THE

CHRISTIAN EXAMINER

AND

RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.

VOLUME XXXVIII.

FOURTH SERIES, VOLUME III.

JANUARY, MARCH, MAY, 1845.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM CROSBY.

NEW YORK: C. S. FRANCIS & CO.

LONDON: JOHN CHAPMAN, 121 NEWGATE ST.

1845.

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I-ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE,

History of Europe from the Commencement of

the French Revolution in 1789 to the Restoration

of the Bourbons in 1815. By Archibald Alison,

F. R. S. E., Advocate.

II. ON THE RELUCTANCE TO PRAY,

III.-FESTIVALS OF THE ANCIENT CHRISTIANS,

Denkwürdigkeiten aus der Christlichen Archäologie;

mit beständiger Rücksicht auf die gegenwärtigen

Bedürfnisse der Christlichen Kirche, von D. Johann

Christian Wilhelm Augusti.

IV.—BEAUTY,

V. THE CONNECTION BETWEEN INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL

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CONTENTS.

CULTURE,

1. An Address delivered before the Society of the

Alumni of Harvard University, August 27, 1844. By

Daniel Appleton White.

VI. THE CHurch,

2. An Oration delivered at Cambridge, before the Phi

Beta Kappa Society in Harvard University, August

29, 1844. By George Putnam.

Lectures on certain High-Church Principles com-

monly designated by the term Puseyism. By

Thomas Madge.

VII.-WRITINGS OF R. W. EMERSON,

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Essays: Second Series. By R. W. Emerson.

1. Expository Lectures, on the principal Passages of

the Scriptures, which relate to the Doctrine of the

Trinity. By George W. Burnap.

2. Lectures on Christian Doctrine. By Andrew P.

Peabody.

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NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Hildreth's Theory of Morals,

Choules's Reprint of Neal's History of the Puritans,
Colman's Consolatory Views of Death,

Sparks's Library of American Biography, Vol. iii,
Downing's Landscape Gardening and Rural Archi-
tecture,

Colman's European Agriculture and Rural Econo-

my, Vol. i. Parts 1 and 2,

Notes on Cuba,

Flint's Historical Address,-Eaton's Poem,
Story's Phi Beta Kappa Poem,-Benjamin's Poem
before Mercantile Library Association,

Burnap's Discourse on Duties of Citizen Soldier,—

Emerson's Address on Emancipation in West

Indies, Greeley's Address before Literary Socie-

ties of Hamilton College,-Hodges's Address at

Laying Corner-stone of Meeting-house in Somer-

ville, Sargent's Lecture on the late Improve-

ments in Steam Navigation and the Arts of Naval

Warfare-Peabody's Lecture before Portsmouth

Lyceum,-Remarks on Rev. Mr. Putnam's Phi

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INTELLIGENCE.

Religious Intelligence.-Ecclesiastical Record,—Protes-

tant Episcopal Church,-Ordinations,-Dedication,

Literary Intelligence.-New Works,-Common Schools,

Lectures,—Unitarian Works Abroad,

Miscellaneous Intelligence.—Replies to the Address of

English Unitarians,

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CONTENTS.

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I. CONVENTIONS AND CONFERENCES,

II.-LIFE IN THE SICK ROOM,

Life in the Sick-Room. Essays.

Martineau.

III.-MISS BREMER'S NOVELS,

Fredrika Bremer's Novels.

IV.-BUSH ON THE RESURRECTION,

Anastasis

or the Doctrine of the Resurrection of

the Body, rationally and Scripturally considered.

By George Bush.

V. MINISTERING SPIRITS,

VI.-POETRY,

By Harriet

1. A Drama of Exile; and other Poems. By Eliza-

beth B. Barrett.

2. Poems. By Frances Anne Butler.

3. Poems. By Christopher Pearse Cranch.

4. Irish Girl; and other Poems. By Sarah Ellis.

5. Gonzalvo: or the Fall of Grenada. By Charles

Hood.

6. The Waif: a Collection of Poems.

7. Conversations on some of the Old Poets. By
James Russell Lowell.

VII. MASSACHUSETTS BOARD OF EDUCATION,

1. Eighth Annual Report of the Board of Education,

with the Eighth Annual Report of the Secretary

of the Board.

2. Abstract of the Massachusetts School Returns for

1843-44.

3. Remarks on the Seventh Annual Report of the

Hon. Horace Mann.

4. Reply to the “Remarks” of Thirty-one Boston

Schoolmasters on the Seventh Annual Report of

the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Edu-

cation. By Horace Mann.

5. Observations on a Pamphlet entitled "Remarks

on the Seventh Annual Report of the Hon. Horace

Mann."

VIII.-LIFE AND DISCOURSES OF THE LATE REV. G. W.

WELLS,

Practical Discourses. By George Wadsworth

Wells. With a Memoir.

IX.-MR. ARKER AND HIS VIEWS,

1. Fourth Quarterly Report of the Executive Com-

mittee of the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches.

2. Obstacles to the Truth. A Sermon. By John

T. Sargent.

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