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    its commencement , many readers would , I am Sure , desire to see in the Monthly Repository . DlSCIPULUS .

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    Hugh Peter * in America . To the Editor . Sir , It can scarcely fail to excite a melancholy reflection in consulting the story of some who have eminently served their generation , when we observe how harmless eccentricities , encouraged , perhaps , by the false taste of their age and

    country , have been magnified into faults , while rare virtues have been slightly mentioned , if not overlooked and forgotten . Thus their memories , as to whom " the people should tell of their wisdom , and the congregation shew forth their praise , " have been defrauded of well-earned reputation , aud the influence of fair examples to " mould a future age , " has been lost to posterity .

    I was led to offer this remark from having very lately observed an authentic record of zealous attention to the public interest , during the occupancy of an influential station , in the conduct of Hugh Peters . That name , I am aware , could not be mentioned without exciting a smile or a sarcasm among those whose historical researches have been confined to our Humes and Clarendons , or to that servum pecus , their humble imitators .

    Yet the fair fame , of Hugh Peters has not been left without vindication in your Repository . From several passages in various volumes of the former series , and especially from a memoir by the late Mr . Samuel Parkes , may be discovered the honourable and useful occupations of his life , his manly courage

    and Christian resignation under the infliction of barbarities scarcely paralleled even in the barbarous age of the Resto ration , and , at length , his patient endurance of a horrible death . His early contributions to the now rapidly advancing prosperity of the United States , are , 1 believe , yet unrecorded among your instructive pages . Wonder

    The author of the " -working Providence of Sion ' s Saviour iu New England , " published in 1654 , says ( p . 79 ) i " 1635 , This year came over the famous servant of Christ , Mr . Hugh Peters , whose courage was not inferior to any of those transported servants of Christ ; but because his native soil hath had the greatest share of his labours , the less will be said of him here . " Hugh Peters , now at the age of thirty-

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    six , was immediately chosen minister o ( Salem * In 1641 he returned t&Engfctod on a mission front the colony , add remained here , taking no unimportant share , as might hare been expected , In the political transactions of that interesting period . What he had done , amidst the cares of his ministry , ( which he was too sincere and zealous to have neglected , ) to aid the progress of civilization through the wilderness , I find thus described by Dr . Holmes ;

    ** The historian of Salem ascribes the rapid improvements in that town to the influence of Mr . Peters , during the five years of his ministry . ' The arts were introduced , a water-mill was erected , a glass-house , salt-works , the planting of hemp was encouraged , and a regular

    market was established . An almanack was introduced to direct their affairs .. Commerce had unexampled glory . He formed the plan of the fishery , of the coasting voyages , of the foreign voyages ; aud among many other vessels , one of three hundred tons was undertaken nn

    der his influence /"—Amer . Ann . ( 1808 ) 1 . 263 . Thus was the leisure occupied of a learned and diligent theologian , concerning whom ridiculous tales have been multiplied , till he has been too often regarded as a mere religious buffoon . Burke too , it will be recollected , when he would insult Dr . Price , a man of whose philanthropic patriotism he was

    utterly incapable , by a degrading comparison , has ventured , in violation of historic testimony , concerning which he could be scarcely ignorant , to describe Hugh Peters as nothing better , than " a barbarian delighting in blood . " Yet , after all the base attempts of rancour or ridicule to degrade and vilify , the name of Hugh Peters will justly occupy an honourable station among those

    Invent as qui vitatn excoluere per artes , Quique mi memores altos fecire merendo . or , as faithful Trapp says , rather than sings , " Those who polish'd life With arts invented , or consigu'd their names To memory , by well-deserving deeds . " VINDEX .

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    True Worshipers . To the Editor . Sir , In the announcement of the annual meeting of the Southern Unitarian fund , in your last publication , gratifying as it

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    [ Occasional Correspondence . 861

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1828, page 861, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2567/page/61/