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      UNITARIAN CHRONICLE . 181

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      we lost our old President of the Coiisistory of Paris , Marron : he died almost suddenly , and rather of old age than of the cholera . He came to Paris as chaplain of the Dutch embassy in 1782 , and was pastor of the church of Paris since 17 SS , fora space of near half a century . He was—an ~ amia : ble ^ m-an 7 ~ "ai ] "d ~ a *~ grFa : t ~

      classic scholar . A great and lasting outcry has been raised at Geneva and in Holland against Marron , because in the year 1793 he sent to the Municipality of Paris the two silver cups for the sacrament , belonging to his Church , as an offering pour les besoins de la patrie . After having closely examined the case , it is my opinion

      that what has been said on this point is very unjust . The Protestant Church of Paris was open in the time of terror , while all the rest were closed ; and it was then the more necessary that something should be done to disarm the fury of Jacobinism against every form of worship- It was really an oMvgatdry step that the Church

      took in those momentous days . This did not hinder Marron to he arrested a little later ; and six days before he was put at liberty by the fall of Robespierre , four of his comrades in prison were taken to ike scaffold . Who will affirm that such awful circumstances did not justify measures ,

      which , in ordinary times , would be deemed st . r , ang * e and culpable ? Marron ' s funeral was celebrated in the church of the Oratoire , that is to say , a funeral discourse was delivered over the coffin . This cere * - naony is ver rare with us , and even is contrary to the strict rule of our ecclesiastical discipline . Some of

      our old French Puritans condemn this custom in strong terms , as a step towards mummery and Babylonism . I cannot say that , for my parti I am not disposed to side with them . But , however , there is no great harm in a ceremony of this kind now and then , provided it should not serve as a precedent . We have a French proverb , saying , I * ' exception

      confirms la regie . We have now in . France two very important nominations in our Protestant affairs , which must be dene soon . The first is the vacant place left by Marron ' s decease ; we have little doubt that so important a station for France will be filled by a sound and rational Christian

      "mTnismr 7 " " ^ Th ~ e ~ n ^ minatloii to the other place will be more difficult , I mean , to the vacant professorship of eloquence de la chaire > at the Protestant academy of Montauban . We have , you must know , professors of eloquence in our religious seminaries . How eloquence can be made a subject of public lectures , is a

      question which I will not attempt to decide . What makes the appointment ; very arduous is , that a professor of eloquenbe must ; for the first quality , be eloquent himself ; unless this last science resembles political economy , where people reason very well about riches , though very poor themselves . - It is , ho we ver , of great importance that a learned and distinguished man

      O should be" appointed at Montauban , v order to yield a fresh reinforcement to the rational party , which has for ever to combat the intrigues of the saints , headed by Dean Bonnard . I will let you know the result of these two nominations , which are for us of the greatest importance . —O . [ Seepage 199 . ] ¦¦¦¦ ¦! I ¦ i ! Ill

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      In the Monthly Repository for September , 1831 ( p . 607 ) , we gave an account of the disputes which had occurred at Geneva between the Company of Pastors and M . Oaussen , one of their own body . Our readers wiUl'ecoirect that this pastor HdTw some time discontinued to teach the .

      catechism prescribed by the Church of which he was a member ; that , after protracted discussions , he promised again to introduce the obnoxious book , but at the same time refused to withdraw the offensive letters which he had addressed to the

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1832, page 181, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1821/page/5/