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    CURSORY THOUGHTS ON STATE FASTS AND THANKSGIVINGS , To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . SIR , i OUR correspon ( Jent , V . F . ( I say your correspondent , because I have no doubt he will favour you equally with your predecessor with his valuable communications ) has , in a very sensible , candid manner , assigned his reasons for observing the fasts and thanksgivings appointed by the state on former occasions r and also why he did not wish to observe the day of thanksgiving latelf appointed bv the same authority , for I ^ ord Nelson ' *

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    r . ' -N parent to look to for future support and protection , for & % blessing to rest upon them > or for a portion that is to endure * Similar to the despair of such forlorn orphans when first made acquainted with their loss * similar to the sense they must then forcibly experience of being desolate , titterly forsaken and cast upon the wide world , would be the sensation of the man , who after having long cherished the belief that there exists a God , a being of perfect goodness , who has made all that live , and loves all whom he has made ; after having by freqaent meditation rendered this belief so replete with comfort and delight familiar

    has been deluded by a vain theory , and that God is the creature of man's fancy . * Should he then be told by way of consolation ^ that after all he has sustained no real loss ; that whatever he truly possessed before , he still can call his own ; and that int feature he has- stiJJ a parent who supplies his wants with liberali ty ^ and provides him with various enjoyments—would he not feel like the orphan who , when weeping over the grave of a tender father , should be reminded of his still having a

    stepto his mind , and intimately associated with all his principles , and with the sentiments and feelings dearest to his heart ; after having long rejoiced in the assurance of the government and love of this best of parents , should be brought to imagine h #

    mother ? For my part , shouJd an atheist attempt to persuade zne to discard from n \ y mind that idea of God which now dwells in it , and to admit in its stead his notion of personified ji&ture , I would say to him in the language of Joas , in the Atalie of Racine , when replying to thequeen s offer to adopt ic

    him- for her son , What a father would you have me leaver and alas I for what a mother /' Now , Gentlemen , it remains for you to judge whether your agent in this interrogatory has asked the proper questions , ancf how far Dr . Jortin has succeeded in explaining and justifying his remark by his proxy .

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    20 Thoughts on fasts .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1806, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1720/page/20/