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Can any one give us the philosophy of this difference between the sentiments of the York and the Norfolk clergy ? Are the arts of humanization farther advanced as you go south ? Is there any thing" in the ecclesiastical history of the respective counties to explain the phenomenon ? Is it the
accidental influence of the higher dignitaries ? Or what is the cause ? Mr . Gibson on the State of the Times , fyc . Instructive and interesting * Communication from Ram Doss . Doubtful whether it be our friend Rain Doss of the last year—seems like some sly English Unitarian of Calcutta . Yet it still may be Rammohun Roy , condescending to banter the bigotry which he finds prevailing in the victrix country .
On sending Dissenting Youths to the Universities . The state of things here animadverted upon ought to be repeatedly attacked and exposed , until either the Universities relaxed in their unrighteous requisitions , or more liberal institutions , with equal advantages , were elsewhere established . Dr . Evans on the Employments of Heaven . These passages are confessedly executed with power and beauty ; but they are defective in representing the bliss of heaven as too cloying-.
We should loathe a symposium of sweetmeats . Moreover , the images , materials , and combinations , here wrought up , although selected with a poet ' s power , are yet , I think , wanting in a certain strange , inspiring atmosphere of heaven , with which a more creative genius and imagination might have invested them . There is an
eartlnness about them , that leaves the soul unsatisfied , though cloyed . On these accounts , immediately after perusing " Dr . Evans ' s extracts / I felt a refreshment and relief in tlie superior truth and soberness of his own subjoined reflections .
It is an opinion of President Ilolley , a fine genius of my own country , that the moral constitution of the future state will be analogous in all respects to what we witness here . He excludes not sin nor suilering from the highest circle of spirits around the throne . Discipline and retribution , he says , ( as far as rny memory of eight years ' standing is correct , ) will go hand in
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hand through eternity ;—they are the warp and woof which will constitute the web of our everlasting destinies . The idea is , that new retribution , whether of reward or punishment , will perpetually succeed past discipline , and will itself stand as new discipline
to be rewarded or punished in its turn , according to the use tbat is made of it . A state of things so active , bustling , progressive and diversified as this supposes , is vastly more adapted to the active tendencies of the immortal mind , than the listless , gazing ,
voluptuous ennui of aristocratical parties of pleasure , visiting each other about upon elegant floating-islands . These last conceptions were probably suggested to Dr . Evans ' s author , notwithstanding he denies rank or riches to
heaven , by certain fine companies and analogous scenes in England . If we will indulge our impracticable imaginations upon this theme , let us rather think of Hades as containing a large middle class . All allow that there is
more virtue and happiness in that sphere . The deviser , also , must beware of pictures of too insipid perfection and felicity . A paper in the Rambler has shewn how such scenes are in danger even from a flock of squirrels . How many of our most
exquisite enjoyments , too , would be certainly sacrificed on such an hypothesis ! Where there is no suffering , what becomes of the pleasure of administering consolation on the one hand , and of receiving it and cherishing gratitude on the other ? &c . &c \ Are not the angels themselves
represented in Scripture as being tormented with curiosity ? Take the richest happiness of which you can conceive in this world , and pathos is more or less intimately connected with it , or is rather one of its essential materials . Deprive us not of it above , nor think to supply its place with cold brilliancies and perfect harmonies .
Mr . Clarke on the name Unitarian . Notwithstanding Mr . Clarke gives us some of the longest and most unintelligible periods that I have met with in the Repository , yet I vehemently sympathize with him as to the rig htful claim lie lays to this honourable
name . Hymn of Mrs . Barbauld . If l . lie principle of altering hymns when in-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1826, page 330, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2549/page/14/
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