Reviews.

A Thought on God's Word, for each Day in
the Month. In Words of One Syllable. By
the Rev. E. DALTON. London: W. H.
Dalton, Cockspur-street.

THIS is undoubtedly a very ingenious and
clever little publication. It might almost
be called the A B C of mind. It has been
truly said, that there is no subject so ab-
struse and difficult, but it may be made
intelligible even to the mind of a child, if
it be but expressed in terms that can be
understood, that is, in words plain and
simple enough for a child to know. Many
seem to think that to teach children they
should lower their teaching to their capa-
cities, and so they talk nonsense and silli-
ness to adapt themselves to the childish
mind.
This little book is a valuable cor-
rective of such an error. It teaches wisdom
and instruction which children can profit
by, and the aged may learn from; but it
does so in a way that the youngest can re-
ceive it and the oldest will find no fault

with.

Remains of the Rev. Philip Henry, A.M., ex-
tracted from Unpublished Manuscripts.
By SIR JOHN BICKERTON WILLIAMS,
Knt., LL.D., F.S.A.

Who has not heard of Matthew Henry and
his Commentary? These are the Remains
of his father, who was one of the clergy
who left the Church of England in the
reign of Charles II., because, with others,
to the number of 2000, he could not find
within it the full enjoyment and exercise of
his conscience. Next we have
The Monthly Series, two volumes, consisting

of Protestantism in France, and the
It is not the least interesting part of this
Arctic Regions.
series, that they continually vary, and, as
in the case of the volumes before us, they
geography, then again science, biography,
sometimes give history, at another time
&c.; and, lastly, we have a very pretty little
neatly got up book called

Scripture Mountains. -It is admirably adapted as a reward-book for children, to RECENT PUBLICATIONS OF THE RELIGIOUS whom the best of all rewards for good-con

TRACT SOCIETY.

duct and improvement is a help to further goodness and to greater improvement. May God, for his dear Son's sake, long continue to bless this excellent Society and its gracious work.

We never walk by the house of the Religious Tract Society, and look up at its noble front, without saying to ourselves, there is a monument of one of the most wonderful works that has ever been carried on The Efficacy of Prayer consistent with the amongst mankind, for we hesitate not to say, Uniformity of Nature. By the late Rev. that no other Institution that has ever exT. CHALMERS, D.D. London: Partridge isted, has been the means, under God, who has blessed it indeed, of doing such a vast and Oakey, Paternoster-row. amount of good with such exceedingly THERE is no more effectual mode of meetmoderate means, as this valuable and de-ing and combatting a controverted point, servedly honoured Society has done. It is little to say of it, that there is no branch of science or learning which it has not helped to render popular by its admirable publications, for this is the least part of its praise. It has rendered common, without in the slightest degree lessening the glory of the Gospel of life; and as it was recorded of our Saviour, that "the common people heard him gladly," so may it be truly said, that through the agency of this Society, the common people have read of Him gladly. But not the common people only. Lords and ladies, philosophers and sages, may do so to; and we have proof of this now lying before us, in a little packet of various works. First we have a work written by a man of birth and station in the world, and of grace and spirit in the church

than by the exhibition of truth. This is the object of the little work thus given in a new shape to the general reader, and which treats of the power of prayer in a manner admirably to refute some plausible mistakes on the subject that have lately been scattered abroad. It is quite sufficient to announce respecting it, that it is the writing of the venerable Chalmers, and that it is reprinted from one of his larger works; thus rendering it within the compass of all, to ensure for it that general attention which the subject and the writer alike demand.

Le Petit Messager des Ecoles du Dimanche.

Jersey, M. GOSSET. London: J. Mason. THIS little periodical, the smallest perhaps that has ever appeared, is not therefore to

I. He should seek by all means to obtain exalted views of God, Isa. vi. 1-5; Ex. xxxiv. 5-9; 2 Cor. iii. 18; Dan. x. 5-9. II. Humiliation and abasement of soul on account of sin and infirmity should follow, and will invariably be found where the heart as well as the judgment is divinely impressed, Isa. v. 21; 2 Sam. vi. 22; Job xlii. 5,6; Ezra ix. 6.

III. He should be convinced of the spirituality of God's law, Ps. xix. 7-9; Ps. cxix. 128, 138, 140, 160; Rom. vii. 14,

IV. He should have a conscience purged from sin and dead works, Heb. ix. 14-x. 22; Isa. vi. 7; and continually resorting to the Fountain opened for sin and uncleanness, should keep his garments always white, Eccles. ix. 8; 1 Peter i. 18, 19.

V. He should seek the witness of the Spirit, Job xvi. 19; Rom. i. 9; 1 John v. 9.

It is further necessary that the teacher should,

I. Be filled with the knowledge of God's will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, and that he should faithfully use the same as the fittest instrument for reproof, correction, and instruction, Job xxxii. 18; Jer. xxiii. 28, 29; Ezek. iii. 3, 4, 10; John xv. 7, 8; Rom. i. 16; Col. iii. 16; Titus i. 9; Rev. xii. 11.

II. He should have a willing mind, Rom. i. 15; 1 Cor. ix. 16, 17; Isa. vi. 8.

III. He should deny himself, (mortifying the deeds of the flesh,) 1 Cor. ix. 27; Gal. v. 24; 1 Peter ii. 11. (Temperance,) 1 Cor. ix. 25; (meekness,) Gal. v. 26; Numbers xi. 28, 29; 2 Tim. ii. 24, 25.

IV. He should be known for purity of spirit, 1 Tim. iii. 7, iv. 12, vi. 11; Lev. xxi. 8; Deut. xviii. 13. Holiness of character, Lev. xx. 26; 1 Tim. iii. 15.

He should abound in zeal, Num. xxv. 11; 1 Cor. xiv. 12.

VI. Diligence, Deut. vi. 7; Prov. xiii. 4; Acts xviii. 25; Heb. vi. 12.

VII. Perseverance, Prov. xxvii. 18; Gal. vi. 9; 2 Thes. iii. 13; 1 Cor. xv. 58. VIII. Love, Col. iii. 12, 14; 1 Pet. i. 22; 1 John iii. 18, iv. 11, 20, 21.

IX. Faith, Matt. ix. 28, 29; Mark xi. 22, 23, 24; Acts vi. 8.

X. Prayer, Jer. xxxiii. 3; Lam. ii. 18, 19; John xvi. 24; Eph. vi. 18.

XI. Holy Boldness, Ezek. ii. 6, 7; Acts iv. 29, 31-xiv. 3.

If these things be in him and abound, they make him that he shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Scripture Illustration,

A HIGHWAY IN THE DESERT. ISA. XL. 3; MAT. III. 3; MARK I. 3; JOHN 1. 23. THE following account of the progress of one of the Chinese emperors, from the capital of his dominions to the city of Ula, in East Tartary, may serve as an illustration of the above, and other similar passages. It is translated by Mr. Lockman, in his "Letters of the Jesuits," from an account of the journey given by Father Gerbillon, one of the Jesuit missionaries to China during the seventeenth century. The good Father's lament is rather amusing:

"From Peking to the extremity of the East, a new road was made in order that the emperor might go conveniently on horseback, and the queens in their chariots. This road is about ten feet wide, and as straight and even as it could possibly be made. It is above a thousand miles in length. On each side of the road a kind of causeway was raised a foot high, always equal and of the same breadth; and these

two causeways were exactly parallel the one to the other. This road was as clean, especially in fair weather, as the barn-floor in which threshers beat the corn; and, indeed, there were persons on the road whose only business was to keep it clean. The Christians do not take so much pains in cleansing the streets, &c., through which the Blessed Sacrament is to go in procession, as these heathen employ in making clean the roads through which their kings and queens pass, whenever they come out of their palaces.

"The like road was made for the emperor's return. The Chinese levelled, as far as they were able, mountains; they raised bridges over floods; and, to adorn them, they hung on each side a kind of mat, on which various animals were painted, and this had the same effect as the carpets which are hung out at processions."

Reviews.

Scripture Mountains. It is admirably adapted as a reward-book for children, to RECENT PUBLICATIONS OF THE RELIGIOUS whom the best of all rewards for good-con

be overlooked or disregarded, for it is one
of the doings of a "day of small things,"
which we will hope to see blessed and in-
creased an hundredfold. It is, we believe,
the first Sunday-school periodical that has
appeared in the French language, and for
that fact alone deserves all the encourage-
ment that can be given to it, and we would
strongly recommend it to Ladies' Schools
as an interesting little work in French, by
the perusal of which pupils may be grati-
fied, and at the same time enabled to pick
up a knowledge and practice of the lan-
guage in an agreeable manner.

Sceptical Doubts Examined. A series of
Dialogues adapted to the Juvenile and
Popular mind. By a MEDICAL PRAC-
TITIONER. Edinburgh: W. Oliphant

men professing godliness are often found; and because, as ought not to be anticipated, for it ought not so to be, the medical profession is one not a whit better in this respect than the military. Now the work we are thus introducing to our readers is written by a medical practitioner, and it is on that very account that it demands of the reader the more respect and consideration. For surely, if, beshrew all the difficulties of such a position, the writer of it has felt so strongly the force and excellency of the truths he defends, they must be deserving of the regard and contemplation of the reader. He will, in fact, find this to be a book of no ordinary kind; and although it pretends not to produce anything new, on topics which have already been largely and learnedly treated of by great divines, yet in its degree, as a pioneer of truth, and as IN early life we were much exercised in the leading the young and misguided in a simmatters treated of in this work, by acquaint-ple and easy manner, it is a useful and ance with some who had unfortunately imbibed, if not sceptical, at least doubtful views on religion. Visiting, on one occasion, an old gentleman who had been the associate of Hume the historian, we were telling him of a recent conversational controversy we had been engaged in, and that, unexpectedly, in the midst of it, we had been supported in a quarter where we had least expected it, by one who was by profession a medical man, and moreover a military Our friend expressed his great surprise at this; and why, think you, gentle reader?-Because, as may be anticipated, the military profession is not one in which

and Sons.

one.

instructive work, that will well repay the interest of a perusal, and may, under God, be made a blessing to the souls of some that are astray.

Hints to Church Members, on the Duties and
Responsibilities arising from Christian
Fellowship. By JABEZ BURNS, D.D.
London: Houlston and Stoneman.

JUST one of those edifying little manuals
which are so needful to remind the laity of
the great and precious privileges that be-
long to them, and which may help to stir
up the gift that is in them.

SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION.

AN aggregate meeting of this Society was held in Exeter Hall, on the 13th ult. The Hall was crowded to excess. The chair was occupied by that veteran in the cause of Sunday-schools, W. F. LLOYD, Esq. We intend next month, to notice the topics introduced to the meeting by the various speakers.

Answers to Correspondents.

W. F. Moore. We are very greatly obliged by your interesting Scriptural Illustrations, and shall be glad to be favoured by a continuation of them.

our Magazine, and would tend to enlarge the minds of young readers especially, by making them acquainted with the condition of our brethren in those lands, and so The German Christmas Tree.-The writer drawing out their sympathies towards them. of this article has our best thanks for it. We are endeavouring to do this with reWe would beg leave to suggest that inform-spect to France, and have for this purpose ation as to Sunday, or indeed other schools opened up communications with friends in in Germany, would be very appropriate to various parts of it.

Tyler and Reed, Printers, Bolt-court, London.

THE

SUNDAY-SCHOOL MAGAZINE.

THE STREAM OF PROPHECY.

TRACES OF THE FULFILMENT OF NOAH'S PROPHECY.

THE HAMITIC RACE.

HAVING taken, in our previous sketch, a general view of the direction and position of the settlements, first occupied by the three great races of mankind, we are now to follow out their successes and reverses severally and separately, that we may mark the dealings of Providence with them, accomplishing what the will of God had foreordained respecting each.

In doing this we will begin by tracing out the first rise and progress of the Hamitic races, which have not, as we conceive, ever been satisfactorily exhibited. They continued, as we have said, at Babel, unaffected by the judgment of God, and undeterred from holding possession and enjoyment of the mighty building which had been erected there. But they did not long remain at unity; a dispersion of them took place. The sons of Ham were, Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. Of these Cush and his descendants continued to the last in possession of Babel, either driving the others away, or persisting to remain there, when all besides had left it. The three families of Mizraim, Phut, and Canaan, followed the course of the Euphrates for some distance, until finding themselves checked by the settlements of the families of Shem, they betook themselves to the seacoast in the vicinity of Tyre and Sidon, and thence turned southward. Canaan and his descendants selected the rich and fertile tract of land between the Mediterranean Sea and the river Jordan; and their tribes known as the Canaanites, are everywhere to be traced by the patronymic termination of their names, ite, as the Jebusite, the Hivite, &c. Mizraim pursued a different track, and went eastward of the Jordan, placing tribes as he passed along, which are distinguished by their patronymic termination, im, as the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaims, the Zuzims, or Zamzummims, (Deut. ii. 20;) in Ham, the Emims, in Shaveh Kiriathaim, the Horims, (Deut. ii. 12;) the Anakims, the Philistims, until at length they came down into Egypt, and there settled in the land of Ham, as it was sometimes called, Psalm cvi. 22. From the fact of a part of the country eastward of the Jordan being called Ham, and Egypt also having the same name, we may justly infer that Ham accompanied his son Mizraim all the way that he came, and settled with him in Egypt. Phut, the other son of Ham, of whom little mention is made, appears to have preceded Mizraim in his NEW SERIES, VOL. II.] APRIL, 1849.

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