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bined action of the whole nation , France will perhaps , ere long , adopt a system of religion and philosophy entirely new . But to decide what this will be , would require a very keen spirit of prophecy . Such are , however , the ideas that occupy us even in the midst of the dreadful ravag ^ J ^ ij 16 . cA ° lei : a » . Pf which I for my part am sick , and hundreds are
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( From the Christian Register . * ) LANDING } OF THE PILGRIMS . Mr . Editor , —Agreeably to arrangements , previously made by the first parish in Plymouth , the anniversary of the landing of the Fathers was noticed'by appropriate religious
services . Notwithstanding the extreme severity of the cold , a numerous congregation was assembled . The Rev . Mr . Cole , of Kingston , and Mr Goodwin , of Concord , offered our thanksgivings and supplications in a spirit and manner worthy the interest * ing occasion . The discourse was delivered by the Rev . Mr . Brazer , of
Salem , from the 8 th and 9 th verses of the 80 th Psalm . Much was expected of the preacher , from his eminent standing in the church , and as a scholar , and our expectations were more than realized . We may venture to say , that we have had on Ho former occasion a more discrimittiUing and faithful portrait of the % mouth colonists : Qjr . a discourse
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more abounding with remarks * on past and present times , of a close and accurate thinker .- How can we best honour the Fathers , and . m what way shall we best cherish their memory 1 The answer to these inquiries led the speaker to a discussion of the general traits of the Puritan character , rendered the more necessary , as the _ s _ tor _ y
of their times is told by those who were unfriendly to them . It little concerned men to look out for biographers and historians , to give them a fair seeming in their own times , or in future times , whose vision was fixed on Him who is invisible , all whose energies of mind were concentrated on the tremendous realities of a future
endless life . Their character was formed , and is to be explained on motives derived from religion , a deej > and bverwhelming sense of its promises and its threatenings . We were glad to hear one topic touched , as it has scarcely _ before been adverted to , and that is , the distinguishing features in the character * - as Well as in the purposes of emigration ,
between the Plymouth and the Massachusetts colonists . In the Plymouth company , it certainly must be allowed , that with a scrupulousness as rigid as their neighbours , there were mingled more of the graces of mildness , forbearance and modesty . These differences of character , the speaker supposed , might naturally have grown Out of the different states of their
party , at the d ^ feent periods their emigration . The Puritans were a despised minority in the first case ; and , in the last , had overturned the throne , and were set in high places . The offence of intolerance charged against the Pilgrims was put in ita just point of view . Their measure is
to be taken according to the standard of their own age , and not according to . the standard of this . Toleration was not known ; or , if known , was not thought consistent , either with the reverence due to God , or with peace in social life . More than this , it is Qbvious to the reader of their history ,
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There are twenty-nine pastors in the Church of Geneva , of whom not more than three hold what would , in this country , be called orthodox opinions . About one-third of the population of the canton is Roman Catholic ; the soi-disant Evangelical party forms a small fraction of the remaining twothirds .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 1, 1832, page 51, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1811/page/3/
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