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    CRITICAL NOTICES.

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    indications of late that their minds were becoming a fit soil for the reception of divine truth , that they needed a simple and rational religion , and that the time was advancing when it might be offered to their notice with a prospect of extensive acceptance . Elevated as the character of their youth has been by education and the press , there wants but this to make it the bbiect

    of admiring complacency . The convulsions which have shaken down the props by which a superstitious and ceremonial system was supported in the midst of them , must also cause the pillars of infidelity and scepticism to totter . From these ruins we hope ere long to see the- temple of truth arising , and God thus bestowing his best blessing on those who have alread y won for themselves the warmest benediction of humanity .

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    THEOLOGY

    Art . I . —A Sermon , preached at Bos * . ton , U . S ., before the Governor , Lieutenant-Governor y Council , and - Legislature , of Massachusetts , at the Annual Election , Msti / 26 , 1830 . By William Ellery Charming , D . D . London : R . Hunter . 12 mo . Pp .

    64 . 1830 . The great dramatist vainly wished that he could have a kingdom for a stage . We have often wished as vainly that Dr . Channing could have a church , with thrones for pews , and princes , potentates , and legislators , for his auditory . Extravagant as the wish may seem , it was scarcely perhaps a less dignified position which he actually occupied in the delivery of this sermon , which was addressed to the assembled authorities of

    ms native state , the freely chosen rulers of a free community . It was a noble occasion for the promulgation of those truths of which Or . Channiiig- is the eloquent apostle , and for the display of that dignified and benignant spirit by which all his compositions are animated . We rejoice to find him

    addressing himself directly to those whose stations are elevated , whose minds are enlightened , whose characters are influential ; because in purifying and elevating their minds , a work for which he is so admirably qualified , he docs more than in any other way toward * raising the character and spirit of the whole people , whose representatives and rulers they are .

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    Were he to harangue the collected royalties of the old world ever so impressively and successfully , the result would be of little worth , compared with that which a similar effort may produce upon the members of such a government , as that which was recently gathered round his pulpit : for could despots be converted to wisdom and goodness , they would still find that the establishment of

    wisdom and goodness amongst their slaves was beyond the power of their despotism to accomplish . But an American government not only represents the people while it is a government ; it sprung from the people ; it speedily returns to be miugled with and lost in the

    people again ; it is only isolated for a short time , but it has with the people a permanent and essential identification . The good effected upon them is , therefore , ultimately wrought upout the whole community ; they are the little leaven which leaveneih the whole lump .

    The discourse is alike worthy of the author , the occasion , and the subject . That subject is too large for us to enter upon within the limits of a notice . We must refer our readers to the discourse itself , where they will find a most splendid description of that inward , mental , or spiritual freedom , the attainment ot which is the glory of man' . ? nature ; and a most able indication of the ways in which it may be promoted by those great agencies , religion aud government .

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    624 Critical Notices . — Theological .

    Critical Notices.

    CRITICAL NOTICES .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1830, page 624, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2588/page/40/