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taught , and do believe , the troth , without a slaking of the heart , a shadow of misgiving in our trust , which nothing but the radiant light of revelation could ever lift away . „ " We should like to say something of the character of Dr « Channing ' s mind , Jrat we are not adequate to the analysis , and we feel that it would be presumption in us to pronounce upon it , except in the most general terms . It was remarked of Milton , by one speaking of the neglect he experienced from his age , that * he strode so far in advance of other men as
to dwarf himself by the distance / We would say of Or . Chaning , that he strode so tar in advance of humanity , that he can turn and look as from an eminence upon the relative proportions of life , aud judge truly of the relative magnitudes of its objects . His essays , on subjects not connected with his profession , are probably the greatest efforts the intellect of the time has produced . He has shewn a broad , grasping , universal power , which has marked him for the
admiration of both hemispheres . Whatever he approaches , singularly enough , be it the delicate spirit of poetry , or the giant demon of Glory , he holds the lamp of truth to it with an infallible closeness , and the beauties of the one and the
deformities of the other shine out equally with a new and transparent distinctness . It is rarely in these days that a man can put away the blinding mist from his eyes and measure at a glance the objects which time aud interest so cover with
misapprehension and falsehood . It needs an abstraction from the dizziness of life *—** lift above the tumult and din of the busy and sympathizing world , which only a gigantic mind , tempered by purity and study to its bent strength , cau attain . We have littJe hesitation in saying that the eminent man of whom we have per * haps too freely spoken , is thus gifted and disciplined * In looking off * upon the
world from his elevated path , many things have met his eye in the wide view , of which , though they came not within the sphere of his own desire , others , less loftily placed than himself , would gladly know the magnitude . Without halting on the way , he lias glanced around and measured their proportions , and in the spirit of the man in the parable , who improved his ten talents , he has imparted the result Co his fellow-men . We owe
him deeply for the gift . Without it we should not Jiave forgotten him ,, for the benevolence and fervour with which be has * borne his faculties' in the sacred office , have graven his name iu the best
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affections of many a bosom . But as the scholar and philosopher of a land hitherto taunted with its poverty of genius , the name of Chfmning will be writ in illuminated letters on our page in history , and read with gladness and admiration by those who come after us . "
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On Sunday-Schools . To the Editor . Sir , 1 havb been much gratified by the accounts which have from time to time been given in the Repository , of Sundayschool anniversaries , and especially with that which Mr . Edward Higginson has communicated in your number for April .
1 am willing to believe that our schools are beginning to obtain a larger share of attention , botih from our congregations aud our ministers , thau they formerly did ; and 1 cannot but think that if those of my brethren who have as yet done nothing towards this object , would consider not only of what consequence it is to the prosperity of their congregations that there should be schools fn
immediate connexion with them , but of what use their personal presence ai ^ d exerti on s may be , they would devote some portion of their time and attention to this subject . With but few exceptions , it may be laid down as a general position , that the Sunday-schools of a chapel will never flourish unless the minister takes
a personal interest in them ; and again , that a congregation will never be truly and permanently flourishing unless it has a flourishing Sunday-school connected with it . Our richer members too frequently yield to the seductive influence
of fashion , and desert us for the ehurch ; our older members are perpetually dying off ; a preacher of distinguished ability , who now fills our pews , either dies , or accepts a better place ; and to what source can we with so much confidence look for
the future , or even the present supply of our vacant seats , as to those schools , which , if well conducted , wili in most instances attach to the chapel the children who have there been educatedchildren too , who are in that rank of life from which must ever be drawn
some of our most stable and efficient , if not our most wealthy members ? 1 look upon a good Sunday-school , in short , as so essential an appendage to a chapel , whether I regard the benefit conferred on the children , the spirit of union and cooperation which it elicits in the younger part of the flock , or the promise which it holds out with respect to the futitre miiu-
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4 ) 0 Miscellaneous Correspondence .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1830, page 410, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2585/page/50/
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