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prospect of such an arrangement , lest the cause of religion should suffer ? They cannot " be fully aware of the Divine
origin , the independent spirit , the internal energies , and the inexhaustible resources -of Christianity . Those who now maintain their separate communions , in spite of the burdens laid upon them for the support of a religion they disapprove , will not fail to avail themselves of happier times to give wider diffusion , and fuller effect to their own principles .
Those who are sincerely attached to the present state-church will not love it the less because it is thrown upon their affectionate attachment and voluntary support ; while those who are mere parasites , entering the priest ' s office for a morsel of bread , will then be thrown off to the secular pursuits to which alone they are adapted , and will leave the church to feel the truth of the Greek proverb , ' The half is more than the whole . '"«—Pp . 44—46 .
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Art . III . — Three Letters to the Young People of Devonport , ty c , fyc . By Silvanus Gibbs . 1829 . Byers , Devonport . It appears from these Letters that Devon port is agitated by a spirit of religious controversy which will doubtless issue in good , though wrath and
bitterness are at present the accompaniments of zeal . The pamphlets of Mr . Gibbs are not , as he informs us , designed to set forth a complete series of arguments on the subjects of which they treat ; but to excite attention , especially in the young , to the popular misrepresentations of the doctrines of Universal Restoration
and the simple Humanity of Christ ; doctrines which have been there , as elsewhere , assailed with the unchristian vehemence against which Unitarians are yet perpetually compelled to protest . While , however , Dr . S . Smith ' s work on the Divine Government is sentenced
to the hangman's fire , and Mr . Gibbs is coolly consigned over to a yet hotter destruction , their less conspicuous brethren may congratulate themselves on being condemned in very good company , and ou the reversal , in this case , of a certain proverb , about taking the hindmost .
The young people of Devon port , who muBt needs be startled by such denunciations as they now hear from Christian lips , are much indebted to Mr . Gibbs for laying enough of the subject matter of the controversy before them to enable them to form a judgment for themselves ;
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and it is to be hoped they will not neglect the opportunity . The first letter contains a very brief
summary of the arguments by which the doctrine of Universal Restoration is shewn to be conformable to Scripture and the Divine perfections . The purpose of the third letter is to vindicate this summary from aw attack to which it had given occasion . The second is a
statement of the Unitarian views concerning the person of Christ . Those of our readers who may refer to them will join us in the hope and belief that they will effect the removal of some prejudices , and prepare the way for more enlarged conceptions of gospel truth than are commonly entertained .
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GENERAL LITERATURE . Art . IV . —A Treatise on Fever . By Southwood Smith , M . D ., Physician to the London Fever Hospital . Longman and Co . pp . 436 . Of all the diseases to which the human body is subject , fever is the most prevalent aud the most fatal . It is computed that one half of the human race perish by this malady in its different forms . And those forms are so
diversified , owing , among other causes , to the different degrees of intensity in which it prevails in different situations , and at different seasons , and to the different constitutions it attacks , that the most opposite opinions have been , and continue to be , maintained by physicians relative to its true nature , and to its proper treatment . That nature can be
ascertained , the proper remedies can be discovered , only by carefully observing the malady , as it prevails among large numbers , and faithfully recording the phenomena it exhibits . There pass through the wards of the Fever Hospital upwards of six huudred fever patients every year . In order that an average of results might be obtained , a period of four years has beeu chosen , the cases comprehended in this period amounting to upwards of two thousand five hundred . These cases were
all visited three times every day , the resident medical officer going round the wards night and morning , and each patient being seen daily by the physicians . The symptoms were recorded day by day in a journal kept for the purpose . The cases that proved fatal were inspected a few hours after death . The morbid
changes that had taken place in the different organs were likewise recorded , in order that those organic changes might be compared with the symptoms they
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184 Critical Notices . —Miscellaneous .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1830, page 184, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2582/page/40/
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