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them , Now bid the fellows lead me back to prison ; the conference is ended . —Sirs , good night . ' Having thus spoken , she turned from them with an air of high authority , as if she herself had been judge , and they all trembling prisoners ; and for once the weak woman was obeyed in her commands . The commissioners rose up with one consent , and she went back to prison . — Vol . ii . p . 17—26 .
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T * tiblic Fasts Irrational and Antichristian ; a Discourse delivered in the Unitarian Chapel , Glasgow , on Sunday , March 18 , 1832 . By George Harris . Mr . Harris describes , and we think justly , the appointment of the late Fast as the tribute of political expediency to sectarian cant . ' He views the subject in its relation to the broad principles of civil and
xeligious liberty , and descants upon it in the manly spirit of one who has long been devoted to the advocacy of those principles . His sermon is plain and energetic . Such a course of remark needs no apology ; at least , it is not to their credit with whom it does ; but Mr . Harris ' s preface contains a vindication of it , dictated by the same spirit , which we have great pleasure in extracting : — ' The political observations in the following Discourse , were occasioned by the Royal Proclamation . They were demanded likewise by the circumstances of the times . Politics constitute one great branch of human duty . The principles of righteousness and temperance ; the cardinal maxim , do to others as you would that others should do to you—cannot be completely illustrated and enforced , unless man is instructed in his duties to himself , his family , his country , and the world ,
—and this is politics—and this is Christianity . The intrigues , the warfare of rival factions , are indeed inconsistent with the object of religious instruction , and these the Christian minister will avoid ; convinced as he must be by the world ' s history , that the only issue of such contests has been the sacrifice of the freedom and happiness of the people . But all that tends to the advancement of the world ' s improvement , and the world ' s regeneration , it is his especial duty to aid to the
utmost of his power ; and woe be to him , if he flinch from the task because the labour may be arduous , or because offence may be taken at his efforts . Much misapprehension exists upon this subject . To suppose that an individual , by becoming a preacher , renounces his privileges as a man—that the instructor in morality is to leave untouched one great branch of morals , that which relates to the actions of man to man—is indeed one of those strange prejudices , which indicate most strikingly human inconsistency and ignorance . Peculiarly obligatory
is it on him , to treat of man , not only as an individual , but as a social "being ; not to circumscribe his views to the mere relations of self and Family , but to carry them out into the highways of society ; to show j , hat Christianity is the law of action to the ruler as well as the ruledthat that which is morally wrong , can never be politically right , and jthat nations , as well as private persons , are amenable to the sacred jand soul-elevating commandments of the Gospel of Jesus . Great pbloquy has been cast upon those Prelates of the English Established
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42 B Critical Notices . — Public Fusts Irrational and Antichristian .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1832, page 428, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1814/page/68/
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