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    Religious Prejudice Overcodme. 848

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    RELIGIOUS PREJUDICE OVERCOME. *

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    : Account Of Herder's Life And Writings.

    and amiableness of his character . But what are these defects , when weighed against his great and prominent virtues ! his superiority to narrow and selfish aims ! his holding all literary and intellectual cultivation as subservient to the development and expansion of the moral and religions

    affections ! the tenderness and the universality o > f his devotional sympathies J the Eeal and the constancy with which , amidst innumerable obstructions and embarrassments ., he consecrated the best powers of his understanding and his heart to social usefulness and the promotion of the highest interests of the human race ! ¥ I T < J / o wo Ji o

    Religious Prejudice Overcodme. 848

    Religious Prejudice Overcodme . 848

    Religious Prejudice Overcome. *

    RELIGIOUS PREJUDICE OVERCOME . *

    Religious Prejudice Overcome. *

    Who says that Age is always " weak , and unapt to judge" ? fs there any better authority for this than that of Lear ' s hateful daughters ? If not 9 let it pass ; for no one will deny their incapacity to think or speak rightly of any thing venerable . If there be a better authority , let those who adduce it acquaint themselves with the conservative and renovating power of religion s that power by which while the outward man decays , the inward man is renewed day by dayo

    Some who know not what religion is 5 and judge of it by its perve ? sions are ready to tell how not only the gaiety of youth has been withered ^ but how its intellectual and moral strength has been sapped by the uncongenial influences of what they call piety . They point to the tears of some , the angry glances of others ; they take us where there is gloom , and madness 5 and untimely death , and say " See what religion has done ! " Let them turn with us , and we will shew them what we think religion does * We

    will shew them what piety is doing , not only in keeping watch among the tombs , in smoothing the couch , in gladdening the hearth , but in equalizing the action of the soul , so that there shall be no wear and tear of passion , no maddening exercise of some of its faculties while others are torpid , no dotage in youth , and no unkindly heats ia age . We will shew them how by a divine transmutation the fitful light of reason if duly fed brightens into the steady Rosicrucian flame which burns on through all seasons , and

    outlives all decay 5 unquenchable for ever . We will shew that this is the true principle of immortal growth , by which the soul of a patriarch may enter on another state prepared to start forward at once on his interminable career with the freedom of childhood and the vigour of youth . We will shew how , by this princip le , the eye has been preserved clear to discern and the spirit strong to hope among the mists and frosts of age , from the day when Simeon uttered his " Nunc dimittis" until now .

    Of all the struggles which the sensitive mind can encounter in its earthly warfare , none perhaps , except a return from guilt 5 is so fearful as that which is endured during the process of religious conversion * It is a straggle for which youth alone appears to be matched , and few among the youthful are able to go through it with safely and dignity , and without losing on one hand much to set against what they gain on the other . Yet there are instances where the principle of which we have spoken has supported the

    * Religions Prejudice Overcome by a carefuL Examination of tb « s Old and New Testaments : a Serious Address to Christian Professors . By Mrs . Char leu Too-Kood . Dorchester , Clark : London , Hunter . Pp . 5 S > .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1830, page 843, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121830/page/43/