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Different ministers were proposed to us as his successor . They were of different degrees of orthodoxy : some Calvimstic , some Arminian , some Baxierian , and some who weire called Arian . Our society were natirrally led on this occasion to consider what
were their sentiments , and upon what views of Christian doctrine they should wish to be addressed by their future minister : when it appeared that what had been the case in our family , had been the case also in fourfifths of the families composing the
congregation , and that not only we the descendants and living representatives of the gentleman by whose exertions principally the chapel was erected , and by whom it had been so handsomely endowed , but that a large majority of the suns of the other persons who had contributed to its
erection , and who had subscribed to the deed by which it was set apart for the worship of Gad by Protestant Distenters , were inclined to invite , as our ininister , the candidate whose doctrinal sentiments were the farthest removed from orthodoxy . We were unanimous in our next
choice of a minister : but on another occasion , which occurred above twenty-five years ago , two ministers were proposed to us , one of whom was of orthodox sentiments , and the
other very much heterodox . There was a decided and large majority for the latter ; but one trustee and two families , members of the congregation , withdrew thems&lves .
Since that time we have been an harmonious , and , I may add , flourishing society : but it is with alarm that I have lately beard that a society is formed in London , who meditate the dispossession of us and of other con * gregations similarly situated , of this
chapel , built by our ancestors and endowed by them . I should , I own , be sorry to be turned by force out of the seat which has been occupied fojr considerably more than a century by
our family , and where 1 have attended the worship of God for more than seventy years ; and I cannot bring myself , at my time of life , to think tJiat t the attempt is becoming Christians , Protestants or !>*§ senter * . ONE OF A HUNDRED .
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On Mr . Tonlmzn and the Unitarian . Congregation at Lexington . 81
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London Institution , StR , \ Dec . 5 , 1818 . IN answer to an inquiry ip the Repository for October last , fXHL 615 , ] by Mr . Rutt , respecting the existence of a small Unitarian society
at Lexington , in Kentucky , to whom the Rev . Harry , now Judge Toulmin was pastor , 1 have it in my power ta state the following particulars . I may first premise , lhat the letters ^ of introdueti 6 n which Mr . Toulmin took
with him from England in the year 1793 , were to many of the first characters in America , as the late General Washington , Mr . Jefferson , Mr . Madison and the present President , Monroe . Witlt respect to theological opinions or religious professions , he had often occasion to observe , in
American society , a liberality which , to the enthusiast , might appear thfc effect of an indifference to , or a superficial acquaintance with those subjects . In his travels through the United States he frequently preached , and as his discourses were chiefly moral and
practical , his peculiar tenets were in a great measure unknown . He waa first invited to the presidental chair at Winchester College , in Shenendoah Valley , which was afterwards ably filled by Montrose Christie , until his zeal for the Unitarian doctrine
prompted him not only to take every opportunity to broach it in private , but at length to challenge a public discussion in the newspapers . Many of the trustees who respected and valued him highly as a moral character and able tutor , were disgusted , not so much with his tenets , as his taste for
and manner of proclaiming them . He was , therefore , obliged to resign } . and thus himself and a large family were once more reduced to great straits and difficulties . This , by way of caution to Unitarian adventurers who cross the Atlantic , not to let their zeal over * run their prudence .
When Mr . Toulmin fixed at Lexington , in Kentucky , as President of the Transylvania College , he advertised that there . would be weekly service on the Sabbath-day in the
College , which was accordingly attended by a few of the moat respectable families in the place . They were of that description who , diegutted with the ignorance , fanaticism
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1819, page 81, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1769/page/13/
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