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The ever-recurring and solemn appeal to the
deepest feelings of the human heart, engaging it to
lift up its entire and exclusive affections to that
exalted and transcendant Minister of the One
Eternal Being, who vouchsafed to take upon Him
the veil of the flesh that He might be known and
appreciated of men — the only true and ever-living
Messiah — the Universal Intelligence — the First
Emanation of the Deity — He who is to appear
when the times shall be fulfilled, in great power
and glory, surrounded by his chosen ministers and
by a vast and innumerable company of Saints,
with the sword of vengeance and the balance of
equity in his hands, to strike down all his enemies,
to punish and to reward according to the dictates
of inscrutable wisdom, and to make the Unitarian
religion triumphant throughout the wide universe
— the glorious, ineffable, and adorable Hamz^!

The warnings, the admonitions, the soul-inspiring
promises of the chosen and highly-favoured Mok-
tana, calling on the Unitarians to stand fast in
the indissoluble ties of an ever-watchful and en-
during brotherhood, to value their inestimable
privileges, to guard with a holy zeal and an

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258 CHBISTllN POWERS.
untiring faith the sacred truths committed to
their charge, and to aspire more and more to a
perfect knowledge of the Unity of the Lord, and
of the special Ministers of His grace and power.
