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that were to be read and those that were to be only turned jover ; and extracted or noted down only such passages as had a bearing- upon Jiis system of Christian morality . About three in the afternoon lie resumed his labours , and generally took exercise of some kind in the evening * .
The summer months he spent at a country-house , where his garden was a favourite scene of recreation . A part of his evening * was occupied in conducting a very extensive correspondence , and in replying to a number of persons , who consulted him about their works or on cases of conscience . After a very frugal supper at nine , he usually resorted to a little music . The harpsichord was his instrument ; and often ,
when fatigued with labour , or when his ideas were dull , he would play for a few moments , and feel himself revived : music , too , was his recreation after preaching . His day terminated in listening to something light , which his wife read to him . Only extraordinary circumstances could induce him to prolong his labours beyond the usual hour , or deviate from a plan of life , which he followed with the greatest regularity . '—pp . 89 , 90 .
What a contrast between the simple mode of life , the assiduous studies constantly directed to some practical object , the truly pastdraft character and professional labours of Reinhard , and the luxurious indolence of some of the richly-beneficed and aristocratical dignitaries of our own Church ! And yet the princely incomes , With which they a rehardly satisfied , would have maintained in comparative affluence many Reinhards 1
In his first letter Reinhard informs us how he came to publish so many volumes of sermons . At an earlier period of his career , he ha 4 published successively a couple of volumes ; and in 1795 , after his removal to Dresden , he was strongly urged to permit every sermon which he should thenceforward preach to be printed . With this very extraordinary request he certainly would not have complied but for a circumstance which rendered compliance almost inevitable . Such was the interest which his sermons
excited , that they were taken down during the delivery , and copies qf th $ m afterwards sold throughout the country in a very imperfect and mutilated form . Some of these copies fell into Reinhard ' s hands J and he was mortified to perceive the nonsense which he was made to utter , but which did not seem at all to interfere with
their sale . In self-defence , and as the least of two evils , he was induced to allpw jtjie publication , through a regular channel , of every sermonwhiclii he p reached ; an < J this arrangement , subsisting lyithout ihferrftpjtiQn fgr £ fteen years , was the occasion of the VQlurmnous CQlIeVtfcpn wfrjch he left behind him .
Jjt w #$ jtljg jancjtent practice of the Lutheran churches for the mini ^ r ^ p take tfee subject of his discou rse fro m the short portion C& the N w Testament , which is read immediately before the serrnou ^ and which forms the lesson for the day . Thus limited in hU chdice of texts , the wonder was how Reinhard cQntrived to draw out of them such a variety of subjects . If e describes hi ? methpd of proceeding in his tepjth Jietter . After insisting pii tjaq
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1832, page 798, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1826/page/6/
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