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    down . It is a fit employment for a Sabbath eve to rouse up some fresh energy in a torpid mind , to lay open a new page of nature ' s radiant book . I well remember the emotions attendant on such a vision . I remember the first full view of a resplendent planet insulated in the purple depths . I remember the new perceptions , the palpable roundness , the peculiar silvery light , its evident but invisible suspension in space , and the effects of motion in perdurable silence . I remember the breathless emotions springing

    from the blending of old and new conceptions . I know nothing analogous to it but the discovery in solitude of a new truth : and the effect of both is alike thrilling to the spirit which discerns equally through the mental and the corporeal eye . How resplendent is the palpable reality of a mighty principle with which other principles , and systems of principles , are connected in an unquestionable but as yet undiscerned union ! How stupendous is the conception that a new region of life is thus won out of nothing ; and how awful the work of watching its progression in the vast circle of which the Creator himself constitutes the unity ! It is my hope to be permitted , in the days of my immortality , to overtake the planets at will : and while thrilled with the perception of the perfect fitness of their frame , to

    look back on worlds in the process of formation . But more vivid is my expectation that I shall pass hither and thither in the spiritual universe , empowered to apprehend truth after truth ; and , on the way , to discern from afar how the elements of the moral creation are gathered together , and organized and vivified by creative power , as they are sent forth on their everlasting way .

    Would that these analogous enjoyments might be speedily the portion of all , so that the eye which is made for seeing , and the mind for comprehending , should be so directed as that the spirit should be illuminated by both ! This time must come . Day by day the life of the spirit is matured , as the years of man ' s mortality pass away , and as a heart-stirring tale proceeds to its climax . When the mind has strength to pursue its own discoveries , high revelations come more frequently and familiarly , before which its ancient ignorance stands abashed , while its new-born innocent impulses exult . Prayer becomes the equable exercise of all its faculties , holiness the habit of the spirit , and beneficence of the life . His immortality is then the primary attribute of the man . Upon it all his designs are

    based ; from it all his actions proceed ; by it his inward and outward being are alike sanctified . Then his death becomes important , chiefly with a reference to others ; for the most essential part of his transit to eternity is already made . Not only is the necessary preparation completed , but its high purposes are already anticipated . He has entered on a purely spiritual life , and though he yet wears a human form , and appears among common men as one of them , he has powers which they must wait to attain , and will undergo little change but in his visible form , when he enters into the cloud which waits to receive him out of their sight .

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    606 Sabbath Musings .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1831, page 606, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2601/page/30/