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      following passage from Herodotus : * - avTiKct . Se £ <; rs rovq hy ( Mv $ < pariq amvtfi 7 o , & <; ASfnvafq Tlsio-icrT ^ otrov Kocrocyer Kan 01 ev too a < rrei W £ * Sro /* Evo * ryv yvvaMoo

      stvai ocvriqv Tip Sfeov , < xpo $ sv % wtq tvjv av&pairov . k . r . X . Immediately the report reached the people that the goddess Minerva herself was bringing back Pisistratus ; and the inhabitants of the city believed that the woman was Minerva her * -

      self , and prayed to a mortal woman . This is a very brief specimen of the genius of Paganism . The ancient Apologists for Christianity imagined that they gained a very great advantage by assimilating Christianity to the established notions and deep-rooted prejudices of men ; and , in fact , by that means they facilitated the progress of it

      iu appearance , though in reality they greatly corrupted it—tarnished the purity of its doctrines , and weakened the efficacy of its moral precepts : and it is surely an imperious and sacred obligation oo Christians of the present day , regardless of our benches , stalls , or denominations / to separate the pure wheat from the empty chaff .

      W 6 have not to learn from Justin Martyr and the other Apologists— -we learn from the New Testament itself- —that the great objection against Christianity , the almost insurmountable difficulty , felt by those to whom it was recoirtmended , against receiving it , was preaching Christ , a crucified man , as the object of faith . But observe the contrast between the

      conduct of the Apostle Paul and the policy of the accommodating Apologist . The language of the former is the following : " The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness . —It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe . We preach Christ crucified , unto the Jews a stumblingblock , and unto the Greeks foolishness . —

      I determined not to know any thing among you save Jesus Christ , and him crucified . " The force of the last expression amounts to th \ 8-rTe ? J 6 n that man who was crucified . Here is no palliation ,, no subterfuge , np recourse to a mysterious Lbgps , But the avowal is undisguised ,

      ofcep , and unambigu ou s , that however foolish tjie preaching of the crucified man may appear to the world , it is the wisdom oif God unto salvation ; however in the estimation of men base , despised , weak , foolish , yet it was chosen oy God to confound the wise and the mighty . Such were the views of Paul . Let the

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      Bishop of Lincoln explain the views of the Apologist , Justin Martyr . " One of the prejudices [ existing against Christians in the minds of the Heathen ] was , that they worshiped a crucified man . O no ,

      the Apologist replies , that is by no means a true state . of the case ^ the real object of our worship is the divine kogos , - who was content to become incarnate , and to die on the cross far the sake of mankind . "

      If any man be so blind as not to see the difference and discordance of these two modes of preaching Christ crucified , after this brief exposure , hi f tartness is too great to be easily enlightened . W . J ,

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      720 Miscellaneous Correspondence ,

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      bV another correspondent . I saw two twins—with ' a fond parent ' s pride—The graceful offspring of one happy birth :

      But soon I savVj with a fono ^ p ^ euVs . . ^ . ' ¦ ¦ •¦; " ' "¦• . ' ¦••• !¦( Vi . ; ¦ & ™ t > , ,.. . Those twins laid Jow b ^ ene ^ th one jfcurfclad momidj , i \ Thee , too ^ dear wife ! stii ^ of my life and soul . . , How bast ; thpu fallen from thy radiant ¦

      sphere ! . ¦ And bow , alas ! I darHly wautfer On Thro * this world ' s dull and devibus paths obscure , My course uncertain , and my path-way lone . AX ,

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      OF THE LINES ( p . 627 ) WRITTEN BY LORD HAILES , ON THE SUDDEN DEATHS OF HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN . Twins I beheld > with all the , father ' s pride ; , . , ;

      The tnpther '« sorrow , then , how well repaid ! : ¦ ¦'¦ A transie ut bliss I their ; timeless , grave beside , ¦ ., ., . > , 'Neath the same turf , I joEiouraing , saw them laid !

      Thee , wife , how lov'd ! - ^ Ho " W swift my sun ' s decline , Soon as I welcbm'd his raei'idia ^ i ray ! Darkling , forlorti , 1 rOairi ; no Ionger mine The endear'd companion of life ' s dubious way . Sept . A . 1829 . J . T . R .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1829, page 720, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2577/page/48/