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stand in need of support ; and I would recommend that in every congregation there be an Auxiliary Society in behalf of one or more Unitarian
object , the Fund , the Academy , York College , the Christian Tract Society , the ( London ) Unitarian ( Book ) Society , or some one of the Country Book Associations . Where the
income of the Auxiliary Society is considerable , it might be divided according to the discretion of the members , amongst several or even all of these institutions . The benefit of Unitarian Auxiliary Societies would not be confined
merely to the institutions which they would assist . These minor associations would draw _ forth the young people of a congregation , encourage their zeal and public spirit , and prepare them for usefulness . Ministers who should sanction them , would , I apprehend , find them in a few years no mean supports of their ministry .
Happy should I be if this suggestion should produce the effect designed , and I should be gratified if the Rules of the first Auxiliary Society were to be inserted in your Magazine . For one , I mean to make the attempt , which I recommend to my brethren . An Unitarian Pastor , ^ rfy ^ lMkhnM- ^ - .
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$ 90 Occupations and Miracles of King Ferdinand Ytl .
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——~^^^» Occupations and Miracles of King JFwdiitand VII m [ From the Morning Chronicle . ^ rXlHJg occupations of King Ferdi-JL- nand during his captivity in France were alluded to by Mir .-
Whitbread in parliament . We have been , through the favour of a valuable correspondent , put in possession of the authentic document , setting forth the holy and miraculous works performed by Ferdinand , and we have been presented only by the overflow of tern-. porary ' matter ; from making an
extract for the improvement of our readers . The document is a Sermon , preached by Don Blax de Ostoloza , Chaplain Mayor of his Catholic Ma-^ € fc » ty , and his Confessor , The following is an extract . The Confessor begins by giving a picture of the life of the King at Valency :
u King , " says hey " rose at eight o ' clock ; heard mass , breakfasted , * u *< te afterwards a p * vty at bilHartls , entered , his ck ** t to tead Jus letters ,
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or some portion of ht > ly \ nrit , i ) n _ broidered ' at the tambour mi tto& o ' clock , at which time he took a short airing in a carriage—he dined on his return—made a short prayer , received
his brothers , or those who were admitted to pay their court to him , sup . ped , and before going to bed recited with all his household the Litanies which he toned himself . An agent of Napoleon , whose impious presence he was forced to endure , employed all means of seduction to draw the
infant from his holy occupations . He brought a troop of female dancejs from Paris , and even his awn wife to endeavour to charm the King ; but I perceived by certain signs ( adds the Confessor , whose words we translate
literally ) , that the breasts of these women indecently exposed , were be ginning to have a dangerous effect on the Prince , who was ready to fall into the seventh deadly sin . I admonished him in time , and like the slave of Potiphar , Don Ferdinand escaped these new syrens *
The King was above all things incensed at the poverty of the chief altar of the parish of valency ; and at there being in the chateau , a playhouse , while there was neither a chapel nor an oratory—while the people were luxurious in their furniture and
feasts , and miserable in the decoration of their temples . The K ing e nahroidered himself a beautiful robe of white silk , with gold pullets and gold fringe , for the Virgin . He had raised a superb altar , gilt , and he sometimes served himself the mass at the feet of the Queen of the Angels . The
Queen of the Angels was most - ble of these royal attentions , and mainfested to him her content by many signs , ft happened in particular tot one night an ecclesiastic of the district being overcome with sleep 1 ' the church , the Virgin appeared to him as coming oat of the altar--blie advanced towards the ecclesiastic , made several turns round him to display the elegance of her toilette , and said to him , sighing , that her son received the vows of the King in recompence of the fine robe that he nw given her j that the Spanish pnwj * would Hot remain J < nfg witho » V *^ delivered ; s * ad fchat th « y «* " ** **? an order of tb « Htoly ^^ YL which all the clieyrfiera should » c armed for his defence .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1815, page 290, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1760/page/26/
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