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THE
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CHRISTIAN EXAMINER
AND
RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.
VOLUME XL.
FOURTH SERIES, VOLUME V.
JANUARY, MARCH, MAY, 1846.
BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM CROSBY.
NEW YORK: C. S. FRANCIS & CO.
LONDON: CHAPMAN, BROTHERS, 121 NEWGATE ST.
1846.
PRINTED BY ANDREWS AND PRENTISS,
DEVONSHIRE STREET.
CONTENTS.
Article
I-SAINT AUGUSTINE AND HIS TIMES,
1. Histoire de Saint Augustin, Sa Vie, Ses Œuvres,
Son Siecle, Influence de Son Genie. Par M.
Poujoulat.
2. A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church,
anterior to the Division of the East and West.
Translated by Members of the English Church.
3. Ancient Christianity and the Doctrines of the Ox-
ford Tracts for the Times. By the Author of
"Spiritual Despotism."
II. REV. JOHN ANDREWS, D. D.
III.-NEW HYMN BOOKS.
1. Christian Hymns for Public and Private Worship.
A Collection compiled by a Committee of the
Cheshire Pastoral Association.
2. A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for the Sanct-
uary.
3. A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Social and
Private Worship.
4. Hymns for Public Worship.
5. A Manual of Prayer, for Public and Private Wor-
ship, with a Collection of Hymns.
6. The Psalmist; A New Collection of Hymns for
the use of the Baptist Churches. By Baron Stowe
and S. F. Smith.
7. Psalms and Hymns, for Christian Use and Wor-
ship; prepared and set forth by the General As-
sociation of Connecticut.
8 Christian Psalmist; or Psalms and Hymns, for
the Public, Social, and Private Use of Evangelical
Christians.
9. Hymns and Anthems.
IV.-DUTY OF AMERICAN WOMEN,
The Duty of American Women to their Country.
V.-ON CHRISTIAN UNION,
Critical History and Defence of the Old Testament
Canon. By M. Stuart.
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VII. CHRISTIANITY WITHOut Christ.
VIII-LIFE AND CHARACTER OF DR. WARE.
A Discourse on the Life and Character of the Rev.
Henry Ware, D. D., A. A. S., late Hollis Professor
of Divinity in the University of Cambridge. By
John G. Palfrey, D. D. LL. D.
IX.-PLATO AGAINST THE ATHEISTS,
Plato contra Atheos. Plato against the Atheists;
or, the Tenth Book of the Dialogue on Laws, ac-
companied with Critical Notes, etc. By Tayler
Lewis, LL. D.
X-PRISONS AND PRISON DISCIPLINE,
1. Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the
United States. By D. L. Dix.
2. Nineteenth Annual Report of the Prison Disci-
pline Society.
3. Prisons and Prisoners. By Joseph Adshead.
4. Report on the Construction, Ventilation and De-
tails of the Pentonville Prison.
5. Revue Penitentiaire et des Institutions Prevent-
ivès, sous la Direction de M. Moreau-Christophe.
6. Du Projet de Loi sur la Reforme des Prisons.
Par Leon Faucher.
7. Considerations sur la Réclusion Individuelle des
Détenus. Par W. H. Suringar.
8. Nordamerikas Sittliche Sustande. Von Dr. N. S.
Julius.
9. Archiv des Criminalrechts, herausgegeben von
den Professoren Abogg, etc.
NOTE TO ARTICLE IV. Service Book for the Church of the
Saviour.
NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS.
Page
122
Hackett's Translation of Winer's Grammar of the
Chaldee Language,
141
Edmond's Broken Vow and other Poems,-Hoyt's
Sparks's Library of American Biography, Vol. VII,
147
Sherwin's Common School Algebra,
Unitarian Annual Register for 1846,-Housekeeper's
Annual and Ladies' Register for 1846,
148
Bird's Singer's Text Book,
Martineau's Discourse on Bible and Child,-Hall's
Discourse before Children's Friends' Society,—
Stearns's Sermon on Texas Question.-Ingersoll's
Sermon on Home, Furness's Thanksgiving Ser-
mon,-Gannett's Sermon on Peace;-Remarks on
Sumner's Oration,-Stone's Address before Essex
Agricultural Society,-Lincoln's Address before
Mechanic Association,-Winthrop's Address be-
fore Mercantile Library Association,― Water-
ston's Poem, (before same.)-Eliot's Address be-
fore American Institute of City of New York,
INTELLIGENCE.
NOTICE,
Religious Intelligence.-Ecclesiastical Record,-New
York Convention, Sunday School Convention,
-Ordinations and Installations,-Dedications,—
Clerical Protest,
151
160
I-STUART ON THE APOCALYPSE,
A Commentary on the Apocalypse. By Moses
Stuart.
II-SCHISM IN THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS,
A Narrative and Exposition of the late Proceed-
ings of the New England Yearly Meeting, with
some of its subordinate meetings and their
committees, in relation to the Doctrinal Contro-
versy now existing in the Society of Friends.
By John Wilbur.
III-SAINT AUGUSTINE AND HIS WORKS,
Opera S. Aurelii Augustini.
IV. RETRIBUTION,
V.-BRIGGS'S DISCOURSES,
The Bow in the Cloud: Fifteen Discourses. By
George Ware Briggs.
VI.-DOUBTS CONCERNING THE BATTLE OF BUNKER'S HILL,
VII-POETICAL CONTRIBUTIONS,
The Snow, A Parable,-Invocation,-The Tree
of Life.
161
195
203
224
233
247
266
Memoir of the Life of Henry Ware Jr. By his
Brother, John Ware.
IX.-RELIGIOUS LIFE OF ENGLAND,
284
A Retrospect of the Religious Life of England:
or the Church, Puritanism, and Free Inquiry.
By John James Tayler.
Jenkyn's Extent of the Atonement,-Jenkyn's
Hood's History of Music in New England,—Me-
moirs of a New England Village Choir,-Han-
del's Messiah,
Mountford's Martyria; a Legend,
Cheney's Confessions of an Early Martyr,
301
302
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