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    and , for this reason , a proper , arrangement . There are seven classes of subjects : and each class is subdivided into sections , which sections are marked with a running number , amounting to twenty-three . From a good " Index

    of subjects / which comes after the Preface ( the " Index of first lines * being placed at the end of the book ) , we copy the titles of the classes and of the sections .

    " Class 1 . pp . 1—31 . Adapted TO THE BEGINNING OF WORSHIP . Sec . I- Lord ' s day morning . Sec . II . For the beginning of worship on any morning . Sec . 3 . For the beginning * of worship at any time . Sec . 4 . For children at free schools . Class 11 .

    32—7 & . Adoration , Praise and Thanksgiving . Sec . 5 . Adoration of the divine perfections . Sec . 6 . Praise for the works of creation and providence . Sec . 7 . Thanksgiving for temporal and spiritual mercies . Sec . 8 . Thanksgiving from children

    at free schppls- Class III . 79—107 . Divine Reyixatiow . Sec . 9- The life , ministry , death arid resurrection of Christ . Sec . 10 . The excellence of tlje Gospel , Cjlass IV . 108—141 . Duties and Sjns o ? Cpilpren and Youth . Sec . II . Faith and repentance . Sec . 12 . Duties to God . Sec .

    13 . The affections due to Christ our Saviour , Sec . J 4 . Social virtues . Sec . 15 . Personal virtues . Sec . 16 . Sins of children ai ^ d youth . Sec . 17 . Motives to early goadne&s . Sec . 18 . Means of religious improvement . Sec . 19 . Appropriate to children in free schools . Class V . $ 35—^ 41 . Sec . 20 . Life , death and a future state . Class VI .

    242 —?^ 7 O . Sec $ 1 . Particular occasions . Class VII . 271—293 . Sec . 2 $ , For the conclusion of worship at any tin *© . Sec . 23 . For the conclusion of worship in the evening " A large proportion of these hymns , possess distinguished excellence , and are the corn posit ion s of writers of

    acknowled ged luerit . The compiler t b ^ s , plearfp , a ^ d , in our opinion , very pertinently ajid jucjicjously , for the a&fti&sjpji of several productions , which children on the first perusal will not be aJW $ % q comprehend , and which ars characterized by highly poetical "Wgenc . of

    " On ^ the moat ploasing and useful employments of tlt # visiters and te ^ di ^ r * i-a schools is , by , illustratiau

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    and interpretation , to co-operate with the sacred muse . And when hymns of beautiful simplicity are not to be obtained , it is far more desirable that the pupils should be assisted to rise , even by a slow and difficult process , to the perception of what is truly

    excellent , than that , by ths use of vulgar compositions , they should become accustomed to associate groveling images and quaint or irreverent expressions with their religious sentiments and feelings , and thus be rendered for ever incapable of acquiring that pure devotional taste , which is in itself one of

    the highest mental attainments , and which , through the whole period of our existence , will be a source of the most exquisite delight . " For the " few hymns" in this collection " which have but slender claims to admiration , " the Editor makes the following apology *

    " they are the best which could be found upon those subjects concerning which they treat , and it was thought more eligible to take these than to omit the subjects alto-7

    gether . ' Of the original hymns in the volume many , we are here informed , ** were composed by persons whose names would do great honour to any literary work . But some of these friends did not wish to be announced . On this

    account , and also because several hymns , even of celebrated authors , were necessarily altered , in order to bring them within the province of this work , it has been thought expedient to omit the names of the authors altogether . " In Liverpool and its neighbourhood persons may , doubtless , be fouud " whose names would do great honour to any literary work . " From one of these , as we conjecture , the first hymn which we shall copy may have been received : at least , the subject reminds us of the translator of some fine strains * of the muse of Lorenzo de Medici . " 32 . L . M . The inquiring mind gratified . 1 . Who gave the sun his noon-day light ? Who taught the moon to shine by night ? Whose hands the sheet of heav'n unroll'd , All set with stars like drops of gold ?

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    Review . —Harrington-School Hymns * 551

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1817, page 551, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2468/page/39/