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How much thy patient fortitude can bear , Thy fond and firm affection nobly dare ! So timid in the sunshine—in the storm Intrepid is thy soul—and thy weak form > Where man's more boasted strength
would feebly shrink , Undaunted stands on ruin ' s awful brink /' Pp . 52 , 53 . * ' When Fortune ' s sunshine gilds youth ' s roseate bowers , To lie inglorious ' midst the scented
flowers , Arid bask beneath the light of beauty's smile , Or breathe the whisper'd vows that still beguile , This is not love—tho' such it falsely seem
To hearts entranc'd m passion's idle dream—But , when life ' s sunny beams are all o'ercast—Joy ' s sweet flow ' rs wither'd by
misfortune's blast—Unmurmuring then , to tread the dreary shade , That cheerless want and its dark woes have made , Smile 'midst the gloom , and , with the tender art Affection teaches , raise the drooping heart :
Or , should disease throw its destructive blight O ' er days of bloom , and hope , no longer bright , To watch with patience near the sufferer ' s bed , Wipe the chill brow , and hold the
fainting head , Whilst the full eyes are rais'd to heaven above , And sorrow swells the heart—Oh ! this is love . "
Pp . 95 , 96 . Some copies , the author informs us , of the first part of " The Country Minister , " remain unsold ; but should any one who has the volume now published be unable to procure the former , the merit of the work consists so little in the mere incidents , that the second part may be read with pleasure by itself .
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AnT . iy . —Compiled Prayers 9 adapted to Ftfmily Worship and Closet Devotion- with an Essay on Prayer * 12 mo . Pp . 196 . Bristol , printed for T . J . Manehee ; and for Taylor and Hessey , London . 1823 .
THIS little manual of devotion is ? compiled by the respectable author of the " Appeal to Scripture , " "Brief Account of the Unitarians , " &c . ( See our last number , pp , 172 , &c . ) It consists of services for
tnorning and evening , and for the Lord ' s day , and of " Occasional Prayers' * for children and young persons , and adapted to the various changes of the human condition . For simplicity , pure doctrine and rational fervour , we can cordially recommend it as a companion to the Closet and Family-Altar .
Of the " Essay , " a highly-esteemed minister , whose mind and character render him a truly competent judge , says , in an extract from a letter lying * before us , "I have never met with any thing on the subject so likely to lead men to pray , ! and at the same time free from
admixtures of what would lead them to pray wrong or to form baseless expectations as to the effect of prayer , and full of weighty directions as to the way of obtaining the spirit of prayer . "
In this eulogium we cordially jonu We differ , however , from the Essayist on one point . He censures ( p . xvu Note ) " the recapitulation of new invocations of God at the head of
successive prayers / ' which we humbly think may give peculiar efficacy ta our supplications and thanksgivings . The practice takes off the tedium of what Dissenters , with too much truth , call the long" prayer . Who does not admire the Collects of the
Common-Prayer Book and the Missal , of which the appropriate invocation is the great beauty ? A hymn of praise is naturally addressed to the Giver of good ; a penitential psalm to the Father of mercies ; and a prayer in affliction to the God of all comfort .
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Review .- " -Compiled Prayers adapted to Family Worship . 22 £
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1825, page 229, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2535/page/37/
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