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INTELLIGENCE.
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no sympathy with , the animating spirit that surrounds him : the voice of gladness is on the breeze , and the instinct of hope is over the wide creation , and can he , the possessor of a loftier , even an immortal hope , close his soul against its influence ? It
passes away like a dream , and it is gone . But a deeper"and ™ richerver = dure succeeds , the fruits of a brighter sun are on the earth , the promise of the young year is fulfilled , and nature is clad in more resplendent beauty . Summer is come with her profusion and her glory , and she flings
from her lap a superabundant treasure ; but this too must fade , and even as her votary gazes , the fashion of it perisheth away . But it has not bloomed in vain , the religious man has drank deep lessons from all that
perishing loveliness , he has traced his Creator ' s benevolence , he has rejoiced in his bounty and his goodness ; with the inanimate creation around him , he has lifted up the voice of a noble offering , he has elevated at once his heart and bis
intellect to God ; he has hushed the voice of selfish sorrow , the murmurs of selfish repining at the glorious sight before him , and with a Christian , sympathy he has rejoiced with those that rejoice . Nor does the mild and melancholy season of autumn , clad in the soft and dying hues of decaying beauty , in vain attract his gaze . As the red leaves flit
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UNITARIAN CONGREGATION , SOUTH PLACE , FINSBURY . On the Gth February , the Annual Dinner of the above Congregation took place at the London Tavern , The Rev . W , J . Fox in the
Chair—The Chairman , in proposing the first toast , said , As a tribute of respect for the first Magistrate of the land , who happily here exists by the people and for the people , we will commence our proceedings by drinking * the King , ' . —In proposing the next
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across Ms lonely path , as the wind sighs through the fading trees , as the dirge of nature is heard over her departing glory , he beholds the type of his own dissolution , he reads engraved on all around him the affecting lesson of his mortality : but it is
not with vain regret or cheerless des p o nd e n c e t hat ~ h e ^ regar ds ~ the-s eene-fthe religious mind is too deeply imbued with a stedfast trust and hope , to yielditself up to the unhealthy sadness of a morbid sentiment . To him , the remembrance of his departure is an association of holy pleasure , a fresh incentive to disinterested and
vigorous exertion ; instead of regarding it as an event to be deprecated or feared , he contemplates it with pious gratitude as amongst the many mercies of his God , by no means one of the least conspicuous , notwithstanding its solemnity ; he regards it with a placid confidence as the soul of his virtues , the welcome period of his labours , and the crown of his faith . Can such
a being be entirely unhappy , whatever his deprivations , whatever his afflictions ? As long as life itself remains to him , will he not find in these common mercies abundant sources of improvement and joy ? and with
the vision of eternity full before him , can he waste a regret on the path he is treading , because the mortal flowers , which many would fain linger to gather , fade at his touch , or are placed beyond his reach ?
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toast he said , Now that we are fairly afloat for . a pleasant afternoon , with our ship in full sail , her decks cleared , having made our bow to our captain , it is for us to hoist our colours , The standard under which we have
fought and conquered , and under which we will fight , and conquer again , the standard to which by every principle we are attached , and which we have nailed to our mast , is * Civil and religious liberty / This toast has always been prominent at
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82 tFNITABlAN CHRONICkK
Intelligence.
INTELLIGENCE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1833, page 82, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2609/page/18/
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