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" True , " said I . " There are not many distinct propositions in the holy law . It is not a formal collection of precepts : and it seems to me that some of its most important instructions are to be gathered from parables and conversations ; and that its highest truths are to be interred , and not merely read and allowed- "
" I think so , Sir ; and surely people who take a common interest in these things can help one another to discover these truths . As long as men have a different experience and different views , they may help one another to understand theiT duty , as well as encourage each other to practise it . ] f we look upon it as a matter of feeling , it is yet more clear how one mind may comfort and aid another . These poor people would , I doubt not , have
prayed , and turned to their Bible , this night . But if each had done so in solitude , they might not have been able to compose their minds so soon , or they might not have found so great a variety of consolations as now that a friend , less deeply afflicted , has thought for them and felt with them ; and [ trust God has blessed our united prayers as he will bless their solitary communion with him . "
" Or as I trust he will bless the devotions of the congregation on the sabbath . I suppose you will adapt your service to the occasion . '' < 6 I shall , Sir . For the sake of the people as well as the mourners , it is desirable that no such occasion should be lost . " On the Sunday morning , the parents and friends repaired from the burialground to the chapel , where Edwards addressed the congregation in his usual style of " primitive preaching . " In consequence of the frequent
renewal of our conversation , I found little difficulty in persuading L to accompany me . From his habitual command of countenance , I could form little judgment of what was passing within ; but if he marked , as I did , the general spread of a kindly sympathy ; if he noted with what seriousness the fathers looked upon their children , with what tenderness the mothers pressed
their infants to their bosoms ; if he approved the reverent stillness of the people , and the quietness with which they dispersed to their homes , he must have seen that ( whatever be the abuses of the practice ) it is good for men to meet in the house of God ; and he might have been convinced that , however sacred is the communion between the spirit and its Father , a relation of spiritual brotherhood also exists between man and man .
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There is a current expression amongst us , " the merciful man is merciful to his beast , " which is often repeated as a quotation from Scripture , but which is not so , and was probably taken from Prov . xii . 10 , " a righteous man regardeth the life of his beast , " to which it approximates in sound , and from which it varies not much in sense . The diversity is probably owing to a loose and careless mode of quoting ; and yet it is curious that there really is a propriety in the var iation , so far as regards the change of the word " ghteous" for " merciful . " The former term designates strict justice , that
* Humanity to Aninittl « the Christian ' s Duty : a Discourse . By William Hamil ton Druinwoiul , I ) . D . Hunter . Pp . 48 . 1830 .
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HUMANITY TO ANIMALS . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1830, page 315, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2584/page/27/
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