THE

CHRISTIAN EXAMINER

AND

RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.

VOLUME LIV.

FOURTH SERIES, VOLUME XIX.

JANUARY, MARCH, MAY, 1853.

BOSTON:

CROSBY, NICHOLS, AND COMPANY.

NEW YORK: C. S. FRANCIS & CO.

LONDON: JOHN CHAPMAN, 142 STRAND.

1853.

CAMBRIDGE:
METCALF AND COMPANY, PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

CP 26.10

34 192

CONTENTS.

ARTICLE

1. RECENT ASPECTS OF JUDAISM

1. Satzungen und Gebräuche des talmudisch-rabbi-

nischen Judenthums. Ein Handbuch für Juristen,

Staatsmänner, Theologen und Geschichtsforscher.

Von Dr. J. F. Schröder.

Von Dr. Julius Fürst.

2. Bibliotheca Judaica.

3. Philosophie und philosophische Schriftsteller der

Juden. S. Munk, mit Anmerkungen von Dr. B..

Beer.

4. Eighteen Treatises from the Mishna. Translated

by Rev. D. A. De Sola and Rev. M. J. Raphall.

5. Twelve Sermons by Dr. Gotthold Salomon. From

the German by Anna Maria Goldsmid.

6. Koheleth. Eine Auswahl gottesdienstlicher Vor-

träge. Von Leopold Stein.

7. Fest-Reden für Israeliten, auf alle Feste des Jahres.

Von Salomon Plessner.

8. Gottes-dienstliche Vorträge über die Wochenab-

schnitte des Jahres. Von J. N. Mannheimer.

9. The Constancy of Israel, a Discourse delivered be-

fore the Congregation Shearit Israel, Charleston, S.

C., on Shabat Parah Adar 18, 5610. By Rev. M.

J. Raphall.

10. The Asmonean. A Weekly Newspaper.

II. SHALL WE INTRODUCE SOME LITURGICAL OR RITUAL

FORMS IN OUR PUBLIC WORSHIP?

III. REFLECTIONS

JV. THE COUNCIL OF EPHESUS

V.

jewo 5. THE EVANGELICAL AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL SPIRIT IN

RELIGION.

VI. GRAY'S ADDRESSES

Sunday School and other Addresses. By Frederick T.

Gray.

A. Bartol.

NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Dr. Elton's Life of Roger Williams,

VII. BARTOL'S DISCOURSES

C.

103

Discourses on the Christian Body and Form. By Melis

Professor Park's Memoir and Works of Dr. Hopkins,

123

130

Professor Goodrich's Select British Eloquence,

138

Miall's Footsteps of our Forefathers,

139

Morley's Life of Bernard Palissy,

140

Barry Cornwall's Essays and Tales in Prose,

141

Mrs. Hale's Woman's Records,

St. John's Village Life in Egypt,

The Works of John Adams,

Bancroft's History of the United States,

Lord Russell's Memoirs of Thomas Moore,

Dr. Hall's Memoir of Mrs. Henry Ware, Jr.,

De Quincey's Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers,
Neander on the First Epistle of John,
Görgei's Life and Acts in Hungary,

Gray and Adams's Elements of Geology,

Lazarus on the Trinity,

Sargent's Standard Speaker and Selections in Poetry,

New Books,

Literary Intelligence. The North British Review on

the Inspiration of the Bible-The Bible in May-

nooth, - President Sparks and Lord Mahon,

Religious Intelligence. Autumnal Unitarian Conven-

tion at Baltimore,- Installation, - Ordination,

Obituaries. Rev. Joseph Harrington, -

Parkman,

-

151

157

Shea's Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi,

188

II. ANSCHAR, THE APOSTLE OF THE NORTH

Anschar a Story of the North. By Richard John

King.

III. PAUL'S DOCTRINE OF THE LAST THINGS

Translation

The Life and Letters of St. Paul; comprising a Com-

plete Biography of the Apostle, and

of his Letters inserted in Chronological Order. By

the Rev. W. S. Conybeare, and the Rev. J. S.

Howson.

202

IV. PITMAN'S PHONETIC ALPHABETS

248

First Phonetic Reader. Fourth Edition.

V. LIFE AND WRITINGS OF DR. CHALMERS

256

Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers,

D. D., LL. D. By his Son-in-law, the Rev. William

Hanna, LL. D.

VI. ON THE PHRASE, 66 THE WORD OF GOD"

277

VII. MACAULAY'S SPEECHES

285

Speeches by the Rt. Hon. Thomas Babington Ma-

caulay, M. P.

NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Bunsen's Hippolytus and his Age

Discourses by the Rev. Theodore Parker, and the Rev.

Hasbrouck Davis

313

Dr. Adams's Friends of Christ in the New Testament 322

Emery's Ministry of Taunton

328

Bulfinch's Hebrew Lyrical History

331

Dr. Smith's Pilgrimage to Palestine

332