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But when you know me better , which I hope will $ oon be the case , I trust you will find that , as Pope somewhere says , ' I am too proud to be vain . * At the commencement of a correspondence , and will you allow me to say , of a friencl&hip , from which I expect
both pleasure and advantage , I wish you to bear in mind , that when I speak , as I have now done , of the state of religious knowledge , I must be understood as speaking of it as it is known -to" me . Many illustrations may have been given of the different doctrines which I mentioned above ,
which I have not seen , and hence many of the objections which I could bring against those which I have seen , may have been already fully obviated . For instance , I have never seen * The Monthly Repository / and hence I
must be ignorant of many things it contains . I design , however , to avail myself of it from your recommendation . **??*? [ Dr . ] Southwood Smith I only know from his Reply to Thomson *—a performance which did him infinite honour .
" I hope to have the pleasure of meeting with you some time ; and should that happen , we could say more in an hour than we can write in an age . Are you never in this part of the world ? Nothing- could give me
greater pleasure than to see you at Traquair Manse . As it is , you can write , and I expect to hear from you soon , and to receive all the information which I know you can give respecting the advancement of * pure and undenled religion * in the world . * * *
" I was sorry that the iTurnbulls found it necessary to leave Scotland . "f * The little leaven might have leavened a great lump ; ' but there is no help for it , and we ofttimea cannot be certain what is best . Of one thing , however , I am certain , that I am , €€ My dear Sir , " Yours , &c . «< JAMES NICOL . " *
The Editor of the Christian Instructor / t For the United States ,
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Female JVriters on Practical Divinity * No . I . Mrs . MORE . DO not know whether it has been I remarked by others as well as myself , that some of the finest and
most useful English works on the subject of Practical Divinity are by female authors . I suppose it is owing" to the peculiar susceptibility of the female mind , and its consequent warmth of feeling , that its productions , when they are really valuable , find a more
ready way to the heart than those of the other sex ; and it gives me great pleasure to see women gifted with superior talents , applying those talents to promote the cause of religion and virtue . As I think this a subject
which it may be useful to consider , both as doing justice to those whose names are before the public , and as exciting the emulation of . those of their sex who are capable of imitating such bright examples , I wish to devote this and some future articles to
the consideration of some of the works of the English female authors of the day on Practical Divinity , and further to examine some of the prejudices which still exist on the subject of female education .
It is a proof ( if any were needed ) of the value of our religion , purified from the degrading superstitions of the Romish Church , that England has produced in one age so many female writers on morals and divinity , whose works are conspicuous for their force of argument , for their simplicity , and for that earnestness which can be
expressed only because it is felt , and which can be felt only because the truths which it declares are as evident to the understanding as they are interesting to the heart . While , if we turn our attention to authors of the
same sex in Catholic countries , and consider the services which they have rendered to the cause of religion , what a contrast will they form wit ) i ou * countrywomen ! Whatever their religion may be as exemplified in thejr lives , in their writings it is cold , artificial , made use of to display talents by unnatural refinements , at the sarne
time thfct it evijices the grossest inconsistencies . If in reading their wOrks we find apy religious observa-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1822, page 593, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2517/page/9/
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