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Stranger . —Ye two believe that there is a God , Others also have rightly believed this ; and less hardy than thou , O Sadducee , they trembled ! 1 was nigh thee , O Pharisee , in the synagogue , when a poor man entered whose garments were worn with travel , and soiled with the dust of the way . He bore also no purse , and his scrip
was empty . Him thou didst appoint to sit beneath thy feet . —In a while , came one in a purple robe , with a jewelled signet at his breast , and a goodly staff in his hand . Him thou didst rise up to greet and place in the seat of honour . If thou , who holdest thyself taught of Jehovah concerning his will , thus showest partiality , marvel not that the judges do likewise . Pray for justice if thou wilt : but see that thine own way is equal , and then shall the ways of Jehovah be seen to be equal also .
For thee , O Samaritan , I have mourned that thy faith is gone from thee . Samaritan . —Gone from me ! and even now I besought the prayers of this Pharisee . Yea , five times daily , also , do I pray jnyseif ( unworthy as I am !) that our woes may cease . Stranger . —Thy faith is naught if it lead thee only to prayer .
If thou sittest mourning till destruction carry thee away as a flood , shall such a faith save thee ? Your woes come by your works , and shall not your redemption come by your works also ? Whence come your wars in the field and your contests within your borders , but from your own fierce passions and evil desires ? and how shall they be assuaged unless ye cleanse your hands and purify your hearts ?
Samaritan . —But if we make peace , then famine will arise , For our people are more than can be fed . We ask food and receive not . Stranger . —Ye ask and receive not , because ye ask amiss . As well might ye expect the cold and hungry to receive , because ye say , ' be ye warmed and be ye filled / as because ye only pray . Jehovah fed our fathers in the wilderness with manna rained
down from heaven : but he hath long given us fields to till and bid us rejoice in the harvest . Samaritan . —But the harvest is not enough . When all is consumed , our children still cry for bread . He who bade us increase and multiply giveth not food in proportion to the increase . Stranger . —Nay : not to you , said he ' increase and multiply , ' but to a little flock when all the earth was before them . Tell
me , —are not the days at hand of which he spake , who was of my kindred in the flesh , but my Master in the things of the spirit ? Are not the days nigh when there shall be woe to the daughters of Jerusalem who bear their young whither they go , and when the barren shall be more blessed than she that hath borne seven ? Why discern ye not better the times and the seasons ?
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256 On Nature and Providence to Communitite .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1832, page 256, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1810/page/40/
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