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plications and on unsuitable occasions , leave unemployed the most natural openings to it ? Way not such conversations be free from all affected airs of sanctity , from all superstitious formality , and be carried on with the same ease and
cheerfulness with vvhich we converse on other important subjects , in which the whole company is interested ? Certainly , if it \? e true that * from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh / we could farm no advantageous idea of the piety existing in the hearts of the generality of Christians , were we to judge of it by their speeches and conversations . "
I will only add , that I entirely coincide with my author in thinking , that no subjects connected with religion , no allusions to the Almighty , or to the heavenly Messenger of his grace , should be <( brought forward by forced applications , or on unsuitable occasions / ' Zeal without discretion often
injures the cause it seeks to serve . But not unfrequently " natural openings" do occur , and if these were judiciously improved , great I am persuaded would be the benefit , and our conversations would gain as much in interest as in profit . The points on which
different sects disagree should be touched lightly , and in that spirit of Christian candour and humility which must conciliate , and may tend to remove error and prejudice . The man who cannot speak to another , on the subjects respecting which they differ , with temper and with kindness , has need to look carefully into his own
bosom , for true Christian meekness and charity do not inhabit there ; and without the divine principle of love , we learn from high authority , that the most perfect faith , accompanied by # ood works , will avail us Jittle ! Let him remember too , that , though one
may be of Paul and another of Apollos , every honest' professor is oj Christ ! Let him open life narrow heart to the sweet and expanding influence of " phe sp irit of Jesus ; " and when that is in some good measure imbibed , all notions of Uie infallibility
of himself or his- creed will disappear ; and , with thorn , the irjritfable feelings which rendered the slightest contradiction of his preconceived opinions painful . Then will he not only be proparted on all proper occasions to forward what he believes to be the cause of truth and righteousness , but will
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listen with complaisance to the differ ing sentiments of his Christian brother M . H .
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Book- Worm . No . XXVII . Sir , N&v . 4 , 182 1 FTHHOUGH France , like Eng land j JL ] 660 , has been deeply disgraced by the restoration , of a family ill-pre .
pared to perform it * £ duties and little deserving to enjoy « the distinctions Of royalty , yet she has not been so infatuated as again to endwe the unmitigated despotism of her Bourbo ns . It is , therefore , a fair object of curiosity to look back upon France as she
appeared ( making * due allowance for the Antigallican prejudices of a Protestaut Antijacabite ) when " the right divine of kings to govern wrong" was her undisputed political creed , while Chwxch Jind King- luxuriated in a Holy Alliance . Horace Walpole ,
( Lord Orford , ) son of the corrupt JVhig minister who boasted that he knew every man ' s price , in his "Epistle from Florence , " 1740 , ( Dodshy , 1751 , III . p . 74 , ) truly says , what an intervening fourscore years has too well confirmed ,
" Extent of ill from Kings at first begins , But priests must aid and consecrate their
. The tortur'd subject may be heard complain When sinking under a new weight of chain , Or , more rebellious , may perhaps repine When tax'd to dovv ' r a titled concubine ;
But the priest christens all a right divine . I have been led to these considerations by looking through a small volume , published 130 years ago , when her grand e monarche Louis XIV . was irradiating France with the tinsel splendours of a despotic reign , splendours for which
" toeing millions mu § f , resign their weal And all the honey of lhe . i £ search . " This volume ha , s the following title : " Six TVeeks * Observations on the Present State of the Qourt and Country of France *¦ In the Savoy , printed by E . Jones , and sold by Randal Tay lor , near Stationers' Hall 1691 /'
, In an " Epistle to the Reader , " traveller ' s inducements to become an author are thus described : " These observations had not come
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1822, page 200, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2511/page/8/
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