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of love to the God of mercy and the Saviour of the world . Meanwhile , every good man can do something . Without the means of doing good , the real Christian cannot be . The sphere in which he moves will supply him with ceaseless opportunities of promoting morality and religion . Let them be well improved . Let the missionary spirit , that is , the spirit of beneficence , the spirit of Christ Jesus , be in every professor of his name . Let each one do what he can . More is not required . O , if this advice were
followed , how much would be done ! A little good done in ten thousand places would prove a moral blessing , great as is the power of the nurturing rain descending in the smallest drops . Too many are kept from doing what they can , because unable to do what they would . But if all were to do what they could , the aggregate would far exceed the wishes of the most sanguine . And if we of these latter days are unable to kindle again the sun which , in the age of apostles and apostolic men , shone in full glory in the world , let us by uniting our several tapers strive to rival the milder and pleasing radiance of the starry host . Our duty is not to refuse a less ,
because unequal to a greater good , but to do what we can and leave the result with God . Our American brethren have set us a good example . They have appointed at least in one town a Christian minister to the poor , the neglected , the outcast . Abundant is the reward of his labours , abundant his own satisfaction therein , and the satisfaction of those who strengthen his hands in his truly beneficent and Christian undertaking . Soon may London and Manchester and Liverpool and Bristol be blessed with domestic Missionaries , labouring in a like spirit , and with like success , to those of Dr . Tuckerman , of Boston !
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Our interesting and enterprising neighbours across the channel are not content with overturning the Bourbon 'dynasty and terminating , it may be hoped for ever , the long reign of arbitrary misrule ; they seem disposed to push bold and new principles in different directions , and inclined to carry out some to a length which may alarm the timid and stagger even the
courageous reformer who has not been accustomed to consider the subjects of his attention , whether political or religious , with a mind altogether unfettered by former associations and prepossessions . Disenthralled as they are , it can hardly be expected that they will not run into some extravagances and excesses which the deliberate and cautious reformer of our more phlegmatic temperament may regret ; but it may , nevertheless , be useful for us to watch
the course which they take , wherever we see that which is worthy of imitatation to imbibe a portion of their spirit ( and much there is both to admire and imitate ) ; and if from any superior advantages which we have long en * joyed , pur views are in some respects more correct than theirs , a more intimate acquaintance and mutual interchange of our respective opinions may be advantageous on both sides .
We observe with pleasure , that in the midst of political contentions neither the absurdities and corruptions of the Catholic Church , nor the more prevailing and almost universal scepticism which has been the wretched alterrnative , have been able altogether to extinguish the strong natural bias of the
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82 French Sect of Saint Shnonites .
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THE FRENCH SECT OF SAINT SIMONITES AND THE " NEW CHRISTIANITY" OF ITS FOUNDER .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1831, page 82, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2594/page/10/
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