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    a neglect to take the Sacrament , is alone sufficient to repress the wishes of a large portion of the Dissenting community to tender their services to the public in that way ; and the public stigma which the laws in question affix to the profession of £ > ther religious principles than those of the Establishment , is imperfectly wiped off by acts of partial Repeal and annual Indemnity , which have been necessitated by public convenience rather than conceded as the boon of an enlarged liberality .

    3 . It is neither wise nor fitting that the dreadful penalties of the Test Act should be suspended from year to year over the heads , not of Dissenters merely , but of the real and nominal members of the Church , who , encouraged by the practice of nearly a century , fail to comply with the law , but who are thus placed perpetually at the mercy , not of the combined Legislature , but of each and every branch of it . What might be the consequences of any sudden panic which should seize the Noble Lord on the Woolsack , and his half-dozen attendant spirits , whilst the annual Bill was gliding as

    usual through the forms of the House , it is awful to reflect . Were all our rights equally revocable at the will of King , Lords , or Commons , we should have little to boast on the ground of security under such a triple tyranny . We are not now impugning the original policy of Acts of Indemnity at a time when the remains of a disaffected party still looked to the exiled Stuarts as their legitimate sovereigns ; but the entire extinction of that race , and the complete settlement of the present dynasty , have established abundant grounds for an act of perennial release , in lieu of an annual indemnity .

    But we must desist from pursuing the subject for the present ; opportunities will , we trust , speedily occur of calling the public attention to if in other points of view , and of fulfilling our pledge of unceasing warfare against these and all other obstructions of that social union and Christian brotherhood which so far transcend the doubtful , if attainable ^ blessing of uniformity in external profession .

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    When twilight shades come darkening on , And tinge all earth and heaven and sea ; O then 'tis sweet to be alone , And meditate on Thee . When day's distinctions all are gone , All shrouded by night ' s canopy , 'Tis doubly sweet to be alone , And meditate on Thee . For then the idle world ' s parade , Its fame , its follies , fade and flee ; Thy temple is the secret shade , There peace communes with Thee .

    The lonely hour , the shadowy scene , Night ' s silent , sacred mystery ; Turn all the awaken'd soul within , And wean its thoughts to Thee . Then welcome be the evening hour , And welcome midnight ' s calm to me ; And blest the season and the power That call my soul to Thee .

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    3 z * Evening Hymn .

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    EVENING HYMN .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1827, page 32, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1792/page/32/