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    Finally , though you are to stand still and consider , you are not always to stami still . These seasons of contemplation are but the rests and pauses in an active life ; in this view they invigorate and refresh our strength ; but to stand still always would be to live to no purpose . We are called to cooperate with God in his works , by a vigorous discharge of the various duties which lie before us . We are not to content ourselves with being

    driven carelessly down the stream of time—we must strive and labour to gain the wished-for harbour . Let us be up and doing . A new year is before us . If it please God to spare our lives to the end ol it , we have a new scene of action before us . Let us take care to fill , to crowd it with wise and virtuous factions . We may wish ourselves , and wish each other , a happy new year , but this is the only way we can take to make it so . We cannot discover whether this year shall be passed in health and prosperity , or whether it

    shall be filled with tears and mourning . We do not know whether the arrow is not already gone forth to destroy our dearest comforts ; but we can determine it shall be virtuous ; this is left to our own option , not made dependent on seasons or changing fortune , and this is all . Have any of your past years been spent in the blank o £ indolence or the dissipations of folly ? Now then another year is offered you , with which to redeem the waste . Let every year be a fairer copy of the last . The preceding pages of your lives

    have been free from those deep blots which leave an indelible stain on the mind ; I well believe it : now then he still nicer in your care ; clear your conduct , your temper , your heart , from those little specks and trivial errors which still disgrace them , that they may have neither spot nor blemish , nor any such thing . Then shall this , as I sincerely wish it may to all of you , be a good new year , and this portion of time be reflected on with pleasure when all time and the name of time is lost in the boundless ocean of a happy eternity .

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    Mother ! revere God ' s image in thy child . — No earthly gift thy parent aims enfold ; No mortal tongue , as yet , the worth hath told Of that which in thy bosom , meek and mild , Rests its weak head . Oh ! not by sense beguil'd Gaze on that form of perishable mould . Though first by thee it hVd , on thee it smiVd , Yet not for thee existence must it hold .

    For God ' s it is , not thine . Thou art but one To whom that happy destiny is given To see an everlasting life begun , To watch the dawnings of the future Heav ' n , And to be such in purity and love , A 3 best may fit it for the realms above .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1828, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2556/page/5/