THE

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CHRISTIAN EXAMINER

AND

RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.

VOLUME XXXIX.

FOURTH SERIES, VOLUME IV.

JULY, SEPTEMBER, NOVEMBER, 1845.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM CROSBY.

NEW YORK: C. S. FRANCIS & CO.

LONDON: JOHN CHAPMAN, 121 NEWGATE ST.

1845.

Andrews, Prentiss & Studley, Printers,

11 Devonshire Street.

CONTENTS.

Article

I. HISTORY OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE ATONEMENT,

Die Christliche Lehre von der Versöhnung in ihrer

geschictlichen Entwicklung von der ältesten Zeit

bis auf die neueste. Von Dr. F. C. Baur.

II.-IMMORTALITY,

III.-CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH AND HER WRITINGS,

1. Personal Recollections. By Charlotte Elizabeth.

2. Principalities and Powers in Heavenly Places,

etc. etc. By Charlotte Elizabeth.

IV. CHRISTIAN PEACE, OR CHRISTIAN UNION?

V.-SOCIAL INEQUALITIES,

1. The Perils of the Nation.

2. Remedies suggested for some of the Evils which

constitute the Perils of the Nation.

VI-RIGHTS, CLAIMS, AND DUTIES OF OPINION,

[An Address delivered before the Berry Street Min-

isterial Conference.]

VII.-CHURCH MUSIC,

VIII-RELATION BETWEEN THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS,

A Critical Commentary and Paraphrase on the Old

and New Testament and the Apocrypha. By

Patrick, Lowth, Arnald, Whitby and Lowman.

NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Vinet's Vital Christianity: Essays and Discourses on

the Religions of Man and the Religion of God,

Child's Letters from New York, Second Series,

A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for the Sanctu-

ary,-Christian Hymns for Public and Private

Worship,

A Scripture Catechism; containing the Principles

of the Christian Religion, stated in the Words of

the Bible,

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102

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132

133

Rejoinder to the "Reply" of Hon. Horace Mann to

the "Remarks" of the Association of Boston Mas-

ters,

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Page

Fox's Allegories and Christian Lessons,-Hebrew

Tales, Ella Herbert; or Self-Denial,- Sedge-

wick's Moral Tales, for Young People,-Marti-

neau's Five Years of Youth; of Sense and Senti-

ment,

INTELLIGENCE.

Religious Intelligence.-Ecclesiastical Record,-The

Anniversaries,-American Unitarian Association,

-The Collation,-Berry Street Ministerial Con-
ference, Sunday School Society,-Clerical Meet-
ing on Slavery,-Administration of the Lord's
Supper-Prayer and Conference Meetings-Other
Anniversary Meetings,-Ordinations and Installa-
tions, Dedication,

Obituary.-Hon. Leverett Saltonstall,-Rev. Edward

H. Edes,

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CONTENTS.

Article

I. STRAUSS'S LIFE OF JESUS-THE MYTHIC THEORY,

1. Das Leben Jesu, kritisch bearbeitet. Von David

Friedrich Strauss.

2. Voices of the Church in Reply to Dr. D. F. Strauss.

Edited by Rev. J. R. Beard, D. D.

II.-MORISON'S LIFE OF SMITH,

Life of the Hon. Jeremiah Smith, LL. D., Member

of Congress during Washington's Administration,

Judge of the United States Circuit Court, Chief

Justice of New Hampshire, etc. By John H.

Morison.

III.-ROSE'S TRANSLATION OF NEANDER,

The History of the Christian Religion and Church

during the three first Centuries. By Dr. Augustus

Neander. Translated from the German by Henry

John Rose, B. D.

IV. POETICAL CONTRIBUTIONS,

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191

No Heart Alone, - Retranslation, - Life.

V.-BLANCO WHITE RATIONALISM,

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195

The Life of Rev. Joseph Blanco White, written by

Himself, with portions of his Correspondence.

Edited by John Hamilton Thom.

VI.-SCHAF ON PROTESTANTISM,

220

The Principle of Protestantism as related to the

Present State of the Church. By Philip Schaf,

Ph. D. Translated from the German, with an

Introduction, by John W. Nevin, D. D.

VII.-POETS AND POETRY OF EUROPE,

225

The Poets and Poetry of Europe. By Henry W.

Longfellow.

VIII. THE MORAL CHARACTER OF CHRIST,

IX.-MEMOIR OF BISHOP GRISWOLD,

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Memoir of the Life of the Rt. Rev. Alexander Viets

Griswold, D. D., Bishop of the Protestant Episco-

pal Church in the Eastern Diocese. By John S.

Stone, D. D.