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    the p roductions of other soils , not only l > v their superior bloom and sweetness , but by their miraculous efficacy to invigorat e and to Leal . They are powerfu l not only to delight but to elevate and purify . Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life or the writings of the great poet and

    patriot , without aspiring to emulate , not indeed , the sublime works with which his genius has enriched our literature , but the zeal with which he laboured for the public good , the fortitude with which he endured every private calamity , the lofty disdain with which he looked down on

    temptations and dangers , the deadly hate which he bore to bigots and tyrants , and the faith which he so sternly kept with his fame and with his country . " Here , Mr . Editor , I would lay down my pen , but a thought has stolen across my mind in drawing up

    these Papers and must not be suppressed . Is there not some resemblance between John Milton and Joseph Priestley ? Both were Unitarians of a peculiar description , both were reformers protesting manfully against abuses in Church and State ,

    and both , ill-requited by their ungrateful countrymen , withdrew from the turmoil of public life into the privacy of retirement , where , finishing some of their best works , they died in peace . Honourable were their lives

    and blessed be their memory 1 To the Great Poet may be applied with equal truth , and beauty , the fine encomium passed by the Rev . Robert Hall , on the illustrious Philosopher of Birmingham , and which ought to be inscribed m characters of gold :

    " From him the poisoned arrow falls pointless ! He will be the admiration of that period when the greater part of those who have favour-. those who have opposed him w » U > e alike forgotten . Distinguished merit will ever rise superior to oppression and will draw lustre from

    ^ proach . The vapours which gather - loulKl ^ e rising sun and follow it in !« co urse , seldom fail at the close of j ^ o forrn a magnificent theatre for 8 rece ption , and to invest with varie-M ^ d tints and with a softened efful-M «» M ^ , th ( i Culinary which the Y can ~

    I'gbteousness is immortal Wis . i . 15 J . EVANS .

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    P . S . Your superintendence of this Miscellany , Mr . Editor , ceasing- with the present month , accept my thanks for the attention you have always paid to my humble communications . Kor can I better evince my gratitude than by expressing a wish for the continued

    prosperity of the Christian Reformer , and for the augmented success of the New Series of the Monthly Repository . Their joint aim under different Editors will , I trust , be what is the bounden duty of every Religious Journalist , the extension of free inquiry , the diffusion

    of gospel charity . An enlightened and impartial Theological Review is much wanted . The entanglements of error must be loosened , and the web of sophistry unravelled , by the discriminating process of critical examination . The time cannot be far distant when

    the soul of man , enamoured of heavenborn truth , dowered or undowered , will love her for her own sake , whilst conscious of its high origin and august destinies , it lays open its inmost recesses to the invigorating and refreshing

    influences of pure and unadulterated Christianity , This is the only true Millenium which , however fanatics may allege the contrary , can abide the scoffs and defy the frowns of modern infidelity .

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    •^^^ QJPB ^ a Sir , October 25 , 1826 . REQUEST the insertion of a few I remarks upon the Review of the Worship-Street Lectures , contained in

    the last number of the Monthly Repository ( pp . 54 ?—551 ) . The Reviewer is evidently an Anti-baptist , and he has a right to his own opinion , but he should have been careful to

    avoid misrepresentation . " Our Lord , " he says , " never baptized . With whom did what is called Christian baptism begin ? And from whose hands did the apostles receive It ? " Of this we are not informed in

    the Gospels ; they may have received It from John , or from Christ himself . That they received it from one or the other is very probable ; for we can hardly suppose that our Lord would omit iu the instance of the Apostles a rite to which he had himself

    submitted , and which appears to have been general amongst his disciples , and that , probably , from the commencement of his mission . There is an evident allusion to it iu the dis-

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    On the Perpetuity of Baptism . 731

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1826, page 731, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2555/page/31/