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inff adage in Arabic : I set my heart upon my son > while he sets his heart upon a stone" ( that is , upon fruitless p leasures , or upon his own son ) . It is remarkable that the same correspondence exists in Greek , between stone
Xoos , a P P ^ ' * ^««^> a , and it is certain that our Lord alludes to the same point of resemblance when he says , that " God is able of these stones to raise up sons unto Abraham / ' pointing to the Publicans and other Gentiles who were present on
the occasion . 5 . Finally , Job alludes to the wellknown pyramids , or tombs of the ancient kings of Egypt : "For then I should lie down and be still - I should sleep and find repose with kings and
rulers of the earth , who build for themselves lonely sepulchres , or with princes , who fill their long home with silver and gold . " Mark the declaration here made . Job says , that if he had died young he would have been buried in the same torn !) with the
Egyptian kings . If Moses were the author of this book , it would have been natural that , when delineating the character of his suffering brethren , he should insensibly mix with it some
traits peculiar to himself . He was brought up as one of the royal family of Pharoah , and , unquestionably , had a premature death been his fate , he would have been honoured with the
same grave . Some of the pyramids might have existed long before the days of Moses , and men might even then be anxious to dig into and explore their interior with the hope of finding
trea-. r v 11 •« ¦ sures . This spirit in every age seems to have actuated the people of Egypt and the foreigners who visited that country , and whoever has read Mr . Belzoni ' s Travels , will be strongly
impressed with the sentiments contained Ifl the following verse ( 21 ) : "Who gaped for death where it exists not ; who dig for it more than for hidden riches , who are glad and rejoice even to exultation if they find a sepulchre . " BEN DAVID . ( To be continued . ) —«^—
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than ^ by the influence which early associations of ideas possess on the human mind at distant periods of its existence . A strong impression made in youth , though lying- dormant for years , and apparently obliterated by a succession of new thoughts , or lost amidst the multiplicity of more recent acquisitions , often unexpectedly recurs with original force . Some
kinarea sensation , with which it was primarily linked , some assimilation of place or circumstance arises , and instantaneously brings back a whole train of images and feelings into primitive energy . The maxim of the wisest of men , " Train up a child in the way he should go , and when he is old he will not depart from it , " is founded upon the true philosophy of human nature .
1 have been led to these reflections by attempting to account for the late fluctuations in my religious opinions . In a paper , addressed to you , dated 15 th January , 1820 , but concerning which I am yet ignorant whether it reached you , or if it has obtained publicity , * I acknowledged mvself
c * j the advocate of a mitigated kind of Calvinism . As I did not then renounce the right of thinking for myself , and gave some evidence that , however shackled by educational influence , I still exercised it in some degree ; I must now inform you , that the continued exercise of that
birthright has convinced me that I have been preferring error to truth , and had become entangled again with the yoke of bondage . I should not presume to obtrude such circumstances upon public attention , but that there appears a kind of necessity imposed upon me of doing so . Having , from conscientious motives
, statea my sentiments on important points of Christian doctrine , it seemed to be my duty publicly to recede from these opinions when I no longer considered them to be true ; and all will now agree with
me , that , when this temporary illusion has been dispelled , it would be the height of disingenuousness not to confess my error and retract those premature concessions . I shall sincerely
* Mr . Harwood ' s letter , to which he here alludes , was inserted in our XVth Volume , pp . 388—391 . Ed .
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Colombo , Ceylon , ^ ir , September 11 , 1821 . I hIE importance of education can--M ^ not be more strongly illustrated
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Mr . Daniel Harwood ' s Recovery from Calvinism . 327
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1822, page 327, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2513/page/7/
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