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    think the evil of the matter is more in the abuse than in the practice ) - ? --, that do not so much inveigh against their favourite amusements . They are apt to feel that this is a good $ ort of religion for them . Still more * if this is the fashionable religion , they find an additional inducement for

    attaching them to It . ™ * * * * " There i 3 a system of truth , pure , spiritual and ennobling , that is kindly and encouraging * to every generous and holy feeling , that is fitted to elevate , to sanctify , to gladden the soul ; and all that they know about it is . that it is not severe nor strenuous

    concerning trifles , nor strict about things indifferent , that it does not require any austerity nor eccentricity of manners , that it is fair and inviting in its outward appearance . Its in ^

    ward beauty they have never per ? - ceived : its glorious power they have never felt . They have caught a gleam of light from it : but even the light . that is in them , is darkness : and how

    great is that darkness ! They are all the worse , it may be , for what they know * They condemn others , and this keeps them from thinking humbly of themselves , " &c . &c . We regret th ^ fc we are obliged to . pass on to the concluding strong appeal .

    " Let us then , Christian brethren , be on our guard . The great trial is mow passing , and } s passing before the face , of the world and in the sight of heaven— , to see whether man can be liberal and good : free in inquiry ,

    and yet strict in conscience : unprejudiced , and yet under the influence of salutary restraint : whether he can be indulgent in charity and yet severe in principle ; rational without cold abstraction and cheerful without

    hurtful levity : wiser than the men of former days , and at the same time , more humble—to see , whether religion , that has so long lived in the fears of men , can live in their love and veneration : whether religion , that has 430 long dwelt in rites and forms ,

    can dwell at last in the spirit : whether in fine , religion , that in former times has gone away to eaves and lierinitagea to make its abode , or has scarcely departed from the temple of its worship , can eome , at last , and dwell in the mid&t of society . " I repeal it , the trial is passing

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    before the lace of the , world , and in the sight of heaven . There have been instances ,, in which I am compelled to believe the result ; of the experiment lias been , at least , of a doubtful character . What it -shall be ou the shores of this new world , this new theatre of

    human improvement , is given to -us in solemn charge , to determine . If society is enough advanced to bear the experiment , it shall come to a glorious termination ; if not , then the weak ness and wickedness of man must , till other centuries , restrain the liberty of the soul and the light of heaven . " ,

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    ^ 2 Gleanings .

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    OLEANINGS ; OR , SELECTIONS ANJ > REFiiECTlONS MADE IN A COURSE OF GENERAL . READING ,

    No . CCCCXI . Bonaparte . cc None of the arts of peace at all suit Bonaparte : he finds no amusement but in the violent crises produced

    by battles . He has known how to make truces , but he has never gaid sincerely , enough ; and his character , irreconcileable with the rest of the creation , is like the Greek fire , which no strength in nature has been known to extinguish . " Baroness De Stall's " Ten Years ' Exile , " p . 154 .

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    No . CCCCXII . The People the Live-Stock of the Church . The nomination to church-living's except by members of the church

    themselves , ( says Dr . Priestley in his " Essay on Government , " ) is a thing so absurd , that the idea never occurred for inany centuries in the Christian world ; and we may venture to say that it never could have entered into

    the head of any man , had not the revenues of the church grown so considerable as to become worth the notice of the civil magistrate , who took advantage of them to oblige his creatures and dependants . The fruits of

    this method of proceeding are such as mii > ht have been expected from Its introduction . The people belonging to the Established Church are like the vassals of the Polish nobility or the mere livestock of a farm delivered

    over as parcel of the eat ate to every succeeding incumbent *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1824, page 42, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2520/page/42/