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v - serious Christians , must be dissipated before the light of trtith . ; tW £ already discern plain symptoms of a revulsion in public - feeling , and the violent methods which are made use of to counteract it , yrill hut increase its certainty and effect .
Thus far has Providence smiled graciously upon the efforts of this little but firm band of Unitarian Christians . " Hope elevates , and joy brightens their crest /' Let them be true to themselves , and their success is sure . Nothing without can harm them . —The edifice thus
consecrated is of the Ionic order , in pure taste and of very neat construction * On the Sunday after the dedication , three discourses were delivered by Professor Everett to overflowing audiences . On Monday , some of the pews were offered at auction ; and / we understand that about
forty were sold , at an , advance exceeding eleven , hundred dollars beyond their appraised value . During the service the following hymns were sung . They are contained in the collection lately published and adopted by the Society .
1 . Great God I the followers of thy Son , We bow before thy mercy seat , To * worship Thee , the Holy One , And pour our wishes at thy feet . 2 . O grant thy blessing here to-day I ' O give thy people joy and peace ! llie tokens of thy love display , " And favour that sh&ll never cease .
3 . We seek the truth which Jesus brought , His path of life we long to tread ; Here be his holy doctrines taught , And here their purest influence shed .
4 . May faith , and hope , and love abound ; Our sins and errors be forgiven ; And we , in that great day , be found Children of God and heirs of heav ' n .
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440 Intelligence . —Foreign * ' America . East Indies .
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EAST INDIES . One of the Baptist Missionaries describes in his Journals the following " singular anomaly in the existing code of Indian law : "— t € While I was with Babo 6 Ram Mohuk Roy to-day , in hife own house , one of his followers , a
respectable-looking man ^ came fn . It appeared that he had a suit pending in the supreme court , and that in the course of the proceedings he was called upon to give his oath . The usual practice in the courts of judicature in this country is , that a Christian swear by the Bible , a
Mussulman by the Koran , and . a Hindoo by the waters of the Ganges , llie petson referred to , although not a Christian , has renounced idolatry : and as a consistent reformer , felt it his duty to decline taking an oath which implied that any regard was due to the watery goddess ; but as a believer in the Vedas offered to
swear by them , or by that One God who is revealed in them . His oath , however , was not taken . The number of persons of this description is very rapidly increasing , principally , I believe , among the middling classes of Hindoos ; but what an anomaly in the history of law , that
the relinquishment of error should form a disqualification for giving evidence ! In the present state of things , if a Hindoo or Mussulman become a Christian , independently of other disadvantages , he is disqualified , however exemplary his conduct as a subject may be , from giving evidence in a court of justice , even on
the most trivial occasions . If oaths are either necessary or useful , how desirable to substitute , for the present forms , those which shall embrace all kinds of belief , by laying hold ® f those broad features of religious Opinion which are almost universally recomitetit , that there is One Oneat Being who Itnovre every thing , and to whom m othteris itoe suMf * - dinate ! " • - . j . ' : ^;> i : ii . : _ < * "i * * i « . . \ ¦ ¦ ' . \) t it f
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1 . Lift your glad voices in triumph on high , For Jesus hath risen and man cannot die . Vain were the terrors that gather'd around him ,
And short the dominion of death and the grave ; He burst from the fetters and darkness that bound him , ttesplendent in glory , to live and to
save ; Loud was the chorus of angels on Mgh ^ * ' The Saviour hath risen , and man shaH xiot die . "
2 . Glory to God in full anthems of joy ; The being he gave ps death cannot destroy , Sad were the life we must parttvith to-morroW ,
If tears were bur birth -right and death were our end ; But Jesus hath cheer'd the dark valley of sorrow , And bade us , immortal , to heaven ascend .
Lift then your voices in triumph on high , For Jesus hath risen , and man shall not die *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1821, page 440, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2502/page/60/
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