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    intemperate zeal is a misfortune to the sect to which they belong . If you . will study the principles of your relig i ous opponents , you will often find your ontempt and hatred lessened in proportion as you are better acquainted with what you despise . Many religious opinions , which are purely speculative , are without the limits of human interference . In the

    numerous sects of Christianity , interpreting our religion in very opposite manners , all cannot be right . Imitate the forbearance and long-suffering of God , who throws the mantle of his mercy over all , and who will probably save , on the last day , the piously right , and the piously wrong , seeking Jesus in humbleness of mind . Do not drive religious

    sects to the disgrace ( or to what they foolishly think the disgrace ) of formally disavowing tenets they once professed , but concede something to human weakness ; and , when the tenet is virtually given up , treat it as if it were actually given up ; and always consider it to be very possible that you yourself may have made mistakes , and fallen into erroneous

    opinions , as well as any other sect to which you are opposed . If you put on these dispositions , and this tenor of mind , you cannot be guilty of any religious fault , take what part you will in the religious disputes which appear to be coming on in the world . If you choose to perpetuate the restrictions upon your fellow-creatures , no one has a right to

    call you bigoted ; if you choose to do them away , no one has any right to call you lax and indifferent ; you have done your utmost to do right , and whether you err , or do not err , in your mode of interpreting the Christian religion , you show at least that you have caught its heavenly spirit , —that you have put on , as the elect of God , kindness , humbleness of mind , meekness , long-suffering , forbearing one another , and forgiving one another .

    " I have thus endeavoured to lay before you the uses and abuses of this day ; and , having stated the great mercy of God ' s interference , and the blessings this country has secured to itself in resisting the errors , and follies , and superstitions of the Catholic church , I have endeavoured that this mat sense of our own superiority should not militate against the sacred principles of Christian charity . That charity which J ask for others I ask also for myself . I am sure I am preaching before those who will think

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    ( whether they agree with ine or not ) i&at I have spoken conscientiously , and ffom good motives , and from honesty feelings , on a very difficult subject ; not sought for by me , but devolving uponme hujje course of duty ; in which I should have

    been heartily ashamed of myself ( as ypn would have been ashamed of me ) if I had thought only how to flatter and please , or thought of any thing but what I hope 1 always do think of in the pulpit , that I am placed here by God to tell truth , and to do good .

    " I shall conclude my sermon , ( pushed I am afraid already to an unreasonable length , ) by reciting to you a very short and beautiful apologue , taken from the Rabbinical writers . It is , I believe , quoted by Bishop Taylor in his ' Holy Living and Dying . ' I have not now access to that book , but I quote it to you from memory , and should be made truly happy if you would quote it to others from memory also .

    " ' As Abraham was sitting in the door of his tent , there came unto him a wayfaring man ; and Abraham gave him water for his feet , and set bread before him . And Abraham said unto him , ' Let us now worship the Lord our God before we eat of this bread . * And the

    wayfaring man said unto Abraham , ' I will not worship the Lord thy God , for thy . God is not my God ; but I will worship my God , even the God of my fathers / But Abraham was exceeding wroth ; and he rose up to put the wayfaring mau forth from the door of his tent . And the voice of the Lord was heard in the tent ^~ * Abraham , Abraham , have I borne with this man for three score and ten years , and canst not thou bear with him for one hour ?'" P , 20—24 .

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    A Help to Latin Composition * can * taining Rules for the Construction and Location o £ the Different Parts of Speech in writing' Latin . By the Rev . C . P . Valentine . This little work may be recommended to the young student , as containing much

    valuable information respecting the arrangement of words in Latin composition . The rules on the subject ^ which have been given by former writers , are very adequately condensed , aud the examples are clear and well selected . The work cannot fail to become popular and useful In schools .

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    Critical Notices . 853

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1828, page 853, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2567/page/53/