THE

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CHRISTIAN EXAMINER

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RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.

VOLUME XLIII.

FOURTH SERIES, VOLUME VIII.

JULY, SEPTEMBER, NOVEMBER, 1847.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM CROSBY.

NEW YORK: C. S. FRANCIS & CO.

LONDON: JOHN CHAPMAN, 121 NEWGATE STREET.

1847.

CAMBRIDGE:

METCALF AND COMPANY,

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

CONTENTS.

ARTICLE

I. JOHN WESLEY

II.

III.

1. The Life of Wesley; and Rise and Progress of

Methodism. By Robert Southey.

2. The Life of the Rev. John Wesley, M. A. Collect-

ed from his Private Papers and Printed Works; and

written at the Request of his Executors, etc. By

John Whitehead.

3. The Life of the Rev. John Wesley, A. M. By

Richard Watson.

ON THE NEGLECT OF THE LORD'S SUPPER

NATURE AND CHRISTIANITY

[A Dudleian Lecture, delivered in the Chapel of the Uni-

versity at Cambridge, May 12, 1847. By Rev. Wil-

liam H. Furness.]

IV. DR. PAYSON AND HIS WRITINGS

Memoir, Select Thoughts, and Sermons of the late Rev.

Edward Payson, D. D. Compiled by Rev. Asa Cum-

mings.

V. RELIGIOUS ASPECT OF THE TIMES

The Life of Martin Luther. Gathered from his own

Writings. By M. Michelet.

VII. THE AMERICAN LOYALISTS

The American Loyalists, or Biographical Sketches of

the Adherents to the British Crown in the War of the

Revolution; alphabetically arranged, with a Prelim-

inary Historical Essay. By Lorenzo Sabine.

NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Norton's Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels,

Second Edition. - Additions made in the Second Edi-

tion, etc.

Defence of Gesenius's Hebrew Grammar,

Felton's Agamemnon of Eschylus,

140

Hymns for Christian Devotion,

143

Jenks's Explanatory Bible Atlas and Scripture Gazetteer,

144

Pray's History of Sunday Schools,

145

Progressive Lessons for Sunday Schools,

The Words of Christ,

Wilson's Scripture Proofs and Illustrations of Unitarianism,

Sparks's Library of American Biography, Vol. XIII.

Morning and Evening Meditations,

Steele's Moral Philosophy,

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Parker's Sermon of the Dangerous Classes, - Services at

the Ordination of Rev. O. B. Frothingham, - Pierce's

Half-Century Discourse, Peabody's Sermon on the

Triumphs of War, - Chapin's Discourse on True Pa-

triotism, Babbidge's Centennial Address, - Sumner's

Lecture on White Slavery in the Barbary States,

Richardson's Letter, and Reports on Exchange of Pulpit

Services,-Pages from the Ecclesiastical History of

New England, Goff's Inquiry on the Original Use

and Import of the Terms, Sheol, Hades, etc., - Review

of Dr. Putnam's Discourse, - Report on American Sla-

very,

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INTELLIGENCE.

Religious Intelligence. Ecclesiastical Record, New

York Unitarian Association,- The Anniversaries, -

American Unitarian Association, Unitarian Collation,
Ministerial Conference, Sunday School Society,-
Convention of Congregational Ministers,
ings of the Week, — Installation,

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Other Meet-

Obituary. Rev. William Mason, Rev. W. B. O. Pea-

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CONTENTS.

ARTICLE

I. JOHN CALVIN

History of the Life, Works, and Doctrines of John

Calvin. From the French of J. M. V. Audin.

Translated by the Rev. John McGill.

II. RELATION OF LIBERAL CHRISTIANITY TO OUR AGE AND

COUNTRY

[An Address, delivered before the Ministerial Con-

ference in Boston, May 26, 1847. By Rev. Samuel

Barrett.]

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III. MILLARD'S TRAVELS

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A Journal of Travels in Egypt, Arabia Petræa, and the

Holy Land, during 1841-2. By David Millard.

IV. NOYES'S TRANSLATION OF THE PSALMS

204

By

A New Translation of the Book of Psalms, with an In-

troduction, and Notes, chiefly Explanatory.

George R. Noyes.

V. STUDY OF ORNITHOLOGY

Elementary Course of Natural History, being an Intro-

duction to Zoology: intended for the College and

the Parlour. Elements of Ornithology. By Charles

Brooks.

VI. MORAL WRONG OF SLAVERY

1. The American Churches, the Bulwarks of American

Slavery. By an American.

2. Domestic Slavery considered as a Scriptural Institu-

tion. In a Correspondence between the Rev. Richard

Fuller, of Beaufort, S. C., and the Rev. Francis

Wayland, of Providence, R. I.

3. Slavery discussed in Occasional Essays, from 1833

to 1846. By Leonard Bacon.

4. An Inquiry into the Scriptural Views of Slavery.

By Albert Barnes.

5. Christianity and Slavery: a Review of the Corre-

spondence between Richard Fuller, etc., and Fran-

cis Wayland, etc. By William Hague.

6. A Letter to the Right Reverend L. Silliman Ives,

Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the

State of North Carolina, occasioned by hislate Ad-

dress to the Convention of his Diocese. By a Prot-

estant Episcopalian.

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