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The Quakers and the Tttheti . We extract the following passage from the Yearly Epistle of the Quakers on the subject of tithes . We often hear inquiries made why in all the efforts made by the Dissenters to get rid of the most objectionable consequences of Ecclesiastical usurpation and monopoly , the
Quakers take no part , and are heard of on ^ hese subjects only in connexion with the pecuniary effects of the system , aud their pocket sufferings , as Nonconformists : " The amount of the sufferings of our members , as reported to this meeting , including the charges of distraint , is upwards of fourteen thousand six hun * dred pounds .
. " We have no cause to believe that pur ancient testimony against all ecclesiastical demands is losing ground amongst us ; but we think it right to revive in your remembrance those considerations which led to its adoption , and which induced our pious predecessors to undergo many and grievous hardships in its support . You know , beloved friends ,
that it has been the uniform belief of our Society , that our blessed Lord and jSavjour , by his coming , put an end to that priesthood , and to the provision for its support , as well as to those ceremonial usages , which were before ordained ; # nd that he came to introduce a dispensation pure and spiritual in its nature , fjfhe present system of tithes , against
which our early friends as well as our-/ selves have borne testimony , was no institution , of our holy Head and High-Priest , the great Christian Lawgiver , It Jiad nQ existence in , the purest and ear- * liest age of his Church ; but was gra- » dually introduced as superstition and apostacy spread over the Christian world . It is further our belief , and it has been
uniformly that of the Society , that the ministry of the gospel is to be without money and without price ; that as the gift ia free , the exercise of it is to be free also ; aud that the office is to be filled by those only who feel themselves called of God through the power of the Holy Spirit , who in their preaching , as well as in their circumspect lives and
couversatiop , are giving proof of this call . Impressed as we are with these views , we feel ourselves conscientiously restrained from the payment of those demands which are made for the support of such a system 5 or from any compromise whereby such a payment is to be insured . A forced maintenance of an established ministry is , in our appre-
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hension , a violation ol tlios 6 great privileges which God , in his wisdom and goodness , designed to bestow upon the human race , when he sent his Son to redeem the world , and by the power of the Holy Spirit to lead and guide mankind into all truth .
" Whilst thus setting forth the grounds of this testimony , we gratefully remember the kindness with which our religious scruples are often regarded by those who have to support and to enforce the laws by which we are affected . * *
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$ 04 Intelligences Foreign .
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A MERICA . We have received the Twentieth Number of the ( American ) Christian Examiner , from which we extract the following :
" Unitarian Mission at Calcutta , ** The Society for the promotion of Christianity in India , some time since , pledged itself to provide , and authorized its executive Committee to transmit to the Unitarian Committee , of Calcutta , 600 dollars per annum , for ten years , in
case of the establishment of a Unitarian mission in that place . The first payment has accordingly been made out of the funds arising from subscriptions for this object . We state the fact in the hope of drawing the attention of the liberally - disposed to the wants and plans of the Society . ' *
" The MiltoniafK ( t This Is a , political newspaper , published in Northumberland County , in the heart of Pennsylvania , and extensively circulated in the Western parts of that State , Several numbers of it fell into pur hands a few months ago , and we found each of them to contain spirited and able articles in favour of
Unitarianism . We are happy- to learn that though this had been going on fqr sometime , the patronage of the paper had not suffered , on the whole , in consequence . We regard this as one of the clearest evidences that can be given of the rapid progress of liberal opinions throughout
our country ; for , ten years ago , we do not believe that any editor in the Union would have dared to insert articles , like those above-mentioned , in a political journal . We only wish that more sympathy could be excited amongst us in favour of those , who , at a distance from the strong places of Unitarianiem , antf
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1827, page 854, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1802/page/70/
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