The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-02 00:00:00

MAGAZINES-CON TINU ED.

THE CHRISTIAN REFORMER.
Sherwood and Co.
The present Number commences with the " Notes
on Passages of Scripture," a series of papers, the
nature of which is sufficiently explained by the title.
As a specimen of the writer's manner as a commen-
tator, we extract the following just remarks on
Exod. xxxi. 13 ;---., ,My Sabbaths
tiA ye shall keep
for it [the Sabbath] is a sign be
Ten me and you,
throughout your generations.'
'Phis command re-
spects the observance of the Sabbath by the Israel-
ites, even at the time of their fitting up the taber-
nacle. In the 16th and 17th verses, we find it de-
clared that a weekly day of rest (namely, the
seventh)
~iti,d in
between both
is of perpetual obligation among theca ; ai
passages Jehovah calls the Sabbath
a sign'
himself and that people—' a lasting covenant'
` a sign for ever. Accordingly the Christian :—..
i..criptures always represent the Sabbath as a Jewish
or finance. It is abrogated under the Gospel, and
Rom lin writers also describe it as, equally with cir.
eumciskin, a, distinctive mark of the followers of
Moses. Judaism is not Christianity ; Judaism,
though of superhuman origin, and admirably fitted
to prepare its cotaries and mankind for a better dis-
pensation, must not be confounded with ' the Truth
and Grace' which the Messiah brought. It was
the Law' which ' came by Moses :' the ileca•
Lqgue is a mummery of it ; and I see no propriety,
1
hut:. the reverse, in the custom of reading this in
Chri.:itan worship. The practice upholds at least
one serious error—the opinion that domestic reli-
gious
services may be omitted for six days
of the weak, in the event of their being
performed on the first." " Belief in the miracles,
the necessary
consequence of belief in the ordinary
ls, of the Christian Scriptures," is a well-written
and
ingenious article. " Church and State is a
1 reprint of the admirable article in a late Number of
4 the Edinburgh Review, in which Mr. Gladstone's
book on that subject is rather roughly handled.
.- - The
pleadings
in ,
' Lady Hewley's Case" are con-
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tinned in this Number from Mr. Gurney's notes.
There is a variety of other articles which we have
not time to specify. On the whole, the Number

;God one.

THE SPORTING REVIEW.

This Review, like its Contemporaries, the Old
and the New Magazines, contains two engravings,
each exquisite, and telling its history with forcible
and felicitous truth ; but the American disposition
to go ahead and win is displayed also, by the com-
mencement of a series of " Limnings from Life ;"
the first of which, etched by Landells, is " The
Turn-out of the Season." The turn-out is D'Or-
say's. He is represented entering the Park, with
the horses' heads just passed the Wellington Sta-
tue, in his well-appointed curricle. The tiger be-
hind is the impersonation of the tiger—it's he to a
tee ; while the coat, cuffs, gloves, hat, and whiskers
are as truly the peculiar property of the Count as
long use and grace, beyond the reach of art, :n the
wearer could make them ; but of the man himself we
see nothing, his face, for the artist's convenience, being
turned somewhat too much to the sculptured Achil-
les, and too little towards the horses, who are step-
ping together with that fine lofty magnificent action
which is the characteristic of the coursers always
driven by our true son of Phoebus and Clymene.
The literary portion of the Review is distin-
guished by good taste, mingled with much and
varied talent. There is not either a stupid, a
twaddling, or a vulgar page in the whole number.
The tact of the editor is shown at •the outset : his
" Doncaster Meeting," instead of being a mere
collection from stale reports, is a pleasant, sensible,
well-informed, original production.
Nimrod, with hounds, as usual, is in " a good
place," and delights us with the description of a hunt-
ing tour in the midland counties. And it is evident
that those who ride with him in the Review are not
mere sportsmen, but well-informed, genuine Eng-
lish gentlemen, animated by a hearty, cheerful, in-
vigorating spirit that refreshes one in these lack-
a-daisical and degenerate days.