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    those who claim the privileges of the priesthood exhibiting the anti-Christian attributes of a priesthood . It is true that all these features are modified ; it is true that the times are so far ameliorated that the plague of superstition cannot ravage society as formerly . But society is not yet safe . It will not be safe till every man ascertains and applies his' Chris- '

    tianity for himself , and no longer needs to flee to his pastor for defence against the devil and all his works . What we have to do is to expose indefatigably the machinery of spiritual delusion ; to frown upon all spiritual monopoly ; to reveal to the ignorant their own rights and to protect their claim ; and to make the meanest of them as capable as the fishermen of Galilee of testifying to the grace and glorying in the freedom of the gospel .

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    THE BIBLE ILLUSTRATED BY SHAKSPEARE .

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    Sir , —Most of your readers are doubtless acquainted with Dr . Carpenter ' s elucidation of the word atonement , by its division into members , at-one-ment , i . e . union or reconciliation . In corroboration of the justice of Dr . C . ' s remark , I beg to remind you that the verb * to atone' is used in the sense of to unite , or

    to reconcile , by IShakspeare ; who , it will be remembered , nourished during the period when the translators of the Bible were engaged in the publication of the present authorized version of the Scriptures . Of course in a work like a drama , decidedly intended for the people , an author would use his terms in the sense then popular . The expression occurs in Hymen ' s song , in the last scene of the fifth act of As you like it . '

    * Then is there ' mirth in Heaven , When earthly things made even Atone together . Good Duke , receive thy daughter , Hymen from Heaven brought her , Yea , brought her hither . '— -&c .

    One would not certainly have expected to be aided in biblical criticism by Shakspeare , yet his assistance will scarcely be rejected by his compatriots . A .

    Similar uses of the word are not uncommon in other writers of that age . In Beaumont and Fletcher ' s Spanish Curate , Bartolus says , ' I have been atoning two most wrangling neighbours /

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1832, page 555, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1818/page/51/