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place , the singing is universally bad . I have heard some scores of Psalms sung in the last two months , and I have only heard one tune the whole time . It is one uniform drone , without either life , or soul , or interest , or variety . Why cannot the French import some of our best collections of Psalm tunes , and adapt words to them , just as Moore did with the Irish Melodies ? In the third r > lace . the devotional Dart of the service is not suffilodies ? In the third lacethe devotional part of the service is not
suffip , ciently varied , the Commandments , and the Confession of Sin , as well as the General Supplication , being read every Sunday . And what is the consequence of all this ? It is , that the congregation , finding the first part of the service uninteresting , acquire the slovenly habit of straggling in after it is begun , there sometimes not being above a dozen persons present at the commencement . If there must be a printed liturgy , it would surely be a very
easy thing to extend and vary it , so as to have three or four services to be used in turn , instead of the same every Sunday . Should these observations meet the eye of any of those whom they chiefly concern , I hope they will not bring upon the writer the charge of censoriousness , but that they will be taken in the same spirit of friendship in which they are given . I have made them , because I think that they are such as must suggest themselves to every one who has been accustomed to the admirable manner in which the
devotional part of the service is generally conducted in the Dissenting chapels in England , and because I am persuaded , that if these things were reformed , the Protestant churches of France would be still better filled than they are , and they who resort to them would be more interested and more improved . Hoping that your readers may derive from what I have written half the gratification which I have derived from what I have seen and heard , I remain , &c . SAMUEL WOOD .
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Lo , the seal of Death is breaking , Those who slept its sleep are waking , — Eden opes her portals fair ! Hark , the harps of God are ringing , Hark , the seraphs' hymn is singing , And the living rills are flinging Music on immortal air I
There , no more at eve declining , Suns without a cloud are shining O ' er the land of life and love ; Heaven's own harvests woo the reaper , Heaven's own dreams entrance the sleeper , Not a tear is left the weeper To profane one flower above .
No frail lilies there are breathing , There no thorny rose is wreathing In the bowers of paradise ;—Where the founts of life are flowing , Flowers unknown to time are blowing , Mid superber verdure glowing Than is sunn'd by mortal skies .
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A Dream of Heaven . 89
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A DREAM OF HEAVEN ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1828, page 89, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2557/page/17/
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