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MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS; OR ,.' The Christian s Survey of the Political World.
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« er loss must be proportionality felt ; t 0 her alFectioiiate ^ b ttd beloved partner , it is indeed a deep and permanent affliction . —Bnt , in closing . such a grave we must say , Blessed are tite dead
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that die in the Lard ^ for 9 tbougfe m % he cold and eiletit tomb tbey must ie * t from their labours or * love and kindness , —yet , their works do follow them . S . A .
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cf 34 &iai& of Publh Affairs .
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** When the enemy invaded our territories , his crimes occasioned to us much misery ; but the wrath of God has visited him . Do not let us imitate his example : but let us forget the suffefings we have endured from his crimes , and extend towards him the hand of friendship and the olive of peace . The religion , that we cherish in our hearts , commands us to forgive our enemies ^ and to do good to them that persecute us . " Thus spake the Emperor Alexander to his Russians , on entering Fiance , and it is with the greatest pleasure that we record his words * Whatever may be the conduct of his army , here is a public testimony from a throne to those principles , which it is the great object of this Survey to inculcate , namely , to press
upon the rmnd of e \ ery reader , that he has not a right to the title of Christian Unless be obeys the Saviour ' s command , to forgive our enemies , and to do good to all who calumniate or per-• ecutc ue . . What a striking contrast there is between this language of the "Emperor , > and that of some of our newspaper * , which are endeavouring
as much as possible to prevent the return of peaceful - sentiments in the minds of Englishmen , by aggravating the crimes of the French , and endeavouring to persuade us , that , sinful beings as we are , no vengeance is toaf great to be taken on those of our fellowcreatures , whose superior shades of gujlt they can so pointedly discriminate ! Far be it from us to entertain such
sentiments ; and we would call on ever / one in the contending nations to pros ^ - trat £ kfmsell before the throne of grace , yrith ; deep , humtlify and contrition for his own sins and those of his nation ; to
^ d confess , that great as iiave heen the calamities of Europe , they have ^ ccn ] j » jpought q ppn \^ $ by the ^ 1 * $ of subjection , in every nation , to the , plan t s and easy dictates of the Christian religion .
Since the issuing of this proclamation , the confederates have advanced into the heart of France , apd at fcfris moment of writing , the advanced guards 2 tre feportcd to be \ yitbin twenty tmies of Paris , and this unhappy , capital & expected to share the fate of Moscow . Here let us pause for one ; , moment 3 an $ l let those who have seenf a . fire in &
town , when all have b&en an ^ ioi ^ s to extinguish the flames , cqn ^ ri ^ . what must be the misery aad anguish npf thousands of families , wh ^ R whole streets are on fire , aad parties- ^ re running about not to extinguish , but to increase the horrors of so dreadful a
day . Is there a mind so callous to human it j as to re } oiceint th ^ , distresses of his fellow creatures ar * 4 to ^ exult . in . tbe destruction of one of ihp , first , citites in JEurope ? Be it so . If here are such beings in the worlqV : but do not let them disgrace the nanje of Christians , by pretending to profess a religion ^ which , a Russian emperor procfairns it , teaches us to ior ^ ive our enemies and . to do g 6 od to all who calumniate and
persecute US . , . . s . v ' ' - .. The advance of the confederates was made with scarcely any resistance , till they came within a feuridred jpailes of Paris ; when Buonaparte left | iis . tapital , trusting his faithful citizens y ^ ntk
the guard ot the place and the ? protection of his wife and child , acd not without an intimation that their fidelity slxiiX courage might be put to a severe test , as the enemy might be expected to appear before their walls . The two great armies of tbe confederates had advanced
by different routes into £ hampagne > the one consisting chiefly of Prussj&ns under jBlucher , who had passed the Rhine between Cologne aj&d fytentz j the Qthei under prince ScJ ^^ vaft ^ enberff ,, who made their entry from the ^ borders of Switzerland and | he southern part of Alsace . The latter army Was accompanied by the two confederate emperor * . Buonaparte went out against this
Monthly Retrospect Of Public Affairs; Or ,.' The Christian S Survey Of The Political World.
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ; OR ,. ' The Christian s Survey of the Political World .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1814, page 134, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2437/page/62/
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