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Is it not a disgrace to the Dissenters that a minister who did them so much honour , and who , as T . justly remarks , gave so many valuable specimens of his eminent learning , " should have his useful and pious labours overlooked , and indeed consigned to oblivion , merely on account of the want of a trifling subscription to defray the expense of introducing ; them to the
world ? The opulent among the modern Dissenters are chiefly engaged in commercial avocations , and as such , may have no great relish forliterary knowledge or pursuits ; but for the honour of the religious denomination to which they are pleased to attach themselves , and for the accommodation of their brethren in humbler stations , they should encourage and patronize the useful
labours of their more eminent ministers ,, more especially as they would find upon trial , that the sums wanted for these most laudable purposes would amount to a mere pittance , when compared to those heavy expenses to which many of them now v \ illingly subject them selves by conforming to the frivolous and unmanly fashions of the age . Your ' s , A FRIEND TO MERIT .
P . S . Dr . Chandler is said to be the writer of more than fifty papers in that valuable periodical work , the Old Whig , Can any of your correspondents ascertain which were the Doctor ' s ?
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SSO A Theological Conversation . ^
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A THEOLOGICAL CONVERSATION . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
Sir , It gives me great pleasure to hear of the increasing circulation of your very useful Magazine , as it is a very excellent medium for the diffusion of Unitarian sentiments ^ and affords an
opportunity to manyotour persuasion , to inform our neighbours of the rising progress of that important truth , from which unhappily the greatbody of Christians has so long run a 3 tray . No effort should , I think s be left untried , to bring back our wandering brethren from the maze of error , in which their teachers endeavour to keep them entangled , and if we can convince the teachers themselves , so much the better is it for the cause , that
must , whether the present generation chooses or not , ultimately succeed . A circumstance that occurred to me the other day , led me to apprehend , that the difficulties are not so great , as we
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1807, page 580, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2386/page/16/
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