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PETITION TO TIME.
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holier and a better . This is- the natural result of a religion , whose destinies reach beyond the cares and sorrows of a few brief years ; perhaps its strongest power is in this sustaining influence . The human mind requires much support in duty and deprivation , and perhaps it is not possible , it is certainly not reasonable , that they who have no fear of a future or present scrutiny , no thirst for the approbation of a superior power , should by lower or earthly motives be impelled on a course of continual improvement , which can only ed
t ^ Jjursuby a combat with difficulties and sufferings ; for why should it be deni ¥ dl : nlilfTC ^ cess ? Surely the counterbalance of its virtues and its hopes are an ample indemnification for a few transient years of care and conflict upon earth . — To the greatest sufferer , soon , very soon , that warfare will be accomplished —the trial will be over , and thk glorious results will be all that remain ; here then is a motive , a reasonabl ^ and sufficient motive , for every occasion in life and for every exertion . Letthis be fixed permanently and steadily in
the mind as a spring of action , and the work of education is accomplished . The powers of the mind are under the guardianship of conscience , and all else is of lesser value . If persons have once gained the command and regulation of their own characters , they have gained the noblest and truest independence ; they may be more or less learned , more or less enlightened , may possess more or less sensibility according to circumstances and constitutionj but in all cases they possess the freedom of virtue and the peace of self * respect . They will daily improve in the best wisdom , the knowledge of the management of themselves . Were these simple principles attended to , there
would be fewer systems of education , and fewer failures . While some parents covet literary eminence for their children , others accomplishments . and influence in society , and all are solicitous to shield them from poverty and sorrow , they will ever be open to disappointment ; let them teach thenf early to govern their passions , to understand the sacredness and the value of the personal trust assigned them , and whatever they are deficient in , according to the requisitions of society here , or whatever they lose in the changes that await them in their earthly pilgrimage , they will have given them a peace , ¦ which nothing can destroy , and sources of usefulness and happiness which death itself will only increase ,
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80 UNITARIAN CHRONICLE *
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BY BARRY CORNWALL . Touch us gently , Time ! Let us glide adovvn thy stream Gently , —as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream ! Humble voyagers are we , Husband , wife , and children three—] ( One is lost , —an angel , fled To the azure overhead !)
Touch us gently , Time ! We ' ve not proud nor soaring wings , Our ambition , our content Lies in simple things . Humble voyagers are we , Oe ' r life ' s dim unsounded sea . Seeding only some calm clime ; Touch us gently , gentle Time I
Petition To Time.
PETITION TO TIME .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1833, page 80, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2609/page/16/
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