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lookup to the clear , spft , b rig ht , blu ; e firmament , into which the exhalations rise and melt ^ ay ; from which the benign and salutary light and warmth of life flow ddtfii hi the breath of
spring , and in the rays of the sun . We feel it when tye perceite the thousand voices of the wood , and the silent exultation of every creature around ; and all—all this magnificence finds entrance into the open and comprehending mind ., and , dissolved into one sense of the omnipresent God , and the holy unity of the Creator and the creation , breaks forth again in grateful praise and silent
prayer . We feel it also when , on the feast day , with the assembled community in their best attire , we kneel before the Highest ; and the full choir unites with the powerful tones of the organ and the rising incense , in the dome of the sacred edifice ; -ana all hearts beat together , kindled into one flame of devotion and adoration ; and the spirit of holiness sinks dofc n as the dew of heaven sinks into each open flower-cup , and re-ascends as a sweet fragrance and an offering of love—the one in all—all in the alone , uniting
one . But man perceives it likewise when he looks into the eye of the being he loves , and sees his own immortality reflected thereand has free entrance into the congenial heart , as if it were his own home , and there discovers with delight a second self ; when he looks into the beloved eye , and his searching , si ghing look is
met by one more sighing and more searching , —and they seek one another , and meet and recognise that other being each had needed and had sought ; and they are two , and yet are one ; and then each soul flows forth into the other , and feels perfect satisfaction , because God himself is purest Love , and God is in them , and they are in God ; and to them time has passed away , because to them eternity has begun .
Then , oh , then ! will man intensely feel that in appearance the world may be , and must be , a divided endless multitude , but that the man y in their deepest root , in their individual being , in their highest elevation , —still , indeed , are many , —but are likewise one in spirit and in love , —one in God ! In such moments of exalted feeling-, as well as in the highest perceptions of the pure reason , each distinction-will be equally t ran spar entand transient ; a name ift then to us no more than
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 794, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/38/
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