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tiong of Christians . I cannot imagine how any man , with a heart and mind duly imbued with genuine Christianity , can act otherwise . I cannot see what jclaim a man with an
anti-christian temper can have to the title of Christian , for by their fruits ye shall know them . I cannot conceive any thing more hateful and disgusting than that assumed p r iestly infallibility , pride and p * esumption , \ vhich adjudges others to eternal damnation as the worst of
reprobates , upon an unavoidable difference of opinion ; and , " for one , so long as life and health shall last , " I will ever promptly place myself in the foremost rank against it , however great the authority or the numbers to which I may staud opposed . JAMES GIFFORD .
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No . CCCXCI . Sadi : A Specimen of the Mystical Poetry of the Sufis , One day as I was in the bath , a friend of mine put into my hand a piece of scented cl ^ y . I took it and said to it , Art thou musk or
ambergris ? for I am charmed with thy delightful scent . It answered , T was a despicable piece of clay ; but I was sonic time in the company of the rose : the sweet quality of my companion was communicated to me , otherwise I should have been only a piece of earth , ; is I appear to be .
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No . CCCXCV . Asiatic Descriptions of Spring . Lo ! at tjiy bidding Spring appears Thy slave , ambitious to be seen ; Lord of the world ! thy voice she hca » S And robes th' exulting earth in git-en .
Now had the stormy Winter departed , and the graceful Spring returned : the face of the fields was pictured by Providence , as by a painter . The birds sung from amidst the flowers ,
hundreds of nightingales and thousands of linnets ravished the ear and compelled toankind to listen ; while the foot-Stops of heavenly benevolence recalled the earth from death to newness of life . *
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652 Gleanings .
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No . CCCXC . Hariri , a Persian Poet . Be patient then : submit to present ill : Time is the sire of wonders—let thy soul Unwavering trust the eternal Spirit still : Countless his gifts , his power beyond contronL
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No . CCCXCIL From the Phtfoctetes of Sophocles . l > ut piety , whate v er to man arrives , Lives he , or dies he , stiJl on earth suf- * vives . ' * ¦ ¦ '
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No . CCCXCIV . Gon , from the Alcoran . God is mighty and wise . His is the kingdom of heaven and earth : he
giveth life , and he putteth to death ; yea , he is the Almighty . He is the first and the last , the manifest and the mysterious , and he knoweth . all things . It is he who created the heaven and
the earth ii * six days , and then ascended his throne . He knoweth that which entereth into the eartlr , and that which issueth out of it $ that which cometh down from heaven and that which ascemjeth to it ; and he is with you wheresoever ye may be .
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No , ecexcin . £ oHAi » conclftdeq the TTtirtf qf his Pastoratp with tke following , ' amongof her Apophthegms . Experience has taught me the events of this day and yesterday ; but as to the events of to-morrow , I confess my blindness . Half of man is his tongue , and the other half is his heart ; the rest is only an image composed of blood and flesh " . How many men dost ; thou see whose abundant merit is admired when they are silent , but whose failings are discovered as soon as they open their lips ! An old man never grows wise after his folly : but when a youth has acted foolishly , he may attain wisdom .
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CLEANINGS ; OR , SELECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IN A COUHSE OF GENERAL . READING .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1822, page 552, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2516/page/32/
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