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' ' Paris , July the 22 nd .
Our Protestant administrative affair has terminated in a way . that we did not expect . Baron Cuvier is not to haye a successor as ZJfirecteur des cultes non Catholiques . To explain this , it is necessary to observe that this function was created at the time that our ministry under Charles X . was entirely Catholic and Jesuitical .
As , it would have been too bad that Mon seigneur the bishop of Hermopplis should have governed our Protestant churches and named our theological professors of Protestant divinity , the ministry had recourse to Cuvier , a Lutheran , who did this part of t ) ie business . Now that our ministre des cultes is a layman ,
Girod de L \ Ain , this difficulty does no more subsist , and ; I understand that he rebuked rather sharply the Protestant deputation who petitioned the other day a continuance of Cuvier ' s functions . Girod de L'Ain said , I am neither Protestant nor Catholic , I am minister des cultes en general ; wby should I not administer directly Protestant as well as Roman affairs ? ' All this
is very well . The labour of our administration rests now on the chef de bureau , M . Lafon de Ladebat , a Protestant of an enlightened mind , and not at all a Methodist . He is the eldest son of the late venerable Lafon de Ladebat , so forward in all our
liberal and philanthropical ideas , —one of the first who proposed in the Constituent Assembly the abolition of the detestable slave trade . In speaking of Cuvier , I have had access to an autobiographical memoir of hislife ^ where he states thaty under the consulship of Buonaparte , he was entrusted with the office of organizing at Rome the system of public instruction , which still is in existence ,
at least in part . Is it not curious that a Lutheran savant should have done this in the dominions of his Holiness ? We have b , ad a kind of fracas in the interior of our Bible Society in Paris : this was the cause of the storm . The tremendous uproar that your Scotch and English saints raised about the Apocrypha question has had an echo with us . As our society continues to distribute Bibles with the Apocrypha , when they are asked for , this is a
sufficient reason that no donations in money can be forwarded to us from London : we are thus abandoned to our own resources . But this is not all . The Bible Society of London has agents here , that distributeBibles in immense numbers for almost nothing , or , at least , at a price that we Bible Society of Paris cannot reduce ;
our Bibles to , without certain loss . By the conduct of these agents , —of whom one , Professor Kieffer , gets about 300 Z . per annum for his trouble , —our Bible Society of France will certainly perish ; which will be a very sad affair for our Protestantism . In consequence ! it was proposed at one of our last meetings of the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1832, page 568, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1818/page/64/
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