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    THE GENEVAN CHURCH.

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    Mr . Sylvanus Gihbs has for nearly thirteen years given his time and valuable labour gratuitously . It is hardly probable that he will be able to continue his zealous work for another such period . No provision can be made for another minister until

    their debt is liquidated . It is worthy ofTeinarkv ^ thatniany of-the ~ congregation contributed many days' labour , unable to afford any other aid , towards the erection of the chapel . Sundeeland . —tinder the ministry of Mr . John Wright , during the last year additional sittings have been taken in the newly erected chapel ,

    and the regular audiences have very much increased ; but in consequence of the interest of their debt , and other expenses , the congregation has been unable to give Mr , Wright more than 201 . for the past year . In these circumstances it is only by aid from the Committee of this Association and from the friends of the cause

    at NewcasJle-upon-Tyne , that Mr . Wright is enabled to continue his . services . The removal of the pressure of the debt upon the chapel is therefore a matter of the utmost importance . York College Missionary

    SopiJSTY . —The students of this college continue their plan of preaching at the various places in the neighbourhood of York , They have this year extended their labours , and the committee hj ^ ye afforded them a small grant ; but they feel that their case is worthy of the sympathy and

    support of the Unitarian public Northampton . —The interesting circumstances of this Society are well known to the Unitarian public ; but the Committee feel it deserving of every attention and Support , and respectfully recommend it to the Fellowship Funds .

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    46 UNITARIAN CHRONICLE .

    The Genevan Church.

    THE GENEVAN CHURCH .

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    Sir , —As you do not append any editorial remarks to . the letter of J , G . on ? Religious Liberty at * < 3 re *

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    neva , ' inserted in the last number of the Unitarian Chronicle , I presume that you leave to me the task of answering it . This I shall endeavour to do very briefly , for I am not fond of controversy , and I have no desire to be drawn into a lengthened discussion on this occasion .

    - ^ T ^ eg ^ to ^ say'thenT-th ^ at ^ after ^ are ^ fully reviewing what I wrote in your number for October , I see no reason either to retract , or to qualify , what I have advanced . The question , let it be remembered , is not the abstract justness or expediency of an established church ; ( on that point your

    correspondent and I are , I imagine , completely at one ;) but whether , supposing a man to have once entered into an established church , and promised to abide by its regulations , he is not bound either to keep his promise , or to retire altogether from the

    society ; and whether , on the other hand , a church is not perfectly justified in ej ^ rcigg . _ ife .. itftadgig .. ' Qr 4 ej : j on every ostensible member of its body . My sentiments on these points are only those of an individual , yet I am not ashamed to avow them ; et valeant quantum valere possint .

    On the first of these questions , then , I must say , that if I had united myself with a certain society , and in so doing had brought myself under an expressed or an implied

    obligation to comply with certain regulations , I .. j ? tal 4 ... iw .... tte . event of a change in my opinions on anyessen ^ tial point either of doctrine or of discipline , think myself bound in honour to retire from the connexion . In

    such a case , * the eloquent plea of interest would present to me not even a momentary obstacle ; and as to ' a sublimer ' affection for my flock , ' if that flock valued my services , and were convinced that from my lips more than from any other flowed the words of sound doctrine ,

    they might profit by my instructions as well in a dissenting conventicle as in the national church ; nor would I giye w $ h for #$ H' $$ aL i ^ esUi

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1833, page 46, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2607/page/14/