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forced to beg , because no one will hire them to dig , their lot is truly pitiable . The most excellent mode of shewing charity to such , is by finding them employment , which at once relieves their wants , and preserves them from temptation .
Days of peace particularly should be davs of improvement . Designs of public utility should be forthwith entered upon . The encouragement of manufactures , the establishment of new fisheries in different parts of the kingdom , the cultivation of waste lands , of whirh si range to tell , there are thous > u : ; Hs of acres lying within a few
m es of U" e metropolis—these are the objects which rival statesmen should unite to prosecute . Let us hope we siiMi live to see the day when they wiH ^ o so . " fn the multitude of the
people is the strength of the lung . " Provide employment and you will never wnnt people , nor will those people want food . Hands will flock where there is work to be done ; and between working and eating the connexion is indissoluble .
In the second class of the poor may fee ranked those who are able to work , but not willing . These compose a band very formidable to society . To maintain them in idleness is to make them ever v day more idle . They must be inured to labour by wholesome discipline . You cannot shew them a greater kindness .
With respect to the third class of the poor , such , 1 mean , as are willing , but not able to work ; it is evident that they must be provided for by the kind contributions of the rich . To such support th'V have a claim as fellow-creatures , and as those whose better days have been spent in the service of the community .
" Blessed is he that . considereth the poor ; the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble . The Lord will pre-• erve him and keep him alive , and he ¦ hall be blessed in the earth . The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing ; thou wilt make * Hhis bed in his sickness / 1
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Dr * John Walker to the People called Quaken . 54 &
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Dr . Walker ' s call to the Quakers , not to think evil of one another , because of their different opinions , JBond Court , Walhrooky 10 , viiiy Mo . 1815 . Beloyed Friends ! 11 THEREVER your lot may be ? w cast , in a world where all the
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temporal affairs of society rest upon the support of the sword , where the worship even , at least the social worship , of the Supreme Being is also every where reduced to the forms of human regulation and rested on the same authority , ye are necessarily
separated , very much separated , from the people around you . Wo ire conscious , if really Clunkers , that the principle which we ho ; d is the truth , must be the true religion throughout the universe . In all the regulations of man respecting worship , the Theistic
principle though often obscured is never extinguished or abandoned ; and even our own public profession ( of silent worship ) derived from the sect cf Seekers in the century before last , though the most simple and
sublime of all that yet exist and of any we find recorded in all the pages of history , does yet as modified by the ecclesiastical regulations of the Friends in some measure participate of the superstitions of the Gentiles . The followers of Moses even and Mahomet as
well as the worshipers of Jesus , do with us most obviously , all of them bekT . g to the Gentile World . The Quaker who is established in his convince meiit of the pure principle professsed by his sect , is separated from the idolatry of the nations . B e cannot yiefd to those superstitions , even , which inniiv of his brethren observe .
He mf > * y be obliged even in conscience to retire from the place where they assemble together under the profession of waiting upon the Supreme ; but where the sanctuary is polKuted by the attendance being coerced , is often , perhaps , polluted by idolatrous
reverence of the creature , by awful adoration of the high places there erected . Many of his brethren may rejoice in the hope of sitting down in the kingdom with Abraham , with Isaac , and with Jacob ; of being of the number of redeemed from the earth , not defiled with women , &c . Rev . xiv .
4 , —may hear with devout emotion * in songs of Zion chaunted from the high places , the extatic renewal of the promises of these beatitudes . Other * would not have the presumption in looking forward beyond the grave , to maintain , that sublunary relationshi p * ^ re th e re to Jbe continued , that the elect are to be received into Abraham ' *
bosom , with Isaac and Jacob , and the twelve tribes of Israel , who , we may remember ; , were tbe progeny of Jacob
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1815, page 545, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1764/page/13/
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