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    and flourishing , but some of the largest are far from being equal to what they were a few years ago , in the days of their late ministers .

    though their successors are equally CalvinisticaL And there are others which are greatly reduced . Half a dozen , at least , might be at once mentioned , which are as low as most among the Presbyterians . No one will doubt of the

    Calvinism of the late Mr . Towle , or of his zeal for that system , or his ability in the defence of it ;

    and yet what Presbyterian minister had for many years before his decease , fewer hearers or communicants ? From- this statement , then , I wish your correspondents to alter the form of the inquiry , which has of late engaged so many of them , and let it henceforward be .

    " What is the reason , why so many of the congregations of the regular dissenters , under an edu «

    cated ministry , both Presbyterians and Independents , have of late years so visibly declined ?" To see this point calmly discuss , eel by your correspondents , would afford satisfaction to the writer of this , who is 5 respectfully , Your ' s , X . X .

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    IURTHER , REMARKS ON THE IM ) £ STRUCTIBIIITY OF MATT £ R ; IV REPLY TO MTi . PARKES ,

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    to such a degree , that numbers more attended than could be ac commodatcd with seats . There is still one Presbyterian meetinghouse in the city , where nothing like Calvinism is heard , but

    where , nevertheless , the hearers are as numerous as ever iu the afternoon , and by far more so than they are at the same place in the morning , where Calvinistic preachers have lately been

    introduced . Jt is also matter of notoriety , that even in some places where Unitarianism has prevailed , ( though this is not a general case , ) congregations have not only been kejat up , but have considerably

    increased . Dr . Priestley himself , notwithstanding the disadvantage of his delivery , was a witness to this ; and some of his successors , in more places than one , are still witnesses to the same .

    My second reason for not acquiescing in the cause to which W . W . ascribes the decline of so many Presbyterian congregations ^ is , that there is a similar declension in many Independent societies in several parts of the country , and particularly in the metropolis . It is true , there are a few in and about the city that are still large

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    124 Remarks on the Indestructibility of Matter .

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    To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .

    Lo 7 ido 7 iy March 2 . SIR , Whether Mr . Pa ^ kes be correct in his ^ conjectures of the author of the remarks on his essay , or not , he may be assured , it was neither my intention nor desire to misrepresent any of the arguments there adduced ; least of alj , would I in sinuate , that the object of such a writer was to show the in *

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    utility of the Christian revelation ; for I am well acquainted with the liberal and enlightened zeal which animates Mr . Parkes in the cause of genuine Christianity ; nor , indeed , will the expressions with which I closed my remarks , admit of such construction . I have again read his essay that appeared in the thirty-seventh number of the M . R , where Itf

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 124, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/20/