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sfhieh his conscience , his opinion , or his honest prejudice , may bind , bin *? . Do uot imagine , my dear Sir , that I for one instant compromise my own religious principles b y any of these remarks * How manv orders of the Catnolic churcn are supported by the benefactions
m the charitable—giving their charitable offices for charitable aim * ? That my religion is not built upon tithe heaps , its three centuries of existence in this country , in all its spiritual membership and hierarchy—and likewise in the unfriendly realms , yf A « ia , and the republics of America—triumphantly attest . That Dissenters need it not to perpetuate their faith , by acts of
Parliament , or otherwise than by common consent , is equally clear . Let those whose church dies with the dying tenths , advocate their forcible and legal exaction from strangers , from paupers , and perhaps from enemies themselves . If they have but the virtue of ttate serpent , they will relinquish , though unwillingly , by degrees , that which they cannot hold , and which will , perhaps , else be
wrung from them at once by the hard hands of revengeful and pitiless , because injured men : let them slide gently down the hill , lud not wait to be thrown over the precipice : let them stoop meekly who cannot long stand—that their end may have a requiem from a few , and not an execration from all ! I remain , dear Sir , yours truly J , . A . G .
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{ Continued from Page 475 . ) It would be in vain to describe the bitterness of Walter ' s agony . He lived through it , but its violence gave a shock to his whole being which he never wholly recovered . After the first paroxysm of grief had subsided , he remained in a state of utter listlessness ;
his friends left no means untried by which he might be aroused , but as the capacity for happiness seemed totally to have left him , and as all their efforts only tended to awaken him from indifference into agony , they ceased from inflicting what so many with kiss judg ment , though with equal goodness of heart , are in the
habit of doing , —kindnesses which far more deserve the name of persecutions . His child was studiously kept from him , for the sight of her never failed to bring on one of those convulsions of grief over which he had no control , and which at times seemed to threaten his dissolution . His usual manner was that of
complete apathy to all about him . His movements seemed merely tnechanical ; he would stroll through the streets , he would stand atttl till he became an object of wonder to the passers-by , then , * s ifa / ftudden thought flashed through his brain , rush from the ftpot feted « hut himself up , though not so closely as that the sounds of his agony might not be heard by thcwe about bam * There
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 514, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/14/
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