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lished by him > if he rejects and haughtily renounces the harmless designation by which the world chooses to know that he is a minister ? I acknowlege that the name of my much-esteemed friend and master , who now fills in the metropolis the station the most honourable amongst the worshippers of one God in one person , needs no ornament to rivet the attention
of men to what he issues from the press—and if the name of the venerable author of the Cyclopaedia had not the laurels of learning to adorn it , his labours would not be the less esteemed : some
others too may obtain currency for their thoughts by their simple names ; but all are not so happy either in their natural endowments or in their acquired popularity , yet all of us have a right to live ; and if any advantage can accrue to us from a title which the world
voluntarily gives us , which in the present enlightened state of the public mind cannot produce any evil , and which at last is no more than a mark of distinction , what » eed can there be for so much
anger and so much snarling when a man calls himself The Rev . Thomas or John Such-an-one ?
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Evil Self . destructive . Sir , I have been reading Mr , Belsham ' s Thanksgiving Sermon , for the conclusion of Peace with
France ; and discover , among many sentiments which I understand and admire , one , which I wish to understand better than t at present do ; viz . The tendency of all evil to its own destruction . In page 1 Q , the following words
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occur : " All evil is , in its owl nature , self-destructive , and necessarily tends to its own extermination . " And in the 111 h 44 Bad passions , which naturally tend to their own extinction , " &c .
Probably some other persons as wel ] as myself would be interested and edified , by an elucidation of the sentiment just mentioned , in your valuable Monthly
Repository . —Whether this be done , by the pen of Mr . Belsham ( which I should prefer ) or by that of any other gentleman , it would be highly gratifying , Sir , to A CONSTANT READER .
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On Charity and Day-Schools . Aug . 23 , 1314 . Sir , One of the most important subjects of human attention , is the means of promoting the true wel '
fare of the poor : and it is useful and interesting to read those observations upon it with which flic public are favoured by persons who unite considerable practical
knowledge with benevolence and talents . Among this class of writers Mrs * Cappe deservedly stands high . Her Thoughts on varioit Charitable Institutions are
particularly valuable . I admire the zeal , energy and success with which she reprobates the custom , still , I fear , too prevalent , of placing out indigent female dhildren as apprentices : I venerate the Christian philanthropy with
which she appeals to her own sex in behalf of hospitals , &c . ; and I cordially wish that her remarkf on the best method of managing Benefit Societies 9 were weig hed with the regard they msdu But I must be permitted , Si *>
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a 54 ? Evil Self-Destructive . — Charity and Day . Schools .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1814, page 542, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2444/page/18/
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