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To The Editor Of The Monthly Repository.
where all chance of the continuance of so great a blessing is suddenly cut short by the death of parents . The orphan of a peasant , born in poverty , and from its infancy surrounded by beings
who themselves were , in all probability , strangers to the more delicate and refined feelings of human nature , is still an object of compassion . The laws of England do indeed require , that such an individual shall not be suffered
to die of want , and more , perhaps , can hardly be expected from laws , since this is , I believe , the only country where they do even that . But how inadequate
and uncertain this legal provision is for merely the bodily care and sustenance of destitute children ,
and how totally without means for any thing like their mental or
religious improvement ^ is too well known to those who have been anyhow led to an acquaintance with the actual state of parochial work-houses in general . Such being the case with regard to the
orphans of the very lowest ranks in society , how much more strongly do the same observations apply to those unfortunate who were " born to see better things . " Would to heaven it could be said , that a workhouse would not prove
to them a probable source of vice and certain cause of misery . The reverse , alas ! is too palpable ! Here ^ ken , is a loud call , Sir , on your readers , for the exercise of their charity , —a case particularly pointed out to them by Him , whose precepts they profess so highly to esteem . You cannot be ignorant , Sir , that there is a sect of Christians , who think , with all due humility , that they are influenced in a more
To The Editor Of The Monthly Repository.
lively manner by the genuine and saving doctrines of the gospel , than those whose views are bounded by the Unitarian systeiii . Without the least reliance on their own good works , as a ground for salva - tion , they think themselves bound by every tie of gratitude , honoui " , and duty , to devote all that they have and are to the service of him who died for them , and rose again , and still liveth to make intercession for them ; who , after they have done every thing in their
power , in this wicked world , to uphold the cause of truth and righteousness , still acknowledge that they are less than nothing in the sight of God , and must depend on his mercy and goodness ,
through the intercession and sufferings of their blessed Saviour , for iinal acceptance with him . These men , Sir , hope it is no breach of charity to adopt our Lord's method of judging others ,
previously to his asking , Do men gather grapes of thorns , or figs of thistles ? " and , although they believe with St . Paul that it is by faith they shall be saved , they think the practice of Christian
graces an excellent criterion of acceptance . Suffer me , Sir , in this spirit to tell you ( and I hope your readers ) of a case somewhat similar to the above , which , has lately happened in this neighbourhood . A pious clergyman , whose
name was Wilton , was suddenly stopt short by death , in the midst of an active and religious career , leaving a widow and eight young children unprovided for . Very soon afterwards it pleased Providence to remove the mother also *
The father when alive was not ashamed to own his divine master before a sinful world , although
230 Subscription For The Orphan Children...
230 Subscription for the Orphan Children of \ Mr $ . Standevetts .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1810, page 230, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02051810/page/14/
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