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be to prove ourselves members of the true Church , of which Christ is . , the head , and all the members- joined in brotherly affection , seek only hy obedience to his precepts to promote the reign of Jove . As to the intolerant Christians , they are the objects of our
sorrow , our pity ; they are like the murderers of Christ , for whom he prayed to heaven , ** Father , forgive them , for they know not what they do . " In our last , v » -e celebra t ed the triumph of the mssFS rr rs in general over one
who gloried in being a member of the Church of England . Since that time our brethren , the Catholicks of Ireland , have made an appeal to the legislature in behalf of their civil rrghts , but they have not succeeded i the prayer of their petitions has not been granted , but' their
cause . is gaming ground , and instead of relief to Catholics and Dissenters we trust that the day is not far distant , when the members of the church of England shall be themselves urgent for the repeal of every law tending to set up one party of Christians against the other . We anticipate this from a meeting , that has
taken place of the friends , as they were termed , of religious liberty , who ga-ve a dinner to the Catholic deputies from Ireland . We may judge of the meeting frcm the stewards , about thirty * who were either peers or members of Parliament / , or sons of peers . Lord Moira was the chairman , who spoke most
eloquently for the right of eveiy man to worship ' God according to the dictates of his conscience . Lord Stanhope congratulated the company on the victory gained in the House of Lords over bigotry and intolerance , and encouraged the hopes ,
that by union that victory would be complete , and penal laws would no longer exist- Mr . Hutchinson , Mr . G rattan , the Duke of Bedford , the Earl of Hardwicke ., Mr . Ponsonby , Mr . Sheridan , Mr . Whnbread , bore their
testimony to the great cause of religious liberty , which was enthusiastically received hy an a ; scniLly of upwards of four hundred persons , among whom were the most distinguished for rank , talents and property in the United Kingdom . We rejoice that these sentiments pervade the higher classes . We trust that
all will work together for good to those who l « ve the Lord Jesus . His kingdom will finally prevail , and it will be by the truths of the gospel pervading the palace as well as the cottage . But it is our
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business to look to the latter more tfia « f to the former . Let it be our care to impress divine truth on the middling anil the lower ranks , and we doubt not of the higher being influenced by the general sentiment . Any attempt to promote Christianity , by means of the higher ranks , will prove futile . The alliance
between Church and State , has been talked of , but the thing is an absurdity . The church is and must be the subject of the state , in which it : is , in every thin ? of a civil nature , but in its duty to Christ it is inflexible , and neither hope nor fear , neither rewards nor punishments , can alter in any respect its duty and allegiance ;
which tend only to make better subjects to the civil power . The countenance of the rich and great is not wanted t k must stand by the behaviour of tlie virtuous and the good , and the union of the poor and the rich , and the high and the low , will be accomplished in the best manner-when all are animated with
the truth of the gospel . The friends of Reform have also had a meeting . They consisted of country gentlemen from all parts of the kingdom , upwards of two hundred in number . who had preparatory meetings , in . which they discussed the great question of the reform in the House of Commons , and
the mode by which it was ( o be affected , In one of these meetings it was determined to apply to the Lord Mayor for the use of the Guildhall , and this brought on a debate in the Common Council , in
which the motion for granting them the use of the Hall , was carried by a great majority , and a powerful display of sentiment in favour of their principles . A party , was displeased , however , and this led to a Common Hall , in
which it was most rudely vociferous , drowning every thing that was said , and endeavouring to create the utmost confusion . By the firmness , however , of the Lord Mayor , the questions were put by him in profound silence , and tlie sense of the Hall was completely taken there appearing by the show of hands to be about five in favour of the Hall being
granted , to one against it . The resolve of the Common Council remained to be confirmed ; but on the day of meeting the order was rescinded , so that the Lord May or finding such a difference of opinion prevailing on the subject , expressed his regrets , that he could not comply with the wishes of the gentlemen * who had made the request .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1811, page 380, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2417/page/60/
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