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wasted constitution ; that a life of vicious indulgence will forfeit you the esteem of all the wise and good , and leave you useless outcasts of society ,
shunned by others and a load to yourselves , to drag on the poor remains of a life which will daily grow more and more insipid , till at last it becomes a useless burden , which you wish , yet dread , to lay down .
" But the close of a life , however long , must come at last . What reflections and prospects will then best sustain your spirits ? Whether will it be more desirable , at such a season , to review a life wasted in foolish and
frivolous pursuits , dishonoured by a long train of vices , a life for Tvhich your own heart must condemn you ; or to be able to look back through a long course of years employed in rational pursuits , in active services to your fellow-creatures , and in obedience to the laws of heaven ; to leave
an honourable testimony to your virtues in the hearts of your admiring friends ; to make the last important step into the urikuown world with an undisturbed mind , and to appear before the Judge of the whole earth with an humble hope of his acceptance , and a joyful expectation of eternal life ? — You cannot doubt whether it will be
better , at that hour , to have a heart oppressed with guilt , and agitated with terror ; or to enjoy that peace which this world , with all its plea * tures , cannot give . " Whether the impressions , which the late event has made upon your
minds , will be permanent enough to influence your future conduct , time alone can shew your friends : but this conviction I am certain you now feel , that it is your wisdom to prepare for a similar event , which must certainly , and may soon , arrive to each of you .
** You will soon be thrown among scenes of temptation , from which , liitherto in life , let us hope , you have been kept free . We cannot , if we would- nor would we if we could ,
take or keep you out of the world , in which it is our ambition and hope to prepare you for becoming eminently useful ; but it is our hearts * desire and prayer for you all , that you may be kept from the evil .
** But if vicious pleasures should eirtiqe you , if appetite and passion should draw you astray , if the lieen ^
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tious and profane should be successful in employing their seducing art ** to betray you , if you should unhappily forget , for a time , every serious truth of which you have here been reminded , I need not bid you recollect , your conscience will sometime
force you to remember , that there was a time when you thought otherwise . In the moment of serious thoughtand it will come—you will feel ,, that , though the sacred obligations of virtue , and the awful sanctions of religion , may for a time be forgotten or despised , they have a reality and importance which cannot be destroyed .
" But let me hope , that every apprehension of this kind is without ' foundation : let me indulge the plea-i sing idea , that this solemn event has * not spoken to you in vain . " ltds now—O let it ever be , your firm resolve ,
c My heart shall not reproach me so long as 1 live j , , Till I die , I will not remove my integrity from me ! ' " The company then separated , after a short devotional exercise , highly gratified with the employment of th « four days .
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Intelligence . —Eastern Unitarian Society * 490
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Eastern Unitarian Society . The Fifth Yearly Meeting of this Society was held at Framlingham , in Suffolk , on Wednesday and Thursday , June £ 5 th and 26 th . The Service of Wednesday evening was conducted
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Manchester College , York . The next Session will commence on k Thursday , Sept . 18 th , 1817- ft is very desirable that all the Student * should assemble on that day , as the choice of apartments will take place on Friday , the 19 th , and the
arrangement of the Classes on Saturday the 2 Oth , Public business will begin on Monday , Sept . 22 nd . Applications for admission as Lay-Students , are requested to be immediately addressed to the Rev . Charles Wellbeloved , Manchester College , York , that the necessary preparations may be made for their accommodation .
T . H . ROBENSON , J . G . ROBBERDS , Secretaries . Manchester , Aug . \ 5 th , 1817 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1817, page 499, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2467/page/51/
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