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POETRY.
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' MIDNIGHT . Hash ! tlie midnight hour is nigh ; Breathe the softest minstrelsy , Eolian lyre ! thy dying strain ^ : The ear of night shall entertain With cadence sweet , and solemn sound , ? magic Fancy lures around Her whisp e ring elves , an airy train ,. / To hear the child of care complain .
Now deathlike silence takts her round , With iinheard step , and thoughts profound ; And tlarkriess bliqd as thickest nighty Shrouding her face from mortal ' sight . Now sleep with cobweb bands o v erspread , Prone on the pillow rests her head -
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did ha subject himself ,, by taking part in our frail nature . that he might re 4 eem iis from misery and death . Yet these sufferings ^ terrible as they were , seem to have been distinct fronr , and intended for different purposes than , those last sufferings to which the New Testament writers unanimously concur to ascribe the efficacy of our redemption and
salvation . But , whilst we reflect with compassion and a degree of terror on his agony in the garden , with what admiration should we consider his behaviour under it . * O my Father , if it be possible , let this cup pass frorry me : nevertheless , not my
will , but thine be done . " And again : * O my-Father ,, if this cup may not pass from me except I drink it , thy , will-be done / " * Gracious God ! What a perfect and unshaken submission tq thy will was here—to what a severe trial w § s it put , and yet it remained firm . Sure , never was such
witness borne to . the rectitude , wisdom and goodness of tky appointments : never were they sq t ^ onoure 4 in the dep th s of distress . ^ . My fellpw Cbri ^ ti ^ ns , while we sta ^ id astonished at the excellence of this spirit , at the perfection of this piety ,
cannot we also derive from it some portion of a like temper ? By frequent and attentive meditation on this pattern ^ by resolutions often renewed , by the exertion of « our best endeavours on every occasion that calls for it , let us strive to ac ^ quire some degree of that spirit which breathed these submissive words from the jnouth of Jesus in the garden of ( j lethsemane . .- ¦ -.. . . .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1807, page 379, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2382/page/39/
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