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TRENCH NATIONAL CATECHISM . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , Your Reviewer ( Vol . ii . p . 94 , ) seems to laugh at the zeal which themost religious king of France' * has display ed ^ in ordering a " Catechism to be drawn up for the use of the Orthodox" within his dominions , but yet seems at the same time to doubt whether such a " National Catechism is
reconcilable with the equality of the two religions , Catholic and Protestant ? " With respect to the royal zeal which first suggested this labour of Jove , this close imitation of cc Cyrus and Const antine" surely nothing can be objected bv the
Orthodox . Buonaparte is now the supreme head of the Gallicari church . Of- course therefore he may be expected to imitate the example of other supreme , heads , or most Christian kings , and direct his priests to manufacture suitable Creeds , Catechisms , Articles-, and Test-Laws , for the security of social order and religion throughout his extensive dominions . Should
the Reviewer deny this common prerogative of royalty , or doubt its vast utilitv , he would be at variance with " existing circumstances" in other neighbouring countries , and deserve to be classed among Mr . Burke ' s numerous host of
incorrigible Jacobins . The doubt too which he seems to entertain concerning the difficulty of reconciling CQ the equality of the two religions / ' is upon the same principles a ? easily removed ; for every state has a right to chuse its own creeds and catechisms , otherwise what would become of civil
establishments in religion , or of those alliances between church and state , without which Christianity , so called , would be in clanger of being lost ? Besides , in the case before us ,
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lost . It may be better to do a great and certain good to a few , than a small and uncertain one to many . Though the objects of our endeavours be not numerous , we may still be useful in preparing labourers , who may gather an abundance of £ ood fruit into the store-houses of God .
To compare great things with small , the cards are not of our own chusing . Whatever we have , we should play them wfell . Duty is our ' s ; events are God ' s . Let then our light so shine before others , particularly before the risincr generation , that they seeing our good works may follow our example and glorify our Father in heaven . JOHN HOLLAND -
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300 French National Catechism .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1807, page 300, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2381/page/12/
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