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Plymouth and the Pilgrims; or Incidents Of Adoer,
tuys in The History Of the First Settlers. BY Jo-
sEPH BANvARD. Boston: GOULD & LINCOLN.
1851.
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The Epoch of Creation. The Scripture Doctrine
COntrasted ,oith the Geological Theory. By ELE-
AGAR Lord. With an introduction by RICH
ARD w Dickinson, ID. ID. New York: CHARLES
ScRIBNER. 1851.
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Lectures the Lords Prayer. BY WILLIAM r.
WILLIAMS. Boston: GOULD & LINCOLN. 1851.
petitions, brief in the wording, but withal
large in the meaning. Insomuch that this prayer
can scarce be expounded completely by all the
theoogians that in the world" This extract,
from the old Waldensan gloss the Lords
Prayer, appears on the title page, as the sufficient
apology for series of discourses of q merit that
makes all apology unnecessary. 1t is stated that
the treatises which have been written in comment
on the Lords Prayer would form of themselves no
uncomfortable library, of which we venture to say
the present volume will not be found the least val
uable In his introduction to the discourses, Mr.
WILLIAMS, in remarking upon the fact that the
mother of WAsHINGToN was in the habit of read
ing daily to her household the Contemplations of
Sir Mafthe,o Hale, falls into the following peril
nent reflections:
"Now the work Of Hale, thus the household man
ual in the dwelling of the youthful Washington,
contains long, labored end minute series of Med
itations on the Lords Prayer. How much of the
stern virtue that shone serenely the troubled
strifcs of the Commonwealth and Protectorate,
and over the shameless prohgacy and general de-
basement Of the restored Stuarts, came from the
earnest study Of that prayer, only the Last Day
adequately show. We can see, from the space
it occupies in Hale's volume, what share the sup
plication had in his habtual and most sacred re-
collections. We seem to recognse-in his earnest
importunate depreciation of the sins from which
society held him singuarly free, and in his urgent
and minute applications for all grace and for
those especial excellencies in which his age and
land pronounced him to have most eminently at
tained-the secret of his immunity and his virtue.
Is 1t anciful credulous to infer that directly
indirectly-in his own acquaintance personally
with the work, or in his inherited admiration of
the authors character--our Washington derived
his kindred excelencies from Hale; and that heal
ing virtue thus streamed from the robes of the Sa
viour on the Mount, as he enuncated this form of
northumberland across wide oceans, and
intervening centuries, into the heart and charac-
ter and influence of him whom our people delight
TO hail as the Faith or Of his Country?,,