THE

CHRISTIAN EXAMINER

AND

RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.

VOLUME LIII.

FOURTH SERIES, VOLUME XVIII.

JULY, SEPTEMBER, NOVEMBER, 1852.

BOSTON:

CROSBY, NICHOLS, AND COMPANY.

NEW YORK: C. S. FRANCIS & CO.

LONDON: JOHN CHAPMAN, 142 STRAND.

CONTENTS.

ARTICLE

1. PALFREY'S ACADEMICAL LECTURES

Academical Lectures on the Jewish Scriptures and

Antiquities. By John Gorham Palfrey.

II. THE CHRIST OF THE APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS

Das Leben Jesu nach den Apocryphen. Von Rudolph

Hofmann. [The Life of Jesus according to the

Apocrypha. By Rudolph Hofmann.]

III. THE RELIGION OF GEOLOGY

The Religion of Geology, and its connected Sciences.

By Edward Hitchcock, D. D., LL. D.

1. Über die Religion, Reden an die Gebildeten ünter

ihren Verächtern.

2. Monologen. Eine Neujahrsgabe.

3. Der Christliche Glaube, nach den Grundsätzen der

Evang.-Kirche, im Zusammenhang dargestellt, von

Dr. F. Schleiermacher.

4. 1ste und 2te Sendschreiben an Herrn Dr. Lucke.

V. THE CHRISTIAN REVIEW ON ORIGINAL SIN

The Christian Review. Jan., 1852. Art. I. The

Doctrine of Original Sin. Sin a Nature, and that

Nature Guilt.

VI. THOMAS HOPKINS GALLAUDET

Tribute to Gallaudet. A Discourse in Commemoration

of the Life, Character, and Services of the Rev.

Thomas H. Gallaudet, LL. D., delivered before the

Citizens of Hartford, January 7, 1852. With an

Appendix, containing a History of Deaf-Mute In-

struction and Institutions, and other Documents.

By Henry Barnard.

VII. MAN AND NATURE

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NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

The New Series of Sunday School Manuals,

Trench on the Study of Words,

The Works of Dr. Olin,

Hervey's Principles of Courtesy,

Anthon's Manual of Grecian Antiquities,

Harrison's Laws of the Latin Grammar,

Peirce's Plane and Spherical Trigonometry,

Clarke's Eleven Weeks in Europe,

Russell's University Speaker,

Woolsey's Antigone of Sophocles,

Dr. Hill's Quarter-Century Sermon,

Mr. Hale's Sermon on Pauperism,

Dr. Young's Sermon on Madam Prescott,

INTELLIGENCE.

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143

The

Literary Intelligence,

Religious Intelligence. Anniversary Week,

Massachusetts Bible Society, The American Peace

Society, The American Unitarian Association,

Western Unitarian Association, Convention of Con-
gregational Ministers, - The Sunday School Society,
Children's Mission, The Collation,

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Society

for the Relief of Aged and Destitute Clergymen,

Ministerial Conference, Conference and Prayer

Meetings, Installations,

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1. Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mt. Sinai, and

Arabia Petræa, a Journal of Travels in the Year

1838, by E. Robinson and E. Smith.

2. Narrative of the United States Expedition to the

River Jordan and the Dead Sea, by W. F. Lynch,

U. S. N.

3. A Descriptive Geography and Brief Historical

Sketch of Palestine, by Rabbi Joseph Schwartz;

for Sixteen Years a Resident in the Holy Land.

Translated by Isaac Leeser.

4. Scripture Lands, by John Kitto, D. D., F. S. A.

Illustrated by a Complete Biblical Atlas, comprising

24 Maps.

5. The Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature. Edited by

John Kitto, D. D., F. S. A.

III. THE ORIGIN AND FATE OF MORMONISM

The Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints: with Memoirs of

the Life and Death of Joseph Smith, the "American

Mahomet." Illustrated with Forty Engravings.

IV. LORD JEFFREY .

Life of Lord Jeffrey. With a Selection from his Cor-

respondence. By Lord Cockburn.

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V. EUROPEAN TRAVEL

239

Eleven Weeks in Europe, and what may be seen in

that Time. By James Freeman Clarke.

VI. DR. FROTHINGHAM'S SERMONS

258

Sermons, in the Order of a Twelvemonth. By N. L.

Frothingham.