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sion of faith , or to fetter it by the acts of Romish councils or the Thirty-nine Articles of . the episcopal church : «• it operates where h will , sanetifying the heart , through the . medium of every form . And this sanctification is the principal thing * When we see it , accompanied by a Christian life , among those who here and there dissent from the creed of the great ecclesiastical societies . WliU IlCTt ? itUU W 1 CIC LUQfBCllft itUUl lUC UlCt'U Ut W « 5 gicat Ctl- iCOiCKJWi > tM ovw ^/ iwu ** ,
we may tranquillize ourselves and forbear to sound the alarm . The Spirit of God will continue its work of illuminating and sanctifying , and bring back the mind of man to the right path , if it have gone astray . May this thought calm the apprehensions of those who have been alarmed by the prognostics of Mr , Rose , and of similar prophets of evil I "
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Art . III . —Journal de la SociM de ta Morale Chritienne . Journal of the Society of Christian Morality . Vol . I . and II . Paris . This Society was organized in December , 1821 , at which time the Duke de la Rochefoucauld Liancourt was called to preside over the Institution * We cannot better explain the intentions of this Society than by giving an abstract of its prospectus , which was signed by all the original subscribers , and which foims the basis of the labours and the publications of its
members : "Thougjh political science seems at present to occupy too exclusively those who ^ repecst on ; the means of ameliorating the condition of mankind , and thoitgli there is a tendency to believe that the study and application of these sciences are sufficient ijor all the necessities of the human condition , yet it is certain that all fc&ei friends of truth have not the same exaggerated con * fidenfee in the effects ofthis socialmechanism ^ and that many among them , see the Necessity of ttirning their attention , and that of their conjtemporar ^ s , toivards sources of improvement more abundant , and which more immecUate } y
affect us . " To this end we constantly meet with writings and efforts full of zeal , the success of which is a sufficient reply to the detractors of our age ; and it cannot be denied , that , the present age is more fruitful than any which has preceded it , in useful discoveries , in generous projects , and in charitable esta * - blishinents . Many societies have recentl y been formed , in different Christian countries , which labour with disinterestedness for the progressive civilization of mankind and the improvement of their moral and religious state , ; Francs
has hot remained a stranger to these laudable attempts . Useful associations have been formed in the capital and in the departments ; and what is n * pstj consoling is , that , Wherever they have been created , men of various , opinions , laying aside their former prejudices , have united together ; thinking , with reason ; that their differences ought not to be an obstacle to any great good in which they are called to concur . " ISne . puraged by tjhese circumstances , and persuaded that most of the evils wh ^ ch mankind deplore ate the effects of their own mistakes concerning what
Is necessary to their happiness , many friends of humanity # iink that the time has arrivea when a society may be successfully established which may unite its efforts to recall men to the only source of true happiness , namely , to , the precepts of Christianity—precepts essentially the same as fte . ( Dreatw % s engWirfeti in the hearts 6 f all but which Jesus Christ has clevelo |> c ? a and presented in aluminous and attractive manner , and recommenced by ihe most powerful motives ; though , unhappil y , they are too little ktiown , too little respected , and atyove all , too little followed . To interest men iii the s&c ^ ed ooqe whicli embraces these divine precepts , to inspire them with the desire W searching into them more diligently , and thus to conduct them to those bene-
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836 Review . —Socittt de la Morale ChrUiennt * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1827, page 836, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1802/page/52/
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