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tvery approximation to it . It it a practice fraught with the worst of evils , a practice than which nothing * can he more opposed to the will of Christ , nothing * more at variance with the proper methods of promoting * his interest . It ever originates , in
professors of Christianity , in a departure from the spirit of the g * ospe ) , which no man that understands it will ever think of supporting * by any other than moral means . The teachers of Christian doctrine must limit their ministry to the exhibition of the truths which they believe , and are not
permitted the use of any other motives or means than such as arise out of the nature and bearing of those very truths . Their office is , to declare the counsel of God , to bring the messages of mercy to mankind , and to use all persuasion to induce a com * piianee , on the part of the perishitig * trans-
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Rev . & . C . Thaeher * [ From the Christian Disciple , a Monthly Publication at Boston , United States of America , Vol . VI . No . 5 , May , 1818 . ] The Rev . S . C , Thacher , late Minister of the New South Church in
this town , died at Moulines , in France 9 Jan . 2 , 1818 , aetat . 3-2 . He had long been absent from this country , for the recovery of his health . The following sketch of his character is taken from a discourse delivered in this town , the Sunday after the accounts of his death were received . The form in which the
discourse was delivered , is retained , as most favourable to the free expression of the feelings of the author . " The news of Mr . Thacher ' s death , although not unexpected , spread an unusual gloom through the large circle in which he moved and was known .
When we thought of his youth and virtues , of the place which he had filled , and of the confidence which be had inspired , of his sickness and sufferings , of his death in a distant land , and of the hopes which died with him , we
could not but speak of his removal as mysterious , dark , untimely . My own mind participated at first in the general depression ; but in proportion as I have reflected oo the circumstances of this event , I have seen in them a
kindness , which I overlooked in the first momenta of sorrow ; and though in many respects inscrutable , this dispensation now wears a more consoling aspeet .
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gressor , with the offer of sal vation , Theirs is ' the ministry of reconciliation , * and how can they fulfil it , but by the utter exclusion of all secular considerations from their feeling's and their practice ? In their
opposition to error and to sin , they can be successful only by a moral force . The powers of the world to come , in the attractions of celestial grace , and the terrors of the Lord , are the instruments which they are authorized to employ in their ministry , which is an office entirely spiritual , removed
to the greatest possible distance from erery secular occupation . If the ministers who patronize the Woltrerhampton Oase had known and felt what was due to their office , we should never have seen them parties to a cause which , as it has been conducted , attaches so much dishonour to their names . " —Pp . 60 , 61 .
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" I now see in our friend a youngj man , uncommonly ripe in understanding and virtue , for whom God appointed an early immortality . His lot on earth was singularly happy ; for I have never known a minister
more deeply fixed in the hearts of bis people . But this condition had its perils . With a paternal concern for his character , God sent adversity , and conducted him to the end of his
being by a rougher but surer way , a way trodden and consecrated by the steps of the best men before him . He was smitten by sudden sickness ; but even here the hand of God was
gentle upon him . His sickness , whilst it wasted the body , had no power over the spirit . His understanding retained its vigour ; and his heart , as t often observed , gained new sensibility . His sufferings , by calling forth an almost unprecedented kindness in his people , furnished him with new and constant
occasions of pious gratitude , and , perhaps he was never so thankful to the Author of his being , as during his sickness . He was indeed removed at length from the kind offices of his friends . But this event was fitted , and , may I not say , designed , to strengthen
his connexion with God , and to prepare him for the approaching dissolution of all earthly ties ? I now see him tossed on the ocean ; but his heart is fix « d on the rock of ages . He is borne to another hemisphere ; but every where he sees the footsteps and feels the pre-
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Ohitmry . - * - Rev . C , &Thaeher . 717
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1818, page 717, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2482/page/53/
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