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    means not tt > be satirical , when he ccmjpares reason ^ to the solar light , -and revelation to a /« w /> -enlightening freason ' s path . JTfce change of - * ihim " -valo *' him-\ " ' jelf ) in theSthartieleof the Quakers -Cfreed , seems , at first sight , atrocious . , But when we remember for a moment

    their sincere and imdonbtiag * belief in the identity of the Father and the Son , it can scarcely be called the literary or even pious fraud it seems to-be . Plan for relieving- Chapel Debt * There is one feature in this plan , which appears to be excellent . It is that of

    making the amount of the whole debt a kind of sinking fund , to be paid off gradually and annually in easy instalments by the subscribers . There are thousands with small salaries , and other moderate , though sure incomes , to whom it would perhaps be less

    formidable to subscribe , in prospect a guinea annually for ten years , than to pay two guineas at the moment . Why could not the most or all of your chapel-debts in England be paid Off by these prospective subscriptions ? Either the debt might be funded , if

    the creditor chose , in such a subscription , or , if the whole sum were required to be immediately paid down , would not capitalists be found in your calculating country , who would advance at once a proper amount of purchase-money , and take the subscriptions at their own risk ?

    Society for the Relief of Protestant Dissenting Ministers JVidows . An institution so essentially Christian , and so entirely unexceptionable in every point of view , that I cannot but confidently trust , that this Appeal of the

    Society has succeeded to the utmost of its modest claims , and reasonable , though hesitating wishes . It may partake too much of patriot-egotism , for me to refer so frequently as I do to institutions and things in my own country , when suggested by corresponding objects in England . . But

    having so frequently observed in * the pages of the Repository , an interest taken in American religious affairs , * I hope to be somewhat , shelteredvby that circumstance from the charge of obtruaiveness and presumption when I undertake to communicate any little ¦ points of ecclesiastical information whith happen to be as "familiar to

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    tny ear as household words . " There is a pretty exact counterpart to the above-mentioned Society , in the State Qf Massachusetts . Jt is confined , however , to members of the Independent denomination , which has always been very predominant in that

    commonwealth . The funds of the Society are ample and increasing , and the current resources of each year are augmented by a collection taken on the day after the annual election of Governor in Boston , on the occasion of a sermon being preached before the

    Convention of Congregational Ministers of the State . With regard to this Convention , its objects are not very definite or prominent . It is rather continued for moral and social , than for political or ecclesiastical purposes . Attempts have been made . to

    give it some authority in the churches , and to convert it into an engine of intolerance . But the liberal spirit of the age frowned them dowp . The Convention is at present composed of nearly equal portions , of Unitarian and Calvinist ministers , and a rul $ has tacitly been adopted , and Adhered to

    with tolerable consistency for a length of time , to choose for the preachers of each succeeding year , an orthodox and a liberal minister alternately . About two hundred members generally assemble ,, and a most generous dinner is provided for # ie Convention by some of the graceless Unitarian churches of Boston .

    Captain Giffbrd on Bishop Burgess's Speech . The Bishop of St . David ' s ejyoys his dignity and revenue ; but < yapt . Gifford ., Jias the satisfaction of nobly . defending the ( rig ht side ;

    Ci Victrix causa Diis placuit , sed victa Catoni . ' Capt . G . might have studied a little more lucid method . In one part of his Essay he says , " I now Jake up Jus qvyn . opinions and arguments as they bear against hit ^ seljV After

    jjrqsseutjjigj - ^ is ^ sk ^ ^ or a wJiile to < $ i he { JiscomJiture n ot the Bisjhop , he # ! gain > says , " Aipd Jhow ^ o ; tjie Bishop ' s arguments reactupon \ hirtiself > Thii ? quesftjop is somewhat ^ w } e ^^ f ajxd at .. leasts unu ^ c ^^ Vy ^ ' VfW «^ writer is in t f lie ^ mi ^^^ eer ' . ot , ) tur 3 n S hi ^ i oppp ^ nt ' s ^ jgi ^ ments . upon him >

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    325 Critical Synopsis of the Monthly Repository for June , 1824 .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1825, page 326, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2537/page/6/