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derstand now the true import of this , and see if it "be in reality what is intimated . Are men really forbidden to worship and to enjoy the ordinances of religion where their fathers worshipped ? No . The only for ^ bidding is , that a feeble minority of -4 he—people ~ shalL-not , ^ as ^ they ~ have-- ~
claimed to do in repeated instances , impose a minister on the majority , contrary to their choice and wishes , and oblige them not only to hear , but to pay a man for denouncing them as heretics and infidels . For this simple assertion of their Christian rights , the majority are branded as persecutors .- —Christian Register ,
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- —he assented—for sorne particular reason they then requested Mm to preach on a given text- ^ - * Christ mid him crucified *—to which he also Assented ; on which they applied at the whole round of chapels for the use of a pulpit for two hours—to be only ^ uniformLy ^ r-epulsed . ^^ Tke ^ the . nLg-Oi ^ .,
permission to use a school-room , where he addressed an auditojy of about eighty Unitarians—with such acceptance that they determined ^ if possible , to fix him with them , — -and immediately subscribed 60 / . for fitting up a store-room capable of accommodating one hundred or more per * sons , and entered into negotiation for a dwelling-house in which to install his family . Having preached
twice on the Sunday , and oiice in the week , on the 9 th of August he embarked in the steam-boat to accompany his daughter to the house of a lady with whom she had been previously engaged to reside . He left his family about five : o ' clock in the morning , arid before nine o ' clock in the evening was dead and buried . His daughter was attacked also , but medical aid was promptly sent from Montreal , and she recovered , and was taken back to that place by a friend who had
set out instantly on hearing of what had occurred . The kindness of the Unitarians of Montreal to the afflicted family has been truly ex-r plained . Both in ; that , atid in the ~ zeal which they demonstrated for the establishment of Unitarian wor . ^ ship , we trust it will appear that there are many here who sympathise .
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From the' Bible Christian . Bigotry at its work again . —We hardly expect to be believed when we inform our readers , that Ml * . Oromip , of Portstewaft , the
landlord of a great many of the members of the newly-erected Remonstrant Congregation , in Ballymoney , lias refused to allow his tenantry to ob * tain stones from his quarry , for the
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The melancholy intelligence has arived of the death of the Rev . David Hughes , late of Yeovil , who was carried off by cholera almost inimediately after his arrival at this place ? Mr . Hughes and his family left England about the end of May last , and reached Montreal after a voyage of nine weeks . Such was the state of the town , from the devastation and alarm produced by the
ravages of the cholera , that accommodation could only be obtained for the travellers by the active interposition of an Unitarian to whom Mr . Hughes made himself known , and Whose kindness to him and hip jxqw destitute family was most unwearied and invaluable . Mr , Teuton , the friend to whom we refer , immediately
made known the arrival of an Uriita , rian minister to other Unitarians in the place , who manifested the strongest interest in the circumstance ; and beforelie had beeia twenty-four hours in the city , several of the first merchants and their ladies there established waited on him to congratulate him—to express
their pleasure at his arrival , and offer him every assistance in furthering his views . This wa , s on Thursday . On Friday a deputation waited on him to solicit a Sabbath service on the following lord's £ ) ay ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1832, page 230, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1823/page/22/
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