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nister of the Unitarian Chapel , Edinburgh . 12 mo . pp . 124 . WHEN Mr . Wright visited Scotland last year , he agreed at the request of friends to preach a Sermon at Falkirk for the benefit of the Charity School in that place [ M . Repos . x . 255 ] . The managers , howx ever , gave public notice that they
would receive no heretical money : this led to a newspaper and magazine discussion , in which the managers of the School and the Editor of the
Edinburgh Christian Instructor displayed a vulgar and contemptible bigotry . A Letter of Mr . Smith ' s , for instance , was copied from a newspaper into the Instructor ( a magazine ) and animadverted on in the very spirit of rudeness : —to these
animadversions Mr . Smith sent a reply : the Editor of the work , in his answer to correspondents , tells him that if he expects his reply to be inserted he must be very foolish or very impudent . Give circulation to heresy !
No , no . The Christian Instructor "was set up to put heresy down . — Thus treated , Mr . Smith appeals to the public , and we have no doubt that in Scotland paticularly , his "Appeal" will promote the cause of liberality ., charity and truth .
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and we could not help thinking , that if the act must be put in motion , its direction against those , who make God unrighteous in taking vengeance , would be quite as proper , as against him who maintains that God is one oerson . But we should prefer
dispensing with its interference altogether , being persuaded that legislators are not always the best divines , and recollecting that law , and that among Christians , has sometimes stamped its sanction upon blasphemy , while it has delivered over truth and piety to ecclesiastics and the flames . M .
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Review . —Horf . s Picture of Nature . 68 $
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Art . II- —The Duty and Manner of Deciding the more Important Religious Controversies . A Sermon , preached on Sunday , May 14 , 1815 , at the Unitarian Chapel , in Carruber ' s Close , Edinburgh ; before the Third Annual Meeting of the General Association of the Unitarians
of Scotland . By James Yates , M . A . 12 mo . pp . 38 . Glasgow printed ; Sold by Eaton , London . MR . YATES has furnished a sermon of great worth on Elijah ' s remonstrance , 1 Kings xviii . 21 . fle applies the words of the prophet
to the present state of opinions in this country , then obviates the various excuses which men commonly urge for declining the examination of the most important religious controversies , and afterwards describes the dispositions with which such an examination
ought to be conducted , and the proper employment of religious truth when discovered . Every part of this plan is well executed . The language and manner of the discourse are serious and affecting- We recommend the Sermon to such of our brethren
as make a boast of their theological moderation—that is , such as do not go great lengths in religious inquiry . The Sermon is dedicated , in a handsome letter , to the Honourable Douglas Gordon Hally burton , of Pitcur .
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Art . III . —An Appeal to the Serious and Candid Professors of Christianity < , tn bthalf of Unitarian Christians ; in Answer to "A Man of the Falkirk Charity School , " and to the Editor of the Edinburgh Christian Instruct tor . By T . South wood Smith , Mi-
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Art . IV . —The Picture of Nature , or A . General Survey of the Principal Objects of the Creation ^ which present themselves to the Observation of Man c calculated to convey Miscellaneous Instruction to Young
Persons , and to direct their Attention to the Great First Cause . By Wm . Jiilard Hort , 12 mo . pp . 142 . Longman and Co . 1814 . PARENTS and instructors are indebted to Mr . Ilort for a very instructive and pleasing present to children . This little volume embraces
only one part of the Picture , viz . " The Unorganized World : being a General Description of those Substai ; ces and Bodies which have not Parts or Organs of Vitality . " It is so well executed that we hope the author wilt go on to complete the Picture . Many above the age of children will find here matter of
instruction and gratification . We would suggest to Mr . Ilort that in a new edition of this First Part it would be desirable to substitute some other chapter for the present % lutf en-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1815, page 653, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1765/page/53/
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