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treated in this country by , the sad parade of schisms and broils on questions of doctrine . Much good would be done were Paris to show the goodly sight of a large and well-filled church , uniting its members in the bonds of a charitable unity . Since
every religious shade appears in turns' -m-our-pulpitY-why-then-do ~ oursaints desert the temple , which it would be so important to present to our Catholics , brilliant and compact ? Already they have deprived the church of some of its resources and
thinned its attendance . That they have the abstract right of thus conducting themselves , nobody can deny , But is it wise , is it prudent , is it Christian ? Would St . Paul have approved such a spirit ? I leave
every impartial believer to decide . In Paris , the great majority of the congregation are hostile to such steps ; but yet harm has been produced . All this is owing to that detestable sectarian spirit , that leads each ' elect to ^ consider ' himself as
infallible , that makes each fanatic view with horror those who are not exactly and mathematically of his opinion ; but the evil is owing still more to the vanity of a good many young evangelicals , arduous to found new churches where they are masters and rulers , and to the blind
zeal of several English saints , who scatter plenty of gold , and who rush headlong in the midst of our religious affairs , in utter ignorance of our opinions and wants and our real position . Allow roe to say , that in many cases English meddling has done infinite harm on the Continent .
Take , for example , the Bible Society of London , which , with its generosity in scattering wide-and-far in- our land its French Protestant Bibles at two francs , is on the point of destroying for ever our Bible Society , the only common centre we have , Must we apply to this the wise saying of La Fontaine : Rien n'bst Si dangejreux qu ' un ignorant ami ; Mitsiix vaudnut uu sago ewnemi ,
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Our elections for the church of Paris are not done ; the Pastor at Marseilles , M , Sauter , offers himself to fill the place of adjoint pastor . I have not heard him , but I strongly suspect him of being a saint . He is said to be a preacher of the real
Genevese school ; his delivery is re-~ portetl ~~ torbe ^ noHle ~ an define . TBuTT without the spirit of rational Christianity , no good can beiJone in Paris . At least in France , the nineteenth century and methodism will never
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MR . TUCKERMAN'S NINTH SEMIANNUAL REPORT OF HIS SERVICE AS A MINISTER AT LARGE ' IN BOSTON . ¦¦ ' ¦ "' ¦ To the Executive Committtee of the 4 American Unitarian Association / Gentlemen , —A considerable interest
having been excited , both in England and ih"New-Y 6 rk , inthe cause ! of establishing a ministry at large for the poor of cities , "" I have had some communication with gentlemen in those places upon this subject . A very favourable impression , I find , has been made of the claims of this
ministry ; and there is not only a readiness , but a strong disposition in many , at once to establish and to support it . The difficulty , however , I am told , . wfaich presses with the greatest force against this object , is thai of obtaining fit instruments for the service . But this difficulty ,
I apprehend , is not in the fact , that there are not suitable instruments enough at hand for the work . I can hardly believe , among the great numbers who are consecrating themselves to the Christian ministry , and above all if we look to the almost
equal numbers who are now devoting themselves , with unexampled zeal and energy , to the various objects of Christian philanthropy , thai : many , and that more than are wanted ca . nnot be found , who are
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1832, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1821/page/25/
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