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call administration religieuseproceeds from the unpleasant medley that Na- ^ poleon's law formed between our presbyterian organisation and the civil power of the state * Twelve elders , named by the people , represent a congregation legally , and are deemed a consistoire . This assembly represents the churchT ^ in tKe ^ eyes of ~ TlTe ~ st " aTe 7 but can do little unless the minister
des cultes confirms its resolutions . No pastor with us is considered as legally established till his appointment by the consistory is ratified by the king " , and no pastor can be removed or changed without the same formality . The question of deciding when this permission of the king must be given or withheld is the principal object of what is called here Vadministration
des cultes Protestants , As the minister des cultes is always u Catholic , and often a priest , he usually appoints an under administra * tor for Protestant affairs , who is chosen of the Protestant faith . It was this
place of Directeur des Cultes non Calholiques that was held for a Jong time hy Baron G . Cuvier , whom science will mourn in England as well as in France . For our Protestant churches his death is a real loss . His administration was firm and impartial , and he began to grow well acquainted with the arts and fanaticism of our
Methodist party . As his death took place soon after his confirmation of the rernQyal from the church of Lyons of M . A . Monody president-pastor , to whom the consistory of that church had several times signified his dismissal , on account of his furious and mystical Calvinism , of course our saints attribute Cuviers death to the
vengeance of Heaven . The Monod family , whose head M . Monod , senior , of Paris , is one of our most liberal ministers , is sorely wounded by the influence of Methodism . Another son , M . G . Monod , pastor at St . Quentin , has been driven by Methodism to nctuul insanity . The appearance of the cholera , and the influence of the tlisgusting exhibitions of the unknown
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tongues in England , joined with a melancholic and gloomy turn of mind , have ended in madness . This unfortunate young man has been re ? moved from his church , and is under medical treatment in one of the establishments near Paris for patients of his class . He is a man of rare moral
qualifies , ! of excdtenf "h ^ aTt ^ and ^ without talent . We all pity him ;— * he is a victim of Methodism ! Respecting Cuvier , I must add that he undertook the affairs of Directeur des Cultes non Calholiques gratis , that is to say , he refused the emolument of 10 , 000 fr . It is true that he had ,
at his death , a whole assembly of political and scientific situations , amounting in all to above 50 , 000 fr . per annum . This is certainly with us a good round sum ; but such a man as Cuvier was well worth that and a great deal more . As for Cuvier ' s political career , there is not much good to say of it : he was a man of mild cha *
racter , and , of course , a liberal at heart . His political principles can 1 ) 6 resumed in one phrase , or in one maxim , which is this : to administer public business and frame the best laws possible under every government
whatever . He did not carry this to extremes : for example , he refused ^ under Peyronnet , the office of the censorship of our political papers . As for his religion , 1 do not believe he had much of any kind ; however , he died and was buried a Lutheran . His
cousin , M . R . Cuvier , a man of liberal mind in all things , is now one of the ministers of the Lutheran congregation in Paris . "We have had a second election to the place of pastor in the Parisian church , —an election of a religious spirit quite contrary to the first . M * A . Coquerel has been appointed pas ~ teiir adjoint , and his principles are considered as being as adverse to Methodism as those of the other
appointed pasteur , M . Monod , junior , are considered as favourable to it . The second election may be looked upon a & a correctif of the first . This
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UNITARIAN CHRONICLE * $ 1
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1832, page 91, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1717/page/11/
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