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\ HW ( tfrJie 4 ^ 4 uwou ^ touftjv re ? k < WKi upaiv w ^ h , \ nil $ iiQw . n tQi Hiweif , fee hfid b $ ea reckoning upon ag hip reward . Gradual changes take place , until at last the genius—no , the # eviK--ojf Toryism clutches hipa , into its box he goe $ , and cprnes out finally a crawling , creeping creature , who will dp anything for iaee . He is shackled and made their hack ; he is laughed . at by Eis old companions , he sinks into dulness ; or plays the t ^ iffgoji , aa the only chance of securing something of thetf notoriety ., . tjie low of which was , in his character , the root of all the
evil-Next comes the clerical box , which is the more melancholy , as the one qualification for any service connected with the rnissJQn of Jesus of Nazareth—the chief characteristic of which was its simplicity , so remote from the forms and excrescences of the English Church—should be an entire devotion of the will , founded
on a becoming fitness for that vocation rather than any other . * IJi « service' should be ' perfect freedom . ' How many are forced into ' the box' whose character , whose pursuits , whose tastes , would lead ihejn in a totally different direction ! With some ( the better and fewer ) it is a fancied notion of duty , accompanied with a desire not to disappoint their friends ; with others , it is the wish t © attain a certain station in society—for , as the wife of a clergyman once remarked , ' the clergy rank neKt to the nobility ! * The greater part * so far from being ' moved by the spirit of Goxl , ' 34 * e raoved simply by the argumentum ad pocketum . How ma ny ^ who would have made first-rate actors , or artists , or musicians ,
who would have assisted in refining the human soul , or cheering the human heart , have failed to do aught , in their forced vocation , save the administering soporifics to their congregation on a Sunday , marrying couples , christening children , or endeavouring to administer cold comfort to some poor sick creature during the week .
They do their duty tolerably , but it is done merely as a duty , not , as it ou ght to be , as a pleasure . Their true genius is in shackles ; they have not the kind of talent , or of feeling , required of them , and they stoop to the dishonesty of appropriating that pf qthena without any acknowledgment ,, as the thousand bought manuscript sermons will testify . There must be a want of pure franknesain a . nature that can do this . But , say they , we cannot starve . ' TCrue—j ) Ut better wear a fustian jacket in honesty , than a black
gowu meanness - NeaX comm the more innocent yictim of the legal bp ^ . £ Jq apfigre himself to be caught b y the trap of the law , he feels hiciistfilf heqimed in on , all sides ; if he consider himself safe one way , there ia a : chancery suit threatening him in another , or there ip
soine uncivil civ ^ l process that is sure to be lost—or won , it mat tat * little which * for the gains are swallowed up by the leviath ^ a oC the lw * fa * nwre readily \\\ &n w ^ a J ou ^ of okj lpy t l > £ bi ^ ay WA&tfer ,. aa we wiU vo&twrb to affirw its shallow to be inliqitely H ** e m ^ ious . -H « is 1 XV * n \ i ^ era ^ lp cpaxlition , auiql he K ^ ck ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 798, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/42/
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