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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
Newcastle , Jan . 10 ^ 1810 , SIR , It gave me much satisfaction to observe your worthy and very
intelligent correspondent , resident at Ealand ^ who subscribes himself an Unitarian Christian , in p . 6 l 3 of your last volume , profess - ing , ** that he sees no reason why
a serious Christian , confined to his house by sickness or infirmity , should not join with some Christian friends , in partaking of the Lord ' s Supper at home . " " Few dissenters , " he observes , " ba v ^
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ever made a practice of this ; ° but as I Lave not been one of those who have scrupled to do any thing which I thought to be right , merely because it has not been customary , I have never
refused , when the circumstances have been such as your correspondent , has presupposed , tu comply with the request of sick persons to join in this ordinance , it being previously explicitly understood on all sides , that it is not desired by way of making atoncaieitf or compensation , or
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Luke ' s account or malt a verified .
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
Sidfnotitk t Feb . 27 , 1810 . SIR , Any fact which tends to corroborate the truth , of the New Testament history , or to settle any
dispute which may have arisen respecting any part of its narrative , must be acceptable to the believer in Christianity . Under this impression , I request your insertion of the following account , which I lately had from a worthy friend of mine , Capt . John Yule , of the royal navy ?
Captain , then lieutenant , Yule , was on board the Alexander , a seventy-four gun-ship , while the English were blockading Malta , in the autumn of 1797 , tinder the command of Capt . Alexander Ball , who lately died , governor of that place . During the blockade , the conversation , one day , turned upon the dispute which has been started by some learned men , whether this island , orMeiita , now called Melada , in the
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Adriatic gulph , were the place where St . Paul was shipwrecked . To decide the question , it was proposed , closely to examine St . Luke ' s account , and then try , particularly by sounding the water , whether it was corroborated by the present state of the land ;
The experiment completely answered : a bottom was found , exactly as it is staled Acts xxvii . 28 . at twenty and at fifteen fathoms ; * u the latter depth , a good anchorage presented itself . I apprehend this circumstance
determines the question , and secures to the Maltese , what they are not a little proud of , the honour of living upon the spot , where the illustrious Paul of Tarsus , that eminent propagator of the Christian faith , was once shipwrecked . I am , Sir , a sincere wellwisher to , and a hearty approver of , your excellent work , EDMUND BUTCHER .
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A SACRAMENTAL ADDRESS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1810, page 182, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2403/page/22/
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