The Christian Observer (Volume 66) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867. Excerpt: ... times three, which symbolize the keys of heaven, earth, and hell. Occasionally he carries a fish, and not unfrequently an inverted cross. On Bakewell font he is represented holding a Church. Sometimes, but very rarely, he has a cock near him, in allusion to his fall." Such things are likely to damage the work, and to give the very false idea that the writer wishes to restore medioeval superstitions. Sunday Echoes in Week-day Hours; a Tale Illustrative of the Church Catechism. By Mrs. Carey Brock. London: Seeleys. 1837.--It is natural enough that Mrs. Brock, encouraged by the success of her first volume, entitled "Sunday Echoes," (now, we believe, in its eighteenth thousand, ) should attempt a companion-volume, on the Church Catechism. The first volume (on the Collects) came out under the recommendation of the Bishop of Winchester. The present volume, Mrs. Brock has rightly judged, stands in need of no sponsor. The tale is broken into fifty-two chapters; one for each Sunday in the year. Thus, the first two chapters explain what it is to be "a member of Christ;" the next two, "a child of God;" and the fifth, "an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven." Thus, by careful steps, "as they are able to bear it," the children are led through the Catechism, so as to obtain, in the course of a twelvemonth, a thorough understanding of its purport. Forty years ago, Mrs. Sherwood trod this road, and for a considerable period reigned the received Sunday School commentator of the Catechism. But, whether from the Indian texture of her story, or from some other cause, it is evident that, for some years past, her " Stories on the Church Catechism" have almost disappeared from use. Probably Mrs. Brock's volume may take the place which Mrs. Sherwood's formerly occupied. If this sh...