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    among the Congregationalists . Mr . Jollie , however , I may admit , is rather to be ranked as a Congregationalist than as a Presbyterian : but I deny that the chapel in which he officiated was erected for the especial use of that small part of his society which

    formed the Congregational Church . Jt was intended for the general use of the Nonconformists of Sheffield , the great majority of whom were Presbyterian , formed to Presbyterian Nonconformity by the labours of the other Nonconformist ministers who had

    resided at Sheffield between the Restoration and the Revolution . Then all were willing to place themselves under the ministry of so admired a preacher as was Mr . Jollie , and when it became necessary to erect a larger- chapel , they willingly contributed to it . But it was for themsefoes , not for the

    little congregational body which was included within the whole society , that this sacrifice was made . And we accordingly find that they were two Presbyterians who contracted for the ground on which the chapel was built ; viz . Mr . Field Sylvester , who was a near relation of Matthew Sylvester , who preached as coadjutor with

    two remarkable Presbyterian ministers , Baxter and Calamy ; and Mr . Bayes , father to the minister of that name , who was then exercising his ministry among the Presbyterian Dissenters ia London . The latter

    advanced the money requisite for completing- the building , and has the repayment of . £ 200 guaranteed to him in the original trust deed of 1704 . Of several ¦ of the original trustees it may be shewn that tliey were Presbyterians . At least there is this kind of

    evidence , their families were always accustomed to account thoinselvc 3 as belonging to the Presbyterian in opposition to the Congregational body . The Congregational Church consisted in 1715 of seventy persons , hut the

    whole society exceeded 1300 persons , of all ages -. and when , after the death of Mr . Jollie , in that year , the Congregationalists attempted to claim the right of nominating his successor , the

    claim was completely overruled by the other part of the society , and a successor appointed by the general voice , who ranked with the Presbyterians . The overruling' in this instance the claim of the Congregation-7 .

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    alists while still the founders of the chapel were alive , and the first trust had endured only eleven years , is an evident proof that the chapel had not been erected exclusively for the Congregationalists . JOSEPH HUNTER .

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    London , Sir , May 2 , 1825 . MOST of your readers will , I think , be surprised that the project of the Lancashire Calvinists for depriving Unitarians of their places

    of worship should be considered by any Calviaist of sober and liberal mind , out of the sphere of the local controversy , worthy of serious discussion . That lawyers of sharp practice should urge on the scheme may be easily

    accounted for ; but that disinterested persons and serious divines should give countenance to the design , is one of those practical anomalies that can he explained only by the too well-known influence of party spirit , an influence sometimes not perceived by those on

    whom it most strongly operates . The acceptance of a trusteeship is an engagement to fulfil the trust according to the will of the founder , only so far as that is practicable and agreeable to the present state of society . The moral obligation depends upon the law of the laud . There may

    be trusts for purposes once legal but now illegal . Aa act of parliament or a decree of a court , may make it a moral duty to apply a trust to different purposes from those originally contemplated by the institutor . This is the justification of the application of property left for Roman Catholic to Protestant uses .

    A benefactor , a century ago , directed part of his estate to be employed in giving away the Assembly ' s Catechism . The Court of Chancery has determined that the trustees may give another catechism more suited to the theology of the times . No wrong is done to the fouuder bv the trustees

    acting upon the Chancery decree ; for this plain reason , that every deed of trust is formed under the knowledge that it will be expounded , and may in particulars be overruled , by a court of equity .

    Suppose a benevolent person , before Dr . Jenner ' s time , had Jeft a sum of money for the establishment of *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1825, page 262, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2536/page/6/