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Think nothing innocent whieh diminishes your power over yotir own minds , which leads you to seek for gratification rather than improvement . Devote yourselves to the full discharge of the duties of your station : let your amusements be active and cheerful , but
innocent : and let yaur leisure time be , as much as practicable , employed in cultivating those branches of knowledge which will furnish a useful occupation for
your thoughts and at the same time expand t < he powers of your minds . Every hour spent in such pursuits ( where higher dudes do not demand it , ) is an hour
well spent ; not only as they cultivate and improve the mind , but as they prevent , for the time , tjie introduction of wrong thoughts and feelings , and give the mind an habitual bent to those which
refine it , and which while they oppose and check impure desires and affections ^ claim an alliance with and cherish those tyhich vviji accompany to heaven . 3 . Cultivate a high sense of your duties to others .
Remember that ypu are placed here not for your own welfare merely , but to contribute all you can to the wel&re of others . With this view let every feeliqg be checked tfrat prompts fcQ conduct which will
Marrow , perhaps altogether destroy your powers of usefulness , > vhreh will necessarily prevent ; ike due fulfilment of social duty ,, ^ n $ perhaps lead others to depart , ^ ven mare widely thmn yowrselve ? ,
* rom the course which prudeJ ? C / e ftnd benevolence and piety p $ l poi . ut to as m-cos&ary Jfir -yo&r ^ dl-being .- —Think too what y *> u ° we to those who for a tong s * mp-* # * ipi > of ye ^ rs lwv $ bs $ n yp ^ r
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principles and to give thai regulation which direct ; th ^ heart t
whom under Providence you oiane every thing . : 4 ^ Cultivate by all , th'e nienn ^ in your power , and particd ^ arly by sincere obedienfee , the feeling of conscience and habitual su b *
mission to its dictates . Judge of their correctness by a diligent attention to the precepts of the gospel , and by the holy example of Jesus . Think how he would have acted in your situation , and aim to imbibe some
portion of his heavenly spirit * Afm your internal monitor with the sanctions which Jesus reveal * ed ; and let the hopes and -f ^ &rs of eternity be called in to support its authority . —Never tamper with yqur conscience yourselves ^ npr listen ' to those who would , bjjr making you view with l . ess disi approbation what you know to l ? c wrong ., and diminishing your rc ^ - dy and lively approbation of w hat you know ro be right . Bear jfcri
mind that you ifcay tamper wit ^ your cpn ^ cienpe till you make ft sf ^ eajk vy ^ at language you pU > as ^ for a time at least . Ijfebttuaj ly pbey its warning voice and r it will preserve you amiidst the dis-$ & $$ &x \\ tx ^ ot jpns wj ^ icU WQvXil
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Practical Remarts on M&ttUx& , *«¦ 27 ; 58 . ® S 9
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1808, page 269, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2392/page/41/
