The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-06-09
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NEGOTIATIONS OK THE LAST Days OF CHRIST To-
gether with eight Meditations the Seventeenth
Chapter of John BY w, g. Schaufler Mission
AIRY at Constantnople. Boston Jewett Co For
sale by Gray Ballantyne, Washington d. C.
We know of no work which is so worthy to be
placed alongside of the Reflections OF Bishop Hail.
as the UeditatiOns of the Missionary Schauf-
Ter. They are rich with beautiful thoughts,
gracefully expressed The reader will be sur
prised that the topics treated of, and which he
doubtless believes himself to be familiar with,
could be so treated as to surprise him with new
points Of view, and new relations The death
OF Christ, and the last days Of Christ, must ever
be, of all other subjects of interest, the most
tender and the most important. This work is
worthy of all acoeptation.
LIVING TO CHRIST. A Mothers Memorial of De
parted Daughter. With Introduction by Rev
Asa d. Smith, d. d. New York Carter & Brothers
For sale by Gray i Ballantyne, Washington, D. c.
| This is a little work which will be read with
interest and with great advantage by chill
dren. 1t is what the title claims for it. "A
Mothers Memorial to a Departed Daughter"
Voices FROM THE SILENT LAND; or, Leaves of Con
ISOLATION to the Afflicted. By Mrs, II Dwight Will
liams Boston J. P. Jewett Co. For sale by
Gray Ballantyne, Washington, ID. C.
These Leaves of Consolation have been gath
cred from the best modern writer's and there
are, and ever will be, bereaved souls to whom
this book would be most precious and season.
able gift.
MEMOIR OF MARY L. WARE, wife of Henry Ware
junior. By Edward B. Hall. The fifth thousand)
Boston Crosby, Nichols 4 Co For sale by Gray
4 Balantyne, Washington, D. c.
The wife of the late Professor Henry Ware
jun, of Cambridge, was eminently worthy of
the man with whom she stood associated in the
ties of married life. She has given US a beau
tful picture of her life, in the story first pub
lished in Dickens's Household Words and re-
Gently collected and printed in this country,
entitled "The Sickness and Health of the
People of Bleaburn" In this story we see Mrs
Ware, in scenes of suffering, manifesting un-
wearied sympathy, gentleness, and goodness.
The letters written by Mrs v are from o.
motherly, the Bleaburn Of the tale, show that
her labors and devotion to the suffering poor
are pictured from the life, as well as to the life
We honor such true mothers in Israel /"
they are the beautiful exemplars of Christiani-
ty. And Mrs. Wares letters are worth the
reading They breathe sentiments and aspra-
tons which may be welcomed and followed by
all. Everything is womanly about Mrs. Ware
She had no longing to be anything other than
good, affectonate daughter and sister, and
loving and loved wife and mother. Her reli
gous life was calm, and her death full of peace
Her last words were, This peace this peace
it is all here. have not sought tit came
1t was sent"
Triumphant in thy closing eye
The hope of glory shone;
Joy breathed in thy expiring sigh,
To think the race was
THY passing spirit gently fed,
Sustained by grace divine;
Oh may such grace US be shed,
And make our end like thine -
The BIBLE HYMN Book. Edited by Rev Horatus
Bonar.
This book has been reprinted by bereaved
father, in compliance with the wish of a little
son, who wanted that this book which he en-
jOyed so much, should be placed within the
reach of others So far as we have examined
the book, the editor has preserved the integrity
of the hymns he has selected most distin-
guished and rare merit Strange as it ought
to be, nothing is 30 common in our days as
pious Doctors of Divinity, who, in making up
their various collections of "Lyres," "Chrs-
tian Hymn Books" and Village Hymns" in
stigated by the demon of dullness, (if nothing
worse,) have never hestated to improve the
lyrics of Watts, Doddridge, Cowper, and Wes-
ley-and, too, those very hymns which have
been gems of poetry-till, at last, it is hard to
find collection of psalms and hymns in any
church, in which hymns have not been basely
mutilated We have before us, an edition Of
Village Hymns, by Asahel Nettleton in which
the wel-known hymn of Charles Wesley is most
horribly defaced and altered. For example
| the second verse read thus in the original
"0ther refuge have none;
Hangs my helpless soul on thee
Leave, ah leave me not alone
Still support and comfort me
| All my trust on thee is stayed
All my help from thee bring
Cover my defenceless head
With the shadow of thy wing"
Now. Mr.. Nettleton could not keep his hands
of from changing these lines to the following
''other refuge have none
Lo, helpless hang on thee
Leave, oh leave me not alone,
| Lost basely shrink and flee.
Thou art all my trust and aid, &c.
There is not collection, in our knowledge,
where common honesty has been observed by
these makers Of hymn-b books. We believe a
collection of Sacred Lyrics made up from
original sources without the change OF r
comma, would be, in popularity, only exceiled
| by Unele Toms Cabin.
REASON AND Farm, and other Mscellanies of Henry
Rogers, author of The Eclipse Of Faith Boston
Crosby, Nichols, a Co, For sale byTaylor Maury,
Washington, ID. G.
independent of its own individual merit the
fact that this book is from the pen that wrote
"Tk Eclipse Of Faith" will insure it wide
circulation. II is composed of collection OF
essays, upon theological, political, and literary
subjects published from time to time, during
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