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5 o 6 Review . —Hints on Evangelical Preaching .
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to teach it ; and if one may teach it , many may meet together to deliberate on the means of teaching it most effectually . Religious associations have been common amongst the Dissenters from the time that they were recognized by the law of "England .
The " Hibernian Society' * occupies no less than 30 of the Barrister ' s pages . We have already given an abstract ( p . 51 , ) of the report of the deputation appointed to visit Ireland last year . In that visit , considering it as taken for the purpose of spiritual
inspection , evangelical reviewing , and limited tj a month , there may appear something ridiculous , but surely nothing formidable . Would the Barrister have every Evangelical believer examined as to points of faith at Holy head .
and if the iC Village Dialogues , " the ""Village Sermons" cr the 4 i Sal * e of Curates" be found upon his person , brought up under an escort of soldiery to the privy council in London ? Or , if he be ' permitted to travel in Ireland , shall he be prohibited , on pain of transportation , from inquiring after fellow-believers , and if he 'find any , from giving them a word
of exhortation ? Or , is he only to be hindered by the Attorney General from publishing , for the benefit of the Evangelical brethren who stay at home in their business or with their consn'egations , an account of what he saw , what he thought and what he did , bv what high -roads and in what
vehicles he travelled , what were his fears on the water and what his hopes on land ? There appears to Us to be something' unconstitutional'in ' -the proposal either to confine Evangelical men to any one of the three kingdoms , or to
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subject their diaries and jour * nals to a lawyer ' s or clergyman ' s Imprimatur . The Evangelical ministers in the several counties of England are accustomed to meet some
once and some twice and some oftener in the year , for the sake of brotherhood , and for keeping alive in their several neighbourhoods a spirit of religious zeal . These meetings are called by the unlucky term " Associations , " which brings before
the Barrister ' s imagination an array of terrible objects , guns and pikes , corps and head-quarters . The Evangelical Magazine which gives notice of and records these meetings seems to him to resemble ¦ " a military chronicle . " He may , we can assure him , drop his fears . These associations are as
harmless , though not quite so still , as the assemblies of the Quakers . The brethren bring no other arms than walking-sticks , and the more opulent of them , umbrellas . Their object is to sing hymns , to join in long prayers , and to hear sermons rather better and more lengthy than they hear in common . After service , they
mutually communicate the state or their respective congregations as to the gain or loss of members , and probably deposit in the hands of one of the most intelligent and active of their number , subscriptions to a fund for relieving poor ministers' widows . This being done in an orderly manner , they * vithdraw to a second or third rate
inn , where they recruit themselves on roast-beef and p lum ^ pudding , toast the king in a glass . of weak punch , smoke their pipes , . inquire after absentees , settle times of friendly visits , talk over the publications of such men as th e
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 506, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/50/
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