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service of God be , if while we dismissed all ridiculous and unmeaning ceremonies , we did not require an abstract worship , from which sense were utterly excluded—an impossibility for creatures of sense ! Why should we not devote all our best powers to the honour of Him who gave them ? Why not employ every art in its highest perfection , in order to consecrate to God the noblest , the finest works that the human faculties can produce ? I
can imagine a congregation , whose piety is equally removed from mean servility and from arrogant conceit ; who meet to praise the infinite greatness and love of the universal Father , and the wonders of his creation , —not to bring within the walls consecrated to him the hatred of bigotry and intolerance ; whose creed demands from each man only that degree of belief which his own inward revelation makes possible to him . Before my fancy
no longer float separate churches for Jews , and for fifty sorts of Christians ; but true temples of God and man , whose gates at all times stand open to every human being who , when oppressed by the Earthly , seeks to have the Holy and the Heavenly within hiiu , animated and sustained by all the aids and appliances of sense or spirit ; or who longs to pour out the overflowings of his heart , when filled with happiness and gratitude . '—Vol . I . p . 226 .
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Sir , Most of your readers must have seen the full details which have been given in the public journals of the late outrages in this city ; and yet it is not improbable that they may like to see a narrative of the leading
particulars , with some preliminary observations respecting them , from one who has had -considerable opportunities of observing or learning the course of events , and of forming a correct opinion as to some of their obvious causes . We have a self-elected Corporation , some of them men of considerable talent for their official duties , but the whole indisposed , speaking generally , to promote those purposes of improvement which the exigencies of the
times require ; often impeding the efforts of olhers ; living in little intercourse with men of general intelligence ; very few residing within , and some even living remote from , the precincts of the city , whose peace and good order it is their duty to maintain ; on the whole , distinct from the people ; not possessing , in their official relations , the confidence even of
those who approve their politics ; and long manifesting a supineness with respect to the police of the city , which has rendered it incomparably the worst place I have had the power of observing , in respect both to disorder and crime , and to the disgusting profligacy of our principal thoroughfares . We have , further , the anomaly of such a body occasionally selecting for the office of Mayor , some one of more enlarged and liberal views , but who
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- * S 4 O On the Bristol Riots .
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ON THE BRISTOL RIOTS , BY THE REV . L . CARPENTER , LL . D .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1831, page 840, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2604/page/44/
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