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    objects of the society , but especially to consider the best means of aiding the cause of Christian truth , and of promoting a Christian spirit , as well as to put into execution those which may be in their power . These meet-

    ings begin vyith prayer and singing . This rule , if properly observed , is calculated to keep alive attention to the purposes for which such societies are instituted , and may possibly give rise to hints of improvement and plans of usefulness , which have not before

    been thought of . And here I cannot but express an earnest wish that Unitarians in general , who reside at too great a distance from any place of worship upon their own principles , and are not sufficiently numerous to support one , would register a house or a convenient room for such

    worship , and conduct the services themselves , which might be done with great facility , as there are so many volumes of sermons and lectures , as well as prayers , adapted to the purpose , where there is no one who has leisure and ability to prepare these

    exercises . As many of your readers may be unacquainted with the forai of registering places of public worship , I will send that which was givett ^ to me at the Bishop of London ' s office , Doctors' Commons , founded on the Act of Parliament , as follows :

    a To the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of London and his Registrar . "I , A . B ., of , in the pariah of , Middlesex , do hereby certify , that certain premises now in my occupation , situated at , in the said parish , are intended to Be used forthwith as

    a . place of religious worship , by an assembly or cong-reg-ation of Protestants ; and do hereby require you to register and record the same , according to the provisions of an Act of Parliament , passed in the 52 d year of the reign of his Majesty ,

    King- George the Third , entitled 6 An Act to repeal certain Acts , and amend other Acts , relating to Religious Worship and Assemblies , or persons teaching or Poaching therein ; ' and I Hereby require a Certificate thereof . Witness my hand this twenty-sixth day of July , 1817 . "

    a " The Certificate . This is to certify , all whom it mav co ncern , that on the twenty-sixth day of u i « the year of our Lord one thousand ei &ht hundred and seventeen ,- this certifi-

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    cate was registered in the Registry of the Lord Bishop of London . ' * ( Signed by the Registrar ;) . The regular charge at this office is 9 s . 6 rf .

    If the office of the bishop of the diocese be at an inconvenient distance , the registry may be made by a justice of peace . By this registry the place of worship and the congregation are put

    under legal protection . But is any thing further necessary to protect the persons who conduct the religious services of such places ? Is it required , that a religious teacher take out a licence ? If any of your professional

    Correspondents would favour your readers with a » account of the present state of the law on this subject , he would render a service to many . Some Unitarians , who are very willing to conduct religious services in the absence of ministers , do , I know ,

    hesitate to perform this good work from apprehension of danger from not having a licence . Dissenters certainly cannot , consistently with their principles , take out a licence , for this would be to acknowledge the existence of a power to refuse as-well as > to give the liberty thereby conferred .

    THOMAS MOORE . P . S . Having lately removed , our religious services are conducted at present at No . 15 , Phoenix Street * Somers Town , in the evening only , the morning service being suspended for the present , but intended to be resumed as soon as convenient .

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    Sir ,. S ., a Correspondent of yours * E # [ p . 164 , ] wishes to know why Roman Catholics , in their abridgements of the commandments , sometimes leave out the words of the second , as arranged in the Protestant Catechism- For his satisfaction , then ,

    I beg leave to state , that it is because they think that in their and your first * is actually contained your secon d * Ip general , however , the words of your second are expressed in their first , as may be seen by consulting * their most approved prayer-books and catechisms . With respect to your tenth commandment , they are of opinioh

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    On the Division of the Decalopue hy Catholics . 299

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1819, page 299, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1772/page/19/