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MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ©R The Christian 9 s Survey of the Political World.
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The sovereigns of Europe or their representatives are assembled at Vienna , and the rights of nations are undergoing a more solemn discussion , than has hitherto been known , perhaps , in the annals of mankind . Nothing as
yet has transpired , but the nature of the Congress | has afforded food for numberless conjectures . The usual accompaniments of such meetings have not been forgotten , and among the pageantries that of
religion has not been unnoticed . The papers tell us , that the Emperors of Austria and Russia , and the Kings of Prussia and Denmark , have been present at a grand
ceremony of the Romish church , where the elevation of the host or the adoration of the $ wafer-god , was performed in great pomp and solemn devotion . In what manner
the two Protestant Kings assisted at this rite , we do not know ; but we recollect in holy writ , that a king of Israel was so pleased with the form of an altar at Damascus , that he built one in resemblance
of it in the holy land . It is said also , that the truly religious man shall stand before kings and not be ashamed ; and kings themselves are equally bound with others to bear their testimony in favour of
divine truth . But this compliance with the customs of a country will be vindicated , and in fact in the same manner as they who worship the Only True God justify their frequenting places of worship , where prayer is offered to different
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persons besides him 3 who is emphatically styled the Father , and of whom it is said by the apostle ? * To us there is one God , the Father .
The presence of the Emperor of Russia at Vienna maybe hailed as an auspicious omen . For strange as it may appear , the Emperor of the most despotical country in Europe seems to have imbibed as
true sentiments of liberty , as any of those sovereigns , who have been favoured by their birth in regions , where it is supposed to be better known . To him is attributed , but we do not know upon what grounds , a proposal of inestimable worth ;
namely , that the number of the military in every country should be diminished ; and doubtless , such a diminution would be of great benefit to every country . Europe ,
during the last and the beginning of the present century , has presented the most odious and despicable picture that can be contemplated by a reasonable being . The work of blood has been holden in the
highest honour , and kings in their friendly visits to each other have been entertained with military arrays , each vying wiih the other in shewing the state of preparation he is in for hostile aggression or self-defence . In such a state of
mankind it is ridiculous to talk of the blessings of peace . All that caabe said is , that the nations are living with each other in the state of an armed truce . When such numbers of men are existing by the sword , it cannot be long unsheath-
Monthly Retrospect Of Public Affairs ©R The Christian 9 S Survey Of The Political World.
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS © R The Christian s Survey of the Political World .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page 640, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/52/
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