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and the degraded publican ? Was the repose of the spirit broken when an adulteress entered the sacred precincts ? Were the avenues to the temple blocked up that the holy might worship in peace ? And when they issued forth , were they sent home to their closets , forbidden to look to the right hand or to the left for fear of defilement ?'
' If so it was by order of the Pharisees . You are" right , father . The holiest did not even find it necessary to resort to mountain soli " tudes , or to the abodes of those who were pure as themselves , for the support of their faith , or the repose of their devotion . Aliment for piety was found at the table of the publican , and among the sufferers beside Bethesda . To the pure every emotion became a refining pro * - cess , and whatever was not found congenial was made so . It may certainly be the same with the wise and the benignant of every age . ' ' It is indeed a halting faith which dreads as common that which God has cleansed and sanctified ; and where is God ' s own mark to be recognised but in the presence of joy and sorrow , of which he is the sole originator and distributor ? Whatever bears a relation to joy and sorrow is a call to devotion ; and no path to the sanctuary more sacred than another , while there are traces of human beings by ' the way . '
' You prefer then the pastures which ten or our prosperity to the wilds of the prairie , and I observed that you dwelt upon the portraits of familiar faces before you left your study this morning . ' ' I did , arid many a time have I dwelt quite as earnestly on strange faces in which shone no friendship for me , arid no consciousness of the objects of the day . I read in their human countenance—human , whether it be vile or noble : —the promise , that as all things are for some ~ use 7 and as all men contribute while all have need , the due distribution will in time be made , causes of dontention be done away , and the sources of social misery be dried ' up , so that ' ' So that we may , through all present dismay and vicissitude , look forward to ultimate peace on earth , and good-will towards men /
A CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHER . 4 He was quite prepared for his office at the moment when all was ready for him . None who were present had ever beheld or listened to a service so impressive as , this of . the ,. grey- ] -ie , aded father over the grave of his soil . The few , the very few natural tears shed at the moment of final surrender did not impair the dignity of the service , nor , most assuredly , the acceptableness of the devotion from which , " as much as from human grief , they sprang . The doctor would himself see the grave filled up , and the felled trees so arranged upon it as to render it perfectly safe . Then he was ready to be the support of his wife home , and at his own gate he forgot none who had paid this last mark of ' respect to his soil . "He shook hands with them © very one , and touched his hat to them when he withdrew within the gate . ' We wish that we had space to extract the whole of the deathbed and funeral scenes . They speak home to the heart . But what portion of the volume would we not extract ? Does any one find his thoughts and feelings all centring in himself , let him , in the character of Mr . Temple , study the misery endured and in-
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BRIERY CREEK , 367
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1833, page 367, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2627/page/15/
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