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Ebion A damson . There is a false implication . Benevolence may be as eloquent as malignity . Nor was Hall malignant , though he was vituperative . He was only under the strong excitement of an indignant benevolence . " The light that led astray was light from heaven . " Barnabas . And his most vehement passages are generally founded on Christian principles . Ebion Adamson . They are ; and always full of beauty even when most terrible . His style is the perfection of purity and grace . The thought may sometimes be extravagant , but the expression is never turgid . Calkb . Dr . Thomson was by far the most influential man .
Ebion Adamson . That depends upon the time at which the account is cast up . A later date may shew a different balance . Dr . Thomson was powerful in the pulpit and the assembly . He was a sound Presbyterian , and he made sound Presbyterians . He was an acute debater , a thorough-going partizan , a formidable polemic , and , what was far better , a very faithful and diligent pastor of his flock , in which capacity let us hope Providence blessed his labours * so that he saved the souls of his hearers as well as his own . But his mind and
character were altogether of a coarser mould than those of Robert Hall . His fame will belong not merely to the Baptists , or to Britain , but to the world . His eloquence will charm and influence in lands where Presbyteries are unknown , and in ages when they shall be forgotten . Barnabas . Let us forget their failings , and honour their memories , and follow them so far as they followed their Master .
Elhanan . Robert Hall should have lived a little longer . He was amongst the early champions of Parliamentary Reform .
Caleb . Yes , and of a broader reform than Lord John Russell proposes . But we may as well , perhaps , not discuss his political consistency . Ebion Adamson .
It was something that he was a politician at all . Politics are the morals of a nation , and it is better to err sometimes than to have no conscience . Elhanan . You consider Reform then as a sort of national conversion , Ebion Adamson . Exactly . And the people , like the awakened sinner , in the common theology , cannot reform themselves . They can only pray for the change ; and
that they have done most lustily . Barnabas . May it do them all the good they expect !
Ebion Adamson . Ultimately it will do them a great deal more . At present their chief wish is to have a more direct influence over the legi s lature in order to lighten the
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274 Ebion Adamson and his Friends .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1831, page 274, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2596/page/58/
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