On this page

• Text (1)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    Untitled Article

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    Untitled Article

    unearthly beauty in dying ; and we have gathered once more , into our granaries and our stores , the produce of another harvest , the reward of past exertions and the provision for future wants . Every morning has refitted us for the occupations of life , and every evening has renewed to us the sweets of repose : not a month has gone by , which has not left behind it recollections of

    enjoyment , and evidences of love ; not a season has crossed our path , which has not sprinkled it with flowers , and filled the winds of time with the fragrance of hope and joy . And now while the rigours of the closing year are around and before us while the breath of the last of the seasons breathes its chill upon the brow , and the world , so beautiful but a short period since , has consigned ,

    for a time , its beauty to the dust , —we once again look back upon a period , in which many have been struck from the records of mortality , —in which many a head , already white with the snows of time , has been gathered to " the house appointed for all the living ^' —and in which , still more , the young and the hopeful have been scattered , like the flower-leaves in the breath of the storm , and laid ,

    in human language , prematurely ^ beneath the cold turf , where their fathers lie . Amid the mortality of a year , which in some of our neighbourhoods has been more than commonly fatal , our lives have been spared , and our fate postponed ; and , while the young and the aged have been falling around us , we have been preserved , by the loving kindness of our God , both from "the pestilence that walketh in darkness , " and from " the arrow that

    wasteth at noon-day . " Not unto us , O God , not unto us , but unto Thy name be the glory ! Nor is it for our preservation alone that we ought to prostrate our spirits in gratitude and thanksgiving before the Throne of Him who heareth prayer , while we look back upon the period that is gone , and reflect in what circumstances we have been permitted yet again to look upon the commencement of another year * It is not life alone , but its

    blessings , that have been renewed to us ;—it is not onl y for the continuance of existence , but for so much that contributes to make it enjoyed , that we have now to bow down in praise and thankfulness before the Throne of the Giver of all . And if ^ during the period which is passed , we have experienced , as manv during the period which is passedwe have experiencedas many

    , , must , that this is a frail and changeable world , let us still remember that the heaviest evils of life are not among the number of those which we have endured . They can never have felt the bitterness of adversity who retain their health , their reason , their peace , and their God ; for all other bereavements there is

    consolation to be found , and for all other losses there are many resources ; and the mercy of Providence is to be praised where these blessings are left , whatever else may have been taken away . The briar must be planted before the rose can be gathered , and they who would reap in joy must sometimes be necessitated to sow in tears ; but the rose will be ^ ultimately more prized for thp

    Untitled Article

    13 JDebotioaal Thoughts on the ~ New Year *

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1832, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1804/page/12/