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strictures we haye hem more severe than the occasion required . Perhaps there might be some reason for saying so , were there no more in this business than meets the eve . But
we feel perfectly convinced that the object for which the slight was put upon the Remonstrants of Ballymoney , was much more important than to retard * fqr a few months , the building of their meeting-house . 11 was designed , not simply to delay the erection- ' of their place of worship , but to destroy their eonareaation * Mr .
Cromie is the person on whose estate a great many of the members of the newly-formed society reside ; and this demonstration of his feeling * was intended , as we have reason to think , to serve as a hint to those of his tenants ^ who fnigKt be inclined to j oin the Remonstrants , that they cannot do so without incurring his displeasure ; and to those who have done ¦
so already , that they can only regain his-forfeited - favour -by-relin quishing their recently-adopted connexion . But we know the Remonstrants of Ballymoney ; arid we can take it upon ourselves to assure Mr . Cromie that his threats and his annoyances will be equally fruitless when ad * dressed to men of their firm and determined character . Their reliefious
views are too deeply considered and too seriously embraced to be abandoned at the bidding of a feljowinoTtal' -V- -iii 3--rtwfcyi ^ o ^ doubt- * -flO- 'laras the use of his quarry is concerned , —do with it what he pleases ; for it is his own : but they will teach him that the consciences of his tenantry are not under his control , for they are not hU own !
After allj . theipowerio £ Mr « . Croinie to injure the congregation happily does not extend as far as his inclination . It is fortunate that although stone cannot be bad for the erection of a meetmg- 'hquse in Ballymoney , ( for there is no quarry jn that neighbourhood but his , ) yet brick can be manufactured , and purchased in every parti of the country . Ii ? is true that
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the cost of the material will be greatly increased by his jlliberality ; but we are . sure , if the congregation think it necessary to apply for assistance to meet this additional demand , they will receive aid from many quarters ; were it only to show that the time is come when the formation and
profession of religious opinion must be left free and unshackled ; when man must not attempt to dictate a creed to his brother , and landlords , content with their just influence over the property of their tenantry , must desist for ever , from their tyrannical efforts to establish a dominion over
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The Rev . W . Smith has resigned the charge of the congregation at Dundee . In the afternoon of Sunday , August -26 th , Mr . Smith delivered a farewell sermon , from the words- " Let us hold-fast the pro- - fession of our faith without wavering , " The chapel was quite full . At the * close of the service , and after the strangers who were present had retired . Mr . Smith addressed the
members of the congregation , thanking them for the kind and respectful manner in which he had been uniformly treated by them , and expressing the hope that some good had been effected by their united exertions , in theremoval of prejudice and error . Mr . George Speid , on the part of the congregation , came forward and expressed in the most feeling and
impressive manner , the regret of the . Society at the Joss they were about to sustain by Mr . Smith ' s removal— - , thek-Hnfeignfi 4 . rf ej s ^ eiQ . i ; ipJC . ljii 9 ialents . and character—and their admiration of his strenuous labours in the advancement \ of Christian righteousness and truth . Mr . Speid then
presented to Mr . Smith a handsome volume , which had been purchased by tjieir united subscriptions , and on which was inscribed these words > - ~ *« Presented to the Bev . WilUain 1 r
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1832, page 233, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1823/page/25/
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