On this page

• Text (3)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    Untitled Article

  • 

    Untitled Article

  • 

    Untitled Article

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    Untitled Article

    by die majority of votes . —The Presi-4 &t obWy&fid ( ft&SpHketf ' i that the principle of the majority bf Votes wa * inherent to die nature of every deliberative ^ assem-biy , and that ' iti t ^ as impossible to depart from it .- ^ Ofte of the Secretaries read the written opinion of the Rabbies , members oftiie assembly ,

    on the third question . ^ A member said , that government , in forming : that assem * \ Ay , had not composed it entirely of | labbies ;' it had selected also latntt-holders and other persons known by their integrity and by their learning ; that on the other band , the two answers were written nearly oh the ' same principles ; since both acknowlededi' that Christians

    were our Jbr ^ threiK He thought that the two answers might be combined together * as-to make only one . A Rabbi expressed as , his opimon that the answer did not include all the bearings of the question ; he ^ loii ^ ht ^ lhat it should 7

    eontaiit observations "onthe probable consequences of such marriages . —A jnember said that certainly government should be made / acquainted with all the obstacles which " st&dd in" the way of unions of that nature . —Another thought

    Untitled Article

    that all the members who composed thair assembl y were sufiifcieiitly enlightened Off their religion , tn- deliver their opintGt ^ accofdiii ^ to their ? conscience . -He deemed ; the answer of rhe coiwmissiGi * perfectly Correct , and demanded that it should be put to the vote in the samp mode as the others had beSBw— -21

    member declared , that , in questions of thl » importancej the Rabbies should be more particularly consulted , in border to- hs better fixed in the true principles .- ^ - ^ nr * ther observed ' , that Rabbies delivering their opihion like otlier - members ^ must rest satisfied with tHe influence

    their profession gave them , without attertipring to ^ increase tt .- ^^ V Rabb ^ iritreated bis fellow-doctor * t& discuss the question with moderation and docility , as became true disciples of Moses 5 he declared that he too would stand

    forth the champion of religion , but that ? he thought it also a duty incumbent op * on tttn to dipose publicly the addition * which degrade it , and which he at&r * - Buted , with the celebrated Meirdelshouy to the pestilent breath of superstition , which Jiad often she wo itsblf opefily . *^ - ^ ( To be continued . /

    Untitled Article

    Intelligence * ? 117

    Untitled Article

    Fourth Report of the Unitarian Society . . r- , . ; r 9

    Untitled Article

    jn& FOURTH REPORT OF T « E COMMITTEE ©^ THE T ^ NITARIAN 31 ^ : CIETTT , AP ^ ai ^ TEB TO CyiaRY INTO EFFECT THE RESOLUTIONS OF TU ^ SOCIETY , TO PUBLISH AN . JMfROVEB VERSION OF THE ** EW T ^ STAW EN T , AfADE P £ Q . I 4 > I ^ 3 O 7 , .

    Untitled Article

    This , Committee have the pleasure of reportiug to the Unitarian Society , that the important object of their undertAking is in considerable forwardness , and that there is *; every , reason to hope that the Improved Version of the New Testament will be completed , and the copies ready to be delivered to the Subscribers , early in , ' the sprii ^ . To guard against the disappointment of expectations which it was never intended to excite , the Committee request the Subscribers , to recollect , that the object of the Society was ript to produce a version * entirely new and critically perfect , l > ut to adopt , a , nd im «» prove upon , a ,, version already Known , ^ nd generally approved . For this purpose ^ the versioii of archfcishop Newfeomc was selected , for reasons which

    Untitled Article

    have been formerly assigned ; ^ nd to avoid as , much as possible , giving an appearance of patch-work to the Improved Version , it has been a fixed principle with the Committee , in general to * adhere strictly to the primate > translation , and never to deviate from it but w ^ here it appeared to be * obviously necessary to correct some error or . iniperfectibn in the text , in the construction , in the language , or in thfe seme . To this rule the Committee have adhered sc * closely , that they have suffered the primafe's version'to remain in . some instances , even where in their own jud g * nient Jt rnigbt hay ^ been altered te advantage , knowing how very difficult it is in niany ca ^ es to g ive a translation which" " shall be uhiversariy-satisfacitory even to men of learning , and judgment .

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1808, page 117, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2389/page/61/