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    who is also a sincere Christian . We ask him which position is best for the spiritual character and interests of his own Church ? Does it accomplish more or less good to the souls of men in consequence of being provided for by national taxation ? Let him forget , if he will , that there is an individual throughout the wide extent of the British empire , whose circumstances have generated

    any feeling approaching towards hostility to the temporal privileges of his Church , and confine his thoughts to that single question . We are content to rest it on that ground . We prefer placing it on that ground . The deepest interest in this subject ought to be that of the enlightened churchman . He

    should interpose to prevent the discussion of this topic in a spirit of hostility . He should come forward , as some have done at Cork , on behalf of the Church itself . He should do justice by a voluntary act , which would deserve and receive the praise of generosity . The real friend of episcopacy should look to America , and follow the guidance of facts in the path of duty , and of right .

    The Declaration appeals to America , to show the liberality with which religion is supported when the support is voluntary . The churchman may learn a yet further lesson , by attention to the religious history and condition of that country . He may see an offshoot of his own Church there ; and one which affords a double contrast to the parent institution . It is not , like that , supported by the state ; and it is not , like that , losing ground before every sectarian invader , and sinking out of the faith and affections of the

    people . It has thriven , and it is thriving ; while here it declines , there it advances ; while here it attracts hatred , there it conciliates affection ; while here its existence is said to be in daily-increasing danger , there its influence is daily strengthening and widening . It has vitality , power , progressiveness ; for it is free .

    An extract from IngersolPs * Discourse concerning the Influence of America on the Mind , including a Statistical Account of the United States , ' which was delivered before , and printed by order of , the American Philosophical Society at Philadelphia , in October , 1823 , gives , in short compass , a review of the Anglican Church in America , which proves the truth of our position .

    But it is on the American Church of England and the American Church of Rome , that we may dwell with most complacency . Here , — where no political predominance , no peculiar , above all , no mysterious , inquisitorial , arbitrary , or occult polity , —no tithes , no titles , peerage , crown , or other such appliances sustain the ministry , —where the crosier is as plain as the original cross itself , and the mitre does not sparkle with a single brilliant torafrom involuntary contribution , —it is

    here , I venture to say , that , within the last century , the Church of England and the Church of Rome have constructed more places of worship , ( relatively speaking , ) endowed more dioceses , founded more religious houses ; and planted a stronger pastoral influence , than in any other part of the globe . It is in the United States of America , under the power of American religion , that the English and Roman Catholic churches ace flourishing .

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    12 D Religion without Taxation .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1832, page 120, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1806/page/48/