Rationalism is an independent system iipplieable to man
in an stkites and i^ times, and indep^uiently of the better*
anoe of physioid condition^-of which it gives valuable assure
ances — its principles are (calculated to elevate those ^e
adopt them^ RationaHsm cannot fail for it has p^sonally
succeeded. The diffusion of its (nriaeiples is 5'et destined to
work a proud change in society. The Branches in our
several towns have a wide sphere of actioo, and great duties



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to perfbna apart from the advocacy of commimism. A lenae
o€ this is restoring the entkusiasm which was fennerlj so
diaCui^uished among them, and enthnsiaam thas founded is
a deep sense of the moral elevation to be efibcted by their
ezertioiis, will know no decay. Branch A 1— no mean judges
of this question — to whom lately these views were bridly ex-
I^itied, bore ready testimony to thwgeneMl soundness.* A
short tifioe since I visited a fiuaous Branch in Wi^Wickshire,
which had been so little tcciistomed to this sf^cation of
(heir j^rindples, that the I^oodoa oonfectkmers might hM,v9
sd«cted their institution for an ice house where frigidity was
permaneat all the year round. But I left them with a
warmer a|>preoiatioD of the embrasive tenets.
It IS a great reoonmumdation that Batioaalism is of pre^
•cat af^pUoaliwb No system can succeed which is not
sf immedlata use. Gven this populace see thi^ the ^ture
depesds upoa the present Though we were* on the eve of
the moat glorious dumge, it would be true wisdom to let go
BO jot og tittle of present advantage, or sati^ctioa. To
w^ use and enjoy the present is both pt^y and profit.
