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And if not , we should feel disposed to cut the difficulty short by saying that the nation would cheerfully tax itself to supply the deficiency . Some people may fear that such a change would leave the country destitute of religion ; they are very much mistaken .
Religion would flourish far more than it does at present . A hard blow would be given to the spirit of sectarianism , the demarcations of theological party might become less distinct , many springs of bitterness would be dried up ; but these effects are decidedly favourable to pure religion . The Dissenters ( as they yet are ) would be in a position to exercise a wider and better moral
influence over the community ; and the Episcopal Church would be renovated in its spiritual life . Its bishops would be more apostolical , and might become loved and venerated , as they are in America . The voluntary support of their flocks would strengthen the hands of their pious ministers . No doubt after the death of the present State-supported incumbents , very many
of the church congregations would hold together , and keep up the ministry , faith , and order 5 to which they had been accustomed . There would be plenty . of preaching * so long as preaching should be found or be thought productive of religion and morality . And moreover , the facilities for sustaining a worship properly national would be greater than they are at present . The country would not become less devout in becoming more enlightened .
We have but very imperfectly developed our ideas on this great subject . Our design is only to present a brief summary or outline . To different portions of it we shall have occasion to recur again and again . We do not affect to anticipate the adoption of our views . There are too many interests , too many prejudices , too many compromises , too many apprehensions in the way . But it is something to show that there ought to be , and must be ,
a change . It is something to warn against the fraud upon the public , which may probably be attempted , of patching up a thoroughly corrupt and rotten system . It is something to indicate the principles of that new reformation for which England ' groaneth and travaileth in pain , ' and by the adoption of which alone can Church reform be national regeneration . Those principles are The Universal Right of Private Judgment , and The Public Obligation of Universal Instruction .
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Tales of the English . 813
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TALES OF THE ENGLISH *
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' Thiske is a soul of goodness in things evil . ' No writer that we know of has a stronger feeling of this truth than Emily Taylor . It seems to be thoroughly wrought into her character . It per-* < Tales of the English . * William de Albini of Buckenham Castle . By Emily Taylor , author of ' Tales of the Saxons / &c . Daxton and Harvey . 1833 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1833, page 813, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2628/page/9/
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