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cursors ; and I cannot help agreeing with our American friend that , it might be useful to some who live in happier times , if the conflicts and sufferings of those were occasionally
brought back to their remembrance , who , in periods of great difficulty and danger , have ' * fought the good fight , and have kept the faith , " and for whom * ' there is laid up a crown of righteousness . "
This gentleman , in common with many other excellent persons , is an active member of the Massachusetts ' Peace Society , founded on principles which surely no reflecting Christian can fail to approve and endeavour to support . They do not decide upon
the controverted question , whether 4 t war is in all cases prohibited by the gospel , " but circulate tracts to turn * ' the attention of the community to its nature , spirit , causes and effects . " What pleasure , Sir , would it
give me to see the plan of a similar institution proposed and advocated among Unitarians in general , in your excellent publication . Could a small portion of the Fellowship Funds be more usefully or honourably applied ? CATH . CAPPE .
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per that a clergyman of the Church of England should appear thus pub * licly with a Dissenting minister .- * Mn Badqock bowed , and preceded him " . On his return from the funeral he called on me , and related the
contemptuous , behaviour of the clergyman , who had afterwards great reason to regret his insolence , as it was highly resented , not only by the Dissenters , but also by the most respectable members of his parish church .
** Mr . Badcock instantly addressed to Dr . Priestley the poetical epistle in question , and at the same time informed him of the above circumstance . " I will only add ^ that Dr . Priestley ' s answer passed through the hands of the lady to whom your readers are indebted for the above account . J . NICHOLETTS .
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Sir , rXlREHE is an aphorism , which the JL politician and the moralist would do well to remember : Expediency is for the day—Truth lasts for ever . Its application to a subject which is now
engaging a considerable share of at * tent ion , will readily appear , when a passage is quoted from a fast sermon published in the year 1793 . The author assumes the appellation of Volunteer , but a discerning public
attributed the production to the pen of the truly elegant and justly-admired author , Mrs , Barbauld . The title of the sermon is , " Sins of Goveminent , Sins of the Nation . " It abounds in striking observations , and suggests matter for
reflection , not only for 1819 , but for periods still more remote . One part which occurs p . 16 , as peculiarly applicable to the exertions now making for abolishing , or greatly diminishing oiir custom-house , &c . oaths , I beg leave to present to your readers .
" Is not the name of God and the awfulness of religious sanctions profaned among us by frequent unnecessary and ensnaring oaths , which lie like stumbling-blocks in every path of business and preferment , tending
to corrupt the singleness of truth , and wear away the delicacy of conscience , entangling even the innocence and inexperience of children ? Have we calculated the false oaths which , in the space of oue sun , the accusing
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—^ " ^—South Petherton , Sir , August 9 , 1819 . YOUR Correspondent , Mr . Seaward , [ p . 422 , ] is mistaken in attributing to Dr . Geddes the
poetical epistle addressed to the Rev . Dr . Priestley , which appeared in the last Monthly Repository . I am enabled to state , on the unquestionable authority of a lady , who is a near relation of mine , that it was written , in her
presence , by the late Rev . Samuel Badcock , immediately after receiving an insult from a clergyman , who was at that time vicar of the parish of Barnstaple , in Devonshire . The circumstance which produced it cannot be detailed more clearly than in the lady ' s own words .
* ' Mr . Badcock had been requested uy a member of his congregation to attend the funeral of a deceased friend , and , as is usual on such occasions ,, he walked by the side of the clergyman
* u front of the procession . The latter fancying himself degraded by appearlng Ui public with one whom he t hought infiuitely bw en ^ ath him , said to Mr . Badcock , * Sir , it is not pro-
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Author cf the " Poetical Epistle to Dr . Priestley : ' 4 &t
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1819, page 491, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1775/page/31/
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