Excerpt from Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty
Nearly thirty years ago was written, and ten years afterwards printed, for private circulation, a book entitled "Christianism; or, Belief and Unbelief Reconciled." From the introduction to that book, with a few variations, is extracted the greater part of the first section of this Preface.
There are thousands of persons in England, as well as in other countries, who appear to be of no religion; who are certainly not of any of the established opinions; and who join in no sort of worship, public or private. These persons are of all classes. Formerly they were confined to the more educated; but of late years they have spread among all the others. It is admitted, at the same time, that great numbers of persons of this description enjoy the most respectable characters; are just in their dealings; beloved by their friends; and fit to set an example to society in every respect but this one.
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