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ON THE itELl&IOUS li<STi«JCTION OP THE YOUNOER MEMBERS OP A CHRISTIAN SOCIETY.*
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- ' ¦ . 1 ¦ ¦¦ " - . THE MClOTttV REPOSITORY - *¦' - ¦ ¦ ¦ = ¦• ' ¦ ' . •? ¦'¦ •¦ . AND EE ^ IEW . r « . .. .. '„• NEW SERIES , No . XXXIV . /* ¦ -
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OCTOBER , 1829 .
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No general t&ith can be better ascertained , than tbat the virtue and iappiness of eyery succeeding period of life mainly depend npbn the proper culture of the understanding and dispositions during chtIclH 66 d and early youth . . In favourable cjigumstapces , and by great exertion and care , the
mor&l and intellectual n | i $ fciiief arising from the neglect or wrohg direction of this first period , may in part he remedied . Sometimes the evils thus pfo ~ duced lead to their own extermination , by the painful consequences naturally resulting frorrl them . Sometimes the warnings of Providence , or some deep personal ^ to those great changes in the views and dispositions of tne ind | kd ^ ai 5 vfrhich raake affliction , as it often is , a blessing of the highest order . But we may ask him whose understanding and
intellectual acquirements Were early neglected , in whose case the period when the foundation should have Seen laid , deep and firm , for the superstructure of science and literature , was spent in indolence , if not in wayward self-indulgence , whether he ha 9 ever ceased to deplore the past , and to ffeel that his progress has been impeded , his difficulties increased , and his intellectual isfilMg ^^ or tlie ikitblesstiess ^ ortherinability , of t ^ pse to whom his early education was intrusted ? And then we ii has beesto
may proceed ^ tiW ttia ^ fe n pped , befbre too late , in the course of thoughtless dissipation , or criminal licentiousness , or ( if the case ^ ver occur ) of UnjpHrineipled selfishness , or dark deceitful malignancy , and learn whether h ^ ^ to naoum the influence of habits and dispositions which , by long exercise , have ^ aeguirfed an almost insuperable swav in his heart ; the inability to raise the thoughts to God , acid fix the eye of faith on those things which are unseen , hut eternal ; th 6 instability of good resolutions ; the tocertainty of right dispb&itions ; and the weakness
* Lectures to Young Persona ou the Intellectual and Moral Powers of Man ; the Existence , Character , and Ooverument of God ; and the Evidences of Christianity . By the Rev . John H 6 r 8 ey \ I Vol . 8 vd . Pp . 954 . 1828 .
On The Itell&Ious Li≪Sti«Jction Op The Younoer Members Op A Christian Society.*
ON THE itELl&IOUS li < STi « JCTION OP THE YOUNOER MEMBERS OP A CHRISTIAN SOCIETY . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1829, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2577/page/1/
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