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Here , we thtok , iiambers of religiotis men era ^ V erf : for they fcfcftr id be altogether regardless of habk—x& tiaftuie , its laws , it ^ fffeScy ^ i rr iri 6 fa ^ and religion . Indeed , the popular creed , wh ^ it feroati ry tacCigrit , ex 6 lti < Je ^ habit : and the tenets of irresistible grace , irestkhtaijeoife cohversitrn , Itria
the possibility of a sudden , complete transition from the craratcter krid fibpelessness of the aged sinner , to the character arid privileges' of ttife ? dtieef& persevering Christian , totally oppose all that we Hive hearH &ntl fcrtown 61 habit . Surely , the language addressed to many a male&ctof—the la ' hjju ' age ' proceeding from his lips—when he is about to Suffer the la&t pYtntehment which human justice can inflict , bias nd tendency to lessen the nliniber of
public crimes , but the reverse : surely , the accents of lofty , exulting confidence little become an occasion and a Scene so awfdj . Between means and ends , between character arid hapbiness ; there exists an indissoluble connexion . This is the lesson of ( he Sa ^ ed Volunqe . Were it more uniformly the lesson of the pulpif , there ^ erfiaps would be
fewer violation's of the laws of God and man . Nbt to the pulpit alone , however , must we look for a control on public transgressions ' , ana the improvement of our national morality . It still fernahiis for * ife to ask , whether there be any cifcutnstarrices arising out of otr dbiries ' tic m ' anner ^ , whicfr nourish ahd ericduracrime if do hoi riroJdce it ? it the vvtn
ge , even they < gro ' of crime really surpass the rapid increase of out population , may not one cause be discovered in the altered state of this c ! as 3 of our habits ? As far as we are capable of comparing together past arid present time ' s , we shotild say that we now behold less of do ' nhestic coriWol arid domestic retirement than formerly , that there is less of mutual and valuable dependence in the different classes of society , less of moderation in fn ' en ' s desires and
expectations , and more of a love of diplay , more of ah eager competition to gain an imagined superiority by means of external appearance . But if this be the accurate result of the comparison , if this be really our situation , ttti thinking man can doubt as to the tendency arid the consiequericks of ihi change . Formed as we are for society , we have deep l y to aclmire the v ^ isdbm ' afnd goodness of the Creator in the constitution of tilings , which divides all ] &rge communities into numerous families , from the mutual relation ^ and dilie ' s *
of whose members flow some of the choicest blessings that reli ^ iori rY sanctify and civil government protect . If then these reciprocal obligations be not faithfully discharged , what can be the issue except public injury and disorder ? The obedience of the child to the parent , and of the servant to the master , is , in this as in every view , an object of vast importance , and involves effects far more extensive than the domestic hearth . Leaving other men to judge , for themselves , ot the statement , we must declare it as our
opinion that parental authority is not sufficientl y understood , exercised , and respected , that regularity , in point of time and its just divisions and appropriation , frequently suffers interruption . We must lament , too , that , owing to the altered habits of the country , no strictl y domestic asylum is -now found for many a youth who has reiaoved froiri his native mansion , for the sake of learning , in a distant spot , what , confessedly , it is essential that he learn . Here former days had the ad vantage of ours . There was more of subordination , often more of method , and , consequently , less of p remature excitement , of dissipated thought , of indiscriminate and protracted visitingless , in a word , of temptation and of crime . A spirit of enlightened and moral independence ought to be esteemed
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Bhftop 6 J L'ickfBtM'i € 9 W ^ t . 79
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1829, page 79, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2569/page/7/
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