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MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE.
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The wild acacia scatters there Its graceful tresses all around ; The jasmine drops its blossoms fair , Profusely on the velvet ground . The cypress weaves its boughs on hi ^ h , Forming a leafy canopy ; Giving the buds a tint of sadness , Like sorrow , shrouding the heart ' s gladness ; Sav e when a single star between , Like hope , arleanis through the
darksome screen . With flowerets sweet the turf is set , The blue and milk-white violet , Resembling beauty's eye and brow , The summer sky and winter snow . Who would not seek that couch of bloom Rather than webs of Persia ' s loom ? Who would not that green curtain
prize More than embroidered tapestries ? Beside , a wandering . streamlet laves Its banks , with ejently rippling waves . A sculptured Naiad bathing seems Reflected by the wat'ry gleams ; So exquisitely light and fair , A second Venus rising there . The lime exhaling rich perfume , Throws o ' er the scene a twilight gloom ;
Miscellaneous Correspondence.
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE .
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On Different Modes of Unitarian Worship . To the Editor . Sir , No apology will , I trust , be deemed necessary for an attempt to call the attention of the readers of the Monthly Repository to a subject of such importance as the mode in which the
devotional services are usually conducted in Unitarian places of worship . Although in the Essex Street dtid York Street chapels in the tnetrorjolijs , and jm some few places in the country , liturgies are used , our congregations Thave in general adopted , in comnWn With the great majority of Dissenters , wbat is often called extemporaneous prayer , but in more correctly designated by t ; he name of free prayer . If by extempore prayer is to be understood an address delivered on the
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Lit by a pale and trembling ray , More soothing than the glare of day . And there is one in that recess , As still , as fair , as colourless , As perfect as the statue maid—Looking the goddess of the glade . " Pp . 15—18 .
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Art . XIII . —Notes on Haiti \ made during a Residence in that Republic . By Charles Mackenzie , Esq . 2 Vols . Coltmrn and Bentley . We notice this work just to mention to our readers the fact , that we cannot at present recollect to have met with any publication so full of flippancy ,
prejudice , and affectation . It is very amusing nevertheless . There is plenty of Haitian gossip in it , which the author , in serving up , has well seasoned with his own smartness . But almost every page , whether of reports or reflections , is tinged by his peculiar principle , which is , that the final end for which the Haitian
community exists is , not as Mr . Bentham would say , the production of the greatest happiuess to the greatest number , but the production , in order to the exportation , of the greatest quantity of sugar and coffee .
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impulse of the moment , without previous preparation or consideration , ( which \ % surely the correct meaning of the terms , ) we should probably look in vain for advocates for such a mode of directing the public services of our churches , among any individuals belonging to our connexion . Nothing , indeed , short of the wildest fanaticism could lend its support to so absurd a practice . Still it should seem , from the statement given
abova , that toe seuficuents of Unitarians in general are favourable to free prayer in preference' U > the settled form of a liturgy * This has long appeared to me a great error , and a * every review of my sentinaeutft has tended to strengthen the conviction that a liturgy is much to be preferred to free prayer , I uow beg leave to lay before your readers the reasous on which that opinion is founded . Without going the full length of Dr .
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Mitceihmenus Correspondence 333
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1830, page 333, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2584/page/45/
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