. CHRISTIAN EXAMINER. Turiters. New York. Boston. Charlestown, Mass. Boston. VIII. — Notices of Recent Publications. IX. - Religious and Literary Intelligence. Subscribers who receive the “ Examiner” by mail are reminded, that, by paying their postage quarterly in advance, they are entitled to a discount of one-half from the established rates. CROSBY & NICHOLS, 111, Washington Street. 395 wowopracy or Pontiac, and the War of Parkman, Jr. 1. Letters to a Candid Inquirer, on Animal Magnetism. By William Gregory. Surgery and Medicine. By James Esdaile. 1. Gesammelte Gedichte. Von Friedrich Rückert. Rückert. 435 445 . where we find them unsatisfactory. Instead of instilling into us some opinion of his own, he allows all the great lights or leaders of Christendom to have their full power over us, and permits them to say all that they can say for themselves. And when we come together to give the results of our investigations, our venerable friend, the very impersonation of candor, listens attentively to see if we do justice to our authors, and if their case might have been put stronger than they have stated it, Dr. Ware will mal of another, an hong though not to do th Hebrew and in Gr verify preconceived upon us by a creed written, to discover the Bible. If any the risks of unchari to lead to the sin indicated. It is to the School are, wit who were neither these and the Bible different is the libe jealousy and timidit seminary of one of its rules the admis better evidence coul dread of the light? We believe that t in perfect harmony of the wisest and be dispensed, and let t! purchased to the wc It is possible that may result in severi moval from Cambrio by the intent of the logical institution doubts whether this confess that, unde anomalous and University. If py contingency the State should be led to define its own r e College, we may hope that another matter will be deci When the Corporation accepted funds from Unitarians How a liberal school of theology, the contract supposed part of the Corporation to receive money for such uses, e time encouraged an expectation that the funds would be tive as possible. There is an undeniable perplexity in th tion of the parties to the contract, but there is also wisdom 1 judiciously with it. CONTENTS. ARTICLE PAGE 321 350 360 I. Elias HickS, AND THE HICKSITE QUAKERS 1. A Series of Extemporaneous Discourses, delivered in the several Meetings of the Society of Friends, Newtown Falls, and Trenton. By Elias Hicks. Hicks. Essays written on several Occasions, mostly illustra tive of his Doctrinal Views. II. The GERMAN IN AMERICA 1. The German in America, or Advice and Instruction for German Emigrants in the United States of Amer ica. By F. W. Bogen. meinsamen Interessen der Americanish-deutschen Kirchen. Herausgegeben von Philipp Schaff. III. THE INSTITUTION FOR IDIOTS IN BERLIN, PRUSSIA . IV. Stuart's COMMENTARY ON DANIEL . A Commentary on the Book of Daniel. By Moses Stuart. History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac, and the War of the North American Tribes against the English Col- Parkman, Jr. 1. Letters to a Candid Inquirer, on Animal Magnetism. By William Gregory. Surgery and Medicine. By James Esdaile. 1. Gesammelte Gedichte. Von Friedrich Rückert. Rückert. 368 376 . 395 435 . NOTE TO Art. IV. IN THE SEPTEMBER NUMBER 445 Notices of Recent PUBLICATIONS. Murdock's Translation of Mosheim's Commentaries, 447 Henschel's Edition of Du Cange's Glossarium, Sibley's History of the Town of Union, De Quincey's Literary Reminiscences, Taylor's Romances, Lyrics, and Songs, Picot's Edition of Fleming and Tibbins's French Dic- tionary, Manesca's French Manuals, Chase's Edition of Cicero on the Immortality of the Torrey's Translation of Neander's Church History, 457 Farley's Theological Discourses and Essays, . Miller's Scenes and Legends of Scotland, . Mills's Literature and Literary Men of Great Britain, 459 Lamartine's History of the Restoration of the Monarchy Haliburton's Rule and Misrule of the English in America, 460 Carlyle's Life of John Sterling, Mutterings and Musings of an Invalid, Temple's Christian's Daily Treasury, Brown's Wreath around the Cross, Reynolds's Thoughts on the Career of Life, Mrs. Butler's Life in Varied Phases, Bridgman's Epitaphs from Copp's Hill, Sketches of Boston and Vicinity, Religious Intelligence. — The London District Unitarian Society on Ministerial Exchanges, — The Catholic Defence Association, - Christianity in India, The THE CHRISTIAN EXAMINER AND RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. NOVEMBER, 1851. Art. I. - ELIAS HICKS, AND THE HICKSITE QUAKERS.* The name of Elias Hicks has attained a notoriety by himself wholly unanticipated, and probably undesired. He has been made, against his will, as it seems to us, an heresiarch, and has been placed at the head of a sect, to which his name has been attached. The consequence has been, that his character has been the subject of the most contradictory representations. His friends and admirers have thought him almost an apostle, while his enemies and opposers seem to regard him as a sort of Lucifer, a man largely endowed by nature, but using his powers chiefly for mischief; not satisfied with wandering off into error himself, but drawing after him, like the old Dragon, a third part of the stars by the sweep of his tail. * 1. A Series of Extemporaneous Discourses, delivered in the several Meetings of the Society of Friends, in Philadelphia, Germantown, Abington, Byberry, Newtown Falls, and Trenton ; by Elias Hicks, a Minister in said Society Taken in short-hand by M. T. C. Gould. Philadelphia : Joseph and Edward Parker. 1825. pp. 322. 2. Journal of the Life and Religious Labors of Elias Hicks. Written by himself. New York: Isaac T. Hoppin. 1832. PP: 451. 3. Letters of Elias Hicks, including also a fero short Essays written on several Occasions, mostly illustrative of his Doctrinal Vieros. New York : Isaac T. Hoppin. 1834. pp. 234. VOL. LI. —4th S. VOL. XVI. NO. III. 29 |