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NOTES OF THE MONTH.
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Bver saw * The graver of Mr Portbury Las communicated a harmony &nd strength of tone , and a brilliancy combined with sweetness , i ^ hich we do not think exist in Howard ' s picture . He is too flat and tawdry .
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1 . The Church Post . —The Constitutional and the Globe , in the most just and handsome manner , have taken up the cause of Liberty of Conscience , which has been violated by the equally trite and . vicious . attacks of the cant-advocates , made on the noble-minded conduct of Sir William Molesworth , in refusing to answer the insidious question as to the nature of his religious tenets . " Observe , " says the Globe , " . the . inconsistency of putting such questions ! If the man is dishonest , he slips like
ah eel out of your catechism , whatever his sentiments ; and nine men in ten , whose sentiment might hurt their success , would probably resort to equivocation to parry such inquisitions . But if the man is honest , why do you want to know more ?—are you responsible for the truth of the doctrines which make him—or which leave him—honest ? " The very ikshitmably-religious and Tory-devout Morning Post throws out the idreadful suspicion that as Sir William Molesworth has refused to submit
to this English Inquisition , and will not name his church or creed , he ix ^ ay possibly be " a worshipper of Jupiter , or a votary of Vishnu , a Student of the Koran , or a disciple of Sir William Drummond ? " Well , and if so , . what then ? What then , thou painted Post ? Were there no good and honest men—practising all the noblest precepts of the Christian religion—among the Greeks , Indians , Mahometans , and the philosophers
frf All climes ? To be a Christian , it is really not necessary to worship any Established Calf , whether of gold or fatty matter ; to be a votary of Hereditary Wisdom , a student of the Court , or a disciple of all the Bishops ? It is but natural that the Church Post should sneer at Sir William Molesworth , by an insidious allusion to Sir William Drummond , preferring for its own study the pious Academics of Rathcormac .
2 . Chinese Terrors at Christianity . —It would seem that the Chinese have somehow or other heard a faint rumour of our Ecclesiastic tmtcheries in Ireland , in the abused name of tire great Teacher of Humanity , and have become excessively frightened at the chance of ltd approach in any shape or shade . The Emperor has accordingly issued a
*• Decree—to forbid Christianity with rigour , to seize foreign books , and ta correct the human heart . " JLet our clergy look to this !•—they hav ^ disgraced our relig ion all the way to China . Some religious books paving been taken to China , the ' Decree' observes with alarm , — " Se * y # ij $ i Chinese tKekx became Christians , —and afterwards preached I ** It MftOtf ^ V ^ r , 6 ttt the fact 6 nce known , those who were the princl-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 62, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/15/
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