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    « What is it to be a Christian ?" And cc Why are you a Christian V * We do not agree with Mr . J . that— It were to be wished , that by unanimous consent we could at once forget the names of

    Caiviiiist arid Arminian , of Athanasian and Unitarian . " If there-be different modes of faith , they surely require to be designated by diffeient terms * The di fie re nee may ( though we see not why it should ) be

    disagreeablej but do we get rid nf a disagreeable thing by forbearing to name it ? And why proscribe only the appellations Calvinist and Arminian 9 Athanasian and Unitarian ? Why not expunge the denominations Protestant and

    Papist * Nay , why not abolish the use of the term Christian , which is a sectarian term , which marks a division in the religious opi ~

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    To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .

    Silver-street , Edmonton , SIR , May 15 , 1809 . Should you think the verses * I herewith send you worthy a place in your respectable Repository , they are much at your service .

    It is necessary to mention , that the author , 1 V 1 aster John Weller , has read but very little English Poetry . He has not read Thomson's Seasons , and it is a full twelvemonth ago since he looked into Milton ' s Paradise JLost , and then he only perused a very few pa ^ es of it .

    I can vouch for his veracity in these particulars , as well as upon every other occasion , for he is a youth of uncommonly good principles . It is hie first attempt at English verse , and when I requested him to try the subject in verse , he objected to it ; however I at last prevailed . Sir , your most obedient servant , THOMAS SIMONS .

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    nions of fh&fcfcin # artd wTifcfc has excited as much ill bl 6 o < f ti& the most obnoxious expression in the vocabulary of schism . There is little ground for the opinion that

    tho name of Christian was adopted in the first instance by the believ . ers of the gospel , much less b y apostolic direction ; the probabu lity is , that it was given to the members of the church at Antiocli ,.. by the Romans in that city , as a nick-name , or term of reproach , and that , like the modern denominations Quaker and

    JVfgthodist ^ it soon grew into such general use as to become purely descriptive , and not at all reproachful , and in this manner crept into the chuixh itself . Had it been

    imposed by the sanction of Paul , at the early period commonly imagined , it would , we think , have been used by him in his epistles .

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    To describe either in Prose or Verse , the most remarkable Phenomena of Nature ^ which at company the Return ofSpring ¦

    Stern winter ' s vanish'd , and now clearly gone , And with it aU its horrid train of frosts , And storms tremendous , and of Scythian

    snows ; And boreas raging blasts—O happy change ! The spring , the glorious spring appears , array ed In ev ' ry beauty , that or tongue can tcll Or heart conceive ! O charming heav ' flly scene !

    What joy ineffable , what pure delight , Pervades th * enraptur'd soul , and » pAA ling beams In each admiring eye ! Kind pnoebu * lends / His renovating rays ^ and smilw * ben ? g » i

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1809, page 342, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1737/page/40/