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      Letters From Germ Aim Y.

      str action which decora poses them , brings them back into connexion with nature * , New edifices are silent ; the ruin speaks . " Bonsteieo , in liis Etudes de i'Homme has presumed beyond the philosopher of Geneva in a passage which brings to mind what has been said more discreetly ( i quote through the German ) by Dro Channing , in his eloquent sermon ,, M & n the Image of his Maker * 6 i I have the ground for the belief in God 9 and in my IrnmorialUy 9 in niy own nature and consciousness . Man is not merely a proof of the Divine existence ; he is also an image of God . There is in God what is human * and In the mind of man what is divine ; the difference is not of kind but of degree ; the infinite divides them without making them dissimilar . God is , what man also is , but with his own divine attributes of Eternity 9 Infinity , Omnipotence ** In a word , God is the ideal of the creature , and the creature is the imperfect image of the Creator To ibis full development he requires another time , another life ., That sense of want which never forsakes us , the weariness of the world , the anticipation of a future state which shall be better suited to the capacities of our nature , iu short the universal faith of the whole human race all proves the truth of the

      philosophical and religious doctrine of the immortality of the soul . * ' Bonsteten is described in a late publication by Damiron as a spiritualist and investigator of the powers and acts of the soul , its intelligence * sensibility , liberty ,, Of the last he professes to have no definite idea * His religions views are derived solely from his Psychology * Damiron ' s essay is

      particularly interesting at this turne * , when France is without a national dominant church ; its subject and title is Sur P Histoire de la Philosophie en France ail dix-neuvieme siecle ,. It indicates , if I mistake not s that philosophy has there begun to retrace her steps and seek religions truth * J . M .

      Leuersfrom Germany* 8ii

      LeUersfrom Germany * 8 II

      Sir, That Part Of The Sixtieth Canon Of ...

      Sir , That part of the sixtieth canon of the Council of Laodicea which contains a catalogue of the books of the Old and New Testaments has been held b y some critics to be a later addition , and borrowed probably from the eightyfifth apostolic canon with some alteration . The words o £ the canon are these : 6 < J Private psalms must not be read in the churchy nor uncanonical books , but solely the canonical books of the Old and New Testaments ; " ( so

      far the genuineness of the text was never disputed ;) " the books which must be read are , of the Old Testament , the Genesis of the world , the Exodus out of Egypt , & c . Of the New Testament , the Gospels according to Matthew ^ Mark 9 & c . " ( the same as in our New Testament canon , excepting Hhe Apocalypse ) . Dr » Bickell , Professor of Jurisprudence at Marburg , having lately examined the evidences of the genuineness of the disputed part of the canon , has communicated the facts and the result to Dr . Ullman ' s

      Journal of Theological Studies and Criticism . The roost remarkable fact which fell under his examination is , not merely the opposite evidences in authorities of the same order , but the opposition and equipoise of proof in one instance in the same authority ,, An Arabic manuscript has among the Greek Councils the Synod of Aatioch with eighty-three canons , that is 5

      twenty-four Antiochian 9 and afty-nine Laodicean ; and here the last canon contains the scripture catalogue , and in it the Apocalypse and Didaskalia of the apostles ; lower down in the same codex appears the Laodicean Council apart , and now without the scripture catalogue Since there is no internal ground for doubting the genuineness of our canon of books of the Old and New Testaments , and the less because it agrees perfectly with that of Cyril-

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1830, page 811, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121830/page/11/