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Mr . F . had received a liberal education , but was not acquainted with Hebrew . That he might be able to go to the fountain head , he determined to study the Hebrew . He did so with effect , and spent two years in the
closest reading and study , with a view , principally , as he has since told me , to be able to convince me of my erroneous and dangerous opinions . But , mark the event ! He became convinced that I was right , and that
he was in error . He determined , therefore , to leave the Presbytery which he had joined . He had , in the mean time , become an assistant preacher to the late Dr . Holliushead of Charleston . After the Doctor ' s
death , some of those who wished to oust Mr . F . from his situation , that they might have a chance of getting into it , insinuated that Mr . F / s opinions were unsound . The elders of
the Church wished him to sign their articles . Mr . F . refused , declaring , that he would sign no creed but the Bible . This produced much noise , and finally produced Mr . F / s ejecttion from his situation . His friends
immediately left the Church , and determined upon establishing a new one . They met at first in a public hall of the city , but when the pew-holders of the old Church met , it appeared that there was a majority in favour of Mr . F- A division of the Church
was resolved upon , ( for the congregation had two places of worship , at which Dr . Palmer and Mr . F . preached alternately ); the one congregation took the Circular , and the other the
Archdale Church ; and thus the matter stands , Mr . F . having much the largest congregation , which is daily increasing , so that they talk of enlarging their Church .
" Several publications have appeared on the subject , in which it is generally allowed that Mr . F . has greatly the advantage . He is remarkably cool and collected . " [ Before the proceedings related in
the above extract had takeu place , the Editor had , by means of a common friend , commenced acquaintance with two gentlemen in South Carolina , and enjoyed the pleasure of making , by their desire and for their use , an assortment of books on the Unitarian controversy . ]
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Q 4 & Slate of Religion in Kentucky .
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The State of Religion hi Kentucky : being Extracts front Letters of Mr * U . Flower * s a Settler in the Illinois Territory . Hackney Road , Sir , April 7 , 1819-1 HAVE lately received letters from my brother , Richard Flower , who , as it is well known to many of your readers , emigrated last spring from this country to America . He em-^
barked in a vessel from Liverpool to New York , had a very pleasant voyage , and proceeded with his family , in better health than they had enjoyed in their own country , for Philadelphia , in the delightful neighbourhood of which they remained for several
weeks . They then proceeded to Lexington , where they have since resided * IVly brother having purchased a considerable tract of land in the Illinois , and being engaged in building a town there , to be named Albion * he proposes removing with his family to his estate , on which a suitable house is erecting , in May next . He has met with a most severe affliction in the lota of his favourite son William who
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Liverpoolf Sik , March 16 , 1819 . ONE of your Correspondents is desirous of learning the present state of the congregation of Unitarians at Lexington , in Kentucky . [ XIII .
617 , not 615 , as stated p . 81 . ] Mr . Valentine , in your last Number , p . 81 , has given us some particulars relative to the settlement of Mr . Toulmin among them , many years since , but I have understood that his connexion
with them was not of long duration . Whether he had an immediate successor , I am not informed , but it appears certain , that Unitariariism has at least maintained its ground in that flourishing part of the Union . In
confirmation of this , I am enabled to state , on the authority of a friend from Boston , that a warm advocate for the doctrines asserted by Mr . Toulmin , has very lately accepted an invitation to fill the Presidential Chair of the
College at Lexington . The gentleman I allude to , is the Rev . Horace Holle ? j 9 late pastor of one of the Unitarian Churches in Boston , who is represented as a man of considerable talent awd learning . H . TAYLOR . i
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1819, page 242, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1771/page/30/
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