one of its officers for the trouble of—allowing its records to rot ! Who can wonder that Tories hate the notion of meddling with " time-honoured institutions ? "
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Lenau is dead ! The first of the Young Germany Poets , the author of so many beautiful lyrics , of that powerful narrative poem Savonarola , in which the death of Lorenzo de Medici and the Plague in Florence are painted by a master-hand , — and finally of Faust , which Young Germany has often compared with the Faust of Goethe—Nikolaus Lenau ( or , to call him by his real
name , Niemusch Ed leu von Streiilenau ) died recently in a Madhouse at Vienna , where he had been kept since November , 1844 . He was only forty-eight years of age , having seen the light on the 13 th of August , 1802 , in Csatad , in Hungary . It is a loss thousands in Germany will deplore ; and not a few English admirers will receive the intelligence with the sadness of regret .
German literature no longer presents the aspect it has worn for so many years , arid that by which one invariably thinks of it . By German literature we are accustomed to mean an incessant issue of solid laborious works , bulky in form and unwieldy in style , the labours of patience and academic training . History , philosophy , art , science , archaeology , classical researches , were all cultivated with a fervour and fecundity unknown to other nations . No subject was too remote for their interest ;
nothing too comprehensive for their treatment . They were the miners of literature , digging in the dark and unexplored regions of the earth , and shovelling up dross as liberally as ore , but unwearied in their digging . This ore was then carried to France . French clearness , sharpness , and love of symmetry soon separated the ore , stamped it , and gave it European currency . England also stamped it , after her fashion , and put it to immediate use . So avowedly was Germany the land where ore was first to be obtained , that no scholar or historian
thought himself properly fitted for his task until he had ascertained all that had been done for him by the beer-drinking doctors on the other side of the Rhine . The revolution of 1848 has changed all this . During the first few months of excitement the cry was for pamphlets , journals , and placards ; accordingly placards , journals , and pamphlets were produced with rabbit-like fertility . The reading public had changed . It was no longer a public of professors and students , it was the nation to whom men addressed themselves . Be brief !
that was the stern cry of necessity . A terrible cry to a German author ; none more so . How should he be brief , accustomed to make books of prefaces , and encyclopaedias of books ? But the Sovereign People had no time for treatises ; and brevity was the one thing indispensable . It is an incredible fact , but a demonstrable one , that the Germans were brief ! O paupertas artium repertrix ! The year 1848 passes , and the German begins to breathe again in a more expansive manner . The single sheet of 1848 becomes rarer , the pamphlet in more deliberate prolixity swells into a volume ;
but the genuine book of the old school is still a rarity . The publications want the ancient solidity . They are mostly reminiscences , collections of songs , or desultory essays . Our German Georges Sand , the bold Louise Aston , has issued her Freis charler Reminiscenzen , a collection of twelve Radical poems ; one of which , " Das lied einer Schlesischen Weberinn , " has a certain poetic vigour in it . If you are curious you will read the strange tract called Denkschi ift eines Apostaten an die Cabinette von Wien und Rom , betreffend die Errichtuna eines
geheimen militdrischen Ordens . The author gravely proposes to raise a standing army of 200 , 000 men , the object of which will be the perfect restoration of the power of Rome—a military Jesuitism , in fact . The order is to be secret ; and , to infuse a proper spirit into the ranks , the books most recommended are Lies Paroles d ' un Croyant—the Books of Ruth , Tobias , and Esther—the Biographies of Plutarch , the Iliad , the Cyropaedia , and the Nibelungen Lied .
As a specimen of the imbecility of the retrograde party it is amusing . The title of Weller's treatise , Die Freiheitsbestrebungen der Deutschen im 18 und 19 Jahrhundert dargestellt in Zeugnissen ihren Literatur , promises more than the work fulfils : it is a mere patchwork of quotations from M 6 ser , Lessing , Fichte , Claudius , &c . To judge from recent publications one may say that Germany will not be saved just now by her writers .
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The Weimar Festival , in commemoration of Herder and Goethe , seems to have gone off with brilliant effect . For five days the gaiety continued ; the last day was the people ' s holiday , and the Daily News says of it : — " It was one of those joyous meetings which agree so well with the poetical traditions of old Thuringia . The peasants arrived from all parts in their holiday dress , and peopled the streets of Weimar with an unaccustomed crowd , coming to admire Herder ' s statue . The Society
of Jagers gave a grand entertainment in an enclosure belonging to them . The sight was for all the world like a Flemish fair . A great number of booths , constructed of a kind of trelliswork , surrounded the green close . Equestrian performers and the famous puppen-spielers plied their arts , and a learned elephant awakened curiosity and created mirth . The majority of the crowd , however , devoted themselves to a large consumption of beer , sausages , and pastry . The dress of the German girls , with their short jupes , long tresses , and bare arms , imparted an air of liveliness to the scene . "
The colossal statue of Herder , erected in the square of the Cathedral , was inaugurated ; and in the evening his dramatic poem , Prometheus Delivered , was performed , with music by Liszt . Altogether , it seems to have been a joyous festival . Why do we not encourage such commemorations of our great men ?
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THE VARIETIES OF MAN . The Natural llhtory of the farielies of Man . By Robert ( jonlou Latham , M . D ., F . K . S ., &c . Van Voorst . Tjikue is not a notion of more consequence to the student of history than that which conceives the human race as—though really one , homogeneous in its essential character , and borne along by a common destiny—yet made up of a number of distinct masses
or aggregates , presenting subordinate differences of type , capability , and function . Whoever has mastered this notion , and can illustrate it to himself by enumerating the chief groups or sections among which the habitable surface of our globe is divided , possesses a generality of almost incalculable power in affecting his views of the past history of our species , and of its future prospects * It is only of late that there have been books in our language cal-
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( I ) Kxotl . xix . 0 . ( 2 ) Jer . Hi . 28 . ( 3 ) hxori . i . 7 . ( 1 ) Dent . vii . 6 . ( 5 ) Dcut . vi . 4 ; Zee . xiv . !) . r Jer . xxv . 18 . ( 7 ^ Jer . xxix . 18 . ( 8 ) Jer . xxx . 11 . ' ( U ) Luke ii . 38 ; xxi . 28 ; Iaa . xl . 8 ; lii . 'J , 10 ; Joel i" . 17 , SO ; Zee . viii . 7 , K ; xiv . Hi ; Anil . iii . 4 . ( 10 ) Gen . xlix . 10 . ( 11 ) DtMit . xxx . 3 . (» 2 ) IMii . vii . l . , 11 . ( 13 ) Jsji . liii . 2—IS ; xlii . 1 , 0 ; Dhd . ix . 20 . [ 11 ) Mutt . xxiv . 3 , 14 , 14 . ( 15 ) Mark xiii . 20 . ( 10 ) Dun . is . 2 Z \ Matt . xvi . 27 . ( IT ) Luke vii . 10 ; Zen . xii . 9 , 10 ; Mai . iv . 2 , 3 . ( IK ) Mutt . i . 1—10 ; Luk'i iii . 23- ; . i 8 . ( 1 ») Lnk « ii . 0 . ( 20 ) John v . 20 ; iv . 31 . ( 21 ) John iii . 2 . ( 22 ) Matt , xxvii . 3 . >; Mark xv . : M ; Luke xxiii . 33 ; John xix . 1 « . ( 23 ) Mutt , xxviii . U ; Murk xvi . 11 ; Luke xxiv . 30 ; John xx . 20 . ( 21 ) Mnrkxvi . 1 'J ; Luke xxiv . Til . ( 25 ) Mark xii . 2 i » , 30 : John iv . 'Hi . ( 20 ) Matt . vi . 0 , 9 . [ 27 ) 2 Peter iii . 3 ; Mutt . xxiv . O , 7 , 10 , 11 , 21 , 29 ; Murk xiii . 12 ; Luke xxi . 11 , 25 , 20 ; AcU ii . 17—21 ; 2 Tim . iii . 1— >; Judei . IS . ( 2 *) 1 John ii . 18 , 10 . (•<}<)) Matt . xxiv . 30 . ( 30 ) Ilcv . xi . l . \ ( 31 ) Murk xiii . 27 . ( 3 : J ) llev . xx . 4 . ( 33 ) Luke xxi . 24 . * This verso was very strangely quoted in the Louder , Aug . 31 , in connection with wlmtie called " A Pure llei'orination . "
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Sept . 28 * 1850 . ] Qttyt & , t&O * i * 641
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 28, 1850, page 641, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1854/page/17/
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