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Parish of Saint George the Martyr, Southward.
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Again, if we may judge form the amount of money given and bequeathed for ???
of sickness, which should rather be given bequeathed for the prevention of ???
we might be led to suppose, that the final purpose of this world was, that it should ???
a ghastly lazer-house, and its heritage disease and untimely death. that generation
generation should consist of feeble, deformed, degenerate, wailing creatures, fit only
"lifted from bed to bed, from the nothing of life to the nothing of death;" instead of
energetic men, ever rising to higher degree of power, dignity and intelligence, and ???
on the sands of time the deep, ineffaceable footprints of manly march.
When we reflect upon our ways and doings however, and see with what energy
perseverance we do labour to make our short life still shorter, and fill up that ???
with pain and sorrow, oar hopes for the future become overcast with doubts. Fur ???
what an incalculable amount of physical evil is brought about by our fashions. He ???
accounted as nothing. comfort cast aside, reason defied, and taste and ornament exagg???
into the ridiculous. Here ignorance, which generally and truly has such a burthen of
to bear, may pass free from censure. Perversion of taste, the lore of imitation, an???
dreed of not appearing as foolish as our neighbours. cease not to act as the chief mot???
this strange and wayward conduct. We may readily laugh and sneer at the ???
fanatic, who drives spikes into hit flesh, and tortures himself in divers ways: but ???
does mostly from deep and holy motives, whilst those of the devotees of fashion are
free from such influent or any approximation thereunto. Ds. Baown, speaking of ???
folly, says that he wishes be saw "Fashion dressed in crinoline, in bad shoes, a man???
hat, and trailing petticoats, with her waist well nipped by a circlet of nails, with the ???
inmost, drummed and hissed, blazing and shrieking out of the world." This lang???
by no means too severe, when we consider the evils which the practice of it brings a???
not only to the living, but to generations yet unborn. What inconsistency we ???
whilst vehemently denouncing evils concerning which the way to get rid of them is
with difficulties, we at the earns time cultivate and develop those of stupid and intole???
kind. This devotion to fashion does not say much for our civilisation, which should I
produced far other and happier results.
The unwise economical notions which prevail, prove a serious hindrance in the ???
getting rid of the difficulties against which we have to contend. As if economy we
much as possible when practised in opposition to the laws by which man is governed;
which are fixed in the condition of things. And which "eternal laws there is no possible???
of hoodwinking in oar dealings with them "inasmuch as "they never make a mistake
never overlook one, never forego an advantage, never shrink to exact retribution, ???
feel remorse." The explanation of these laws, by which God governs the world, and
need of a strict and reverential obedience to them, should be one of the chief aims of
educational system, upon this knowledge oar welfare depends. For if we walk ???
to them it will be well with us, if we do not walk according to them it will be ill with
From inward conviction, and not from external force and coercion, will true and ???
advance be made. For great measures, be they ever so just and beneficial, will ???
bringing about the desired results, If thrust upon an unprepared people. "Were
says Milton, "the chooser, a dram of well doing should be preferred below many ???
much the forcible hindrance of evil-doing.