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and to urge upon others with candour , " those conscientious opinions , the honest and fearless avowal of which hie had previously recommended , Mr , A . makes the following excellent remarks : "Moderation , as a real , unquestionable virtue , refers not to doctrines , but to
the spirit in which they are held and professed , and to the language in which they are explained and enforced . It is humility in thinking , and good taste , courtesy and charity in the expression of what is thought . Even in controversy the bounds of moderation neea not be exceeded ; though controversial preaching is apt , without great caution , to betray a minister , and a young minister particularly , into intemperance . Polemical divinity in general is often a useful and sometimes a necessary course of study and labour ; but it is a thorny path , and of those that have pursued it most prudently and most successfully , few are there that have not felt at the close of the strife that they have received
some wounds during its progress . A Christian minister , worthy of the name , is always a / defender of the faith ; ' never an 'accuser of the brethren / And if in all cases moderation , in its general scriptural sense , be a virtue , much more is it a virtue becoming young men and young ministers . In the ardour of feelings , purely constitutional , some of tnese are apt to use strong and extravagant language , and even to mistake this for a mark of what is called genius , when , after all , it is the sign of nothing but the existence of an untamed imagination and the want of self-controul . "
The passage immediately following this contains also excellent counsel to young ministers , at the same time that it kindly bespeaks for them the candour of their hearers . The Charge concludes with a number of detached counsels , concisely and simply yet strikingly expressed , and evidently flowing warm from the paternal heart . All of these we could willingly extract , did our limits allow . We regard them , indeed , as constituting the most valuable part of Mr . Aspland ' s Address , and if we could have wished for any thing different , it would have been that this most impressive and useful portion of the Charge , to which the preacher ' s long and active experience would
doubtless have enabled him- to make many valuable additions , had been extended , even though it might have obliged him to omit some of the less peculiarly appropriate , though in itself excellent , matter which precedes . We have been led to notice these Services so much at length by the interest which the subject has excited in our minds , and likewise by the strong wish , which we confess we feel , to induce our readers to think favourbly of the revival , in an improved form , of a custom , in our opinion , likely to be attended by the most beneficial effects .
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AftT . II . —An Exposure of the Hamiltonian System of teaching Languages , in a Letter addressed to the Author of an Article recommendinq that System , in No . 87 of the Edinburgh Review . By J . Jones , LL . D . M . R . S . L . * London , 1826 . Roger Ascham , many years ago , expressed the result of his experience to be unfavourable to the success of short cuts to the acquirement of the learned languages , —to the plan of getting in at the window , as he expressed it , instead of following the usual mode of entering and ascending into the
* We deeply lament that since this article was composed this learned writer has been removed by death from the scene of his active and useful labours .
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Review , —Hatniltonian System . 109
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1827, page 109, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1793/page/29/
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