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CRITICAL NOTICES.
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great part of his life , and was always sincerely attached to his church : but , above all , he was an advocate for toleration from principle . Thus he was , in its proper sense , a member of the true Catholic Church ; for he was riot afraid to call every good man , of every Christian communion , a Christian , Priestcraft must quail when she is approached by men so enlightened and benevolent , and , at the same time , so religious . Where she bears the greatest sway , learning stands aloof , or takes refuge in chilling infidelity . But we delight to hail every advance in toleration , believing that it will be attended with some proportional advances in religion .
We have occupied so much room in shewing the general spirit which pervades the Society of Christian Morality , that we are able only to name , in conclusion , some of the particular objects , to which its attention has been
directed . At the General Annual Meeting , 17 th April , 1823 , M . Remusat , one of the Secretaries , made a report of the past doings of the Society ; premising ,
that in consequence of its infancy he came rather to speak of what was designed than of what had been accomplished . After speaking of the legitimate influence of Christianity on moral conduct , and denying every thing sectarian in the Society , he claims for it the merit of being a new attempt at association , in a country where the principle of association is little known , and slow in its operation . He proceeds to mention what had been done for the well-being of the Society , and names some of the particular , objects
which had employed the attention of the council . At the meeting of the 6 th of April , Joseph Price , one of the English Society of Friends , was present , and called the attention of the council to the consideration of the best moral means of effectually abolishing the Slave Trade . A committee was accordingly appointed for that purpose , and a report made by the Baron de Stael . It is highly gratifying as well as propitious to the cause of humanity , to find ,
as we do , from this report , and from other movements oK the Society , that it is bringing into close alliance and cordial co-operation , not only the greatest philanthropists , but also individuals of the highest rank and greatest influence , in France and England ; promising something , we hope , for the cause of peace , and for the extinction of those national antipathies which have so long existed between those great rival countries .
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Art . IV . — Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity , with an Introductory Lecture on Religion in General , and one on the Authenticity of the Jcu \ - ish Scriptures ; delivered in the Unitarian Chapel ^ Preston , Lancashire . By Robert Cree . 12 ino . pp . 414 . Preston , printed by Addison j sold by Sherwood and Co ., London .
1827 . How many more volumes must the Unitarians put out in defence of revealed religion , before the " orthodox" will drop the silly cry against them as unbe-
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lievers ? The charge is rarely honest ; and where it is so , there must exist a degree of ignorance or of bigotry , or of both , which excites astonishment , but is well entitled to heartfelt pity . Regardless of those that make an unmeaning noise , to keep up one another ' s courage , the Unitarians will still , we trust , maintain their station in the Christian world
as advocates of Divine Revelation . They alone can defend the gospel upon the true principles of reason and evidence . Other champions of Christianity are obliged to adopt their modes of reasooing when they meet the unbeliever in the field of argument .
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Critical Notices . 839
Critical Notices.
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1827, page 839, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1802/page/55/
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