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MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE.
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past , and having rather more than a justifiable disinclination towards them , we were surprised to find how we were led ou from page to page , and from canto to canto . The attraction lies first in the interest of the historical records which
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On City Missions . To the Editor . St . Allan ' s * Sir , May 7 , 1831 . In consequence of your startling and most important communication respecting City Mission ? , &c , I send you the following : and should you think it may he useful to some of my younger brethren
in the ministry more particularly , you will admit it perhaps in the pages of your Repository . It is , Mr . Editor , a reflection attended with very painful regret , that I did not sooner begin what has been my Sundayevening practice for the last six months , having experienced great satisfaction in it , and seeing very clearly , as I imagine , its usefulness . I visit for au hour or
more my poor neighbours' houses in rotation , ( one house each Sunday evening , ) taking a very plain , practical sermon in my pocket . I meet the aged , the young , the infirm , aud others in circumstances not permitting their attendance on public worship . Our little service consists of a sermon , prayer , and familiar talk of serious things . It is received by my poor friends with all the willingness aud affectionate attention I could wish ; and ,
while it has drawn the minister closer to them , aud caused him to stand better in their estimation , ( thus giving him greater power of usefulness , ) it has increased reciprocal good feeling amongst themselves . If , Sir , I have formerly smiled sometimes at the phraseology of idy orthodox brethren , I have , in this
additional Sunday exertion , felt its significance aud , I trust with some thankfulness , unite with them in saying , " I have been mercifully strengthened in it ;" and , for the encouragement of my preaching brothers , I observe to them that my willingness to exertion , and ability to make it , have kept pace with my additional efforts , aud or course my subse-
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form the subject of the poem , and next , in the descriptive power of the author , which we hope to see exercised on subjects of a more general interest than the public will be disposed to anticipate from the title of his present work .
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quent satisfaction has been in proportion They may smile , but for the benefit of those whose lungs may need strengthening for greater exertion , I will tell them that , even at five-and-fifty , the strenuous exercise of the lungs will best . strengthen them ; and , if they will adopt my own
practice for the last five months , to rise early , take a good run before breakfast , shout some favourite hymn at the top of their lungs , to the admiration of the trees and hedge-rows around them , they will find their voice improved in power and compass in a degree to surprise them .
I beg permission , Mr . Editor , to offer a remark or two on the important topic of visiting the sick , &c . With great pleasure I observe that , from my own experience , the Uuitarian minister may make himself very acceptable to the sick and o ^ her suffe rers , by a kind sympathy and affectionate prayers , whether they be of his own church , or of the
establishment , or other classes of Dissenters . Let him forget Unifariauism , and every other ism aud go to the poor , and the sick , and depraved , in the spirit of Christiau piety and love , and the probability will always be greatly on the side of his welcome and usefulness . 1 find to my great humiliation and grief , Sir , that , for many years of my life , I have been both foolish and criminal in too often
sheltering indolence and indifference under reasonings much too curious , and plausible only to the mind in which there is some unhappy aversion from duty . 1 have imagined a difficulty here , an objection there : some too prejudiced to receive me ; others too stupid aud
ignorant to be benefited by me ; some too bad to be mended , and others of habits and characters with respect to whom the minister of religion by his visitiug them can only suffer in his own reputation . In a word , Sir , may I not fear other ministers with myself have too often
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Miscellaneous Correspondence . 405
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1831, page 405, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2598/page/45/
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