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The fragile leaf , that floats upon the wave , May reach , through many a storm , the distant strand ; While the proud bark , which dared its power to brave , A shatter'd wreck , with fragments strews the sand ! The tender form , which bends to sorrow ' s blast , Oft rears its head and smiles , when woes are spent ; While the stern heart , unyielding to the last , Strains against grief , and in the strife is rent . So modest virtue , by temptations tried , Turns from the foe , and shuns destruction ' s brink ; But rash presumption , boastful in his pride , Rushes to meet the peril , —and to sink . In doubtful scenes , oh be that spirit mine , Which sways with humble hope the Christian ' s breast 1 So shall I to my God my course resign , And pass through storms of earth to heavenly rest . Birmingham * H . H .
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THEOLOGY .
Art . I . —The Commemoration of the JDead . A Sermon , delivered at the Botnden-hill Chapel , ffrediton . By J . Johns . Hunter 1831 . It is ever a treat to us to read Mr . Johns ' s sermon * . They are conceived in a spirit and written with a power which
we should be glad to sec more extensively cherished among our preachers . They are alive with feeling , which is not the less Christian for being poetical ; and the impression which they leave is one compounded of the pleasures of poetry and the emotions of piety . In con-
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nexion with the text , " Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory ? " &c , we find the following suggestion : "My brethren , it is not with no object , that I have called up these dear but saddening recollections . Perhaps it would
be a thing not a little conducive to the interests of religion , to have one Sabbath set apart , at intervals of five or ten years ( as might be thought expedient ) , for calling up the recollections of the fellowworshipers , who , within that period , had been taken to their rest . It would bind the liviug together by the remembrance
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has been by many of the most learned defenders of the Trinity , and obscure and dubious as it appears , even admitting all that is affirmed—but because , being a curious subject and very ably treated by Dr . S ., we imagined many readers might be glad to see it noticed somewhat more fully than Unitarian controversialists in general deem necessary .
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A MEDITATION .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1831, page 339, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2597/page/51/
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