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    explained , very pretty indeed , very clever , they are the gooseherd ' s hooks , which he throws round the necks of the flock when he wishes to pluck and roast them . Oh , Rev . Charles B . Tayler , A . M . and country parson of the Church of England , ' do

    all your protestations come to this ? ' or is it in derision you have thus embellished your title-page ? * Fie on't ! oh , fie ! ' Is it thus you profanely jest with the sacred emblems , which to venerate , a parson of the Church of England is in duty bound ? * It is not a goose / says a little chubby-cheeked rogue , who is it * ii _ * - # i j 9 / a j 1 l i * " \* rii elbow c it is dove doveis it ? Well

    _ looking over my , a . ' * A , ' , so it is ! I took it for a goose asleep , and , look , there is a motto on , in the black circle , but so deeply black is the circle , the words cannot be seen without close prying , although there is a glory radiating from the dove and cross . Spectacles , assist me ! * There is no other peace '—and that peace is buried in such a dismal

    halo ! cannot we reach it without wading through so much murkiness and misery ? No , certainly not ; if we use the croziers for walking staffs . Dark , black , desolate and dreary , right under the abused ensign of the cross and dove ,, there has been enough of each ! We know that under that ensign tens of thousands , and millions and millions of dark murders and monstrous

    barbarities have been committed , and has peace been attained ? Has peace been sought ? No ; domination , power and tyranny . I shall see by your book what you aim at ; but , Sir , this title-page looks ominous . That ' peace * is there , fairly , fittingly , and appropriately enclosed in the black ring , and foul are the streams and malignant is the venom which has gushed and gurgled under

    the screening shadow of that banner ! and Rev . Charles B . Tayler , A . M . country parson of the Church of England , you are right in placing the bishops' croziers as supporters ; you ought to know how right , or you have read to little purpose . Let me read further : I shall see , anon , what is your understanding of the emblems .

    First , there is a preface , with the intention and whole design of the work honestly avowed , and the reader need trouble himself no further , as I have done , for his remedy is , like the disease , fully stated in his preface , all the rest is supererogatory ; but it was necessary that there should be a story , plot , and characters , to give it a relish . Something , however , in the preface is worthy note , which it shall receive when * the end ' gladdens or grieves the sight of the reader .

    ' Reuben Forster is my name , and England is my nation , i Birmingham is my native place , and My father was a Christian of an old-fashioned school , ' thus sings the hero , or thus drones the Rev . Charles B . Tayler , A . M . and country parson of the Church of England for him . Reader , are you aware what kind of Christiari this was ? , Not you . Hear it

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    734 Social Evils and ( heir Remedy .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1833, page 734, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2626/page/2/