BOOKS RECEIVED. ON THE ORIGINAL Language of ST. MATTHEW'S GOSPEL, by S. P. Traelles, 8vo., pp., Bagster and Sons, Paternoster Row. REFLECTIONS OF THE PAST AND SHADOWS OF THE FUTURE, by the Author of "Daniel the Prophet," 12mo., pp. 90, Hodges and Smith, Dublin; Hamilton and Co., Paternoster Row. ANALYSIS AND SUMMARY OF OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY, 12mo., pp. 284, Wheeler, Oxford and Cambridge; Paternoster Row. CHILDREN'S MISSIONARY MAGAZINE, for 1849, Nisbet and Co. THE INNER LIFE, by Rev. O. Winslow, 12mo., pp. 290, F. Shaw, Southampton Row. THERE REMAINETH A REST, 24mo., pp. 28, Kennedy, Edinburgh. THE ANNUAL FESTIVALS OF THE JEWS CONSIDERED IN THEIR PROPHETIC CHARACTER, Six Lectures by Rev. J. B. Lowe, 12mo., pp. 136, Seeley and Co., London. THE VOICE OF THE NEW YEAR, by S. O'Moore, 16mo., pp. 137, Seeley, London. THE TEACHER'S COLLECT BOOK, by Rev. H. Kitton, 24mo., pp. 316, Guillaume, Chester Square. GREEN, Paternoster Row. PLAIN LETTERS TO PARENTS OF SUNDAY SCHOLARS, 24mo., pp. 127. GRACE AND CLARA; or, BE JUST AS WELL AS GENEROUS, by Aunt Kitty, 24mo., pp. 120. THE TEACHERS' FRIEND, January, February. THE DOMESTIC WORSHIPPER, No. 2, 12mo., pp. 48. HOULSTON & Co., Paternoster Row. FAMILY SCENES IN A MINING DISTRICT, 24mo. pp. 144. WHITTAKER & Co., Ave Maria Lane. QUESTIONS ON THE ARTICLES OF RELIGION, with Scripture Proofs. THE SCRIPTURAL FAITH OF THE YOUNG CHURCHMAN, 16mo., pp. 48, Binns and Goodwin, Bath. OLDHAM, Dublin. IRELAND, a Lay, 32mo., pp. 16. TRUTHLAND, 32mo., pp. 20. SERMONS On Behalf of the Association for the Relief of Distressed Protestants, Dublin, by Revds. T. R. Robinson and C. E. Tisdall. ROMANISM QUESTIONED, 24mo., pp. 32. GROOM, Paternoster Row, and Birmingham. Тиа THE LITTLE CHRISTIAN. A VISIT TO THE GRAVE OF THE DAIRYMAN'S Daughter. AFRICAN LEPERS. THE SUCCESSFUL PETITIONER. SABAT. THE HISTORY OF GEORGE GOOD. THE MURDERED MOTHER. All 32mo. RAMSAY, Brompton, WARD & Co., Paternoster Row. PORTRAITS OF MOTHERS, 16mo., pp. 116. THE HEAVENLY HOME, by T. Wallace, 16mo., pp. 101. RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY. MODERN ASTRONOMY, by Rev. T. R. Birks, 24mo. pp. 70. SCRIPTURE SELECTIONS FOR THE YOUNG TO COMMIT TO MEMORY, 1st. & 2nd. Series, 32mo. By W. F. Lloyd. ROBERTS' VILLAGE SERMONS, Vol. 1, 12mo. p.p. 258 LUTHER, HIS MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL HISTORY, 8vo. pp. 422. BRIGHTNESS AND BEAUTY, OR THE RELIGION OF CHRIST AFFECTIONATELY COMMENDED TO THE YOUNG, by Rev. E. Mannering, 24mo. pp. 104. MONTHLY VOLUMES. SKETCHES OF THE WALDENSES, 24mo. pp. 192. CHARACTER AND SCENES OF THE REFORMATION, Part 2, 24mo. pp. THE SENSES AND THE MIND, 24mo. pp. 192. 192. WERTHEIM & MACINTOSH, Paternoster Row. A SHORT CATECHISM ON BAPTISM, by the Rev. B. Ritchings, Mancetter, 24mo. pp. 12. THE SCARLET LINE, or Salvation by Christ, traced through Dr. Watts' Hymns for Children. 16mo. pp. 70. THE CHURCH CATECHISM EXPLAINED in Question and Answer, with References, by Rev. R. Shepherd, St. Margaret's, Ware. 24mo. pp. 36. WHAT AILETH THEE? By a Country Curate, 16mo., JUBAL, or, the Acceptable Year of the Lord, 12mo. pp. 151. THE SICK ROOM, or, Meditations and Prayers, for the use of Sick Persons, by Geo. Mylne, 12mo. PP. 56. GLOSSARY OF OBSOLETE WORDS AND PHRASES OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, by J. Jameson, 12mo. pp. 166. THE CRUCIFIXION, &c. 16mo. pp. 8. HOLY MATRIMONY, 16mo. pp. 15. A MANUAL OF SHORT PRAYERS FOR PRIVATE DEVOTION, by the Rev. Abner W. Brown, M.A 24mo. pp. 71. Notices to Correspondents, Members, &c. Communications have been received from N.H.-H.H M.-W.M.S.-E.R.E.S.E.S.-H.N. C.-W. R.-Canterbury.-W.R.F.-R.H.D. In a former part of this Magazine, we have urged the communication of Sunday school anecdotes, illustrations, &c. and we trust our appeal will be generally responded to. We also request information as to plans pursued in different quarters in the management of schools. We have readers in distant lands, who, we presume, are engaged in the work of teaching-will they kindly send us some account of their schools, and any particular circumstances connected with them? The information would be truly interesting to our readers at home, and would encourage many by the knowledge of the wide diffusion of the Sunday school system. We are desirous of obtaining and laying before our readers, a general view of existing Sunday school literature, both Magazines and Teachers' Manuals. Will our readers kindly furnish us with the names and publishers of any of these with which they may be acquainted,-whether English, Scotch, Irish, or American, and-if such there be any published on the Continent? Contributions intended for our next number must be sent in by May 31st. SCHOLARS' PRIZE. Thirty-five Essays were sent to us, in competition for the prize offered in our Magazine of September 1849. They are, as might be expected, of very various merit, and some are written under a somewhat mistaken idea of what was required, entering more into types than prophecies, or giving a sketch of our Saviour's lite without clearly connecting with it the prophecies fulfilled therein. After careful examination, we have awarded the prizes as follows : 1st. Prize.-HARRIET ANN REEKS, St. John's School, Guernsey. 2nd. Prize.-GEORGE PARKER, Bishopsgate St. Sunday School, London. 3rd. Prize.-SOPHIA HEWIT, Jesus Lane Sunday School, Cambridge. We trust a word of caution to these young friends will be taken as kindly as it is meant. We would say, "knowledge [alone] puffeth up, but charity edifieth;" they have shewn much knowledge of this unspeakably important subject; may they be earnest in prayer, that they may have much of that love without which they cannot really be Christ's, and that humility which was in Him and must be in all that are his. Let our unsuccessful friends not be discouraged, the effort will have done them good, and for their sakes we add, as we can do with truth and sincerity, that there was not one of these Essays which did not exhibit a fair knowledge of Gospel History, few which did not deserve high praise. They will leave in our hearts a thankful sense of the value of our Sunday schools. The Essays are all, as stated in the offer, the property of those gentlemen who kindly furnish the rewards. The following are the Lectures and Conversational Meetings for the ensuing Quarter : June 12.-The advantages of a Regular System of instruction throughout the School, and the benefits of Collective teaching. To commence at Eight o'Clock, P. M., precisely. The Lectures at St. Dunstan's School Room. The Meetings at the Institute. OUR ANNUAL SERMON will be preached (D.V.) on Wednesday Evening, April 24th. at St. Dunstan's, Fleet St., by the Rev. WILLIAM HARRISON, M.A., Rector of Great Birch. THE ANNUAL MEETING will be held at St. Martin's Hall, St. Martin's Lane, on Friday April 26th. The Chair will be taken by our respected Treasurer, JOHN LABOUCHERE, ESQ., at 7 o'Clock p.m. We hope for an attendance on these occasions, proportionate to the growing interest taken in the work of our Society and the objects at which it aims. Public Affairs. POLITICAL. Ors duty calls us once more to a rapid survey of general events during the past month, or rather of the position which affairs present at this time to our notice. And whilst our record of public events has no longer those exciting topics that occupied our earlier articles, in the spring and summer of 1848, there is yet much of vast importance to the general welfare of society, which an observing eye will detect at the present time. Nor can it be said that changes in political affairs may be left to the notice of political men alone; for the progress of civil society is intimately connected with the progress of religion. It is easy to prove this. Reference may be made to France, where the Republican party who avowedly oppose themselves to the friends of order-who fought on the barricades in defence of all sorts of anarchy-who hold it as an article of their creed that property is robbery-have recently gained a great triumph. Connected with this event come immediately accounts of aggression on the liberty of the French Protestants, and attacks on their privileges. ROME. In Rome again, the question of the return of the Pope, so long undecided, involves in it the resumption of intolerant measures in matters of religion-and Dr. Achilli might have pined for ever in his dungeon had French Authority been withdrawn from a city over which it is unwarrantably exercised. FRANCE. With the exception of Paris, the reaction against Anarchy still progresses. The RevoIntionists of 1848 have proved so clearly that their aim is purely selfish, and their ultimate design the indulgence with impunity of their own passions, that the eyes of their followers have been generally opened, and their allegiance shaken. Still the triumph of the Socialists in Paris is an ominous sign, and shows too clearly on what a slender basis the present security of Europe rests. AMERICA. America excites just now much attention, from the danger apprehended, that the ad mission of the new State of California into the Federal Union, will lead to a disruption of the whole States into two sections, the slaveholding and the free. Slavery is the national crime of the Southern States-and it has entailed its own punishment, for those states have no expansive force like the Northern Free States, evince no such energy-have no such increase of population, and are left far behind in their general progress. Thus their jealousy is excited, and whilst they cling with desperate tenacity to the crime they deprecate the penalty, and rather than admit a preponderance of free States in the union by the admission of California, threaten to break the tie that binds them. It is a question of vast interest-and inasmuch as Slavery bears directly upon the moral and intellectual welfare of millions in these Southern States, the interests of religion cannot but be essentially affected by the result. In other countries, West, North, and South, peace reigns undisturbed, and well may we lift up fervent prayer to the God that maketh men to be of one mind, that this tranquillity may long be preserved, and that our statesmen-who cannot be unconcerned spectators of any foreign war, on account of the vast extension of our Empire in every corner of the Globe,-may be thus enabled to direct their whole attention to the moral and social wants of our native land. There is a spirit of enquiry abroad which seeks to investigate and to counteract the causes of national misery and crime; and amidst much that is dangerous, (and only the more so that it is plausible), in the shape of remedies proposed, there has been unquestionably a vast amount of good achieved for the elevation of the national character, and the comforts and improvements of all classes of society. Let us in all such plans cling to the great truth that it is Righteousness alone that exalteth a nation-and that if England is to prosper it is by the diffusion of true Religion. ADAMS AND KING, PRINTERS 30, GOSWELL STREET, LONDON. I Church of England Sunday School Quarterly Magazine, ADVERTISING SHEET. [The Committee beg to observe, that they do not hold themselves responsible for more than the Moral Character of the Advertisements.] CHURCH PASTORAL-AID SOCIETY. THE PRESIDENT.-The RIGHT HON. LORD ASHLEY, M.P. THE ANNUAL SERMON will be preached (God willing) by the Rev. JAMES VAUGHAN, M.A., Incumbent of Christ Church, Brighton, on MONDAY EVENING, the 6th of MAY, at the Church of St. Dunstan-in-the-West, Fleet-street. Divine Service will commence at Halfpast Six o'Clock. THE ANNUAL MEETING will be held on TUESDAY MORNING, the 7th of MAY, in the Large Room, EXETER HALL. The Chair will be taken by the Right Hon. the President, at Eleven o'clock. CHURCH OF ENGLAND SUNDAY SCHOOL AND GENERAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY. A MEETING to explain the Objects and Plans of the above Society, and also to receive the Report of the Provisional Committee, will be held. (D.V.,) at the National School Rooms, Marshall Street, Golden Square, on Wednesday Evening, 17th April, 1850. The Rev. John Jackson, M.A., Rector of St. James, Piccadilly, will take the Chair at 8 o'clock precisely, The attendance of Sunday School Teachers is earnestly requested. Reserved Seats will be provided for Ladies. THE R. H. LAVERS, Secretary, (pro tem.) THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOLMASTERS' AND SCHOOLMISTRESSES' MUTUAL ASSURANCE SOCIETY; intended also for Day and Sunday School Teachers, and Church of England Scripture Readers, Established on the 11th of May, 1849; His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Chair; for the purpose of granting Life Assurances, Annuities for Orphans, during Sickness, and in Old Age and Endowments. Prospectuses, Forms of Proposals, &c., may be obtained at the Office, 25, Bridge Street, Westminster. Just Published. S. J. T. HIND, Secretary. HURCH OF ENGLAND SUNDAY SCHOLARS' MAGAZINE for April, with Covers, 32mo., price 1d. WERTHEIM AND MACINTOSH, PATERNOSTER ROW. |