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Sunday is generally selected by the peasantry for the burial of the dead , the baptism of their children * and | br the solemnization of marriage . The last is attended by several ceremonies of different descriptions * according to the difference of customs in each province : these are increased if the bride
and bridegroom possess much property . For the purpose of baptism , children are generally brought to church ere they are eight days old ; they are sometimes taken to the house of the clergyman : in the latter ease , the priest desires that some of the individuals of his house become
sponsors . The g-odfatlier and godmother , at the baptismal ceremony , take upon themselves the responsibility of teaching the child the grounds of Christiaaity , if its parents shall die during its tender years ; but this is done conditionally , that is to say , as far as circumstances shall admit of their
fulfilling this duty ; and they possess no authority over the child . In the country , instruction is afforded partly by the clerk of the parish , and partly in separate schools . In many places schools have been erected by private individuals , who have
bestowed a piece of ground for the purpose . Other individuals have given an annual stipend to the schoolmaster . In some instances the congregation bus taken this affair upon themselyes . The government interferes but little in this branch of instruction :
nevertheless , at the present moment there is scarcely any person in Sweden of a mature age who does not know ! iow to read , and by far the greater part are able to write . The Lancasterian plan of tuition has lately been practised in Stockholm and a few other towns .
In the towns , any child may be sent free of expense to the public institutions , as the tutors are paid by the state , though not generally in a handsome manner . In some places they receive a compensation for their low salary in the following manner : every
year which they have passed in the performance of duty in the schools is considered as equivalent to two years passed in the exercise of any other official capacity ; and this computation has great advantages when they stand as candidates for a living , as those
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i 1 ] who | have served for the greater number tof years are always entitled ttom preference . ^' : - > . ¦ ^¦ ¦ ¦' ^ h h ' ^^\ > A . new translation of l ^ e ^ jtitellias ^
been proposed in Sweden ^ ir y i ^^ rdd of fifty years ; but not one lias b ^ en produced , which has afforded satisfaction to the clergyi Particular parts of both the Old and New Testaments
have * however , been translated with great ability , especially the Psalms of David , the book of Job , and the principal parts of the Prophets , by Tipgstadius , Bishop of Strengnaes , During
the last year a new-modelled book of Psalms was published-9 which will , in all probability ^ ere the close of this , be generally made use of in all churches , for . , Wallin has had the
principal management of the publication , and is also the author of the greatest as well as the finest part of the new Psalms * As many of the old ones as could well be retained , have been preserved in this collection . Through the instrumentality of the
late Archbishop Lindblom , a new book of Common Prayer and Liturgy has been adopted . It does not contain , however , any alteration in the church ceremonies , except that the exorcism and the crossing at the administration of baptism are discontinued . The customary church prayers have been
corrected and altered , although not in every instance , to the improvement of their expression . Lindblom likewise remodelled , and caused to be adopted in the schools , the catechism of Luther , to which was annexed , the explanation of Bishop Swebelius . This catechism contains several of the
superstitious doctrines of the 16 th century , which are not suited to the more enlightened opinions of the present age . The alterations effected by the Archbishop Lindblom often evince a
want of clear judgment , and have not that consistency which the old regulations possessed . A new arrangement of the Epistles and Gospels Is expected . *
* In Sweden , the clergyman does not select his own text for his sermon . The texts are appointed for eveif Sunday and holiday throughout the year , aud are collected in what are called books of Evangelists , from their containing , in every text , a longer or shorter extract from the writings of the Evangelists . At
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1824, page 199, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2523/page/7/
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