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    POETRY.

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    thus fcm fer thft f ^ v ^ tJl » a . public wo ^ ' wi'mWCF * * &n 4 & >? tte gepe * al healthiness qf public opinion ! How vast an influence Is exerted for the sobriety and integrity even of those who personally feel little interest Jn the truths of religton-l Tbeinstructions of God ' s house

    sprea d a light through the community , which exposes all objects in a clearer and juster character , even i , © the eyes of those who care nothiag for the source of that light . Uuprofitably as many preach , thoughtlessly as many hear , it is yet impossible to prevent this indirect influence of Christian institutions . If all who

    preside over them were powerful and faithful , and all who attend them conscientious and teachable , there could hardly be an assignable limit to their efficacy . What does the past experience of the world teach us ? Whence have truth and virtue hitherto derived their influence , and what has been the main instrument of establishing knowledge , civilization and

    happiness among men ? Ask the legislators of mankind . They did , in the ancient empires of the world , ail which could be done ; and yet , in their most favoured days , barbarism and dissoluteness maintained a hardly interrupted

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    Coujld that dread Power , supremely wise and just , Who formed this curious frame of breathing dust A fit abode for that ethereal fire Which tends to him , the universal Sire , The countless myriads of our kind create To dwell with misery in this changeful state ; And , when this short and feverish strife is o ' er ,

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    u Say , Our Father who art in heaven . "—Jesus Christ . ** Every man born into this world is liable to all the pains of this life and the miseries of hell for ever . "—Westminster Divines .

    To sink o v erwhelm ed with woe , to rise no more , No justice measur ed and no guilt defined , In torturing * flames eternally confin'd ? Tyrannic vengeance sway'd the Eternal breast , If such to man ,, frail man , his high behest . Reason , the thought rejects ; her voice divine

    Bids her desponding- s ' ons that thought resign . She says , if God be good , for good ordain' 3 Are all his works ; by man must be attain ed The end for which he lives , to which he aims , And God shall give the joy his creature claims . Pass but the term the crime itself require * , The flame of purifying power expires ;

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    « wa # , Affet&ftphitesoftoers of mankind . They were among the most gifted of tl ^ eir race } ,, and what men co uld do , they did . Yejt how small ^ eir inipre ^ ion pn the condition of tlie world ! How pQ ^ erless ^ their exhbrtations , how ineflacient their maxims , and how soon tn ' fe

    Surrounding darkness of society closed over and extinguished the lustre which shone about them ! No ; it is not human law nor human Wisdom : it is the poiver of God ' s truth proclaimed from God ' s temple . This it is which has reached the mass of men , and changed the face of the world ; Which has pervaded even the

    obscure places of the community , and found its way to the very heart . And , therefore , man has risen , and knowledge has spread , and virttre has been honoured , and happiness has advanced ; and they must still advance , from step to Step , frotfl glory to glory . Every temple that is built , every assembly that is collected , every herald of the gospel that is sta

    tioned on his wateh-tower , does something ta urge forward the perfection # f the human race , and the spiritual emancipation of the world . " T .

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    f ^ roetrys- ~ Hymn > - 435

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1826, page 425, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2550/page/45/