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When virtue and heaven are both made positive ^ there is no end to the confusion , and I may add the vice and misery too , which roust result . Let mankind see the way of happiness clearly , and immorality wiH be reduced to its minimum * Barnabas . And for that they mast be enlightened by newspapers ?
Ebion Adamson . The pulpit was a new power happily adapted to an age which had no other means of communication than conversation and manuscripts * Christianity has used that power well . It is now eclipsed by the greater power of a cheap and rapid press . Why should not Christiarntv use that too £
Elhanajv . But the pulpit is yet powerful . Men must always be more impressible in masses than solitarily ; and on moral subjects more impressible after a social religious service , than when abstracted from the associations of the house of prayer .
Ebion A damson . Certainly ; and therefore let the power of the pulpit be still directed , and with energy , to the promotion of goodness and happiness . But its appropriate work now , is that which you have described ; it is impression ; the press is the fitter power for enlightening and convincing the intellect . Barnabas . But on any plan a newspaper must always have much in it that is not strictly religious .
Ebion Adamson . There is nothing in the universe which is not strictly religious . Whatever isolates itself is only superstition . All sciences are doctrine ; all industry is worship ; all taws of matter and of mind are God s will ; all results of those laws are God ' s works ; and all devotion , goodness , and happiness , have their best and broadest basis in the truth , that " of him * and through him , and to him , are all things . *
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THEOLOGY .
Art . I . — The Second Volume of Sermons . By the Rev . J . Buckminster ( late of Boston , U . S . ) - Reprinted from the American edition . London . 1831 . The name of Buckminster , and the circumstance * of his life and early death , are too well known to render it necessary for us to advocate the claims of any of his writings to notice and admiration . This work will add to his high reputation , since the discourses it contains ,
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though the subjects of a second selection from his MSS * are ,, in our opinion , superior to the first net . They are quite as vigorous , as rich , as imaginative , without being exuberant in style ; in the
more important qualities of truth and devotional earnestness , they cannot , of coarse , be inferior . Many who might have begun to suspect , like ourselves , that their attach meut to the former volume partly depended ou early pleasureable association with , its animated and poetical style , will find that behind these
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1831, page 277, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2596/page/61/
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