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We have been greatly interested by the progress of an amicable discussion carried on in several successive numbers of the Boston Christian Teacher ' s Manual , " on the propriety of separate and suitable public religious services for children ; and it is a subject so nearly allied to the question of a separate literature , that we must take the liberty of offering a few remarks upon both . But let us not enter the field as * on this occasion , opposed in opinion to the Editor of the Christian's Manual , without expressing our value for that excellent little publication . Accustomed to admire the Boston Christian
Examiner , it has been with yet greater pleasure that we have read its humbler looking companion . Of course , its tone is affectionate and gentle ; no less could have been expected from the sources whence it emanates ; but it is also independent , powerful ; often calculated , by its spirit and manner , to rouse young people to self-exertion and energy ; and it is free from dogmatism— free , also , from that disgusting appearance of patronage which spoils much of our juvenile literature . There is room for question of the Editor ' s judgment in introducing two or three of the German extracts ; but it is to
the individual pieces that we object—not to the attempt to bring before young persons specimens of the free and unsophisticated writings of that wonderful people ; and , even in our doubts , we think it right to call to mind the fact that some German books for children , which now so exceedingly offend our taste as to disqualify us from ' forming a fair judgment of their merits , not only impressed our own childish minds in the most salutary way , but are , we firmly believe , of abiding service to numberless individuals . One reason for this may be , that we do not remember an instance in which
honesty and good faith are violated in these books : they tell stories of the good and bad , it is true , but they never inculcate , by parental authority , a low , selfish , and calculating morality : and they make the rewards of virtue to consist chiefly in peace of heart , and sympathy with the excellent of the earth . To return , however , to the Christian's Manual . We particularly admire the translation of Luther ' s Paraphrase on the Lord's Prayer , the Conversation on the Use of Manuals , some paft of the Remarks on Sunday-Schools , and the Letter to a Mother , No * I . New Series .- —In this number
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46 Children ' * Books .
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i Yet , yet we will think that a day will break , Early or late , when the sleepers will wake—Oh that so earthless and undefiTd We might face the Sunrise of Life , sweet child ! 'Tis we are the dead far more than thou—Long are the waters our barks may plough ; And many a tempest , and many a cloud , Must shiver the keel , and sweep the shroud . Yet with storm and cloud we may bravely cope , While on thy anchor we lean , sweet Hope ! And thy two bright sisters , Love and Faith , Have a smile for Grief , and a shaft for Death . Crediton , November , 1830 ; J-
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EARLY RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION CHILDREN ' S BOOKS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1831, page 46, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2593/page/46/
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