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    placated Deity , when taught by experience , and by the sacred Scripture , he looks on the handiworks of God on earth and heaven , with the sun to rule and gladden the day , and the moon to harmonize sweetly in her radiance with the stillness and repose of night ; on the chorus of stars also , singing their Maker ' s praise —^ n ^ sQngsJvY ^ jgh ^ tenants of the grove with their festive notes , and the tranquil joy

    of lowing herds and bleating flocks ; and man walking with countenance erect and bright , amid the lower creatures of his God , having a joy in their joy , and in the radiance , and beauty that cover all thiqgs ; and in the lispings of the child that walks by his side ; and in the hymn which peals upon his ear from the united voices of a Christian congregation , celebrating God ' s mercy through Christ , his Son ; and yet a deeper joy in the thought that Gocl ' s spirit fills the universe ; God ' s love directs every event ;

    God's mercy overrules all that is evil , making all things work together for good , and carrying forward the goodly whole from good to better and better still again , till in the final consumiriation , the completion of the great cycle of changes , what is animal shall be converted into what is spiritual , and the mortal clothed upon with immortality . God himself shall be all . in all , pervading all beings with his spirit of love and goodness . If views such as these cannot enflame the soul , ' the soul must be Lost to feeling . They meet all our wants . They are approved of the

    mind , and embraced of the bosom . In receiving them , there is no collision between feeling and thought . The flow of emotion is not obstructed by the hesitation of the judgment . They set

    before us the Creator , in all the might of his power , in all the majesty of his glory , in ^ 11 the tenderness of his love ; as the friend and father of man . And if the Most High is an object tqo lofty for hum . an contemplation , and too purel y an abstractipn for human affections readily to settle upon , they present to us Jesus , the Son of God , made in the likeness df God , one of our own

    brethren ; , raised to bear , in unmarred perfection and unsullied brightness , God ' s image , dispensing the divine bounties , offering mercy to the penitent , sanctification to those who hunger and thirst after righteousness , and eternal life to all . "Look , Christians , at that impersonation of the mercy and love of God , which jnay be seen in the words and deeds of his Son ;• dwell on the recorded features of his holy and benignant character ; remember his living

    and his dying love ; visit the garden , the cross , the tomb , and thence proceed to the mount of ascension , and you will meet , at every step , with images which will alternately charm , > vin ; afflict , and cheer the bosom . There is no place for coldness between the Saviour ' s cradle and his cross and crown . A succession of scenes opens out , which , for originality , for grandeur , ( or pathos , no deeds of vt ^ rthly love much less the pomp of royalty and the glare of conquest , can be found to rival . Here that

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    268 THE TRUTH TELLER .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1833, page 268, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2621/page/12/