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excellence which yet he is persuaded both he and they ought to labour to attain ; but if in . the midst of all his deficiencies the Christian temper and spirit do not at least predominate , and manifest themselves in works and words of utility and benevolence , it cannot with reason be expected that the cause of religion will prosper in his hands . In what other profession is mere theoretical knowledge successful ? Will a surgeon be employed
because he can declaim against erroneous theories or can explain by induction how an operation should be performed , and yet cannot perform it himself ? Will acquaintance with the theory of business stand instead of practical experience ? And they are the practical habits of men of business which in nine cases out of ten rise up and condemn the ministers of religion . Practical men are used to associate the name with the thing , and they naturally dislike mere empty exhibitions of doctrinal ingenuity or eloquent declamation not connected with practical qualifications .
Let our ministers then strive to acquire the habits of practical men , and be for the sake of religion what some men of the world are for the sake of worldly expectation , that it may no longer be said with truth of them , " the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light /' D . Z *
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There ' s not a star in all the heaven , But tells us goldenly of Thee ; There ' s not a ray , at sunset given , To wreathe * with beams the locks of Even , But speaks of Him no eye can see—The Veil'd One of eternity .
We read the radiant page of Spring—* Tis all thine own , and all of Thee ;—For nought can shine , or breathe , or sing , No breeze waft sweets upon its wing , Or stir the green and sunny tree , Hadst Thou not bidden these bright things be
No dewy braid can Summer twine , No virgin rill can Summer pour , To fill with life the sultry vine , On green meads write a greener line , Or bathe in woods the hermit flower , But tells of Thy benignant power .
Oh , if in this inferior sphere , So vast Tby might , so rich Thy love , — If , in this world of sin and fear , So deep , so bright , Thy ways appear , — What may we hope from spheres above , Where Thine own blest Immortals rove
* With these that never fade the spirits elect JJiud their resplendent locks unwreath'd with beams , —Milton .
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Earth and Heaven , 655
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EARTH AND HEAVEN .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1827, page 655, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1800/page/23/
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