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and fostered . To its possessor it is more than treasures of gold ; to society , a strong and valuable pledge for the right discharge of civil no less than personal duties . This independence , however , is perfectly consistent with that mutual dependence , of another kind , which is so essential to the best interests of the comunity . Without reciprocal trust , without reciprocal subjection , public comforjt and order will be greatly interrupted . We are
apprehensive that the eagerness of many persons to throw off a yoke , which only their own thoughtlessness and impatience can render burdensome , leads the way to crime . Vanity frames plans and spheres of life , for which they are totally unfit . Disappointment follows * To notorious and hurtful indiscretion , fraud , if not violence , succeeds : and the consequences are what we cannot but deeply bewail and deprecate .
Akin to this source of moral evil in society , is the growth of immoderate desires and hopes in respect of the world , and a mode of living carried not seldom beyond the limits of sound equity and wisdom . Numbers of our countrymen are ambitious candidates for that meteor-like distinction which is afforded by means of outward appearances and show . There are those , too , who feel little solicitous as to the methods of gratifying this desire . It is true , they may not set out with any deliberate intention of throwing down the barriers of human laws in their career : yet selfish habits impel them , at length , to deeds of desperation : and therefore crime and iniquity abound .
Let not these remarks be viewed as a digression from our notice of Bishop Ryder ' s second Charge . They will shew how far we concur in opinion with his Lordship on the painfully copious subject of public crime , and
where and why we differ from his conclusions . His remonstrances with the negligent clergy of his diocese , are very pathetic—his counsels to them , very plain and faithful . * " Cut off the right hand , pluck out the right eye . Renounce the dissipated amusement—the Ball—the Card Room—the Theatre—the Race Course—the festive board—the rustic or the brutal sport—or the sordid care , which have wasted or misemployed the hours due to God and to your people . " The amusements of the clergy—of all the ministers of religion—is far from being a novel topic . We should rejoice if intelligent , unbending , instructive conversation were more generally recommended and sought as foremost in the number . N .
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Time-hallow ' d Tree ! still honoured in decay ! The Ivy clings around thee and renews The verdant beauties of thy earlier day . The sunbeams gild thee with their richest hues : The Naiad leads her streamlet to thy stem : The Wood nymphs seek thy solitary shade , And deck the turf with many a fairy gem : Yet doth thy strength decay , thy beauty fade .
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80 The Last Tree of the Forest .
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THE LAST TREE OF THE FOREST .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1829, page 80, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2569/page/8/
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