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    to them , to consider the subject preparatory to its being brought forward at the general meeting this day . It therefore only remains , that the subject be now diseassed , and if the proposed alteration shall appear desirfflS . that the same be forthwith adopted .-. _ _ 1 _ - —_ - , „__

    Amongst the ordinary business which has come under the no > Jce of your Committee during the past year , the important question has again arisen , whether a Dissenter

    in going to his usual place of religious worship on Sundays is exempt from turnpike toll . Your Committee have been solicited to take up a case of that kind , which they have done under the advice of an eminent

    counsel . The cause is now in progress for trial , and your Committee entertain no doubt , that the result will establish the exemption claimed , which , though , of small moment to

    the party immediately concerned , yet , as a general principle , applicable to all Dissenters , is of great importance ; and it was this consideration which induced your Committee to undertake the cause .

    The other usual matters which have come under the notice of your Committee , during the past year , relate to complaints against ministers and trustees of congregations , or connected with endowments supposed

    to belong to different churches . Some of these matters your Committee have declined to interfere in , and others have been attended to by them , agreeably to the circumstances of the case and the wishes of the parties ; but none of them are of sufficient

    importance to require particular notice in the present report . Rojjkrt WiNTijm , Sec . 10 , Ikafonj Ro ^ v .

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    FOURTEEN REASONS WHY DISSENTERS SHOULD NOT SUBMIT TO HAVE THEIR MARRIAGES CELEBRATED AT THE ALTAR OF A CONSECRATED BUILDING , BE * FORE CLERGYMEN BELONGING TO A CHURCH TO WHICH THEY CANNOT CONSCIENTIOUSLY . CONFORM .

    1 . Because the marriage contract being , at least so far as it properly falls under the cognizance of the Legislature , a common , in . distinction from a religious engagement , sliould be regarded by the law merely as a civil transaction .

    2 * Because no sacred rite having been , by Divine appointment , appended to matrimony , any solemn form of celebration which in effect converts this contract into a religious ceremony , savours strongly of superstition , and gives countenance to the erroneous doctrine of the Romish Church , that marriage is a sacrament . " '

    3 . Because the imposition of a specific form of religious service , on any class of Nonconformists , on this or any other occasion , is a flagrant violation of the most sacred right of every human being , to worship God according to the dictates of his own

    co . 4 . J 3 ecause the outward observance of any religious service , in virtue of a command emanating merely from human authority , * involves a person in the guilt of treating the only object of all true worship with

    mockery ; and must , even though performed in extenuating circumstances , be displeasing \ in the sight of Him who * searoheftr the heart , f and . who , being a Spirit , can be worshipped only in * spirit and in truth . 4

    5 , Because such compliance , on the part of Dissenters , tends to neu " tralize and nullify that open testi * * John v . 41 . f 1 Chron . xxviii , 9 , 1 John iv , 24 ,

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    62 UNITARIAN CHRONICLE .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1833, page 62, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2607/page/30/