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The Panoplist conducted by an association of friends to evangelical truth
The Panoplist conducted by an association of friends to evangelical truth Author:Unknown Author 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: TUE PANOPLIST, No. 3. MARCH, 1820. Vol. XVi. RELIGIOUS COMMUNICATIONS. For the Panoplist. ON BEING STRANGERS ON EARTH. The condition of one in a f... more »oreign country is suited to exercise both (lie understanding and the affections. The new objects, which attract attention and awaken curiosity, cannot pass before the mind, and leave it in a perfect neutrality towards them; nor can its decisions concerning them be given with indifference. The revolution in his opinions, and often in his character, is sudden, and more perceptible tlian at any other period of his life. Not only do his sentiments on ne or two points receive a new direction, but the change is sometimes so complete, as to give his friends a painful exhibition of the mutability of human opinions, and a warning against reposing confidence in a creature so frail. His estimation even of his own country is essentially altered. The land of his nativity continues more or less dear to him, as his new acquaintances have filled him with pleasure or disgust. Intending in this paper to mention a few of the resemblances between a traveller in foreign lands, and the Christian on earth, 1 shall ffr my remarks as they occiir to my present meditation, without much attention to systematic arrangement. l. The feelings of a stranger. As he is removed from the immediate protection of friends, he may be more needful of the kindness of the community than formerly, but still, he is to expect permanent supplies only from home. His sensibilities are alive to the treatment received in the nation through which he is passing, and indignities offered him inflict a deep wound. He sometimes construes them into an insult offered his native country in the person of its representative. The impression of his own helplessness, and his dis...« less