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    patliy- And to have the cold hand of suspicion or silence laid upon it is a severe tri ?* L $$ 1 tnore Jrying piust it be to $ he temper , if not to the feelings , to meet * ri tk sour pojadpknce , or gruffi rebuke , which ^ ill always % e in proportion to the ignorance p ?

    coarseness of him who offers tl * ein . An 4 it is a great question how we ought to conduct in such cirqunastance ^ or rather it is a very great matter to conduct rightly . It is a case on which every one ought tp reflect deeply : it is a situatiop in which every one ought to be ^ his guard , and to fortify Jbis mind with all those vieip

    of religion and duty that may preserve him from the great temptation . Think , then , let me say , think , at such a time * of the meekness and gentleness of { Jhristi think of that great and good Being whose inercy is over us all , and who bears with us all $ think , with what earnestness we are exhorted in

    his wpird , to all gentleness and for ? , bearance towards those that oppose themselves ; think , in fine > that , in a few days jnore ^ when t his separating « loud has passed away ,: you hojje to meet those with whom you now difler , and to dwell with them for ever in

    Leaven . Think thus , and it will not be with bitterness or contempt that you will regard them . " 2 . In the next place , it is a very great misfortune of our situation that we are so continually put upon our own defence . Nothing can be worse for an individual , or for a body of

    Christians , than the habit of feeling which this necessity is apt to generate . A deep sense of personal deficiencies * a wakeful jealousy , a profound luijxulity , a disposition to see the worst of our case , are the very means of Christian improvement . But it is thought a kind of treason against the cause for us to confess our faults , as

    a class of Christians . €€ The periodical publications of all large and well-established denominations of Christians , you find , teem with earnest expostulations and fearful warnings , on the deficiencies of their members . But when we undertake

    any public work of this kind , it must needs be , and indeed there is but too much occasion for it , it must needs be a citadel for defence : aqd we * are apt to feel as if we < 5 ottl < l not very 4 clo 3 $ ty pry into its ( tefects-r-as if it

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    woidd not * m to > bfefcray ? any sjgns m weakness , within—as Jf it we % e npfc safe to displace the stones of the wall , to see whether the cement be strong and secure , vi 4 » l& the ; dfi&rts ^ of ^ the enemy are flying thickly around us . ? "A contrast like tMs may occur to some : of my readers in the spirit of two Monthly Magazines which i

    come vwu ixxyjiikiiiy jltj . o ^ c » z « ji «^ s vyu « v * » « vu »; to us from abroad ; the one of them , as is very natural , ( in circumstances of recent change of i > piiu 0 ii and of extreme hardship in the treatment which it suffers , ) much employed m settling its own opinions , or in attacking the options of others : * mueh

    employed in speculation , and less about what is practical : and withal indulging a considerable share of selfcomplacency , to which I will not say how well it is entitled : and the other , acting- well the parfc of a Christian Observer , fearlessly examininef into the

    spiritual deficiencies and faults of ZHto church , lamenting- the decays of piety md urging repentance and reform > a # d $ he \ vi % , on the whole ^ a spirit ^ which ^ if there ; is enougk of that * salt of the earth , ^ may preserve even the Establishment , 3

    " It may be thought that , in speaking- thus , I am forgetting the cause . But I care not for . the . cause . I say * Perhaps it is but fair to observe that if , as I suppbs ^ , thp Monthly Bepository be the publication alluded to , our Ameiican friend does npt appear to enter iatp the character and object tff that publication . It is as a vehicle for discussion , a& a medium of religious communication , that it is chiefly valuable It does not pretend to regulate

    the-oplnldiis and feelings of its readers . It only places different opinions freely before th ( 6 m . It is a sort of printed conference . Whereas the leading arciqies in the Christian Disciple have in general more the ap * peamoce of the decisions of a synpcl of

    divines * They are" well-digested , pious and rational . They have all i ! ti § calm * quiet appearance of regular pulpit discourses—but in the present state of Unltariarfsm in England we fim $ t have some field open f o * fair remark and rejoinder . That our o w * i defects ^ s a sect should be

    imade the subject of discussion auKi ammad versions , is desirable also . . - . . ' ' ¦ . ¦ ¦ :- . \ . ¦ . Q . fThfe * Htatfe" being re-pubHshed in England , we propose to review them -S * i an earlyJNumber , Ej >^ 3 \ ....

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1824, page 40, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2520/page/40/