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    and common sense , compel the minority " to submit to the alternative of either joining in a ceremony at which their consciences revolt , or of foregoing the enjoyments of the rights of human nature . Now to this question the Freethinking '

    Christians , without hesitation , answer No ; and to this answer , I should think , every rational and impartial man must give his assent , especially when it is considered that the marriage contract , though

    unquestionably of high importance , is in reality altogether a civil one , and in its nature no more a part of religion than the indentures of an apprentice , or a contract of partnership between two traders .

    4 t . May I be allowed , Sir , without offence , to say , that the hint you gave them about cohabiting without any legal marriage , is open to such obvious and manifold objections , that J presume it must have been very hastily written , and I have no doubt you now wish it had never been committed to paper .

    u this is not the only part of your strictures which bears marks of haste ; there is another part which perfectly astonishes ine—I mean where vou seeta to think you have convicted tne Freethinking Christians of a blunder , in supposing that persons to be married have to

    repeat the names of the persons in the Trinity , You tell them , that the clergyman * will excuse them from repeating theiuu , if they will allow Mm to repeat theinP Now , Sir , if you will take the trouble to look into your Prayer Book , you will find that every man at his

    marriage is under the necessity of repeating after the priest the following words : — < With this ring I thee wed ; with my body I thee worship ; and with all my worldly goods I thee endow—in the name of the Father , and of the Son , and of the Holy Ghost . ' Now , Sir , if these

    denominations do not mean the persons , who are , presently after , called c God the Father , God the Son , God the Holy Ghost '—in other words , if they are not the names of what are usually called the three persons in the Trinity , then I shall be glad to be informed by you what they do mean .

    " W . S . " Regent ' s Park , Dec . 21 . " To this letter the Times , thus convicted of carelessness and ignorance ,

    offered the following' explanation : the subdued tone of which must , as we conceive , be deemed far more fitting the occasion and the subject , than the presuming and oracular style it IfUd heretofore assumed :

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    € C We insert a letter on the subject of Dissenting marriages , signed * W . S ., the best of many we have received , chiefly for the purpose of noticing an error of our own . It is certain that in looking over the ceremony , the passage cited in the letter somehow or other escaped our notice ; and observing only the other passage in which the priest pronounces the couple ' and wife , in the name of the Father , Son , and Holy Ghost / we too hastily concluded that that was the

    only passage in which the persons of the Trinity were introduced . The other parts of the letter we leave to work what good or harm it may to the cause which it espouses . "

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    474 Proposal of Unitarian Warship at Durham .

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    Durham , Sir , July 25 , 1325 . IT has long" been a matter of regret not only with me , but with many of the most respectable inhabitants of this city , that amongst the various places of worship set apart for different denominations of Christians , there

    should not be one for the followers and admirers of the Unitarian creed , a class of people who are numerous in Durham , but who are obliged to attend the worship of the Establishment

    or the Dissenters , from their not having a chapel of their own . I trust this statement may be the means of remedying the deficiency complained of . There is an excellent room in

    Durham , adjoining the Queen ' s Head , ( our principal inn , ) rented by J . G . Lambton , Esq ., who very seldom makes any use of it , and I doubt not but if that generous and noble-minded individual were applied to , that the Unitarians might have it at a

    very reasonable rate ; and till such time as a chapel could be erected , and till we could support a regular minister , we might be supplied from the York College . Should this plan be

    adopted , I would strongly recommend that our worship should be liturgical , as the majority of Unitarians here arc opposed to extempore praying , which from the specimens we have of it here , 13 enough to disgust any man of sense . rilJLO-UNITAS . *

    * Our respectable correspondent has given his name with his commun ication . Ed .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1825, page 474, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2539/page/20/