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These are interesting volumes . The facts detailed are as novel and striking to the European reader , as would be to him the aspect of the glorious islands of which they speak , and the style is as transparent as the waters by which they are surrounded . The writer is evidently a man of singular ability . He has written a book in which the scholar and the humble Christian may be equally delighted . And he has not written a book because he had a book to write . He is not , as are so many writers of the present day , a manufacturer of books . He has written because his mind
was full , and because he felt that in writing he might do honour to the missionary cause . That cause we identify with the cause of Christ , and heartily do we wish it God speed , whatever sect of Christians may lead the way . And more credit will , we are sure , redound to that sacred cause from the volumes now before us , than all the inflammatory speeches and
misguiding reports of many of its misjudging friends . The general fact of the sudden changes which took place not long since in favour of Christianity in the South-Sea Islands , we suppose our readers to be acquainted with . Those who wish to know the details , we refer to Mr . Ellis ' s work , designing to limit our notice of the volumes to such passages as may appear most suitable to the pages of the Repository . We are not a little surprised to find so judicious a writer as Mr . Ellis
asserting that , in reference to the conversion of the ignorant Heathen , " Christianity must precede civilization . " His own volumes afford to our minds the disproof of the statement , and from their contents , and from other sources , we should be disposed to affirm that Christianity and civilization must proceed together , hand in hand , step by step , but that if either precede , it must be some degree of civilization . The labour bestowed on the Society Islands was for a long time fruitless .
* Polynesian Researches . By William Ellis . 2 Vola . London , Ftaher .
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Ye happy few ! whose bosoms God-like glow , All nature wears to you a smiling face ; Serene and placid all your moments flow , And every zephyr wafts a tide of peace . Then let not little igndrfcnce repine , Nor deem the ways of Providence amiss ; To conscience every act and thought resign , And kings with gold in vain would buy your bliss . In this shall meditation then agree , And shall not practice prove the mind sincere ? Shall folly , weakness , inconsistency , Than cool deliberate choice , more strong appear ? T' improve each good , to check each base desire , From prejudice and superstition free , — To this may I with ardent hope aspire ; And , daring to be virtuous—happy be !
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1831, page 91, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2594/page/19/
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