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States , which we arc happy to extract into our work : they relate to the state of religion at Boston , and to the design of erecting a church at Philadelphia , sacred to The One God . The following extract is from a letter dated , * Philadelphia , Sept . 28 , 1811 ; " Having * this summer made an excursion to Boston , perhaps a few particulars relative to the state of religious information there may not be unacceptable I shall proceed therefore , without farther preface , to give you this information . There is only one place of worship at Boston which is avowedly Unitarian ,
-viz . King s Chapel , originally an Episcopal j Church , and still so in regard to the mode of worship , except that the service has been freed from every thing relative to the trinity , atonement , &c . A new and improved Liturgy was published a few rnonths ago , which is now used in < - stead of the former one . The minister *
are , Mr . Freeman , a most excellent man , and Mr Cary a young gentleman of superior talents and great respectability . To see the harmony and kindness which subsists between these ministers is truly delightful , and the congregation is not deficient in paying them every proper mark of respect For years a /^
ter Mr . Freeman ' s settlement , the other ministers , with few exceptions , regarded him with considerable shyness , on account of his supposed heterodoxy , and because he had not l > ad clerical oidh&L " tion—but now , and for a considerable time pa 9 t 7 these prejudices have given way ; while the weight of his talents
and great goodness of his heart" have rendeied him the object' «> f high and general esteem . * Mr . Carey was not ordained in any other way than by Mr . Freeman laying his hand on his head , merely in the name of the congregation . 3 $ to minister was called to assist .: Of
late years , there has been a remarkable change in the congregational churehes at * Boston . Of this description , there are 9 ; ^ 9 of which are supplied by minis- ' ters differing more or less on various topics , but all living in great harmony with each ' other and with Messrsi
Freeman and Carey , with whom they occasionally exchange pulpits , reading the King ' s Chapel service , when they preach there , arfd oft the ~ other hand , Messrs . r A icW days ago , Mr . Freeman had the 4 cgrce o £ D . Z > , from Harvard Unfr verftira ; :
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F . and . C . when in a congregational pulpit , conduct the prayers after the congregational mode In most of the congregational churches , Belknap *' i collection is used . Mr . Buckmiaster uses Tate and Brady ' s , and a serectrtm compiled by himself . Ere long , Belknap ' s book must be discarded , for all the 8 ministers
alluded to are ami-calvinistic arid armtrinitarian . The mode of preaching which prevails among them is rational and instructive The congregations are made up of no inconsiderable proportion
of hrerary arid professional men ; for , in New England , great attention is paid to public worship , To stay habitually at home , would be ' deemed disreputable The churches , generally speaking , are supplied with organs . Every min stejr is considered as a m i nister of the town
generally , and as tjtic frend of his own hearers in particular . The ministers of Boston and its vicinity hold meetings at each other ' s houses in rotation once every fortnight , for the examination " of candidates , and for Friendly ' advice and social intercourse ; at these meetings you may see Unitarians . Ariahs and Trinitarians ,
lndiscrirriinately— -afs also at the weekly Thursday niorhing Lecture , which' is preached by orthodo * and heter < id 6 x men' alternatel y I ne * ard two <> f tn . e " se one by Mr . Catfey * ' quite an IXnitarfon discourse ; thb ^ dthfer , by a Mi ? . Codman , in the trlie style of an pld puritan . By the bye , Dr Osgood , wnose sermon . was animadveVtdd oh in the MontHly
Repository , vol . v . 606 is a high C ^ lvihi ^ tt of a wslrm and a ffectionate temper and of great liberality arid candb ^ rbn theological subjects . His sympathj e ^ are with the >^ nii-CalVinists , and if any of'his own fblks show aii ^ thing like bigotry , —Dr . O .- is th ^ ir champion . He is therefore a gfeat ra ^ cbiirite with the' Boston rriinisters . As io politics ,
they all think alike . The preaching of political sermoris ha& long been customary in New England" —I mean tin' weekdays—they have election ! sermons , artillery sermons , Set &c . —The Presbyterians of the middle states , finding that so many of the congregational churches had departed from the old faith , erected a fine new churcb at Boston to promote
revivals . _ It is supplied by otic Dr . Griffin , who' had been extremely popitlar in New Jersey '; buth ( £ has ' teUlfy down ift Boston . The ch ( Jrdr * is de " ef > ly ir t dtbt , half tht tocwi ' are yet to let / artd the good main himielf ; by nm wtuYnint
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SS Intelligence * — Unitarianism in America .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1812, page 56, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1744/page/56/
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