The Christian Examiner (Volume 59 (July-Nov. 1855)) (Abridged, Paperback, Abridged edition)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: deed some of the operatives already are,) and that, in the great business of life, the working for each other's welfare, they are somewhat more, ?" brethren in Christ Jesus." Did our limits permit, we should wish to say a word or two upon the subject of factory legislation. For our own part, we are not firm believers in special legislation of any kind. The laws may remove hinderances as they should ? from the progress of the people, but that progress itself must result from the growth of moral convictions of truth and right and justice in the hearts and minds of the people, and that is beyond the reach of law. We have preferred to treat this subject not so much as an economic one, but from the point of view which should be occupied by the Christian thinker, in looking over the field of Christian enterprise. We firmly believe in the practicability of the application of Christian principles to " every labor that a man may do under the sun." And if we have been successful in communicating such a belief to others, or strengthening it in them, so far as this labor is concerned, we have accomplished our present purpose. A. w. Art. III. ?THE FIRST CHAPTER OF GENESIS. The three discussions of this chapter named below are illustrations of three different modes in which believers have approached the question of the Scriptural cosmogony. The first-named volume is a " pious improvement" of the whole matter of creation, whether as described by Genesis, alluded to in other Scriptures, or seen in thedaily mercies of Providence. It commands respect for its sincere piety, but is wholly below criticism in regard to its science, its philology, and its logic. The publishers have done more harm than good to the cause of Biblical learning by reprinting it. " Steel engravings, copie...