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2 d . Bishops , coadjutors of the primate . 3 d . Priests devoted to the Lord , wlio will freely give that which they have freely received , to lead souls captive to the cross of Christ .
4 th . Deacons zealous for the house of God , who will maintain good order ^ n ^ th ~ e ~ Clru ^ comforts of the poor . In the name of the sovereign , apostolic , and patriarchal council , and of the patriarch ,
t Ferdinand Francis Chatel , Primate Coadjutor of the Gauls . By order of the Bishop Primate , The Abbe Auron , The Abbe Blachere , Primatial Vicars .
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which , of course , must remain till regularly altered . I must add , on the other hand , that our consistories do represent fairly enough the individual opinion of the majority of the Church . Composed of only twelve elders , they are , of course , rather an
aristocratical representation of the ^ eoprler-buirpv ^ that every destitution pronounced against methodist preachers by the consistories of France would have been approved by the almost unanimous voice of the people . It appears that your great Bible Society of
London has come to the resolution to ruin completely our Bible Society for France . The London committee have adopted the plan of forming ; in Paris a corresponding committee , under the superintendence of its agent , Professor Kieffer , who gets
210 / . a year for his trouble . This committee corresponds directly with London , and the mother-society persists in distributing and hawking about , in aH France , Protestant French Bibles , of the versions of Martin and Ostervald , at prices so
low that our French society cannot come down to them without complete ruin . The colporteurs ( hawkers ) sell an octavo Bible bound , for 39 sous , which is lower than the cost . And , strange to say , the London committee will not make these distributions by the medium of the French Bible Society . I believe the real reason is
that London prefers corresponding here with a snug little committee of saints , rather than with the official society , where the most influential Protestants of France are united for the cause . And thus the Bible Society of France , a very valuable institution for our churches , and the
only bond of union between them , will receive its death-blow from misguided English zeal . All this is really acting a miserable part ; there is neither patriotism , nor wisdom , nor charity in this conduct . You know that the last day of July
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August 23 d , 1832 . Our Protestant and religious affairs continue nearly in the same state . Our methodists have carried things to extremities , and the ice Having been once broken by the destitution of Mr . Monod , at Lyons , a good number of our churches have come to the resolution not to bear any
longer these fanatical saints . We foresee several new measures of the same kind . It would not be fair , however , to charge us rational Christians , disposed to tolerate every shade of doctrine , and methodism among the rest , with approving an undue
interference of the state in matters of religion . We protest against the charge . When a minister is removed from his church according to our laws , this can be done only by a vote of the consistory approved by the king . It is then , in fact , the consistory that decides the case ; and the
consistory is , or ought to be , the exact representative of the whole Church . It would be much better , no doubt , that the congregation itself should be consulted , and should vote on the case ; but this cannot legally "be done under the existing law ,
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PARIS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1832, page 180, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1821/page/4/
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