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    CRITICAL. NOTICES.

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    obtain its object : at tbe same time a Committee was appointed to prepare materials for investigation * At this meeting I took an unexpected , share ; having to aid in preventing the speakers from giving those details , and that examination of public documents , which would have given our proceedings

    a character , not of preparation for inquiry , but of actual investigation . But tbe statements actually made were very important ; and when it was emphatically declared , " that Bristol owed all the calamities they deplored to the system under the predominance of which they had taken place , " the speaker , Mr . Manchee , was answered by a universal expression of full accordance which could not be mistaken by any one . " Looking on the scenes of devastation around , I indulge the consolatory hope , that the city will ultimately be beneBted , not by , but in consequence

    of , the late tremendous evils . " Such was my statement at the meeting ; and with it I conclude . If good is not brought about , we shall have ourselves alone to blame for it $ for all are awake to the evil , and most are to the leading causes of it . In the order of Divine Providence , evil is the leader on to good . L . CARPENTER .

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    THEOLOGY .

    Art . I . —Sacred Histories , extracted from the Old Testamentt in the Language of the Received Translation , for the Use of Children . London . Hunter . This is the right idea . Here we have * ' Bible Stories" told in the language of the Bible , of the Common Version , that is , and therefore told in the simplest style possible , and simpler than any person of the present day can , however

    great his efforts , hope to write in . The language of the English Bible is the language for children , because it is that language , the genuine old English , of Sax 011 origin , which they hear in the nursery , and in which they are taught to express their earliest wants and desires . On this no laboured effort can , for children , improve . We should be worry if it could . We do not wish to part with the language of the English Bible . It is a well of good . pure , idio-

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    matic English ; and needed in these latter days , when Johnsonianism and Murrayism , the shallowest of all isms , have done and are doing so much , partly in the newspapers , partly in the reviews , and incomparably more through the multiform pests of ignorant governesses , to corrupt and effeminate the language . The importance of filling the mind of children with good English , great as it

    is , must yield to the importance of prepossessing their hearts in favour of the Bible , by means of those most attractive narratives vvi . th which it is fraught . We know that they fix the attention and interest the feelings beyond any other topics that are presented to the youthful mind , and we know that by their instrumentality a lasting attachment t 6 the whole book has been formed . And

    we suppose there is no Christian who would not earnestly desire to have the heart of his child engaged on behalf of a book whence , 111 future life , he is to

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    8 $ > 2 Critical Notices . — Theological .

    Critical. Notices.

    CRITICAL . NOTICES .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1831, page 852, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2604/page/56/