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    Art . VIII . —Christian Ewaminer , Vol . IV . No . IV . Mr . Palfrey ' s Speech . —The Christian Examiner has inserted the following speech among its principal articles , and we follow its example in inserting it , as possessing great interest for the Unitarians of England . It was spoken at

    the Anniversary Meeting of the Unitarian Association of America . It will shew them how they are estimated by one of their American brethren , who for some time resided in this country , and , we hope , will awaken in their minds the same fraternal and friendly feeling which animated the mind of the speaker . The Unitarians of this country have hitherto been almost alone in

    the world . Till within a few years , they have had no means of co-operation with each other , and beyond the shores of their own island , they would have searched in vain for any with whom they could hold Christian fellowship . How animating is the reflection that our brethren in the New World , emancipated from the yoke of a state religion , and delivered from the curse of priestcraft , have reaped the fruits of this blessed freedom in the

    spread of those opinions which we hold to be identical with real Christianity ! Cold must be the heart of that Unitarian which does not respond every friendly wish , every expression of sympathy , on the part of our American brethren . We delight to hail them as friends and brothers , worshipers of the same God and Father , and fellow-labourers in the sa ~

    cred cause of truth and freedom . We are not at all anxious to vindicate the Unitarians from the charge of being a political sect . To their honour be it spoken , they are the only denomination of Christians by whom the principles of civil and religious liberty are consistently maintained and zealously defended . Of the Dissenters in general , this can only be said with considerable qualifications .

    Among them a large number is to be found , who would deny that liberty to the Catholics which they claim for themselves , and who think it very proper that the Attorney-General should take Christianity under his protection . But we know not of a single Unitarian who ever defended persecution of any kind . Nor do we believe that Mr . Palfrey is at all correct in saying , $ iat " no iuconaide-

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    contemporary ' PERIODICALS .

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    "I fain would sing , but will be silent now , For pain is sitting on my lover ' s brow j And he would hear me * -and , tho' silent , deem r pleased myself , but little thought of him , While of nought else I think ; to him X

    give My spirit , and for him alone I live : Bear him within my heart as mothers bear * The last and youngest object of their care . "

    In the literature of Poland , we find a series of poets whose works have been committed to the press . The earliest of the writers of whose productions specimens are presented by Mr . Bowriug , is Kochanowski , who died in 1584 ; and the volume terminates with a copious selection from the poems of Brodzenski ,

    a living author . < We cannot say that the perusal of this volume has impressed us with a very favourable opinion of the genius , of the Polish , poets , though we roust admit that several passages may be adduced as favourable specimens of their talents . There is much tenderness in the following lines by Kochahowski :

    ** My gentle child ! and art thou vanished ? Thpu Hast left a dreary blank of sadness now . Our house , tho full , is desolate and lone , Since thy gay spirit and its smiles are gone ; We heard thy tongue ' s sweet prattle , and thy song IScho'd in every corner all day long . Thy mother never grieved , and anxious

    care Ne ' er rack'd thy father ' s thoughts , while thou wert there . Now hers , now mine , thy childish fond caress , The overflow of youth and tenderness . But all is vacant now , all dull and dead , And peace and hope , and laughing joy , are fled ; Our home possessed by every present grief , And the tired spirit vainly seeks relief . "

    We are not competent to speak of the fidelity , but we can appreciate the ease and poetical character , of these versions .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1828, page 188, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2558/page/44/