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    of his day , and of applying to them a true Christian meaning . " This " we are aware vtaa the favourite opinion of a late theological writer , but we have never yet been able to satisfy ourselves of its truth . The 5 th verse the author would translate , after Campbell , " And the light shone in darkness , and the darkness admitted it not . "

    " The 6 th , 7 # *» and 8 th verses are easily understood . The Evangelist gradually approaches the Christian revelation , removing errors and establishing truth as-he . advances . " Of the 14 th verse , which the author justly considers as peculiarly important , he proposes the following paraphrase : " Instead of being communicated , as in former times , through inanimate objects , the will of God has now been conveyed to us by tlie agency of a

    human being . A man has , in this instance , acted as the Word of God . Such a word has been as a Shekinah , lias tabernacled among us . We have ourselves beheld it surrounded by such a glory as can belong only to what proceeds directly from God . Its glory was not in the least like that which accompanied former divine appearances . The Word , or Shekinah , which we have seen , was attended with a more sublime , even with a moral glory . It was full of grace , or goodness , and truth . "

    But we must dismiss this subject , and we do it with the general remark , that although our author has evidently bestowed much talent and labour on the investigation of this important subject , and although we can assent to several of 'his conclusions , yet , in the instances which we have pointed out , we conceive that there is much room for hesitation , and in the interpretation of the proem to St . John's Xjospel greater simplicity may be attained .

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    This little work belongs to a class which , in all the multiplicity of children ' s books , is not overstocked . It aims at communicating religious knowledge , and exciting religious feeling , without any trias for particular tenets , and it consists chiefly of conversations on Bible History , " grave , yet not dull . " We -hear much of the difficulty of explaining the Bible to children , and we often nfceet with those in whose ( house it is fox that reason

    almost a forbidden bode ; they cannot pretend , ihey tell you , > to answer the questions that may arise ; they have not inade up theic ia'inds on * owie points , or they do not think it right to instil their opinions . The captious philosophy of the day would almost ^ persuade us to rewrite the Scriptures , and those whose conceptions of the Deity , of liis providence and dealings , were mainly

    derived from the Bible , are yet so cautious that they dare not trust it in the hands of their children , for fear of misapprehension ^ and unworthy notions of Him who gave it , and whom it declares ! Surety , this , is feeing " wise over-much . " But what is the danger ? The ( grosser &oreim < QGcmiQmd by figurative language it is in tire power of my mother ito uectrfy ; if she be inexpert at the task , let her tafce the volume > a « der review as < a model Hut

    we are told <> f partiai views of God ' s ^ governtnent , false and unpiritosopftrtcal notions . Is it to be supposed , we wotfld a& , that a tfhild ' s mind could embrace the most enlarged views of such subjects , however correctly * Longman . Second edition . 5 s ; 6 < t .

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    694 A Sister ' s Gtft .

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    A SISTER ' S GIFT . *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1828, page 694, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2565/page/38/