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Unitarian Mourner comforted . 331
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but the " still , small voice" of the Deity ? It is a subject far too sublime and mysterious for any mortal to indulge in the vanity of penetrating , or in the
expectation ot approaching with a chance of arriving at any warranted conclusion upon it : but if there be any one point of view more than another , which his re as on ing faculty , humbly and diffidently exercised ,
contemplates as harmonizing with the known ooodness of the Deity , it is there that his reflections upon it naturally terminate and centre : and sure I am , that there can be no presumption in the hope—a confident hope—that our re-union with the friends who have gone before us , may not be deferred
to any very remote period . It is the hope that I fondly and devoutly cherish ; it is the most cheering that can accompany departing spirits > and great is the consolation 1 derive from the persuasion , that it is not negatived either by Christ , or by his less enlightened ap os ties . BREVIS .
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forbid us to grieve , nay , it allows , but it sanctifies and soothes our mourning . I can with pleasure address you , my friend , as one who , I believe , firmly embraces religious principles , and who will be disposed to open your heart in the hour of your lamentation , to their power and influence . May your consolations , as well as your sorrows , abound . You sorrow not as those who are without hope and without God in the world . No : you look as with adoration , so with
confidence and resignation , to the Being who made all things , as your Father in heaven , and you will see and own a paternal hand holding out to you the cup , and mingling , with wisdom and compassion , the bitter but salutary potion . You will recollect your Divine Master , and say after him , i ( Tlie cup which my heavenly Father giveth me , shall I not drink it ?"
The conduct of Aaron has , on this melancholy occasion , suggested itself to my thoughts as an admirable example of resignation and fortitude under trying calamities , — " He held his peace . " ( Levit . x . 1—3 ) May you be calm and composed , though borne down with sorrow . You have a hope that will elevate you in the season of dejection . It is hope in a Providence that adjusts all events , and
conducts to a happy issue all that appears to us dark and afflicting and unaccountable . The ways of Supreme Providence may be unsearchable , and his judgments past finding out , but mercy and truth are the foundations of his throne . " I know , " says the Psalmist , (< that thy judgments are righteous , and that in faithfulness
thou hast afflicted me . " ( Psalm cxix . 75 . ) You look forward with hope to a future state , where all tears shall be wiped away from our eyes , where sorrow and sighing shall cease , where the junction of the righteous shall be renewed under every advantage , and perpetuated with fulness of joy ; where fulness of joy , glory and immortality shall richly compensate the transient afflictions of the present moment .
I shall tire you ;—and , after all the sympathy which I can express , after all the consolations my pen can suggest , 1 must still leave you bereaved and mourning . J cannot renew the life which was dear to you ; yet it is ( I know it ) a consolation to us to know that others feel with us and for us . Assure yourself of this comfort . May the God of all consolation comfort and support you . 1 am , dear Sir , yours , with esteem , JOSHUA TOULMIN ..
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The Unitarian Mourner comforted . Letter V .
Clifton , Sir , March 11 , 1822 . HERE send you a copy of a letter I given me by my esteemed friend , the late Mr . James Lloyd of Gainsborough , which he bad himself intended to send to you for insertion in your Kepositorv .
GEORGE KENRICK . Copy of a Tjetter written by the late I > r . Toulmin to Mr . Lloyd Cose-I j / j on occasion of the Death of his Wi fe .
Birmingham , I ) KAit Sir , June 10 , 1807 . As I passed through Bilston yesterlll y > Mr . Basfoid communicated to me lll (> mournful intelligence of the heavy ; unexpected affliction with which you liad been visited . I t'Uinot but feel sensibly for you , and < l » W-tionatel y sympathize with you . Your l ( ait > I have no doubt , is torn with an" J 11 ! * n , and for some time will be oppiessed with deep sorrow . Every one at ( j lu" Monthl y Meeting of Ministers yester-( la y ovviied the justness of your grief and ^ tj'red int your sorrows . They must , lll < -7 may be great . Religion does not
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1822, page 331, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2513/page/11/
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