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Bleans to designate the Father as " the true God . " Perhaps , however , it is tkot quite correct to quote Luke vu Yly as a proof that our Lord continued a whole night in «• a dreary solitude , "
since wpo < r € ti % ^ sometimes , and probably here , signifies an oratory or house of prayer , ( See Bishop Pearce , in loc and Acts xvi . IS , and Note . ) The latter part of the sermon is an animated exhibition of the influence
of Unitarian principles . On a review of it , persons least inclined to Unitarianism would not , we apprehend , pronounce it a cold and cheerless system , whatever other judgment they might form * To such among our readers , we recommend the following passage :
" In that populous town near which I reside , Unitarian ism has to boast of many converts ; and the number is increasing . One has said , ' As a Calvinist , I was miserable ;—as an Alhanasian , confounded . I was tempted to become au Atheist : a
Deist 1 had most certainly been , had I not become acquainted with Unitarian Christianity / * I die , ' said another , whose weeping friends were standing with me around his bed , * I die as I have lived , au Unitarian , and my faith , which has never failed me in life as a comfort and
support to me , is my comfort and support now , in the prospect of death . I have neither doubts nor fears . I thank the living God . * * I thank God , ' said another , for having * brought me to the knowledge of his truth . I am going my last
journey ; perhaps we continue to live . Yet , -the sleep of the g-rave is but a point Of time . I am satisfied of the unpurchased grace and love of God : here ia real mercy , and we can rely upon it for eternal life !** Others I might name ; but I cannot proceed . Yet not a case could be mentioned ,
* " Mr . John Hutchmson , of Attercliffe . This gentleman was originally a member © f the Church of England , but with Mr . John Spencer , ( the author of the New Pilgrim * Progress , ) and several other persons , he left the Church , many years ago , and united himself to a small society of Unitarian Christians , which assembled for
worship at the house of tlie frUave * nientioned Mi \ Spencer , who was a man of the most enlarged and liberal mind . After some years , this 6 little flock of Christ' was dissolved as a separate society , by the removal of pome of its members , and the death of others and those who remained , joined their brethren in the town of Sheffield . " SFor ^ n acpouht of Mr . Spencer , see . V . PP 200—2 ( 12 , Also Vol . VI . £ . 620 . 3 Ek > . 1
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in connexion with doubt and despair on ibe one hand , or presumption and enthfr * siastic assurance on the other . ' Strong in faith , giving glory to God , ' ' they feu asleep in Christ . ' What shall I say more i Behold the fruits of pure , invigorating ^ consoling Christianity , in life and in death "
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Art . VL- —Moral Culture ; attempted in a Series of Lectures delivered to the Pupils and Teachers of the Old and New Meeting Sunday Schools , in Birmingham : interspersed with a Variety of Illustrative Anecdotes .
To which is added , a Concise Nar ~ rative of the Origin * Progress and Permanent Success of the Institution ^ and the Laws and Regulations by which it is at" present governed . By James Luckcoek . 12 mo * pp . 310 . Belcher and Son , Birmingham .
1817 . T |^ HE Sunday Schools supported JL by the Old and New Meetings at Birmingham , are amongst the most important and valuable of the Protestant Dissenting Institutions . An interesting history of them is here
given by Mr . Luckcock , as also of a Brotherly Society established amongst the teachers . At the close of the business of the Sunday , it is the custom of the teachers to deliver an address
to their pupils * This was the origin of these Lectures , though by a subsequent arrangement , the teachers only came under Mr . Luckcock ' s care , and to them the Lectures , in the latter part of the volume , were addressed .
The Lectures are designedly moral , rather than religious , the Lecturer judging it unnecessary to inculcate religious principles , as the pupils were accustomed to attend divine worship twice a-day ; but the morality wljich they contain is purely Christian . They
embrace almost every topic relating to the conduct and respectability of persons in the humbler ranks of life , and furnish maxims and rules which , if habitually acted upon , would infallibly better the morals of young persons of every condition- Mr . Luckcot k relieves the gravity of a moral Lecture , by the introduction of a variety of anecdotes , some of them drawn from his own experience . The turn of these , the plain e very-clay -morality which all the addresses insist on , and the simplicity of the style re-
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. . ; 1 Review . *~» Luclcock ' s Moral Cultwv * " fQt
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1818, page 767, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2483/page/39/
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