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ttgffig & woafd fce g ^ c t ^ gran t them ^^^ iitimfhm attr ^ cte * tendiliofts , # teT& $ bbtig&w * i cannotfeel thejusf > 4 Mfeiii ssttsswNfo&a&BanEd ^ Var ^ 3 * to side
sack impregft ^ blc s tand as this writer ^^ i ^ s Mm . © 11 ***» of tbe Atlantic , > thei ^ 4 re ina «» 6 roiis <| ugs ~ tbns ef fais ia # allif > iiff $ ? as to " his great leadingarguments ?* Indeed ^ I ^ ajr take tlife occasion to remark , that the Atcerican Unitarians , almost to a
man , bsem tit&eft ^ fe&ea aver se fro m embracing , or at least from inculcating , the ^ octrine *> f Philosophical H&tGg&tf . Not that we explicitly < teayik If fkferfe is any thing in it , it must amount , when analysed , not s < umich to a tratli , as a truism . It
is just that chain of antecedents and consequents , which ; & . Sabbatarians . I caa imagine no more heavenly pictare of society than a general voluntary observance of the Sabbath- ^ a grateful reception of
it as a blessing , and a religious , rational eelebration of the day . A cempukorp observance of it carries us ( jack from the ground of Christian liberty into the trammels of Jewish childhood .
Review . Mrs . Barhmld ' s Works . This poetry is all idusic , and the prose extracts are unrivalled for delicate good sense . But I was not . pre * - pared for the lofty encomium of the author , which concludes tlie article .
Poetry * If these sonnets are by different hands , the coincidence by which tvro guoli pictures were brought together , is remarkable enough . Qdituary ; In & former paper , I recommended a collection of the
Poetry of the Monthly Repository . Anotlier fine volume , 1 should think , might be compiled from its Biography a » 4 Obituary . Far from the least interesting would be the pi ^ esent artiete © a William Guy , Esq . I have heard that a clergyman in ^ n « interior of Masaachusietts has been
some time engaged in cortipilio ^ the « vres of pious and eminent Unitarians .
Intelli gence . The case of the Midweton congregation is interesting . It w » uld be worth while to employ a general Unitarian solicitor , of good caaraeter and address , whose business abotild bo to lay statements of desl «« te c ^ n ^ regatip ns before pri vate in-
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dividaals i oi ? d precur ^ r ^ jnlRile ttrib seriptions . Hia saiary might : * iriier be paid by the Unitarian Asdoeiatian , or arise ironycomimssickfts on colleetions , The ioflaenee of such a furaetionary on the interests of the m&t r would very probably be beneficial . A few private persons would , fet is
likely , now and then wish not to see tUe solicitor quite so often 5 but it would be a part of his cUity to apportion and employ his visits with pru * den (^ and judgment , and I have « o douht , that in the body at large his applications would be welcomed by a greater number than they would offend .
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Hannah Barnard * I Ftpoi " The Christian Inquirer / 4 a week ly paper * printed at New York * Sat nr day , D « c 3 , 1825 ?] . . .
BIED in Hudson , New York , on Sunday mottling last , Mrs . Hannah Barnard , aged 71 years . All the . particulars wiich we have yet received of the sickness atid decease
x > f this distinguished woman are t&wftained in a letter dated Nov . 2 / , addressed to a gentleman in this city , frtafc which we have been furnished with the following extracts : € t Th y much esteemed and revered friend , Hannah Barnard , is
rio more ! She quietly departed this life , without a struggle or a groan , this morning' at four o ' clock . She was taken unwell last 2 nd day , but the symptoms of her disorder aid not alarm her friends , and no one was
present at her exit but her husband and daughter , and neither of them witnessed it , thinking- that she bad fallen into a sweet sleep : so quietly , so sweetly did she ckrse Iter eventftil
life * I have been intimately ficquainted with her for several years : she had inore Christian virtues mid powers of mind combined than any person with whom I am acquainted /'
Thus writes a person who was intimately acquainted with this venerable confessor , and thus will every one say who had the pleasure of an acquaintance with this eminent woman , who for many years was an able and successful minister of the Society of Friends , and who at last becattig a victim to Transatlantic bigotry and intolerance , which was too readilytwd
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1826, page 525, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2552/page/17/
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