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      The Christian Monitor has , it does not appear wny , come to a sudden termination ; but more attention is due to the First Volume of the New Series than a deceased periodical usually attracts , on account of its containing the complete series of Dr . Biber ' s Lectures on Education ,

      delivered at the Harp-Alley School-Room , Fleet Street , last spring . The work itself is a mere report of sermons , mostly Calvinistic ones , delivered at p 6-pular places of worship in the metropolis , interspersed , however , with some valuable hints to parents , and some specimens of selections from Scripture and from our own ancient chronicles , for the use of young people , as illustrations of Dr . Biber ' s ideas . But the lectures occupy a considerable

      proportion of the volume . As they abound in serious and weighty truths , conveyed , on the whole , in most impressive ( though occasionally obscure ) language , they are well worthy attention ; and , startling as some of the ideas may seem to persons unaccustomed to compare Christianity as it is set forth ia the Scriptures with Christianity as we see it in its corrupted form around us , the honest inquirer will not be deterred from an attempt to look at the subject with an unprejudiced mind .

      A name is nothing ; and if Pestalozzi ' s name stands in the way of any candid investigation of principles , it is better to let it be mentioned no more ; but we cannot nelp adverting here to the partial view taken of this great and good man ' s labours by a late writer in the Edinburgh Review . This writer has , indeed , expressed the common feelings of good minds in contemplating the labours of a life consecrated to the service of society : but he does not seem to have an idea of the manner in which Pestalozzi desired

      to serve his fellow-creatures . He has left altogether out of sight this , which is the noblest characteristic of his views ; for Pestalozzi looked far beyond that exercise of the personal and social feelings which is bounded by their power of administering to the comfort of this life . Perhaps no one ever conceived more justly or nobly of the benignity of the Creator and the dignity of human nature ; perhaps no one ever conceived of existence as

      involving more extensive responsibilities ; still more , perhaps no one has formed a more enlarged view of the Christian dispensation , its ultimate tendency , and its designed effects upon human character , than Pestalozzi . Its generous , free , and lofty spirit , he had , in a more than common degree , permitted himself to imbibe . He wished all to be , what he certainly was , willing servants of God ; and hence he had respect not merely to the useful morality of the gospel , but to its generous influences upon the spirit . Yet , though constantly keeping before his eyes" the grand aim of leading man to

      the Spurce of his existence , from whence he may come with replenished stores of light and love to bless the beings that surround him , he never forgets , in his desire to spiritualize human life , that no human being can completel y fulfil the purposes of his creation , unless he be conducted step by step through all those different stages of individual and social development in which the powers of his whole nature may receive cultivation . It is in the minute application of its spirit to the details of education , that both Pestalozzi and his followers have testified their deep-seated regard to Christianity ; and where the reader may doubt and differ , he yet , if a true

      * Dr . Biber ' s " Lectures on Education , " published in the Christian Monitor and Family Friend . Vol . I . New Series . Cowie and Strange .

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      BIBER ' S LECTURES ON EDUCATION . *

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1828, page 817, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2567/page/17/