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    fire , is a figure which can be fully explained only by the event . Does it not emphatically denote the destruction of that ** last enemy ? The subjects upon whom this destruction will be performed are human offenders , but the great objects to be destroyed are the evils in which they are involved .

    For these the fire is prepared ; it is they which remain in it for ever and ever . " Every man's work will be tried of what sort it is . " " If any man * s work be burnt , he shall suffer

    loss , but he himself shall be saved \ yet so as by fire" But in the end , God " shall wipe away all tears from men ' s eyes , and there shall be no more death , neither sorrow nor crying , neither shall there be any more pain ; for the former

    things are passed away . " Glorious consummation 1 May the anticipation of it fill our hearts and characterise our lives with devout gratitude and love . E . S .

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    § IR , fT ^ HOUGH you may not have the JL polished writer in a Traveller , you have one who is anxious to promote the truth as it is in Jesus . I will tell you , at the request of two others , whose faith is much like my own , how

    we fill up our time . When we meet , we read either the Repository or Reformer , and they furnish us subjects for conversation , and often hints , as we think , for improvement . I will mention some we last discussed : The

    duty of travellers to strive to reach a place where they could worship comfortably on a Sunday . We enumerated the bad effects we had seen in professed Unitarians going to no place of worship , or going where their pious

    feelings were not excited , but something of disgust called forth . We regretted that many p laces we visited had Unitarians residing there , but no social worship kept up . If that practice is continued , a great bar is put to the spread of knowledge and the increase of devotion . We spoke of the

    benefit of a contrary conduct at Thorne , at Falmouth , ana . lately at Soiners Town . We are not divines , yet we see no objection to religious services being conducted by tradesmen ; and wq remember Once at Ipswich hearing an excellent Sermon j ?^ ad , and Dr . Priestley ' s prayers delivered in a pious Way ,

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    by a person whom on the Monday we found behind the counter . Where ministers cannot be supported , local preachers ( to use the term of the Methodists ) should be encouraged . That

    plan has been of great use to the Methodist cause , and must be resorted to by Unitarians if they wish to spread their opinions . It is a pity in all places where there are two ministers , that the districts around are not endeavoured to

    be enlightened , as is done at Liverpool and in the neighbourhood of Portsmouth . The regular ministers might be assisted by those who have not had an academical education . The reading of the Scriptures and expounding them ;

    the reading of prayers or extemporary prayers ; the reading of a sermon , or the explanation of some doctrine , might be carried on by one or by more , who might agree to undertake in turns to conduct the service . When- *

    ever fixed ministers can attend , let them shew their approbation and give their help . This seems to us to have been the plan of the apostles , and we wish Unitarians to recommend what

    they teach by their lives and conversation being according to the gospel . If these hints be deemed worth y of your notice , and they are inserted in your Repository , we shall be encouraged to make farther remarks ; and one of my fellow-travellers thinks of pointing out some places where he considers what I now send might be usefully applied . A TRAVELLER .

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    Remarks of an Unitarian Traveller . —On American Literary Diplomas . 345

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    Cambridge , Sir , June 2 , 1820 . LEARN from your Review of the I Life of the Rev . Wm , Richards , that some of the Dissenters of this country accept American academical titles .

    Considering tlie state of literature and science in the United States , this surpris ' es me not a little . I am prompted to ask , what must be the rank of Dissenting dignitaries , when " Brown

    University , in Rhode Island , " can confer an honour upon them ? But perhaps my notions and habits acquired in this place , make me fastidious in these matters , and I ought to Have known human nature better than to be

    so easily betrayed into wonderment : €€ For never title yet so mfcan could prove , * ¦¦ '•' . But there was eke a mind which aid that title love / '

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1820, page 345, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2489/page/21/