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it reverts with pain . similar to what it felt when they had an actual existence . I have sketched an outline of the human passions . Narrow are the bounds which separate them from each other . If the views thus presented of this important part of our mental frame incite any one individual to adore more habitually Him by whom we are " fearfully and wonderfully made , " and to keep the heart with all diligence , I shall be humbly grateful .
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No . XI . cc Watchman , what of the night ? Watchman , what of the night ? The Watchman said , The morning conaeth , and also the night . ' * Tsaiah xxi . 11 , 12 . . Salam ! Peace and prosperity , saith the Watchman to all his readers , as he enters within the precincts of a new year . Peace on earth , and goodwill among men , and glory to God , may the ensuing year conduce largelv
to advance . Could we place ourselves at the end of it , and review the scenes which are to mark its progress , how different in many respects would be our apprehensions ! Alas ! who knows if he who now guides the pen will then be in the land of theliving or the land of darkness ; who of his readers can with certainty anticipate the prolongation of their existence through twelve more months ? And , trifle as we do with the things of eternity , could our destiny within that period be foretold with the same certainty as it is determined ; could the name of each to be summoned hence before another
year has completed its course be uttered , how awfully fixed would be the eye of every one , how eager the countenance to catch the sentence of life or death ! No prophetic voice can be uttered . No individual can be named . Doubt is left over all , that all may stand in awe and sin not . All are in danger , that all may be prepared . But life and death are not the only issues to be determined in the ensuing period of time . Great events are manifestly
about to come . To say this , requires not the tongue of a prophet nor of the son of a prophet . The elements of society are all in agitation . The sounds of war have died away . Men have ceased to be amused with the emp ty accents of glory . Victory is no longer to them an object of desire ^ for they know its price . The hand of necessity is pressing hard upon thousands . Fearful realities have succeeded to idle sounds , and in all classes men are beginning to form correct estimates of their actual condition , and to search wherever they may for the remedies of their privations and sufferings .
Time they have , and motives they have , to think , to learn , and inwardly to digest , what things are for their weal or woe . Change must come . The power of man cannot prevent it . A nation ' s wants may not be neglected ; a nation ' s will cannot be withstood . The planet cannot be arrested in its orbit ; the hand of God is upon it . A people cannot be stayed in its career of improvement ; the spirit of the Divinity urges it on . The roar of the sea , the thunder of heaven , are sounds as mighty as terrible . But more mighty , and to the foes of man more terrible , the voice of a whole nation rising to
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THE WATCHMAN .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1830, page 30, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2580/page/30/
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