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MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBJLIG AFFAIRS; OR The Christian s Survey of the Political World* / i J ' mi 111 -
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such as to deserve and to conciliate respectful esteem . At Lady-day last he became an inmate in my family . The memory dwells with mournful complacency on the little traits of benevolent kindness which marked his domestic character . He
loved the playful simplicity of children ; and he might often have been taken for the grandfather of mine . Always desirous to avoid giving trouble to other ^ , always attentive to their comforts , he seemed to have no wish but to possess the affectionate regard of those with -whom , he resided : and that he did possess . —His time was so employed as to afford him much rational interest and
improvement * He was constant in the discharge of the duties of piety . His first Reading in the day was always directly religious , calculated to , exercise and strengthen his Christian principles .
He was next accustomed to read works © £ a serious but more argumentative description . His evenings he wished to spend , as much as he could , in cheerful social intercourse with his friends .
I cannot hesitate to speak of him as a conscientious , pious , benevolent , humble Christian ; and wijth such a
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\ . A miliiou of men in arms ! This wa $ blazoned forth to the world in our public papers soon after we ha 4 . fin , - * ished our last report . Tbe armistice was broken , and another power entered into the list * , of this desperate , sanguinary and miserable conflict .
Thus is Europe , which boasts of being tfce most enlightened part of ike world , disgraced : thus are nations professing Christianity testifying tfceir obedience to him \ yhonj , they call their t # ord 5 and who is emphatically styled i ? their hallowed writings the Priace
pf Peace . Nearly eighteen hundred years bav . e elapsed eij ^ ce tbe kingdom of God was proclaimed * and the badge of He subjects wva $ announced . < c By this eball all men , know that ye are my disciples , if ye love one another . ' * Ha 4 tfoiff precept been cjiuly inculcated on the minds of * these coiiubatanto , is
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character of mind , it is not wonderful that he should be able to look forward to his great change without dismay . ln submission to the divine "will , he wished
that it might be sudden : and he was spared from those lingering sufferings and that total loss of sight , of which he could not but be apprehensiv e ^—Whilst on a visit to one whom he had described as his dearest friend . (( M * described as his dearest triendMr
, , Postans , of Sheriff ' s Lench , near Eves , ham , ) he was suddenly called to his long home . As he was walking in the fields , he instantaneously expired , ( in consequence of the burning of a small bloodvessel in the head , ) without any appearance of suffering : and on the very evening when we bad expected to welcome him to his home , I had the
mournful satisfaction , of joining in paying t he last mark of respect to his
re . His income was very limited , but he made a liberal use of it . He regarded himself as accountable for all his talents ; and he employed them as a faithful steward- He did good as he had opportunity ; and I doubt not that he will meet with the approving sentence of his great Judge . L . C .
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it possible tji at ftijich a , number of professiug ^ Christians could have , b ( B € O collected together , into one district for the purpose of d ^ st ^ oying each oih *? p ? Bat the ways of peace are oat yet known : its advantages , Q&e not duly appreciated . The religion , pf Chiist is in the it
mouths of a }! , bjut how little does ap pear to be \ u their hearts . *¦ *¦« % - We do not consider tbi * subject as the worldl y polilician , It fills us with anguish for ; the deplorable state of mankind . The glorious liftUt oflt'w : gospel has t ^ oue , upon them , butrtien have preferred darkness tp , i * - iroflce Europe is * n its present < Jegra 4 ed : slate , from which it caniipt e * 9 &t t 4
eltverance , till , with n reapva ^ d heart , n turn ^ to % htf g ^ l ?« U ^ Wcb «* l «! 2 « long trodden umfeir f < 9 ot . Wb ^ the mwistersof the Pripcc of r «* ce ' Wiere are the elect of God to pour
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630 State of Public Affairs .
Monthly Retrospect Of Pubjlig Affairs; Or The Christian S Survey Of The Political World* / I J ' Mi 111 -
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBJLIG AFFAIRS ; OR The Christian s Survey of the Political World * / i J ' mi 111 -
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 620, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/60/
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