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pared to a mountain remarkable for sterility and elevation , which encumbers the earth with its pressure , while it cljills all around with its shade ? ' * JJferality *— " Liberality is one of the most amiable features of the
human mind ; a sacred tie which unites all jarring systems , promotes mutual affection , and among men inspires respect for the honest intentions and well-meaning opinions of all mankind , fervently wishes , but perhaps feels
the impossibility , to unite all modes of religion upon one broad and rational basis . True liberality is more ; it is expanded as the earth , stimulates the bosom to promiscuous benevolence , urges it to feel and to relieve the distresses of Turk or Jew , as
readily and with as much warmth as those of the indigent who raise their hands within those walls ; it wafts the mind over the waste of oceans iuto distant hemispheres , to let fall a tear at the couch of the afflicted
infidel , as well as at the bed of a sufferer of our own communion : these are the operations of this beautiful aud angelic virtue , and are the pride and glory of every great soul . Thank God that in the age and land we live * religion jls at length becoming free and natural , and that all zealous
contentions about particular systems are now clearly discovered to be unfriendly to the true interests of the community , as well as the peace and happiness of the world . Thank God ! the day is rapidly advancing ( and it is a day we should all look forward
to with rapture and delight ) when every citizen may think as he pleases u subjects of religion , and quietly offer sacrifice in whatever temple his i nclinatio n and opinions point to : — Je % , and I will call it the glonous day , when all religious societies ,
franks and degrees of men , will be connected together by one common p endearing tie of Christian benevoe and love 5 when the rancour ° t parties will cease , the altars of uniir ^ tablen ess < cease to smoke ; the «* ral , narrow and sophisticated j ^ on i ngs of bigotry be drowned in T ; « st and public crj trf an enlarged POiteftthxopy the hoary and vene-J * we tyrant , superstition , plucked and ^ ^ one ; when the frivolous J ^ ntliculous contest about primoft T ? J 5 * ** B fee no more , and the 7 * benevolence , of humanity , of
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mutual forbearance and ardent charity , appeal- in the threshold of every sanctuary , and obtain an undisputed empire in every heart * * Thank God ! that day is advancing—I know it , I
feel it , I can assert it , a period devoutly to be wished for \ and , perhaps , the first opening since the Christian era of human happiness . If there is yet some prejudice it is giving way ; it must give way to liberal-inquiry ; it must retreat to the dark uncultivated
CQrners of the earth , and of bourse perish where it cannot grow ; the tears of a few fanatics may accompany its fall , but I believe that every man who wishes to see the glorious restoration of reason , its dignity unfettered , and the dominion of real
vital religion established ; every man who has at heart the enlargement of human nature , and wishes to see the peace of society established upon a secure and permanent basis , will joyfully sing its requiem , and manfully exert himself to oppose its second appearance in the world !'
The Vanity of Wealth . — " If they who lie there ( pointing from the pulpit to the church-yard ) whose places you now occupy , and whose riches
you possess ( God only knows how possess ); if they , I say , were at this moment to appear amongst you ( don't tremble ) , it would not be to reclaim their wealth , but to bear testimony to its vanity . "
Pride — " How often have we seen the column of pride erected upon the base of infamy , and just when it hath begun to attract the gape and stare of the adulatory multitude , death , like a rocky fragment rolling from the mountain , crumbles into nothing the imaginary colossus . "
Dean Kirwan made the celebrated Bossuet and Massillon the models of his style and action . Voltaire selected the sermon of the latter upon The small number of'the Elect , ' / 7 as an example of devotional eloquence under that head in the Encyclopedia , which oration . I was informed ,
resembles the Dean ' s beat manner in many parts . The action of the Deau was too vehement for 4 xis constitution ; after having astonished his auditors with his sublimity , or affected them by his pathos , he was frequently obliged to pause , and sit doya before he proceeded aguiu ; a * id thii respite from the efifect # f feelings highly
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Specimens of Dean KiruwrCs Eloquence . 3 4 . 5
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1815, page 345, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1761/page/17/
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