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The Wesleian . Methodists ,, who have , keen embodied jh Ireland aboye . T ^ lf a $ et * tujcv , V ^ cfe- stated , at the last con- * Sereipe , to amount to 24 , 560 ; to ; vv ; I $ ch must be added a ipuch larger number , ! who attend the meetings , but are not " enrolled in the society . They profess to be ih communion with the church of
Ireland , A few of their jp / eacliers , galled Irish Missionaries , ric ^| into , markets and fairs ,, and preach on hor s eback in the Irish language ! Among tke Methodists are chiefly found the instances of conversion from popery . With a becoming spirit , the Deputies mark both the excellencies arid defects of this
enterprising growmg order , who every where are entitled to much praise , and have something , we think , to answer for . . . ~
The Quakers are described as here and there numerous , and are praised by the Deputation for their good behaviour n A design pervades the short paragraph which , relates to them , of smoothing them into approbation of the Hibernian Society .
' Ireland contains five or six congregations of Baptists , which are in the last stage of decline . It \ tfere to be wished , that the t Report had pourtrayed this sect more minutely than by charging it , merely , with declension from the faith .
The Independents have but recently obtained a-footing in Ireland . They are ( so say the Deputies ) richly -Evangelical . Last , in the list of dissidents are the actvocutes of Marked Separation ; fanatics whose only distinction seems to be a violent hatred of all Christians not
comprehended in their own little circle . J ? rorn them- ^ the deputies learn , -very properly , a lesson of charity ; a lesson , 'as will have been seen from the foregoing abstract of their Report , not a little wanted . The remarks accompanying this % pitome are free but not ill natured . We admire Christian zeal wherever we see
it . "We willingly admit the good intentions and truly Christian views of the members of the Hibernian Society ; and we heartily wish it success in every attempt to meliorate the condition of that unhappy country * which wants nothing but goo « i governmentt . and more extended knowledge , to put it orv > ja level , in point of national advantage , with the restMf the United Kingdom *
l ^ TAtUANlSM i | l AMERICA . k [ tJndcjt this head we have already given ^© nae accounts of the progress of
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rational reli g ion in the tjnhed States « ( Vide M [ ontWy Reposito ry , Vol . r . p . 3 ?^ 4 41 , ' aiitL 66 § , and Vol . u . p . 47 . and SZ ?! ' ) ^ e shatl con tinue to lay regularly before our readers such information a ^ reaches u % and We intreat ^ the comniu ^ nication of such of our readers as
correspond with . America , or possess any oth ^ r tnean s of knowing the religious sta ^ e , of the American religious denominations . Editor . } Twor small * pampfrlets , by Mr . Wil- *
J | am Christie , of T * hifadeiphia , have ijpely reached England , from which wj learn some particulars as to the state of Unitarian ism in that city . The Oriitaria ns tneie have it seems divided ; but this -may be , no unpromising symptocn , for the same zeal "which leads theni ta
separate , may cause them to make advances amongst their fellow citizens ; and two congregations may flourish where before one languished . The pamphlets . - were both published at'Philadel p hia ^ i | i the last , year , T 8 O 7 . One is entitXed 4 < Remarks on the
Constitution framed by three leading Members , and lately adopted by a Majority of the Society of Unitarian Christians , who assemble in Church Alley * styling themselves the ^ irst Society of Unitarian Christians , in the city of Philadelphia ; as also on the explanatory Obse »* vatio ' ns thereto annexed . —By a late Member of that Society , who rejected the said Constitution , ' * The . " other is
entitled *« A Sequel to the Remarks on the Constitution , &a containing-a I > e-. fence of the Remarks and their Author . By William Christie , the Author of thd said Remarks . *• It appears that the " « The first society of Unitarian Christia » J |» in the city of Philadelphia , " ( a truly honourable appellation ) has not . been long formed . Mr . W . Christie Has been their minister .
They have several times changed their place of Wflphip , being driven abotU : apparently ^> y prejudice against Unitananism , Unitarian worship had been once before . instituted in Philadelphia , but was stopped , and on the removal o £ th ^ first Society from place to place , some of their members appeared discouraged , though , their-last settlement is prosperous . ' - / # - ,
We judge that the congregation consists of persons not wholly agreed on aH points , as Mr . Christie has , he , a * yp , given the majority offence by his bold ^ ness and plainness in preachine the Uniwrmn dottvln ^ But he ttiaf Tkave
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54 Unitaricuitevi in Apierica *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1808, page 54, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2388/page/54/
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