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A million torches lighted by Thy hand Wander unwearied through the blue abyss : They own Thy power , accomplish Thy command All gay with life , all eloquent with bliss . What shall we call them ? Piles of
crystal light—A glorious company of golden streams—Lamps of celestial ether burning bright—Suns lighting systems with their joyous beams ? w—r - *^ - w * h ^* k _ t v
But Thou to these art as the noon to night . Yes ! as a drop of water in the sea , All this magnificence in Thee is lost : What are ten thousand worlds compared to Thee ? And what am / then ? Heaven ' s
unnumber d host , Though multiplied by myriads , and arrayed In all the glory of sublimest thought , Is but an atom in the balance weighed Against Thy greatness ; is a cypher brought Against infinity ? What am I then ? Nought ! Nought ! But the effluence of Thy light divine , Pervading worlds , hath reached my bosom too ; Yes ! in my spirit doth Thy spirit shine As shines the sun-beam in a drop of dew .
Nought ! but I live , and on hope ' s pinions fly Eager towards Thy presence ; for in Thee I live , and breathe , and dwell ; aspiring high , Even to the throne of Thy divinity . I am , O God ! and surely Thou must be ! Thou art ! directing , guiding all , Thou art ! Direct my understanding then to Thee ; Control my spirit , guide my wandering heart : Though but an atom 'midst immensity , Still I am something , fashioned by Thy hand !
be imagined by those who have never witnessed the sun shining , with unclouded splendour , in a cold of twenty or thirty degrees of Reaumur . A thousand and ten thousand sparkling stars of ice , brighter than the brightest diamond , play on the surface of the frozen snow ; and the slightest breeze sets myriads of icy atoms in motion , whose glancing light , and beautiful rainbow-hues , dazzle and weary the eye . " ¦
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176 Critical Notices . —Thornts Lectures on the Christian Sabbath .
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I hold a middle rank ' twixt heaven and earth , On the last verge of mortal being stand , Close to the realms where angels have their birth , Just on the boundaries of the spiritland !
The chain of being is complete in me ; In me is matter ' s last gradation lost , And the next step is spirit ;—Deity ! I can command the lightning , and am
dust ! A monarch , and a slave ; a worm , a god Whence came I here , and how ? so marvellously Constructed and conceived ? unknown this clod Lives surely through some higher energy ; For from itself alone it could not be !
Creator , yes ! Thy wisdom and Thy word Created me ! Thou source of life and good ! Thou spirit of my spirit , and my Lord ! Thy light , Thy love , in their bright plenitude , Filled me with an immortal soul , to spring Over the abyss of death , and bade it wear The garments of eternal day , and wing Its heavenly flight beyond this little sphere , Even to its source—to Thee—its Author there .
O thoughts ineffable ! O visions blest ! Though worthless our conceptions all of Thee , Yet shall Thy shadowed image fill our breast , And waft its homage to Thy Deity . God ! thus alone my lowly thoughts can soar ; Thus seek Thy presence—Being wise and good I 'Midst Thy vast works admire , obey , adore ; And when the tongue is eloquent no more , The soul shall speak in tears of gratitude . ' —Pp . 3—9 .
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Art . II . Eight Lectures on the Christian Sabbath . By William Thorn , Minister of the Gospel at Penrith , Cumberland . 12 mo . 2 nd edition , pp . 334 . Westley . r THESE €€ Lectures" proceed upon JL high Sabbatarian notions , and arc tinctured with the other corresponding doctrines of pseudo-orthodoxy . There
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1821, page 176, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2498/page/48/
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