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means which maybe instrumental in the diffusion of truth and liberty . There must be hewers of wood and drawers of water . There must be pullers down of error . There must be the energetic efforts which will expel the money-changers from the temple . There must be those who
will complete andornament ^ 'herbeau tiful fabric which shall conduce to human good , and redound to God ' s glory . In all ways labour is needed . In all it will do good . In all let it be employed . The only crime against
society , the only treason against our Maker , is in doing nothing , or in deeming we must all act according to one mode , or in obliging our brother to walk exactly after our own fashion . This is more than
enough to tax our utmost efforts , let them be as powerful as they may . Let not those , therefore , who are only putting on the harness , boast as those who have put it off . Our fathers have laboured , ? an < i we have entered into their labours . 1 rejoice in the success which has attended
those labours . I agree with my good friend Dr . Carpenter , that much progress has been marie , that intelligence is spreading amongst the people . But the creeds are still the same . The establishments maintain
their places . Against them our fathers battled , and our warfare must be unceasing till those creeds , till those establishments are made accordant With the free and beneficient spirit of the gospel of the Saviour .
Different circumstances , I know , require different efforts . It is a question , however , worthy our gravest consideration , whether we are not all of us apt occasionally to imagine that more has been effected than facts ¦ will warrant us in concluding to
have been accomplished . We hear little or nothing , it may be , of Atbanasius or Calvin in our particular circle , and therefore we infer that their authority is departed . I think this is an error , and one which , if not guarded against , is likely to lead
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to injurious consequences . Its manifest tendency is to make us less active in the removal of error , less energetic in the diffusion of truth . I am persuaded the inculcation of Calvinism has never been more
earnest or persevering than at this time . The exhibition of its features inity ^ va"ry"iTideed—aecor-ding--feo- "th e audience which may be collected , but in one shape or other it is the never-failing subject . In its grossest forms it is as rife in the villages of our land as it ever was , and in
Scotland incessant are the endeavours of pulpit and press , of presbytery and assembly , to force and fix it on the minds and hearts of the people . Yes ; I have stood amidst a scene of surpassing loveliness , where earth reflected heaven ' s brightness , and
both were beautiful- — -where mingled all that could elevate the mind , and calm and purify the heart , —the mountain towering in its magnificence , and the placid lake , a foretaste to humanity of that heaven of peace , of which it was no unapt resemblance—a scene which seemed a
place of refuge , a spot set apart and sanctified from the intrusion of earthly turmoils and worldly afflictions , from whose hills arose the grateful lowing of the cattle rejoicing in their being , and the hum of animated existence lulled the spirit and almost wrapt it in elysium , and the glorious sunfitting image of him , eye and soul
of the boundless Universe—pouring his gladdening rays on all the diversified objects , till one sacred flame of incense seemed to arise from creationValtar to the one eternal Father , who had impressed the scene with his own light , and his own love . Yes ; in such a spot have ! j ^ yed to
dwell , and whilst my soul drank in full draughts of that beauty and that goodness by which I was surrounded , whilst I deemed that man would feel the sacredness of his rank in the creation as the minister of the thanksgivings of nature , have I he < J sounds issuing from the lips of a
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204 INTELLIGENCE AND
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1833, page 204, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2617/page/12/
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