Chapter M: E. Church, South

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This is a perfect gem. It will be highly prized in the house of mourning. The grounds of consolation here adduced are admirably adapted to sustain the stricken spirit; and the “Songs” are just such as the Christian may sing to profit “in the night” of bereavement and sorrow.

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This book is got up in handsome style, and sold at 65 cents retail, with the usual discount to wholesale purchasers. Competent judges--among them the bishops and editors of the Church--have spoken of this work in unqualified terms of approval. Several thousand copies were sold very soon after its first issue. Dr. M’Clintock, Ed. Meth. Quar. Review, says: “This volume differs from ordinary books on the subject, in treating at some length of the ‘Administrator of Baptism,’ and of the ‘Use of Baptism,’--points rarely noticed, or, if at all, very inadequately discussed, in the current treatises. It differs from them also, and very happily, in the clearness of its arrangement, in the aptness with which the joints of the discussion fit each other, and in the discrimination with which important points are brought out strongly, while minor ones are comparatively thrown into abeyance. In an appendix Dr. Summers reviews Howell’s ‘Evils of Infant Baptism,’ with keen discrimination and with some severity. We cordially commend this little volume as one of the best summaries of Christian doctrine on the subject of baptism that has come under our notice.”

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A truthful, fascinating, and instructive volume.

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The topics of these dialogues are Orphans, May-Day, Birds, Temperance, Peter and the Tribute-money, Retribution, Recognition of Friends in Heaven. The style is adapted to the minds of intelligent youth The engravings are handsome.

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A couple of fascinating and instructive volumes. The tales and narratives beguile, like sailors’ yarns, the voyage over the world of waters. The descriptions and anecdotes blend the charm of romance with the credibility of truth.

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A neat edition of a book which takes rank with Baxter’s Saints’ Rest--to which great work it is in some respects superior.

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This masterly work is got up in convenient form and beautiful style. The Introduction contains a brief biography of the illustrious author.