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FRANCE.
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they tender the favour' of Almighty God , and would avoid his wrath and indignation , and upon pain of such punishment as may be justly inflicted on all such as contemn and neglect the performance of so religious and necessary a duty : and for the betteif
and more orderly solemnizing the same , we have giv-eu ditections ^ tctha Most Reverend the Archbishop , and the Right Reverend the Bishops of England and Ireland , to compose a form of prayer suitable to this occasion , to be used in all churches , chapels , and places of public worship , and to take care that the same be
timely dispersed throughout their respective dioceses . Given at our Court at St . James ' s , this 6 th day of February , 1832 , and in the second year of our reign . God save the King .
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spirit of mysticism , by English methodistical influence , and English money . Now , the great cause of our embarrassment is , that when any sectarian and fanatical measure is taken
in any church by a minister pretended Orthodox , we have not , in our actual organization , any-authority competent to ^ toidp ^ tlLe ^ the disorder . The great majority of our ministers and leading men are certainly not inclined to methodism , and are , without the least doubt ,
adverse to any sectarian fanaticism . But the existing law , under which our churches are now regulated by government , and which was framed by Napoleon , provides no adequate remedy for sectarian quarrels and schisms of doctrine ; and , on the
other hand , the strict rule of the complete independence of each . ' con * gregation would not agree , as I will show you another time , with the present state of ou * churches and of France . A few examples of curious divisions in our churches will
show more clearly than reasonings what I mean : they are derived from the history of the Monod family , which is now placed in this strange situation , that the father , pastor at Paris , —a man of much scientific and
religious worth , and at least an Arian , has three sons , who are all imbued with something very much like a methodist and exclusive spirit . The eldest M . Monod , pasteur adjoint in Paris , refused positively to consecrate a young minister , M . Grawitz , now pastor at Montpellier ( where he is extremely liked , and esteemed for character and talent ) , because M . G . would not declare his belief in the
orthodox idea of original sin ; but very soon after , twenty-six pastors of the circuit of Montpellier received JM . Grawitz , on his simple declaration of his belief in the divinity of the Revelation contained in the Gospel of Jesus Christ , which in the only con- * fessian of faith which our liberal party will consent to subscribe . The case of M . A . Monod , pastor at Lyons >
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18 UNITARIAN CHRONICLE .
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JLtettersjrom a renen uorresponaent . No . I . Paris , Jan . 25 th , 1832 . —Our Protestant Church of France is now placed in a very singular situation , which has much perplexed its best and most pious friends . In general , there has been a decided increase in
numbers , in zeal , and in regular attendance on religious worship ; but , for some years past , sectarian spirit has been abroad in France . Almost every congregation in our land is divided into two parties—the Methodistical and the Liberal , Each fraction has its representative in a minister of each of
these respective opinions . For example , —in Paris we have , on the liberal side , the old president Marron , M . Monod , senior , M . A . Coquerel , pastors ; and on the other side , M » Juillerat , and Monod , junior . This
is the state of things in the Calviinist Church of Paris ; whereas , in the Lutheran Church , the three ministers , Boissard , Goepp , and Cuvier ( cousin of the celebrated naturalist ) , are all liberals in religion . This division is almost everywhere increased by the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1832, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1807/page/2/
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