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    SUNDAY-SCHOOL HYMNS.f

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    Acton's Lectures. *

    as still Ui £ med | uj ^ ojf spiritublessings , the appointed steward of ( Jo . d to dispense his foyoup & ' Q $ Linjercies to faithfiij souls , the cliose ^ ins ^ irvei ^ t in whom i ^ Jtid ty Mforii the Fattier is still operating to reconcile tli ^ wo rld unto himself . Aoy ^ attempt to explain the precise manner and degree of our Saviour ' s j ) r < 6 S € rvt niiiitstFatioTi in the moral and spiritual epneeriis < 6 ? mankind <* vo > uld b £ B & eking- $ o he wise above what ; is written for our instruction , and mig ^ fc h % justly < U ) efl to the charge of presumption ,. Bat in the ^ eiueral the

    dQ cteiPQ ? the # e appeal ® to me to be truth supported I > y the authority of scripture , t , r ^ % i per fe ^ M # ^ gr ^ eaMe to dictates of right reason ^ , truth abounding Unholy au 4 s ^ onsolato-y inflaejjcies . It is cheering to jt ^ e m iad , struggling against thq f . Qmptajtio ^ s of the world and the manifold w ^ akn ^ ssjes of humanity , to bejieve that if vye sin , we still have an advocate * with fcfce Father ., Jesus Christ the righteous . There is something at once soothing and elevating in the thought , that Jesus our elder brother , that holy and merciful man , is engaged in so near and interesting a relation between ourselves and

    our Father m heaven . All minds may not feel an equal need of such influences to support them in trial and trouble . This kind of provision for assisting mem to comply with the obligations of righteousness , may not be necessary in the more advanced stages of our progress towards perfection . Perhaps the Scriptures imply thus much , when they represent the consummation of God ' s moral government as consisting in the surrender of our Saviour ' s personal authority and agency , that God may be all in all ; that the union between the Father of spirits and the souls of his regenerate creatures

    may be full and direct . But in the present condition of human nature , all minds , however wise and philosophic , require tbe aid of these gracious influences resulting from an earnest faith in the personal mediation of Christ , from regarding him as the friend of sinners , the appointed Saviour of them that believe and obey ; all minds , at least , may be rendered happier and better by a rational and serious attention to these peculiarly Christian principles . ' —Pp . 38—41 .

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    Sunday-School Hymns.F

    SUNDAY-SCHOOL HYMNS . f

    Sunday-School Hymns.F

    What are our Infant Schoolmasters about ? What aire the grave and good people of England about that they do not look into their proceedings a little more closely , and see whether they are subscribing to things good or bad , to useful institutions , on mere humbuggery ? Numerous , indeed , as are the impositions which ,, under the name of education , have been passed off in the world , we know nothing more curious in its way than that termed Ihe Infant School system * What is it ? Who originated id ? Who are the individuals that preserve its identity , and whatt are the modifications it has received ? Is it , in short , quite another thing from what was first pretended or supposed ? To the latter question we are inclined to answer decisively in the affirmative . The original Infant Schools aimed at nothing more than the care of babes , whose parents were supposed to be occupied in manufactories throughout the day ; it was imagined , and lightly , that it must be n humane thing to rescue these poor infants from the corrupt air and harsh treatment tto which they were frequently exposed , and benevolence readily added the idea of making their ^ as happy -as possible , of i ' urnishang them

    * It would have been well for tl > c author to state exactly what idea , he annexes to the term advocate . f Original Hymns for the Use , of Infant Schools . By William Bane ., Master of the ShorcdiU'li Infants' SchooL Houlstou .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1830, page 826, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121830/page/26/