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    observing the obligation to good , perhaps there would arise tto just cause for complaining either that the interests * of the Church , or the safety of the State , or the good of the people , had been forgotten at these evening readings . And , which in itself is a great thing , one happy hour would daily be added to that sum of human blessings for which gratitude is due to the Great Giver / 1

    Something I might add about the happiness an individual might find in being- the evening reader , and that thus the hopes of many an enthusiastic spirit , instead of being bitterly disappointed , might be reasonably realized . Something also I might add respecting an easy , and yet a sure , escape from the religious ^ and the moral e and the political perils of this present time . Something also I might add about not being a factious canter of the people ,

    but only an earnest desirer of that largely extended and reasonably founded happiness , which is most certainly the object of Providence ^ however it may be ne glected ^ or insufficiently cared for , by human policy . But the circumstances of the times are lecturing sufficiently plainly and loudly on these subjects , and it must be soon

    decided , whether we will really , and not in form only , pass forward into a purer truth , and a more equitable justice , and a sounder expediency ; or whether , like the unhappy poet , whose opinions and actions embody all the difficulties and dangers of the times , we will turn truth herself into a destroying and avenging angel , and become the first victims .

    * Why is not some plan of this kind put in practice ? Because the clergy ard waiting for the Bishops , the Bishops are waiting" for the Government , the Government are waiting for the People , and the People are waiting for their advisers . And what are the advisers of the people waiting for ? Is it for agreement about a plan of Church Reform ? Then we would presume to suggest , first , education to be diffused by public readings ; secondly , sincerity to be promoted by removing professions of belief ; thirdly , justice to be done by getting rid of the siuecurist , and rewarding 1

    the labourer . This is a Catholic Reform for which the people are quite prepared , if the Aristocracy only choose to grant it . The drones of the Church would alone be offended . But the Aristocracy has a great sympathy with the drones . And the Government has a great sympathy with the Aristocracy . Therefore it is that the hum of the Bishop of London ' s orthodoxy , and the huz of the Bishop of Exeter ' s piety , will be listened to with an edifying reverence , — not to call it a holy awe . We hope // . B . will supply us with a series of the only answers such humbttz } alias humbug , deserves . f Daily Bread , page 7 .

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    To a JTaler-Drop . 19

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    TO A WATER-DROP .

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    Atom of the sustaining element , Which of the old earth is the sap and hlood , That dwell ' st apart From that vast heart Of which thoii art one life-drop , to the mood Of thought , thy narrow sphere lends spacious argument :

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1834, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2629/page/19/