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as- nondescript animals The * great th& tliematician of antiquity had sairl , that if he had but one point to test his lever upon * he would move the globe v and so it was With religious truth . The place foom which the lever was acting at present waa America 5 great efforts Were Hiaking thefe > and should they be continued in the same spirit in which they
had * been begun , there could be no donbt but that the effect would be prodigious . A great question at present in agitation was the Unitarian Marriage Bill ; he hoped , rather than expected , that the bill would pass into an act during the present session . The principle of the Bill had been ably and eloquently supported by Lord Liverpool and the Archbishop of
Canterbury ; and had been countenanced \> y many other peers , both spiritual and temporal . The Bill had actually passed the House of Commons twice , almost without objection . In a new form the Bill was now before the Legislature , and he could not contemplate opposition from the present Administration , so liberal in other matters . Various strange habits
of the upper ranks of life adopted for amusement might be accounted for , but he could not understand what sport any one could possibly find in conscienceworrying . The maxim of the English constitution and the principles of the British Legislation was , that where there is a wrong , there must be a remedy ; the wrong in this case was acknowledged ,
and therefore they would be unjust to Parliament not to rely upon finding an effectual remedy speedily . Another great question before them was the Corporation and Test Acts , the repeal of which , he confidently anticipated sooner or later , from the united and persevering efforts of the great body of Dissenters , who were now roused like a giant from sleep ,
and would never more rest until they had removed from a free country the euormity of millioiiB of his Majesty ' s subjects being denied the common rights of free men , and from a free couutry the scandal of prostituting the most holy ordinance of Christ to mere political ends , those ends also unjust and uncharitable . He concluded with declaring ,
that in what he had said , he had in view no sectarian purpose ; he considered the term Unitarianism as' comprehended in the nobler appellation Christian , and his fondest wish and most earnest prayers were , that the doors of the temple of freedom- might be thrown wide open to all denominations of Englishmen ; and that Roman Catholics and Protestant l > isaenters might enter hand in hand , and
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there sit down beside tne Chtrfchmati , td cdU&nV ' noti on the means of annoying One another , but on tho ^ e of serving their country , the burial-plac * of tfiefr father ^ and thdoirth-pflace of their children : The Treasurer adverted to the Report of the proceedings of the Unitarian Association on the preceding day which
appeared in a morning paper , The Times : With regard to the remark there made ; that it had been attempted to prevent discussion , it was a mistake . A gentleman rose out of order to speak oi » a particular point , and he was told that the discussion could not take place till the motion was made for receiving the Report .
" The Manchester College , York , " was next proposed by the Chairman . Rev . J . Kenrick returned thanks . It had been asked , why the York College had not called itself Unitarian . He could answer , it was not because the supporters of it were indifferent to Unitarian sentiments , but because such a designation might lead to the supposition that it received none but students
holding those sentiments . They meant to hold it out as an Institution open to all parties , with full liberty of conscience . The London University professed to be established on the principle of no religious tests ; but this was no uew profession . The Manchester and the
Warrington Colleges , among the Presbyterian Dissenters , had acted on the same principle more than half a century ago . He hoped the example would be followed by the other Universities . He knew nothing more strange than these restrictions ; they were restrictions unknown to the foreign Universities .
The health of Mr . Bowring , the new Foreign Secretary , was next proposed , and that gentleman shortly returned thanks . Until the health of the late Secretary was re established , he would undertake the office , aud endeavour to dohis duty . " The London University , and may the doors of the temple of science never be closed by narrow-mindedness and bigotry . "
Mr . Hill , in returning thanks , expressed his satisfaction that such an institution was rising in the metropolis . He concurred in the propriety of conveying knowledge , Without requiring a declaration of religious belief . H was important that Unitarians should take the lead in endeavouring to break such shackles . Nothing could be more absurd thatt to require subscription fVom boys , to articles which it was inipqssi *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1827, page 545, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1798/page/73/
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