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    Us It tM a face that on the eyesight struck lake the clear blue and starry arch of night , When suddenly we quit a narrow chamber , From the world ' s dust to teach our thoughts to clamber To that invisible ether of delight Which atmospheres the planets in their flight !

    Wijh lips , and brow , and eyelids that did pluck The gaze from ali the circling flash of faces , And fix it on its beauties' combination ; So interflexed , that , star by star , its graces Were noted not ; but still , in constellation , A harmony of grace , such as embraces The innermost spirit with its concord fine , But which sense cannot note by note define !

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    Opinfm * ofa Modern CWkftic upon TtthA 011

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    To ( he Editor . Sir , —Knowing the general and intense interest that is felt , at the present juncture , upon the important subject of tithe ; and feeling the necessity there is , that every one possessing an opinion should express it , at a time when meditated change challenges 1

    public discussion and universal advice ; and considering , moreover , how imperative it is upon every class of religionists thoroughly to know the estimate of every fellow class , upon a political question of such immense magnitude—a question , not of religion and the kingdom which is not of this world , but of property a ¥ » d of this grosser and present world which we inhabit , and vfhieh the philosophic say ' is too much with us ; ' feeling all these

    things , and with them that tithe is really an affair of discipline , and not of faith , —a bond of love for brotherly uses , and not a chain of bondage—that ita legality , its justice , its expediency , are all either confirmed or abrogated by changing circumstances and their conjunct , changing opinions ; I have imagined that the views of a modern Catholic upon a prescriptive usage of his forefathers would be neither useless nor uninteresting to his differ *

    ing brethren . From one who professes himself a Tory and a Catholic , some of my sentiments may , perhaps , surprise you ; but as Toryism , except with tithe-owners , is a political , and not a religious distinction , it has not in itself any hostile bearing upon a free discussion of the present question . With respect to Catholicity , although I cannot help perceiving that tithe and Catholic Christianity are contemporaneously prescriptive ; yet I am equally convinced that the soundness of Catholic principles is in bo wuto infracted by maintaining the injustice of -enforcing tithe ( in its

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    OPINIONS OF A MODERN CATHOLIC UPON TITHK 8 .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 511, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/11/