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diligently eschew the dangerous counsels and hints of all men who shall attempt to pour the poison of political rights in your ears . Reuben Forster was a brand thus snatched from the burning ; may you be so lessoned , and may you follow his example ! On London he resolves to turn his back ; high time , now
his watch was stolen and his money too . In great discomfiture and blistered feet he arrives at his house , in Birmingham , goes into the kitchen , where the pots and saucepans shine him a welcome ; here , fatigued , he falls asleep , with his eyes fixed on a large inlaid clock . ' One / says he , I was very proud of . My father and I had taken a great deal of pains about it , ( Church
and King again , ) and the case , for a good bit of mahogany , and the brass-work , and other work about it , though I say it that should not say it , ( modesty , ) could not be matched in town or country . ' Here he has a dream , such a dream ! Read it , mechanic , and check your presumption ; you will never attempt to mend the works of a clock again , or the penetration of the Rev .
Charles B . Tayler , A . M . and country parson of the Church of England , is a nullity ; or , mayhap , he deems yours to be uo better . * This clock had been a gentleman of most regular habits , never missing or gaining a minute , a model of good order and punctuality to all the ill-going clocks and watches that would not submit to his regulations / A very right-worthy Tory and justly-venerated Church-and-King clock , to be sure ! Well ,
this dream completes the good work which the aged , pleasant , and mild-spoken gentleman in the bookseller ' s shop had begun . The reformer is reformed ; the proselyte is converted ; or , as the Rev . Charles B . Tayler , A . M . country parson of the Church of England , would say , the infidel unbeliever is regenerated . Then comes a beautiful , startling , and powerfully dramatic denouement . Reuben Forster takes his wife to a farm-house , in Shropshire . ( I venture to insinuate to the reverend author , that there is more
Christian feeling inculcated in his description of the country landscape in this page of his book , than in all his other hundred and twenty-two pages put together . ) He attends the village church on the first Sunday of his visit , his back is towards the preacher , but he hears the voice , and it perp ' lexes him ! he turns , and , lo
and behold ! he looks again ; it is he ! ' The preacher was the same , the very man ; the same aged and gentle pastor whom he had seen and heard in the profane bookseller ' s shop ! * How mysterious are the ways ! ' Who does not see the 4 finger * in this ? What a romantic incident ! one exclaims , heaving out a chestful of astonishment with the words . If this do not recommend the
perusal of the book to every mechanic in England , and instantly calm his discontents , compel him to abandon all ' lectures ' and Political Unions , and adjure them for ever , advice , opinions , criticism and puff , may shut up shop in bankruptcy and despair I Keuben Forster makes a vow to God , that * he would not only
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Social Evils and their ReMedy . 737
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1833, page 737, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2626/page/5/
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