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    is to be done , as in the doubts , difficulties , and prejudices of those by whom it should be achieved . We rejoice , however , in the conviction , everywhere strengthening and extending , that something must be done , on the largest scale , to instruct and elevate the great mass of the community . It is the harbinger of happy changes . The highest good may be realized by the effort to cure

    intolerable evil . If we consult the dealings of Providence * and the history of human progress , the fact that the very elements of society are in a state which seems to threaten dissolution will inspire the hope that society is about to be renovated on purer principles , and that in political arrangements , as well as in Christian morals , we may advance towards the realization of the assertion , that " True self-love and social are the same *"

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    The commencement of a new year is one of those periods which few serious men can ever meet , without owning its _ solemnity , and feeling its influence , —without being " led by the Spirit" of the season , unto the silence and solitude of religious thought—with * out being , more or less , abstracted from the present * by the retrospects of the past , and the prospects of the future .

    In reviewing the course of the year that is gone , we perceive in it another evidence of the faithfulness of our Maker , another proof that " while the earth continueth , seed-time and harvest , summer and winter , " shall never cease to " work together for good /* to beautify creation and to bless mankind . Such was the promise , which was made , in the olden time , over the ruins of the Deluge , and to which another revolution of our planet has now added a

    new sanction to those of fifty centuries gone . " The hand of God , ' still " unseen " as of old , has conducted once more the beautiful vicissitude , " —the annual work of Nature is again completed , and the annual bounties of Providence have been again dispensed . We look back upon the portion of time , which only now exists in our recollections ; we see it numbered with " the days that are past , and with the years that are spent as a tale that is told . " That * tale '' is indeed " told "—but it has a moral , which ought not to pass away .

    We have been permitted once more to taste , in succession , the various blessings of every season . We have . seen the bright train advancing over the earth , and lavishing their gifts , in rich profusion , upon the hearts and homes of mankind . We have looked with gladness upon the prophetic beauty of Spring , and our hearts have been brightened by the Summer sky ; we have enjoyed ; in their season , the fruits of the Autumn ; we have seen the last departing hues of the year , which discovers , like the Christian ,

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    DEVOTIONAL THOUGHTS ON THE NEW YEA R *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1832, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1804/page/11/