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hearts of men . His reign began with the exercise of his extraordinary powers , and ended when that exertion was no longer necessary , when Judaism was swallowed up in the destruction of the holy city and temple , when signs and wonders ceased , and Christianity had spread sufficiently to make its way by natural means alone . According to his promise , Jesus had been
with his disciples till the end of the age , in manifest interpositions of the hol y spirit , in evident watchfulness over the interests of his church , in the personal administration of its government by communication with his appointed agents * When the essential truth of the new dispensation was completely engrafted on that of the old , when it had also struck root vigorously in a fresh soil , the hand which had planted , grafted , and watered , was withdrawn , and the charge was committed to the sunshine and dews of heaven .
These natural influences have done their work . The gospel has spread , - " -how widely , it is not easy to calculate— -how deeply , none can know but He who conducts the education of his rational offspring , ordaining the mode , administering the means , and leading on the subjects of his discipline , by slow gradation , from utter darkness into marvellous light . The most irn ^
portant step in this progress was the exchange of Christianity for Judaism By this exchange the essence was substituted for the forin , the spirit for the letter ; and the human mind was not only exercised by a holier fear and a , nobler hope , but made conscious of a capacity for love , human and divine , pure as its source , boundless as its scope , and eternal as its objects . D . F . ( To be continued . )
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May 28 , 1830 . Thou spirit-bird of viewless wing , That , round the lu&h-grjeen fields of Spring , Makest the hedge-row echoes ring With thy vague call * Now here , now there , thou wisp-Hght thing , Misleading all !
When golden cups of sunny hue , And bird ' s-eye gems of living blue , And purple vetches , twisting" through Moist herbs and grass , Come forth—with them thou contest too , Ere them to pass .
Delighted Childhood mocks t % lay , Manhood hears bajf his cares away , Even Ag& beneath his titan JqcIks gray , By thee beguil'd , Letra baipk iitfp fife ' s mprning day , A i ? Me ~ toir > d CtuW J
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ON HEARING THE CALL OF THE CUCKOO ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1830, page 458, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2586/page/26/
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