Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-12-18
NASHVILLE:
FRIDAY, DECEMBER Is. 1857.
Notice.


THE Story OF PooKKT BIBLE. with corrections
and additions Illustrated. WILEY & HALsTED:
NstO York.
A neatly bound and finely printed work of
nearly $50 pages, whose severely simple out
ward appearance forms key to tie plain and
earnest teachings to be found within. 1t APP
peared at first, anonymously, in the columns
of an Euglish periodical, and even yet the
name of the author is unknown to the Amsr-
can publisher; bat Judging from some features
of the story, as well as The intimate scquain-
lance with the peculisritiea of the Scottish
dialect, displayed in its pages, we judge the
writer to be Sootehman. The idea is strength
ened too when We consider tke theology taught
in 1t, which though net ~ any acknowledged
sect, is characterized tY the evangelical pound-
ness and feTvor OF the Scottish faith Tho In
PRODUCTION OF tho ANlll faalm Ia " Rsusss
Versionn-(now considered almost ohaolste. }
is another "stFaw" Of Specification which goes
to show its Scottish orisin,-this old version
of the Psalms Of David being used by the " 90
venanters" Of the o!den, aud the "Seoeders 4"
of the modern time.
to make it engaging to the mind Of the read
or, especially if that reader DO young, or of
purs aud unadulterated tastes The spirit
which characterizes its teachings is true and
enarest, aud there is great variety of scene
alike truthfully and gracefully portrayed. It
exhibits the influence of divine truth, alike in
the home of af1uence, and the dens of power
fba nd viF
the pestilence of crime which rankles and fes-
tiers, behind the gloomy prison walls. And
whether its consultations are directed to the
young and lovely invalid, Mary Duncan, or its
denunciations towards the scoffer, Greene =
whether it stills the doubtings of Albert Nor
ton, speaks in thunder tones to the ungody
mother over the death-couch of her neglected
child, or summons the ''chariot of fire. to re-
ceive the disemboded spirit Of "puir auld
Davie," we see and acknowledge in it the
workings of the spirit of God over all
things, blessed forever''
The episode of the hoary drunkard with
ing under the lash of conscience, and remem-
bering even in his lowest degradation some
thing of the purity and blessedness of his dear
cation of the text Therefore shall they eat
of the fruit of their own way, and be filed
with their own devices ;"-aGd the story of
Zeoh ViCkers is living testimony of the truth
of those words ale that beleYeth, shall not
be COMPOUNDED, land "when the enemy COM
eth in like a food, the Spirit of the Lord shall
lift up a standard against himl" One little
extract we may be pardoned,-as it exhibits
so clearly the fOlly-aye, worse than folly of
teaching the Bible to children as task 1t is
the instance of the young convict:
Look here " he said fercely-"You talk
as if did not Fnow anything aboutthe Bible.
Why, can't take it in my hand, you see,
without its opening itself at places where
have had to learn chapter after chapter, and
was beaten before learned them, and beaten
while l was learning them, and beaten after
had learned them, because I bad not learned
them quick enough, or we'll enough; and as
he said this his bosom heaved with passionate
There are many parents who
though they may not pursue exactly this
course with their children, nevertheless, mar
the beautiful teachings of this blessed Book,
by exacting it as a task. Wise are they who
open its fountains of Giving water, but who
never bid their little ones to drink save in the
spirit of love and kndnessl We can earnest
ly recommend this little work to the consider
alton of the young, and we trust that in so do
ing it may prove unto them SAVIOR of life
unto life" enable them at the last to exulting-
ly exclaim, Thanks be unto God who giveth
US the victory though our Lord Jesus Christ"
For sale by W. T. BERRY & Co.