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    often runs into false . There is but a step from the sublune to the ridiculous . To speak of " objectionable" passages in the Bible is perhaps itself While she , as if she heard an angel ' s

    , Bends low , and bids her troubled soul rejoice ; Aud to these awful mandates from the sky , Subscribes of course , nor dares presume

    reply . * Her tranquil virtue cherishes a crowd Of sins and errors , which she thinks ailow'd ; Invests within a sacramental dress , Her pride , her vanity and waywardness ; And thinks her frequent sacrilege will

    prove A certain title to the world above . Such is the course her sacred mentor takes , And such the fruit which his instruction makes .

    Oh , who would wonder if the treacherous guide Should quickly make his docile pupil slide Within those flowery paths , those tempting bowers , Where gentle Quietists breathe out their hours ?

    Wh £ re her weak bieast , with every folly fraught , That ever Molinoz or Satan taught ,+ Down the descent of hellish pleasures driven , Shall bless her calm career , and call it heaven I

    * Miss Hannah More , iu her Moral Sketches , draws an exquisite satirical picture of a young lady applying to different clergymen for the solution of her spiritual doubts . A writer in Blackwood ' s Magazine pronounces MjssMore ' s Essay on Prayer her best production . Does he not confound it with the Moral

    Sketches , of which the Reflections on Prayer constitute the second volume , and are about as dull as any thing that could well be written ? The first volume , above alluded to , on the contrary , caa scarcely be surpassed for its vivacity and good sense .

    • f Quietism was introduced at Rome by Molinoz , a Spanish priest . His system , among much that was philosophical and edifying , was dangerous in confounding the limits between virtue and vice , teaching its disciples to see and acknowledge Gtod Itt ercry pleasure which they chose to prc&ccirte .

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    objectionable . My prejudices mmfci require the epithet to be e » ehatt&fed for one of a milder colour . I doubt whether what is stigmatized as ' * lip-labour * ' in teaching children to repeat prayers and elements of common learning by rote , be so dan «

    gerous as is generally supposed . Words are nearly all that can be introduced into their little minds . Let the most impressive and useful forms be fastened on their memories , and as

    their powers of reason and reflection imperceptibly expand , they will have the food of thought and sentiment already prepared for them , connected at the same time with all the

    advantages arising from order , from habit , and from the "influence of particular seasons . J speak now as much from the recollection of my own juvenile experience , as from the reason of the

    thing . Could this interesting correspondent ' s suggestions on the subject of moulding the infant mind to piety he realized , the consummation would be indeed desirable ; but , I fear , in our

    imperfect world , where children will be children , it is scarcely ever practicable . Still , attempts at its approximation should be indefatigably made , and still more , I agree with this correspondent , that the subject is deserving of indefinite discussion .

    One great obstacle to refining on the present mode of religious education , consists in the existing prejudices of our surrounding fellow-Christians . I know a judicious mother , who , on finding that her child of four years old had acquired an

    incorrigible habit of repeating every night the Lord ' s Prayer incorrectly , ordered the nurse to cease imposing the repetition of it upon her , much to the surprise of nurse , servants and neighbours , who chanced to hear of it . The Lord ' s Prayer , they thought , ought to be repeated punctually every

    night , and that a wrong collocation or enunciation of the sentences would very little injure the charm supposed to be connected with the exercise . jinti-Supcrnaturalism . Surely there is much weight in several of these

    considerations . But is it correct to say , that Aati-Supernaturalists must entertain one of the two opinions specified by this wrjter ? Paul ,-the ' German commentator , and Eichhoro , pro-

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    78 Critical Synopsis x > R f ihe Monthly epository for January , 1825

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1826, page 78, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2545/page/14/