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of speculation too ethereal and divuie . r JPh-ifi |>' "is a preparatory exercise of the $ 0 i * l for employments which it may fHirsue for ever . It abstracts vis from the vanities and selfishness of life , from low passions and ignoble aims , and feeds it for a while with the food
of angels . It ' enables us to look with a comprehensive and , therefore , with a gentle eye on the frailties of . man , and fills us with glowing hopes for his elevated progress . And if we should dwell too long in the abstractions of a genial philosophy—if we should have ga'zed on trie " lovely scenes at distance' * till we fancied
ourselves and the world already near them—if we should throw some of the brilliant colouring of our own hopes on the places where we actually move—if we should look at man through a medium by which his errors are softened down and his virtues
rendered fairer—if we should shape out gorgeous visions of liberty and peace and joy which * the present age cannot realize—the error will be
goodly as it will be sweet ! It will be bat the overleaping of a little period , but a union in spirit with fglare years , with uhe good hereafter to be born , and with prophets who have long been silent .
J $ ut these noble speculations and delicious dreams of the intellect fonn no essential part of the religion of Jesus . The sweet light of love and of hope whieh it sheds on the dreary scenes of life is common to all , ftfywever contracted the powers of their mortal vision . It often throws its
holiest tints over the cottage . In the paths of pleasantness and of peace to which the finger of celestial wisdom directs us , wayfaring men though < c rf the narrowest capacities" cannot
err . O no , Sir ! the consolations and tfeiejoya of the gospel are no matter of science . ^ y s P S n P > ** ke the most flagrant flowers beneath our feet , and all who will stoop may gather them . The pure river of the water of life is not like the streams of
Castaly , accessible to few . " The elfcphatU and the lamb" may alike t 3 £ jte * &f it ,- and alike stand in need of i $ s fijteshness . How often , indeed , ilo : # ft £ , bright anticipations of heaven bl * # 3 those who have no earthly joy . Hftwotteu while the learned dispute eH ib * troths of Christianity , till they lose them , do the ignorant m
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this worWfc ** isc * c * ni , V * ftdl alief ? th * t $ and find them ! " How " lr ^ nmtl | f do we discover the faitest : *^ rftiies cluster tag am ' tdsj . the shades \* rhtfc % f conceal and ^ belter the , lower walks of -existemre ! In those scenes the * e / are living examples belbfe which ths new aristocratieai order yoii wouicf
establish in Teltgion inm » t fade away , and which prove beyond all powers of mortal expression , that the highest treasures of divine wisdom are not alone accessible to genius . Methinks I see such a testimony in the image . of a venerable and sainted fernale- ^ -sur- *
rounded by her little and revering c | e 6 cendants—still eagerly fixing her ^ dim eye on the page where throuajV life she has found support—* atrd then turning to borrow aid from the lisping tongue of a child . Time has neither shaken her hopes nor chilk ? d her affections . She turns back her view
on the earlier days of her life with * grateful joy , and prays only $ * a ^> the children may walk in the steps through which she has trodden . While she fondly embraces _ apd blesses them , she seems alread y to speak in the language of heave n | T She trembles , but it is vwitte antici ^
patedjoy ; she totters on the verge t& % paradise . What ntore exalted Imppi ^ ness can you hope to enjoy , thobgk you " un d erst a » d a 11 m ' ysse r ies * atid all knowledge , " and " speak with &h& < toncrues both of men and < rf ans » kr ?^"* r . ^^ 1 X
P . S . In cay next letter I shall examine yotjr statement of the \ Jx * i& tarian creed and the retnaining chaT ^ e * which vou bring fovwafd againrst it *
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Sir , Jjondon , Motc k ^ t tM l ^ IN yonr Number for Fei ^ riiary ( p * 1 ^ 3 > , I observe an article tehihig to a Sermon I published at Cork , in July la » t , extracted * fr ^ gi « Oqrb newspaper , and headed ^ j ^ h the -Ml& of 4 < Orthodox Al ^ rm in I ^ ekwufc ^
Had you l > een awaTe o # the . t * oe nature of this contemptible ebullitican of personal malice , yoci wosid not I am persuaded , have given itchfuyo ^ t repnblication of it a $ import «» fiaBr which it so little deserved . / -ikiest ^ fesr
appearance in yoxkt pagesy a ^ dr th © very unappropriate tide t ^ hi oh . jnu ^ have prefixed to it >^ h ottld m ^ l ^ i ^ rtjci of fox ** readetfi , I beg $ tobmx& * m& fM th » t it - was fes far as 1 WHtldv ^ ittain gehetaJly despie « d-- *> » rt rMtf ^ mak
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2 A& Mr . HinchsmiMs Se ) rmo 9 i C pfvm ^ eA at » i ^ .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1817, page 216, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2463/page/24/
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