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Literary Notices.
LITERARY NOTICES .
A Forsaken Orphan the care of Providence . A Sermon preached at the Foundling Hospital , on Sunday , May 2 . By Br . the Rev . JOHN EDMUND Cox , M . A . F . S . A . London : John Farquhar Shaw , 27 , Southampton-roAv , and Paternoster-roAv . OUR Rev . Brother , ever foiward in the works of charity and mercy , selected for his text Psalm xxxvii . 10 : — " When my father and my mother forsake me , then the Lord Avill take me up ; " and in an eloquent discourse has pictured in gloAving colours the sad state of those children Avho have been forsaken of father and mother .
"It is a sad fact , " says our Rev . Brother , " that many a babe is left to live or die , to grow up unknown by , and unknowing , who its parents are . Of the multitudes of ragged and destitute children which tM-ong our thoroughfares and traverse our highways , it is not too great a stretch of imagination to believe that by far the greater part have never had the influence of a father ' s or a mother ' s care ; and that from their earliest infancy , they have never had one particle of kindness shown to them hy those amongst whom then- unhappy lot had been east ; that hard usage and cruel tortures have rendered them callous to shameand led them to suppose that it was no crime to stealand no offence
, , either against the law of God or man to appropriate another ' s property to their own means of sustenance ; so that they have become in very deed and in truth like so many Ishmaels , ' Whose hand is against every man , and every man ' s hand against them . ' Hundreds of those little ones in their birth , are unlike the inmates of tMs institution . Their desertion has originated from a far different cause . Neither Church or State have done their duty in the matter of the education of their parents for time or for eternity . They have been left to grow up in ignorance ancl vice ; they have been considered and treated as so many heathen—as the refuse of mankind ; ancl for such national sin , thev
have been left by Providence as wMps and scourges to torment those who have forgotten the duty they owed concerning them to God and man ; ancl who , instead of seeking to make them wiser and better by kindness and commiseration , have provided only for their punishment and chastisement , their imprisonment , or expatriation . Their offspring loft to wander , have , however , not been all forgotten . No sooner had the calamity made itself a tongue , than the dispensations of mercy were again set to flow ; and we have now joy and gladness of heart to know , that by the institution of ragged schools , hundreds of deserted children are daily collected together to be taught the truths of
God , and to learn of a ' Saviour who is Christ the Lord , ' to be instructed how to learn an honest livelihood , and eventually to be sent to that vast unpeopled portion of the globe , where they may rise to respectability and even affluence , and prove the truth of the divine assertion , ' When my father and my mother forsake me , then God will take me up . ' "But what is now doing for these , is notMng as compared with that which has been done for the many inmates of this noble institution , since God put it into the heart of its founder to provide such a home for the destitute and forsaken . Its benefits to hundreds eternity shall tell . The many it has saved , not merely from eartMy want , but everlasting misery , no man knoweth . "
We regret we cannot accompany our Rev . Brother through his deeply interesting discourse , which has doubtless left an abiding impression on those Avho had the privilege of hearing him , and especially on the benevolent directors ancl members of this invaluable institution , by Avhose desire it has been published .
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Literary Notices.
LITERARY NOTICES .
A Forsaken Orphan the care of Providence . A Sermon preached at the Foundling Hospital , on Sunday , May 2 . By Br . the Rev . JOHN EDMUND Cox , M . A . F . S . A . London : John Farquhar Shaw , 27 , Southampton-roAv , and Paternoster-roAv . OUR Rev . Brother , ever foiward in the works of charity and mercy , selected for his text Psalm xxxvii . 10 : — " When my father and my mother forsake me , then the Lord Avill take me up ; " and in an eloquent discourse has pictured in gloAving colours the sad state of those children Avho have been forsaken of father and mother .
"It is a sad fact , " says our Rev . Brother , " that many a babe is left to live or die , to grow up unknown by , and unknowing , who its parents are . Of the multitudes of ragged and destitute children which tM-ong our thoroughfares and traverse our highways , it is not too great a stretch of imagination to believe that by far the greater part have never had the influence of a father ' s or a mother ' s care ; and that from their earliest infancy , they have never had one particle of kindness shown to them hy those amongst whom then- unhappy lot had been east ; that hard usage and cruel tortures have rendered them callous to shameand led them to suppose that it was no crime to stealand no offence
, , either against the law of God or man to appropriate another ' s property to their own means of sustenance ; so that they have become in very deed and in truth like so many Ishmaels , ' Whose hand is against every man , and every man ' s hand against them . ' Hundreds of those little ones in their birth , are unlike the inmates of tMs institution . Their desertion has originated from a far different cause . Neither Church or State have done their duty in the matter of the education of their parents for time or for eternity . They have been left to grow up in ignorance ancl vice ; they have been considered and treated as so many heathen—as the refuse of mankind ; ancl for such national sin , thev
have been left by Providence as wMps and scourges to torment those who have forgotten the duty they owed concerning them to God and man ; ancl who , instead of seeking to make them wiser and better by kindness and commiseration , have provided only for their punishment and chastisement , their imprisonment , or expatriation . Their offspring loft to wander , have , however , not been all forgotten . No sooner had the calamity made itself a tongue , than the dispensations of mercy were again set to flow ; and we have now joy and gladness of heart to know , that by the institution of ragged schools , hundreds of deserted children are daily collected together to be taught the truths of
God , and to learn of a ' Saviour who is Christ the Lord , ' to be instructed how to learn an honest livelihood , and eventually to be sent to that vast unpeopled portion of the globe , where they may rise to respectability and even affluence , and prove the truth of the divine assertion , ' When my father and my mother forsake me , then God will take me up . ' "But what is now doing for these , is notMng as compared with that which has been done for the many inmates of this noble institution , since God put it into the heart of its founder to provide such a home for the destitute and forsaken . Its benefits to hundreds eternity shall tell . The many it has saved , not merely from eartMy want , but everlasting misery , no man knoweth . "
We regret we cannot accompany our Rev . Brother through his deeply interesting discourse , which has doubtless left an abiding impression on those Avho had the privilege of hearing him , and especially on the benevolent directors ancl members of this invaluable institution , by Avhose desire it has been published .