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Witt , afid for further proofs of his protecting care . And know assuredly , that if your days are prolonged to a period at present remote , and you are preserved in the fear of the Lord , these , and all your morning acts of humble attachment to his cause , will be sweet in your remembrance .
of using ; " this world as not abtisiti ^ it . " These , we would encourage to hold or * jri the way cast up before them , trusting in 'the ' . Lord , who hath declared that afi things necessary will be given tothose who seek first his kingdorn . Thus trusting , and endeavouring to apply to him in secret supplication , in the difficulties that must in a state of probation be the lot of all ,, we may humbly hope that , in our several proportions , we shall c grow in the truth' individually ; and that , coming up in our allotments in the church militant , our various meetings will also , whether more or less as to number , experience among threm a Q growth in the truth . '
But , dear friends , there is one attainment which , at this time , * we are earnest to remind you of ; an attainment , without which no other gift can he permanent and certain . We want to ptess on you the never ceasing duty of humility and lowliness of mind . Even our blessed Lord declared himself to be ' * meek and lowly in heart ; " and can any one , expecting salvation by him , be exempt from the need of possessing the same ^ ol y temper ? However great the talents with which he may have endowed us by nature , or however he may replenish our souls % with the more excellent gifts of his Holy Spirit , rtill we have nothing which we have not received ; and ¦ we can have no sound reason for setting at nought the least of our brethren— -for whom , let ua remember , equally as for us , Christ di $ d . Let us then , dear
friends , be willing" to examine ourselves , and know whether we are indeed humble , followers of a . lowly-minded , though omnipotent Saviour . If we -feel a deficiency of humility , let us pray for att increase , and -for assistance to > check the springings up oL its dreadful -opposite , Pride ; and if we are not without some . ground of hope that we are endowed , iu good degree , with an bumble heart , . we shall certainly be encouraged still to supplicate for its continuance . ^ Finally , dear friend * , whether , with the beloved disciple , we address you aa fathers ,. * or as young Jiien ; whether , without regard of sex or station , our love in Christ now salutes the aged or the rising generation ; ren ^ ember , that it is " the meek whom the Lord will teach his way : + and
,,. We have received at this time epistles from all the North American Yearly Meetings ; in which , besides the general vigilance over the welfare of the society , we find a continuance of attention to the sanie objects of more eeneral concern ,
vfhicri ^ we inentioned last year ; namely , the state of the black people still held as slaves , and the measures employed for ciyillzing' the Indian natives . The Epistle from Ireland has been particularly grateful to us , find we have not
failed totestify our unity with , friends in th at nation by a few affectionate words of reply . Living as we do under the sanie government , and above all professing the same holy and uniting principle , we are inclined at this time to commend
our friends of the sister nation , to the continued cordizl remembrance of their brethren on this side the channel . Now , dear friends , we would mention one subject which at this time has been
under our notice 5 a eaujion to all , to use moderation in their manner of living ; and in this way to seek relief from the increasing expense of the times in which we live , rather than by engaging in more extensive and often hazardous schemes
in trade . By these latter means the mind becomes en cumbered and unfitted for religious service , yea , often for reli * - gious thought , and for breathing daily after the spiritual riches which are to be ei * JQyed in close communion with God . And let v > s beseech you to consider how distant from the state , which endeavours
to stand resigned to give up . all * . if required , is that , state , which indulges itself in ease to the full extent of its power , or i § endeavouring , by mult / plied adventurd $ in trade , to acquire t ; Uat power , "which it covets for the purpose of worldly enjoyment . We believe ,, however ,
and weare gla 4 in believing , that there are numbers wjho aft . upon sounder principl es than these ; who knowing , as saith the ' apostle , that " the fashion of this world passeth away , " * arc really desirous ¦ ¦ i
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Intelligence . —Quakers * Yearly Meeting . 36 * 7
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1810, page 367, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2406/page/47/
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