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their duty to a professional interest , of which they are only the life-representatives , and their willingness to sacrifice even just claims for the sake of peace . But they are hot further responsible for the system , than as they do not protest against its evils , and pray for * its commutation . It is not so , however , with those ,
whose disproportionate revenues arrest the public eye , and furnish a perpetual butt for the shafts of infidelity and disaffection ; or with those whose multiplied pluralities involve the spoiling of their poorer brethren ; who live of the temple in which they have never ministered , and are partakers with the altar at which they have never waited . Alas ! it is such blemishes that have done the
mischief ) that have dealt the parricidal blow , that have ate as cankers into our goodly fabric , and caused it to totter to its fall ! For the waters are abroad , the foundations are out of course , the storm is gathering , that is to be on everything that is high , and on everything that is lifted up ; and that is to root up every plant which our Heavenly Father hath not planted .
* O then that we were wise , that we would understand this ; that there were in us such a mind as would lead us to meet this crisis , not in stern defiance or paralysed supineness , but in the spirit of manliness and truth : to correct our own abuses , and reform our own corruptions , and exscind the eye and hand , that are a
stumbling-block and cause of offence ! For then we might be a glorious church , worthy of our apostolic constitution ; then might the good work prosper which has so long slept upon our hands ; then might the dove , the messenger of peace , again visit our shrines and nestle in our sanctuaries !
• Suffer me , my reverend brethren , thus far ; for in venturing these remarks , I know that I am uttering the sentiments of the wisest and holiest members of our communion , of all who are waiting for deliverance in Israel ; who have long mourned over the desolations of our church , and are even now expecting that out of our own Zion shall come the deliverers who are to turn
away iniquity from Jacob . The day of indifference and inactivity is past ; it is a question now between reform and destruction ; and he is now the best churchman , as well as the best patriot , who is the first to acknowledge the abuse , and to call for its correction . ' The sermon concludes with some appropriate remarks on the utility of the Society , which has for its object the relief of the
widows and orphans of the poorer clergy . —It is proper to add that the author is a highly respectable parish priest , and is very effectively assisted in his parochial duties by his excellent wife , who has herself published a useful work , entitled « Woman in her Social and Domestic Character . ' V . F .
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Signs oftite Times . 567
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1832, page 567, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1818/page/63/
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