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from me . He was one who made it necessary for every housekeeper , in Birmingham , to chalk on his doors and window-shutters ' Church and King , ' in order to secure his dwelling from plunder and destruction , and his person from the abuse and persecution with which the aforesaid Christians would else have
assailed him , and all that were his . Lament with Reuben Forster and the Rev . Charles B . Tayler , A . M . country parson of the Church of England , that in Birmingham these Christians are shorn of their strength , and in their weakness lack the will to return to those Christian deeds which elevated their
tribe—Reuben Forster ' s father one of them ; one , too , who may have signalized himself in those celebrated and right old-fashioned Christian riots , in his native town , when Dr . Priestly ' s house was burned , and he himself industriously sought , in the pious hope
to cast him on the funeral pyre of his library and philosophic apparatus , when each man who had distinguished himself by his intellectual wealth and upright philanthropy was hunted as a prey as he fled from the dwelling , which these old-fashioned Christians had wrapped in flames . Grieve , lament in sackcloth and ashes , that to those happy times and c Church and King ! ' we have so little prospect of returning . Such , old-fashioned Christianity , sighs the Rev . Charles B . Tayler , A . M . and country parson of the Church of England , is dwindled into scarcity ; so small is the number of its professors , that they , oh , pain to think ! blush to avow themselves ! the reverend gentleman , having ' a higher mission / does not blush . Blame be to the shameless licentiousness of the press ; blame be to Mechanics' Institutes and * lectures ; blame be to Miss Martineau ; and especial blame to the f heartless Socinians' of Birmingham ^ for this mischievous undoing of
Church and Kingism , there , was mainly their ' sensual , earthly , and devilish' work . But , proceed we now to Reuben Forster ' s history . Reuben begins the world as a clock and watch-maker ; his father dies ; for his father ' s memory he entertains a grateful distress ; but in the midst of his grief he receives a salutary lesson of resignation , from a cat in his kitchen ; ' where' ( Reuben loquitur ) ' the fire had gone out , and my aunt ' s favourite cat sat upright in her usual place , the middle of the hearthstone , looking
as dull as myself ; ' not quite , Reuben ; i . e . not quite so dull as your reverend friend has made you ; ' her tail was drawn close under her , and she sat staring at the empty grate . However ^ on throwing myself into one of the arm-chairs , she sprung into my lap ! A thing I had never known her do before , for she was an old cat of very orderly habits !! ! I might have taken a lesson from the poor animal , who seemed so ready to make the best of a desolate change , and to seek comfort where it was to be found . ' This lesson , though Reuben Forster did not , I trust ye gloomy and grumbling mechanics will , take . Reuben Forster was master and had the key of the cat ' s-meat . So be you resigned and
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Social Evils and their Remedy , 735
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1833, page 735, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2626/page/3/
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