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    disagreeable business of Lyons . You are awars that , in that protestant church * there has existed for a long time a most violent debate between the present pastor , Mr . A . Monod , a young man of talent but of the deepest fanaticism , and the Consistory , who did not by any means relish this

    violent ^ orthodoxy ^—Matters camera , the point , that the minister braved the authority of the elders or Consistory , who had deposed him in the name of the people , and declared that h& would still preach , and did preach . A deposition of a pastor by a

    Consistory is only valid according to our laws when it is confirmed by the king ; this was done by a royal or&onnance of the 16 th of March . This is , I believe , the first time that the French government interfered in protestant doctrinal questions . Nothing can better prove how unreasonable and even ridiculous is the interference of

    civil authority in religious questions . No doubt that a Consistory , as the immediate representative of the people , is sole judge of the doctrine and conduct of its pastor . Anciently , the general synod would have finally deliberated on the sentence , which authority , Napoleon , by his law , thought proper to take in his own hands , and the law still subsists . It is somewhat

    ludicrous to see Louis Philip interfering between methodists and antimethodists , and deciding , without appeal , questions , which certainly , though a man of great information , he understands very little . It is , however * our Director des cultes non oatko *

    Hques , Baron Cuvier , who decides these points , and I must add that his administration is marked in general by a spirit of great prudence and impartiality . It required all the implacable fanaticism or Mr . A . Monod

    to drive the government to this step , in which the king only confirmed the voice of the people . Mr . Monod will probably be named Professor of Pastoral Eloquence in the new dis- < sideut Methodist academy of Geneva . Our St . Simonites , who . I under . **

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    stand , excite great interest in England , are still going on amidst a labyrinth of increasing difficulties . They are now tormented by the demon of discord and internal schism , and are menaced with no less than two formidable lawsuits from their

    ancient colleagues , Mr . Bazar , and ^ R ~ Rodrigjies .. __ All- _ this ^^ jconcejfns the division of common property and copy-rights , especially from Mr . Rodrigues , who is now publishing a complete and interesting edition of the works of St . Simon . An komme

    ct esprit is reported to have said m Paris , that the good principles of their system are not new , and that the new principles are not good ; this , however , I do not admit . Their views on political economy , and on the condition of labourers in general , are most important , and were neVef so well developed . lam afraid that the moral part will be found on ex >

    animation to spoil all the rest . Irr our times of research , we have now every month * i » Paris , some new professor mounting a gratuitous pulpit and proclaiming himself chef de thumanite . All these are very good symptoms ; for truth will find its way * Aniong these professors I shall cite Mr . Charles Fourier , who presents . to the public , with great success , a kind of St . Simonian doctrine divested of

    all mysticism and theocratic views . His ideas draw near to those of Owen ' s co-operative plan . A most strange philosophical publication has excited lately some attention . It is a book entitled Le Messianisme , by Mr . Ho 6 nfc Wronski . He pretends having found the geometrical formula of the developement of humanity , and insists that in each human bosom there

    is deposited a complete and powerful Xoyos , by which every mancan gOver » his affections and actions , and which he must follow as an unerring guide towards future progress : a few words , however , can give no idea of this ex- * traordinary philosophy . It is evident that if our liberties are maintained against the Holy Alliance by the corn **

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    50 UNITARIAN CHRONICLE .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 1, 1832, page 50, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1811/page/2/