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    riencfc . ' I -have no ground of complaint against you oh the score of providing for thfeir waiitB ; I should be hatipyt& * e& yolitk \ 0 fy attentive to this other branch of your duty . You will then fedeivfc ' th <* benefit of the promise in my text ; for although it may be difficult always to trace its fulfilment in the earthly Canaan , your days will certainly be long and happy in the heavenly Land of Promise . " The sermon and the extempore prayer tore no traces of any of the peculiarities of orthodoxy . M . Monasterien removed from

    Manelli , in the Valley of San Martino , in August last . The richest benefice among the Cottian Alps does not amount to more than £ 45 per annum * But tfiose of Pralli and Manelli fall considerably short of all the others , and the climate being likewise far more severe , it has been a constant practice for the ydungest ministers to be stationed here , for a short time only , on their first' settling . With a view to this arrangement , these two appointments rest with the Synod , or with the table which represents the Synod , while it is not sitting , instead of being , like the other parishes , subject to the free choice of

    the eldfers of the vacant churches . As a compensation for the severe trial to which the constitution is exposed in these two situations , the young men who are placed here have the prospect of succeeding by preference to the parish of Angrogna , when a vacancy there occurs . As Pralii is the severest climate of the two , the pastor of that place is first offered to the choice of the elders of Angrogna , and if he is refused , then the pastor of Manelli . But the vacancy occurring last summer , M . Monasterien , of Manelli , weary of his nine months' snows , and wishing to exchange them for only five at

    Angrogna , prevailed on the elders to give him the call , without waking for the formality of having the other pastor presented to their ehoice * and Contrary to . the wishes of the table , without whose consent , I believe , the first in order cannot be passed over . This infraction of ecclesiastical order seemed to threaten a breach in that spirit of unity which the Vaudois-have always been remarkable for preserving . The table took great offence , and talked of appealing to the Sardinian Government to compelkM . Monasterien to

    conform to the established regulation . The matter wafe r however , very wisely not carried so far . " Divide et imperil " ' would certainly have heen the maxim which would have guided the conduct of the priesta by whom the King of Sardinia is ruled . The new pastor persisting ; in maintaining his post , the table at length yielded , and on the 3 rd of December , the Mode * -

    rator attended at Angrogna to install M . Monasterien in his office and deliver the address of advice usual on these occasions * That tlte body of men , and that an ecclesiastical body , should have thus yielded to the individual , is a circumstance worthy of record , as proving that the Vaudois are the furthest possible from being the slaves of ecclesiastical tyranny , as is the case of so many churches in the rest of Europe , where Protestant has been substituted

    for Papal tyranny . Sunday , December 3 rd . 1 heard M . Mondon , of San Giovanni . Hi * text was , " For , where two or three are gathered together in my name * , there am I in the midst of them . " The preacher remarked , that the name . of Christ was not like any common name , which served only to distinguish one individual from another , but corresponded to the term , om&styi in

    speaking of a prince . To . do or say any thing in th $ n ame of , bWimajesty imp lied , more than doing it in the name of the individual . To » moet together in , < the nanue of Christ wast to . ineeit in obedience to his commands , in the profession of his religion , i « imitation of big example , and in , fulfilment of the graad design of his mission , « the promotion of good works * Whenever Christiana met together for , tbapjoinotion gf good worto * ^ wh ether in their

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1827, page 877, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1803/page/21/