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244 CAROLINE FBANCES CORNWALLIS.
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Such being her views she might well say concerning herself ;
am " well Most convinced people are that behind as education the age— becomes perhaps I more am a general little , before religion it will ; but be I
more and more divested of the cumbersome shackles which different churches have imposed on it , till all will gradually join in one of rational and
doctrines spiritualized of faith Christi . anity It is , ' curious I find th more at , firml community y as I am of attached sentiment to the amongst great sceptics than among very good Christians . The first are advocates of I
and research latter though bristle , and they up , if if candid do a word not , learn th nominall at perh they ap y have s claim to been think the accustomed with infallibilit me on to y many of use the is points imp church ugned ; the of ,
Borne , do it in effect . " and The their presump want tuous of charitable dogmatism feeling of many towards soi-disant those whom Christian they s ,
' large believ -heartedness ed to be in error not , to were be often too opposed very painful to her to own her candour , especiall and y I I
simp ho when wever lici occurring t she mi was g ht f believe ellow t war me m l t m t bers o attached be of corrup the She ted church from saw t more primitive o which and , I I I
more tha y t , religion ye was chiefly y valuable as . influencing the life , I and even her scritural researches were now practical rather I
than speculative . p lS [ o longer attempting to trace in European I histthe fulfilment of Hebrew osticationsshe describes I
hers elf as more and more disinclined progn to the study , prophecy ; I finding- that it tempted le to look on events as judts
and fancying that they p knew eop the plans of God , to denounce gmen , I others as controvening them . She acknowledged that her I
liberality sojourn abroad , remarkin had g that t — ributed greatly to the growth of her I I
"It is only by degrees that I have schooled myself to this way of thinking ; I perhaps I never should if I had not had an opportunity of observing largely I
how all the loveliest parts of our nature might be developed under systems I the which Romanists I though of , in Ital point y , & of c , _ojp man inioii ' s _, nature wrong , . true Among to the the image Socinians in which of Geneva it was , I I
not formed the , law bursts is a from law the unto trammels itselfand of op I am inion determined , however erroneous for the rest , and of having life I I to follow St . John , and when ; I can find any who will listen to me , my to say I
difference only , * Love of one op another inion ; . ' for If the this simp were le the rule case of , we my should simple not nei long ghbours hear at of I I Valchiusa will find its way into the heart in spite of us' That cannot be a I
very bad religion which teaches us to be so kind to every , body . ' Matters I ev would en ou then r opinions be wei are ghed much calml more y , and in accordance we should th probabl an we y supposed find that . " , after all , I I
A wish now seems to have arisen in Miss Cornwallis' mind I to do something towards enabling others to attain ion in like those clearness who I
believe of vision without with herself proof , . is She but felt a prejudice that " rel ; " i that g a blind belief I I
resting on the mere dictum of authority can never afford the I
244 Caroline Fbances Cornwallis.
244 CAROLINE FBANCES CORNWALLIS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1864, page 244, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061864/page/28/
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