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Covenanter of Britain became a good citizen , an exemplary Christian , and a con scientious guardiau of civil liberty ? We cannot but think the field is open in Fiance for the founder of some new system , who should possess the requisite talents and energy ; and we doubt whether any thing but the zeal of some religious reformer can remedy the evils of the ex-Ssting state of things .
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3 Q 6 " Intelligence , —Foreign .
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bard Street ; and any further information desired may be obtained from Mr . John Ashworth , Clough House , Boothfold , uear Hochdale , Lancashire .
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Judicial Oaths . The French journals claim for their legal tribunals a superior liberality and discernment on the form of judicial oaths as connected with religious opinions . The oath , by the French practice , it
arpears , is very rational and simple ; the witness merely solemnly repeating , ( as he does , we believe , in Scotland , ) " I tiwear , " &c , without any other form which may place him in collision with peculiar opinions . In England we have attached ourselves to a form which we
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FRANCE . Bible Society . We learn from the Seventh Report of
"the Protestant Bible Society of Paris , that in one department of France , thirtynine new Bible Societies have been established , from April 1 , 1825 , to March 31 , 1826 . The Paris Society has sent into the departments more than 4000 Bibles and 5000 New Testaments . "The
Committee hopes , " it is said , " to see the moment arrive wheu it may put a Bible iuto the hands of every catechumen at his first communion , iuto the pocket of every artizau leaving his native place for employment , and into the havre-sac of every soldier and sailor . "
We shall rejoice to see any rational spirit of religious zeal arising in Frauce . Some system , at once suited to the civilization of the age , and to the moral and religious wants of the people , is highly desirable ; and its absence gives the ouly chance of success to the efforts of the
fanatical party , which Can only rule by subjugating the vast majority , Catholic as well as Protestant . At present there appears to be little medium between the abandonment of all religion or the adoption of some of its worst forms ; the bitter fruits of a revolution founded on
the renunciation of all religious principle , are and must long be felt and lamented by the best friends of constitutional liberty . We trust the cure is not hopeless , though it is . difficult to point to the quarter from which the evil is to be remedied . The present race of French Protestants have , we fear , too little zeal or influence to be likely to do much in the work of regeneration ; in truth , it is a difficult and anomalous course to
retrace the steps from the extreme of scepticism back to a nrm and rational system of practical and influential belief . On the other hand , revolutions which have owed their energy to mistaken and
overexcited religious zeal , have , in the end , produced highly beneficial results upon society ; austere and ascetic sects , after
their first effervescence has produced its effect , have of I en subsided iuto the best elements of society . Has France yet to pass through this ordeal ? . Js some zealous sect te stamp with vigorous hand the impress of religion , and , in the end , to settle down into that sort of calmer subsidence by which the factious Puritan or
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Archbishop of Bordeaux . We feel gratified in placing by the side of some of the truly Catholic letters of the venerable Protestant Bishop of Norwich , the following reply of the Catholic Archbishop of Bordeaux to the President of the Protestant Consistory , who had offered hhn the compliments of that body on his arrival there :
" M . President of the Consistory , I accept with pleasure this expression of your sentiments towards me . —I will endeavour , as far as my weakness will allow , to walk in the footsteps of my venerable predecessor , by maintaining that Christian toleration which is
nothing but evangelical charity . As to unity of faith , you will permit me to say , ^ without being surprised or offended , that I desire and hope to see it established among us . I am persuaded , that you too , on your side , wish me to follow the truth . In regard to courtesy and social relations , you shall always find me anxious to fulfil all the duties belonging to them . I number many good friends among Protestants . There are some in
a country very distant from us who have loaded me with kindnesses ; and I shall consider myself fortunate , if I shall be enabled to discharge , in my conduct to you , the debt of gratitude which 1 owe to them ; and you may depend on me whenever I can be useful to you . I trust you will forgive what I have said ou the unity of faith . It is a wish deeply engraven on my heart . I solicit your friendship , as 1 offer you mine . ' *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1827, page 306, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1795/page/74/
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