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BRITISH INDIA.
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intelligent and is a very pleasant man ,, in thefull vigour of life . He is patronised by a considerable number of the members of tlie Assembly , some of the most distinguished of whom have united with him in delivering courses of lectures in his church , to the labouring classes . On Sunday ngxLtfejLfe § glQLJL- £ Q !^^ entirely with a moral view . He is joined by about forty catholic priests , and has societies in most of the
departments . Every day brings fresh applications to have his principles made known ; he has possession of some of the catholic parish churches , but his priests are no where yet paid by the state ; he teaches that the state ought not to pay the priests . In a parish adjoining Paris , Clichy , his preacher was twice put out of the
church by order of the Minister of Religion , and as often put in again by the united commune , after which an order came to allow him- to keep possession . Thi ' sis an important fact ; it shows that the government recog ^ - nize the right of the commune to chuse their own religion , and their own priest : we are yet to know
whether they will pay that priest . It is now a question in agitation , whether the church shall be totally disconnected from the state , and left to its own powers . The extension of the principles of VEglise Catholique Franpoise is morally certain , and they lead directly to proper Unitarianism . he is in
The Abbe ^ knows that a situation at once highly important and extremely delicate . His reform of religion will doubtless advance . He has two sermons each Sunday , one on moral subjects and one on the Catholic doctrines and customs , which he discards . He calls himself P < z-
triarchy and Jrrimat'coadyuteur des Gaules . Thus three powerful engines will be at work in the reformation of religious thinking and religious feeling in France : that of the Reformed Church , which will gain courage and speak out more plainly j that of the
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Catholic French Church , honest , and firm , and plain , as far as it goes , and in the way to go on to perfection ; and that of the Unitarian Association of France , the least powerful , certainly , but not the least determined to honour their Redeemer , by teaching the worship of Him only by whom he-was sent . ^ — I . W .
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Letter from Ab . Chirnah , of Secundrabad , to the Foreign Secretary of the Unitarian Association . August 12 th , 1831 . I received your kind letter dated the 5 th February , in answer to the one I sent you dated 8 th July , 1830 , since which I have sent you two , one
in November and another in April , which I trust have reached you safe by this time , and that the contents will meet your kind approbation ; particularly respecting the young man of whom I made mention , ( the son of Mr . William Roberts , Theophilus , ) who still continues with us here , going oh with his duties as a most useful
member . I further beg to state , that since his arrival we continue service regularly every Sunday morning , after which a sermon , or a portion of the scriptures , is read and expounded by him , and afterwards we discourse with each other , and with such strangers
as may attend , ( as there are some that generally do , ) and when opportunities do occur he is always in readiness to discourse with pleasure i » English , both with Europeans and country boras , which is of great benefit to the Christian cause ; of these are some that do acknowledge to the truth , but are rather loath to
come forward , for motives you may be aware of . I and my friend theophilus proposed to some of thpse to meet on Sunday evenings , for the purpose of having a religious conversation ; it has not taken any effect as , yet , but we are in great hopes it will , as IJinow some of the soldiery are very
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£ 0 UNITAU 1 ANCHRONICLE .
British India.
BRITISH INDIA .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1832, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1807/page/4/
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