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sins and provocations have most justly deserved , and under wliich we at this present time labour . " The famine of 1847 had visited the sister kingdoms of Scotland and Ireland—the latter most fearfully ; disease and death followed in its train ; and by her majesty in council it was considered right , humbly to approach the footstool of the Eternal , to propitiate His mercy . Throughout England and Ireland the knee bent in humiliation , and the
heart poured forth its prayer for grace . Churches , were throngedsermons on the subject were delivered , and among them the one now before us , which has been printed and circulated . The reverend preacher took his text from 2 Chron . xx . 3 , 4— "And Jehosophat feared and set himself to seek the Lord , and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah . And Judah gathered themselves together , to ask help of the Lord ; even out of all the cities of Judah , they came to seek the Lord . "
The text was apposite enough , and admitted appropriately the investigation of the dreadful state of famine and its horrors , and if the reverend preacher considered that he was bound by the queen ' s proclamation to the offering up prayers and supplications for the removal of heavy judgments , he has certainl y not faltered in his course , for in obedience to the said proclamation from the privy council , he declares from the pulpit that the present , as well as the previous visitations of famine in
1348 , 1438 , and of the plague in 1391 , 1407 , and 1065 , as well as the great fire of London , the cholera of 1832 , were all judgments of the Creator upon the creatures he had made ! Speaking of his congregation he observes , " what is it but a jury empanelled to make inquisition into their own sins , and the sins of their country ? " and hear him again anathematizing the scene of this dreadful visitation , " He who was alike a liar and a murderer from ihe beginning , has been permitted , in the inscrutable judgment of the Lord , to make that land the refuge of lies in its superstitions , and a field of blood in the almost daily deeds of tiie
assassin . " And is this the language of prayer , supplication ^ and humiliation ? No—it is the intolerance of bigotry , and becomes almost an apology for the backslider . Does the preacher examine into natural causes?—does he instance the fable of the waggoner and Hercules?—does he illustrate the universal charity that has been called forth by all classes , especiall y by the American nation , who , springing from the same stock , and speaking the same language , east aside the prejudice of
opinion , and press forward to the prize of the high calling , and prove that , the visitation , although permitted by the Almighty , is a lesson not merely of humiliation to Him , but of self-devotion to the claims of human nature upon the sympathy of man ? Our reverend author has altogether mistaken his vocation and subject . The great exemplar has taught us that religion is not ascetic , much less intolerant , and that those who really comprehend His mission , believe that her ways are those of pleasantness , and that all her paths are peace .
Freemasonry , its Objects , Tendencies , and History Shown . By George Kloss , M . D ., & c . Leipsic : Klemm . This work has great and just pretensions to hi gh consideration ; it will become one of the most important Masonic authorities . If praise be any gratification , he must have experienced its true value in reading the criticisms on his work in the Algemeinc Zeitung , Liter alu Matt , & c .
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Literary Notices.
sins and provocations have most justly deserved , and under wliich we at this present time labour . " The famine of 1847 had visited the sister kingdoms of Scotland and Ireland—the latter most fearfully ; disease and death followed in its train ; and by her majesty in council it was considered right , humbly to approach the footstool of the Eternal , to propitiate His mercy . Throughout England and Ireland the knee bent in humiliation , and the
heart poured forth its prayer for grace . Churches , were throngedsermons on the subject were delivered , and among them the one now before us , which has been printed and circulated . The reverend preacher took his text from 2 Chron . xx . 3 , 4— "And Jehosophat feared and set himself to seek the Lord , and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah . And Judah gathered themselves together , to ask help of the Lord ; even out of all the cities of Judah , they came to seek the Lord . "
The text was apposite enough , and admitted appropriately the investigation of the dreadful state of famine and its horrors , and if the reverend preacher considered that he was bound by the queen ' s proclamation to the offering up prayers and supplications for the removal of heavy judgments , he has certainl y not faltered in his course , for in obedience to the said proclamation from the privy council , he declares from the pulpit that the present , as well as the previous visitations of famine in
1348 , 1438 , and of the plague in 1391 , 1407 , and 1065 , as well as the great fire of London , the cholera of 1832 , were all judgments of the Creator upon the creatures he had made ! Speaking of his congregation he observes , " what is it but a jury empanelled to make inquisition into their own sins , and the sins of their country ? " and hear him again anathematizing the scene of this dreadful visitation , " He who was alike a liar and a murderer from ihe beginning , has been permitted , in the inscrutable judgment of the Lord , to make that land the refuge of lies in its superstitions , and a field of blood in the almost daily deeds of tiie
assassin . " And is this the language of prayer , supplication ^ and humiliation ? No—it is the intolerance of bigotry , and becomes almost an apology for the backslider . Does the preacher examine into natural causes?—does he instance the fable of the waggoner and Hercules?—does he illustrate the universal charity that has been called forth by all classes , especiall y by the American nation , who , springing from the same stock , and speaking the same language , east aside the prejudice of
opinion , and press forward to the prize of the high calling , and prove that , the visitation , although permitted by the Almighty , is a lesson not merely of humiliation to Him , but of self-devotion to the claims of human nature upon the sympathy of man ? Our reverend author has altogether mistaken his vocation and subject . The great exemplar has taught us that religion is not ascetic , much less intolerant , and that those who really comprehend His mission , believe that her ways are those of pleasantness , and that all her paths are peace .
Freemasonry , its Objects , Tendencies , and History Shown . By George Kloss , M . D ., & c . Leipsic : Klemm . This work has great and just pretensions to hi gh consideration ; it will become one of the most important Masonic authorities . If praise be any gratification , he must have experienced its true value in reading the criticisms on his work in the Algemeinc Zeitung , Liter alu Matt , & c .