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    the day , who were soon to be stripped of their stewardship by the destruction of the Temple , and dispersion of the Jews , Their conduct furnishes the true key of the difficulty . They are else where accused of binding heavy

    burdens , and grievous to be borne , and of laying them on men ' s shoulders . These burdens were human traditions , though they , imposed them on the people as coming with the written law from the authority of God . The

    object of this extra imposition was to gratify their own avarice and ambition ; and one instance is recorded where they carried their impositions so far , as fairly to set aside the law of < Sod , on one of the most important

    subjects of human duty , Mark vii . 8 . They were , therefore , in the predicament of a steward who , appointed to parcel out to tenants the lands of his rich lord , charged , ybr his own benefit , more than he was warranted to each

    tenant . Thus the tenant who became by the extra imposition debtor * ' for a hundred measures of oil , " was authorized by his kind and indulgent lord to receive it for' " fifty . ; " and the debtor for ' * a hundred measures of

    wheat , " for ' * fourscore . " But these tenants were ignorant of the extra charges , considering the whole as payments imposed by their landlord himself . Now when the steward was impeached or suspected , he was aware that his dishonesty would be detected

    and punished . He , therefore , goes to the tenants , reduces the extra charges , thus making the only reparation which it was then in his power to do , and which Justice required to be done ,

    saying to one of the debtors , write " fifty , " and to the other " fourscore /' Accordingly his master , though offended with him , and resolved to employ him no longer , is just enough to commend him for bis conduct in this

    respect . Nevertheless , the steward , with bis usual craft , makes a merit of this reduction , and uses it as an expedient for future subsistence . But hovy is this applicable to the Jewish priests ? They were stripped of their office , and the people were exonerated by the abolition of the ritual law ; and it

    cannot be doubted hut ; that such of them as survived the ruin of their country , pleaded , ip : their dispersion , their fornw services , a $ teachers of

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    the law , a »}< 3 the exemption pf th ^ ii followers from their former burdens , as circumstances which gave them claims to subsist on their benevolence . The situation and character of the emigrant priests , expelled in consequence of the late French Revolution , furnish an exact parallel , and an illustration of the Jewish priests dispersed in the provinces of the Roman

    empire . JOHN JONES . ( To be continued . )

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    Bridport , Sir , October 5 , 181 . 9 . LATELY received the Report of I the Committee of ** the Society established for the Relief of Aged and Infirm Protestant Dissenting Ministers / 7 adopted by the Subscribers at

    their General Meeting , held at the King ' s Head , in the Poultry , May 25 , 1819 / It is not , I think , possible to speak in too high terms of commendation of the benevolent object of this Institution . With this conviction , in

    looking over the list of subscribers , I am hpppy to see some respectable Unitarians contributing to the support of this cause , while with concern I observe there are many of that class , well known to be both opulent and generous , whose names do not appear in aid of this < c work of mercy

    and labour of love . " Their minds , probably , are still under the influence of the unftivpurable impression made on them by the strenuous opposition which , it is understood , had arisen among some of the highly orthodox , against the admission of any of the misnamed Socinian ministers to the

    benefits of the Institution * . It appears , however , by a communication in your Repository , [ XIII . 705 , ] which would be more satisfactory if sanctioned by the name of the writer , that " the

    opposing party amongst the Indepenpents have no connexion or influence with the Society , precisely because they would not agree to the comprehension of Unitarians . " It may , therefore , be considered as established on

    the same broad and comprehensive basis as tUe Widows * Fund . It is stated to be " for the Relief of Aged and Infirm Protestant Dissenting Ministers of the Three Deuonmiaiions , Presbyterian , Independent , and Baptist , in necessitous circumstances /'

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    Mr * Howe on the Aged and Infirm Ministers' * Society . fiQJ-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1819, page 661, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1778/page/9/