A memorial of John C. Dalton, M.D. : an address delivered before the Middlesex north district medical society, April 27, 1864 / by John O. Green.

  • John Orne Green
Date:
1864
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Credit: A memorial of John C. Dalton, M.D. : an address delivered before the Middlesex north district medical society, April 27, 1864 / by John O. Green. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3 sight of the fact that there is a religion, no less pure than their own, which shrinks from such constant assertion of itself, and which is satisfied to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God. He says: ‘“‘ My life has been emphatically a happy one. Not free, of course, from the natural vicissitudes. Although neither a Swedenborgian nor a Spiritualist, I enjoy communion with near and dear friends, who from time to time have gone to enjoy the nearer presence of their Creator. When occa- sionally, either through my own indiscreetness or the unreliability of others, pecuniary losses have been sustained, my equanimity has remained undisturbed, since the moral profit and pleasure incident to acqul- sition ever remains beyond the reach of chance. ‘‘] have never had a moments misgiving in rela- tion to the immortality of the soul aside from rev- elation; for if, as my philosophy assures me, it 1s not possible that any particle of created matter should ever be annihilated, the soul, one and _ indivisible, must have an eternal existence. peiva. Hehever 4m. creeds, as such, I have a firm faith in the word of God. And although T believe in the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, yet, having the same firm faith in the Unity of God as in his word, - and in the subgrdination to him of all other Intelli- gences, I cannot give my assent to the so-called doc- trine of the Trinity, as, after anxious inquiry, I have ever yet heard it explained. ““Nor can I adopt that other dogma which asserts the original total depravity of man’s nature; for, be- sides my assurance, that it is the work of an infinitely
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