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itself , which confers superiority ; and that in most cases it is a proof that we stood in need of correction . We have centered our affections on some beloved being , perhaps , to the neglect of our other duties , and the hand of deatli snatches him from our gaze , and reveals to us our idolatry , We have enjoyed an uninterrupted state of health and forgotten to be grateful , and the blight of sickness is sent forth to teach us its value , and to make us
thankful for even hours of ease . We have neglected the poor in the midst of our abundance , and our riches are taken away from us , that we may learri to feel for others , and cease to abuse entrusted talents . We open our eyes to our faults in the day of our calamity , and they flash upon us with a conviction that may not be resisted . There will come a time when we shall reap all the benefit of these at first inscrutable dispensations ; when on looking back even on the wreck of our fondest expectations , we behold them as
" Hopes blighted by a Father ' s care , Perhaps to save us from despair , " and trace the wisdom which overruled the storm . But it may be said , that some are afflicted who have always been religious , and gentle , and submissive , and who , to human judgment , seem to require no corrections . And who is there so good and so holy that he may not be made still holier and better ? Who is there whose faith , however strong , is not frail and human ; whose
heart , however kind , is not at times a scene of conflict with selfishness or temptation ; and who is not more or less the creature of circumstances ? And if so , let him reverence the benevolence which has called him to a still higher degree of refinement and virtue , and welcome the sufferings which have added to his purity heavenly-mindedness , increased the strength of his faith , and given additional glory to his hope . Such a man will understand the value of chastisement , and he will at all times acknowledge with grateful submission that the Being who made him < c Has not in vain In his life's web of virtue woven pain . "
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No . VIII . " Watchman , what of the night ? Watchman , what of the night ? The Watchman said , The morning conieth , and also the night . " Isaiah xxi . 11 , 12 * The dislike which prevails against Unitarians shews itself not only in the publications of the orthodox , but also in the intercourses of public and social life . Into their pulpits we could hardly , perhaps , expect them to admit our ministers ; but surely there is a large field of benevolent exertion where
there might be a community of feeling , and ought to be a community of operation . But even in this sphere our assistance is declined and rejected ; by the more ignorant , lest we should bring a curse upon the cause ; by the more enlightened , lest by acting with us in public they should be held to think with us in private . The appearance of a Unitarian on the committee of many of the benevolent institutions of the country would either raise such an outcry as to compel him to retire , or create such an odium as to endanger the interests sought to be secured . And for an Unitarian to put himself
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The Watchman . 695
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THE WATCHMAN .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1829, page 695, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2577/page/23/
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