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He who called us into being knows our frame , and has himself appointed its periods of weakness and of strength . It is our duty to acquiesce in these appointments , and , with respect to spiritual as well as temporal endowments , to bless His hand , whether he gives or takes away . f" IT . On the Agency of Habits in the Regeneration of Feelings , " in our next . ]
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More signs of the Times ! and most curious ones too . The last few weeks have been prolific indeed in the singular anomalies which characterize the last expiring throes of the anti-catholic faction . First comes forward the Quarterly Review with a nostrum to keep off the evil day . For a long course of years the hopes , fears , and prejudices , of the Irish aristocracy and landholders have been worked upon by the crafty sons
of the Church , to induce them to join in perpetuating exclusions . The real moving cause of dread has always been an apprehension , that sooner or later , if things once began to mend , the standing monument of iniquity and injustice which the Church of Ireland presents , must have its abasement ; its cunning adherents have , therefore , always managed to make the aristocracy support ecclesiastical monopolies by alarming them on the subject of their own interests . To preserve the Church monopoly , every other abuse has been cherished , arid the bond of common interest has rendered the
crime of all the pledge of mutual co-operation to prevent redress . Rogues , however , do not always agree , and the ecclesiastical exclusionists , having found the whole too bad for defence , are most unceremoniously rewarding their lay friends for their support , and coolly telling them that they must be sacrificed to the preservation of Moloch . The aristocracy , the Quarterly Review now tells us , are the curse of Ireland ; civil abuses , it urges , are the bane of her peace ; even the poor , it admits , ought to be maintained . Any part of the cargo of rubbish may be thrown overboard , so that the old crazy ship may have a chance of floating a little longer .
Next appears , in the same strain , the natural organ of the Church , " The British Critic ; " and first comes one of the most ludicrous pieces of solemn humbug which could be recommended as a specific to chace away melancholy at this gloomy season . It is an account of the second year of the Irish Reformation ! The second year of the Reformation , in a ^ country which has , for centuries , had a Reformed establishment , the most expensive in the world ! We shall not detain our readers by detailing the miscarriages
and reverses of the Reformation in the parish of Killnummery ( or Mummery , we forget which ) ; but the result , as far as we can gather it , appears to be , that against the grand credit side of the account of " the year one of the Reformation , " there is , in " the sixth month of the second year , " a very Considerable debit of defaults , arising , first from relapses , and secondly , it is
hinted , from an awkward trick which the converts were led into after being released from their former religious influences , —that of taking rather too much of what an Irishman calls ** the dear cratur . " Aa to progress in new converts , we are told , that little show can be made ; first , because the Catholics are on the aleH to take care that their sheep do not stray ; second , because private recantation of thfe errors of Popery has been found on seve-
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CATHOLIC QUESTION .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1829, page 106, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2569/page/34/
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