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of worship , I think Unitarians can have no objections to the spe . cies of ornament which I wish to recommend : if they have , 1 should feel obliged to any one who will state them , for the information of , Sir , Your constant reader , M . H .
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The Dissenting Minister's Complaint . Mr . Editor , Feb . 1 , 1813 .
1 flatter myself that , amongst other good offices which you are ready to do for the religious public , you are not unwillirig to give your assistance towards removing the grievances of a body of men , who have , indeed , the meed of
honour granted them , but rarely that of profit . To make the ground of my complaint understood , I will proceed , without farther preface , to inform you that I am the son of a Dissenting minister , descended in a direct line from orte
of the venerable company of martyrs , who , on the memorable day of St . Bartholomew , evinced the power oftr ' uthand the low value at which worldly honours and profits arc held by those who seek a kingdom
which cannot be moved . Strongly impressed by the importance of Christian principles and their value to give dignity to the character of man and eternity to his existence ; and gratified by the services
he fondly hoped fce had rendered the wbrld by a faithful avowal of them and by the uninterrupted esteem in which he had passed more than a quarter of a century , among a numerous , a devout and pm affectionate people , the good
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man believed that he could not serve his son better than by bringi . ing him up to his own profession , that he might advance the good cause and enjoy the like praise and gratification . Accordingly , I
was kept at a grammay * school , till I attained my sixteenth year , and then was sent to a Dissenting college high in the public confidence , which had given to the world many learned and useful
ministers . Some friends of my father , who valued him for the genuine integrity atid excellence of his character , but thought him a man of but little worldly wisdom , proposed one and another scheme
of future engagement for me , which promised greater advantages and offered a bettef prospect of opulence than did the favourite scheme of his pious meditations . But in his eye the honours and the riches of the
world were of small account ; and he entertained no more elevated tiope for his much . loved child , than to see him usefully employed in the work of the ministry , and successful in bringing souls to Christ : and the summit of his
ambition seemed to be that , when it should please God to remove him to a better world , his son might fill 4 < the venerable place /' which ' * his looks and his lips had adorned" for so many years ; and
continue to enjoy , for as long a period as himself , the affection and the blessing of that Christian circle to whom it was his prayer that he might remain faithful and
useful , even unto death . The good man ' s prayer was heard * He preached till his dying day : and when at length he had resigned the solemn charge of the care of souli into the hand of the great Shepherd
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366 The Dissenting Minister ' s Cotnplairtt .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1813, page 366, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2429/page/10/
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