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    310 Rexiexv . —Erans on Christ ' s Appearance , and educating the Poor

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    the doctrines of Ci the original depravity of human nature and of the atonement of Christ \ " And the danger is the greater , because on this system one master can teach 1000 boys , and at the trifling expence of half a crown a head ! A few agents therefore , with apparently insignificant means will be able to accomplish a revolution in the land , more fatal than that of France .

    But we sicken , while we laugh at the folly of the advocates of i&nornnce * Jf we allow them the praise of sincerity , what sentiment is there in the human breast that shall shield them from contempt ?

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    r Catholfcs too according to Mr . Barlow are philosophers , and he cannot restrain his indignation at seeing " a religion , which the revolting consciences of our forefathers had consigned to reprobation , emerging from the silence

    into which a generous- toleration had shamed it , and stretching forth the hand of fellowshi p to our church /'' It would be a novel , if not an edifying instance of religious zeal , in the populace of Manchester , to set fire with the same hands to Roman Catholic chapels and Mr . Lancaster's school rooms !

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    Art . III . The Propriety of the Time of Christ * s appearance in the World ; xcith Reflections on the Nature and Utility of Public Wov ~ sfii p * A Sermon preached Man 23 , 1 808 ^ at the opening of the New Uene ) al Baptist Meethtg-House , Cranbrook ^ in Kent . By John Evausj A . M . 8 ro . pp . 33 . Symonds . 2 nd . Edition .

    The subject of this discourse which Dr . Robertson ' s beautiful and original sermon has made fain i liar to most theological readers , is here treated in a plain , sensible , liberal manner . The reflections on public worship bear the same character .

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    In a preface , Mr . Evans gives an account of ( he whole service on ope ing the new meeting house at Cranbrook ,- and also of the

    religious proceedings of the annual association of the General Baptists in Kent , held in this place the nvxt day .

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    Art . IV . The Importance of educating tire Poor . A Sermon ,, f reached July 17 , 1808 at the Black Friars , Canterbury ^ in be * half of the Royal Free School ^ recently established in that City . J 8 y John Evans , A . M . 8 vo . pip . 36 . Symonds . 2 nd Edition .

    A spirit of liberality and benevolence pervades th ^ s discourse , which is creditable to the author , mid harmonizes with its object ;

    the recommendation or a free-School recently established at Canterbury on Mr . Lancaster ' s plan , in which " about three hundred boysj and near { nearly ) one hun-

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    dred girls" are taught reading , writing , and arithmetic . The institution of this school is the more honourable to the inhabitants of Canterbury , as the Primate of England , residing amongst them , is known to be inimical to the measure ! Mr . Evans labours with laud- <

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 510, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/54/