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AEMARKS ON THE LIFE OF MR . EVANSON . ** ¦ » To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , Had your correspondent J . S ., in his ieal for the reputation of the late Mr . Evarison , confined his panegyrics to the talents and personal virtues of the deceased , all possible allowance might have been made for the warmth of friendship ; but the
love of truth , more especially on subjects of the last importance , ought to be paramount to every otner consideration , * I find it therefore impossible to pass over the encomiums of your co--respondent on the peculiar opinions of Mr . E « without entering , on the behalf of myself and others of your readers , the friends of genuine Christianity , a protest against them , as being , in our judgment at least s equally extravagant and unjust .
Mr . Evanson ' s biographer has thought proper to state , €€ that his ( Mr . E . ' s ) peculiar excellence consisted in his endeavouring to display Christianity in its native simplicity , by which it is as intelligible now to the poor and humble , as it was when taught by Jesus and his apostles to the Jewish and Gentile multitude ; and / ' he adds . < 4 it will be found that the end of all his
writings was to promote this great and benevolent design */* Blessings for ever be on the head , immortal honors attend the memory of that man , who successfully rescues genuine Christianity from those perplexities and corruptions in which it has been involved by the heads of different sects and parties !
Whether Mr . Evanson ' s labours in general have a tendency to promote so noble a design , may perhaps be determined by a reference to his principal writings . I shall confine myself to a few of those noticed by your correspondent , and shall leave the Subject to the judgment of your readers .
In the first place , Mr . Evanson seems to have strenuously endeavoured to annihilate tjieobservance of the Christian sabbath . Whoever has rea ^ T the controversy between him and Dr . Priestley on this subject , will , I think , have little doubt , who , on Christian principles , had the best of the argument .
How admirably the non-observance of one day in seven , as a day of rest from secular employments , and of public worship , would tend to ct display Christianity in its native simplicity , and to render it plain and intelligible to the poor and huinble , " let every sincere Christian judge .
In the second place , it appears to have been a project which lay near the heart of Mr . Evanson , to set aside the belief , not only of the inspiration , but of the authenticity of several of the * Monthly Repos . for Fcb » p . 61 ..
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1806, page 247, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1724/page/23/
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