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    SCOTTISH UNITARIAN CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.

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    184 UNITARIAN CHRONICLE . T *

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    published and elsewhere . To prove to our readers that the editors are neither ignorant of what is going on abroad , nor indifferent to its occurrence , we may mention that they

    have translated and inserted in their journal the greater part of Dr . Channing ' s sermon at the ordination of 'J " argd " S ] JaTlfsr aswell ^ as ^ his ~ obseT- vations on the originality of our Lord ' s character ; that they have

    explained the merits of the Irish tithe and scriptural education questions : and recorded Mr . Hutton ' s prayer , at the great meeting at Birmingham on the occasion of Lord Grey ' s return to office ; nothing , in short , of a religious cast is indifferent to them , from the unknown

    tongues ' oft . the Caledonian Church to the vagaries of the Shaking Quakers at Lebanon in the United States ; and from the visionary excitement in *" the grand duchy of Baden to ~* more -unpretending history c \ f TBw&ypoor Yaudois in Piedmont . * " * "Of the general spirit by which the Protestant de Geneve is characterized , the following passage , which

    we translate from the proposal made by a certain lay member to the Consistory , may serve as a specimen . " Such is the work of peace and of security for our national church , to which the Company and the Consistory may powerfully contribute . Let them , declare that they reject everything which would tend to make

    religion a code of exclusion and intolerance ; let them declare that , in their opinion , religion cpnsists not in such or such an interpretation of certain obscure doctrines , which have been matter of discussion from the very infancy of Christianity . Let us say plainly , that we regard as contrary to its spirit everything which tends , by doctrines of terror and

    desolation , to strip religion of mercy , of consolation , and of love . Let us open our doors , without demanding any absolute profession of faith * , to * We cordially wish that the rulers of the Q-enpvan Church would act upon this rycom-

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    all who s . hall come to ask of us strength , comfort , or information : let us declare , in short , that we regard as contrary to the spirit of the Gospel , all exclusive , mystical , and obscure doctrines ; and that we will

    admit as friends all those who prove their religious faith hy their works , who-thinkr-that—th e reHs—more—thanone way which leads to God , and who draw from this faith , consolation for the present , and high hope for the future . ' —Vol . i . p . 245 .

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    Abridged from the Christian Pioneer .

    The Second Anniversary of this ^ Society was held at Glasgow , oa iSunday and Monday , July 22 d and 23 d . Friends were present from Edinburgh , Dundee , Lanark , JPais" ' ley ,. Greenock , Dumbarton , Renfrew * Port-Glasgow , &e , Qn Sunday morning , the Rev . H . Montgomery of Belfast preached a l most powerful ,

    eloquent , and argumentative discourse , which deeply interested and impressed a very large congregation , from Eph . iv ., 1-3 . In this sermon , the evils resulting from the attempt to enforce uniformity in matters of faith were most forcibly delineated . Ireland , in her episcopal

    establishment—in herpresbytenan inquisition —illustrated those eyil § . most fearfully . In'the- afternoon ,-the Rev . B . T . Stannus of Edinburgh delivered an eloquent illustration of the wanderings of Christendom from the Great Father of all , and on the

    gramendation . Their terms of admission to holy orders are very liberal ; but we know not how they can boasf as they do ( ProtV < ls Gen ., i ,, p . 7 . ) that they have no confesnion , of faith , while they retain the Apostle ' s Creed ; nor do we see how men of enlightened views can continue to repeat every Sun-1

    day that we are < born in sin , and that Christ , after a life of righteousness , ' descended into hell . ' ( If words have any meaning , these cannot be pronounced with sincerity by any one of liberal sentiments in religious mat * ters ,

    Scottish Unitarian Christian Association.

    SCOTTISH UNITARIAN CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1832, page 184, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1821/page/8/