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    difference from every human heart , as it wa $ from the . sublime utterer . of those words i ' . ' Ta be t&by by 9 ^ tin ' g ' hifeifl 0 % each , one s mission here . The fallacious greeds , are passing away wnipa tauffht inan to imagine mortification n ? re necessmy fo happiness hereafter . Whom do men regard as the most certain heritors of heaven ? Hie most innocent . Whom do mefribie&fcl the greatest enioyers of happiness on earth ? T ^ he most Innocent ^ xlappiness must be the aim and end ot creation , s ^ nce benevolence is evidently the first characteristic of the Universal & [ y . preme . . Laws made in wisdom must be irrevocable , alld thie consequences attendant oa their infraction must be as certain as ' tWe consequences attendant on their fulfilment . Thus , ignorant ! as Vp are , and unapt to learn , thus it is we fall and suffer here ' : Mixit where man forsakes us , and earth passes from us , a new power takes us up , a new field opens upon us . Hope , here unfulfilled ,

    must have fruition elsewhere , or why was hope bestowed ijpon humanity ? Aspirations , which have here taught us to mar / in vain , must elsewhere have ' scope and verge enough / or wh y ' ace such aspirations given to us ? A man . of tne merest commeixjia . l integrity , will not give another a bill which he knows will tie J > $ Or tested ; arid shall we imagine that the Creator has g ivefT us a spirit longing after immortality which he knows will be

    anrflhilated ? Impossible . A philosopher said , l feel , therefore I live , ' and- I sa . y I feel that there is an immortal principle within ' m £ * and therefore , spiritually , I shall never die . This feeling , however blended and obscured by others ., has been co-existent everywhere with humanity : the savage and the

    civilized , every age of which we have the remotest record , every clime of which we have the slightest trace , have held man to t > e here a passenger pregnant with a spirit bound to a future state . In the eager desire to manifest this innate consciousness , various religions Jhave been established , and their peculiar cerernjptims enacted ; till the spirit of religion has been smothered and overlaid by form , like fire with too much fuel . Men have descended to the worship of a mere shadow , and to employ themselves upon mere show ; and , throughout , each has seen in es ^ ch ( hat error , ignorance , and inconsistency , which God sees in all- In lilep ryWnner as regards morals ; each shatters the crystal amulet of h ^ s own innocence , but remarks only the broken fragments Vf his neighbour ' s ; each crouches and stumbles betieath the burthen ' of ignorance , or deviates at the invitations of faJsehoQcl , wjt n ^ h ppWs 4 ut to us fruits that keep the promise to the ( eye t ^ ut ti ir ^ ajp jt ^' to the spirit , but each sees bnly the feeblenes ^ apd ^' er ^ tions of hja brother . The fact is we do not Move one another . ' iriltiBt precept were fulfilled in spirit and in truth , au the ini 8 | ery WlWh Apw , i ^ would )^ e impossible ; whet ^ that p ^ ejj ^ ^ r so fultilT ^ , Iall mUerv will Dass avpav . , i , .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 713, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/21/