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    and the stake which were occasionally at work to assist in bring * ing about the desired uniformity . They may come down to times a little more recent , and picture to themselves the lonely glens and bleak hill-sides of Scotland , where the covenanters assembled to pray , and whence they were driven by the dragoons of the Stuarts , unless indeed they were left stiff and bloody on the spot where they had met ; or tliey may imagine the fathers of New England , and the stormy waves that hoarsely welcomed them to the stern and iron-bound coast , whither they had fled from tyranny to seek " Freedom to worship God . "

    These are simply a few suggestions of such thoughts as may possibly occur to people concerning our " Establishment . " They may go on till they arrive at our own times , when they may see cause of congratulation that the power of mischief has been wrested from it in a great measure , and that all it still retains is

    fast departing . In its misdeeds there is nothing singular , nothing peculiar to itself . It only shares the spirit common to ail Churchestablisliments ; the spirit which made the Jewish priests crucify Christ , the spirit which made Milton say : —

    " Help us to save free conscience from the paw " Of hireling wolves , whose gospel is their maw ! " Mrs Trollope has reminded us of these things by her descriptions of the negroes assembled in the dark and deep forests in the silence of night listening to the voice of their self-elected pastor . These descriptions are forcibly executed , and while writing them the authoress has been unconsciously serving the good

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    OR , DANTESQUE CARTOONS . The war-whoop died away , and the groans of the dying grew fainter and fainter ; and the whirr and singing in my brain gave way to a calm , smooth as the rippleless face of a summer lake . My wounds—from which pain had passed as a forgotten talenow tingled with faint pleasure-throes ; and a leaden lethargy ,

    a dreamy , oblivious , and delicious torpor was creeping softly as the breathing of an infant , or the spreading of snowfall over soul and body . And it seemed as if my heart had well-nigh throbbed its last throb , and my pulse completed its allotted pulsations , when an icy hand fell with a sudden shock upon my heart ! I had just strength to utter a faint shriek— " Who are ye ? what

    want ye ? " A cold whisper trickled through my ear — " Fear not ! 1 am the soother of life ' s pains , life ' s sorrows ; I am Death

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    THE OPIUM-TRANCE ;

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    640 The Opium-Trance .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1836, page 640, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2662/page/52/