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    NEW YEAR'S MORNING.

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    To him who , in some degree , knows himself , and has learnt to compare his poor attempts at obedience to the Divine law , with that unerring obedience of instinct which characterises the inferior orders of creation , human life must sometimes afford a prospect calculated to make the timid soul start back with affright at the thoughts of those many deviations from the path of duty which may possibly disgrace it in the remaining part of his earthly career . Take up the Christian Directory when and where you will , and look at life at what period you may , it is a mysterious , an awful gift to every human being . The spirit shrinks before its responsibilities ,

    dreading to have been entrusted , in vain , with time , with talents , with sympathies , with affections , with bonds of brotherhood , with all those beautiful outward symbols of divine power , and love which find in the human soul a faculty fitted to understand and apply them , with " the glorious gospel of the blessed God ; " with the promise of answers to our prayers , and grace to help in every time of need . Who that takes into his contemplations but the half of these Blessings , nay , only any one of them , but does not feel that it is a solemn thing to be , and be one of those creatures , high in endowment and rich in expectation , gifted beyond all power of human calculation , who may yet pervert the glorious and kind arrangements of the Deity to the lowest purposes , love darkness rather than light , and not only forego happiness and honours beyond the reach of our conception , but turn the very instruments of good into just reasons for his own condemnation ? And who , when lifting up the warning voice to other men , has not sometimes experienced the sickening thought of possible or deeper failure in himself ? He turns from such surveys

    " A sadder , yet a wiser mau . " He learns more , in a few minutes , from , such a view of the responsibilities of human life , than from all the written or spoken wisdom of other men ; and may , if he pleases , dispense more of the true doctrine of Christ in such an

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    THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY AND REVIEW . NEW SERIES , No . XXXVII .

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    JANUARY , 1830 .

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    VOL . IV . B

    New Year's Morning.

    NEW YEAR ' S MORNING .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1830, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2580/page/1/