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Following respectable author ijty * Geddes has ; instead of Ivk a dry / Sfc . y * Like a dry / , thereby improving the sen . se and enhaacing the elegance of the passage . The simile of a V waterless laud' is most appropriate and poetic to describe earnest longings after an intimate intercourse with God * Yet , for general accuracy , we should prefer the , translation of Noyes or that of Wellbeloved to Geddes . The following , is the version by Mr . Wellbeloved of the commencement of the nineteenth Psalm : —
• The Heavens relate the glory of God , 4 And the firm am en t declareth the work of his hands . ' Day to day uttereth speeeh * 4 And night to night showeth knowledge ; * No speech and no words , , * Their voice is no . t heard , ' Yet through all the earth their sound goeth forth ' And to the end of the world their words /
Which Geddes thus renders : — 4 The Heavens proclaim the glory of God ! The Work of his hands the expanse declareth ! ' Day after day emitteth speech , Night after night announceth knowledge ! Not a speech and language , that are not heard , Through the whole earth their voice is spread ! Their eloquence to the limits of the world /
Now the rendering ' day to day * instead of ' day after day , ' is not only more strictly literal , but conveys a different and to our mind a mare important sense . But the line—* not a speech and language * that are not heard' scarcely yields sense at all ; while Mr . Wellbeloved ^ literal and excellent translation brings forth a fact which , in connexion with the following line , each succeeding age has confirmed , and is no less important than true .
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Fasting , a Remnant of Judaism : a Sermon , delivered at the Old Chapel , Elder-Yard , Chesterfield , on Sunday , 18 th March , 1832 , By Robert Wallace . The Preacher ' s arguments are directed to two points : first , to show that fasting is not a positive institution of the Christian religion ; and , secondly , that if it were , yet no obligation could be made out for the observance of the then approaching clay by the appointment of which
a timid policy had endeavoured to conciliate an insane fanaticism . The illustration of the first topic is a specimen of clear , sensible , and conclusive criticism . The second heap ! includes the three following ; reasons : 1 st , the motive for the appointment of this fast was political £ and the observance of it must , so far , be regarded as a prosiitution of
the offices of religion to the purposes of state policy : 2 d » the reason * assigned for the observance of a national fast , On . M > at occasion ,, were as weak aft , th « motives for itp appointment were unworthy : and 3 d , aa respects dissenters , it was appointed \> y an , incompetent authority . The whole discourse . jg , . alike , judicious aqo ! maioiy . < .. In the preTa ^ e tni author introduce * the fyllowiug vcryjuat auoiperiinerkt observation ;— - ^
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¦ Griiical Notices * —Fasting , a Remnant of Judaism . ^ 35 r ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1832, page 351, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1812/page/63/
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