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Ypp * kJ 4 ^ cll € ;( J , dpNYn to a sraalL and lfWisyqi&i , iik $ xgJxiRcant . party . But m £ hUa 3 elpfaia they are still among tjieiasein ^ i-p a very perturbed state ; their false rest seems to be broken up , and , for my part , I make no doubt imod will eventuate from it . of truth
" There is no danger losing by investigation , any more than gold by purification . I ofteri felicitate myself in being wholly released from sectarian shackles , and not unfrequently recollect the prediction of an eminent writer I read in early life , viz . ' There shall be a time when ,
evangelical light and truth being risen , Egyptian mists and darkness shall be dispelled ; when the fogs of superstition and ignorance shall fly before the brightness of the arising of the sun of righteousness ; when , finally ,
Lutheranism , Calvinism , Quakerism , Papery , and whatever other denomination there may be , shall be melted down into one truly Catholic and Apostolic Philadelphianisin or brotherly love / But before this happy state can take place , that selfish , pride must all be eradicated which forms
so full an answer to the poet ' s inquiry when he asks , " ' Whence then the imperious , positive disdain , That spurns back modest doubt and damns dissent ? Whence the foundation of that holy scorn , That lifts the bigot \ s brow to scowl reproach ?*
" However , happily the way is open and plain for each individual of us to think soberly as we ought to think of others , and of and for ourselves , remembering that we see but in part > yet we all may know , if we are willing impartially to inquire , what the # reat cardinal virtues of justice , mercy aad humility require of us in our intercourse with our fellow-creatures : and great peace have all those who sincerely love this law /'
. 'n a P . S . she adds , " I have heard '<• smd that the great Quaker Trinitarian champion , Joseph John Gur-!^ y , is expected in this country . Is it so ? Or is it only rumour ? Howwcv > if I live , it is likely I shall know More this reaches thee . If he should
co me , I presume he will meet with mile success in making converts to ^ creed . Hi 8 progress will , I ap-
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prehend , be much like walking ^ iip a steep hill in loose sand . — f oiig ^ t ^ tell the <> , my daughter , and qsxily surviving child , [ Mrs . Mac Kinstry , ] is in lisyal lieahh , her husband also .
Her eldest son [ ah intelligent , premising youth ] sailed in May , on his second voyage to Canton . If he live $ till the 4 th of next month he will be twenty years old . \ The two others are , I believe , well . Our sou ' s widow
and three children are with us , and are in usual health , as is my husband likewise . Adieu , my ever dear friend . " To Thomas Foster , Evesham , Worcestershire , England "
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Chichester , August 12 , 1826 . IT was a sentiment of the late Rev . Hugh Wortllington , not unfrequently repeated in company and in the pulpit , that politics should not appear in that place ; and many excellent persons seem to think that a Christian minister who meddles with
political matters is going beyond his sphere . Nothing certainly can be more opposed to the mild spirit of the gospel than are the violent passions which rage , when party political fervour is at its height . But in the endeavour to maintain principle , amidst all the storms which
self-interest and pride too successfully raise , a true Christian and a Christian minister even may be very beneficially and honourably employed . Why should he not be ? He is a moral physician , and as the medical practitioner frequents scenes of disease , why should not the moral physician be present where the moral disease is the most
deadly ? Is it not because the contrary doctrine is generally received and acted on , that there is so little political principle in the world ? Political principle appears to be universally regarded as a thing not to be expected , and as far as my
observation enables me to judge , even men otherwise respectable and honourable , have little conception of its importance or obligation . Hence we find Tories sometimes supporting Whigs , and Whigs supporting Tories . Here a man votes for a Government
candidate , and there the same person is earnestly engaged for an Opposition member . But if there be any difference among political parties ^ 1 $ it hot
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1826, page 527, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2552/page/19/
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