The Unitarian Advocate and Religious Miscellany (V. 1)

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: under which the weak, and sorrowing, and sinning nations may gather for shelter and solace ? As such, should we not venerate and cherish it ? Should we not look into its records, and endeavor to become familiar with the pleasing and lofty conceptions it would inspire ? Is there any apology for neglect ? We feel that we are responsible beings; we know the weakness and treachery of our hearts, and the strong seducing power of temptation. Christianity furnishes us with powerful weapons of defence and safety. Shall we deprive ourselves of those weapons, or forego their use, from indolence, pride, or carelessness, and go forth unarmed to a conflict in which many strong ones have bowed themselves, and many mighty have fallen ? Rather let us listen to the voice of Jesus; let us sit at his feet, and allow his words to sink deep into our hearts. From whatever source they are derived, they are words of great power and efficacy, able to guide all, who meekly receive them, into paths of security, of comfort, and holy joy. Were they words of man's invention, ?mere human sounds?they are so suited to our needs, so fitted to heal and save, that we should be culpable in turning away our ear. They would still deserve to be treasured up in our memories, and laid near our hearts, and be made the daily food of our thoughts. To undervalue or neglect Christianity, then, would seem to bring reproach upon our understandings and hearts. A liberal curiosity should prompt us to scan its doctrines, as they are conversant about objects ofthe highest knowledge; and a sense of weakness and deficiency, and sin, and ardent aspiration after whatever most dignifies and embellishes our natures, should induce us to apply to it as full of the best practical wisdom, the teacher of a generous and sublime morality, ...

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