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and humble , you may soon obtain ; and , if industrious , even the widow ' s mite will prosper in your hands , for the hand of the diligent maketh rich . ' I remain , sir , With a most earnest and religious hope that you will attend to my exhortations , Your sincere spiritual friend , , Bishop of — .
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My Lord , —It would demean me as a man , far less would it become the dignity of undeserved calamity , were I to enter into any circumstantial comments on your answer to my communication . It is evident , my lord , that we are beings whose respective natures are as opposite as our stations ,, consequently there can be no sympathy between us . You , my lord , are one of the heads of the Established Church , and I am but a servant of Christ .
Little did I think , in my simplicity , that my humble suggestions , dictated by a conscientious feeling of liberality and justice , with reference to certain beneficial reforms in the Established Church , would have drawn down upon me the severe and unrelenting displeasure of your lordship . I rather felt diffident and somewhat uneasy lest you should accuse me of impertinence in offering
opinions , that I ought to have felt certain would long since have been entertained by yourself , and which you only waited a favourable season for bringing into absolute practice . As to the narrative I ventured to give you of my life , and also of my domestic calamities and deep distress , I beg to offer you my sincere apologies for so unbecoming a proceeding . I confess I mistook your lordship for one whose natural superiority placed him above his
station ; but perceiving that your heart and mind are identified therewithj I can only plead the fact of my previous ignorance in excuse for my indecorous error . As to the figurative picture I was so foolish as to give you of my earl y feelings and mental aspirations , you pronounce it * beneath criticism , ' and I agree with you . It must , indeed , be so far beneath your lordship ' s powers as to become vague , verbal , nay , lost in opaque invisibility from its distance .
In the vain roundings of this terrestrial world of ours , my lord , the pure feelings and hopes of youth are gradually spun off from human nature , till , as we advance in years , little seems in general to remain , but the mere corporal shell , whereon they were once so thickly wound . This is a homely figure for your lordship ' s contemplation ; nor can it appl y to any of that heavenfavoured class , who have become swollen by time in proportion as others were spun bare , I do not infer that their appropriation
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474 The Curate 9 Rejoinder .
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THE CURATE ' S REJOINDER . To the Right Rev . the Bishop of .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1834, page 474, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2635/page/14/
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