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second question : but no others are ever tired of seeing new promises of good for the precious charge committed to their keeping , care , and instruction . They know there are wants unsatisfied , and they hope amid frequent disappointment . They examine though they know there is great chance of not meeting with what they desire . It is a matter for rejoidng ^ that there is a growing _ anxiety ^ o _ malie ^^ ond ^ anTrelTnghtened religious instruction the basis of
education ; to implant in young minds the belief , reverence , and love of God ; . to lead them to the feet of Him who said , ' Suffer little children to come unto me , and forbid them not , for of such is the kingdom of heaven ; ' to show them that they are brought into the world to be happy , and that to be happy is to serve God through Jesus Christ our Lord ; to make them feel , not with dread , but with holy delight , that they are beings training for
immortality , that amid the discipline of earth their Almighty Father is leading them on to heaven . It is a matter for rejoicing , because where such a foundation is judiciously and kindly laid , all other instruction , wide as it may reach , and deep as it may go , administers fresh nourishment to the religious feelings , and fixes more firmly religious principles . The events of history , the wonders of science , the exact calculations of numbers and their
signs , all become teachers concerning the greatness , the goodness , the superintending providence of God , all give additional force to the perception of the antecedent probability of divine revelation . Under a deep sense of the absolute necessity of early careful religious instruction , with joyful gratitude for the portion that was received , and earnest desires that circumstances had permitted it to be greater , the following books are presented to the notice of our readers .
Selections from the Old Testament : or the Religion , Morality and Poetry of the Hebrew Scriptures , arranged under Heads , by Surah Austen . ' A work of which we cannot speak too highly , which we often ttfrn to with instruction and delight , and which \ ve know , from ; experience , is capable of fixing the attention , and interesting the minds of children to whom religion has been made a source of pleasure , hope , and rejoicing . Nay , we will venture to assert , that it is calculated to fix the attention , and interest the minds of any children to whom religion has not been made a terror or a weariness .
' Sacred Histories . Extracted from the Old Testament , in the Language of the received Translation , ' These h istories comprise all the principal events recorded in the Old Testament most judiciously selected and arranged . We admire the simplicity and delicacy of mind which dictated the suppression of every narrative and expression unsuited to youthful readers . This has sometimes taken from the force of what is introduced , as in the instance of Nathan ' s Parable ; but what is lost in force is amply
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CHILDREN ^ BO OKS . 145
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 1, 1833, page 145, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2613/page/17/
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