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new name ; its symptoms aggravated perhaps by some temporary causes into unusual virulence . We have greater evils than this in the land for which to fast , would fastings avail to heal them . Had we such faith , we would fast for the prolonged anxiety of
the country , with all its attendant mischiefs , by the delay of the Reform Bill . . We would fast for the sanguinary character of our penal code . We would fast for the ignorance , wretchedness , and crime , which are perpetuated in the land , by the inefficiency of our institutions for the great ends of human society . The very panic which has been fostered is already , by its influences
on trade and commerce , generating far more suffering than ever the cholera is likely to produce . Oh , there will be fasting enough ! In the distress , which will have been , we fear , so unwisely aggravated , may God have mercy on our country by stirring up all men of sound minds and hearts to labour unremittingly for the immediate and enduring amelioration of the condition of the great mass of the community . Let Percevals give up their sinecures , and Gordons learn the language of charity ; let bishops look for gospel , and riot parlia ^ mentary , precedents ; and statesmen renounce cajolery and
compromise ; let legislation become the expression of a people ' s will for the promotion of a people ' s good ; let knowledge be untaxed and religionists be neither bribed nor plundered ; let devotion be left to the spontaneity of men ' s hearts and voices ; let monopoly be disarmed of its iron rod , and labour freed from its shackles ; and let the middle classes awake from their apathy , before they are crushed between the higher and the lower , whom it is their hitherto neglected mission to conciliate , blend , harmonize , and ultimately identify : and then , from worse plagues than cholera , and by better means than fasting , will the deliverance of the
country be achieved . This is the best mode of evincing our own faith , piety , and righteousness , and securing for earth the mercy and favour of heaven . Our noblest recognition of Divine Providence is made by observing the laws of physical , mental , moral , and social being ; and by so availing ourselves of those laws , as to extend the knowledge , develop the capacity , purify the characters , multiply the enjoyments , and elevate the hopes of our fellow-creatures .
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A TALE . On a mountain steep , near the sources of the Maine , stood a convent j / vhose vesper bell had echoed from summit to summit for four hundred years , The old men in the dwellings of the valley below delivered to the little ones arjout their knees , the traditions they had received from their grandfathers respecting the original
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LIESE ; OR , THE PROGRESS OF WORSHIP .
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The Fast Day and the Cholera . 153
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1832, page 153, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1808/page/9/
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