On this page

• Text (2)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    Untitled Article

  • 

    Untitled Article

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    Untitled Article

    of an almost immeasurable sea , stretch upward to the surface of the waters . These are stupendous beds of coral , the work of tiny beings , which , age after age , attach themselves to the growing mass , and then perishing , accumulate , by insensible degrees , these mountains of the sea ; which at once bid proud defiance to the fury of the tempest , and present everlasting

    monuments of the efficacy of united operations . In the same manner , that building up in the heart of a holy temple to God , and in the world a pure and holy cnurch , which is the great object of true religion , is to be effected , not by one but by many hands ; and as the building up of those stupendous rocks takes place by a series of the smallest depositions , so may every labourer , however little his means , give an efficient aid towards the edification of the church of Christ .

    What a general , however eminent in talent and prowess , would prove to be without soldiers , that is a reformer without associates . Caesar , we are wont to say , won the battle . And Csesar may have laid the plans and guided the measures , and infused the spirit that mainly contributed to success ; but who bore the tug of war , the labour and toil of the day ; who supplied the heart and the sinews , that quailed not through fear , nor sunk even

    after the exhaustion of fatigue ? Not Csesar , but his comrades . And so it is in the moral changes which have taken place . Wickliffe was succeeded by Huss , and Huss by Luther , and Luther fought the fearful battle , attended by a host of gallant companions ; and to the present day the completion of their labours , in so far as it is effectually sought , is sought , not by scattered and insulated efforts , but by the binding together of the friends of human improvement , and the united action of many harmonious and concurring members . Even he who came forth to the great work under the special aid of the Almighty , sought in co-operation , and the co-operation even of fishermen , the means of success ; and his apostles , in their turn , never failed , wherever they established a church , to appoint some prophets , sortie evangelists , some teachers , for the perfecting of the saints , for the work of the ministry , for the edifying of the bod y of Christ , from whom the whole body , fitly compacted and connected together by the aid of every joint , and according to the proportionate operation of every single limb , thriveth to the improvement of itself in love .

    Men and brethren , the path of duty is plain before you ; happy for yourselves , happy for the church , happy for the world , if ye walk therein .

    Untitled Article

    Universal Co-operation in zealous Efforts required . 859

    Untitled Article

    Note . Mr . Rutt is respectfully informed that " The Watchman , " in using the words , " the wild notions of Evanson , " thought of and referred to 9 exclusively , the opinions which Mr . Evanson entertained " respecting the authenticity of several books of the New Testament . "

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1829, page 859, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2579/page/43/