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beautiful effect , and the impression on its mind will be as living and permanent as that mind itself . Who can doubt which is nearest to a true knowledge of God , the child who , from our assertion , has learned the name of the Maker of the flower , and rests there ; or he who feels the existence of
a . Power capable of producing such effects , without as yet knowing his name ? There is great beauty in some conversations on this subject in a tale by the Rev . Henry Duncan , " TJie Cottagers Fireside . " The existence of a Creator and Preserver has been made manifest to the child , and her heart has been touched by the proofs of his fatherly kindness , but yet , familiar as she had been with the name of God as her Maker , through means of her Catechism , so entirely unfruitful has it proved , that she is quite at a loss to comprehend of whom her uncle is now speaking . *• But , uncle , " she says , " I thought God made me , for the Caritchies says sae , and mammy says that God lives in heaven , far above the skies . " We are too anxious about giving the name , before we have led the way to the feeling that there is a Power in the universe , the existence of which is demonstrated to us as well as the child by its effects . Hence the idea is not a living one in the child ' s mind , and bears no fruit . In giving religious instruction , we cannot be too careful that the spirit of the child should co-operate with all we do . The idea of putting religion into the mind as we
would put learning , is a most fatal one . We may teach it the external facts of Christianity ; indeed , those it is every way unwise to withhold ; for the facts of our religion , and especially the life , death , and example of Christ , are most beautifully adapted to arouse and stimulate the spirit : but religion itself cannot be given by one being to another , for it is the communion of man with his Maker , the intercourse of the Father of spirits with our spirits , and all human teaching is serviceable only as it leads us to feel the closeness and the extent of the union by which He , the great Parent of all , has made us His .
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THEOLOGY .
Art . I . —Discourses on the Office and Character of Jesus Christ . By Henry Ware , Jun . Second Edition . Boston , U . S . If this highly valuable series of Discourses has not yet receired formal notice in our pages , it is not because we
have thought little of its claims to whatever we can offer in the way of recommendation to the Christian community . Mr . Ware's " Jotham Anderson" is well known ; as the author of several beautiful devotional poems , particularly one , first published in the Christian Examiner , entitled " Seasons of Prayer , " his name
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52 Critical Notices . — Theological .
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has also for some time been familiar to many of our readers ; and to ourselves it has long appeared that his modest and unpretending volume of Sermons on " the Character and Offices of Jesus , " is one of the best presents which a Unitarian minister ever bestowed on his own flock , and the family of co-worshipers throughout the world . It is no collection of vague generalities , of tedious common-places . Without rising into absolute eloquence , the style appears to us pure , easy , and elegant—never cumbrous , never affected—above all , never dull . We should say that the spirit is throughout that of a genuine lover of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1831, page 52, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2593/page/52/
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